A Collection of College Words and Customs by Benjamin Homer Hall
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obtaining high honors, and settled down contentedly among the
twelve or fifteen who are _bracketed_, after the first two or three, as "English Orations."--_Bristed's Five Years in an Eng. Univ._, Ed. 2d, p. 6. There remained but two, _bracketed_ at the foot of the class.--_Ibid._, p. 62. The Trinity man who was _bracketed_ Senior Classic.--_Ibid._, p. 187. BRANDER. In the German universities a name given to a student during his second term. Meanwhile large tufts and strips of paper had been twisted into the hair of the _Branders_, as those are called who have been already one term at the University, and then at a given signal were set on fire, and the _Branders_ rode round the table on chairs, amid roars of laughter.--_Longfellow's Hyperion_, p. 114. See BRAND-FOX, BURNT FOX. BRAND-FOX. A student in a German university "becomes a _Brand-fuchs_, or fox with a brand, after the foxes of Samson," in his second half-year.--_Howitt_. BRICK. A gay, wild, thoughtless fellow, but not so _hard_ as the |
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