L.M. An abbreviation for the words Licentiate in Medicine. At the University of Cambridge, Eng., an L.M. must be an M.A. or M.B. of two years' standing. No exercise, but examination by the Professor and another Doctor in the Faculty.
LOAF. At Princeton College, to borrow anything, whether returning it or not; usually in the latter sense.
LODGE. At the University of Cambridge, England, the technical name given to the house occupied by the master of a college.—Bristed.
When Undergraduates were invited to the conversaziones at the Lodge, they were expected never to sit down in the Master's presence.—Bristed's Five Years in an Eng. Univ., Ed. 2d, p. 90.
LONG. At the University of Cambridge, Eng., the long vacation, or, as it is more familiarly called, "The Long," commences according to statute in July, at the close of the Easter term, but practically early in June, and ends October 20th, at the beginning of the Michaelmas term.
For a month or six weeks in the "Long," they rambled off to see the sights of Paris.—Bristed's Five Years in an Eng. Univ., Ed. 2d, p. 37.
In the vacations, particularly the Long, there is every facility for reading.—Ibid., p. 78.
So attractive is the Vacation-College-life that the great trouble of the Dons is to keep the men from staying up during the Long. —Ibid., p. 79.
Some were going on reading parties, some taking a holiday before settling down to their work in the "Long."—Ibid., p. 104.
See VACATION.