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The only exams given at Oxford and Cambridge are at the end of the year, and they are similar to Harvard's general exams. The tests--called tripos--are given at the end of every year at Cambridge and at the end of the first and third years at Oxford...
The exam system at Cambridge and Oxford plays a important role in student traditions. Exam results are posted by name, not I.D. number, "on a sheet of paper tacked on the wall of the senate house." In the maths tripos, the results are read from the top of a balcony...
The plethora of confusing, contradictory lower court decisions on the separation of church and state have precluded any coherent interstate-supported busing for parochial students is constitutional; but somehow state funds for field trips are not. The purchase of somehow state funds for field tripos are not. The purchase of...
My experience has been that Harvard and Radcliffe students do not, generally, find the academics at English universities all that heavy going although most of them do experience initial feelings of inferiority in the face of their very articulate and--as Mr. Marsden indicates--well-prepared British classmates. I have...
Darwin, in fact, was somewhat of a journalistic pioneer. He embarked on a career as a barrister after passing the Law Tripos at Cambridge before his first article appeared in the Times in 1907 under the heading "Golf and the Championship." Prior to Darwin, sports in newspapers had been consigned...