"All the Colleges at Cambridge," says Bristed, "have equal privileges and rights, with the solitary exception of King's, and though some of them are called _Halls_, the difference is merely one of name. But the Halls at Oxford, of which there are five, are not incorporated bodies, and have no vote in University matters, indeed are but a sort of boarding-houses at which students may remain until it is time for them to take a degree. I dined at one of those establishments; it was very like an officers' mess. The men had their own wine, and did not wear their gowns, and the only Don belonging to the Hall was not present at table. There was a tradition of a chapel belonging to the concern, but no one present knew where it was. This Hall seemed to be a small Botany Bay of both Universities, its members made up of all sorts of incapables and incorrigibles."--_Five Years in an Eng. Univ._, Ed. 2d, pp. 140, 141. 3. At Cambridge and Oxford, the public eating-room. I went into the public "_hall_" [so is called in Oxford the public eating-room].--_De Quincey's Life and Manners_, p. 231. Dinner is, in all colleges, a public meal, taken in the refectory or "_hall_" of the society.--_Ibid._, p. 273. 4. At the University of Cambridge, Eng., dinner, the name of the place where the meal is taken being given to the meal itself. _Hall_ lasts about three quarters of an hour.--_Bristed's Five Year in an Eng. Univ._, Ed. 2d, p. 20. After _Hall_ is emphatically lounging-time, it being the wise practice of Englishmen to attempt no hard exercise, physical or mental, immediately after a hearty meal.--_Ibid._, p. 21. It is not safe to read after _Hall_ (i.e. after dinner).--_Ibid._, p. 331. HANG-OUT. An entertainment. I remember the date from the Fourth of July occurring just afterwards, which I celebrated by a "_hang-out_."--_Bristed's Five Years in an Eng. Univ._, Ed. 2d, p. 80. He had kept me six hours at table, on the occasion of a dinner which he gave ... as an appendix to and a return for some of my "_hangings-out_."--_Ibid._, p. 198. HANG OUT. To treat, to live, to have or possess. Among English Cantabs, a verb of all-work.--_Bristed_. There were but few pensioners who "_hung out_" servants of their own.--_Bristed's Five Years in an Eng. Univ._, Ed. 2d, p. 90. I had become ... a man who knew and "_hung out_ to" clever and pleasant people, and introduced agreeable lions to one another.--_Ibid._, p. 158. I had gained such a reputation for dinner-giving, that men going to "_hang out_" sometimes asked me to compose bills of fare for them.--_Ibid._, p. 195. HARRY SOPHS, or HENRY SOPHISTERS; in reality Harisophs, a corruption of Erisophs ([Greek: erisophos], _valde eruditus_). At Cambridge, England, students who have kept all the terms required for a law act, and hence are ranked as Bachelors of Law by courtesy.--_Gradus ad Cantab._ See, also, Gentleman's Magazine, 1795, p. 818.