A Collection of College Words and Customs Part 92

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, Ma.s.s., 10 references.

ANDERSON COLLEGIATE INSt.i.tUTE, 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, Ma.s.s., 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.

WESTERN RESERVE COLLEGE, Hudson, Ohio., 1 reference.

WEST POINT, N.Y., 1 reference.

WILLIAM AND MARY COLLEGE, Williamsburg, Va., 3 references.

WILLIAMS COLLEGE, Williamstown, Ma.s.s., 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 s.p.a.ce 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 cla.s.s usually waited on the table at dinner on Commencement Day.

[07] Rev. John Willard, S.T.D., of Stafford, Conn., a graduate of the cla.s.s 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 SOPh.o.m.oRE, 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.

"On Sat.u.r.day evenings, Sundays, and Saints' days the students wear surplices instead of their gowns, and very innocent and exemplary they look in them."--_Ibid._, p.

21.

[17] "The ignorance of the popular mind has often represented academicians riding, travelling, &c. in cap and gown. Any one who has had experience of the academic costume can tell that a sharp walk on a windy day in it is no easy matter, and a ride or a row would be pretty near an impossibility. Indeed, during these two hours [of hard exercise] it is as rare to see a student in a gown, as it is at other times to find him beyond the college walks without one."--_Ibid._, p. 19.

[18] Downing College.

[19] St. John's College.