CALENDAR.  At the English universities the information which in American colleges is published in a catalogue, is contained in a similar but far more comprehensive work, called a calendar.  Conversation based on the topics of which such a volume treats is in some localities denominated calendar.

“Shop,” or, as it is sometimes here called, “Calendar,” necessarily enters to a large extent into the conversation of the Cantabs.—­Bristed’s Five Years in an Eng.  Univ., Ed. 2d, p. 82.

I would lounge about into the rooms of those whom I knew for general literary conversation,—­even to talk Calendar if there was nothing else to do.—­Ibid., p. 120.

CALVIN’S FOLLY.  At the University of Vermont, “this name,” writes a correspondent, “is given to a door, four inches thick and closely studded with spike-nails, dividing the chapel hall from the staircase leading to the belfry.  It is called Calvin’s Folly, because it was planned by a professor of that (Christian) name, in order to keep the students out of the belfry, which dignified scheme it has utterly failed to accomplish.  It is one of the celebrities of the Old Brick Mill,[04] and strangers always see it and hear its history.”

CAMEL.  In Germany, a student on entering the university becomes a Kameel,—­a camel.

CAMPUS.  At the College of New Jersey, the college yard is denominated the Campus. Back Campus, the privies.

CANTAB.  Abridged for CANTABRIGIAN.

It was transmitted to me by a respectable Cantab for insertion. —­Hone’s Every-day Book, Vol.  I. p. 697.

Should all this be a mystery to our uncollegiate friends, or even to many matriculated Cantabs, we advise them not to attempt to unriddle it.—­Harvardiana, Vol.  III. p. 39.

CANTABRIGIAN.  A student or graduate of the University of Cambridge, Eng.  Used also at Cambridge, Mass., of the students and inhabitants.

CANTABRIGICALLY.  According to Cambridge.

To speak Cantabrigically.—­Bristed’s Five Years in an Eng. 
Univ., Ed. 2d, p. 28.

CAP.  The cap worn by students at the University of Cambridge, Eng., is described by Bristed in the following passage:  “You must superadd the academical costume.  This consists of a gown, varying in color and ornament according to the wearer’s college and rank, but generally black, not unlike an ordinary clerical gown, and a square-topped cap, which fits close to the head like a truncated helmet, while the covered board which forms the crown measures about a foot diagonally across.”—­Five Years in an Eng.  Univ., Ed. 2d, p. 4.

A similar cap is worn at Oxford and at some American colleges on particular occasions.

See OXFORD.

CAP.  To uncover the head in reverence or civility.

The youth, ignorant who they were, had omitted to cap them.—­Gent.  Mag., Vol.  XXIV. p. 567.