See FRESHMAN, REGENT’S.

REGISTER.  In Union College, an officer whose duties are similar to those enumerated under REGISTRAR.  He also acts, without charge, as fiscal guardian for all students who deposit funds in his hands.

REGISTRAR, REGISTRARY.  In the English universities, an officer who has the keeping of all the public records.—­Encyc.

At Harvard College, the Corporation appoint one of the Faculty to the office of Registrar.  He keeps a record of the votes and orders passed by the latter body, gives certified copies of the same when requisite, and performs other like duties.—­Laws Univ. at Cam., Mass., 1848.

REGIUS PROFESSOR.  A name given in the British universities to the incumbents of those professorships which have been founded by royal bounty.

REGULATORS.  At Hamilton College, “a Junior Class affair,” writes a correspondent, “consisting of fifteen or twenty members, whose object is to regulate college laws and customs according to their own way.  They are known only by their deeds.  Who the members are, no one out of the band knows.  Their time for action is in the night.”

RELEGATION.  In German universities, the relegation is the punishment next in severity to the consilium abeundi.  Howitt explains the term in these words:  “It has two degrees.  First, the simple relegation.  This consists in expulsion [out of the district of the court of justice within which the university is situated], for a period of from two to three years; after which the offender may indeed return, but can no more be received as an academical burger.  Secondly, the sharper relegation, which adds to the simple relegation an announcement of the fact to the magistracy of the place of abode of the offender; and, according to the discretion of the court, a confinement in an ordinary prison, previous to the banishment, is added; and also the sharper relegation can be extended to more than four years, the ordinary term,—­yes, even to perpetual expulsion.”—­Student Life of Germany, Am. ed., p. 33.

RELIG.  At Princeton College, an abbreviated name for a professor of religion.

RENOWN.  German, renommiren, to hector, to bully.  Among the students in German universities, to renown is, in English popular phrase, “to cut a swell.”—­Howitt.

The spare hours of the forenoon and afternoon are spent in fencing, in renowning,—­that is, in doing things-which make people stare at them, and in providing duels for the morrow.—­Russell’s Tour in Germany, Edinburgh ed., 1825, Vol.  II. pp. 156, 157.

We cannot be deaf to the testimony of respectable eyewitnesses, who, in proof of these defects, tell us ... of “renowning,” or wild irregularities, in which “the spare hours” of the day are spent.—­D.A.  White’s Address before Soc. of the Alumni of Harv.  Univ., Aug. 27, 1844, p. 24.