But when they got to College yard,
With one accord they all huzza'd.—Rebelliad, p. 33.
Not ye, whom science never taught to roam
Far as a College yard or student's home.
Harv. Reg., p. 232.
COLLEGIAN. A member of a college, particularly of a literary institution so called; an inhabitant of a college.—Johnson.
COLLEGIATE. Pertaining to a college; as, collegiate studies.
2. Containing a college; instituted after the manner of a college; as, a collegiate society.—Johnson.
COLLEGIATE. A member of a college.
COMBINATION. An agreement, for effecting some object by joint operation; in an ill sense, when the purpose is illegal or iniquitous. An agreement entered into by students to resist or disobey the Faculty of the College, or to do any unlawful act, is a combination. When the number concerned is so great as to render it inexpedient to punish all, those most culpable are usually selected, or as many as are deemed necessary to satisfy the demands of justice.—Laws Yale Coll., 1837, p. 27. Laws Univ. Cam., Mass., 1848, p. 23.
COMBINATION ROOM. In the University of Cambridge Eng., a room into which the fellows, and others in authority withdraw after dinner, for wine, dessert, and conversation.—Webster.
In popular phrase, the word room is omitted.
"There will be some quiet Bachelors there, I suppose," thought I, "and a Junior Fellow or two, some of those I have met in combination."—Bristed's Five Years in an Eng. Univ., Ed. 2d, p. 52.