A LIBERAL EDUCATION (1868)

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[ A Liberal Education: from Science and Education; also published in Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews.]

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[ Ichabod: cf. 1 Sam. iv, 21.]

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[ senior wranglership: in Cambridge University, England, one who has attained the first class in the elementary division of the public examination for honors in pure and mixed mathematics, commonly called the mathematical tripos, those who compose the second rank of honors being designated senior optimes, and those of the third order junior optimes. The student taking absolutely the first place in the mathematical tripos used to be called senior wrangler, those following next in the same division being respectively termed second, third, fourth, etc., wranglers. Century Dictionary.]

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[ double-first: any candidate for the degree of Bachelor of Arts in Oxford University who takes first-class honors in both classics and mathematics is said to have won a double-first.]

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[ Retzsch (1779-1857): a well-known German painter and engraver.]

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[ Test-Act: an English statute of 1673. It compelled all persons holding office under the crown to take the oaths of supremacy and of allegiance, to receive the sacrament according to the usage of the Church of England, and to subscribe to the Declaration against Transubstantiation.]

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[ Poll: an abbreviation and transliteration of [Footnote Greek words], "the mob"; university slang for the whole body of students taking merely the degree of Bachelor of Arts, at Cambridge.]

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[ pluck: the rejection of a student, after examinations, who does not come up to the standard.]

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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