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

Team, subs. (University).—The pupils of a private tutor or coach.

Teddy-hall, subs. (Oxford).—St. Edmund’s Hall.

Teejay (or Tege), subs. (Winchester).—A new-comer under the charge of an older scholar, who also instructs him in NOTIONS (q.v.). Also as verb. [That is, Protégé.]

Teek, subs. (Harrow).—Mathematics. See Tique.

Temple, subs. (Winchester).—A niche in Mead’s Wall.

1881. Pascoe, Everyday Life in our Public Schools.... On the last night of term there is a bonfire in Ball Court, and all the TEMPLES or miniature architectural excavations in Mead’s Wall are lighted up with candle-ends.

Ten-o’clock Recreation, subs. phr. (Stonyhurst).—Still keeps its name, though now for some years it comes nearly an hour later.

Tepe, verb (Durham: obsolete).—To smoke: a lane near School was called Tepe Lane.

Terrace, The (Harrow).—The terrace below the chapel, towards the Footer-fields.

Tertian, subs. (Aberdeen).—A student in the third class.