The Public School Word-book / A conribution to to a historical glossary of words phrases and turns of expression obsolete and in current use peculiar to our great public schools together with some that have been or are modish at the universities

by John Stephen Farmer

1893. Felstedian, July, p. 82. All right; it’s only a HOT. Did you hear what we did in our dormy last night?

1895. Felstedian, April, p. 44. Hots—“Hots” and “half-hots” very evidently “burn a hole in one’s pocket” if they are left there long enough.

Hot-tiger, subs. (Oxford: obsolete).—Hot-spiced ale and sherry.

Hound, subs. (Cambridge).—See quot.

1879. E. Walford, in Notes and Queries, 5 S., xii. 88. In the Anecdotes of Bowyer ... we are told that a HOUND of King’s College, Cambridge, is an undergraduate not on the foundation, nearly the same as a “sizar.”

House-captain, subs. (The Leys).—A boy, not in studies, responsible for order in House-room.

House-game, subs. (Harrow).—A game—football or cricket—in which the whole House play.

House-list, subs. (Harrow).—The printed list, in Bill (q.v.) order, of each House.

House-room, subs. (The Leys).—The Common Room of boys below VI^th who have no studies.

House-singing, subs. (Harrow).—An informal concert at which school songs are sung collectively: held once a fortnight except in summer.