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University :: University (n.) The universe; the whole.

Civilian :: Civilian (n.) A student of the civil law at a university or college.

Compounder :: Compounder (n.) One at a university who pays extraordinary fees for the degree he is to take.

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

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

Faculty :: Faculty (n.) A body of a men to whom any specific right or privilege is granted; formerly, the graduates in any of the four departments of a university or college (Philosophy, Law, Medicine, or Theology), to whom was granted the right of teaching (profitendi or docendi) in the department in which they had studied; at present, the members of a profession itself; as, the medical faculty; the legal faculty, ect..

Montem :: Montem (n.) A custom, formerly practiced by the scholars at Eton school, England, of going every third year, on Whittuesday, to a hillock near the Bath road, and exacting money from all passers-by, to support at the university the senior scholar of the school..

Gymnasium :: Gymnasium (n.) A school for the higher branches of literature and science; a preparatory school for the university; -- used esp. of German schools of this kind.

Methodist :: Methodist (n.) One of a sect of Christians, the outgrowth of a small association called the Holy Club, formed at Oxford University, A.D. 1729, of which the most conspicuous members were John Wesley and his brother Charles; -- originally so called from the methodical strictness of members of the club in all religious duties..

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..

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

Inceptor :: Inceptor (n.) One who is on the point of taking the degree of master of arts at an English university.

Oxford :: Oxford (a.) Of or pertaining to the city or university of Oxford, England..

Faculty :: Faculty (n.) The body of person to whom are intrusted the government and instruction of a college or university, or of one of its departments; the president, professors, and tutors in a college..

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

Literate :: Literate (n.) One educated, but not having taken a university degree; especially, such a person who is prepared to take holy orders..

Caput :: Caput (n.) The council or ruling body of the University of Cambridge prior to the constitution of 1856.

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.

Congregation :: Congregation (n.) The assemblage of Masters and Doctors at Oxford or Cambrige University, mainly for the granting of degrees..

Responsion :: Responsion (n.) The first university examination; -- called also little go. See under Little, a..

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