Crossword clues for tripos
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tripos \Tri"pos\, n.; pl. Triposes. [Gr. ? a tripod. See Tripod.]
A tripod. [Obs.]
--Dryden.-
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.
--C. A. Bristed.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. The first contains the names of the wranglers and senior optimes, and the second the names of the junior optimes. 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.
--C. A. Bristed.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context obsolete English) A three-legged structure; a tripod. 2 Any of the final examinations for a BA honours degree at (w: Cambridge University).
WordNet
n. final honors degree examinations at Cambridge University
Wikipedia
At the University of Cambridge, a Tripos (, plural 'Triposes') is any of the undergraduate examinations that qualify an undergraduate for a bachelor's degree or the courses taken by an undergraduate to prepare. For example, an undergraduate studying mathematics is said to be reading for the Mathematical Tripos, whilst a student of English literature is reading for the English Tripos.
In most traditional English universities, a student registers to study one field exclusively, rather than having "majors" or "minors" as in American universities or Scottish universities. In practice, however, most degrees may be fairly interdisciplinary in nature, depending on the subject. The multi-part tripos system at Cambridge also allows substantial changes in field between parts; the Natural Sciences Tripos is especially designed to allow a highly flexible curriculum across the sciences.
Usage examples of "tripos".
Under the Cambridge system, he could have taken Part I of the Natural Sciences tripos and then have had the option of taking Part II either in Natural Sciences or in some other tripos such as Modern and Medieval Languages, which would then become his major field for the degree.
Since Rolland had appropriated an antique French for a historical setting more than halfway back from modern times to medieval, and since Nabokov would have to riffle through Dahl for equally venerable Russian equivalents, there could have been no more apt exercise for someone taking the Modern and Medieval tripos in those two languages.
On May 23 he sat his first two exams in Part I of the tripos, translating into French in the morning.
The following morning he wrote his Russian essay on a nineteenth-century topic and in the afternoon finished Part I of his tripos by translating from Russian.
Sergey remained in Berlin to look after his mother, who was still prostrate with grief, until his tripos examinations.
They cover--and to some extent, by reflection, chronicle--a period during which a few friends, who had an idea and believed in it, were fighting to establish the present English Tripos at Cambridge.
Regulations say--who will, a week or two hence, be sitting for Section A of the Medieval and Modern Languages Tripos, have been spared, all along, the laborious business of choosing what you should read or read with particular attention for the good of your souls.
Now so much of truth, Gentlemen, as this plea contains was admitted last term by your Senate, in separating the English Tripos, in which a certain linguistic familiarity may be not rashly presumed of the student, from the Foreign Language Triposes, divided into two parts, of which the first will more suspiciously test his capacity to construe the books he professes to have studied.
English, bring it within the ambit of the English Tripos and yet avoid offending the experts?
What tyranny exists has grown up through the quite well-meaning labours of quite well-meaning men: and, as I started this lecture by saying, I have never heard any serious reason given why we should not include portions of the English Bible in our English Tripos, if we choose.
This arrangement should be kept, whether for the Tripos we prescribe a book in the Authorised text or in the Revised.
Butler worked hard with Shilleto, an old pupil of his grandfather, and was bracketed 12th in the Classical Tripos of 1858.
After the Trinity had been praised, and Synvoret and two other travellers from distant parts of Empire had been welcomed back with a formal speech from the Tripos the general business of the day began.
And you went to Cambridge--are reported to have gone in for the thing, or phantom, called the tripos, and taken a first class!
College, Cambridge, who, having just attained a second class in his Tripos and having so concluded his university career, felt himself entitled to an adequate holiday.