Fellowship

Fellowship, in a college, is a foundation which usually entitles the holder to be a member of the college, to share in its revenues and government, and, in Oxford and Cambridge, to have rooms in college, with other privileges. Celibacy was usually insisted on in old days, and life fellowships were usual. Commonly now fellowships are for a term of years, or while the fellow continues to perform specified work. In some universities, such as those of Scotland, the fellowship is a university prize for one or more years, bestowed after examination on graduates. See UNIVERSITY, OXFORD, CAMBRIDGE.