THIRD-YEAR MEN.  In the University of Cambridge, Eng., the title of Third-Year Men, or Senior Sophs or Sophisters, is given to students during the third year of their residence at the University.

THUNDERING BOLUS.  See INTONITANS BOLUS.

TICK.  A recitation made by one who does not know of what he is talking.

Ticks, screws, and deads were all put under contribution.—­A Tour through College, Boston, 1832, p. 25.

TICKER.  One who recites without knowing what he is talking about; one entirely independent of any book-knowledge.

  If any “Ticker” dare to look
  A stealthy moment on his book.
    Harvardiana, Vol.  III. p. 123.

TICKING.  The act of reciting without knowing anything about the lesson.

And what with ticking, screwing, and deading, am candidate for a piece of parchment to-morrow.—­Harv.  Reg., p. 194.

TIGHT.  A common slang term among students; the comparative, of which drunk is the superlative.

  Some twenty of as jolly chaps as e’er got jolly tight.
    Poem before Y.H., 1849.

               Hast spent the livelong night
  In smoking Esculapios,—­in getting jolly tight?
    Poem before Iadma, 1850.

  He clenched his fist as fain for fight,
  Sank back, and gently murmured “tight.”
    MS. Poem, W.F.  Allen, 1848.

  While fathers, are bursting with rage and spite,
  And old ladies vow that the students are tight.
    Yale Gallinipper, Nov. 1848.

Speaking of the word “drunk,” the Burlington Sentinel remarks:  “The last synonyme that we have observed is ‘tight,’ a term, it strikes us, rather inappropriate, since a ‘tight’ man, in the cant use of the word, is almost always a ‘loose character.’  We give a list of a few of the various words and phrases which have been in use, at one time or another, to signify some stage of inebriation:  Over the bay, half seas over, hot, high, corned, cut, cocked, shaved, disguised, jammed, damaged, sleepy, tired, discouraged, snuffy, whipped, how come ye so, breezy, smoked, top-heavy, fuddled, groggy, tipsy, smashed, swipy, slewed, cronk, salted down, how fare ye, on the lee lurch, all sails set, three sheets in the wind, well under way, battered, blowing, snubbed, sawed, boosy, bruised, screwed, soaked, comfortable, stimulated, jug-steamed, tangle-legged, fogmatic, blue-eyed, a passenger in the Cape Ann stage, striped, faint, shot in the neck, bamboozled, weak-jointed, got a brick in his hat, got a turkey on his back.”

Dr. Franklin, in speaking of the intemperate drinker, says, he will never, or seldom, allow that he is drunk; he may be “boosy, cosey, foxed, merry, mellow, fuddled, groatable, confoundedly cut, may see two moons, be among the Philistines, in a very good humor, have been in the sun, is a little feverish, pretty well entered, &c., but never drunk.”