He is obliged to stomach the _impos._, and retire.--_Grad. ad Cantab._, p. 125. He satisfies the Proctor and the Dean by saying a part of each _impos._--_Ibid._, p. 128. See BARBER. INCEPT. To take the degree of Master of Arts. They may nevertheless take the degree of M.A. at the usual period, by putting their names on the _College boards_ a few days previous to _incepting_.--_Cambridge Calendar_. The M.A. _incepts_ in about three years and two months from the time of taking his first degree.--_Bristed's Five Years in an Eng. Univ._, Ed. 2d, p. 285. INCEPTOR. One who has proceeded to the degree of M.A., but who, not enjoying all the privileges of an M.A. until the Commencement, is in the mean time termed an Inceptor. Used in the English universities, and formerly at Harvard College. And, in case any of the Sophisters, Questionists, or _Inceptors_ fail in the premises required at their hands ... they shall be deferred to the following year.--_Laws of 1650, in Quincy's Hist. Harv. Univ._, Vol. I. p. 518. The Admissio _Inceptorum_ was as follows: "Admitto te ad secundum gradum in artibus pro more Academiarum in Angliâ: tibique trado hunc librum unâ cum potestate publice profitendi, ubicunque ad hoc munus publicè evocatus fueris."--_Ibid._, Vol. I. p. 580. INDIAN SOCIETY. At the Collegiate Institute of Indiana, a society of smokers was established, in the year 1837, by an Indian named Zachary Colbert, and called the Indian Society. The members and those who have been invited to join the society, to the number of sixty or eighty, are accustomed to meet in a small room, ten feet by eighteen; all are obliged to smoke, and he who first desists is required to pay for the cigars smoked at that meeting. INDIGO. At Dartmouth College, a member of the party called the Blues. The same as a BLUE, which see. The Howes, years ago, used to room in Dartmouth Hall, though none room there now, and so they made up some verses. Here is one:-- "Hurrah for Dartmouth Hall! Success to every student That rooms in Dartmouth Hall, Unless he be an _Indigo_, Then, no success at all." _The Dartmouth_, Vol. IV. p. 117. INITIATION. Secret societies exist in almost all the colleges in the United States, which require those who are admitted to pass through certain ceremonies called the initiation. This fact is often made use of to deceive Freshmen, upon their entrance into college, who are sometimes initiated into societies which have no existence, and again into societies where initiation is not necessary for membership.