ELECTIONEERING. In many colleges in the United States, where there are rival societies, it is customary, on the admission of a student to college, for the partisans of the different societies to wait upon him, and endeavor to secure him as a member. An account of this _Society Electioneering_, as it is called, is given in _Sketches of Yale College_, at page 162.
Society _electioneering_ has mostly gone by.--_Williams Quarterly_, Vol. II. p. 285.
ELEGANT EXTRACTS. At the University of Cambridge, Eng., a cant title applied to some fifteen or twenty men who have just succeeded in passing their final examination, and who are bracketed together, at the foot of the Polloi list.--_Bristed's Five Years in an Eng. Univ._, Ed. 2d, p. 250.
EMERITUS, _pl._ EMERITI. Latin; literally, _obtained by service_. One who has been honorably discharged from public service, as, in colleges and universities, a _Professor Emeritus_.
EMIGRANT. In the English universities, one who migrates, or removes from one college to another.
At Christ's, for three years successively,... the first man was an _emigrant_ from John's.--_Bristed's Five Years in an Eng. Univ._, Ed. 2d, p. 100.
EMPTY BOTTLE. At the University of Cambridge, Eng., the sobriquet of a fellow-commoner.
Indeed they [fellow-commoners] are popularly denominated "_empty bottles_," the first word of the appellation being an adjective, though were it taken as a verb there would be no untruth in it.--_Bristed's Five Years in an Eng. Univ._, Ed. 2d, p. 34.
ENCENIA, _pl._ Greek [Greek: enkainia], _a feast of dedication_. Festivals anciently kept on the days on which cities were built or churches consecrated; and, in later times, ceremonies renewed at certain periods, as at Oxford, at the celebration of founders and benefactors.--_Hook_.
END WOMAN. At Bowdoin College, "end women," says a correspondent, "are the venerable females who officiate as chambermaids in the different entries." They are so called from the entries being placed at the _ends_ of the buildings.
ENGAGEMENT. At Yale College, the student, on entering, signs an _engagement_, as it is called, in the words following: "I, A.B., on condition of being admitted as a member of Yale College, promise, on my faith and honor, to observe all the laws and regulations of this College; particularly that I will faithfully avoid using profane language, gaming, and all indecent, disorderly behavior, and disrespectful conduct to the Faculty, and all combinations to resist their authority; as witness my hand. A.B." --_Yale Coll. Cat._, 1837, p. 10.