Travelling-scholarship (or Fellowship), subs. (University).—Rustication (q.v.).
Treacle-bolly, subs. (Marlborough). A walk by the Kennett close to the College. [So called from the cottage of a miller so nick-named.]
Tree of Knowledge, The (Charterhouse).—The tree under which books, &c., are piled in the interval between second school and dinner (say 12.30 to 1.15), while run-about in winter and cricket-nets or position drill in summer is engaged in.
Treer, subs. (Durham: obsolete).—A boy who avoids organised games, but plays a private game with one or two friends. [Presumably because played by the trees at the side of the ground.]
Trek, verb (Durham).—To run.
Trencher, subs. 1. (Winchester).—A square wooden platter: in use in College.
2. (general).—A college cap; a Mortar-board (q.v.).
Trial, subs. (Harrow).—An examination. Whence Trials = the examinations at the end of the summer and winter terms.
Tribune, subs. (Winchester: obsolete).—A large pew in ante-chapel: reserved for ladies.
Tripos, subs. (Cambridge).—A word dating from the sixteenth century, and used successively in a number of different senses. At first it was applied to the stool on which the champion of the University sat at the disputations held at the admission of Bachelors of Arts to their degree; then it was transferred to the Bachelor himself; still later to the humorous, or, in some cases, scurrilous, speech with which “Mr. Tripos” opened the proceedings, and to the verses of the Bachelors at the Acts. The honours-lists were printed (about 1847-8) on the backs of these verses, and so tripos came to mean an honour-list, and, last of all, the examination itself. Until the year 1824 there was only one tripos, the Mathematical; and up to 1850 only those who had obtained honours in mathematics were admitted to the Classical examination. The degree was not given for that examination till a few years later.