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

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.