Tosh-soap, subs. (Charterhouse).—Cheese.
T’other-school, subs. (Winchester).—(1) One’s former school; and (2) any school not a Public School. Also as adj. = NON-LICET (q.v.), or unbecoming: because more or less alien to Winchester.
T’other-un, subs. (Charterhouse).—A private school.
Touch. To touch in, verb. phr. (Stonyhurst).—To reach one’s block: of a batsman when running. See Stonyhurst-cricket. [According to the Rules, “The TOUCHING-IN line is within a bat’s length of the CRICKET-STONE” (q.v.).]
Touchy, adv. (Christ’s Hospital).—Rather: e.g. TOUCHY a lux = rather a good thing.
Tow, subs. (Shrewsbury).—A run in: at hare and hounds.
1881. Pascoe, Everyday Life at our Public Schools.... After that last “all up,” there is a TOW or continuous run of from one to three miles.
Town and Gown, sub. phr. (University).—The townsmen v. the members of the University. [In her young days the position of the University was one of perpetual conflict—with the town, the Jews, the Friars, and the Papal Court.]
1853. Bradley, Verdant Green, II. iii. Town and gown disturbances are of considerable antiquity. Fuller and Matthew Paris give accounts of some which occurred as early as the year 1238. These disputes not unfrequently terminated fatally to some of the combatants. One of the most serious TOWN AND GOWN rows on record took place on the day of St. Scholastica the Virgin, February 10, 1345, when several lives were lost on either side. The University was at that time in the Lincoln diocese; and Grostête, the bishop, placed the townspeople under an interdict, from which they were not released till 1357, and then only on condition that the mayor and sixty of the chief burgesses should on every anniversary of the day of St. Scholastica, attend St. Mary’s Church and offer up mass for the soul of the slain scholars, and should also individually present an offering of one penny at the high altar. They, moreover, paid a yearly fine of 100 marks to the University, with the penalty of an additional fine of the same sum for every omission in attending at St. Mary’s. This continued up to the time of the Reformation, when it gradually fell into abeyance. In the fifteenth year of Elizabeth, however, the University asserted their claim to all arrears. The matter being brought to trial, it was decided that the town should continue the annual fine and penance, though the arrears were forgiven. The fine was yearly paid on the 10th of February up to our own time; the mayor and chief burgesses attended at St. Mary’s and made the offering at the conclusion of the litany, which, on that occasion, was read from the altar. This was at length put an end to by Convocation in the year 1825.
1899. Heywood, Guide to Oxford. The TOWN AND GOWN rows, as occasions for displays of physical force, lasted until quite recent times, as readers of Verdant Green and Tom Brown at Oxford will know. Nowadays, however, they are happily unknown.