Since the occasion on which this ode was sung, it has been the practice with the odists of Class Day at Harvard College to write the farewell class song to the tune of “Fair Harvard,” the name by which the Irish air “Believe me” has been adopted.  The deep pathos of this melody renders it peculiarly appropriate to the circumstances with which it has been so happily connected, and from which it is to be hoped it may never be severed.

See CLASS DAY.

FAIR LICK.  In the game of football, when the ball is fairly caught or kicked beyond the bounds, the cry usually heard, is Fair lick!  Fair lick!

  “Fair lick!” he cried, and raised his dreadful foot,
  Armed at all points with the ancestral boot.
    Harvardiana, Vol.  IV. p. 22.

See FOOTBALL.

FANTASTICS.  At Princeton College, an exhibition on Commencement evening, of a number of students on horseback, fantastically dressed in masks, &c.

FAST. An epithet of one who is showy in dress, expensive or apparently so in his mode of living, and inclined to spree.  Formerly used exclusively among students; now of more general application.

Speaking of the student signification of the word, Bristed remarks:  “A fast man is not necessarily (like the London fast man) a rowing man, though the two attributes are often combined in the same person; he is one who dresses flashily, talks big, and spends, or affects to spend, money very freely.”—­Five Years in an Eng.  Univ., Ed. 2d, p. 23.

  The Fast Man comes, with reeling tread,
  Cigar in mouth, and swimming head.
    MS. Poem, F.E.  Felton.

FAT.  At Princeton College, a letter with money or a draft is thus denominated.

FATHER or PRAELECTOR.  In the University of Cambridge, Eng., one of the fellows of a college, who attends all the examinations for the Bachelor’s degree, to see that justice is done to the candidates from his own college, who are at that time called his sons.—­Gradus ad Cantab.

The Fathers of the respective colleges, zealous for the credit of the societies of which they are the guardians, are incessantly employed in examining those students who appear most likely to contest the palm of glory with their sons.—­Gent.  Mag., 1773, p. 435.

FEBRUARY TWENTY-SECOND.  At Shelby, Centre, and Bacon Colleges, in Kentucky, it is customary to select the best orators and speakers from the different literary societies to deliver addresses on the twenty-second of February, in commemoration of the birthday of Washington.  At Bethany College, in Virginia, this day is observed in a similar manner.

FEEZE.  Usually spelled PHEEZE, q.v.

Under FLOP, another, but probably a wrong or obsolete, signification is given.

FELLOW.  A member of a corporation; a trustee.  In the English universities, a residence at the college, engagement in instruction, and receiving therefor a stipend, are essential requisites to the character of a fellow.  In American colleges, it is not necessary that a fellow should be a resident, a stipendiary, or an instructor.  In most cases the greater number of the Fellows of the Corporation are non-residents, and have no part in the instruction at the college.