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FELLOW , properly and by origin a partner or See also:

ASSOCIATE (Lat. associates, from ad, to, and sociare to join)

associate, hence a See also:

COMPANION (through the O. Fr. compaignon or compagnon, from the Late Lat. companio,—cum, with, and panis, bread,—one who shares meals with another; the word has been wrongly derived from the Late Lat. compagnus, one of the same pages or district)

companion, comrade or See also:

mate, as in " fellow-See also:

man," " fellow-countryman," &c. The word from the 15th See also:

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century has also been applied, generally and colloquially, to any male See also:

PERSON, OFFENCES AGAINST THE

person, often in a contemptuous or pitying sense. The Old See also:

ENGLISH

English feolage meant a partner in a business, i.e. one who See also:

LAYS

lays (lag) See also:

MONEY

money or See also:

PROPERTY

property (feoh, See also:

FEE

fee) together for a See also:

COMMON

common purpose. The word was, therefore, the natural See also:

EQUIVALENT

equivalent for socius, a member of the See also:

FOUNDATION (Lat. fundatio, from fundare, to found)

foundation of an incorporated See also:

COLLEGE (Collegium)

college, as See also:

ETON

Eton, or a college at a university. In the earlier See also:

HISTORY

history of See also:

UNIVERSITIES

universities both the See also:

SENIOR, NASSAU WILLIAM (1790-1864)

senior and junior members of a college were known as " scholars," but later, as now, " See also:

SCHOLAR, SCHOLARSHIP

scholar " was restricted to those members of the foundation still in statu pupillari, and " fellow " to those senior See also:

GRADUATE (Med. Lat. graduale, to admit to an academical degree, gradus)

graduate members who have been elected to the foundation by the corporate See also:

BODY

body, sharing in the See also:

government and receiving a fixed emolument out of the revenues of the college. It is in this sense that " fellow " is used at the universities of See also:

Oxford and See also:

Cambridge and Trinity, See also:

DUBLIN

Dublin. At these universities the college teaching is performed by those See also:

FELLOWS, SIR CHARLES (1799-1860)

fellows who are also " tutors." At other universities the See also:

TERM

term is applied to the members of the governing body or to the holders of certain sums of money for a fixed number of years to be devoted to See also:

SPECIAL

special study or See also:

RESEARCH (O. Fr. recerche, from recercher, re- and cercer, mod. chercher, to search; Late Lat. circare, to go round in a circle, to explore)

research. By See also:

ANALOGY (Gr. avaXo-yLa, proportion)

analogy the word is also used of the members of various learned See also:

SOCIETIES, LEARNED

societies and institutions.

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