A Collection of College Words and Customs

"A Collection of College Words and Customs" by Benjamin Homer Hall is a one-of-a-kind gathering of academic language and practices from American colleges in the 1800s. The text investigates different terms, habits, and activities that define student life in well-known universities, acting as both a language guide and a cultural view of academic settings from that era. The beginning of the writing presents audiences to the intention and history of the collection, describing how it began during the author's final year of college, and, after being first released without a name attached, Hall thinks about how the collection was put together and the changes made for this version, in order to entertain and educate past and future graduates by recording what it was like to be a student and the language of learning.