2.  In some American colleges, a member of the Senior Class, i.e. of the fourth year, was formerly designated a Senior Sophister.

See SOPHISTER.

SENIOR WRANGLER.  In the University of Cambridge, Eng., the Senior
Wrangler is the student who passes the best examination in the
Senate-House, and by consequence holds the first place on the
Mathematical Tripos.

The only road to classical honors and their accompanying emoluments in the University, and virtually in all the Colleges, except Trinity, is through mathematical honors, all candidates for the Classical Tripos being obliged as a preliminary to obtain a place in that mathematical list which is headed by the Senior Wrangler and tailed by the Wooden Spoon.—­Bristed’s Five Years in an Eng.  Univ., Ed. 2d, p. 34.

SEQUESTER.  To cause to retire or withdraw into obscurity.  In the following passage it is used in the collegiate sense of suspend or rusticate.

Though they were adulti, they were corrected in the College, and sequestered, &c. for a time.—­Winthrop’s Journal, by Savage, Vol.  II. p. 88.

SERVITOR.  In the University of Oxford, an undergraduate who is partly supported by the college funds. Servitors formerly waited at table, but this is now dispensed with.  The order similar to that of the servitor was at Cambridge styled the order of Sub-sizars.  This has been long extinct.  The sizar at Cambridge is at present nearly equivalent to the Oxford servitor.—­Gent.  Mag., 1787, p. 1146. Brande.

“It ought to be known,” observes De Quincey, “that the class of ‘servitors,’ once a large body in Oxford, have gradually become practically extinct under the growing liberality of the age.  They carried in their academic dress a mark of their inferiority; they waited at dinner on those of higher rank, and performed other menial services, humiliating to themselves, and latterly felt as no less humiliating to the general name and interests of learning.”—­Life and Manners, p. 272.

A reference to the cruel custom of “hunting the servitor” is to be found in Sir John Hawkins’s Life of Dr. Johnson, p. 12.

SESSION.  At some of the Southern and Western colleges of the United States, the time during which instruction is regularly given to the students; a term.

The session commences on the 1st of October, and continues without interruption until the 29th of June.—­Cat. of Univ. of Virginia, 1851, p. 15.

SEVENTY-EIGHTH PSALM.  The recollections which cluster around this Psalm, so well known to all the Alumni of Harvard, are of the most pleasant nature.  For more than a hundred years, it has been sung at the dinner given on Commencement day at Cambridge, and for more than a half-century to the tune of St. Martin’s.  Mr. Samuel Shapleigh, who graduated at Harvard College in the year 1789, and who was afterwards