[citation needed] Notable Britons who were rusticated during their time at University have included: 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: "Philip used to come to Fallkill often while he was in college.
"Kevin Starr writes of Richard Henry Dana Jr. that:[12] "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.
[13] 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.