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

Univ, subs. (Oxford).—University College.

Up, adv. (Harrow).—In school. To be up to any one at second school = to go to any one for work at 10 or 11 o’clock.

Upper Club (Eton).—See Playing-fields.

Upper (Middle, or Under) Fire, subs. (Westminster).—The three fire-places, under former arrangements, in the present dormitory.

Upper School, subs. (Harrow).—In 1770 (the first year of the printed Bills (q.v.) of the school) the school comprised the monitors—their numbers varied from four to ten—the Fifth Form, the Shell, and the Fourth and Third Forms: these ranked as the UPPER SCHOOL. The UNDER SCHOOL was divided in a very peculiar fashion; there was first the “Scan and Prove” class, then the “Ovid,” the “Phædrus,” the “Upper Selectæ,” “Under Selectæ,” “Nomenclature,” “Grammar,” and “Accidence.”... At present there are, besides the monitors (fifteen in number), an Upper and Lower Sixth, three separate divisions of the Fifth, two “Removes,” three “Shells,” and three Fourths. On the Modern Side are one Sixth, three Fifths, one “Remove,” three Shells, and three Fourths.

Upper Selectæ (Harrow).—See Upper School.

Upper Sixpenny (Eton).—See Playing-fields.

Uskites (Charterhouse).—See Out-houses.

Vac, subs. (University).—Vacation.