*Barbar*, _subs._ (Durham).—A candidate for scholarship from another school. [That is, “barbarian” = foreigner.] *Barber*, _subs._ (Winchester).—A thick fagot or bough; one was included in each bundle. Also any large piece of wood. _Verb_ (University).—To work off impositions by deputy. [Tradition relates that a learned barber was at one time frequently employed as a scapegoat in working off this species of punishment inflicted on peccant students.] Also TO BARBERISE. 1853. BRADLEY (“Cuthbert Bede”), _Verdant Green_, xii. As for impositions, why ... ’Aint there coves to BARBERISE ’em for you? *Barge*, _subs._ (Sherborne).—Small cricket: played, with a stump for bat, against a wall. _Verb_ (Charterhouse).—To hustle; TO MOB UP (_q.v._); TO BRICK (_q.v._). *Barn, The* (Charterhouse).—A temporary wooden building, constructed in 1876 to meet deficiencies in class-room accommodation. It stood on the site now occupied by the Museum. It disappeared in 1884. *Barnet*, _intj._ (Christ’s Hospital: obsolete).—Nonsense! Humbug! *Barn-school*, _subs._ (Rugby).—_See_ quot. 1867. COLLINS, _The Public Schools_, 367. Dr. James found there [Rugby in 1777] 52 boys; in five years he had raised them to 165. The one large schoolroom was no longer sufficient ... a new building was added.... Even the new schools overflowed, for the members rose in time to near 300; and the head-master was obliged to migrate into a barn adjoining the Dunchurch Road.... There for more than twenty years successive head-masters taught the two senior forms.... Connecting these buildings with the three schools adjoining the old manor-house was a line of cow-sheds, which served as a shelter in rainy weather.... Such was the Rugby of 1809; for it was not till long afterwards that barn and cow-sheds disappeared, though the present school buildings were begun in that year. *Barracks*, _subs._ (Loretto).—A Form occasionally interpolated between NIPPERS (_q.v._) and Fourth. [In the Sixties a master at Loretto was known as the Captain, and when the first overflow from the school-house took place, the house in which a few boys slept, and over which he was master, was called the Garrison. The adjoining house was afterwards occupied and was called the BARRACKS. Whence the interpolated Form, which for a time had for its schoolroom a room at that house, getting the name of the Barracks Form. The name clung to it when moved to one of the regular schoolrooms.] *Barter*, _subs._ (Winchester).—A half volley at cricket. Also as _verb_. [From Warden Barter, who was famous in the cricket-field for dealing with such balls.]