*Rod-maker*, _subs._ (Winchester).—The man who made the rods
used in BIBLING (_q.v._).
*Rogging*, _subs._ (Stonyhurst).—Brook-fishing.
*Roke*, _verb_ (Winchester).—To stir: as a fire, a liquid, &c.
1375. _Percival_ [HALLIWELL]. Were they wighte, were they woke, Alle
that he tille stroke He made their bodies to ROKE.
1383. CHAUCER, _Canterbury Tales_. Yet in our ashen cold is fyr
i-REKE.
1847. HALLIWELL, _Arch. Words_, s.v. ROKE.... To shake; to roll ... to
stir liquids.
*Roker*, _subs._ (Winchester).—A ruler; a stick; a poker. _See_
ROKE. FLAT-ROKER = a flat ruler.
*Roll*, _subs._ (Winchester).—A list of names.
_c._ 1840. MANSFIELD, _School-Life at Winchester_ (1866), 230. The
ROLL _par excellence_ is the list of the boys who have passed their
examination for New College, and of those who are to come in to
Winchester. There is also a ROLL printed every November, which
contains the name of every one connected with the School, from the
Warden to the Choristers. The lists from which the Præfects of Hall
and Chapel called names; the papers on which the names of the
absentees on such occasions were written; the papers on which were
written the “Standing up”; the lists of the boys who had leave out on
a Saints’ day; the papers put on the Master’s desk when boys wished to
go out of school; those handed to the Master at the close of School by
the Bible-Clerk or Ostiarius with the names of the delinquents, and
many other similar papers, were all called ROLLS.
TO HAVE A ROLL ON, _verb. phr._ (Shrewsbury).—_See_ quot.
1877. PASCOE, _Every-day Life, &c._ Anything approaching swagger is
severely rebuked; there is no more objectionable quality than that
understood by the expression “He’s got such a horrid ROLL ON.”
TO ROLL IN, _verb. phr._ (Harrow: obs.).—_See_ quot.
1867. COLLINS, _The Public Schools_, 316. Another ancient barbarism
survived even long after Butler’s accession. There were in the
head-master’s house two public rooms for the use of his boarders—the
hall and the play-room. The latter was open to all, but the hall was
regarded as a sort of club-room, which no boy was allowed to enter,
except at dinner and supper time, until he had become a member by
being ROLLED-IN. Any one who desired the privilege of admission (and
none below the upper fifth were eligible), gave in his name to the
head-boy some days beforehand, in order that due preparations might be
made for the inauguration. Immediately a certain number of rolls
(_finds_ they were called—etymology unknown) were ordered at the
baker’s, and rebaked every morning until they were pretty nearly as
hard as pebbles. At nine o’clock on the morning fixed for the
ROLLING-IN, the members of the hall ranged themselves on the long
table which ran along one side of the room, each with his pile of
these rolls before him, and a fag to pick them up. The candidate
knelt, facing them, on a form close against the opposite wall, with
his head resting on his hands, so as to guard the face, while they
held, as well as they could, a plate on the top of the head by way of
helmet. Thus protected, the head itself formed a mark for the very
peculiar missiles which were ready to be aimed. When all was ready, a
time-keeper, watch in hand, gave the word—“Now!” when fast and
furiously—and very spitefully, if the boy was unpopular—the rolls were
showered upon the devoted head for the space of one minute, neither
more nor less. Such protection as the plate gave was soon lost by its
being broken to pieces. It was, as may be imagined, a very severe
ordeal, the bruises being very painful for weeks afterwards.
*Roller*, _subs._ (Oxford).—A roll-call.
*Room*, _subs._ (Stonyhurst).—In Stonyhurst nomenclature, ROOM
as a place-name is modern. _See_ DUCHESS’ ROOMS, DUKE’S
ROOM, PLACE, &c.
*Roosh*, _verb_ (Harrow).—To rush about.
*Roost*, _verb_ (Derby).—To kick hard: at football. [? Root.]
*Root-about*, _subs._ (The Leys).—Promiscuous football practice.
Also as _verb_.
*Ropes*, _subs._ (general).—A half-back at football.
*Rorke* (or *Rawk*), _subs._ (Tonbridge).—A navvy. [? Latin
_raucus_. _Cf._ RORKER.]
