At the same college, when there were three exhibitions in the year, it was customary for the first eight scholars in the Junior Class to have "parts" at the first exhibition, the second eight at the second exhibition, and the third eight at the third exhibition. Eight Seniors performed with them at each of these three exhibitions, but they were taken promiscuously from the first twenty-four in their class. Although there are now but two exhibitions in the year, twelve performing from each of the two upper classes, yet the students still retain the old phraseology, and you will often hear the question, "Is he in the first or second _eight_?" The bell for morning prayers had long been sounding! She says, "What makes you look so very pale?"-- "I've had a dream."--"Spring to 't, or you'll be late!"-- "Don't care! 'T was worth a part among the _Second Eight_." _Childe Harvard_, p. 121. ELECTIONEERING. In many colleges in the United States, where there are rival societies, it is customary, on the admission of a student to college, for the partisans of the different societies to wait upon him, and endeavor to secure him as a member. An account of this _Society Electioneering_, as it is called, is given in _Sketches of Yale College_, at page 162. Society _electioneering_ has mostly gone by.--_Williams Quarterly_, Vol. II. p. 285. ELEGANT EXTRACTS. At the University of Cambridge, Eng., a cant title applied to some fifteen or twenty men who have just succeeded in passing their final examination, and who are bracketed together, at the foot of the Polloi list.--_Bristed's Five Years in an Eng. Univ._, Ed. 2d, p. 250. EMERITUS, _pl._ EMERITI. Latin; literally, _obtained by service_. One who has been honorably discharged from public service, as, in colleges and universities, a _Professor Emeritus_. EMIGRANT. In the English universities, one who migrates, or removes from one college to another. At Christ's, for three years successively,... the first man was an _emigrant_ from John's.--_Bristed's Five Years in an Eng. Univ._, Ed. 2d, p. 100. See MIGRATION. EMPTY BOTTLE. At the University of Cambridge, Eng., the sobriquet of a fellow-commoner. Indeed they [fellow-commoners] are popularly denominated "_empty bottles_," the first word of the appellation being an adjective, though were it taken as a verb there would be no untruth in it.--_Bristed's Five Years in an Eng. Univ._, Ed. 2d, p. 34. ENCENIA, _pl._ Greek [Greek: enkainia], _a feast of dedication_. Festivals anciently kept on the days on which cities were built or churches consecrated; and, in later times, ceremonies renewed at certain periods, as at Oxford, at the celebration of founders and benefactors.--_Hook_. END WOMAN. At Bowdoin College, "end women," says a correspondent, "are the venerable females who officiate as chambermaids in the different entries." They are so called from the entries being placed at the _ends_ of the buildings.