Glossary of Cambridge jargonGlossary of Cambridge jargonTabarder - name for a sizar at The Queen's College Oxford.
Taxor - extinct University officer who checked weights and measures and the quality of merchandise sold in the town. Offenders ran the risk of being discommuned.
The Tech - former abbreviation for the Cambridgeshire College of Arts and Technology, later called Anglia Higher Education College, now called Anglia Polytechnic University.
Techie - student slang (particularly in opposition to Thesp) for one who provides backstage support in drama.
Term - one of three periods (Michaelmas, Lent, Easter) in the academic year which students must keep in order to qualify by residence for their degree. See also: Full Term.
Thesp - student slang for an actor.
Tilley - a lecture room in the Department of Earth Sciences.
Tit Hall - Trinity Hall.
Titan - university mainframe computer (prototype Atlas II) before Phoenix.
Town - in opposition to Gown, the non-university parts and people of the City of Cambridge, as in Town Bumps., rowing races for town clubs.
Treasurer - University Officer who is head of what used to be called the Financial Board.
Trinmo - a mathematician at Trinity College (see mathmo).
Tripos - the formal university examinations in which undergraduates are required to obtain honours in order to qualify for the degree of Bachelor of Arts. Triposes may be divided into two Parts, taken in succession as Part I and Part II. The word tripos is reputedly derived from the legend that the examiner sat on a three-legged stool.
Trivium - the Three Ways (Grammar, Rhetoric, Logic) studied in medieval times by undergraduates for the Bachelor of Arts degree. Hence the pejorative term trivial - elementary, of interest only to mere undergraduates.
Tutor - a college officer who does not teach you. A bureaucrat and a shoulder to cry on. Supposedly, students never deal with the university authorities directly, but only through their Tutor.
Tut Reps - Tutorial Representatives, former name of the Senior Tutors' Committee, the intercollegiate committee of Tutors.
Typewriter - a building at Christ's College.
This compilation is Copyright (C) R.D.H. Walker 1991-97. rdhw@cam.ac.uk