HIGH-GO. A merry frolic, usually with drinking. Songs of Scholars in revelling roundelays, Belched out with hickups at bacchanal Go, Bellowed, till heaven's high concave rebound the lays, Are all for college carousals too low. Of dullness quite tired, with merriment fired, And fully inspired with amity's glow, With hate-drowning wine, boys, and punch all divine, boys, The Juniors combine, boys, in friendly HIGH-GO. _Glossology, by William Biglow_, inserted in _Buckingham's Reminiscences_, Vol. II. pp. 281-284. He it was who broached the idea of a _high-go_, as being requisite to give us a rank among the classes in college. _D.A. White's Address before Soc. of the Alumni of Harv. Univ._, Aug. 27, 1844, p. 35. This word is now seldom used; the words _High_ and _Go_ are, however, often used separately, with the same meaning; as the compound. The phrase _to get high_, i.e. to become intoxicated, is allied with the above expression. Or men "_get high_" by drinking abstract toddies? _Childe Harvard_, p. 71. HIGH STEWARD. In the English universities, an officer who has special power to hear and determine capital causes, according to the laws of the land and the privileges of the university, whenever a scholar is the party offending. He also holds the university _court-leet_, according to the established charter and custom.--_Oxf. and Cam. Cals._ At Cambridge, in addition to his other duties, the High Steward is the officer who represents the University in the House of Lords. HIGH TABLE. At Oxford, the table at which the Fellows and some other privileged persons are entitled to dine. Wine is not generally allowed in the public hall, except to the "_high table_."--_De Quincey's Life and Manners_, p. 278. I dine at the "_high table_" with the reverend deans, and hobnob with professors.--_Household Words_, Am. ed., Vol. XI. p 521. HIGH-TI. At Williams College, a term by which is designated a showy recitation. Equivalent to the word _squirt_ at Harvard College. HILLS. At Cambridge, Eng., Gogmagog Hills are commonly called _the Hills_. Or to the _Hills_ on horseback strays, (Unasked his tutor,) or his chaise To famed Newmarket guides. _Gradus ad Cantab._, p. 35. HISS. To condemn by hissing. This is a favorite method, especially among students, of expressing their disapprobation of any person or measure. I'll tell you what; your crime is this, That, Touchy, you did scrape, and _hiss_. _Rebelliad_, p. 45. Who will bully, scrape, and _hiss_! Who, I say, will do all this! Let him follow me,--_Ibid._, p. 53. HOAXING. At Princeton College, inducing new-comers to join the secret societies is called _hoaxing_. HOBBY. A translation. Hobbies are used by some students in translating Latin, Greek, and other languages, who from this reason are said to ride, in contradistinction to others who learn their lessons by study, who are said to _dig_ or _grub_. See PONY.