I could not help smiling, when, among the dignitaries whom I was bound to make obeisance to by capping whenever I met them, Mr. Jackson’s catalogue included his all-important self in the number. —­The Etonian, Vol.  II. p. 217.

The obsequious attention of college servants, and the more unwilling “capping” of the undergraduates, to such a man are real luxuries.—­Blackwood’s Mag., Eng. ed., Vol.  LVI. p. 572.

Used in the English universities.

CAPTAIN OF THE POLL.  The first of the Polloi.

He had moreover been Captain (Head) of the Poll.—­Bristed’s
Five Years in an Eng.  Univ., Ed. 2d, p. 96.

CAPUT SENATUS.  Latin; literally, the head of the Senate.  In Cambridge, Eng., a council of the University by which every grace must be approved, before it can be submitted to the senate.  The Caput Senatus is formed of the vice-chancellor, a doctor in each of the faculties of divinity, law, and medicine, and one regent M.A., and one non-regent M.A.  The vice-chancellor’s five assistants are elected annually by the heads of houses and the doctors of the three faculties, out of fifteen persons nominated by the vice-chancellor and the proctors.—­Webster.  Cam.  Cal.  Lit.  World, Vol.  XII. p. 283.

See GRACE.

CARCER.  Latin.  In German schools and universities, a
prison.—­Adler’s Germ, and Eng.  Dict.

  Wollten ihn drauf die Nuernberger Herren
  Mir nichts, dir nichts ins Carcer sperren.
    Wallenstein’s Lager.

  And their Nur’mberg worships swore he should go
  To jail for his pains,—­if he liked it, or no.
    Trans.  Wallenstein’s Camp, in Bohn’s Stand.  Lib., p. 155.

CASTLE END.  At Cambridge, Eng., a noted resort for Cyprians.

CATHARINE PURITANS.  In the University of Cambridge, Eng., the members of St. Catharine’s Hall are thus designated, from the implied derivation of the word Catharine from the Greek [Greek:  katharos], pure.

CAUTION MONEY.  In the English universities, a deposit in the hands of the tutor at entrance, by way of security.

With reference to Oxford, De Quincey says of caution money:  “This is a small sum, properly enough demanded of every student, when matriculated, as a pledge for meeting any loss from unsettled arrears, such as his sudden death or his unannounced departure might else continually be inflicting upon his college.  In most colleges it amounts to L25; in one only it was considerably less.” —­Life and Manners, p. 249.

In American colleges, a bond is usually given by a student upon entering college, in order to secure the payment of all his college dues.

CENSOR.  In the University of Oxford, Eng., a college officer whose duties are similar to those of the Dean.

CEREVIS.  From Latin cerevisia, beer.  Among German students, a small, round, embroidered cap, otherwise called a beer-cap.