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During that time there were always in the university some 400 men who had actually obtained scholarships on this standard; and a very considerable number who had competed on it, and done fairly. Whether Mr Arnold shared Mark Pattison's craze about the abolition of the pass-man altogether, I do not know.
Caius, equally mendacious but more reputable, the pious 'second founder' of a great Cambridge college. It is only recently, however, that this system has been adopted; less than twenty years ago each candidate for a degree had to produce his 'testamur', the precious scrap of blue paper issued after every examination to each successful candidate, pass-man and class-man alike.
He could not now go in for honours, for the lost year had superannuated him. So in April he went up for a pass. In those times, when a pass-man showed unusual powers, they could give him an honorary class; not a high class, because the range of the examination was less than in the honour-school.
But he ought to have known, and I should think he must have known, that at the time of his writing the mere and sheer pass-man the man whose knowledge was represented by the minimum of Smalls, Mods, and Greats was, if not actually in a minority, in some colleges at least he was that at any rate in a pretty bare majority.
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