[See -SHIP.]
1. A position, usually stipendiary, the holding of which constitutes a person a ‘student’: see STUDENT 3 a, b.
a. 1782. T. Newton, Life & Anecd., 18. Knowing the fellowships of Trinity College to be much more valuable than the studentships of Christ Church.
1814. Hist. Univ. Camb. (ed. 2), 55. Gonville and Caius College…. There are also four Studentships … for students in physic.
1838. Penny Cycl., XII. 482/1. A studentship, worth about 100l a year, to be held for eight years, was founded by Christopher Tancred, Esq., for four students, to be educated in the study of the law at Lincoln’s Inn.
1858. Ordinances Oxf. Univ. Comm., Ch. Ch., § 2. In place of the hundred and one Studentships now existing … there shall be established and maintained within the House twenty-eight Senior Studentships and fifty-two Junior Studentships.
1882. Nature, 26 Oct., 631/2. That the proceeds of the fund be applied to establish a studentship, the holder of which shall devote himself to original research in biology.
1883. Pall Mall Gaz., 14 Dec., 4/1. The medal carries with it a travelling studentship for travel and study abroad, of the value of £200 per annum, tenable for one year.
2. gen. The condition or fact of being a student.
1881. Scribner’s Monthly, XXII. 235. It was … during Lepage’s studentship in the Latin Quarter that he was first attracted to Jean-François Millet.
1914. Q. Rev., Jan., 89. Otto Eric Hartleben, ready to poke fun at the Ibsen of his admiration, and eager to dally with any neo-ethics that might shock the middle classes, refused to outgrow the noisy youth of studentship.
