Glossary of Cambridge jargonGlossary of Cambridge jargonQuadrivium - The Four Ways (Arithmetic, Geometry, Astronomy, Music) studied in medieval times by graduates for the Master of Arts degree.
Quarter Blue - a joke. See Winks.
Queens' College - the common name of The Queen's College of St Margaret and St Bernard in the University of Cambridge.
Queens' Green - common land between Queen's Road and Queens' College.
Queen's Road - road along the Backs; nothing to do with Queens' College.
Radzinowicz - library of the Institute of Criminology in West Road.
Rayleigh (i) - library of Physics at the Cavendish Laboratory.
Rayleigh (ii) - lecture room in the New Museums Site.
Read - to study, as in reading Natural Sciences.
Reader - a university academic appointment, senior to a Lecturer and junior to a Professor.
Reality Checkpoint - graffito on lamppost in the middle of Parker's Piece.
Rediit - the record of a student's date of return to Cambridge after an Exeat. Hence Rediit Book, kept by a Tutor. The Exeat and Rediit dates are used to compute whether a student has kept a term.
Regent House - the ultimate legislative body of the University, consisting approximately of all Masters holding University Office or College Fellowships, or non-masters who have held Office or Fellowship for at least three years. The Regent House meets at Congregations to vote upon Graces and confer degrees.
Register of the Senate - official list of membership of the Senate.
Registrary - a University Officer who is head of the Registry.
Registry - part of the university administrative offices at the Old Schools.
Regius [Professor] - a Professor appointed by The Crown.
Reporter - the Cambridge University Reporter, a periodical in which official university notices, including Graces, are published.
Research Assistant - a dogsbody. Not to be confused with an Assistant in Research.
Research Fellow - a college academic appointment typically awarded to higher year research students or junior academics to support their research. Sometimes known as a Junior Research Fellow, or JRF, particularly at Oxford.
Research Student - no longer formally defined by the university, but generally understood to be a graduate student reading for the Doctor of Philosophy or Master of Philosophy degrees.
Residence - the process of keeping terms; being up at Cambridge. See also: Excess Residence.
Resident member - members of college who are at Cambridge, residing within the Precincts.
Resident Members List - list of all resident members in the university; a special edition of the Cambridge Review.
RFB - Raised Faculty Building at Sidgwick Site.
RGO - Royal Greenwich Observatory, now located at Cambridge.
Roll of the Regent House - official definition of membership of Regent House.
Roo - at Queens' College, a Kangaroo.
Rosie - the maternity hospital at Addenbrooke's.
Round Church - the Church of the Holy Sepulchre; or its congregation as transferred to St Andrew the Great.
RPP - Regius Professor of Physic (i.e. Professor of Medicine).
Rustication - a form of punishment whereby a student was sent out of residence for the remainder of the term.
Rutherford - university building at the Cavendish Laboratory at the West Cambridge Site.
This compilation is Copyright (C) R.D.H. Walker 1991-97. rdhw@cam.ac.uk