Ulula,subs.(Manchester Grammar).—The school magazine. [The Owl is the school crest, as it was that of the founder, Hugh Oldham, Bishop of Exeter.]
Under Fire(Westminster).—SeeUpper Fire.
Under-green(Charterhouse).—Formerly the present big or match football ground: now the Under’s cricket-ground.
Under School(Harrow).—SeeUpper School.
Under Selectæ(Harrow).—SeeUpper School.
Union,subs.(University).—An undergrad’s debating society.
1891.Harry Fludyer at Cambridge, 15. I think I shall speak at theUNIONsoon.... I tried on Tuesday last, but I couldn’t catch the President’s eye.
Univ,subs.(Oxford).—University College.
Up,adv.(Harrow).—In school.To be up to any one at second school= to go to any one for work at 10 or 11 o’clock.
Upper Club(Eton).—SeePlaying-fields.
Upper (Middle, or Under) Fire,subs.(Westminster).—The three fire-places, under former arrangements, in the present dormitory.
Upper School,subs.(Harrow).—In 1770 (the first year of the printedBills(q.v.) of the school) the school comprised the monitors—their numbers varied from four to ten—the Fifth Form, the Shell, and the Fourth and Third Forms: these ranked as theUPPER SCHOOL. TheUNDER SCHOOLwas divided in a very peculiar fashion; there was first the “Scan and Prove” class, then the “Ovid,” the “Phædrus,” the “Upper Selectæ,” “Under Selectæ,” “Nomenclature,” “Grammar,” and “Accidence.”... At present there are, besides the monitors (fifteen in number), an Upper and Lower Sixth, three separate divisions of the Fifth, two “Removes,” three “Shells,” and three Fourths. On the Modern Side are one Sixth, three Fifths, one “Remove,” three Shells, and three Fourths.
Upper Selectæ(Harrow).—SeeUpper School.
Upper Sixpenny(Eton).—SeePlaying-fields.
Uskites(Charterhouse).—SeeOut-houses.