2.  At Trinity College, Hartford, the house of convocation consists of the Fellows and Professors, with all persons who have received any academic degree whatever in the same, except such as may be lawfully deprived of their privileges.  Its business is such as may from time to time be delegated by the Corporation, from which it derives its existence; and is, at present, limited to consulting and advising for the good of the College, nominating the Junior Fellows, and all candidates for admissions ad eundem; making laws for its own regulation; proposing plans, measures, or counsel to the Corporation; and to instituting, endowing, and naming with concurrence of the same, professorships, scholarships, prizes, medals, and the like.  This and the Corporation compose the Senatus Academicus.—­Calendar Trin.  Coll., 1850, pp. 6, 7.

COPE.  In the University of Cambridge, Eng., the ermined robe worn by a Doctor in the Senate House, on Congregation Day, is called a cope.

COPUS.  “Of mighty ale, a large quarte.”—­Chaucer.

The word copus and the beverage itself are both extensively used among the men of the University of Cambridge, England.  “The conjecture,” says the Gradus ad Cantabrigiam, “is surely ridiculous and senseless, that Copus is contracted from Episcopus, a bishop, ‘a mixture of wine, oranges, and sugar.’  A copus of ale is a common fine at the student’s table in hall for speaking Latin, or for some similar impropriety.”

COPY.  At Cambridge, Eng., this word is applied exclusively to papers of verse composition.  It is a public-school term transplanted to the University.—­Bristed.

CORK, CALK.  In some of the Southern colleges, this word, with a derived meaning, signifies a complete stopper.  Used in the sense of an entire failure in reciting; an utter inability to answer an instructor’s interrogatories.

CORPORAL PUNISHMENT.  In the older American colleges, corporal punishment was formerly sanctioned by law, and several instances remain on record which show that its infliction was not of rare occurrence.

Among the laws, rules, and scholastic forms established between the years 1642 and 1646, by Mr. Dunster, the first President of Harvard College, occurs the following:  “Siquis scholarium ullam Dei et hujus Collegii legem, sive animo perverso, seu ex supina negligentia, violarit, postquam fuerit bis admonitus, si non adultus, virgis coerceatur, sin adultus, ad Inspectores Collegii deferendus erit, ut publice in eum pro meritis animadversio fiat.”  In the year 1656, this law was strengthened by another, recorded by Quincy, in these words:  “It is hereby ordered that the President and Fellows of Harvard College, for the time being, or the major part of them, are hereby empowered, according to their best discretion, to punish all misdemeanors of the youth in their society, either by fine, or whipping in the Hall openly, as the nature of the offence shall require, not exceeding ten shillings or ten stripes for one offence; and this law to continue in force until this Court or the Overseers of the College provide some other order to punish such offences.”—­Quincy’s Hist.  Harv.  Univ., Vol.  I. pp. 578, 513.