TRIPOS

Tripos

The University of Cambridge, England, divides the different kinds of honours bachelor's degree by Tripos, plural Triposes. The word has an obscure etymology, but may be traced to the three-legged stool candidates once used to sit on when taking oral examinations . An apocryphal legend says that students used to receive one leg of a stool in each of their three years of exams, receiving the whole stool at graduation. Another tradition holds that the name derives from the three brackets printed on the back of the voucher.

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tripos

Noun

  1. A three-legged structure; a tripod.
  2. Any of the final examinations for a BA honours degree at Cambridge University.


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