Glossary of Cambridge jargonGlossary of Cambridge jargonFaculty - a number of University Departments gathered together for administrative purposes. See also: Schools.
Faculty Board - the committee which administers a Faculty.
Fairbairns - a rowing competition.
Feast - a better then usual dinner in a college.
Federation - the four Theological Colleges associated with, but not colleges of, Cambridge University: Ridley Hall (Anglican), Wesley House (Methodist), Westcott House (Anglican), Westminster College (United Reformed).
Fellow - an academic post in a college (as distinct from the university). Fellows may be male or female.
Fellow Commoner - formerly a rich undergraduate, often a nobleman, who dined at High Table with the Fellows (i.e. he took his Commons with the Fellows) . Nowadays, often used to mean a form of College membership which gives SCR membership without quite being a Fellowship, and which entails no teaching or duty, nor confers any privilege.
Fenners - the University cricket ground; the University Health Service.
Final M.B. - the third part of the M.B. examination, taken after postgraduate clinical training.
Financial Board - former name of the Finance Committee, the university committee which controls finance; the administration serving that committee; its offices in the Old Schools.
First - as in "a First": First Class Honours.
First and Third - the Boat Club of Trinity College.
First M.B. - the first part of the M.B. examinations; usually students are exempt from this examination if they have the appropriate A-levels.
Fisher House - the Catholic Chaplaincy to the university.
Fitz - Fitzwilliam College.
Fitzbillies - a cake shop.
FitzP - the Fitzpatrick Hall at Queens' College.
The Fitzwilliam - Fitzwilliam Museum, on Trumpington Street.
Fly-sheets - circulars to the members of Regent House attempting to persuade the recipients either to placet or non placet a Grace.
Footlights - a university drama society devoted mainly to comic revues.
Foundation - the body of people in whose name the College acts, as in: The President, Fellows and Scholars of Queens' College.
Foundation Scholars - those scholars who constitute part of the Foundation, as distinct from Entrance Scholars.
Fresher - non-sexist form of Freshman.
Freshette - sexist term for female Fresher.
Freshman - a student in his or her first year at university.
Fulbourn - a village outside Cambridge; the mental hospital there.
Full Term - a period of 60 days within Term (53 days in the case of Easter Full Term) within which most university and college teaching takes place. Full Terms always begin on a Tuesday and end on a Friday.
This compilation is Copyright (C) R.D.H. Walker 1991-97. rdhw@cam.ac.uk