GULF. In the University of Cambridge, Eng., one who obtains the degree of B.A., but has not his name inserted in the Calendar, is said to be in the _gulf_. He now begins to ... be anxious about ... that classical acquaintance who is in danger of the _gulf_.--_Bristed's Five Years in an Eng. Univ._, Ed. 2d, p. 95. Some ten or fifteen men just on the line, not bad enough to be plucked or good enough to be placed, are put into the "_gulf_," as it is popularly called (the Examiners' phrase is "Degrees allowed"), and have their degrees given them, but are not printed in the Calendar.--_Ibid._, p. 205. GULFING. In the University of Cambridge, England, "those candidates for B.A. who, but for sickness or some other sufficient cause, might have obtained an honor, have their degree given them without examination, and thus avoid having their names inserted in the lists. This is called _Gulfing_." A degree taken in this manner is called "an Ægrotat Degree."--_Alma Mater_, Vol. II. pp. 60, 105. I discovered that my name was nowhere to be found,--that I was _Gulfed_.--_Ibid._, Vol. II. p. 97. GUM. A trick; a deception. In use at Dartmouth College. _Gum_ is another word they have here. It means something like chaw. To say, "It's all a _gum_," or "a regular chaw," is the same thing.--_The Dartmouth_, Vol. IV. p. 117. GUM. At the University of Vermont, to cheat in recitation by using _ponies_, _interliners_, &c.; e.g. "he _gummed_ in geometry." 2. To cheat; to deceive. Not confined to college. He was speaking of the "moon hoax" which "_gummed_" so many learned philosophers.--_Yale Lit. Mag._, Vol. XIV. p. 189. GUMMATION. A trick; raillery. Our reception to college ground was by no means the most hospitable, considering our unacquaintance with the manners of the place, for, as poor "Fresh," we soon found ourselves subject to all manner of sly tricks and "_gummations_" from our predecessors, the Sophs.--_A Tour through College_, Boston, 1832, p. 13. GYP. A cant term for a servant at Cambridge, England, at _scout_ is used at Oxford. Said to be a sportive application of [Greek: gyps], a vulture.--_Smart_. The word _Gyp_ very properly characterizes them.--_Gradus ad Cantab._, p. 56. And many a yawning _gyp_ comes slipshod in, To wake his master ere the bells begin. _The College_, in _Blackwood's Mag._, May, 1849.