tripos
Americannoun
plural
triposesnoun
Etymology
Origin of tripos
1580–90; pseudo-Hellenization of Latin tripūs tripod
Example Sentences
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Fortunately for us, then, Darwin did not waste his time at Cambridge over the vain and frivolous pursuits of the classical tripos.
From Charles Darwin by Allen, Grant
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
Sladder: I don't give a damn for classics; and I don't give a damn for Cambridge; and I don't know what a tripos is.
From Plays of Near & Far by Dunsany, Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, Baron
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
Mr. Titlow was a native of Harleston, and was seventh Wrangler in the mathematical tripos of 1817.
From Norfolk Annals A Chronological Record of Remarkable Events in the Nineteeth Century, Vol. 2 by Mackie, Charles
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