No scholar shall be absent above an hour at morning _bever_, half an hour at evening _bever_, &c.--_Quincy's Hist. Harv. Univ._, Vol. I. p. 517. The butler is not bound to stay above half an hour at _bevers_ in the buttery after the tolling of the bell.--_Ibid._, Vol. I. p. 584. BEVER. To take a small repast between meals.--_Wallis_. BIBLE CLERK. In the University of Oxford, the _Bible clerks_ are required to attend the service of the chapel, and to deliver in a list of the absent undergraduates to the officer appointed to enforce the discipline of the institution. Their duties are different in different colleges.--_Oxford Guide_. A _Bible clerk_ has seldom too many friends in the University.--_Blackwood's Mag._, Vol. LX., Eng. ed., p. 312. In the University of Cambridge, Eng., "a very ancient scholarship, so called because the student who was promoted to that office was enjoined to read the Bible at meal-times."--_Gradus ad Cantab._ BIENNIAL EXAMINATION. At Yale College, in addition to the public examinations of the classes at the close of each term, on the studies of the term, private examinations are also held twice in the college course, at the close of the Sophomore and Senior years, on the studies of the two preceding years. The latter are called _biennial_.--_Yale Coll. Cat._ "The _Biennial_," remarks the writer of the preface to the _Songs of Yale_, "is an examination occurring twice during the course,--at the close of the Sophomore and of the Senior years,--in all the studies pursued during the two years previous. It was established in 1850."--Ed. 1853, p. 4. The system of examinations has been made more rigid, especially by the introduction of _biennials_.--_Centennial Anniversary of the Linonian Soc._, Yale Coll., 1853, p. 70. Faculty of College got together one night, To have a little congratulation, For they'd put their heads together and hatched out a load, And called it "_Bien. Examination_." _Presentation Day Songs_, June 14, 1854. BIG-WIG. In the English universities, the higher dignitaries among the officers are often spoken of as the _big-wigs._ Thus having anticipated the approbation of all, whether Freshman, Sophomore, Bachelor, or _Big-Wig_, our next care is the choice of a patron.--_Pref._ to _Grad. ad Cantab._ BISHOP. At Cambridge, Eng., this beverage is compounded of port-wine mulled and burnt, with the addenda of roasted lemons and cloves.--_Gradus ad Cantab._ We'll pass round the _Bishop_, the spice-breathing cup. _Will. Sentinel's Poems_. BITCH. Among the students of the University of Cambridge, Eng., a common name for tea. The reading man gives no swell parties, runs very little into debt, takes his cup of _bitch_ at night, and goes quietly to bed. --_Grad. ad Cantab._, p. 131. With the Queens-men it is not unusual to issue an "At home" Tea and Vespers, alias _bitch_ and _hymns_.--_Ibid., Dedication_. BITCH. At Cambridge, Eng., to take or drink a dish of tea.