*Rorker*, _subs._ (Derby).—A street boy; a cad. [? Latin
_raucus_. _Cf._ RORKE.]
*Rosh* (or *Roush*), _verb_ (Royal Military Academy).—To bustle;
to horseplay. Hence STOP ROUSHING! = an injunction to
silence.
*Rotten.* _See_ Appendix.
*Rotter*, _subs._ (Tonbridge).—A boy who shirks his fair share:
at games, &c.; a _fainéant_.
*Rouge*, _subs._ (Eton).—A point in the Eton game of football: 3
ROUGES = 1 goal. _Cf._ SCROUGE.
_Verb_ (Felsted).—To “rag”; to “scrag.” See _subs._
1895. _Felstedian_, April, pp. 43-4. “Vic” ... entirely baffles me,
and so does the expression TO ROUGE; but the fact that it occurs in
the early numbers of the _Felstedian_—“we won the game by one goal,
three ROUGES”—points to its origin.
*Round-Othello*, _subs._ (The Leys). A Leysian tuck-shop
delicacy.
*Roush*, _subs._ (Winchester).—1. A rush, or charge: as by a
man, a beast, or by water.
*Rowing-man*, _subs._ (University).—A spreester; a loose fish.
[“Row” as in “bough.”]
*Rows*, _subs._ (Winchester).—The fixed benches at each end of
School: called respectively Senior, Middle, and Junior ROW.
*Rowsterer*, _subs._ (Derby).—A cad.
*Ruck.* TO RUCK ALONG, _verb. phr._ (Oxford).—To walk quickly.
*Rudiments*, _subs._ (Stonyhurst).—The Third Form.
*Rug*, _subs._ (Rugby).—A Rugbeian.
1892. _Evening Standard_, 25th Nov. 4, 5. The controversy was started
by the death of one who succumbed to his exertions. “An Old Medical
RUG” describes the sufferings he endured.
*Rugger*, _subs._ (general).—Football: the Rugby game.
1896. _Tonbridgian_, No. 339, 1124. At St. John’s, Sells has developed
into a good RUGGER half, Pinching is one of the best forwards, and
also plays Socker for the College at times.
1897. _Felstedian_, Nov., p. 194. As regards RUGGER the ’Varsity team
have been somewhat under-rated.
*Run.* TO RUN CLOISTERS, _verb. phr._ (Winchester).—A boy was
said TO RUN CLOISTERS when he obtained his remove from
Junior Part to Senior Part at the end of CLOISTER-TIME (a
period of ten or twelve weeks at the end of Long Half).
*Run.* _See_ RACE.
*Runabout*, _subs._ (Charterhouse).—An irregular form of
football: formerly called COMPULSORY.
*Running-stone*, _subs._ (Stonyhurst).—A stone set at a distance
from the CRICKET-STONE (_q.v._), to and from which a batsman
ran when making a score. _See_ STONYHURST-CRICKET.
1885. _Stonyhurst Mag._, ii. 85. The distance from the Cricket-stone
to the RUNNING-STONE to be twenty-seven yards.
*Rusticate*, _verb_ (common).—To send away a student for a time
from a College or University by way of punishment; to SHIP
(_q.v._). Hence RUSTICATION.
1714. _Spectator_, No. 596. After this I was deeply in love with a
milliner, and at last with my bedmaker, upon which I was sent away,
or, in the university phrase, RUSTICATED for ever.
1779. JOHNSON, _Life of Milton_, par. 12. It seems plain from his own
verses to _Diodati_, that he had incurred RUSTICATION; a temporary
dismission into the country, with perhaps the loss of a term.
1794. _Gent. Mag._, p. 1085. And was very near RUSTICATION [at
Cambridge], merely for kicking up a row after a beakering party.
1841. LEVER, _Charles O’Malley_, lxxix. You have totally forgotten me,
and the Dean informs me that you have never condescended a single line
to him, which latter enquiry on my part nearly cost me a
RUSTICATION.... Dear Cecil Cavendish, our gifted friend, slight of
limb and soft of voice, has been RUSTICATED for immersing four
bricklayers in that green receptacle of stagnant water and duckweed,
yclept the “Haha.”
1841. H. KINGSLEY, _Ravenshoe_, ch. viii. Non-university men sneer at
RUSTICATION; they can’t see any particular punishment in having to
absent yourself from your studies for a term or two.
