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Convocation :: Convocation (n.) An academical assembly, in which the business of the university is transacted..

Pensioner :: Pensioner (n.) In the university of Cambridge, England, one who pays for his living in commons; -- corresponding to commoner at Oxford..

Doctor :: Doctor (n.) An academical title, originally meaning a men so well versed in his department as to be qualified to teach it. Hence: One who has taken the highest degree conferred by a university or college, or has received a diploma of the highest degree; as, a doctor of divinity, of law, of medicine, of music, or of philosophy. Such diplomas may confer an honorary title only..

Prorector :: Prorector (n.) An officer who presides over the academic senate of a German university.

Lyceum :: Lyceum (n.) A higher school, in Europe, which prepares youths for the university..

Professor :: Professor (n.) One who professed, or publicly teaches, any science or branch of learning; especially, an officer in a university, college, or other seminary, whose business it is to read lectures, or instruct students, in a particular branch of learning; as a professor of theology, of botany, of mathematics, or of political economy..

Hall :: Hall (n.) The apartment in which English university students dine in common; hence, the dinner itself; as, hall is at six o'clock..

Optime :: Optime (n.) One of those who stand in the second rank of honors, immediately after the wranglers, in the University of Cambridge, England. They are divided into senior and junior optimes..

Freshman :: Freshman (n.) novice; one in the rudiments of knowledge; especially, a student during his fist year in a college or university..

Statute :: Statute (a.) An act of a corporation or of its founder, intended as a permanent rule or law; as, the statutes of a university..

Academian :: Academian (n.) A member of an academy, university, or college..

Orator :: Orator (n.) An officer who is the voice of the university upon all public occasions, who writes, reads, and records all letters of a public nature, presents, with an appropriate address, those persons on whom honorary degrees are to be conferred, and performs other like duties; -- called also public orator..

Fellow-commoner :: Fellow-commoner (n.) A student at Cambridge University, England, who commons, or dines, at the Fellow's table..

Fellow :: Fellow (n.) In an American college or university, a member of the corporation which manages its business interests; also, a graduate appointed to a fellowship, who receives the income of the foundation..

Tripos :: Tripos (n.) A university examination of questionists, for honors; also, a tripos paper; one who prepares a tripos paper..

Proctor :: Proctor (n.) An officer in a university or college whose duty it is to enforce obedience to the laws of the institution.

University :: University (n.) An association, society, guild, or corporation, esp. one capable of having and acquiring property..

Academy :: Academy (n.) An institution for the study of higher learning; a college or a university. Popularly, a school, or seminary of learning, holding a rank between a college and a common school..

Undergraduate :: Undergraduate (n.) A member of a university or a college who has not taken his first degree; a student in any school who has not completed his course.

Gownman :: Gownman (n.) One whose professional habit is a gown, as a divine or lawyer, and particularly a member of an English university; hence, a civilian, in distinction from a soldier..

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