A Collection of College Words and Customs, page 389 by Benjamin Homer Hall
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attempt at a pun is styled a sick razor. The sick ones are by far the most numerous; however, once in a while you meet with one in quite respectable health."--Vol. XIII. p. 283.
The meeting will be opened with razors by the Society's jester. --Yale Tomahawk, Nov. 1849.
Behold how Duncia leads her chosen sons, All armed with squibs, stale jokes, dull razors, puns. The Gallinipper, Dec. 1849.
READ. To be studious; to practise much reading; e.g. at Oxford, to read for a first class; at Cambridge, to read for an honor. In America it is common to speak of "reading law, medicine," &c.
We seven stayed at Christmas up to read; We seven took one tutor. Tennyson, Prologue to Princess.
In England the vacations are the very times when you read most. Bristed's Five Years in an Eng. Univ., Ed. 2d, p. 78.
This system takes for granted that the students have "read," as it is termed, with a private practitioner of medicine.--Cat. Univ. of Virginia, 1851, p. 25.
READER. In the University of Oxford, one who reads lectures on scientific subjects.--Lyell.
2. At the English universities, a hard student, nearly equivalent to READING MAN.
Most of the Cantabs are late readers, so that, supposing one of them to begin at seven, he will not leave off before half past eleven.--Bristed's Five Years in an Eng. Univ., Ed. 2d, p. 21.
READERSHIP. In the University of Oxford, the office of a reader or lecturer on scientific subjects.--Lyell.
READING. In the academic sense, studying.
One would hardly suspect them to be students at all, did not the number of glasses hint that those who carried them had impaired their sight by late reading.--Bristed's Five Years in an Eng. Univ., Ed. 2d, p. 5.
READING MAN. In the English universities, a reading man is a hard student, or o