1843. _Stonyhurst Mag._, Nov. 1883, p. 232. The _Ascensio Scholarum_ was managed quite otherwise then than now [1843-83].... _Ascension Day._—The opening day of schools. Mass of the Holy Ghost is said in the church, after breakfast. The different schools, headed by their masters, then return to the schoolrooms which they occupied the preceding scholastic year. Presently the large bell tolls, and then the Prefect of Studies opens the door of POETRY (_q.v._), and announces that “RHETORIC (_q.v._) is empty.” The POETS (_q.v._) leave their room and ascend to Rhetoric, and forthwith become Rhetoricians, with all their privileges. Then the (late) Poet’s doorkeeper knocks at SYNTAX’ (_q.v._) door and sings out that “Poetry is empty”; and so on through the different schools. The little fellows newly arrived have to wait in the gallery until “LITTLE FIGURES” (_q.v._) is vacant, when they become Little Figuricians, “Little Figures,” it will be observed, being what we [1883] call “ELEMENTS” (_q.v._). *Ash-planting*, _subs._ (Rugby).—_See_ quot. 1867. COLLINS, _The Public Schools_, p. 349. In this room [Over-School] it was that, in the latter half of the last century, the punishment of ASH-PLANTING used to take place. It was inflicted by order and in the presence of a judicial committee of the præposters (Sixth Form) for some few grave offences against the recognised internal discipline of the school, _e.g._ personal assault upon one of their body by a mutinous fag—an offence which would still be severely punished by the masters, if not by the Sixth themselves. Three ash-saplings were used; in theory, at least, the two first were to be broken upon the person of the culprit. The punishment was severe—perhaps unjustifiably so; but it had the character of being only inflicted in extreme cases, and with strict justice, and was not regarded as a cruelty in the school. *Athens* (Eton).—A bathing-place. 1865. _Etoniana_, p. 162. No boy is now allowed to go into a boat until he has passed an examination in swimming before a committee of masters at ATHENS or at Cuckoo Weir. *Audit-ale* (or *Audit*), _subs._ (Cambridge).—A special brew of ale, peculiar to Trinity College. [First-made draught on AUDIT days.] 1837. BARHAM, _Ingoldsby Legends_, “Lay of St. Dunstan.” The “Trinity AUDIT ALE” is not come-at-able, as I’ve found to my great grief when dining at that table. 1876. TREVELYAN, _Life of Macaulay_ (1884), ch. iv. p. 127. A glass of the AUDIT ALE, which reminded him that he was still a Fellow of Trinity. 1891. _Harry Fludyer at Cambridge_, 55. A lot of Freshmen got together after Hall (it was a Saints’ day, and they’d been drinking AUDIT) and went and made hay in Marling’s rooms. *Aul. præ*, _subs._ (Winchester).—Prefect of Hall. [Abbreviation of _Præfectus Aulæ_.] *Ave Maria Lane* (Stonyhurst: obsolete).—A walk in the playground.