Olmsted served an apprenticeship setting up types,
    For the schemes of Bien.  Examination.
    Presentation Day Songs, June 14, 1854.

  Here’s health to the tutors who gave us good schemes,
          Vive la compagnie!
    Songs, Biennial Jubilee, 1855.

SCHOLAR.  Any member of a college, academy, or school.

2.  An undergraduate in English universities, who belongs to the foundation of a college, and receives support in part from its revenues.—­Webster.

SCHOLAR OF THE HOUSE.  At Yale College, those are called Scholars of the House who, by superiority in scholarship, become entitled to receive the income arising from certain foundations established for the purpose of promoting learning and literature.  In some cases the recipient is required to remain at New Haven for a specified time, and pursue a course of studies under the direction of the Faculty of the College.—­Sketches of Yale Coll., p. 86. Laws of Yale Coll.

2.  “The scholar of the house,” says President Woolsey, in his Historical Discourse,—­“scholaris aedilitus of the Latin laws,—­before the institution of Berkeley’s scholarships which had the same title, was a kind of aedile appointed by the President and Tutors to inspect the public buildings, and answered in a degree to the Inspector known to our present laws and practice.  He was not to leave town until the Friday after Commencement, because in that week more than usual damage was done to the buildings.”—­p. 43.

The duties of this officer are enumerated in the annexed passage.  “The Scholar of the House, appointed by the President, shall diligently observe and set down the glass broken in College windows, and every other damage done in College, together with the time when, and the person by whom, it was done; and every quarter he shall make up a bill of such damages, charged against every scholar according to the laws of College, and deliver the same to the President or the Steward, and the Scholar of the House shall tarry at College until Friday noon after the public Commencement, and in that time shall be obliged to view any damage done in any chamber upon the information of him to whom the chamber is assigned.”—­Laws of Yale Coll., 1774, p. 22.

SCHOLARSHIP.  Exhibition or maintenance for a scholar; foundation for the support of a student—­Ainsworth.

SCHOOL.  THE SCHOOLS, pl.; the seminaries for teaching logic, metaphysics, and theology, which were formed in the Middle Ages, and which were characterized by academical disputations and subtilties of reasoning; or the learned men who were engaged in discussing nice points in metaphysics or theology.—­Webster.

2.  In some American colleges, the different departments for teaching law, medicine, divinity, &c. are denominated schools.

3.  The name given at the University of Oxford to the place of examination.  The principal exercises consist of disputations in philosophy, divinity, and law, and are always conducted in a sort of barbarous Latin.