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Honour Moderations

British  

plural noun

  1. Sometimes shortened to: Moderations.   Mods.  (at Oxford University) the first public examination, in which candidates are placed into one of three classes of honours

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Moreover, I have to spend the later part of the afternoon in reading the Cr--, I should say, the admirable and scholarly version of Professor Jebb—to three Commoners who are taking up Sophocles for Honour Moderations.”

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