tertiuses

Updated: April 30, 2025

It cheered Crandall minor whenever it caught sight of him, and it cheered more wildly than ever after prayers, because the Old Boys in evening dress, openly twirling their mustaches, attended, and instead of standing with the masters, ranged themselves along the wall immediately before the prefects; and the Head called them over, too majors, minors, and tertiuses, after their old names.

Rudyard Kipling - Stalky & Co.