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

Make, verb (Winchester).—1. To appropriate.

c. 1840. Mansfield, School-Life, 46. In the matter of certain articles ... supplied by the College, we used to put a liberal interpretation on the eighth commandment, ... and it was considered fair to MAKE them if you could.

2. To appoint Præfect.

Man, subs. (general).—A student: almost universal in School phraseology instead of “boy.”

1811. Lex. Bal., s.v. Man (Cambridge). Any undergraduate from fifteen to thirty. As, a MAN of Emanuel—a young member of Emanuel.

1853. Bradley, Verdant Green, iii. The thought that he was going to be an Oxford MAN fortunately assisted him in the preservation of that tranquil dignity and careless ease which he considered to be the necessary adjuncts of the manly character ... and Mr. Verdant Green was enabled to say “Good-bye” with a firm voice and undimmed spectacles.

See Wise Men of the East.

Marker, subs. (Cambridge).—A person employed to walk up and down chapel during a part of the service, pricking off the names of the students present.

1849. Blackwood’s Mag., May. His name pricked off upon the MARKER’S roll, No twinge of conscience racks his easy soul.

Master, subs. (Winchester: obsolete).—A title: of rustics, bargees, &c.