How To Use tripos In A Sentence
- And Daniel in particular went on to use it as a home from home whento his surprise, I think, and certainly to ourshe eventually settled in Israel after his graduation, with a double first, in his tripos course of archaeology, anthropology and social and political science, from Cambridge. A Question of Honour
- Moreover, I rejoice that next year is just the season for the triennial examinations, and you should start for the capital with all despatch; and in the tripos next spring, you will, by carrying the prize, be able to do justice to the proficiency you can boast of. Hung Lou Meng
- I became interested in Renaissance while studying for the tripos in Cambridge.
- The mathematician who came first did little work of importance after graduating: this was not at uncommon in the ‘speed test’ which the tripos was at that time.
- In 1911 he became a wrangler in Part II of the Tripos.
- Cambridge University, England, one who has attained the first class in the elementary division of the public examination for honors in pure and mixed mathematics, commonly called the mathematical tripos, those who compose the second rank of honors being designated senior optimes, and those of the third order junior optimes. Autobiography and Selected Essays
- In 1913, after some frantic cramming, he went up to Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, to read for the History tripos.
- Thales sent the golden tripos, which the fishermen found, and the oracle commanded to be [429] given to the wisest, to Bias, Anatomy of Melancholy
- He was a Chinese immigrant at the University of Cambridge, and he needed to pass Part One of the mathematical tripos examination in order to go further.
- 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
