seniorship

"If the seniorship is a great honour, it is also a great bother.

The Channings Henry Wood 1850

Whoever gains the seniorship will gain it by priority of right, by scholarship, or by conduct -- as the matter may be.

The Channings Henry Wood 1850

"It will be cruel to deprive Tom of the seniorship upon these grounds," remonstrated Mr. Huntley.

The Channings Henry Wood 1850

If you can help him to the seniorship instead of supplanting him, be a brave boy, and do it.

The Channings Henry Wood 1850

"Besides, there'd be the losing his chance of the seniorship, and of the exhibition," cried one from the throng of boys in the rear.

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"Tom Channing will have lost the seniorship for nothing!" went on Mr. Galloway, in a perturbed voice, not so much addressing the dean, as giving vent to his thoughts aloud.

The Channings Henry Wood 1850

It was bad enough to lose the seniorship, but that is as nothing to the other.

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"Would you believe that I and Huntley are to be passed over in the chance for the seniorship, and Yorke is to have it, without reference to merit?"

The Channings Henry Wood 1850

Gaunt had discarded his surplice with his schoolboy life; but curiosity with regard to the seniorship brought him amongst them again that day.

The Channings Henry Wood 1850

"Trying for the seniorship as strenuously as ever, Tom?" asked Mr. Yorke.

The Channings Henry Wood 1850