A Collection of College Words and Customs by Benjamin Homer Hall
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Commoner.... Secondly, as a _bye-term man_, or one between two
years. Although I had entered into residence at the same time with those men who were to go out in 1844, my name had not been placed on the College Books, like theirs, previously to the commencement of 1840. I had therefore lost a term, and for most purposes was considered a Freshman, though I had been in residence as long as any of the Junior Sophs. In fact, I was _between two years_."--_Five Years in an Eng. Univ._, Ed. 2d, pp. 97, 98. _C_. CAD. A low fellow, nearly equivalent to _snob_. Used among students in the University of Cambridge, Eng.--_Bristed_. CAHOOLE. At the University of North Carolina, this word in its application is almost universal, but generally signifies to cajole, to wheedle, to deceive, to procure. CALENDAR. At the English universities the information which in American colleges is published in a catalogue, is contained in a similar but far more comprehensive work, called a _calendar_. Conversation based on the topics of which such a volume treats is in some localities denominated _calendar_. "Shop," or, as it is sometimes here called, "_Calendar_," |
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