The gay regatta where the Oneida led,
  The glorious rushes, Seniors at the head.
    Class Poem, Harv.  Coll., 1849.

One of the Trinity men ... was making a tremendous rush for a Fellowship.—­Bristed’s Five Years in an Eng.  Univ., Ed. 2d, p. 158.

RUSH.  To recite well; to make a perfect recitation.

It was purchased by the man,—­who ‘really did not look’ at the lesson on which he ’rushed.’—­Yale Lit.  Mag., Vol.  XIV. p. 411.

Then for the students mark flunks, even though the young men may be rushing.—­Yale Banger, Oct., 1848.

  So they pulled off their coats, and rolled up their sleeves,
    And rushed in Bien.  Examination.
    Presentation Day Songs, Yale Coll., June 14, 1854.

RUSTICATE.  To send a student for a time from a college or university, to reside in the country, by way of punishment for some offence.

See a more complete definition under RUSTICATION.

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

  The “scope” of what I have to state
  Is to suspend and rusticate.—­Ibid., p. 28.

The same meaning is thus paraphrastically conveyed:—­

  By my official power, I swear,
  That you shall smell the country air.—­Rebelliad, p. 45.

RUSTICATION.  In universities and colleges, the punishment of a student for some offence, by compelling him to leave the institution, and reside for a time in the country, where he is obliged to pursue with a private instructor the studies with which his class are engaged during his term of separation, and in which he is obliged to pass a satisfactory examination before he can be reinstated in his class.

It seems plain from his own verses to Diodati, that Milton had incurred rustication,—­a temporary dismission into the country, with, perhaps, the loss of a term.—­Johnson.

  Take then this friendly exhortation. 
  The next offence is Rustication.
    MS. Poem, by John Q. Adams.

RUST-RINGING.  At Hamilton College, “the Freshmen,” writes a correspondent, “are supposed to lose some of their verdancy at the end of the last term of that year, and the ’ringing off their rust’ consists in ringing the chapel bell—­commencing at midnight —­until the rope wears out.  During the ringing, the upper classes are diverted by the display of numerous fire-works, and enlivened by most beautifully discordant sounds, called ‘music,’ made to issue from tin kettle-drums, horse-fiddles, trumpets, horns, &c., &c.”

S.

SACK.  To expel.  Used at Hamilton College.

SAIL.  At Bowdoin College, a sail is a perfect recitation.  To sail is to recite perfectly.

SAINT.  A name among students for one who pretends to particular sanctity of manners.