The verb to chaw up is used with nearly the same meaning in some of the Western States.

Miss Patience said she was gratified to hear Mr. Cash was a musician; she admired people who had a musical taste.  Whereupon Cash fell into a chair, as he afterwards observed, chawed up.—­Thorpe’s Backwoods, p. 28.

CHIP DAY.  At Williams College a day near the beginning of spring is thus designated, and is explained in the following passage.  “They give us, near the close of the second term, what is called ‘chip day,’ when we put the grounds in order, and remove the ruins caused by a winter’s siege on the woodpiles.”—­Sketches of Williams College, 1847, p. 79.

Another writer refers to the day, in a newspaper paragraph. “‘Chip day,’ at the close of the spring term, is still observed in the old-fashioned way.  Parties of students go off to the hills, and return with brush, and branches of evergreen, with which the chips, which have accumulated during the winter, are brushed together, and afterwards burnt.”—­Boston Daily Evening Traveller, July 12, 1854.

About college there had been, in early spring, the customary cleaning up of “chip day.”—­Williams Quarterly, Vol.  II. p. 186.

CHOPPING AT THE TREE.  At University College in the University of Oxford, “a curious and ancient custom, called ’chopping at the tree,’ still prevails.  On Easter Sunday, every member, as he leaves the hall after dinner, chops with a cleaver at a small tree dressed up for the occasion with evergreens and flowers, and placed on a turf close to the buttery.  The cook stands by for his accustomed largess.”—­Oxford Guide, Ed. 1847, p. 144, note.

CHORE.  In the German universities, a club or society of the students is thus designated.

Duels between members of different chores were once frequent;—­sometimes one man was obliged to fight the members of a whole chore in succession.—­Yale Lit.  Mag., Vol.  XV. p. 5.

CHRISTIAN.  In the University of Cambridge, Eng., a member of Christ’s College.

CHUM.  Armenian, chomm, or chommein, or ham, to dwell, stay, or lodge; French, chomer, to rest; Saxon, ham, home.  A chamber-fellow; one who lodges or resides in the same room.—­Webster.

This word is used at the universities and colleges, both in England and the United States.

A young student laid a wager with his chum, that the Dean was at that instant smoking his pipe.—­Philip’s Life and Poems, p. 13.

          But his chum
  Had wielded, in his just defence,
  A bowl of vast circumference.—­Rebelliad, p. 17.

Every set of chambers was possessed by two co-occupants; they had generally the same bedroom, and a common study; and they were called chums.—­De Quincey’s Life and Manners, p. 251.