SHIPWRECK.  Among students, a total failure.

His university course has been a shipwreck, and he will probably end by going out unnoticed among the [Greek:  polloi].—­Bristed’s Five Years in an Eng.  Univ., Ed. 2d, p. 56.

SHORT-EAR.  At Jefferson College, Penn., a soubriquet for a roistering, noisy fellow; a rowdy.  Opposed to long-ear.

SHORT TERM.  At Oxford, Eng., the extreme duration of residence in any college is under thirty weeks.  “It is possible to keep ’short terms,’ as the phrase is, by residence of thirteen weeks, or ninety-one days.”—­De Quincey’s Life and Manners, p. 274.

SIDE.  In the University of Cambridge, Eng., the set of pupils belonging to any one particular tutor is called his side.

A longer discourse he will perhaps have to listen to with the rest of his side.—­Westminster Rev., Am. ed., Vol.  XXXV. p. 281.

A large college has usually two tutors,—­Trinity has three,—­and the students are equally divided among them,—­on their sides the phrase is.—­Bristed’s Five Years in an Eng.  Univ., Ed. 2d, p. 11.

SILVER CUP.  At Trinity College, Hartford, this is a testimonial voted by each graduating class to the first legitimate boy whose father is a member of the class.

At Yale College, a theory of this kind prevails, but it has never yet been carried into practice.

  I tell you what, my classmates,
    My mind it is made up,
  I’m coming back three years from this,
    To take that silver cup. 
  I’ll bring along the “requisite,”
    A little white-haired lad,
  With “bib” and fixings all complete,
    And I shall be his “dad.”
    Presentation Day Songs, June 14, 1854.

See CLASS CUP.

SIM.  Abbreviated from Simeonite.  A nickname given by the rowing men at the University of Cambridge, Eng., to evangelicals, and to all religious men, or even quiet men generally.

While passing for a terribly hard reading man, and a “Sim” of the straitest kind with the “empty bottles,"...  I was fast lapsing into a state of literary sensualism.—­Bristed’s Five Years in an Eng.  Univ., Ed. 2d, pp. 39, 40.

SIR.  It was formerly the fashion in the older American colleges to call a Bachelor of Arts, Sir; this was sometimes done at the time when the Seniors were accepted for that degree.

Voted, Sept. 5th, 1763, “that Sir Sewall, B.A., be the Instructor in the Hebrew and other learned languages for three years.”—­Peirce’s Hist.  Harv.  Univ., p. 234.

December, 1790.  Some time in this month, Sir Adams resigned the berth of Butler, and Sir Samuel Shapleigh was chosen in his stead.—­MS. Journal, Harv.  Coll.

Then succeeded Cliosophic Oration in Latin, by Sir Meigs.  Poetical Composition in English, by Sir Barlow.—­Woolsey’s Hist.  Disc., p. 121.