_CHINTZ_—A chance. _CLASSICUS_—The boy who at the end of the week has the smallest score in the _CLASSICUS PAPER_—The book in which, each day after morning school, the position of each boy in his Part was marked, the lowest being marked one, and so on. The Classicus had to get the lessons set, as well as the Themes for composition. _CLEAN STRAW_—Clean sheets. _CLOISTERS_—The name given to Middle and Junior Part of Fifth Book, when combined together in _CLOISTER TIME_—Ten or twelve weeks at the latter end of Long Half, commencing about Whitsunday and ending at Standing-up week, (_v. inf._) _CLOISTER ROUSH_—An annual engagement between Cloisters and Senior Part in School at the beginning of Cloister Time. _CLOW_—A box on the ear. _COLLEGE WARE_—Crockery that fell without breaking. _COMMON TIME_—The Short Half, and beginning of Long, up to Easter Time. _COMMONERS_—The boys not on the foundation. Also the building they lived in. _COMMONER GRUB_—An entertainment given by Commoners to College after the cricket matches. _COMMONERS SPEAKING_—The day on which the speakers selected from among the Inferiors declaimed. _CON_—A blow on the head given with the knuckles or any other hard substance, derived from κoνδυλον, a knuckle. [Illustration: CON.] _CONDUIT_—A water tap. _CONTINENT_—A boy was said to go _Continent_ when he left School for Sick-house. _COURSE, IN_—The two Præfects of Chapel are said “to be in Course” on alternate weeks, when they have to call names at the end of the service. The Præfects in each Chamber are “in Course” in rotation, during which time they are especially responsible for what goes on within their jurisdiction. A new boy on his arrival was not liable to be fagged for the first fortnight; when his fagging commenced he was said to be “in Course.” _COURSEKEEPER_—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-Coursekeeper.” _CROCKETTS_—Miniature Cricket, played with a stump and a five’s ball. Also, when a boy had got no runs in a cricket match, or had failed in a lesson of Standing Up, (_v. inf._,) he was said to have “got Crocketts.” _CROPPLED_—To be floored in any examination. _CUD_—Pretty, Nice. _CUSE PAPER_—The same as Classicus Paper, (_v. sup._) _CUT IN A BOOK_—A method of drawing lots. A certain letter was fixed on, (_e.g._, the first in the second line on the left page,) each boy then turned over a leaf, and whoever turned over the leaf in which the corresponding letter was nearest to A, won. D.