1850. F. E. SMEDLEY, _Frank Fairlegh_, ch. xxx. Who, the landlord
tells me, has just been RUSTICATED for insulting Dr. Doublechin.
1853. BRADLEY, _Verdant Green_, iv. “The Master ... said as how Mr.
Bouncer had better go down into the country for a year, for change of
hair, and to visit his friends.” “Very kind indeed of Dr. Portman,”
said our hero, who missed the moral of the story, and took the
RUSTICATION for a kind forgiveness of injuries.
1885. _Daily Telegraph_, Oct. 29. Students who are liable at any
moment to be RUSTICATED.
*Saccer*, _subs._ (Harrow).—The Sacrament. _Cf._ SOCCER, RUGGER,
BREKKER, COLLECKER, &c.
*Salt*, _subs._ (Eton).—The gratuity exacted at the now obsolete
triennial festival of the MONTEM (_q.v._).
1886. BREWER, _Phrase and Fable_, s.v. SALT-HILL. At the Eton _Montem_
the captain of the school used to collect money from the visitors on
Montem day. Standing on a mound at Slough, he waved a flag, and
persons appointed for the purpose collected the donations. The mound
is still called SALT-HILL, and the money given was called SALT. The
word salt is similar to the Latin _sala’rium_ (salary), the pay given
to Roman soldiers and civil officers.
1890. SPEAKER, 22nd Feb., 210. 2. In lively but worldly fashion we go
to Eton, with its buried Montem, its “SALT! your majesty, SALT!” its
gin-twirley, and its jumping through paper fires in Long-Chamber.
*Salt-bearer*, _subs._ (Eton).—_See_ MONTEM.
*Samson*, _subs._ (Durham: obsolete).—A baked jam pudding.
*Sanderites* (Charterhouse).—The head-master’s house. [Dr.
Sanders was head-master 1832-53.]
*Sands*, _subs._ (Winchester).—The pavement on the north side of
Chapel in Chamber Court.
*Sandwich-boat.* _See_ BUMPING-RACE.
*Sap*, _subs._ (common).—A hard worker; a diligent student.
1827. LYTTON, _Pelham_, ch. ii. When I once attempted to read Pope’s
poems out of school hours, I was laughed at, and called a SAP.
1850. SMEDLEY, _Frank Fairlegh_, 117. After several fruitless attempts
to shake my determination, they pronounced me an incorrigible SAP, and
leaving me to my own devices, proceeded to try their powers upon
Oaklands.
1856. WHYTE-MELVILLE, _Kate Coventry_, ch. xvii. At school, if he
makes an effort at distinction in school-hours, he is stigmatised by
his comrades as a SAP.
1888. GOSCHEN, _Speech at Aberdeen_, Jan. 31. Remember the many
epithets applied to those who, not content with doing their work,
commit the heinous offence of being absorbed in it ... schools and
colleges ... have invented for this purpose, with that peculiar
felicity which attaches to schoolboy nomenclature, phrases,
semi-classical, or wholly vernacular, such as a “SAP,” a “smug,” a
“swot,” a “bloke,” a “mugster.”
_Verb._ To read or study hard; to sweat.
1848. C. KINGSLEY, _Yeast_, i. SAPPING and studying still.
1853. LYTTON, _My Novel_, Bk. I. ch. xii. He understands that he was
sent to school to learn his lessons, and he learns them. You call that
SAPPING—I call it doing his duty.
1856. Miss YONGE, _Daisy Chain_, ch. xii. “At it again!” exclaimed Dr.
May. “Carry it away, Ethel; I will have no Latin or Greek touched
these holidays.” “You know,” said Norman, “if I don’t SAP, I shall
have no chance of keeping up!”
1891. _Harry Fludyer at Cambridge_, 46. I ... haven’t to go SAPPING
round to get it when I want my own tea.
*Sappy*, _adj._ (Durham).—Severe: of a caning.
*Sark*, _verb_ (Sherborne).—To sulk.
*Saturday-nighter*, _subs._ (Harrow).—An exercise set for
Saturday night: usually an essay, map, or poem.
*Scadger*, _subs._ (Winchester: obsolete).—A scamp; a rascal.
Now a general colloquialism.
