I could not help smiling, when, among the dignitaries whom I was bound to make obeisance to by _capping_ whenever I met them, Mr. Jackson's catalogue included his all-important self in the number. --_The Etonian_, Vol. II. p. 217. The obsequious attention of college servants, and the more unwilling "_capping_" of the undergraduates, to such a man are real luxuries.--_Blackwood's Mag._, Eng. ed., Vol. LVI. p. 572. Used in the English universities. CAPTAIN OF THE POLL. The first of the Polloi. He had moreover been _Captain_ (Head) _of the Poll_.--_Bristed's Five Years in an Eng. Univ._, Ed. 2d, p. 96. CAPUT SENATUS. Latin; literally, _the head of the Senate_. In Cambridge, Eng., a council of the University by which every grace must be approved, before it can be submitted to the senate. The Caput Senatus is formed of the vice-chancellor, a doctor in each of the faculties of divinity, law, and medicine, and one regent M.A., and one non-regent M.A. The vice-chancellor's five assistants are elected annually by the heads of houses and the doctors of the three faculties, out of fifteen persons nominated by the vice-chancellor and the proctors.--_Webster. Cam. Cal. Lit. World_, Vol. XII. p. 283. See GRACE. CARCER. Latin. In German schools and universities, a prison.--_Adler's Germ, and Eng. Dict._ Wollten ihn drauf die Nürnberger Herren Mir nichts, dir nichts ins _Carcer_ sperren. _Wallenstein's Lager_. And their Nur'mberg worships swore he should go To _jail_ for his pains,--if he liked it, or no. _Trans. Wallenstein's Camp, in Bohn's Stand. Lib._, p. 155. CASTLE END. At Cambridge, Eng., a noted resort for Cyprians. CATHARINE PURITANS. In the University of Cambridge, Eng., the members of St. Catharine's Hall are thus designated, from the implied derivation of the word Catharine from the Greek [Greek: katharos], pure. CAUTION MONEY. In the English universities, a deposit in the hands of the tutor at entrance, by way of security. With reference to Oxford, De Quincey says of _caution money_: "This is a small sum, properly enough demanded of every student, when matriculated, as a pledge for meeting any loss from unsettled arrears, such as his sudden death or his unannounced departure might else continually be inflicting upon his college. In most colleges it amounts to £25; in one only it was considerably less." --_Life and Manners_, p. 249. In American colleges, a bond is usually given by a student upon entering college, in order to secure the payment of all his college dues. CENSOR. In the University of Oxford, Eng., a college officer whose duties are similar to those of the Dean. CEREVIS. From Latin _cerevisia_, beer. Among German students, a small, round, embroidered cap, otherwise called a beer-cap.