The Corporation with the Tutors shall visit the chambers of the _commencers_ to see that this law be well observed.--_Peirce's Hist. Harv. Univ._, App., p. 137. Thirty _commencers_, besides Mr. Rogers, &c.--_Ibid._, App., p. 150. COMMERS. In the German universities, a party of students assembled for the purpose of making an excursion to some place in the country for a day's jollification. On such an occasion, the students usually go "in a long train of carriages with outriders"; generally, a festive gathering of the students.--_Howitt's Student Life of Germany_, Am. ed., p. 56; see also Chap. XVI. COMMISSARY. In the University of Cambridge, Eng., an officer under the Chancellor, and appointed by him, who holds a court of record for all privileged persons and scholars under the degree of M.A. In this court, all causes are tried and determined by the civil and statute law, and by the custom of the University.--_Cam. Cal._ COMMON. To board together; to eat at a table in common. COMMONER. A student of the second rank in the University of Oxford, Eng., who is not dependent on the foundation for support, but pays for his board or _commons_, together with all other charges. Corresponds to a PENSIONER at Cambridge. See GENTLEMAN COMMONER. 2. One who boards in commons. In all cases where those who do damage to the table furniture, or in the steward's kitchen, cannot be detected, the amount shall be charged to the _commoners_.--_Laws Union Coll._, 1807, p. 34. The steward shall keep an accurate list of the _commoners_.--_Ibid._, 1807, p. 34. COMMON ROOM. The room to which all the members of the college have access. There is sometimes one _common room_ for graduates, and another for undergraduates.--_Crabb's Tech. Dict._ Oh, could the days once more but come, When calm I smoak'd in _common room_. _The Student_, Oxf. and Cam., 1750, Vol. I. p. 237. COMMONS. Food provided at a common table, as in colleges, where many persons eat at the same table, or in the same hall.--_Webster_.