See BEVER.

COMMORANTES IN VILLA.  Latin; literally, those abiding in town.  In the University of Cambridge, Eng., the designation of Masters of Arts, and others of higher degree, who, residing within the precincts of the University, enjoy the privilege of being members of the Senate, without keeping their names on the college boards. —­Gradus ad Cantab.

To have a vote in the Senate, the graduate must keep his name on the books of some college, or on the list of the commorantes in villa.—­Lit.  World, Vol.  XII. p. 283.

COMPOSITION.  At the University of Cambridge, Eng., translating English into Greek or Latin is called composition.—­Bristed.

In composition and cram I was yet untried.—­Bristed’s Five Years in an Eng.  Univ., Ed. 2d, p. 34.

You will have to turn English prose into Greek and Latin prose, English verse into Greek Iambic Trimeters, and part of some chorus in the Agamemnon into Latin, and possibly also into English verse.  This is the “composition,” and is to be done, remember, without the help of books or any other assistance.—­Ibid., p. 68.

The term Composition seems in itself to imply that the translation is something more than a translation.—­Ibid., p. 185.

Writing a Latin Theme, or original Latin verses, is designated Original Composition.—­Bristed.

COMPOSUIST. A writer; composer.  “This extraordinary word,” says Mr. Pickering, in his Vocabulary, “has been much used at some of our colleges, but very seldom elsewhere.  It is now rarely heard among us.  A correspondent observes, that ’it is used in England among musicians.’  I have never met with it in any English publications upon the subject of music.”

The word is not found, I believe, in any dictionary of the English tongue.

COMPOUNDER.  One at a university who pays extraordinary fees, according to his means, for the degree he is to take.  A Grand Compounder pays double fees.  See the Customs and Laws of Univ. of Cam., Eng., p. 297.

CONCIO AD CLERUM.  A sermon to the clergy.  In the English universities, an exercise or Latin sermon, which is required of every candidate for the degree of D.D.  Used sometimes in America.

In the evening the “concio ad clerum” will be preached.—­Yale Lit.  Mag., Vol.  XII. p. 426.

CONDITION.  A student on being examined for admission to college, if found deficient in certain studies, is admitted on condition he will make up the deficiency, if it is believed on the whole that he is capable of pursuing the studies of the class for which he is offered.  The branches in which he is deficient are called conditions.

Talks of Bacchus and tobacco, short sixes, sines, transitions,
And Alma Mater takes him in on ten or twelve conditions.
Poem before Y.H.  Soc., Harv.  Coll.