COMPOUNDER. One at a university who pays extraordinary fees, according to his means, for the degree he is to take. A _Grand Compounder_ pays double fees. See the _Customs and Laws of Univ. of Cam., Eng._, p. 297. CONCIO AD CLERUM. A sermon to the clergy. In the English universities, an exercise or Latin sermon, which is required of every candidate for the degree of D.D. Used sometimes in America. In the evening the "_concio ad clerum_" will be preached.--_Yale Lit. Mag._, Vol. XII. p. 426. CONDITION. A student on being examined for admission to college, if found deficient in certain studies, is admitted on _condition_ he will make up the deficiency, if it is believed on the whole that he is capable of pursuing the studies of the class for which he is offered. The branches in which he is deficient are called _conditions_. Talks of Bacchus and tobacco, short sixes, sines, transitions, And Alma Mater takes him in on ten or twelve _conditions_. _Poem before Y.H. Soc., Harv. Coll._ Praying his guardian powers To assist a poor Sub Fresh at the dread Examination, And free from all _conditions_ to insure his first vacation. _Poem before Iadma of Harv. Coll._ CONDITION. To admit a student as member of a college, who on being examined has been found deficient in some particular, the provision of his admission being that he will make up the deficiency. A young man shall come down to college from New Hampshire, with no preparation save that of a country winter-school, shall be examined and "_conditioned_" in everything, and yet he shall come out far ahead of his city Latin-school classmate.--_A Letter to a Young Man who has just entered College_, 1849, p. 8. They find themselves _conditioned_ on the studies of the term, and not very generally respected.--_Harvard Mag._, Vol. I. p. 415. CONDUCT. The title of two clergymen appointed to read prayers at Eton College, in England.--_Mason. Webster_. CONFESSION. It was formerly the custom in the older American colleges, when a student had rendered himself obnoxious to punishment, provided the crime was not of an aggravated nature, to pardon and restore him to his place in the class, on his presenting a confession of his fault, to be read publicly in the hall. The Diary of President Leverett, of Harvard College, under date of the 20th of March, 1714, contains an interesting account of the confession of Larnel, an Indian student belonging to the Junior Sophister class, who had been guilty of some offence for which he had been dismissed from college.