What with themes, forensics, letters, memoranda, notes on lectures, verses, and articles, I find myself considerably hurried.—Collegian, 1830, p. 241.
When
I call to mind Forensics numberless,
With arguments so grave and erudite,
I never understood their force myself,
But trusted that my sage instructor would.
Harvardiana, Vol. III. p. 403.
FORK ON. At Hamilton College, to fork on, to appropriate to one's self.
FORTS. At Jefferson and at Washington Colleges in Pennsylvania, the boarding-houses for the students are called forts.
FOUNDATION. A donation or legacy appropriated to support an institution, and constituting a permanent fund, usually for a charitable purpose.—Webster.
In America it is also applied to a donation or legacy appropriated especially to maintain poor and deserving, or other students, at a college.
In the selection of candidates for the various beneficiary foundations, the preference will be given to those who are of exemplary conduct and scholarship.—Laws of Univ. at Cam., Mass., 1848, p. 19.
Scholars on this foundation are to be called "scholars of the house."—Sketches of Yale Coll., p. 86.
FOUNDATIONER. One who derives support from the funds or foundation of a college or a great school.—Jackson.
This word is not in use in the United States.