I attended the Schools several times, with the view of acquiring the tact and self-possession so requisite in these public contests.—­Alma Mater, Vol.  II. p. 39.

There were only two sets of men there, one who fagged unremittingly for the Schools, and another devoted to frivolity and dissipation.—­Bristed’s Five Years in an Eng.  Univ., Ed. 2d, p. 141.

S.C.L.  At the English universities, one who is pursuing law studies and has not yet received the degree of B.C.L. or D.C.L., is designated S.C.L., Student in or of Civil Law.

At the University of Cambridge, Eng., persons in this rank who have kept their acts wear a full-sleeved gown, and are entitled to use a B.A. hood.

SCONCE.  To mulct; to fine.  Used at the University of Oxford.

A young fellow of Baliol College, having, upon some discontent cut his throat very dangerously, the Master of the College sent his servitor to the buttery-book to sconce (i.e. fine) him 5s.; and, says the Doctor, tell him the next time he cuts his throat I’ll sconce him ten.—­Terrae-Filius, No. 39.

Was sconced in a quart of ale for quoting Latin, a passage from Juvenal; murmured, and the fine was doubled.—­The Etonian, Vol.  II. p. 391.

SCOUT.  A cant term at Oxford for a college servant or waiter.—­Oxford Guide.

My scout, indeed, is a very learned fellow, and has an excellent knack at using hard words.  One morning he told me the gentleman in the next room contagious to mine desired to speak to me.  I once overheard him give a fellow-servant very sober advice not to go astray, but be true to his own wife; for idolatry would surely bring a man to instruction at last.—­The Student, Oxf. and Cam., 1750, Vol.  I. p. 55.

An anteroom, or vestibule, which serves the purpose of a scout’s pantry.—­The Etonian, Vol.  II. p. 280.

Scouts are usually pretty communicative of all they know.—­Blackwood’s Mag., Eng. ed., Vol.  LX. p. 147.

Sometimes used in American colleges.

In order to quiet him, we had to send for his factotum or scout, an old black fellow.—­Yale Lit.  Mag., Vol.  XI. p. 282.

SCRAPE.  To insult by drawing the feet over the floor.—­Grose.

But in a manner quite uncivil,
They hissed and scraped him like the devil.
Rebelliad, p. 37.

                             “I do insist,”
  Quoth he, “that two, who scraped and hissed,
  Shall be condemned without a jury
  To pass the winter months in rure.”—­Ibid., p. 41.

They not unfrequently rose to open outrage or some personal molestation, as casting missiles through his windows at night, or “scraping him” by day.—­A Tour through College, Boston, 1832, p. 25.