O, I do well remember when in college,
  How we fought reason,—­battles all in play,—­
  Under a most portentous man of knowledge,
  The captain-general in the bloodless fray;
  He was a wise man, and a good man, too,
  And robed himself in green whene’er he came to screw.
    Our Chronicle of ’26, Boston, 1827.

In a note to the last quotation, the author says of the word screw:  “For the information of the inexperienced, we explain this as a term quite rife in the universities, and, taken substantively, signifying an intellectual nonplus.”

  At last the day is ended,
    The tutor screws no more.
    Knick.  Mag., Vol.  XLV. p. 195.

SCREWING UP.  The meaning of this phrase, as understood by English Cantabs, may be gathered from the following extract.  “A magnificent sofa will be lying close to a door ... bored through from top to bottom from the screwing up of some former unpopular tenant; “screwing up” being the process of fastening on the outside, with nails and screws, every door of the hapless wight’s apartments.  This is done at night, and in the morning the gentleman is leaning three-fourths out of his window, bawling for rescue.”—­Westminster Rev., Am.  Ed., Vol.  XXXV. p. 239.

SCRIBBLING-PAPER.  A kind of writing-paper, rather inferior in quality, a trifle larger than foolscap, and used at the English universities by mathematicians and in the lecture-room.—­Bristed.  Grad. ad Cantab.

Cards are commonly sold at Cambridge as “scribbling-paper.”—­Westminster Rev., Am. ed., Vol.  XXXV. p. 238.

The summer apartment contained only a big standing-desk, the eternal “scribbling-paper,” and the half-dozen mathematical works required.—­Bristed’s Five Years in an Eng.  Univ., Ed. 2d, p. 218.

SCROUGE.  An exaction.  A very long lesson, or any hard or unpleasant task, is usually among students denominated a scrouge.

SCROUGE.  To exact; to extort; said of an instructor who imposes difficult tasks on his pupils.

It is used provincially in England, and in America in some of the Northern and Southern States, with the meaning to crowd, to squeeze.—­Bartlett’s Dict. of Americanisms.

SCRUB.  At Columbia College, a servant.

2.  One who is disliked for his meanness, ill-breeding, or vulgarity.  Nearly equivalent to SPOON, q.v.

SCRUBBY.  Possessing the qualities of a scrub.  Partially synonymous with the adjective SPOONY, q.v.

SCRUTATOR.  In the University of Cambridge, England, an officer whose duty it is to attend all Congregations, to read the graces to the lower house of the Senate, to gather the votes secretly, or to take them openly in scrutiny, and publicly to pronounce the assent or dissent of that house.—­Cam.  Cal.

SECOND-YEAR MEN.  In the University of Cambridge, Eng., the title of Second-Year Men, or Junior Sophs or Sophisters, is given to students during the second year of their residence at the University.