As there is no provision in the printed lists for expressing the number of marks by which each man beats the one next below him, and there may be more difference between the twelfth and thirteenth than between the third and twelfth, it has been proposed to extend the use of the _brackets_ (which are now only employed in cases of literal equality between two or three men), and put together six, eight, or ten, whose marks are nearly equal. --_Bristed's Five Years in an Eng. Univ._, Ed. 2d, p. 227. BRACKET. In a general sense, to place in a certain order. I very early in the Sophomore year gave up all thoughts of obtaining high honors, and settled down contentedly among the twelve or fifteen who are _bracketed_, after the first two or three, as "English Orations."--_Bristed's Five Years in an Eng. Univ._, Ed. 2d, p. 6. There remained but two, _bracketed_ at the foot of the class.--_Ibid._, p. 62. The Trinity man who was _bracketed_ Senior Classic.--_Ibid._, p. 187. BRANDER. In the German universities a name given to a student during his second term. Meanwhile large tufts and strips of paper had been twisted into the hair of the _Branders_, as those are called who have been already one term at the University, and then at a given signal were set on fire, and the _Branders_ rode round the table on chairs, amid roars of laughter.--_Longfellow's Hyperion_, p. 114. See BRAND-FOX, BURNT FOX. BRAND-FOX. A student in a German university "becomes a _Brand-fuchs_, or fox with a brand, after the foxes of Samson," in his second half-year.--_Howitt_. BRICK. A gay, wild, thoughtless fellow, but not so _hard_ as the word itself might seem to imply. He is a queer fellow,--not so bad as he seems,--his own enemy, but a regular _brick_.--_Collegian's Guide_, p. 143. He will come himself (public tutor or private), like a _brick_ as he is, and consume his share of the generous potables.--_Bristed's Five Years in an Eng. Univ._, Ed. 2d, p. 78. See LIKE A BRICK. BRICK MILL. At the University of Vermont, the students speak of the college as the _Brick Mill_, or the _Old Brick Mill_. BUCK. At Princeton College, anything which is in an intensive degree good, excellent, pleasant, or agreeable, is called _buck_. BULL. At Dartmouth College, to recite badly; to make a poor recitation. From the substantive _bull_, a blunder or contradiction, or from the use of the word as a prefix, signifying large, lubberly, blundering. BULL-DOG. In the English universities, the lictor or servant who attends a proctor when on duty. Sentiments which vanish for ever at the sight of the proctor with his _bull-dogs_, as they call them, or four muscular fellows which always follow him, like so many bailiffs.--_Westminster Rev._, Am. Ed., Vol. XXXV. p. 232. The proctors, through their attendants, commonly called _bull-dogs_, received much certain information, &c.--_Collegian's Guide_, p. 170.