*Scaff*, _subs._ (Christ’s Hospital).—A selfish fellow. [The
adjectival forms are SCALY and SCABBY, whence may be the
derivation.] Obsolete: _see_ SCOUSE.
*Scaldings*, _intj._ (Winchester).—A general injunction to be
gone; “Be off!”
*Scan and Prove* (Harrow).—_See_ UPPER SCHOOL.
*Scheme*, _subs._ (Winchester).—An alarum worked by a candle.
_See_ quot.
1891. WRENCH, _Winchester Word-Book_, s.v. SCHEME.... The candle on
reaching a measured point ignites paper, which by burning a string
releases a weight: this falls on the head of the boy to be waked.
*Schitt*, _subs._ (Winchester: obsolete).—A goal: at football.
_See_ GOWNER.
1891. WRENCH, _Winchester Word-Book_, s.v. SCHITT.... This was the
word in general use till 1860, when it was superseded by “goal.” In
early Winchester football there seems to have been three methods of
scoring—a _goal_, a _gowner_, a SCHITT, worth respectively 3, 2, and
1. The last behind stood between two gowns, which made a goal. The
ball passing over his head or between his legs scored three, over the
gowns two, over the rest of “worms” one. When the whole of “worms” was
made to count equally, every goal was a SCHITT.
*Schol*, _subs._ (Harrow).—(1) A scholar; and (2) a scholarship.
*School-stock*, _subs._ (Harrow).—The old books kept by the
school.
*School-twelve*, _subs._ (Harrow).—The twelve who take a leading
part at the concert.
*Scob* (or *Scobb*), _subs._ (Winchester).—_See_ quots.
1620. _Account_ [to J. Hutton at his entrance into the College]. For a
SCOBB to hold his books, 3s. 6d.
1890. GRANT ALLEN, _Tents of Shem_, xlii. Parker’s SCOB was 220. SCOB
was box in Winchester slang.
1891. WRENCH, _Winchester Word-Book_, s.v. SCOB.... An oak box with a
double lid, set at the angles of the squares of wooden benches in
school. It is used as desk and book-case.... Probably the word has
been transferred from the bench itself, and comes from Fr. _Escabeau_.
Lat. _Scabellum_.
*Sconce*, _verb_. 1. (University: once common).—To fine; to
deduct by way of fine; to discontinue. Also as _subs._
Whence TO BUILD A SCONCE = to run up a score (as at an
alehouse, or of fines).
1632. SHIRLEY, _Witty Fair One_, iv. sc. 2. College! I have had a head
in most of the butteries of Cambridge, and it has been SCONCED to
purpose.
_c._ 1640. [SHIRLEY] _Captain Underwit_ [BULLEN, _Old Plays_, ii.
323]. _Tho._ I can teach you to build a SCONCE, sir.
1696. B. E., _Dict. Cant. Crew_, s.v. SCONCE. To build a large SCONCE,
to run deep upon tick or trust.
1730. JAS. MILLER, _Humours of Oxford_, i. p. 9 (2nd ed.). No, no, my
dear, I understand more manners than to leave my friends to go to
church—no, tho’ they SCONCE me a fortnight’s commons, I’ll not do it.
1748. T. DYCHE, _Dictionary_ (5th ed.). SCONCE (v.) ... also a cant
word for running up a score at an alehouse or tavern.
1760. JOHNSTON, _Chrysal_, ch. xxviii. [COOKE’S ed., N.D.]. These
youths have been playing a small game, cribbing from the till, and
building SCONCES, and such like tricks that there was no taking hold
of.
1765. GOLDSMITH, _Essays_, viii. He ran into debt with everybody that
would trust him, and none could build a SCONCE better than he.
1768. FOOTE, _Devil upon Two Sticks_, ii. 1. She paid my bill the next
day without SCONCING off sixpence.
1821. _The Etonian_, ii. 391. Was SCONCED in a quart of ale for
quoting Latin, a passage from Juvenal; murmured, and the fine was
doubled.
1823. BEE, SLANG DICT., s.v. SCONCE ... To discontinue: as SCONCE his
diet = give less victuals. SCONCE the reckoning = to go no further in
debt, but bolt.
