2.  One who keeps terms, or resides at the University.—­Webster.

BATTELING.  At Oxford, the act of taking provisions from the buttery.  Batteling has the same signification as SIZING at the University of Cambridge.—­Gent.  Mag., 1787, p. 1146.

Batteling in a friend’s name, implies eating and drinking at his expense.  When a person’s name is crossed in the buttery, i.e. when he is not allowed to take any articles thence, he usually comes into the hall and battels for buttery supplies in a friend’s name, “for,” says the Collegian’s Guide, “every man can ‘take out’ an extra commons, and some colleges two, at each meal, for a visitor:  and thus, under the name of a guest, though at your own table, you escape part of the punishment of being crossed.”—­p. 158.

2.  Spending money.

The business of the latter was to call us of a morning, to distribute among us our battlings, or pocket money, &c.—­Dicken’s Household Words, Vol.  I. p. 188.

BAUM.  At Hamilton College, to fawn upon; to flatter; to court the favor of any one.

B.C.L.  Abbreviated for Baccalaureus Civilis Legis, Bachelor in Civil Law.  In the University of Oxford, a Bachelor in Civil Law must be an M.A. and a regent of three years’ standing.  The exercises necessary to the degree are disputations upon two distinct days before the Professors of the Faculty of Law.

In the University of Cambridge, the candidate for this degree must have resided nine terms (equal to three years), and been on the boards of some College for six years, have passed the “previous examination,” attended the lectures of the Professor of Civil Law for three terms, and passed a series of examinations in the subject of them; that is to say in General Jurisprudence, as illustrated by Roman and English law.  The names of those who pass creditably are arranged in three classes according to merit.—­Lit.  World, Vol.  XII. p. 284.

This degree is not conferred in the United States.

B.D.  An abbreviation for Baccalaureus Divinitatis, Bachelor in Divinity.  In both the English Universities a B.D. must be an M.A. of seven years’ standing, and at Oxford, a regent of the same length of time.  The exercises necessary to the degree are at Cambridge one act after the fourth year, two opponencies, a clerum, and an English sermon.  At Oxford, disputations are enjoined upon two distinct days before the Professors of the Faculty of Divinity, and a Latin sermon is preached before the Vice-Chancellor.  The degree of Theologiae Baccalaureus was conferred at Harvard College on Mr. Leverett, afterwards President of that institution, in 1692, and on Mr. William Brattle in the same year, the only instances, it is believed, in which this degree has been given in America.

BEADLE, BEDEL, BEDELL.  An officer in a university, whose chief business is to walk with a mace, before the masters, in a public procession; or, as in America, before the president, trustees, faculty, and students of a college, in a procession, at public commencements.—­Webster.