Moderations

Thucydides or Herodotus, devoting themselves to the subject-matter after they have proved at 'Moderations' that they have a respectable acquaintance with the language of the authors.

The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886 Various

He was placed in the first class in "Moderations" in 1876 and had even then managed to make himself talked about in the life of the place.

Oscar Wilde His Life and Confessions Harris, Frank 1910

He was placed in the first class in “Moderations” in

Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions 2007

Green's failure to apply himself brought him a second class in Classical Moderations in 1857, after which time he buckled down and earned a first in Literae Humaniores in 1859 followed by a respectable third in law and modern history six months later.

Thomas Hill Green Tyler, Colin 2006

Moderations (1860) and in the final classical schools (1862), and became fellow of Exeter (1863), reader in Greek (1883), regius professor of Greek

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various

I do not mean to inflict upon my readers the tiresome record of my failure to pass Moderations, or the description of how I did eventually get through by a process which came very near to learning by heart English translations of Xenophon's Memorabilia, a portion of Livy's History, and Horace's Epistles.

The Adventure of Living Strachey, John St Loe 1922

Incidentally, also, though I did not acknowledge it to myself, I think I was a little hurt by the Master's want of what I might call humanity, or at any rate courtesy in his treatment of the shorn lamb of Moderations.

The Adventure of Living Strachey, John St Loe 1922

He was placed in the first class in “Moderations” in 1876 and had even then managed to make himself talked about in the life of the place.

Oscar Wilde Harris, Frank 1916

The passman must first satisfy the examiners in Moderations (i.e. classics combined with logic or mathematics), and then for his Final School may choose between various subjects, such as classics, mathematics, natural science, and modern languages.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913

At the end of the Lent term both Fred and I got seconds in Moderations; mine was not a good second and Fred's was almost a first, so what would have happened if Fred had been smashed up instead of me is not worth inquiring, for there is no doubt that I did more work than he did.

Godfrey Marten, Undergraduate Charles Turley 1904