Word: tintinnabulum
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...those days absences were announced in Latin every Saturday and excuses were given in Latin. Common excuses were semel aegrotavi, bis invalui, detentus ab amicis, exoppido and tintinnabulum non andivi. One freshman, charged with three absences, replied: "Non ter, sed semel abfui; Carolus frater locked me up in the Buttery." The poor freshmen had a hard time of it indeed. No freshman could wear his hat in the college yard unless it rained, showed, or hailed, or unless his hands were full. No freshman could speak to a senior (and a senior for him meant any upper classman) with...
...melancholy fate of the Charleston College bell naturally leads us to investigate the situation of our own academical tintinnabulum. We have been having some chilly nights of late, and we are forced to believe that the authorities have rather neglected the casus belli, - case of our own bell. If we may be pardoned for interference in a matter which, strictly speaking, is none of our business, we would suggest that a proctor be delegated to sit up nights with the bell, and see that it does not throw of its bed clothes. Nay, further, we would be pleased to start...
...Sacrum tintinnabulum...
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