We learn that they do not _pony_ their lessons.--_Yale Tomahawk_, May, 1852. If you _pony_, he will see, And before the Faculty You will surely summoned be. _Songs of Yale_, 1853, p. 23. POPPING. At William and Mary College, getting the advantage over another in argument is called _popping_ him. POPULARITY. In the college _use_, favor of one's classmates, or of the members of all the classes, generally. Nowhere is this term employed so often, and with so much significance, as among collegians. The first wish of the Freshman is to be popular, and the desire does not leave him during all his college life. For remarks on this subject, see the Literary Miscellany, Vol. II. p. 56; Amherst Indicator, Vol. II. p. 123, _et passim_. PORTIONIST. One who has a certain academical allowance or portion. --_Webster_. See POSTMASTER. POSTED. Rejected in a college examination. Term used at the University of Cambridge, Eng.--_Bristed_. Fifty marks will prevent one from being "_posted_" but there are always two or three too stupid as well as idle to save their "_Post_." These drones are _posted_ separately, as "not worthy to be classed," and privately slanged afterwards by the Master and Seniors. Should a man be _posted_ twice in succession, he is generally recommended to try the air of some Small College, or devote his energies to some other walk of life.--_Bristed's Five Years in an Eng. Univ._, Ed. 2d, p. 74. POSTMASTER. In Merton College, Oxford, the scholars who are supported on the foundation are called Postmasters, or Portionists (_Portionistæ_).--_Oxf. Guide_. The _postmasters_ anciently performed the duties of choristers, and their payment for this duty was six shillings and fourpence per annum.--_Oxford Guide_, Ed. 1847, p. 36. POW-WOW. At Yale College on the evening of Presentation Day, the Seniors being excused from further attendance at prayers, the classes who remain change their seats in the chapel. It was formerly customary for the Freshmen, on taking the Sophomore seats, to signalize the event by appearing at chapel in grotesque dresses. The impropriety of such conduct has abolished this custom, but on the recurrence of the day, a uniformity is sometimes observable in the paper collars or white neck-cloths of the in-coming Sophomores, as they file in at vespers. During the evening, the Freshmen are accustomed to assemble on the steps of the State-House, and celebrate the occasion by speeches, a torch-light procession, and the accompaniment of a band of music. The students are forbidden to occupy the State-House steps on the evening of Presentation Day, since the Faculty design hereafter to have a _Pow-wow_ there, as on the last.--_Burlesque Catalogue_, Yale Coll., 1852-53, p. 35. PRÆSES. The Latin for President. "_Præses_" his "Oxford" doffs, and bows reply. _Childe Harvard_, p. 36. Did not the _Præses_ himself most kindly and oft reprimand me? _Harvardiana_, Vol. III. p. 98.