A Collection of College Words and Customs ...J. Bartlett, 1851 - 319 páginas |
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abbreviation Alma Mater appointed attend Bachelor of Arts Bowdoin College buttery called candidates chapel College yard Collegian's Guide Commencement Day commons Corporation custom customary Dartmouth Dartmouth College degree dinner disputations dress duties England English universities errand examination exercises exhibition Faculty flunk formerly Freshman given gown graduate Gradus ad Cantab Gradus ad Cantabrigiam Greek Hall Hamilton College Harv Harvard College Harvardiana honor House Iadma Ibid institution Junior Latin laws lege literary Masters morning occasion offence officers oration Overseers passed Peirce's Hist performed person Poem prayers present President Princeton College Professor punishment Quincy's Hist Rebelliad received recitation scholars Senior Class sizar society Sophomore Sophs term testamur tion Tutors Undergraduates Univ University of Cambridge University of Oxford usually valedictory Webster Williams College Wooden Spoon word Yale Banger Yale Coll Yale College Yale Lit
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Página 216 - An Act for the further security of His Majesty's person and Government, and the succession of the Crown in the Heirs of the late Princess Sophia, being Protestants, and for extinguishing the hopes of the pretended Prince of Wales, and his open and secret abettors...
Página 272 - LET children hear the mighty deeds Which God performed of old ; Which in our younger years we saw, And which our fathers told. 2 He bids us make his glories known, His works of power and grace ; And we'll convey his wonders down Through every rising race. 3 Our lips shall tell them to our sons, And they again to theirs, That generations yet unborn May teach them to their heirs. 4 Thus...
Página 215 - An Act for the further security of His Majesty's Person and Government and the succession of the Crown in the Heirs of the late Princess Sophia being Protestants and for extinguishing the hopes of the late pretended Prince of Wales and his open and secret Abettors...
Página 2 - When any scholar is able to read Tully, or such like classical Latin author extempore, and make and speak true Latin in verse and prose suo (ut aiunt) Marte, and decline perfectly the paradigms of nouns and verbs in the Greek tongue, then may he be admitted into the College, nor shall any claim admission before such qualifications.
Página 271 - Let the instructions of my mouth Deep in your hearts descend. 2 My tongue, by inspiration taught, Shall parables unfold, Dark oracles, but understood, And owned for truths of old ; 3 Which we from sacred registers Of ancient times have known, And our forefathers' pious care To us has handed down.
Página 264 - House, from its members wearing their hoods lined with white silk. All the rest constitute the NonRegent or Lower House, otherwise called the BlackHood House, its members wearing black silk hoods.
Página 176 - The scholars shall never use their mother tongue, except that in public exercises of oratory, or such like, they be called to make them in English.
Página 273 - He bids us make his glories known, His works of power and grace; And we'll convey his wonders down Through every rising race. 3 Our lips shall tell them to our sons, And they again to theirs, That generations yet unborn May teach them to their heirs. 4 Thus shall they learn in God alone Their hope securely stands, That they may ne'er forget his works, But practise his commands.
Página 40 - Miss Patience smiled, and looked at Cash. Cash's knees trembled. All eyes in the room turned upon him. Cash trembled all over. Miss Patience said she was gratified to hear that Mr. Cash was a musician : she admired people who had a musical taste. Whereupon Cash fell into a chair, as he afterwards observed,
Página 80 - Prts before the committee, and in the library 1 up before execution.) 3. Sit alone by himself in the Hall uncovered at meals, during the pleasure of the President and Fellows, and be in all things obedient, doing what exercise was appointed him by the President, or else be finally expelled the Colledge.
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