DECLAMATION BOARDS. At Bowdoin College, small establishments in the rear of each building, for urinary purposes. DEDUCTION. In some of the American colleges, one of the minor punishments for non-conformity with laws and regulations is deducting from the marks which a student receives for recitations and other exercises, and by which his standing in the class is determined. Soften down the intense feeling with which he relates heroic Rapid's _deductions_.--_Harv. Mag._, Vol. I. p. 267. 2. At the University of Cambridge, Eng., an original proposition in geometry. "How much Euclid did you do? Fifteen?" "No, fourteen; one of them was a _deduction_."--_Bristed's Five Years in an Eng. Univ._, Ed. 2d, p. 75. With a mathematical tutor, the hour of tuition is a sort of familiar examination, working out examples, _deductions_, &c.--_Ibid._, pp. 18, 19. DEGRADATION. In the older American colleges, it was formerly customary to arrange the members of each class in an order determined by the rank of the parent. "Degradation consisted in placing a student on the list, in consequence of some offence, below the level to which his father's condition would assign him; and thus declared that he had disgraced his family." In the Immediate Government Book, No. IV., of Harvard College, date July 20th, 1776, is the following entry: "Voted, that Trumbal, a Middle Bachelor, who was degraded to the bottom of his class for his misdemeanors when an undergraduate, having presented an humble confession of his faults, with a petition to be restored to his place in the class in the Catalogue now printing, be restored agreeable to his request." The Triennial Catalogue for that year was the first in which the names of the students appeared in an alphabetical order. The class of 1773 was the first in which the change was made.