tripos
Americannoun
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triposes
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noun
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Etymology
Origin of tripos
1580–90; pseudo-Hellenization of Latin tripūs tripod
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But the law tripos and the law schools suffer from remoteness from the law courts, and from the exclusively academical character of the teaching.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" by Various
His brilliant University career was crowned by the first place in the classical tripos and by a first class in the mathematical tripos, and he was speedily elected a Fellow of Trinity.
From Studies in Contemporary Biography by James Bryce, Viscount Bryce
The mathematical tripos is divided into two parts, in the first of which, down to 1909, the candidates were classed in the result as Wranglers, Senior Optimes and Junior Optimes.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 1 "Calhoun" to "Camoens" by Various
He took a high place in the classical tripos of 1858, and was intended for the Church.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" by Various
University settlements are no more limited to a single sex than the tripos work of the Cambridge Senate House, or of the Extension lecture rooms, which enjoy the patronage of the Oxford schools.
From Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country by T. H. S. (Thomas Hay Sweet) Escott
But most of the triposes have been divided into two parts, of which the second is not obligatory in order to obtain a degree.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" by Various
At Cambridge the mathematical and classical triposes still retain their former prestige.
From John Stuart Mill; His Life and Works Twelve Sketches by Herbert Spencer, Henry Fawcett, Frederic Harrison, and Other Distinguished Authors by Henry Fawcett
He was educated at the City of London school and at St John's College, Cambridge, where he took the highest honours in the classical, mathematical and theological triposes, and became fellow of his college.
From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg
The boys were taught classics, not on the literary method, but on the academic method, as if they were all to enter for triposes and scholarships, and to end by becoming professors.
From From a College Window by Arthur Christopher Benson
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