Miss Patience said she was gratified to hear Mr. Cash was a musician; she admired people who had a musical taste. Whereupon Cash fell into a chair, as he afterwards observed, _chawed up_.--_Thorpe's Backwoods_, p. 28. CHIP DAY. At Williams College a day near the beginning of spring is thus designated, and is explained in the following passage. "They give us, near the close of the second term, what is called '_chip day_,' when we put the grounds in order, and remove the ruins caused by a winter's siege on the woodpiles."--_Sketches of Williams College_, 1847, p. 79. Another writer refers to the day, in a newspaper paragraph. "'_Chip day_,' at the close of the spring term, is still observed in the old-fashioned way. Parties of students go off to the hills, and return with brush, and branches of evergreen, with which the chips, which have accumulated during the winter, are brushed together, and afterwards burnt."--_Boston Daily Evening Traveller_, July 12, 1854. About college there had been, in early spring, the customary cleaning up of "_chip day_."--_Williams Quarterly_, Vol. II. p. 186. CHOPPING AT THE TREE. At University College in the University of Oxford, "a curious and ancient custom, called '_chopping at the tree_,' still prevails. On Easter Sunday, every member, as he leaves the hall after dinner, chops with a cleaver at a small tree dressed up for the occasion with evergreens and flowers, and placed on a turf close to the buttery. The cook stands by for his accustomed largess."--_Oxford Guide_, Ed. 1847, p. 144, note. CHORE. In the German universities, a club or society of the students is thus designated. Duels between members of different _chores_ were once frequent;--sometimes one man was obliged to fight the members of a whole _chore_ in succession.--_Yale Lit. Mag._, Vol. XV. p. 5. CHRISTIAN. In the University of Cambridge, Eng., a member of Christ's College. CHUM. Armenian, _chomm_, or _chommein_, or _ham_, to dwell, stay, or lodge; French, _chômer_, to rest; Saxon, _ham_, home. A chamber-fellow; one who lodges or resides in the same room.--_Webster_. This word is used at the universities and colleges, both in England and the United States. A young student laid a wager with his _chum_, that the Dean was at that instant smoking his pipe.--_Philip's Life and Poems_, p. 13. But his _chum_ Had wielded, in his just defence, A bowl of vast circumference.--_Rebelliad_, p. 17. Every set of chambers was possessed by two co-occupants; they had generally the same bedroom, and a common study; and they were called _chums_.--_De Quincey's Life and Manners_, p. 251. I am again your petitioner in behalf of that great _chum_ of literature, Samuel Johnson.--_Smollett, in Boswell_.