A Collection of College Words and Customs Part 30

The exercises for exhibitions are a.s.signed by the Faculty to meritorious students, usually of the two higher cla.s.ses. The exhibitions are held under the direction of the President, and a refusal to perform the part a.s.signed is regarded as a high offence.--_Laws of Univ. at Cam., Ma.s.s._, 1848, p. 19. _Laws Yale Coll._, 1837, p. 16.

2. Allowance of meat and drink; pension; benefaction settled for the maintenance of scholars in the English Universities, not depending on the foundation.--_Encyc._

What maintenance he from his friends receives, Like _exhibition_ thou shalt have from me.

_Two Gent. Verona_, Act. I. Sc. 3.

This word was formerly used in American colleges.

I order and appoint ... ten pounds a year for one _exhibition_, to a.s.sist one pious young man.--_Quincy's Hist. Harv. Univ._, Vol. I.

p. 530.

As to the extending the time of his _exhibitions_, we agree to it.

--_Ibid._, Vol. I. p. 532.

In the yearly "Statement of the Treasurer" of Harvard College, the word is still retained.

"A _school exhibition_," says a writer in the Literary World, with reference to England, "is a stipend given to the head boys of a school, conditional on their proceeding to some particular college in one of the universities."--Vol. XII. p. 285.

EXHIBITIONER. One who has a pension or allowance, granted for the encouragement of learning; one who enjoys an exhibition. Used princ.i.p.ally in the English universities.

2. One who performs a part at an exhibition in American colleges is sometimes called an _exhibitioner_.

EXPEL. In college government, to command to leave; to dissolve the connection of a student; to interdict him from further connection.

--_Webster_.

EXPULSION. In college government, expulsion is the highest censure, and is a final separation from the college or university.

--_Coll. Laws_.

In the Diary of Mr. Leverett, who was President of Harvard College from 1707 to 1724, is an account of the manner in which the punishment of expulsion was then inflicted. It is as follows:--"In the College Hall the President, after morning prayers, the Fellows, Masters of Art, and the several cla.s.ses of Undergraduates being present, after a full opening of the crimes of the delinquents, a pathetic admonition of them, and solemn obtestation and caution to the scholars, p.r.o.nounced the sentence of expulsion, ordered their names to be rent off the tables, and them to depart the Hall."--_Quincy's Hist. Harv. Univ._, Vol. I. p. 442.

In England, "an expelled man," says Bristed, "is shut out from the learned professions, as well as from all Colleges at either University."--_Five Years in an Eng. Univ._, Ed. 2d, p. 131.

_F_.

FACILITIES. The means by which the performance of anything is rendered easy.--_Webster_.

Among students, a general name for what are technically called _ponies_ or translations.

All such subsidiary helps in learning lessons, he cla.s.sed ...

under the opprobrious name of "_facilities_," and never scrupled to seize them as contraband goods.--_Memorial of John S. Popkin, D.D._, p. lxxvii.

FACULTY. In colleges, the masters and professors of the several sciences.--_Johnson_.

In America, the _faculty_ of a college or university consists of the president, professors, and tutors.--_Webster_.

The duties of the faculty are very extended. They have the general control and direction of the studies pursued in the college. They have cognizance of all offences committed by undergraduates, and it is their special duty to enforce the observance of all the laws and regulations for maintaining discipline, and promoting good order, virtue, piety, and good learning in the inst.i.tution with which they are connected. The faculty hold meetings to communicate and compare their opinions and information, respecting the conduct and character of the students and the state of the college; to decide upon the pet.i.tions or requests which may be offered them by the members of college, and to consider and suggest such measures as may tend to the advancement of learning, and the improvement of the college. This a.s.sembly is called a _Faculty-meeting_, a word very often in the mouths of students.--_Coll. Laws_.

2. One of the members or departments of a university.

"In the origin of the University of Paris," says Brande, "the seven liberal arts (grammar, logic, rhetoric, arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, and music) seem to have been the subjects of academic instruction. These const.i.tuted what was afterwards designated the Faculty of Arts. Three other faculties--those of divinity, law, and medicine--were subsequently added. In all these four, lectures were given, and degrees conferred by the University. The four Faculties were transplanted to Oxford and Cambridge, where they are still retained; although, in point of fact, the faculty of arts is the only one in which substantial instruction is communicated in the academical course."--_Brande's Dict._, Art. FACULTY.

In some American colleges, these four departments are established, and sometimes a fifth, the Scientific, is added.

f.a.g. Scotch, _faik_, to fail, to languish. Ancient Swedish, _wik-a_, cedere. To drudge; to labor to weariness; to become weary.

2. To study hard; to persevere in study.

Place me 'midst every toil and care, A hapless undergraduate still, To _f.a.g_ at mathematics dire, &c.

_Gradus ad Cantab._, p. 8.

Dee, the famous mathematician, appears to have _f.a.gged_ as intensely as any man at Cambridge. For three years, he declares, he only slept four hours a night, and allowed two hours for refreshment. The remaining eighteen hours were spent in study.--_Ibid._, p. 48.

How did ye toil, and _f.a.gg_, and fume, and fret, And--what the bashful muse would blush to say.

But, now, your painful tremors are all o'er, Cloath'd in the glories of a full-sleev'd gown, Ye strut majestically up and down, And now ye _f.a.gg_, and now ye fear, no more!

_Gent. Mag._, 1795, p. 20.

f.a.g. A laborious drudge; a drudge for another. In colleges and schools, this term is applied to a boy of a lower form who is forced to do menial services for another boy of a higher form or cla.s.s.

But who are those three by-standers, that have such an air of submission and awe in their countenances? They are _f.a.gs_,--Freshmen, poor fellows, called out of their beds, and s.h.i.+vering with fear in the apprehension of missing morning prayers, to wait upon their lords the Soph.o.m.ores in their midnight revellings.--_Harvardiana_, Vol. II. p. 106.

His _f.a.g_ he had well-nigh killed by a blow.

_Wallenstein in Bohn's Stand. Lib._, p. 155.

A sixth-form schoolboy is not a little astonished to find his _f.a.gs_ becoming his masters.--_Lond. Quar. Rev._, Am. Ed., Vol.

LXXIII, p. 53.

Under the t.i.tle FRESHMAN SERVITUDE will be found as account of the manner in which members of that cla.s.s were formerly treated in the older American colleges.

2. A diligent student, i.e. a _dig_.

f.a.g. Time spent in, or period of, studying.

The afternoon's _f.a.g_ is a pretty considerable one, lasting from three till dark.--_Alma Mater_, Vol. I. p. 248.

After another _hard f.a.g_ of a week or two, a land excursion would be proposed.--_Ibid._, Vol. II. p. 56.

f.a.gGING. Laborious drudgery; the acting as a drudge for another at a college or school.