Servant, subs. (Eton).—See Montem.
Servitor, subs. (old).—See Sizer.
Seventh-chamber, subs. (Winchester).—See quot.
1867. Collins, The Public Schools, p. 23. The schoolroom was still SEVENTH-CHAMBER—Magna illa domus, as the founder’s directions call it—though, as some of the commoners must have been taught together with the scholars, it is difficult to understand how so many could have found room there without great confusion.
Shack, subs. (Felsted).—A share. Whence TO GO SHACK = to give a share.
Shadow, subs. (Westminster).—See quot.
1867. Collins, The Public Schools, 187. When a boy is first placed in the school he is attached to another boy in the same form something in the relation of an apprentice. The new boy is called the “SHADOW,” the other, the “Substance.” For the first week the SHADOW follows the Substance everywhere, takes his place next to him in class, accompanies him as he rises or falls, and is exempt from any responsibility for his own mistakes in or out of school. During this interval of indulgence, his patron is expected to initiate him in all the work of the school, to see that he is provided with the necessary books and other appliances, and, in short, to teach him by degrees to enter upon a substantial and responsible existence of his own.
She, subs. (Charterhouse).—A plum-pudding. Cf. He.
Sheep, subs. (Aberdeen).—A second classman or undergraduate.
1865. Macdonald, Alec Forbes, ii. 5. At length a certain semi (second-classman, or more popularly SHEEP) stood up to give his opinion on some subject in dispute.