At Middlebury College, similar powers are given to a body bearing the same name.—­Laws Mid.  Coll., 1839, pp. 4, 5.

PUBLIC.  At Harvard College, the punishment next higher in order to a private admonition is called a public admonition, and consists in a deduction of sixty-four marks from the rank of the offender, accompanied by a letter to the parent or guardian.  It is often called a public.

See ADMONITION, and PRIVATE.

PUBLIC DAY.  In the University of Virginia, the day on which “the certificates and diplomas are awarded to the successful candidates, the results of the examinations are announced, and addresses are delivered by one or more of the Bachelors and Masters of Arts, and by the Orator appointed by the Society of the Alumni.”—­Cat. of Univ. of Virginia.

This occurs on the closing day of the session, the 29th of June.

PUBLIC ORATOR.  In the English universities, an officer who is the voice of the university on all public occasions, who writes, reads, and records all letters of a public nature, and presents, with an appropriate address, those on whom honorary degrees are conferred.  At Cambridge, this it esteemed one of the most honorable offices in the gift of the university.—­Cam. and Oxf.  Cals.

PUMP.  Among German students, to obtain or take on credit; to sponge.

  Und hat der Bursch kein Geld im Beutel,
  So pumpt er die Philister an.
    Crambambuli Song.

PUNY.  A young, inexperienced person; a novice.

Freshmen at Oxford were called punies of the first
year.—­Halliwell’s Dict.  Arch. and Prov.  Words.

PUT THROUGH.  A phrase very general in its application.  When a student treats, introduces, or assists another, or masters a hard lesson, he is said to put him or it through.  In a discourse by the Rev. Dr. Orville Dewey, on the Law of Progress, referring to these words, he said “he had heard a teacher use the characteristic expression that his pupils should be ’put through’ such and such studies.  This, he said, is a modern practice.  We put children through philosophy,—­put them through history,—­put them through Euclid.  He had no faith in this plan, and wished to see the school teachers set themselves against this forcing process.”

2.  To examine thoroughly and with despatch.

  First Thatcher, then Hadley, then Larned and Prex,
    Each put our class through in succession.
    Presentation Day Songs, June 14, 1854.

Q.

Q. See CUE.

QUAD.  An abbreviation of QUADRANGLE, q.v.

How silently did all come down the staircases into the chapel quad, that evening!—­Collegian’s Guide, p. 88.

His mother had been in Oxford only the week before, and had been seen crossing the quad in tears.—­Ibid., p. 144.