SYNDICATE. A council or body of syndics.
The state of instruction in and encouragement to the study of Theology were thus set forth in the report of a syndicate appointed to consider the subject in 1842.—Bristed's Five Years in an Eng. Univ., Ed. 2d, p. 293.
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TADS. At Centre College, Ky., there is "a society," says a correspondent, "composed of the very best fellows of the College, calling themselves Tads, who are generally associated together, for the object of electing, by the additional votes of their members, any of their friends who are brought forward as candidates for any honor or appointment in the literary societies to which they belong."
TAKE UP. To call on a student to rehearse a lesson.
Professor took him up on Greek;
He tried to talk, but couldn't speak.
MS Poem.
TAKE UP ONE'S CONNECTIONS. In students' phrase, to leave college.
Used in American institutions.
TARDES. At the older American colleges, when charges were made and excuses rendered in Latin, the student who had come late to any religious service was addressed by the proper officer with the word Tardes, a kind of barbarous second person singular of some unknown verb, signifying, probably, "You are or were late."
Much absence, tardes and egresses,
The college-evil on him seizes.
Trumbull's Progress of Dullness, Part I.
TARDY. In colleges, late in attendance on a public exercise.—Webster.