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  • Cambridge "Tripos" too often gives the studious undergraduate a permanent distaste for the literatures of Greece and Rome.

    What Is and What Might Be A Study of Education in General and Elementary Education in Particular Edmond Holmes 1893

  • I am first in the Tripos, that is all, "answered John very simply, as though it were not a matter of the least consequence.

    A Tale of a Lonely Parish 1881

  • May not then the fame of Churchill be considered to have been e - rected on a kind of Tripos? and if the Fabric now begins to totter, is it not because the hand of Time has deprived* it of two of its logs, Politics, and Personalities?

    Hypocrisy. A satire, in three books. Book the first Charles Caleb 1812

  • The list of successful candidates for honours is printed on the same paper, hence the term "Tripos" applied to it.] with great applause, upon this text, "For thy commandments are broad."

    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete Samuel Pepys 1668

  • The list of successful candidates for honours is printed on the same paper, hence the term "Tripos" applied to it.] with great applause, upon this text, "For thy commandments are broad."

    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 03: February 1659-1660 Samuel Pepys 1668

  • The list of successful candidates for honours is printed on the same paper, hence the term "Tripos" applied to it.] with great applause, upon this text, "For thy commandments are broad."

    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1660 N.S. Samuel Pepys 1668

  • The list of successful candidates for honours is printed on the same paper, hence the term "Tripos" applied to it.] with great applause, upon this text, "For thy commandments are broad."

    The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Feb 1659/'60 Pepys, Samuel 1660

  • At Trinity he took a first in both parts of the Modern and Medieval Languages Tripos – a starred first in Part II - becoming an exhibitioner in 1934 and a senior scholar in 1935.

    On Douglas Parmée 2009

  • At Trinity he took a first in both parts of the Modern and Medieval Languages Tripos – a starred first in Part II - becoming an exhibitioner in 1934 and a senior scholar in 1935.

    A Different Stripe: 2009

  • At Trinity he took a first in both parts of the Modern and Medieval Languages Tripos – a starred first in Part II - becoming an exhibitioner in 1934 and a senior scholar in 1935.

    Translation 2010

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