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Rustication is a term used at some British academic institutions for a disciplinary action consisting of a temporary expulsion from the institution. The term derives from the Latin word ''rus'', countryside, to indicate that a student has been sent back to his family in the country Definition of 'Rustication' , English test, Accessed 2007-05-21and is also traditionally used at Oxford and Cambridge universities. It is also commonly employed in many British Public Schools . The term was also used in the United States during the 1800s, but has been superseded by the term "suspension." A student who has been rusticated may not enter any of the school/university buildings or facilities, or even travel to within a certain distance of them. To be rusticated is not the same as being "sent down," which means that the student was expelled from his or her course and may not return. To be rusticated is to have one's movements restricted. Notable Britons who were rusticated during their time at University include , Algernon Swinburne , Oscar Wilde , Auberon Waugh , Jon Snow and Stephen Fry . At Cambridge, according to George Gilfallan [http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/1/4/8/11488/11488.txt], John Dryden "was noted for regularity and diligence [but] was rusticated for a fortnight on account of some disobedience to the vice-master." Walter Savage Landor "had been got rid of at Rugby as unmanageable. After two years at Oxford, he was rusticated; thereupon he gave up his chambers, and refused to return." {Link without Title} USE IN THE UNITED STATES The term also was used in the United States in the 19th century. Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner , in ''The Gilded Age,'' have a character explain the term: :"Philip used to come to Fallkill often while he was in college. He was once rusticated here for a term." :"Rusticated?" :"Suspended for some College scrape." {Link without Title} In a story in the August 1858 Atlantic Monthly {Link without Title} , a character reminisces: :"It was long before you were born, my dear, that, for some college peccadilloes,—it is so long ago that I have almost forgotten now what they were,—I was suspended (rusticated we called it) for a term, and advised by the grave and dignified president to spend my time in repenting and in keeping up with my class. I had no mind to come home; I had no wish, by my presence, to keep the memory of my misdemeanors before my father's mind for six months; so I asked and gained leave to spend the summer in a little town in Western Massachusetts, where, as I said, I should have nothing to tempt me from my studies." Kevin Starr {Link without Title} writes of Richard Henry Dana that: :" Harvard 's rigid rules and narrow curriculum had proved equally repressive. Rusticated for taking part in a student rebellion, Dana had spent six months in quiet rural study in Andover under a kindly clerical tutor." A biographer {Link without Title} refers to one of James Russell Lowell 's college letters as "written while he was at Concord because rusticated." REFERENCES
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