A Collection of College Words and Customs eBook

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A Collection of College Words and Customs eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 623 pages of information about A Collection of College Words and Customs.
WESTERN RESERVE COLLEGE, Hudson, Ohio., 1 reference. 
WEST POINT, N.Y., 1 reference. 
WILLIAM AND MARY COLLEGE, Williamsburg, Va., 3 references. 
WILLIAMS COLLEGE, Williamstown, Mass., 43 references. 
YALE COLLEGE, New Haven, Conn., 264 references.

THE END.

FOOTNOTES: 

[01] Hon. Levi Woodbury, whose subject was “Progress.”

[02] Vide Aristophanes, Aves.

[03] Alcestis of Euripides.

[04] See BRICK MILL.

[05] At Harvard College, sixty-eight Commencements were held in
        the old parish church which “occupied a portion of the
        space between Dane Hall and the old Presidential House.” 
        The period embraced was from 1758 to 1834.  There was no
        Commencement in 1764, on account of the small-pox; nor
        from 1775 to 1781, seven years, on account of the
        Revolutionary war.  The first Commencement in the new
        meeting-house was held in 1834.  In 1835, there was rain at
        Commencement, for the first time in thirty-five years.

[06] The graduating class usually waited on the table at dinner
        on Commencement Day.

[07] Rev. John Willard, S.T.D., of Stafford, Conn., a graduate
        of the class of 1751.

[08] “Men, some to pleasure, some to business, take;
          But every woman is at heart a rake.”

[09] Rev. Joseph Willard, S.T.D.

[10] The Rev. Dr. Simeon Howard, senior clergyman of the
        Corporation, presided at the public exercises and
        announced the degrees.

[11] See under THESIS and MASTER’S QUESTION.

[12] The old way of spelling the word SOPHOMORE, q.v.

[13] Speaking of Bachelors who are reading for fellowships,
        Bristed says, they “wear black gowns with two strings
        hanging loose in front.”—­Five Years in an Eng.  Univ.,
        Ed. 2d, p. 20.

[14] Bristed speaks of the “blue and silver gown” of Trinity
        Fellow-Commoners.—­Five Years in an Eng.  Univ., Ed. 2d,
        p. 34.

[15] “A gold-tufted cap at Cambridge designates a Johnian or
        Small-College Fellow-Commoner.”—­Ibid., p. 136.

[16] “The picture is not complete without the ‘men,’ all in
        their academicals, as it is Sunday.  The blue gown of
        Trinity has not exclusive possession of its own walks: 
        various others are to be discerned, the Pembroke looped at
        the sleeve, the Christ’s and Catherine curiously crimped
        in front, and the Johnian with its unmistakable
        ‘Crackling.’”—­Bristed’s Five Years in an Eng.  Univ.,
        Ed. 2d, p. 73.

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