REPLICATOR.  “The first discussions of the Society, called Forensic, were in writing, and conducted by only two members, styled the Respondent and the Opponent.  Subsequently, a third was added, called a Replicator, who reviewed the arguments of the other two, and decided upon their comparative merits.”—­Semi-centennial Anniversary of the Philomathean Society, Union Coll., p. 9.

REPORT.  A word much in use among the students of universities and colleges, in the common sense of to inform against, but usually spoken in reference to the Faculty.

  Thanks to the friendly proctor who spared to report me.
    Harvardiana, Vol.  III. p. 79.

          If I hear again
  Of such fell outrage to the college laws,
  Of such loud tumult after eight o’clock,
  Thou’lt be reported to the Faculty.—­Ibid., p. 257.

RESIDENCE.  At the English universities, to be “in residence” is to occupy rooms as a member of a college, either in the college itself, or in the town where the college is situated.

Trinity ... usually numbers four hundred undergraduates in residence.—­Bristed’s Five Years in an Eng.  Univ., Ed. 2d, p. 11.

At Oxford, an examination, not always a very easy one, must be passed before the student can be admitted to residence.—­Westminster Rev., Am. ed., Vol.  XXXV. p. 232.

RESIDENT GRADUATE.  In the United States, graduates who are desirous of pursuing their studies in a place where a college is situated, without joining any of its departments, can do so in the capacity of residents or resident graduates.  They are allowed to attend the public lectures given in the institution, and enjoy the use of its library.  Like other students, they give bonds for the payment of college dues.—­Coll.  Laws.

RESPONDENT.  In the schools, one who maintains a thesis in reply, and whose province is to refute objections, or overthrow arguments.—­Watts.

This word, with its companion, affirmant, was formerly used in American colleges, and was applied to those who engaged in the syllogistic discussions then incident to Commencement.

But the main exercises were disputations upon questions, wherein the respondents first made their theses.—­Mather’s Magnalia, B. IV. p. 128.

The syllogistic disputes were held between an affirmant and respondent, who stood in the side galleries of the church opposite to one another, and shot the weapons of their logic over the heads of the audience.—­Pres.  Woolsey’s Hist.  Disc., Yale Coll., p. 65.

In the public exercises at Commencement, I was somewhat remarked as a respondent.—­Life and Works of John Adams, Vol.  II. p. 3.

RESPONSION.  In the University of Oxford, an examination about the middle of the college course, also called the Little-go.—­Lyell.