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the walls of the same edifices where the students lived. Where charitable munificence went so far as to provide for the support of a greater number of fellows than were needed, some of them were intrusted, as tutors, with the instruction of the undergraduates, while others performed various services within their college, or passed a life of learned leisure."--_Pres. Woolsey's Hist. Disc._, New Haven, Aug. 14, 1850, p. 8. 3. In _foreign universities_, a public lecture.--_Webster_. COLLEGE BIBLE. The laws of a college are sometimes significantly called _the College Bible_. He cons _the College Bible_ with eager, longing eyes, And wonders how poor students at six o'clock can rise. _Poem before Iadma of Harv. Coll._, 1850. COLLEGER. A member of a college. We stood like veteran _Collegers_ the next day's screw.--_Harvardiana_, Vol. III. p. 9. [_Little used_.] 2. The name by which a member of a certain class of the pupils of Eton is known. "The _Collegers_ are educated gratuitously, and such of them as have nearly but not quite reached the age of nineteen, when a vacancy in King's College, Cambridge, occurs, are elected scholars there forthwith and provided for during life--or until marriage."--_Bristed's Five Years in an Eng. Univ._, Ed. 2d, pp. 262, 263. They have nothing in lieu of our seventy _Collegers_.--_Ibid._, p. 270. The whole number of scholars or "_Collegers_" at Eton is seventy. --_Literary World_, Vol. XII. p. 285. COLLEGE YARD. The enclosure on or within which the buildings of a college are situated. Although college enclosures are usually open for others to pass through than those connected with the college, yet by law the grounds are as private as those connected with private dwellings, and are kept so, by refusing entrance, for a certain period, to all who are not members of the college, at least once in twenty years, although the time differs in different States. But when they got to _College yard_, With one accord they all huzza'd.--_Rebelliad_, p. 33. Not ye, whom science never taught to roam Far as a _College yard_ or student's home. _Harv. Reg._, p. 232. COLLEGIAN. A member of a college, particularly of a literary institution so called; an inhabitant of a college.--_Johnson_. COLLEGIATE. Pertaining to a college; as, _collegiate_ studies. 2. Containing a college; instituted after the manner of a college; as, a _collegiate_ society.--_Johns
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