“May 21st.  Ely was suspended to Amherst for five months, for assisting Sullivan and Trapier in mingling tartar emetic with our commons.”

Another student, who threw a stone into the examination-room, which struck the chair in which Governor Hancock sat, was more severely punished.  The circumstance is mentioned in the manuscript referred to above as follows:—­

“April 14th, 1791.  Henry W. Jones of H——­ was expelled from College upon evidence of a little boy that he sent a stone into ye Philosopher’s room while a committee of ye Corporation and Overseers, and all ye Immediate Government, were engaged in examination of ye Freshman Class.”

Although the examination was delayed for a day or two on account of these occurrences, it was again renewed and carried on during that year, although many attempts were made to stop it.  For several years after, whenever these periods occurred, disturbances came with them, and it was not until the year 1797 that the differences between the officers and the students were satisfactorily adjusted, and examinations established on a sure basis.

EXAMINE.  To inquire into the improvements or qualifications of students, by interrogatories, proposing problems, or by hearing their recitals; as, to examine the classes in college; to examine the candidates for a degree, or for a license to preach or to practise in a profession.—­Webster.

EXAMINEE.  One who is examined; one who undergoes at examination.

What loads of cold beef and lobster vanish before the examinees. —­Bristed’s Five Years in an Eng.  Univ., Ed. 2d, p. 72.

EXAMINER.  One who examines.  In colleges and seminaries of learning, the person who interrogates the students, proposes questions for them to answer, and problems to solve.

Coming forward with assumed carelessness, he threw towards us the formal reply of his examiners.—­Harvardiana, Vol.  III. p. 9.

EXEAT.  Latin; literally, let him depart.  Leave of absence given to a student in the English universities.—­Webster.

The students who wish to go home apply for an “Exeat,” which is a paper signed by the Tutor, Master, and Dean.—­Alma Mater, Vol.  I. p. 162.

[At King’s College], exeats, or permission to go down during term, were never granted but in cases of life and death.—­Bristed’s Five Years in an Eng.  Univ., Ed. 2d, p. 140.

EXERCISE.  A task or lesson; that which is appointed for one to perform.  In colleges, all the literary duties are called exercises.

It may be inquired, whether a great part of the exercises be not at best but serious follies.—­Cotton Mather’s Suggestions, in Quincy’s Hist.  Harv.  Univ., Vol.  I. p. 558.

In the English universities, certain exercises, as acts, opponencies, &c., are required to be performed for particular degrees.