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SOPHOMORE
, the name in See also:American See also:universities (corresponding to "sophister " at See also:Cambridge, See also:England, and Trinity See also:College, See also:Dublin) for a student who has completed his first See also:year of See also:academic studies
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It is a corruption of the earlier " sophimore," due to a supposed derivation from vocbbr, See also:wise, and µiopos, foolish, alluding to the See also:air of See also:wisdom assumed by students after their freshman's year was concluded
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The earlier word " sophimore " (cf
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" See also:Laws of Yale See also:Coll., 1774," in See also: |
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