SECTION COURT.  At Union College, the college buildings are divided into sections, a section comprising about fifteen rooms.  Within each section is established a court, which is composed of a judge, an advocate, and a secretary, who are chosen by the students resident therein from their own number, and hold their offices during one college term.  Each section court claims the power to summon for trial any inhabitant within the bounds of its jurisdiction who may be charged with improper conduct.  The accused may either defend himself, or select some person to plead for him, such residents of the section as choose to do so acting as jurors.  The prisoner, if found guilty, is sentenced at the discretion of the court,—­generally, to treat the company to some specified drink or dainty.  These courts often give occasion for a great deal of fun, and sometimes call out real wit and eloquence.

At one of our “section courts,” which those who expected to enter upon the study of the law used to hold, &c.—­The Parthenon, Union Coll., 1851, p. 19.

SECTION OFFICER.  At Union College, each section of the college buildings, containing about fifteen rooms, is under the supervision of a professor or tutor, who is styled the section officer.  This officer is required to see that there be no improper noise in the rooms or corridors, and to report the absence of students from chapel and recitation, and from their rooms during study hours.

SEED. In Yale College this word is used to designate what is understood by the common cant terms, “a youth”; “case”; “bird”; “b’hoy”; “one of ’em.”

  While tutors, every sport defeating,
  And under feet-worn stairs secreting,
  And each dark lane and alley beating,
  Hunt up the seeds in vain retreating.
    Yale Banger, Nov. 1849.

  The wretch had dared to flunk a gory seed!
    Ibid., Nov. 1849.

  One tells his jokes, the other tells his beads,
  One talks of saints, the other sings of seeds.
    Ibid., Nov. 1849.

  But we are “seeds,” whose rowdy deeds
    Make up the drunken tale.
    Yale Tomahawk, Nov. 1849.

  First Greek he enters; and with reckless speed
  He drags o’er stumps and roots each hapless seed.
    Ibid., Nov. 1849.

  Each one a bold seed, well fit for the deed,
    But of course a little bit flurried.
    Ibid., May, 1852.

SEEDY.  At Yale College, rowdy, riotous, turbulent.

  And snowballs, falling thick and fast
    As oaths from seedy Senior crowd.
    Yale Gallinipper, Nov. 1848.

  A seedy Soph beneath a tree.
    Yale Gallinipper, Nov. 1848.

2.  Among English Cantabs, not well, out of sorts, done up; the sort of feeling that a reading man has after an examination, or a rowing man after a dinner with the Beefsteak Club.  Also, silly, easy to perform.—­Bristed.