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A double-first at the Bodleian library as US woman ...

February 2007 2007

A double-first at the Bodleian library as US woman takes over

February 2007 2007

They seem to think that the noble foundations of our old universities are hardly fulfilling their functions in their present posture of half-clerical seminaries, half racecourses, where men are trained to win a senior wranglership, [47] or a double-first, [47] as horses are trained to win a cup, with as little reference to the needs of after-life in the case of a man as in that of the racer.

Autobiography and Selected Essays 2003

What provoked him most was, that some of those who gave themselves the most pedantic airs, and would have been double-first class men undeniably, if talking could have done it, were those whose heads he well knew were as empty as the last bottle, and which made him think that some men must take to reading at Oxford, simply because they had faculties for nothing else.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 Various

Look at it, a man with a double-first at Oxford comes down to a place like Fernhurst and sweats his guts out day and night for two hundred pounds a year.

The Loom of Youth Alec Waugh 1939

Meredith, who was apparently a double-first, with a reputation that did not end on the cricket pitch.

The Loom of Youth Alec Waugh 1939

He felt very proud as he sat in the same room with Harding, a double-first, and head of the House, and with Hazelton, the captain of the House.

The Loom of Youth Alec Waugh 1939

They seem to think that the noble foundations of our old universities are hardly fulfilling their functions in their present posture of half-clerical seminaries, half racecourses, where men are trained to win a senior wranglership, or a double-first, as horses are trained to win a cup, with as little reference to the needs of after-life in the case of a man as in that of the racer.

Autobiography and Selected Essays Huxley, Thomas Henry, 1825-1895 1909

This was the sorry ending of many hopes, and dreams of a double-first, a fellowship, distinction and glory that the poor parson had long entertained for his son, and the two moped together, in the shabby room, one on each side of the sulky fire, thinking of dead days and finished plans, and seeing a grey future in the years that advanced towards them.

The Hill of Dreams Arthur Machen 1905

It was like setting a double-first to construe the first book of Cæsar.

Patsy 1887