The degree is also presented by special vote to individuals wholly unconnected with any college, but who are distinguished for their literary attainments.  In this case, where the honor is given, no fee is required.

MAKE UP.  To recite a lesson which was not recited with the class at the regular recitation.  It is properly used as a transitive verb, but in conversation is very often used intransitively.  The following passage explains the meaning of the phrase more fully.

A student may be permitted, on petition to the Faculty, to make up a recitation or other exercise from which he was absent and has been excused, provided his application to this effect be made within the term in-which the absence occurred.—­Laws of Univ. at Cam., Mass., 1848, p. 16.

... sleeping,—­a luxury, however, which is sadly diminished by the anticipated necessity of making up back lessons.—­Harv.  Reg., p. 202.

MAN.  An undergraduate in a university or college.

At Cambridge and eke at Oxford, every stripling is accounted a Man from the moment of his putting on the gown and cap.—­Gradus ad Cantab., p. 75.

Sweet are the slumbers, indeed, of a Freshman, who, just escaped the trammels of “home, sweet home,” and the pedagogue’s tyrannical birch, for the first time in his life, with the academical gown, assumes the toga virilis, and feels himself a Man.—­Alma Mater, Vol.  I. p. 30.

In College all are “men” from the hirsute Senior to the tender Freshman who carries off a pound of candy and paper of raisins from the maternal domicile weekly.—­Harv.  Mag., Vol.  I. p. 264.

MANCIPLE.  Latin, manceps; manu capio, to take with the hand.

In the English universities, the person who purchases the provisions; the college victualler.  The office is now obsolete.

  Our Manciple I lately met,
    Of visage wise and prudent.
    The Student, Oxf. and Cam., Vol.  I. p. 115.

MANDAMUS.  In the University of Cambridge, Eng., a special mandate under the great seal, which enables a candidate to proceed to his degree before the regular period.—­Grad. ad Cantab.

MANNERS.  The outward observances of respect which were formerly required of the students by college officers seem very strange to us of the present time, and we cannot but notice the omissions which have been made in college laws during the present century in reference to this subject.  Among the laws of Harvard College, passed in 1734, is one declaring, that “all scholars shall show due respect and honor in speech and behavior, as to their natural parents, so to magistrates, elders, the President and Fellows of the Corporation, and to all others concerned in the instruction or government of the College, and to all superiors, keeping due silence in their presence, and not disorderly gainsaying them; but showing all