Everybody happy, except Sub-Fresh, and they trying hardest to appear so.—­Yale Lit.  Mag., Vol.  XX. p. 103.

The timid Sub-Fresh had determined to construct stout barricades, with no lack of ammunition.—­Ibid., p. 103.

Sometimes written Sub.

Information wanted of the “Sub” who didn’t think it an honor to be electioneered.—­N.B., Yale Coll., June 14, 1851.

See PENE.

SUBJECT.  At the University of Cambridge, Eng., a particular author, or part of an author, set for examination; or a particular branch of Mathematics, such as Optics, Hydrostatics, &c.—­Bristed.

To get up a subject, is to make one’s self thoroughly master of it.—­Bristed.

SUB-RECTOR.  A rector’s deputy or substitute.—­Walton, Webster.

SUB-SIZAR.  In the University of Cambridge, Eng., formerly an order of students lower than the sizars.

Masters of all sorts, and all ages,
Keepers, subcizers, lackeys, pages.
Poems of Bp.  Corbet, p. 22.

           There he sits and sees
  How lackeys and subsizers press
    And scramble for degrees.
    Ibid., p. 88.

See under SIZAR.

SUCK.  At Middlebury College, to cheat at recitation or examination by using ponies, interliners, or helps of any kind.

SUPPLICAT.  Latin; literally, he supplicates.  In the English universities, a petition; particularly a written application with a certificate that the requisite conditions have been complied with.—­Webster.

A Supplicat, says the Gradus ad Cantabrigiam, is “an entreaty to be admitted to the degree of B.A.; containing a certificate that the Questionist has kept his full number of terms, or explaining any deficiency.  This document is presented to the caput by the father of his college.”

SURPLICE DAY.  An occasion or day on which the surplice is worn by the members of a university.

“On all Sundays and Saint-days, and the evenings preceding, every member of the University, except noblemen, attends chapel in his surplice.”—­Grad. ad Cantab., pp. 106, 107.

SUSPEND.  In colleges, to separate a student from his class, and place him under private instruction.

  And those whose crimes are very great,
  Let us suspend or rusticate.—­Rebelliad, p. 24.

SUSPENSION.  In universities and colleges, the punishment of a student for some offence, usually negligence, by separating him from his class, and compelling him to pursue those branches of study in which he is deficient under private instruction, provided for the purpose.

SUSPENSION-PAPER.  The paper in which the act of suspension from college is declared.

  Come, take these three suspension-papers;
  They’ll teach you how to cut such capers.
    Rebelliad, p. 32.