A Collection of College Words and CustomsM. Doolady, 1859 - 508 Seiten |
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Alma Mater American colleges appointed attend Bachelor of Arts Bowdoin College Bristed Bristed's Five buttery called candidates chapel College yard Collegian's Guide Commencement Day commons Corporation custom degree dinner dress duties England English universities examination exercises exhibition Faculty Fellow-Commoners formerly Freshman given gown graduate Gradus ad Cantab Greek hall Harv Harvard College Harvardiana honor House Ibid Junior Latin laws lege literary Master of Arts morning occasion offence oration passed performed person Poem prayers present President Princeton College Professor punishment Quincy's Hist Rebelliad recitation says scholars Senior Class silk sizar society Songs Sophomore Sophs term tion tutor Undergraduates Union College Univ University of Cambridge University of Oxford University of Vermont usually wear Webster Williams College Wooden Spoon word Yale Banger Yale Coll Yale College Yale Lit
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Seite 336 - 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...
Seite 416 - LET children hear the mighty deeds Which God performed of old ; Which, in our younger years, we saw, And which our fathers told.
Seite 171 - ... accent of Christians nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted and bellowed that I have thought some of Nature's journeymen had made men and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.
Seite 336 - 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 the extinguishing the hopes of the pretended Prince of Wales and his open and Secret Abettors...
Seite 283 - 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.
Seite 187 - FAIR HARVARD! thy sons to thy Jubilee throng, And with blessings surrender thee o'er, By these festival-rites, from the Age that is past, To the Age that is waiting before. O Relic and Type of our ancestors' worth, That hast long kept their memory warm!
Seite 454 - October or Michaelmas Term begins on the 10th of October, and ends on the 16th of December. Lent or January Term begins on the 13th of January, and ends on the Friday before Palm Sunday. Easter or Midsummer Term begins on the eleventh day (the Wednesday se'nnight) after Easterday, and ends on the Friday after Commencement-day.
Seite 4 - 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.
Seite 416 - Our lips shall tell them to our sons, And they again to theirs; That generations yet unborn May teach them to their heirs.
Seite 297 - Act hath the Approbation of the Overseers and Master of the Colledge, is fit to be dignified with his first Degree.