Similar regulations are in force at all other American colleges.  At Union College the statute on this subject was formerly in these words:  “No class meetings shall be held without special license from the President; and for such purposes only as shall be expressed in the license; nor shall any class meeting be continued by adjournment or otherwise, without permission; and all class meetings held without license shall be considered as unlawful combinations, and punished accordingly.”—­Laws Union Coll., 1807, pp. 37, 38.

  While one, on fame alone intent,
  Seek to be chosen President
    Of clubs, or a class meeting.
    Harv.  Reg., p. 247.

CLASSOLOGY.  That science which treats of the members of the classes of a college.  This word is used in the title of a pleasant jeu d’esprit by Mr. William Biglow, on the class which graduated at Harvard College in 1792.  It is called, “Classology:  an Anacreontic Ode, in Imitation of ‘Heathen Mythology.’”

See under HIGH GO.

CLASS SECRETARY.  For an account of this officer, see under CLASS
BOOK.

CLASS SUPPER.  In American colleges, a supper attended only by the members of a collegiate class.  Class suppers are given in some colleges at the close of each year; in others, only at the close of the Sophomore and Senior years, or at one of these periods.

CLASS TREES.  At Bowdoin College, “immediately after the annual examination of each class,” says a correspondent, “the members that compose it are accustomed to form a ring round a tree, and then, not dance, but run around it.  So quickly do they revolve, that every individual runner has a tendency ’to go off in a tangent,’ which it is difficult to resist for any length of time.  The three lower classes have a tree by themselves in front of Massachusetts Hall.  The Seniors have one of their own in front of King Chapel.”

For an account of a similar and much older custom, prevalent at Harvard College, see under CLASS DAY and LIBERTY TREE.

CLIMBING.  In reference to this word, a correspondent from Dartmouth College writes:  “At the commencement of this century, the Greek, Latin, and Philosophical Orations were assigned by the Faculty to the best scholars, while the Valedictorian was chosen from the remainder by his classmates.  It was customary for each one of these four to treat his classmates, which was called ‘Climbing,’ from the effect which the liquor would have in elevating the class to an equality with the first scholars.”

CLIOSOPHIC.  A word compounded from Clio, the Muse who presided over history, and [Greek:  sophos], intelligent.  At Yale College, this word was formerly used to designate an oration on the arts and sciences, which was delivered annually at the examination in July.

Having finished his academic course, by the appointment of the President he delivered the cliosophic oration in the College Hall.—­Holmes’s Life of Ezra Stiles, p. 13.