Lent term
Britishnoun
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In the Lent Term of 1832 he writes:— “I have been getting on this week tolerably in my reading, and intolerably in my rowing, having been bumped by the Johnians on Thursday for the first time in my life, and that too when we might have got away with the greatest ease if all our crew had exerted themselves.”
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This little book contains the substance, revised and adapted for publication, of lectures given in the Lent Term, 1918, at King's College, London, under the Tooke Trust for providing lectures on economic subjects.
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After the Christmas vacation follows the "Lent" term, from the middle of January to the middle of March.
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He usually gave a course of lectures on heat and the constitution of bodies in the Michaelmas term; on electricity in the Lent term; and on electro-magnetism in the Easter term.
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The eyes of the sporting world are upon him from the commencement of Lent term.
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