Better authorities ... have lately noted in the solitary student that wends his way—­cerevis on head, note-book in hand—­to the professor’s class-room,... a vast improvement on the Bursche of twenty years ago.—­Lond.  Quart.  Rev., Am. ed., Vol.  LXXIII. p. 59.

CHAMBER.  The apartment of a student at a college or university.  This word, although formerly used in American colleges, has been of late almost entirely supplanted by the word room, and it is for this reason that it is here noticed.

If any of them choose to provide themselves with breakfasts in their own chambers, they are allowed so to do, but not to breakfast in one another’s chambers.—­Quincy’s Hist.  Harv.  Univ., Vol.  II. p. 116.

Some ringleaders gave up their chambers.—­Ibid., Vol.  II. p. 116.

CHAMBER-MATE.  One who inhabits the same room or chamber with another.  Formerly used at our colleges.  The word CHUM is now very generally used in its place; sometimes room-mate is substituted.

If any one shall refuse to find his proportion of furniture, wood, and candles, the President and Tutors shall charge such delinquent, in his quarter bills, his full proportion, which sum shall be paid to his chamber-mate.—­Laws Harv.  Coll., 1798, p. 35.

CHANCELLOR.  The chancellor of a university is an officer who seals the diplomas, or letters of degree, &c.  The Chancellor of Oxford is usually one of the prime nobility, elected by the students in convocation; and he holds the office for life.  He is the chief magistrate in the government of the University.  The Chancellor of Cambridge is also elected from among the prime nobility.  The office is biennial, or tenable for such a length of time beyond two years as the tacit consent of the University may choose to allow.—­Webster.  Cam.  Guide.

“The Chancellor,” says the Oxford Guide, “is elected by convocation, and his office is for life; but he never, according to usage, is allowed to set foot in this University, excepting on the occasion of his installation, or when he is called upon to accompany any royal visitors.”—­Ed. 1847, p. xi.

At Cambridge, the office of Chancellor is, except on rare occasions, purely honorary, and the Chancellor himself seldom appears at Cambridge.  He is elected by the Senate.

2.  At Trinity College, Hartford, the Chancellor is the Bishop of the Diocese of Connecticut, and is also the Visitor of the College.  He is ex officio the President of the Corporation.—­Calendar Trin.  Coll., 1850, pp. 6, 7.

CHAPEL.  A house for public worship, erected separate from a church.  In England, chapels in the universities are places of worship belonging to particular colleges.  The chapels connected with the colleges in the United States are used for the same purpose.  Religious exercises are usually held in them twice a day, morning and evening, besides the services on the Sabbath.