Mr Tripos, sat on a three-legged stool and disputed in the Philosophy School at Cambridge on Ash Wednesday, his speech being called the Tripos speech.
The common name of Tripos looks like a confusion of ideas on the part of the university itself, and a want of discrimination between its old studies and its new.
But the moral sciences' tripos furnishes, if properly constructed, an excellent means for training thought.
Soon after the Tripos and Smith's Prize Examinations were over, Thomson went to London, and visited Faraday in his laboratory in the Royal Institution.
But the tripos was not a test of power merely; it was a test also of acquisition, and, to candidates fairly equal in this respect, also of memory and of quickness of reproduction on paper of acquired knowledge.
The Tripos Examination was held in the early part of January.
University settlements are no more limited to a single sex than the tripos work of the Cambridge Senate House, or of the Extension lecture rooms, which enjoy the patronage of the Oxford schools.
This name originated in that of the man who was last on the first Tripos list (in 1824), Wedgewood.
The Classical Triposis generally spoken of as the Tripos, the Mathematical one as the Degree Examination.
There are two of these, designed to commemorate the two Tripos days.
The writer does not now appear in person, but the Tripos Paper, the list of honors with its verses, still comes forth at its due season, and the list itself has now taken the name of the Tripos.
The Classical Tripos is generally spoken of as the Tripos, the Mathematical one as the Degree Examination.
Even now, the Triposverses often aim at satire and humor.
The Tripos Paper is more fully described in the annexed extract.
Perhaps it would be for a lesson on the New Testament--for when I was reading for a Theological Tripos he was generous, even prodigal, of help.
Before he decided to read for the Moral Science Tripos he had thought of going in for the Semitic Languages Tripos.
The fact that he had distinguished himself in the Moral Science Tripos at {22} first rather awed me, a freshman.
He had in front of him the answers to some Theological Tripos papers.
Think of the honors that lie before you; think how brilliantly you may pass your tripos examination with your mind at rest.
Well, dear, you have only come into the hall by the dons' entrance, and you have only seated yourself at the top of the table, where the learned students who are going in for a tripos take their august meals.
I have not the least doubt that you will pass your tripos examination with credit in the summer; you will then leave us, but not to be forgotten.
But before those Tripos Papers I bow my head in humble adoration.
He will be so elated and overpoweringly grateful, whereas I ought to be grateful to him for all his work for me; for I am sure he would never have gone in for the Tripos if I had not persuaded him.
He had now resolved to return to Cambridge at once and to work his hardest until the Tripos was over.
If he came out at the head of the Tripos it would be different; and yet that seemed so long to wait, especially while Mr. Juxon lived at the Hall and Mrs. Goddard lived at the park gates.
My objection to this was that I knew myself better than he did; that were I to go in for mathematics, I should be as high in that tripos as my talents would let me, and that my law and my life's purpose would suffer in consequence.
Beading for his Tripos went on with unremitting energy, and he had in use ninety-four notebooks crammed with analyses.
Although not as a rule distinguished in the Tripos Lists, it was then in a brilliant period.
The word tripos is supposed to refer to the three-legged stool formerly used at the examinations for these honors, though some derive it from the three brackets formerly printed on the back of the paper.
Tripos paper, a printed list of the successful candidates for mathematical honors, accompanied by a piece in Latin verse.
There are two of these, designed to commemorate the two tripos days.
A university examination of questionists, for honors; also, a tripos paper; one who prepares a tripos paper.
Classical tripos examination, the final university examination for classical honors, optional to all who have taken the mathematical honors.
When the Tripos of 1822 made its appearance, his name did not grace the list.
The name ofTripos is said to have been given to the place, because the daughters of Triopus used to lament there the fate of Apollo.
He had up to this time read none of Mr. Darwin's books, and to a question on Natural Selection which occurred in the Tripos papers he could give no answer.
In the Tripos of 1870, in the same list among the First-Class men, Mr. Francis Darwin's name appears.
The only occasion in my life when I used anything of the sort was when I was in for my tripos at Cambridge, and then, by the doctor's order, I took a strong dose of strychnine, in order to clear the brain.
Even those who most cordially admire his political ability do not always remember that he is an excellent scholar, and graduated as eighth in the First Class of the Classical Tripos in the year when Bishop Lightfoot was Senior Classic.
Thus this Tripos can be treated either as a divided or as an undivided Tripos at the option of the candidate.
Thus this tripos is (Like nothing in the Athanasian Creed) Divisible or indivisible At the option of the candidate--Gadzooks!
Graduates from every Tripos are found in the 135 in numbers roughly proportional to the numbers in the various Tripos lists.
First class honours in this tripos did not become usual until women came up better prepared from schools.
In 1886 the "medieval and modern languages" tripos came into being.
The standard of thetripos examination may be gauged by the following examination schedules for (A) Classics (B) Moral Sciences.
Until 1874 when a theological tripos was formed, admitting to a degree in that subject only, theology was studied as part of the mathematical tripos.
The champion bachelor was addressed as "Mr. Tripos," and his humorous orations were called "tripos speeches.
The political subjects now form a tripos to themselves, the Economics tripos created in 1903.
He examined five times in the Law Tripos, twice in the Historical Tripos and three times in the Moral Science Tripos.
From childhood upwards music had played a large part in Maitland's life and now that the shadow of the Tripos was removed he was able to gratify his musical taste to the full.
We are an economical race, and since advanced work does not pay in the Tripos, or in the careers to which the Tripos serves as a portal, it is left to the casual patronage of amateurs.
Professor Denison went to his study to look overTripos papers.
In colleges, people struggling through a desert of Tripos papers or Mays rested their souls for a brief space in a green oasis, and took their lunch up the river.
In the Classical Tripos Arthur contrived to secure a second; in the translations, notably Greek, we heard he did as well as anybody; but history and other detailed subjects dragged him down: it was an extraordinarily unequal performance.
How can we, having this incomparable work, necessary for study by all who would write English, bring it within the ambit of the English Tripos and yet avoid offending the experts?
This arrangement should be kept, whether for the Tripos we prescribe a book in the Authorised text or in the Revised.
He graduated at Trinity College, Cambridge, as Senior Optime, and first class in the Classical Tripos in 1839.
Mr. Titlow was a native of Harleston, and was seventh Wrangler in the mathematicaltripos of 1817.
Arnold, and afterwards won a scholarship at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he took his degree in 1838 with a first class in the Classical Tripos and a Junior Optime in the Mathematical Tripos.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tripos" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
