THIRD-YEAR MEN. In the University of Cambridge, Eng., the title of
Third-Year Men, or Senior Sophs or Sophisters, is given to
students during the third year of their residence at the
University.
THUNDERING BOLUS. See INTONITANS BOLUS.
TICK. A recitation made by one who does not know of what he is talking.
Ticks, screws, and deads were all put under contribution.—A Tour through College, Boston, 1832, p. 25.
TICKER. One who recites without knowing what he is talking about; one entirely independent of any book-knowledge.
If any "Ticker" dare to look
A stealthy moment on his book.
Harvardiana, Vol. III. p. 123.
TICKING. The act of reciting without knowing anything about the lesson.
And what with ticking, screwing, and deading, am candidate for a piece of parchment to-morrow.—Harv. Reg., p. 194.
TIGHT. A common slang term among students; the comparative, of which drunk is the superlative.
Some twenty of as jolly chaps as e'er got jolly tight.
Poem before Y.H., 1849.