| But money is all-potent, and wealthy oppidans soon found means to elbow the aristocracy in their choicest assemblies. |
| These students became known as Oppidans, from the Latin word oppidum, meaning town. |
| Oppidans as a body are looked down upon by boarders because so many of them are thewless creatures, with only a half-developed sympathy for the scholastic institution they attend. |
