1704. T. BROWN, _Works_ (1760), ii. 86. [Dionysius] was forced to turn BUM-BRUSHER. 1788. _New London Magazine_, p. 137. A successor was immediately called from that great nursery of BUM-BRUSHERS, Appleby School. 1832. _Blackwood’s Mag._, Oct., p. 426. To protract existence ... in the shape of BUM-BRUSHERS, and so forth, after the fashion of the exalted emigrés of 1792. 1838. _Comic Almanac_, Dec. [Schoolmaster’s Letter signed] Barnabas BOM-BRUSH. *Bum-curtain*, _subs._ (Cambridge).—An academical gown—scant and short; especially applied to the short black gown worn till 1835 by members of Caius College. 1835. (Quoted in WHIBLEY’S _Three Centuries of Cambridge Wit_ [1889].) ’Tis the College of Caius—’tis the land where the “BUM-CURTAIN” lately was sported by each jolly chum, But now black and blue are the gowns that they wear Like the eye of a drunkard returned from a fair. *Bumf*, _subs._ (general).—Paper. _See_ Appendix. *Bumf-hunt*, _subs._ (Wellington).—A paper-chase. *Bumming*, _subs._ (Wellington).—A thrashing. *Bump*, _subs._ and _verb_ (University).—_See_ BUMPING-RACE. *Bumping-race*, _subs._ (University).—Eight-oared inter-Collegiate races, rowed in two divisions of fifteen and sixteen boats respectively, including a SANDWICH BOAT (_q.v._), _i.e._ the top boat of the second division, which rows bottom of the first. The boats in each division start at a distance apart of 175 feet from stern to stern in the order at which they left off at the last preceding race, and any boat which overtakes and BUMPS another (_i.e._ touches it in any part) before the winning post is reached, changes places with it for the next race. Hence BUMP-SUPPER = a supper to commemorate the event. 1849. THACKERAY, _Pendennis_, iii. He listened, and with respect too, to Mr. Foker’s accounts of what the men did at the University of which Mr. F. was an ornament, and encountered a long series of stories about boat-racing, BUMPING, College grass-plats, and milk-punch. 1853. BRADLEY, _Verdant Green_, x. A BUMP-SUPPER—that is, O ye uninitiated! a supper to commemorate the fact of the boat of one College having, in the annual races, BUMPED, or touched the boat of another College immediately in its front, thereby gaining a place towards the head of the river,—a BUMP-SUPPER was a famous opportunity for discovering both the rowing and paying capabilities of Freshmen, who, in the enthusiasm of the moment, would put down their two or three guineas, and at once propose their names to be enrolled as members at the next meeting of the club. 1860. _Macmillan’s Magazine_, March, p. 331. The chances of St. Ambrose’s making a BUMP the first night were weighed. 1865. _Sketches from Cambridge_, p. 7. I can still condescend to give our boat a stout when it makes a BUMP.