Sentence:  I shall now endeavor to give some account of the College.... Some then go to a <WSD>recitation</WSD> of the lesson they have learnt the previous evening. Some return to their rooms till the breakfast-bell, about seven or after. At eight the sludy bell rings. All must then go in their rooms and continue there, even if they have no lessons to learn, unless they attend a <WSD>recitation</WSD> which occupies an hour. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A regularly scheduled class, in a school, in which discussion occurs of the material covered in a parallel lecture.