FOUNDER’S COM—The four days on which there were festivals in commemoration of the Founder, when there was Amen Chapel, the Fellows and Masters gave a dinner in Common-room, and the Founders (v. inf.) received a sovereign each.
FOUNDER’S OB—The Anniversary of the Founder’s death.
FOUNDERS KIN—(see [p. 55].)
FOUNDERS—Boys who proved their descent from the Founder, and were afterwards elected (by vote among the Electors) as such. Only two were admitted each year; and only two were sent to New College, but these two were put at the head of the “Roll,” (v. inf.,) whatever their previous position in Sixth Book might have been. They were not obliged to leave at the age of eighteen, as the other boys were, but were allowed to remain till they were twenty-five. They were supposed to have particularly thick skulls.
FOUR-HOLED MIDDLINGS—Ordinary walking shoes
FOURTH BOOK—All the boys below Junior Part the Fifth.
FRAGMENT—A private dinner-party given in Hall to a certain number of boys, by the Warden, or one of the Masters or Fellows.
FRATER—Brother.