A Collection of College Words and Customs by Benjamin Homer Hall
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A Collection of College Words and Customs
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Title: A Collection of College Words and Customs
Author: Benjamin Homer Hall
Release Date: July 9, 2004 [EBook #12864]
Language: English
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A
COLLECTION
OF
COLLEGE WORDS AND CUSTOMS.
BY B.H. HALL.
"Multa renascentur quæ jam cecidere, cadentque Quæ nunc sunt in honore, vocabula."
"Notandi sunt tibi mores." HOR. Ars Poet.
REVISED AND ENLARGED EDITION.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1856, by
B.H. HALL,
in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.
INTRODUCTION.
The first edition of this publication was mostly compiled during the leisure hours of the last half-year of a Senior's collegiate life, and was presented anonymously to the public with the following
"PREFACE.
"The Editor has an indistinct recollection of a sheet of foolscap paper, on one side of which was written, perhaps a year and a half ago, a list of twenty or thirty college