GULF.  In the University of Cambridge, Eng., one who obtains the degree of B.A., but has not his name inserted in the Calendar, is said to be in the gulf.

He now begins to ... be anxious about ... that classical acquaintance who is in danger of the gulf.—­Bristed’s Five Years in an Eng.  Univ., Ed. 2d, p. 95.

Some ten or fifteen men just on the line, not bad enough to be plucked or good enough to be placed, are put into the “gulf,” as it is popularly called (the Examiners’ phrase is “Degrees allowed"), and have their degrees given them, but are not printed in the Calendar.—­Ibid., p. 205.

GULFING.  In the University of Cambridge, England, “those candidates for B.A. who, but for sickness or some other sufficient cause, might have obtained an honor, have their degree given them without examination, and thus avoid having their names inserted in the lists.  This is called Gulfing.”  A degree taken in this manner is called “an AEgrotat Degree.”—­Alma Mater, Vol.  II. pp. 60, 105.

I discovered that my name was nowhere to be found,—­that I was Gulfed.—­Ibid., Vol.  II. p. 97.

GUM.  A trick; a deception.  In use at Dartmouth College.

Gum is another word they have here.  It means something like chaw.  To say, “It’s all a gum,” or “a regular chaw,” is the same thing.—­The Dartmouth, Vol.  IV. p. 117.

GUM.  At the University of Vermont, to cheat in recitation by using ponies, interliners, &c.; e.g. “he gummed in geometry.”

2.  To cheat; to deceive.  Not confined to college.

He was speaking of the “moon hoax” which “gummed” so many learned philosophers.—­Yale Lit.  Mag., Vol.  XIV. p. 189.

GUMMATION.  A trick; raillery.

Our reception to college ground was by no means the most hospitable, considering our unacquaintance with the manners of the place, for, as poor “Fresh,” we soon found ourselves subject to all manner of sly tricks and “gummations” from our predecessors, the Sophs.—­A Tour through College, Boston, 1832, p. 13.

GYP.  A cant term for a servant at Cambridge, England, at scout is used at Oxford.  Said to be a sportive application of [Greek:  gyps], a vulture.—­Smart.

The word Gyp very properly characterizes them.—­Gradus ad Cantab., p. 56.

  And many a yawning gyp comes slipshod in,
  To wake his master ere the bells begin.
    The College, in Blackwood’s Mag., May, 1849.

The Freshman, when once safe through his examination, is first inducted into his rooms by a gyp, usually recommended to him by his tutor.  The gyp (from [Greek:  gyps], vulture, evidently a nickname at first, but now the only name applied to this class of persons) is a college servant, who attends upon a number of students, sometimes as many as twenty, calls them in the morning, brushes their clothes, carries for them parcels and the queerly twisted notes they are continually writing to one another, waits at their parties, and so on.  Cleaning their boots is not in his branch of the profession; there is a regular brigade of college shoeblacks.—­Bristed’s Five Years in an Eng.  Univ., Ed. 2d, p. 14.