2. This name is applied at Yale College to the printed scheme which is used at the Biennial Examinations. Also, at Harvard College, to the printed sheet by means of which the examination for entrance is conducted. PARCHMENT. A diploma, from the substance on which it is usually printed, is in familiar language sometimes called a _parchment_. There are some, who, relying not upon the "_parchment_ and seal" as a passport to favor, bear that with them which shall challenge notice and admiration.--_Yale Lit. Mag._, Vol. III. p. 365. The passer-by, unskilled in ancient lore, Whose hands the ribboned _parchment_ never bore. _Class Poem at Harv. Coll._, 1835, p. 7. See SHEEPSKIN. PARIETAL. From Latin _paries_, a wall; properly, _a partition-wall_, from the root of _part_ or _pare_. Pertaining to a wall.--_Webster_. At Harvard College the officers resident within the College walls constitute a permanent standing committee, called the Parietal Committee. They have particular cognizance of all tardinesses at prayers and Sabbath services, and of all offences against good order and decorum. They are allowed to deduct from the rank of a student, not exceeding one hundred for one offence. In case any offence seems to them to require a higher punishment than deduction, it is reported to the Faculty.--_Laws_, 1850, App. Had I forgotten, alas! the stern _pariètal_ monitions? _Harvardiana_, Vol. III. p. 98. The chairman of the Parietal Committee is often called the _Parietal Tutor_. I see them shaking their fists in the face of the _parietal tutor_.--_Oration before H.L. of I.O. of O.F._, 1849. The members of the committee are called, in common parlance, _Parietals_. Four rash and inconsiderate proctors, two tutors, and five _parietals_, each with a mug and pail in his hand, in their great haste to arrive at the scene of conflagration, ran over the Devil, and knocked him down stairs.--_Harvardiana_, Vol. III. p. 124. And at the loud laugh of thy gurgling throat, The _pariètals_ would forget themselves. _Ibid._, Vol. III. p. 399 et passim. Did not thy starting eyeballs think to see Some goblin _pariètal_ grin at thee? _Ibid._, Vol. IV. p. 197. The deductions made by the Parietal Committee are also called _Parietals_. How now, ye secret, dark, and tuneless chanters, What is 't ye do? Beware the _pariètals_. _Harvardiana_, Vol. III. p. 44. Reckon on the fingers of your mind the reprimands, deductions, _parietals_, and privates in store for you.--_Orat. H.L. of I.O. of O.F._, 1848. The accent of this word is on the antepenult; by _poetic license_, in four of the passages above quoted, it is placed on the penult.