*Remission* (or *Remi*), _subs._ (Winchester).—_See_ quot.
_c._ 1840. MANSFIELD, _School-Life at Winchester_ (1866), 229.
REMISSION—When owing to a Saint’s day having fallen on the day
previous to that on which a Verse or Prose Task, or Vulgus, was due,
the boys were excused from doing it, there was said to be REMISSION
from it.
*Rep*, _subs._ 1. (Harrow and King Edward’s, Birm.).—A
repetition.
1892. ANSTEY, _Voces Populi_, 65. It’s not in Selections from British
Poetry which we have to get up for REP.
2. (King Edward’s, Birm.).—The REPRESENTATIVE elected by the
Class to serve on the Committee of the School Club.
*Repeal Garden*, _subs._ (Stonyhurst).—One of the Higher Line
Gardens. [Used for Irish declamation at the beginning of the
century.] Obsolete.
*Responsions.* _See_ SMALLS.
*Resurrection*, _subs._ (Stonyhurst).—A sort of eat-all feast,
consisting of a meeting to discuss the remnants of an
Academy DO (_q.v._) held on the previous day.
*Rhetoric*, _subs._ (Stonyhurst).—The Sixth Form. [From
the chief work once studied in the form. _Cf._ _Regulæ
Professoris Rhetoricæ_ in the _Ratio Studiorum Societatis
Jesu_.]
*Rhetoric Good-day*, _subs. phr._ (Stonyhurst).—_See_ GOOD-DAY.
*Rhetorician*, _subs._ (Stonyhurst).—_See_ RHETORIC.
*Rigger*, _subs._ (Durham).—A racing-boat.
*Rinder*, _subs._ (The Leys and Queen’s).—An outsider.
*Riot Act*, _subs._ (King Edward’s, Birm.).—A body of school
rules, read over and commented upon by the Head Master on
the first Wednesday afternoon in term before the whole
school.
*Ripping*, _subs._ (Eton).—A ceremony incidental to the
departure of a Senior Colleger for King’s College,
Cambridge: when he has got KING’S (_q.v._) his gown has to
be stitched up that it may be RIPPED afterwards by the
Provost or his deputy.
*Robinites* (Charterhouse).—_See_ OUT-HOUSES.
*Rock*, _subs._ 1. (Derby).—The school bread. _See_ WASH.