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

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.