EXPULSION.  In college government, expulsion is the highest censure, and is a final separation from the college or university. —­Coll.  Laws.

In the Diary of Mr. Leverett, who was President of Harvard College from 1707 to 1724, is an account of the manner in which the punishment of expulsion was then inflicted.  It is as follows:—­“In the College Hall the President, after morning prayers, the Fellows, Masters of Art, and the several classes of Undergraduates being present, after a full opening of the crimes of the delinquents, a pathetic admonition of them, and solemn obtestation and caution to the scholars, pronounced the sentence of expulsion, ordered their names to be rent off the tables, and them to depart the Hall.”—­Quincy’s Hist.  Harv.  Univ., Vol.  I. p. 442.

In England, “an expelled man,” says Bristed, “is shut out from the learned professions, as well as from all Colleges at either University.”—­Five Years in an Eng.  Univ., Ed. 2d, p. 131.

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FACILITIES.  The means by which the performance of anything is rendered easy.—­Webster.

Among students, a general name for what are technically called ponies or translations.

All such subsidiary helps in learning lessons, he classed ... under the opprobrious name of “facilities,” and never scrupled to seize them as contraband goods.—­Memorial of John S. Popkin, D.D., p. lxxvii.

FACULTY.  In colleges, the masters and professors of the several sciences.—­Johnson.

In America, the faculty of a college or university consists of the president, professors, and tutors.—­Webster.

The duties of the faculty are very extended.  They have the general control and direction of the studies pursued in the college.  They have cognizance of all offences committed by undergraduates, and it is their special duty to enforce the observance of all the laws and regulations for maintaining discipline, and promoting good order, virtue, piety, and good learning in the institution with which they are connected.  The faculty hold meetings to communicate and compare their opinions and information, respecting the conduct and character of the students and the state of the college; to decide upon the petitions or requests which may be offered them by the members of college, and to consider and suggest such measures as may tend to the advancement of learning, and the improvement of the college.  This assembly is called a Faculty-meeting, a word very often in the mouths of students.—­Coll.  Laws.

2.  One of the members or departments of a university.