Glossary

Battels
Blue
Bod
Bod Card
Bops
Cappa Magna
Chapel Duty
Cherwell
Collections
Coming up
Commoner
Congregation
Continuing Student
Finals
Fresher
Going down
Hacks
Independent Student
Isis
Long Vacation
Matriculation
O.P.T.E.T.
Ordinand
Pidge
Prelims
Punting
Rad Cam
Sent down
Schools
Sub-fusc
‘Tabs’
Terms
Today Board
Weeks

Bills payable to the College for food and rent
Award for sporting prowess
The Bodleian Library
Common name for your University card
College parties
Purple robe worn by a bishop; an essential in every good Sacristy
Consists of: reading at the offices; serving at Mass; making tea; and locking the House at night
River in Oxford, pronounced ‘Char-well’
Termly exams and interviews
Coming to Oxford (see ‘Going down’)
A matriculated student without a degree from Oxford
The University’s governing body
Name given to a non-fresher
Final examinations at the end of your course
A first year
Opposite of ‘Coming up’, i.e. leaving Oxford
Students who do anything they can to guarantee your vote
Someone who is neither an ordinand nor a P.G.C.E. student
The name given to the Thames as it flows through Oxford
The summer ‘holidays’
The ceremony by which you become a member of the University
Worship with other Oxford theological colleges
Someone training for ministry, usually priesthood
Pigeon hole
Preliminary examinations, with ‘pre’ pronounced as in ‘preliminary’
Pushing a boat around a river with a stick
The Radcliffe Camera, next to the Old Bod
Expulsion by the University or one of its colleges
The Examination Schools, on the High, where University lectures and examinations take place
University dress
People who study at Cambridge
The Oxford year consists of three terms, Michaelmas, Hilary and Trinity
The notice board with all today’s announcements on
Full Term is divided into eight weeks, known as ‘First Week’, ‘Second Week’, and so on. First Week is preceded by ‘Noughth Week’