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Your question No. 9 raises an important issue. Tutorial instruction ought to be directed toward preparation for the general examinations--provided these examinations are, as they ought to be, and can be, a fair test of a man's mastery of his subject. In my department they are improving from...
Today a man can take a Tripos in almost any set of -ics and -ologies that he may select, it indicates a higher standard of examination than the "Special" and it is only by taking a Tripos that a man can gain an "Honours degree."
Again in the footnote you say that the term "Tripos" is applied especially to mathematics. I think you are confusing this with the term "Wrangler," which was used in the days when the results of Tripos examinations were published in the order of marks gained and in the Mathematical Tripos...
Last week the Committee of the Henry P. Davison Scholarship Fund announced the names of the three Cantabs (Cambridgers) who will study and play next year in the U. S. At Yale-H. H. Thomas of Sidney, Sussex, winner of the Chancellor's medal for English verse. At Princeton...
A great nephew of Dr. Montagu Butler, late master of Trinity College, W. D. Macpherson, is the representative of Cambridge University, and will study in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. A graduate of Harrow, he won a "First" in the History Tripos at Trinity and was a member...