A COLLECTION OF COLLEGE WORDS AND CUSTOMS. BY B. H. HALL. "Multa renascentur quæ jam cecidere, cadentque TOR LIBRARY NEW-Y "Notandi sunt tibi mores." HOR. Ars Poet. REVISED AND ENLARGED EDITION. CAMBRIDGE: PUBLISHED BY JOHN BARTLETT, 1856. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1856, by B. H. HALL, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts. .CAMBRIDGE: INTRODUCTION. THE first edition of this publication was mostly compiled during the leisure hours of the last half-year of a Senior's collegiate life, and was presented anonymously to the public with the following "PREFACE. "The Editor has an indistinct recollection of a sheet of foolscap paper, on one side of which was written, perhaps a year and a half ago, a list of twenty or thirty college phrases, followed by the euphonious titles of Yale Coll.,''Harvard Coll. Next he calls to mind two blue-covered books, turned from their original use, as receptacles of Latin and Greek exercises, containing explanations of these and many other phrases. His friends heard that he was hunting up odd words and queer customs, and dubbed him Antiquarian,' but in a kindly manner, spared his feelings, and did not put the vinegar 'old' before it. 6 "Two and one half quires of paper were in time covered with a strange medley, an olla-podrida of stu |