And their Nur'mberg worships swore he should go
To jail for his pains,—if he liked it, or no.
Trans. Wallenstein's Camp, in Bohn's Stand. Lib., p. 155.
CASTLE END. At Cambridge, Eng., a noted resort for Cyprians.
CATHARINE PURITANS. In the University of Cambridge, Eng., the members of St. Catharine's Hall are thus designated, from the implied derivation of the word Catharine from the Greek [Greek: katharos], pure.
CAUTION MONEY. In the English universities, a deposit in the hands of the tutor at entrance, by way of security.
With reference to Oxford, De Quincey says of caution money: "This is a small sum, properly enough demanded of every student, when matriculated, as a pledge for meeting any loss from unsettled arrears, such as his sudden death or his unannounced departure might else continually be inflicting upon his college. In most colleges it amounts to £25; in one only it was considerably less." —Life and Manners, p. 249.
In American colleges, a bond is usually given by a student upon entering college, in order to secure the payment of all his college dues.
CENSOR. In the University of Oxford, Eng., a college officer whose duties are similar to those of the Dean.
CEREVIS. From Latin cerevisia, beer. Among German students, a small, round, embroidered cap, otherwise called a beer-cap.
Better authorities … have lately noted in the solitary student that wends his way—cerevis on head, note-book in hand—to the professor's class-room,… a vast improvement on the Bursche of twenty years ago.—Lond. Quart. Rev., Am. ed., Vol. LXXIII. p. 59.
CHAMBER. The apartment of a student at a college or university. This word, although formerly used in American colleges, has been of late almost entirely supplanted by the word room, and it is for this reason that it is here noticed.