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Meanings of senior wrangler in English

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Usage of senior wrangler in English
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Accordingly, he entered at Cambridge, and in 1808 graduated as senior wrangler.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume ...
2
The papers were full just then of Phillipa Summers beating the senior wrangler.
Mrs. Warren's Profession
3
They're always proud of the senior wrangler of the year up at Cambridge.
Wives and Daughters
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You never hear of a senior wrangler being worth anything afterwards.
Wives and Daughters
5
That, after all, a senior wrangler was no great shakes.
Wives and Daughters
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I daresay he is a senior wrangler, and much good may it do him!
Wives and Daughters
7
They calculate more than a senior wrangler does.
December Love
8
He had been a Pitt scholar; he was a senior wrangler, and a Fellow of his college.
Pelham — Volume 05
9
And the quondam senior wrangler almost upset his chair in the perturbation with which he arose from it.
Pelham — Volume 05
10
The wooden spoon of this year would puzzle a senior wrangler of the reign of George the Second.
Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 2
11
Even the senior wrangler-ifit is that Roger Hamley-hewill have spent all his brains in one effort.
Wives and Daughters
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I cannot be sure; and I cannot be sure, though I was educated to be a mathematician by a senior wrangler.
In Troubadour-Land: A Ramble in Provence and Languedoc
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The lists are just put out, and you are senior wrangler; or you have got the gold medal in some country grammar-school.
The Recreations of a Country Parson
14
In 1822 he was elected scholar of Trinity, and in the following year he graduated as senior wrangler and obtained first Smith's prize.
The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia, Volume 1 of 28
15
We can no more believe the above, than we can believe that a wish outside a plough-boy could turn him into a senior wrangler.
Life and Habit
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He was like the senior wrangler who has forgotten how to do quadratics, and has to solve equations of the second degree by the calculus.
The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes
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