I gave in my resignation this time without recall, and took my name off the boards.—­Bristed’s Five Years in an Eng.  Univ., Ed. 2d, p. 291.

Similar to this was the list of students which was formerly kept at Harvard College, and probably at Yale.  Judge Wingate, who graduated at the former institution in 1759, writes as follows in reference to this subject:—­“The Freshman Class was, in my day at college, usually placed (as it was termed) within six or nine months after their admission.  The official notice of this was given by having their names written in a large German text, in a handsome style, and placed in a conspicuous part of the College Buttery, where the names of the four classes of undergraduates were kept suspended until they left College.  If a scholar was expelled, his name was taken from its place; or if he was degraded (which was considered the next highest punishment to expulsion), it was moved accordingly.”—­Peirce’s Hist.  Harv.  Univ., p. 311.

BOGS.  Among English Cantabs, a privy.—­Gradus ad Cantab.

BOHN.  A translation; a pony.  The volumes of Bohn’s Classical Library are in such general use among undergraduates in American colleges, that Bohn has come to be a common name for a translation.

  ’Twas plenty of skin with a good deal of Bohn.
    Songs, Biennial Jubilee, Yale Coll., 1855.

BOLT.  An omission of a recitation or lecture.  A correspondent from Union College gives the following account of it:—­“In West College, where the Sophomores and Freshmen congregate, when there was a famous orator expected, or any unusual spectacle to be witnessed in the city, we would call a ‘class meeting,’ to consider upon the propriety of asking Professor ——­ for a bolt.  We had our chairman, and the subject being debated, was generally decided in favor of the remission.  A committee of good steady fellows were selected, who forthwith waited upon the Professor, and, after urging the matter, commonly returned with the welcome assurance that we could have a bolt from the next recitation.”

One writer defines a bolt in these words:—­“The promiscuous stampede of a class collectively.  Caused generally by a few seconds’ tardiness of the Professor, occasionally by finding the lock of the recitation-room door filled with shot.”—­Sophomore Independent, Union College, Nov. 1854.

The quiet routine of college life had remained for some days undisturbed, even by a single bolt.—­Williams Quarterly, Vol.  II. p. 192.

BOLT.  At Union College, to be absent from a recitation, on the conditions related under the noun BOLT.  Followed by from.  At Williams College, the word is applied with a different signification.  A correspondent writes:  “We sometimes bolt from a recitation before the Professor arrives, and the term most strikingly suggests the derivation, as our movements in the case would somewhat resemble a ’streak of lightning,’—­a thunder-bolt.”