1847. HALLIWELL, _Archaic Words_, s.v. SCONCE.... “To SCONCE, to eat
more than another, _Winton_; to SCONCE, to impose a pecuniary mulct,
_Oxon._,” Kennett, MS. To SCONCE at Oxford, was to put a person’s name
in the College buttery books by way of fine.
1864. HOTTEN, _Slang Dict._, s.v. SCONCE. The Dons fined or SCONCED
for small offences; _e.g._ five shillings for wearing a coloured coat
in hall at dinner-time. Among undergrads, a pun, or an oath, or an
indecent remark, was SCONCED by the head of the table. If the offender
could, however, floor the tankard of beer which he was SCONCED, he
could retort on his SCONCER to the extent of twice the amount he was
SCONCED in.
1883. H. T. ELLACOMBE [_Notes and Queries_, 6 S., viii. 326]. Men were
SCONCED if accidentally they appeared in hall undressed. I think the
SCONCE was a quantity of beer to the scouts. The SCONCE-table was hung
up in the buttery.
1899. _Answers_, 14th Jan., i. 1. The average freshman is not very
long at Oxford before he is acquainted with the mysteries of SCONCING.
A SCONCE is a fine of a quart of ale, in which the unlucky fresher is
mulcted for various offences in Hall.
1899. _Public School Mag._, Dec., p. 476. Opponents who get in each
other’s way and “SCONCE” the “kicks.”
2. (Winchester).—To hinder; to get in the way: as of a kick
at football, a catch at cricket, &c.: _e.g._ “If you had not
SCONCED, I should have made a flyer!”
*Scourge*, _subs._ (Winchester: obsolete).—To flog. Whence
SCOURGING = a flogging of three strokes. _See_ SCRUBBING and
TUND.
1883. TROLLOPE, _What I Remember_.... The words “flog” or “flogging,”
it is to be observed, were never heard among us, in the mouth either
of the masters or the boys. We were SCOURGED.
*Scout*, _subs._ (Oxford).—A College servant: combining the
duties of valet, waiter, messenger, &c.
1750. _The Student_, i. 55. My SCOUT indeed is a very learned fellow.
1853. BRADLEY, _Verdant Green_, iii. Infatuated Mr. Green! If you
could have foreseen that those spoons and forks would have soon
passed—by a mysterious system of loss which undergraduate powers can
never fathom—into the property of Mr. Robert Filcher, the excellent,
though occasionally erratic, SCOUT of your beloved son ... you would
have been content to have let your son and heir represent the
ancestral wealth by any sham that would equally well have served his
purpose!
1884. JULIAN STURGIS in _Longmans’ Mag._, v. 65. The old don went back
to his chair, and ... thrust the bits into the waste-paper basket, as
his “SCOUT” came in with a note.
*Scrape out*, _verb_ (Winchester).—When a Præfect wished to go
out of School, he SCRAPED with his foot till he got a nod
from the Master.—MANSFIELD (_c._ 1840).
*Scrub*, _verb_ (Christ’s Hospital).—To write fast: _e.g._
“SCRUB it down.” Also as _subs._ = handwriting. [Lat.
_scribere_.] _See_ STRIVE.
*Scrubbing*, _subs._ (Winchester: obsolete).—A flogging: four
strokes at SCRUBBING-FORMS. _See_ SCOURGE.
_c._ 1840. MANSFIELD, _School-Life at Winchester_ (1866), 109. The
ordinary punishment consisted of four cuts, and was called “A
SCRUBBING.” The individual who was to be punished was told “to order
his name,” which he did by going to the Ostiarius, and requesting him
to do so; that officer accordingly, at the end of school time, would
take his name to the Master, who would then call it out, and the
victim had to kneel down at Senior row, while two Juniors laid bare
the regulation space of his back. The first time a boy’s name was
ordered, the punishment was remitted on his pleading “_Primum
tempus_.” For a more serious breach of duty, a flogging of six cuts (a
“Bibler”) was administered, in which case the culprit had to “order
his name to the Bible-Clerk,” and that individual, with the help of
Ostiarius, performed the office of Jack Ketch. If a boy was detected
in a lie, or any very disgraceful proceeding—a rare occurrence, I am
happy to say—he had to stand up in the centre of Junior row during the
whole of the school time, immediately preceding the infliction of the
flogging; this pillory process was called a “Bibler under the nail.” I
have also heard, that for a very heinous offence, a boy might be
punished in Sixth Chamber, in which case the number of stripes was not
limited; but I never knew an instance of this.
