The youth, ignorant who they were, had omitted to cap them.—Gent. Mag., Vol. XXIV. p. 567.
I could not help smiling, when, among the dignitaries whom I was bound to make obeisance to by capping whenever I met them, Mr. Jackson's catalogue included his all-important self in the number. —The Etonian, Vol. II. p. 217.
The obsequious attention of college servants, and the more unwilling "capping" of the undergraduates, to such a man are real luxuries.—Blackwood's Mag., Eng. ed., Vol. LVI. p. 572.
Used in the English universities.
CAPTAIN OF THE POLL. The first of the Polloi.
He had moreover been Captain (Head) of the Poll.—Bristed's
Five Years in an Eng. Univ., Ed. 2d, p. 96.
CAPUT SENATUS. Latin; literally, the head of the Senate. In Cambridge, Eng., a council of the University by which every grace must be approved, before it can be submitted to the senate. The Caput Senatus is formed of the vice-chancellor, a doctor in each of the faculties of divinity, law, and medicine, and one regent M.A., and one non-regent M.A. The vice-chancellor's five assistants are elected annually by the heads of houses and the doctors of the three faculties, out of fifteen persons nominated by the vice-chancellor and the proctors.—Webster. Cam. Cal. Lit. World, Vol. XII. p. 283.
See GRACE.
CARCER. Latin. In German schools and universities, a prison.—Adler's Germ, and Eng. Dict.
Wollten ihn drauf die Nürnberger Herren
Mir nichts, dir nichts ins Carcer sperren.
Wallenstein's Lager.