| ADSUM |
A roll-call, taken in House (see also JIBS).
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| BANCO |
An evening period for academic work: First Banco: 6.30 - 7.30 pm; Second Banco: 8.00 - 9.00 pm
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| BROOKE HALL |
The name refers both to the building and also, as a collective noun, to those who use it. The term 'members of Brooke Hall' is also current. (The Revd Robert Brooke was Headmaster 1628-43, but was ejected during the Commonwealth for his Royalist tendencies. After the restoration he was allowed to return to free quarters in Old Charterhouse, which was subsequently used as a common room by officers of Charterhouse and known as "Brooke Hall".) Brooke Hall is a club with a quarterly subscription. You will be "dined in" as a new member. Thereafter you pay, and you may bring your own guests. The Brooke Hall Office Secretary is very helpful.
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| BTT |
The Ben Travers Theatre on Queen's Drive, opened in 1983, and named after the playwright who was an Old Carthusian.
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| CALLING OVER |
An assembly, usually three times a Quarter, of each form in the Under School, at which its performance in school is reported to the Master of the Under School by the Form Master.
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| CARTHUSIAN SOCIETY |
Formed in 1939 by the Old Carthusian Club, with membership open to all. It has several objects, one of which is to make grants towards the purchase of equipment for the use of boys, the cost of which the Governing Body cannot reasonably be expected to meet. There is always a member of Brooke Hall on the Committee.
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| CHAPEL |
There are three chapels in the School. Memorial Chapel built as a memorial to Old Carthusians who were killed in the First World War, designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott and consecrated in 1927, and Founder's Chapel (FC), constructed from part of the original chapel, which is approached from the east end of the South African Cloisters. The Millennium Chapel (MMC) is situated in the north-east corner of Memorial Chapel and was consecrated in 2000.
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| CROWN |
The School tuckshop. It is situated on the Long Walk facing under Green, between the Block Houses and the New Houses. It is also sometimes referred to as "Crack".
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| EXEAT |
Half term break in the middle of each Quarter when all pupils go away from Charterhouse. Exeat in LQ is known as 'Queen's Exeat'.
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| FATHERS |
Every new pupil is allotted a "father" (usually only slightly senior to him) to show him the ropes. There is a fortnight's grace before anyone is held accountable for sins of convention.
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| FIRST BANCO |
See BANCO.
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| HASH |
Refers to school work, to the times when it is done, and to a school class. From it arises HASH ROOM.
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| HEADMASTER'S ADDRESS |
A gathering of all Beaks and Pupils in Hall at the end of each Quarter at which the Headmaster addresses the School and presents prizes.
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| HOMEBILL |
The pupils' evening meal.
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| JDTC |
The John Derry Technical Centre, situated between Studio and Armoury and opened in 1980. John Derry (the first British pilot to fly faster than sound) was an Old Carthusian.
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| JIBS |
Evening adsum in Houses.
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| LONDON CHARTERHOUSE |
The original buildings, not far from Smithfield Market, where Thomas Sutton founded his School and Hospital in 1611. When the School moved to Godalming in 1872 the Pensioners, or Brothers, of Sutton's Hospital remained.
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| PONTIFEX |
The annual inter-House cross-country races held in LQ.
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| QUARTER |
Terms are referred to as Quarters. There are three Quarters in the School year - Oration (September), Long (January) and Cricket (April). The 'quarter' refers to the mid-morning break, which is normally after the first two school periods.
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| RVW |
Music Centre (Music School) situated on the south side of Memorial Chapel and opened in 1984. Ralph Vaughan Williams was an Old Carthusian.
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| SECOND BANCO |
See BANCO.
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| SEND-UP |
When a pupil does a piece of work that a Beak considers distinguished he is sent with his work and a sending-up card to the Deputy Headmaster (Under School) and to the Headmaster in the Sixth Form. For every third sent-up copy he/she is awarded a prize.
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| SUTTON'S HOSPITAL |
Part of Thomas Sutton's dual foundation (Hospital and School), which is still housed in Old Charterhouse, London, providing for the Brothers, (see LONDON CHARTERHOUSE).
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| TICS |
See TURNING-UP.
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| TURNING-UP |
The general term for inter-House games which are organised on a league basis.
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| YEARLINGS |
Boys in their first year in the School.
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