Praying his guardian powers
  To assist a poor Sub Fresh at the dread Examination,
  And free from all conditions to insure his first vacation.
    Poem before Iadma of Harv.  Coll.

CONDITION.  To admit a student as member of a college, who on being examined has been found deficient in some particular, the provision of his admission being that he will make up the deficiency.

A young man shall come down to college from New Hampshire, with no preparation save that of a country winter-school, shall be examined and “conditioned” in everything, and yet he shall come out far ahead of his city Latin-school classmate.—­A Letter to a Young Man who has just entered College, 1849, p. 8.

They find themselves conditioned on the studies of the term, and not very generally respected.—­Harvard Mag., Vol.  I. p. 415.

CONDUCT.  The title of two clergymen appointed to read prayers at Eton College, in England.—­Mason.  Webster.

CONFESSION.  It was formerly the custom in the older American colleges, when a student had rendered himself obnoxious to punishment, provided the crime was not of an aggravated nature, to pardon and restore him to his place in the class, on his presenting a confession of his fault, to be read publicly in the hall.  The Diary of President Leverett, of Harvard College, under date of the 20th of March, 1714, contains an interesting account of the confession of Larnel, an Indian student belonging to the Junior Sophister class, who had been guilty of some offence for which he had been dismissed from college.

“He remained,” says Mr. Leverett, “a considerable time at Boston, in a state of penance.  He presented his confession to Mr. Pemberton, who thereupon became his intercessor, and in his letter to the President expresses himself thus:  ’This comes by Larnel, who brings a confession as good as Austin’s, and I am charitably disposed to hope it flows from a like spirit of penitence.’  In the public reading of his confession, the flowing of his passions was extraordinarily timed, and his expressions accented, and most peculiarly and emphatically those of the grace of God to him; which indeed did give a peculiar grace to the performance itself, and raised, I believe, a charity in some that had very little I am sure, and ratified wonderfully that which I had conceived of him.  Having made his public confession, he was restored to his standing in the College.”—­Quincy’s Hist.  Harv.  Univ., Vol.  I. pp. 443, 444.