ADMISSION. The act of admitting a person as a member of a college or university. The requirements for admission are usually a good moral character on the part of the candidate, and that he shall be able to pass a satisfactory examination it certain studies. In some colleges, students are not allowed to enter until they are of a specified age.--_Laws Univ. at Cam., Mass._, 1848, p. 12. _Laws Tale Coll._, 1837, p. 8.
The requisitions for entrance at Harvard College in 1650 are given in the following extract. "When any scholar is able to read Tully, or such like classical Latin author, _extempore_, and make and speak true Latin in verse and prose _suo (ut aiunt) Marte_, and decline perfectly the paradigms of nouns and verbs in the Greek tongue, then may he be admitted into the College, nor shall any claim admission before such qualifications."--_Quincy's Hist. Harv. Univ._, Vol. I. p. 515.
ADMITTATUR. Latin; literally, _let him be admitted_. In the older American colleges, the certificate of admission given to a student upon entering was called an _admittatur_, from the word with which it began. At Harvard no student was allowed to occupy a room in the College, to receive the instruction there given, or was considered a member thereof, until he had been admitted according to this form.--_Laws Harv. Coll._, 1798.
Referring to Yale College, President Wholsey remarks on this point: "The earliest known laws of the College belong to the years 1720 and 1726, and are in manuscript; which is explained by the custom that every Freshman, on his admission, was required to write off a copy of them for himself, to which the _admittatur_ of the officers was subscribed."--_Hist. Disc, before Grad. Yale Coll._, 1850, p. 45.
He travels wearily over in visions the term he is to wait for his initiation into college ways and his _admittatur_.--_Harvard Register_, p. 377.
I received my _admittatur_ and returned home, to pass the vacation and procure the college uniform.--_New England Magazine_, Vol. III. p. 238.
It was not till six months of further trial, that we received our _admittatur_, so called, and became matriculated.--_A Tour through College_, 1832, p. 13.
ADMITTO TE AD GRADUM. _I admit you to a degree_; the first words in the formula used in conferring the honors of college.