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Tutors & Tripos. Cambridge has a free-form atmosphere that boasts, for example, 20 music societies, 9 magazines, 26 religion clubs and 11 political clubs (five left-wing). "Even if it's heretical, you say what you please," says Union Society (debating) President John Gummer.
Such leavening complements the Cantab's only formal assignment: reading on his own for three years in one field as preparation for his tripos-the grueling exams after his second and third years that are named after the three-legged stools on which exam takers once sat. Even this...
After taking a Moral Science Tripos at Cambridge University, Wing Commander Straight turned professional automobile racer, won many contests at England's famed Brooklands speedway, became a director of 21 British aviation companies, married sightly Lady Daphne Finch-Hatton, daughter of the 14th Earl of Winchilsea and Nottingham, and...
A clear understanding of the part the Tripos (corresponding to our general examination) plays in England is revealing, not because everything English is good, but because the tutorial system has reached its full state of development portance of the Tripos has been fully is an honorable and seriously considered position...
In the first place, the quality of the general examinations has often suffered from the necessity of their being prepared to suit the requirements of both honor and non-honner men. The results of an investigation of this subject, under taken by the student Council Committee in 1931, were mentioned...