Course, subs. (Winchester).—Duty: in rota. In course = on duty. [Course-keeper (obsolete) = a Commoner who drew up a table of fagging duties.—Wrench.]
c. 1840. Mansfield, School-Life at Winchester, 206. Course-keeper, an office in the patronage of the Commoner Præfects, the duties of which were principally connected with the organisation of the fagging department. He was required to have been three years in the school, to be of reasonable bodily strength, and in Middle Part. His privileges were numerous, the principal being that he was allowed to fag. When he ascended into Senior Part his duties ceased, but his privileges remained; he was then called EX-COURSE-KEEPER.
Court, The (Stonyhurst).—The quadrangle behind the College Towers; now more commonly called the Quadrangle. [“Quadrangle” was one of the names which puzzled the Claimant in the famous Tichborne Trial. Cf. Times reports; also Stonyhurst Magazine, vol. i. p. 294, and vol. ii. p. 317.]
Courts, subs. (Sherborne).—The school quadrangles: the earliest known use of the term is at the end of the sixteenth century.
Cowshed, subs. (Christ’s Hospital). See Appendix.
c. 1890. More Gleanings from The Blue, 84. Time was when it was looked upon as a sacred duty on the first Sunday of each term to introduce Hertford boys to those three stones in the Ditch which represent the toffee man, to show them his six little children, his brush and comb, his windmill, and whatsoever else belonging to him the imaginative youth can discern in the bare stones under the COWSHED, as it is called. Those “sermons in stones” belonged essentially to Sunday.
Cow-shooter, subs. (Winchester: obsolete).—A “deer-stalker” hat: worn by Præfects and Candle-keepers (q.v.).
Coxy, adj. (general).—Stuck up; conceited; impudent. [Coxy = conceited (Warwickshire).—Halliwell.]
1856. Hughes, Tom Brown’s School-days, p. 202. He’s the COXIEST young blackguard in the house—I always told you so. Ibid., p. 214. “Confoundedly COXY those young rascals will get if we don’t mind,” was the general feeling.
1882. F. Anstey, Vice Versâ, ch. iv. “Now then, young Bultitude, you used to be a decent fellow enough last term, though you were COXY. So, before we go any further—what do you mean by this sort of thing?”