We should be puzzled to find any questions more absurd and unreasonable than those in the cram papers in the college examination.—­Westminster Rev., Am. ed., Vol.  XXXV. p. 237.

CRIB.  Probably a translation; a pony.

Of the “Odes and Epodes of Horace, translated literally and rhythmically” by W. Sewell, of Oxford, the editor of the Literary World remarks:  “Useful as a ‘crib,’ it is also poetical.”—­Vol.  VIII. p. 28.

CROW’S-FOOT.  At Harvard College a badge formerly worn on the sleeve, resembling a crow’s foot, to denote the class to which a student belongs.  In the regulations passed April 29, 1822, for establishing the style of dress among the students at Harvard College, we find the following.  A part of the dress shall be “three crow’s-feet, made of black silk cord, on the lower part of the sleeve of a Senior, two on that of a Junior, and one on that of a Sophomore.”  The Freshmen were not allowed to wear the crow’s-foot, and the custom is now discontinued, although an unsuccessful attempt was made to revive it a few years ago.

The Freshman scampers off at the first bell for the chapel, where, finding no brother student of a higher class to encourage his punctuality, he crawls back to watch the starting of some one blessed with a crow’s-foot, to act as vanguard.—­Harv.  Reg., p. 377.

  The corded crow’s-feet, and the collar square,
  The change and chance of earthly lot must share.
    Class Poem at Harv.  Coll., 1835, p. 18.

  What if the creature should arise,—­
    For he was stout and tall,—­
  And swallow down a Sophomore,
    Coat, crow’s-foot, cap, and all.
    Holmes’s Poems, 1850, p. 109.

CUE, KUE, Q. A small portion of bread or beer; a term formerly current in both the English universities, the letter q being the mark in the buttery books to denote such a piece.  Q would seem to stand for quadrans, a farthing; but Minsheu says it was only half that sum, and thus particularly explains it:  “Because they set down in the battling or butterie bookes in Oxford and Cambridge, the letter q for half a farthing; and in Oxford when they make that cue or q a farthing, they say, cap my q, and make it a farthing, thus, [Symbol:  small q with a line over].  But in Cambridge they use this letter, a little f; thus, f, or thus, s, for a farthing.”  He translates it in Latin calculus panis.  Coles has, “A cue [half a farthing] minutum.”—­Nares’s Glossary.

“A cue of bread,” says Halliwell, “is the fourth part of a half-penny crust.  A cue of beer, one draught.”

J. Woods, under-butler of Christ Church, Oxon, said he would never sitt capping of cues.—­Urry’s MS. add. to Ray.

You are still at Cambridge with size kue.—­Orig. of Dr., III. p. 271.

He never drank above size q of Helicon.—­Eachard, Contempt of Cl., p. 26.