To one danger mathematicians are more exposed than either classical or double men,—­disgust and satiety arising from exclusive devotion to their unattractive studies.—­Ibid., p. 225.

DOUBLE MARKS.  It was formerly the custom in Harvard College with the Professors in Rhetoric, when they had examined and corrected the themes of the students, to draw a straight line on the back of each one of them, under the name of the writer.  Under the names of those whose themes were of more than ordinary correctness or elegance, two lines were drawn, which were called double marks.

They would take particular pains for securing the double mark of the English Professor to their poetical compositions.—­Monthly Anthology, Boston, 1804, Vol.  I. p. 104.

Many, if not the greater part of Paine’s themes, were written in verse; and his vanity was gratified, and his emulation roused, by the honor of constant double marks.—­Works of R.T.  Paine, Biography, p. xxii., Ed. 1812.

See THEME.

DOUBLE SECOND.  At the University of Cambridge, Eng., one who obtains a high place in the second rank, in both mathematical and classical honors.

A good double second will make, by his college scholarship, two fifths or three fifths of his expenses during two thirds of the time he passes at the University.—­Bristed’s Five Years in an Eng.  Univ., Ed. 2d, p. 427.

DOUGH-BALL.  At the Anderson Collegiate Institute, Indiana, a name given by the town’s people to a student.

DRESS.  A uniformity in dress has never been so prevalent in American colleges as in the English and other universities.  About the middle of the last century, however, the habit among the students of Harvard College of wearing gold lace attracted the attention of the Overseers, and a law was passed “requiring that on no occasion any of the scholars wear any gold or silver lace, or any gold or silver brocades, in the College or town of Cambridge,” and “that no one wear any silk night-gowns.”  “In 1786,” says Quincy, “in order to lessen the expense of dress, a uniform was prescribed, the color and form of which were minutely set forth, with a distinction of the classes by means of frogs on the cuffs and button-holes; silk was prohibited, and home manufactures were recommended.”  This system of uniform is fully described in the laws of 1790, and is as follows:—­

“All the Undergraduates shall be clothed in coats of blue-gray, and with waistcoats and breeches of the same color, or of a black, a nankeen, or an olive color.  The coats of the Freshmen shall have plain button-holes.  The cuffs shall be without buttons.  The coats of the Sophomores shall have plain button-holes like those of the Freshmen, but the cuffs shall have buttons.  The coats of the Juniors shall have cheap frogs to the button-holes, except the button-holes of the cuffs.  The coats