It has disappeared along with Commons, the servility of Freshmen and brutality of Sophomores, the Oxford-mixed uniform and buttons of the same color.—Harv. Mag., Vol. I. p. 263.
OXONIAN. A student or graduate of the University of Oxford,
England.
P.
PANDOWDY BAND. A correspondent writing from Bowdoin College says: "We use the word pandowdy, and we have a custom of pandowdying. The Pandowdy Band, as it is called, has no regular place nor time of meeting. The number of performers varies from half a dozen and less to fifty or more. The instruments used are commonly horns, drums, tin-kettles, tongs, shovels, triangles, pumpkin-vines, &c. The object of the band is serenading Professors who have rendered themselves obnoxious to students; and sometimes others,—frequently tutors are entertained by 'heavenly music' under their windows, at dead of night. This is regarded on all hands as an unequivocal expression of the feelings of the students.
"The band corresponds to the Calliathump of Yale. Its name is a burlesque on the Pandean Band which formerly existed in this college."
See HORN-BLOWING.
PAPE. Abbreviated from PAPER, q.v.
Old Hamlen, the printer, he got out the papes.
Presentation Day Songs, Yale Coll., June 14, 1854.
But Soph'more "papes," and Soph'more scrapes,
Have long since passed away.—Ibid.
PAPER. In the English Universities, a sheet containing certain questions, to which answers are to be given, is called a paper.