1864. _Blackwood’s Magazine_, vol. xcv., p. 79. Underneath is the
place of execution, where delinquents are BIBLED. _Ibid._, p. 72. It
need hardly be said that it [the rod] is applied in the ordinary
fashion: six cuts forming what is technically called a BIBLING—on
which occasions the Bible-Clerk introduces the victim; four being the
sum of a less terrible operation called a SCRUBBING.
1891. WRENCH, _Winchester Word-Book_, s.v. SCRUBBING.... According to
T. A. Trollope, the word in use in his day was SCOURGING: this,
however, he describes as of three strokes: he does not mention
“bibling.” He was in College 1820-28.
*Scrutiny*, _subs._ (Winchester: obsolete).—_See_ quot.
1867. COLLINS, _The Public Schools_, p. 62. The Oxford visitors, on
their arrival, proceed at once to “Election Chamber” to hear any
complaints which the boys may have to prefer. This is called the
SCRUTINY, the seven senior prefects, and the seven juniors in chambers
(one from each chamber), are separately questioned; but complaints are
seldom made. Next morning the examination for election of scholars to
New College begins—no longer in the renowned “Election Chamber”
itself, but in the long “Warden Gallery,” as more convenient for the
purpose; all prefects who are of standing to leave the school are
examined with any other who choose.
1891. WRENCH, _Winchester Word-Book_, s.v. SCRUTINY. An examination of
the seven Seniors and seven Juniors in College, on the subject of
their personal comfort, &c., in College. There were two SCRUTINEES in
the year; one conducted by the Warden of New College and Posers in
Election Week, the other by the Wardens and Fellows of Winchester in
Sealing Week.
*Scud*, _subs._ (Rugby).—A runner.
1856. HUGHES, _Tom Brown’s School-days_, v. “I say,” said East, as he
got his wind, looking with much increased respect at Tom, “you ain’t a
bad SCUD, not by no means. Well, I’m as warm as a toast now.”
*Scull*, _subs._ (University).—The head (or master) of a
College.
1864. HOTTEN, _Slang Dict._, s.v. SCULL. The head, or master of a
college: nearly obsolete; the gallery, however, in St. Mary’s (the
Oxford University church), where the “Heads of Houses” sit in solemn
state, is still nicknamed the “Golgotha” by the undergraduates.
*Scull-race*, _subs._ (University).—A University Examination.
*Scuttle*, _verb_ (Christ’s Hospital, Hertford).—To cry out
under oppression with a view to attracting the notice of one
in authority. Hence SCUTTLE-CAT = one who SCUTTLES.
Obsolete.
*Second-bounce*, _subs._ (Stonyhurst: obsolete).—A kind of
handball once very popular.
*Second-bowler*, subs. (Stonyhurst).—A wicket-keeper. _See_
STONYHURST-CRICKET.
*Second-Elevens*, _subs._ (Harrow).—(1) A match, at football,
for practice: between two Houses, not as a HOUSE-MATCH
(_q.v._). Also (2) a match, at cricket, between any Eleven
from two Houses, save CAPS (_q.v._) and those in a regular
game. Also SECONDERS.
*Second-examen*, _subs._ (Stonyhurst).—A punishment for great
carelessness in study during a term: _e.g._ I’ve got
SECOND-EXAM.
*Second-guarder.* _See_ GUARDER.
*Second-peal.* _See_ PEAL.
*Semi-bejan*, _subs._ (Aberdeen).—A student in the second class.
*Semper*, _adj._ (Winchester).—Always: _e.g._ I have got SEMPER
leave-out. _See_ Appendix.
_c._ 1840. MANSFIELD, _School-Life at Winchester_ (1866), 233. A very
common prefix; _e.g._ a boy was said to be SEMPER Continent, Tardy, or
Ex Trumps if he was often at Sick-house, or late for Chapel, or
habitually went up to Books without having looked at his lessons. An
official who was always present at the College meetings went by the
name of SEMPER TESTIS.
*Send.* TO SEND DOWN, _verb. phr._ (University).—To expel; to
rusticate. _See_ GO DOWN.
