Oxford, in 1928. Mark Boxer (1931–1988), rusticated in the 1950s from King's College, Cambridge, as editor of Granta, the student magazine, when it published a poem deemed by the authorities to be blasphemous. Auberon Waugh (1939–2001), rusticated from Christ Church, Oxford, in 1957. Waugh failed to perform sufficiently well to pass his Philosophy, Politics and Economics prelim exams. Waugh chose not to return. Use in the United States The term was widely used in the United States in the 19th century, and on occasion, later. Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner, in The Gilded Age, have a character explain the term: In a story in the August 1858 Atlantic Monthly, a character reminisces: Kevin Starr writes of Richard Henry Dana, Jr. that: A biographer refers to one of James Russell Lowell's college letters as "written while he was at Concord because rusticated". In a 1932 letter to Time, the publisher William Randolph Hearst denied he had been expelled from Harvard College, saying he had instead been "rusticated in [1886] for an excess of political enthusiasm" and had simply never returned. The term is still used occasionally in the United States. For example: "The penalty for plagiarism at Harvard Extension is a failing grade in the course and rustication from the university for at least one calendar year." At Rice University, rustication is a punishment separate from suspension. Students who have been rusticated are banned from social activities on campus and are only allowed on campus to attend class. See also Expulsion (education) Suspension (punishment) References Bibliography Guardian story about being rusticated Kevin Starr, 1973: Americans and the California Dream 1850-1915, Oxford University Press. 1986 reprint: Education in the United Kingdom Education in the United States School punishments Terminology of the University of Cambridge Terminology of the University of Oxford Durham University