The mathematical examination was very difficult, and made great havoc among the classics.—­Ibid., p. 62.

CLASSIC SHADES.  A poetical appellation given to colleges and universities.

  He prepares for his departure,—­but he must, ere he repair
  To the “classic shades,” et cetera,—­visit his “ladye fayre.”
    Poem before Iadma, Harv.  Coll., 1850.

I exchanged the farm-house of my father for the “classic shades” of Union.—­The Parthenon, Union Coll., 1851, p. 18.

CLASSIS.  Same meaning as Class.  The Latin for the English.

[They shall] observe the generall hours appointed for all the students, and the speciall houres for their own classis.—­New England’s First Fruits, in Mass.  Hist.  Coll., Vol.  I. p. 243.

CLASS LIST. In the University of Oxford, a list in which are entered the names of those who are examined for their degrees, according to their rate of merit.

At the University of Cambridge, Eng., the names of those who are examined at stated periods are placed alphabetically in the class lists, but the first eight or ten individual places are generally known.

There are some men who read for honors in that covetous and contracted spirit, and so bent upon securing the name of scholarship, even at the sacrifice of the reality, that, for the pleasure of reading their names at the top of the class list, they would make the examiners a present of all their Latin and Greek the moment they left the schools.—­Collegian’s Guide, p. 327.

CLASSMAN.  See CLASS.

CLASS MARSHAL.  In many colleges in the United States, a class marshal is chosen by the Senior Class from their own number, for the purpose of regulating the procession on the day of Commencement, and, as at Harvard College, on Class Day also.

“At Union College,” writes a correspondent, “the class marshal is elected by the Senior Class during the third term.  He attends to the order of the procession on Commencement Day, and walks into the church by the side of the President.  He chooses several assistants, who attend to the accommodation of the audience.  He is chosen from among the best-looking and most popular men of the class, and the honor of his office is considered next to that of the Vice-President of the Senate for the third term.”

CLASSMATE.  A member of the same class with another.

The day is wound up with a scene of careless laughter and merriment, among a dozen of joke-loving classmates.—­Harv.  Reg., p. 202.

CLASS MEETING.  A meeting where all the class are assembled for the purpose of carrying out some measure, appointing class officers, or transacting business of interest to the whole class.

In Harvard College, no class, or general, or other meeting of students can be called without an application in writing of three students, and no more, expressing the purpose of such meeting, nor otherwise than by a printed notice, signed by the President, expressing the time, the object, and place of such meeting, and the three students applying for such meeting are held responsible for any proceedings at it contrary to the laws of the College.—­Laws Univ.  Cam., Mass., 1848, Appendix.