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Updated: August 22, 2026

I could say with Miranda, "O brave new world, that has such men and women in it!" Indeed, though I still stood outside the gates, as it were, I had already felt the subtle intoxication of Oxford. The result of all this was that when I at last got through Responsions and entered Balliol, with the understanding that directly I got through Pass Mods.

John St. Loe Strachey - The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography

It sent a shiver through the college, where there were some faithful souls who still believed that Warrender could pick up even at the last moment, if he liked. It produced such a sensation in his old school as relaxed discipline entirely, and confounded masters and scholars in one dark discouragement. "Warrender has only got a in Mods."

Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant - A Country Gentleman and his Family