See MIGRATION.

EMPTY BOTTLE.  At the University of Cambridge, Eng., the sobriquet of a fellow-commoner.

Indeed they [fellow-commoners] are popularly denominated “empty bottles,” the first word of the appellation being an adjective, though were it taken as a verb there would be no untruth in it.—­Bristed’s Five Years in an Eng.  Univ., Ed. 2d, p. 34.

ENCENIA, pl. Greek [Greek:  enkainia], a feast of dedication.  Festivals anciently kept on the days on which cities were built or churches consecrated; and, in later times, ceremonies renewed at certain periods, as at Oxford, at the celebration of founders and benefactors.—­Hook.

END WOMAN.  At Bowdoin College, “end women,” says a correspondent, “are the venerable females who officiate as chambermaids in the different entries.”  They are so called from the entries being placed at the ends of the buildings.

ENGAGEMENT.  At Yale College, the student, on entering, signs an engagement, as it is called, in the words following:  “I, A.B., on condition of being admitted as a member of Yale College, promise, on my faith and honor, to observe all the laws and regulations of this College; particularly that I will faithfully avoid using profane language, gaming, and all indecent, disorderly behavior, and disrespectful conduct to the Faculty, and all combinations to resist their authority; as witness my hand.  A.B.” —­Yale Coll.  Cat., 1837, p. 10.

Nearly the same formula is used at Williams College.

ENGINE.  At Harvard College, for many years before and succeeding the year 1800, a fire-engine was owned by the government, and was under the management of the students.  In a MS. Journal, under date of Oct. 29, 1792, is this note:  “This day I turned out to exercise the engine.  P.M.”  The company were accustomed to attend all the fires in the neighboring towns, and were noted for their skill and efficiency.  But they often mingled enjoyment with their labor, nor were they always as scrupulous as they might have been in the means used to advance it.  In 1810, the engine having been newly repaired, they agreed to try its power on an old house, which was to be fired at a given time.  By some mistake, the alarm was given before the house was fairly burning.  Many of the town’s people endeavored to save it, but the company, dragging the engine into a pond near by, threw the dirty water on them in such quantities that they were glad to desist from their laudable endeavors.

It was about this time that the Engine Society was organized, before which so many pleasant poems and orations were annually delivered.  Of these, that most noted is the “Rebelliad,” which was spoken in the year 1819, and was first published in the year 1842.  Of it the editor has well remarked:  “It still remains the text-book of the jocose, and is still regarded by all, even the melancholy, as a most happy production of humorous taste.”  Its author was Dr. Augustus Pierce, who died at Tyngsborough, May 20, 1849.