The two Senior classes shall _dispute_ once or twice a week before the President, a Professor, or the Tutor.--_Laws Yale Coll._, 1837, p. 15. DIVINITY. A member of a theological school is often familiarly called a _Divinity_, abbreviated for a Divinity student. One of the young _Divinities_ passed Straight through the College yard. _Childe Harvard_, p. 40. DIVISION. At the University of Cambridge, Eng., each of the three terms is divided into two parts. _Division_ is the time when this partition is made. After "_division_" in the Michaelmas and Lent terms, a student, who can assign a good plea for absence to the college authorities, may go down and take holiday for the rest of the time.--_Bristed's Five Years in an Eng. Univ._, Ed. 2d, p. 63. DOCTOR. One who has passed all the degrees of a faculty, and is empowered to practise and teach it; as, a _doctor_ in divinity, in physic, in law; or, according to modern usage, a person who has received the highest degree in a faculty. The degree of _doctor_ is conferred by universities and colleges, as an honorary mark of literary distinction. It is also conferred on physicians as a professional degree.--_Webster_. DOCTORATE. The degree of a doctor.--_Webster_. The first diploma for a doctorate in divinity given in America was presented under the seal of Harvard College to Mr. Increase Mather, the President of that institution, in the year 1692.--_Peirce's Hist. Harv. Univ._, App., p. 68. DODGE. A trick; an artifice or stratagem for the purpose of deception. Used often with _come_; as, "_to come a dodge_ over him." No artful _dodge_ to leave my school could I just then prepare. _Poem before Iadma, Harv. Coll._, 1850. Agreed; but I have another _dodge_ as good as yours.--_Collegian's Guide_, p. 240. We may well admire the cleverness displayed by this would-be Chatterton, in his attempt to sell the unwary with an Ossian _dodge_.--_Lit. World_, Vol. XII. p. 191. DOMINUS. A title bestowed on Bachelors of Arts, in England. _Dominus_ Nokes; _Dominus_ Stiles.--_Gradus ad Cantab._ DON. In the English universities, a short generic term for a Fellow or any college authority. He had already told a lie to the _Dons_, by protesting against the justice of his sentence.--_Collegian's Guide_, p. 169. Never to order in any wine from an Oxford merchant, at least not till I am a _Don_.--_The Etonian_, Vol. II. p. 288. Nor hint how _Dons_, their untasked hours to pass, Like Cato, warm their virtues with the glass.[21] _The College_, in _Blackwood's Mag._, May, 1849. DONKEY. At Washington College, Penn., students of a religious character are vulgarly called _donkeys_. See LAP-EAR. DORMIAT. Latin; literally, _let him sleep_. To take out a _dormiat_, i.e. a license to sleep. The licensed person is excused from attending early prayers in the Chapel, from a plea of being indisposed. Used in the English universities.--_Gradus ad Cantab._