enter on the boards

English

Verb

enter on the boards (third-person singular simple present enters on the boards, present participle entering on the boards, simple past and past participle entered on the boards)

1. (UK, Cambridge University, transitive, idiomatic, archaic) To inscribe the name of (a student) on a board or tablet in a college.
   • 1834, author not stated, possibly Alfred, Lord Tennyson???, Preface to Remains in Verse and Prose of Arthur Henry Hallam

     having been entered on the boards of Trinity college