A Collection Of College Words And Customs - Softcover

Benjamin Homer Hall

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0371555345 ISBN 13: 9780371555347

Publisher: HardPress, 2021

Synopsis

A Collection Of College Words And Customs by Benjamin Homer Hall. This scholarly yet anecdotal reference compiles a dense historical glossary of college slang, terms, offices, rituals, and customs from American and British universities, presented in alphabetical order and extending from N through parts of S. The work draws on 18th-19th century sources at Harvard, Yale, Cambridge, Oxford, Princeton, Williams, Dartmouth, Union, and other colleges, including numerous quotations, anecdotes, and miniature poems. Core content covers student classes, degrees, offices such as Wranglers, Senior Wrangler, Senior Optime, Proctor, Regent, President, Provost, Tutor, Parietal Committee; and spaces like quad, refectory, recitation-room, chapel. It also describes exhibitions, Presentation Day, Commencement, prayers, oaths, diplomas, signatures, and public orations, as well as disciplinary and social practices such as rustication, admonition, screws, ragging, and pranks. The entries contrast Cambridge/Oxford with Harvard/Yale/Princeton, include Latin/Greek phrases and etymologies, and illuminate how practices evolved. The volume serves as a lexical, cultural metadata resource for scholars of education, linguistics, and 19th-century collegiate life, originally published in 1851 and revised in 1856.

Edition details

• Publisher: HardPress
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0371555345
• ISBN 13: 9780371555347
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 538