ADMONISH. In collegiate affairs, to reprove a member of a college for a fault, either publicly or privately; the first step of college discipline. It is followed by _of_ or _against_; as, to admonish of a fault committed, or against committing a fault. ADMONITION. Private or public reproof; the first step of college discipline. In Harvard College, both private and public admonition subject the offender to deductions from his rank, and the latter is accompanied in most cases with official notice to his parents or guardian.--See _Laws Univ. at Cam., Mass._, 1848, p. 21. _Laws Yale Coll._, 1837, p. 23. Mr. Flynt, for many years a tutor in Harvard College, thus records an instance of college punishment for stealing poultry:--"November 4th, 1717. Three scholars were publicly admonished for thievery, and one degraded below five in his class, because he had been before publicly admonished for card-playing. They were ordered by the President into the middle of the Hall (while two others, concealers of the theft, were ordered to stand up in their places, and spoken to there). The crime they were charged with was first declared, and then laid open as against the law of God and the House, and they were admonished to consider the nature and tendency of it, with its aggravations; and all, with them, were warned to take heed and regulate themselves, so that they might not be in danger of so doing for the future; and those who consented to the theft were admonished to beware, lest God tear them in pieces, according to the text. They were then fined, and ordered to make restitution twofold for each theft."--_Quincy's Hist. Harv. Univ._, Vol. I. p. 443. ADOPTED SON. Said of a student in reference to the college of which he is or was a member, the college being styled his _alma mater_. There is something in the affection of our Alma Mater which changes the nature of her _adopted sons_; and let them come from wherever they may, she soon alters them and makes it evident that they belong to the same brood.--_Harvard Register_, p. 377. ADVANCE. The lesson which a student prepares for the first time is called _the advance_, in contradistinction to _the review_. Even to save him from perdition, He cannot get "_the advance_," forgets "_the review_." _Childe Harvard_, p. 13. ÆGROTAL. Latin, _ægrotus_, sick. A certificate of illness. Used in the Univ. of Cam., Eng. A lucky thought; he will get an "_ægrotal_," or medical certificate of illness.--_Household Words_, Vol. II. p. 162.