For further remarks on this subject, see Peirce’s “History of Harvard University,” pp. 15, 81, 113, also Chap.  XIII., and “Memorial of John S. Popkin, D.D.,” pp. 390, 391.

TWITCH A TWELVE.  At Middlebury College, to make a perfect recitation; twelve being the maximum mark for scholarship.

U.

UGLY KNIFE.  See JACK-KNIFE.

UNDERGRADUATE.  A student, or member of a university or college, who has not taken his first degree.—­Webster.

UNDERGRADUATE.  Noting or pertaining to a student of a college who has not taken his first degree.

The undergraduate students shall be divided into four distinct classes.—­Laws Yale Coll., 1837, p. 11.

With these the undergraduate course is not intended to interfere.—­Yale Coll.  Cat., 1850-51, p. 33.

UNDERGRADUATESHIP.  The state of being an undergraduate.—­Life of Paley.

UNIVERSITY.  An assemblage of colleges established in any place, with professors for instructing students in the sciences and other branches of learning, and where degrees are conferred.  A university is properly a universal school, in which are taught all branches of learning, or the four faculties of theology, medicine, law, and the sciences and arts.—­Cyclopaedia.

2.  At some American colleges, a name given to a university student.  The regulation in reference to this class at Union College is as follows:—­“Students, not regular members of college, are allowed, as university students, to prosecute any branches for which they are qualified, provided they attend three recitations daily, and conform in all other respects to the laws of College.  On leaving College, they receive certificates of character and scholarship.”—­Union Coll.  Cat., 1850.

The eyes of several Freshmen and Universities shone with a watery lustre.—­The Parthenon, Vol.  I. p. 20.

UP.  To be up in a subject, is to be informed in regard to it. Posted expresses a similar idea.  The use of this word, although common among collegians, is by no means confined to them.

In our past history, short as it is, we would hardly expect them to be well up.—­Bristed’s Five Years in an Eng.  Univ., Ed. 2d, p. 28.

He is well up in metaphysics.—­Ibid., p. 53.

UPPER HOUSE.  See SENATE.

V.

VACATION.  The intermission of the regular studies and exercises of a college or other seminary, when the students have a recess.—­Webster.

In the University of Cambridge, Eng., there are three vacations during each year.  Christmas vacation begins on the 16th of December, and ends on the 13th of January.  Easter vacation begins on the Friday before Palm Sunday, and ends on the eleventh day after Easter-day.  The Long vacation begins on the Friday succeeding the first Tuesday in July, and ends on the 10th of October.  At the University of Oxford there are four vacations in each year.  At Dublin University there are also four vacations, which correspond nearly with the vacations of Oxford.