BURNING OF ZUMPT’S LATIN GRAMMAR.  The funeral rites over the body of this book are performed by the students in the University of New York.  The place of turning and burial is usually at Hoboken.  Scenes of this nature often occur in American colleges, having their origin, it is supposed, in the custom at Yale of burying Euclid.

BURNT FOX.  A student during his second half-year, in the German universities, is called a burnt fox.

BURSAR, pl. BURSARII.  A treasurer or cash-keeper; as, the bursar of a college or of a monastery.  The said College in Cambridge shall be a corporation consisting of seven persons, to wit, a President, five Fellows, and a Treasurer or Bursar.—­Peirce’s Hist.  Harv.  Univ., App., p. 11.

Every student is required on his arrival, at the commencement of each session, to deliver to the Bursar the moneys and drafts for money which he has brought with him.  It is the duty of the Bursar to attend to the settlement of the demands for board, &c.; to pay into the hands of the student such sums as are required for other necessary expenses, and to render a statement of the same to the parent or guardian at the close of the session. —­Catalogue of Univ. of North Carolina, 1848-49, p. 27.

2.  A student to whom a stipend is paid out of a burse or fund appropriated for that purpose, as the exhibitioners sent to the universities in Scotland, by each presbytery.—­Webster.

See a full account in Brande’s Dict.  Science, Lit., and Art.

BURSARY.  The treasury of a college or monastery.—­Webster.

2.  In Scotland, an exhibition.—­Encyc.

BURSCH (bursh), pl. BURSCHEN.  German.  A youth; especially a student in a German university.

“By bursche,” says Howitt, “we understand one who has already spent a certain time at the university,—­and who, to a certain degree, has taken part in the social practices of the students.”—­Student Life of Germany, Am.  Ed., p. 27.

  Und hat der Bursch kein Geld im Beutel,
    So pumpt er die Philister an,
  Und denkt:  es ist doch Alles eitel
    Vom Burschen bis zum Bettleman.
    Crambambuli Song.

Student life! Burschen life!  What a magic sound have these words for him who has learnt for himself their real meaning.—­Howitt’s Student Life of Germany.

BURSCHENSCHAFT.  A league or secret association of students, formed in 1815, for the purpose, as was asserted, of the political regeneration of Germany, and suppressed, at least in name, by the exertions of the government.—­Brandt.

“The Burschenschaft,” says the Yale Literary Magazine, “was a society formed in opposition to the vices and follies of the Landsmannschaft, with the motto, ’God, Honor, Freedom, Fatherland.’  Its object was ’to develop and perfect every mental and bodily power for the service of the Fatherland.’  It exerted a mighty and salutary influence, was almost supreme in its power, but was finally suppressed by the government, on account of its alleged dangerous political tendencies.”—­Vol.  XV. p. 3.