TRANSMITTENDUM, pl. TRANSMITTENDA or TRANSMITTENDUMS. Anything transmitted, or handed down from one to another.

Students, on withdrawing from college, often leave in the room which they last occupied, pictures, looking-glasses, chairs, &c., there to remain, and to be handed down to the latest posterity.  Articles thus left are called transmittenda.

The Great Mathematical Slate was a transmittendum to the best mathematical scholar in each class.—­MS. note in Cat.  Med.  Fac.  Soc., 1833, p. 16.

TRENCHER-CAP.  A-name, sometimes given to the square head-covering worn by students in the English universities.  Used figuratively to denote collegiate power.

The trencher-cap has claimed a right to take its part in the movements which make or mar the destinies of nations, by the side of plumed casque and priestly tiara.—­The English Universities and their Reforms, in Blackwood’s Mag., Feb. 1849.

TRIANGLE.  At Union College, a urinal, so called from its shape.

TRIENNIAL, or TRIENNIAL CATALOGUE.  In American colleges, a catalogue issued once in three years.  This catalogue contains the names of the officers and students, arranged according to the years in which they were connected with the college, an account of the high public offices which they have filled, degrees which they have received, time of death, &c.[66]

The Triennial Catalogue becomes increasingly a mournful record—­it should be monitory, as well as mournful—­to survivors, looking at the stars thickening on it, from one date to another.—­Scenes and Characters in College, p. 198.

  Our tale shall be told by a silent star,
  On the page of some future Triennial.
    Class Poem, Harv.  Coll., 1849, p. 4.

TRIMESTER.  Latin trimestris; tres, three, and mensis, month.  In the German universities, a term or period of three months.—­Webster.

TRINITARIAN.  The popular name of a member of Trinity College in the University of Cambridge, Eng.

TRIPOS, pl. TRIPOSES.  At Cambridge, Eng., any university examination for honors, of questionists or men who have just taken their B.A.  The university scholarship examinations are not called triposes.—­Bristed.

The Classical Tripos is generally spoken of as the Tripos, the Mathematical one as the Degree Examination.—­Ibid., p. 170.

2.  A tripos paper.

3.  One who prepares a tripos paper.—­Webster.

TRIPOS PAPER.  At the University of Cambridge, England, a printed list of the successful candidates for mathematical honors, accompanied by a piece in Latin verse.  There are two of these, designed to commemorate the two Tripos days.  The first contains the names of the Wranglers and Senior Optimes, and the second the names of the Junior Optimes.  The word tripos is supposed to refer to the three-legged stool formerly used at the examinations for these honors, though some derive it from the three brackets formerly printed on the back of the paper.