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At Cambridge he had spent a great deal of his time working in the Laboratory, and had taken a good class in the Natural Science tripos of his year.
He was poor and held a small scholarship; but it was soon plain that his health was not equal to the Tripos routine, and that the prizes of the place, brilliant as was his intellectual endowment, were not for him. After an inward struggle, of which none perhaps but Aldous Raeburn had any exact knowledge, he laid aside his first ambitions and turned himself to another career.
Went to Italy for the second time with his family. First heard the music of Handel. Entered at St. John's College, Cambridge. Bracketed 12th in the first class of the Classical Tripos and took his degree.
The names of the successful students are arranged in three classes in a list called the Tripos, a name derived from the three-legged stool whereon sat in former days one of the bachelors, who recited a set of satirical verses at the time the degrees were conferred. In the Mathematical Tripos the first class are called Wranglers, and the others Senior and Junior Optimes.
I did very well in the Tripos not so well as men who started younger but still I landed ninth. Now I'm principal of the new college that endowed, and I have a very good thing indeed." So my friend, the rabbit-catcher, became a successful man, and, I am sure, I wished him joy.
Now a man who studies a piece of mathematics in order to understand some natural phenomenon which he has seen, or to calculate the best arrangement of some experiment which he means to make, is likely to meet with far less distraction of mind than if his sole aim had been to sharpen his mind for the successful practice of the Law, or to obtain a high place in the Mathematical Tripos.
"I hope," returned the captain of the Fire Brigade icily "I hope that is not the spirit in which you propose to go through life. It's a poor thing if you cannot sacrifice a ten-and-sixpenny quilt in the interest of the public good." And she stalked majestically from the room. The Tripos week! Every third-year girl felt as if life and death trembled in the balance during those eventful days.
Hammond came and took the hand which she had suddenly thrown at her side. "We both owe everything to Priscilla," he said. BEFORE Maggie Oliphant left St. Benet's she brought some of the honor which had long been expected from her to the dearly loved halls: she took a first class in her tripos examination.
He took a first class in the Classical Tripos and we thought his brilliant career was assured but somehow circumstances baffled him; he had a terrible time for a dozen years or so, taking pupils, acting, free-lancing in journalism, his father having, in the meanwhile, died suddenly penniless; and then Fortune smiled on him. He secured a professorship at an Australian University.
"Dear, dear! any one would suppose you were going in for a tripos. If this were your last term I could understand it but your first!" It was Miss Marsh who said these words. She was a bright-eyed, merry-looking girl, the reverse of over-studious herself. "Oh, come along, dear; I'll give you such a delicious cup of cocoa," said Miss Day.
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