A correspondent from the University of Vermont gives the following account of a practical joke, which we do not suppose is very often played in all its parts.  “They ‘train’ Freshmen in various ways; the most classic is to take a pumpkin, cut a piece from the top, clean it, put in two pounds of ‘fine cut,’ put it on the Freshman’s table, and then, all standing round with long pipe-stems, blow into it the fire placed in the tobac, and so fill the room with smoke, then put the Freshman to bed, with the pumpkin for a nightcap.”

SMOUGE.  At Hamilton College, to obtain without leave.

SMUT.  Vulgar, obscene conversation.  Language which obtains

 “Where Bacchus ruleth all that’s done,
  And Venus all that’s said.”

SMUTTY.  Possessing the qualities of obscene conversation.  Applied also to the person who uses such conversation.

SNOB.  In the English universities, a townsman, as opposed to a student; or a blackguard, as opposed to a gentleman; a loafer generally.—­Bristed.

  They charged the Snobs against their will,
    And shouted clear and lustily.
    Gradus ad Cantab, p. 69.

Used in the same sense at some American colleges.

2.  A mean or vulgar person; particularly, one who apes gentility. —­Halliwell.

Used both in England and the United States, “and recently,” says Webster, “introduced into books as a term of derision.”

SNOBBESS.  In the English universities, a female snob.

Effeminacies like these, induced, no doubt, by the flattering admiration of the fair snobbesses.—­Alma Mater, Vol.  II. p. 116.

SNOBBISH.  Belonging to or resembling a snob.

SNOBBY.  Low; vulgar; resembling or pertaining to a snob.

SNUB.  To reprimand; check; rebuke.  Used among students, more frequently than by any other class of persons.

SOPH.  In the University of Cambridge, England, an abbreviation of
SOPHISTER.—­Webster.

On this word, Crabb, in his Technological Dictionary, says:  “A certain distinction or title which undergraduates in the University at Oxford assume, previous to their examination for a degree.  It took its rise in the exercises which students formerly had to go through, but which are now out of use.”

  Three College Sophs, and three pert Templars came,
  The same their talents, and their tastes the same.
    Pope’s Dunciad, B. II. v. 389, 390.

2.  In the American colleges, an abbreviation of Sophomore.

  Sophs wha ha’ in Commons fed!
  Sophs wha ha’ in Commons bled!
  Sophs wha ne’er from Commons fled! 
    Puddings, steaks, or wines!
    Rebelliad, p. 52.

The Sophs did nothing all the first fortnight but torment the Fresh, as they call us.—­Harvardiana, Vol.  III. p. 76.