1891. _Harry Fludyer at Cambridge_, 89. Next day they were hauled and
SENT DOWN.
1891. _Felstedian_, April, p. 32. They SENT him down for two terms for
smashing a shop window.
TO SEND UP, _verb. phr._ (Harrow).—(1) To send up to the
head-master for some offence. Also (2) of an exercise sent
up to the head-master as “very good.”
*Senior.* _See_ JUNIOR.
*Senior Hall* (Shrewsbury).—_See_ quot.
1867. COLLINS, _The Public Schools_, p. 246. The boarders reside
chiefly either in the head-master’s house, or SENIOR HALL, as it is
called, or in a house adjoining rented by him, and called the “Junior
Hall.” The second-master also has a “Hall,” which will accommodate
about twenty. But the buildings are old, in many cases badly adapted
for their present use, and have either been purchased, built, or
rented from time to time by the head-master as the numbers of the
school required.
*Senior Part*, _subs._ (Winchester).—_See_ BOOKS.
_c._ 1840. MANSFIELD, _School-Life at Winchester_ (1866), 233. SENIOR
PART, THE FIFTH—The part next below the Præfects, generally called
SENIOR PART.
1900. _St. James’s Gazette_, Mar. 15, “Arnoldiana.” One day they were
both invited to breakfast by the Head, in the company of a “stupid
boy” from SENIOR PART.
*Senior Soph.* _See_ SOPH.
*Servant*, _subs._ (Eton).—_See_ MONTEM.
*Servitor*, _subs._ (old).—_See_ SIZER.
*Seventh-chamber*, _subs._ (Winchester).—_See_ quot.
1867. COLLINS, _The Public Schools_, p. 23. The schoolroom was still
SEVENTH-CHAMBER—_Magna illa domus_, as the founder’s directions call
it—though, as some of the commoners must have been taught together
with the scholars, it is difficult to understand how so many could
have found room there without great confusion.
*Shack*, _subs._ (Felsted).—A share. Whence TO GO SHACK = to
give a share.
*Shadow*, _subs._ (Westminster).—_See_ quot.
1867. COLLINS, _The Public Schools_, 187. When a boy is first placed
in the school he is attached to another boy in the same form something
in the relation of an apprentice. The new boy is called the “SHADOW,”
the other, the “Substance.” For the first week the SHADOW follows the
Substance everywhere, takes his place next to him in class,
accompanies him as he rises or falls, and is exempt from any
responsibility for his own mistakes in or out of school. During this
interval of indulgence, his patron is expected to initiate him in all
the work of the school, to see that he is provided with the necessary
books and other appliances, and, in short, to teach him by degrees to
enter upon a substantial and responsible existence of his own.
*She*, _subs._ (Charterhouse).—A plum-pudding. _Cf._ HE.
*Sheep*, _subs._ (Aberdeen).—A second classman or undergraduate.
1865. MACDONALD, _Alec Forbes_, ii. 5. At length a certain semi
(second-classman, or more popularly SHEEP) stood up to give his
opinion on some subject in dispute.
*Sheepskin*, subs. (University).—The diploma received on taking
a degree. [Because inscribed on parchment.] Hence a person
who has taken a degree.
*Shell*, _subs._ (originally Westminster).—_See_ quot.
1867. COLLINS, _The Public Schools_, 178. At the end of this room [the
school-room] there is a kind of semicircular apse, in which the SHELL
form were formerly taught, and the shape of which is said to have
given rise to this name, since adopted at several other public
schools.
*Shepherd*, subs. (Harrow).—Every sixth boy in CRICKET-BILL
(_q.v._): he answers for the five below him being present.
*Shield* (The), _subs._ (Harrow).—The Ashburton Shield: shot for
at Bisley by Public School Eights.
*Shig*, _subs._ (Winchester).—A shilling.—MANSFIELD (_c._ 1840).
*Shimmy*, _subs._ (Felsted: obsolete).—A shirt.
*Shin*, _verb_ (Eton).—To kick on the shins.
1864. _Eton School-days_, xiii. He could not go out of his tutor’s if
there happened to be any one in the yard without some one throwing a
stone at him, or hissing, or SHINNING him if he passed near enough.
*Ship*, _verb._ 1. (Sherborne).—To turn a boy out of bed with
his mattress on top of him. _Cf._ LAUNCH.