YEOMAN-BEDELL.  At the University of Cambridge, Eng., the yeoman-bedell in processions precedes the esquire-bedells, carrying an ebony mace, tipped with silver.—­Cam.  Guide.

At the University of Oxford, the yeoman-bedels bear the silver staves in procession.  The vice-chancellor never walks out without being preceded by a yeoman-bedel with his insignium of office.—­Guide to Oxford.

See BEADLE.

YOUNG BURSCH.  In the German universities, a name given to a student during his third term, or semester.

The fox year is then over, and they wash the eyes of the new-baked Young Bursche, since during the fox-year he was held to be blind, the fox not being endued with reason.—­Howitt’s Student Life of Germany, Am. ed., p. 124.

A LIST OF AMERICAN COLLEGES

REFERRED TO IN THIS WORK, IN CONNECTION WITH PARTICULAR WORDS OR CUSTOMS.

AMHERST COLLEGE, Amherst, Mass., 10 references. 
ANDERSON COLLEGIATE INSTITUTE, Ind., 3 references. 
BACON COLLEGE, Ky., 1 reference. 
BETHANY COLLEGE, Bethany, Va., 2 references. 
BOWDOIN COLLEGE, Brunswick, Me., 17 references. 
BROWN UNIVERSITY, Providence, R.I., 2 references. 
CENTRE COLLEGE, Danville, Ky., 4 references. 
COLUMBIA [KING’S] COLLEGE, New York., 5 references. 
COLUMBIAN COLLEGE, Washington, D.C., 1 reference. 
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE, Hanover, N.H., 27 references. 
HAMILTON COLLEGE, Clinton, N.Y., 16 references. 
HARVARD COLLEGE, Cambridge, Mass., 399 references. 
JEFFERSON COLLEGE, Canonsburg, Penn., 8 references. 
KING’S COLLEGE.  See COLUMBIA. 
MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE, Middlebury, Vt., 11 references. 
NEW JERSEY, COLLEGE OF, Princeton, N.J., 29 references. 
NEW YORK, UNIVERSITY OF, New York., 1 reference. 
NORTH CAROLINA, UNIVERSITY OF, Chapel Hill, N.C., 3 references. 
PENNSYLVANIA, UNIVERSITY OF, Philadelphia, Penn., 3 references. 
PRINCETON COLLEGE.  See NEW JERSEY, COLLEGE OF. 
RUTGER’S COLLEGE, New Brunswick, N.J., 2 references. 
SHELBY COLLEGE, Shelbyville, Ky., 2 references. 
SOUTH CAROLINA COLLEGE, Columbia, S.C., 3 references. 
TRINITY COLLEGE, Hartford, Conn., 11 references. 
UNION COLLEGE, Schenectady, N.Y., 41 references. 
VERMONT, UNIVERSITY OF, Burlington, Vt., 25 references. 
VIRGINIA, UNIVERSITY OF, Albemarle Co., Va., 14 references. 
WASHINGTON COLLEGE, Washington, Penn., 5 references. 
WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY, Middletown, Conn., 5 references.