I very early in the Sophomore year gave up all thoughts of obtaining high _honors_.--_Bristed's Five Years in an Eng. Univ._, Ed. 2d, p. 6.
HOOD. An ornamented fold that hangs down the back of a graduate, to mark his degree.--_Johnson_.
My head with ample square-cap crown, And deck with _hood_ my shoulders. _The Student_, Oxf. and Cam., Vol. I. p. 349.
HORN-BLOWING. At Princeton College, the students often provide themselves at night with horns, bugles, &c., climb the trees in the Campus, and set up a blowing which is continued as long as prudence and safety allow.
HORSE-SHEDDING. At the University of Vermont, among secret and literary societies, this term is used to express the idea conveyed by the word _electioneering_.
HOUSE. A college. The word was formerly used with this signification in Harvard and Yale Colleges.
If any scholar shall transgress any of the laws of God, or the _House_, he shall be liable, &c.--_Quincy's Hist. Harv. Univ._, Vol. I. p. 517.
If detriment come by any out of the society, then those officers [the butler and cook] themselves shall be responsible to the _House_.--_Ibid._, Vol. I. p. 583.
A member of the college was also called a _Member of the House_.
The steward is to see that one third part be reserved of all the payments to him by the _members of the House_ quarterly made.--_Quincy's Hist. Harv. Univ._, Vol. I. p. 582.
A college officer was called an _Officer of the House_.
The steward shall be bound to give an account of the necessary disbursements which have been issued out to the steward himself, butler, cook, or any other _officer of the House_.--_Quincy's Hist. Harv. Univ._, Vol. I. p. 582.
Neither shall the butler or cook suffer any scholar or scholars whatever, except the Fellows, Masters of Art, Fellow-Commoners or _officers of the House_, to come into the butteries, &c.--_Ibid._, Vol. I. p. 584.
Before the year 1708, the term _Fellows of the House_ was applied, at Harvard College, both to the members of the Corporation, and to the instructors who did not belong to the Corporation. The equivocal meaning of this title was noticed by President Leverett, for, in his duplicate record of the proceedings of the Corporation and the Overseers, he designated certain persons to whom he refers as "Fellows of the House, i.e. of the Corporation." Soon after this, an attempt was made to distinguish between these two classes of Fellows, and in 1711 the distinction was settled, when one Whiting, "who had been for several years known as Tutor and 'Fellow of the House,' but had never in consequence been deemed or pretended to be a member of the Corporation, was admitted to a seat in that board."--_Quincy's Hist. Harv. Univ._, Vol. I. pp. 278, 279. See SCHOLAR OF THE HOUSE.