No artful dodge to leave my school could I just then prepare.
Poem before Iadma, Harv. Coll., 1850.
Agreed; but I have another dodge as good as yours.—Collegian's
Guide, p. 240.
We may well admire the cleverness displayed by this would-be Chatterton, in his attempt to sell the unwary with an Ossian dodge.—Lit. World, Vol. XII. p. 191.
DOMINUS. A title bestowed on Bachelors of Arts, in England. Dominus Nokes; Dominus Stiles.—Gradus ad Cantab.
DON. In the English universities, a short generic term for a
Fellow or any college authority.
He had already told a lie to the Dons, by protesting against the justice of his sentence.—Collegian's Guide, p. 169.
Never to order in any wine from an Oxford merchant, at least not till I am a Don.—The Etonian, Vol. II. p. 288.
Nor hint how Dons, their untasked hours to pass,
Like Cato, warm their virtues with the glass.[21]
The College, in Blackwood's Mag., May, 1849.
DONKEY. At Washington College, Penn., students of a religious character are vulgarly called donkeys.
See LAP-EAR.