DOUBLE FIRST. At the University of Cambridge, Eng., a student who attains high honors in both the classical and the mathematical tripos. The Calendar does not show an average of two "_Double Firsts_" annually for the last ten years out of one hundred and thirty-eight graduates in Honors.--_Bristed's Five Years in an Eng. Univ._, Ed. 2d, p. 91. The reported saying of a distinguished judge,... "that the standard of a _Double First_ was getting to be something beyond human ability," seems hardly an exaggeration.--_Ibid._, p. 224. DOUBLE MAN. In the English universities, a student who is a proficient in both classics and mathematics. "_Double men_," as proficients in both classics and mathematics are termed, are very rare.--_Bristed's Five Years in an Eng. Univ._, Ed. 2d, p. 91. It not unfrequently happens that he now drops the intention of being a "_double man_," and concentrates himself upon mathematics. --_Ibid._, p. 104. To one danger mathematicians are more exposed than either classical or _double men_,--disgust and satiety arising from exclusive devotion to their unattractive studies.--_Ibid._, p. 225. DOUBLE MARKS. It was formerly the custom in Harvard College with the Professors in Rhetoric, when they had examined and corrected the _themes_ of the students, to draw a straight line on the back of each one of them, under the name of the writer. Under the names of those whose themes were of more than ordinary correctness or elegance, _two_ lines were drawn, which were called _double marks_. They would take particular pains for securing the _double mark_ of the English Professor to their poetical compositions.--_Monthly Anthology_, Boston, 1804, Vol. I. p. 104. Many, if not the greater part of Paine's themes, were written in verse; and his vanity was gratified, and his emulation roused, by the honor of constant _double marks_.--_Works of R.T. Paine, Biography_, p. xxii., Ed. 1812. See THEME. DOUBLE SECOND. At the University of Cambridge, Eng., one who obtains a high place in the second rank, in both mathematical and classical honors. A good _double second_ will make, by his college scholarship, two fifths or three fifths of his expenses during two thirds of the time he passes at the University.--_Bristed's Five Years in an Eng. Univ._, Ed. 2d, p. 427. DOUGH-BALL. At the Anderson Collegiate Institute, Indiana, a name given by the town's people to a student.