COACH.  In the English universities, this term is variously applied, as will be seen by a reference to the annexed examples.  It is generally used to designate a private tutor.

Everything is (or used to be) called a “coach” at Oxford:  a lecture-class, or a club of men meeting to take wine, luncheon, or breakfast alternately, were severally called a “wine, luncheon, or breakfast coach”; so a private tutor was called a “private coach”; and one, like Hilton of Worcester, very famed for getting his men safe through, was termed “a Patent Safety.”—­The Collegian’s Guide, p. 103.

It is to his private tutors, or “coaches,” that he looks for instruction.—­Household Words, Vol.  II. p. 160.

He applies to Mr. Crammer.  Mr. Crammer is a celebrated “coach” for lazy and stupid men, and has a system of his own which has met with decided success.—­Ibid., Vol.  II. p. 162.

COACH.  To prepare a student to pass an examination; to make use of the aid of a private tutor.

He is putting on all steam, and “coaching” violently for the Classical Tripos.—­Bristed’s Five Years in an Eng.  Univ., Ed. 2d. p. 10.

It is not every man who can get a Travis to coach him.—­Ibid., p. 69.

COACHING.  A cant term, in the British universities, for preparing a student, by the assistance of a private tutor, to pass an examination.

Whether a man shall throw away every opportunity which a university is so eminently calculated to afford, and come away with a mere testamur gained rather by the trickery of private coaching (tutoring) than by mental improvement, depends, &c.—­The Collegian’s Guide, p. 15.

COAX.  This word was formerly used at Yale College in the same sense as the word fish at Harvard, viz. to seek or gain the favor of a teacher by flattery.  One of the Proverbs of Solomon was often changed by the students to read as follows:  “Surely the churning of milk bringeth forth butter, and the wringing of the nose bringeth forth blood; so the coaxing of tutors bringeth forth parts.”—­Prov. xxx. 33.

COCHLEAUREATUS, pl. COCHLEAUREATI.  Latin, cochlear, a spoon, and laureatus, laurelled.  A free translation would be, one honored with a spoon.

At Yale College, the wooden spoon is given to the one whose name comes last on the list of appointees for the Junior Exhibition.  The recipient of this honor is designated cochleaureatus.

  Now give in honor of the spoon
    Three cheers, long, loud, and hearty,
  And three for every honored June
    In coch-le-au-re-a-ti.
    Songs of Yale, 1853, p. 37.

See WOODEN SPOON.

COFFIN.  At the University of Vermont, a boot, especially a large one.  A companion to the word HUMMEL, q.v.

COLLAR.  At Yale College, “to come up with; to seize; to lay hold on; to appropriate.”—­Yale Lit.  Mag., Vol.  XIV. p. 144.