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... translating the passage specified during the quarter of an hour allowed for luncheon . This translation had to be passed back in an underhand way as before ; for no candidate is allowed to leave the schools before he has done all he can ...
... translating the passage specified during the quarter of an hour allowed for luncheon . This translation had to be passed back in an underhand way as before ; for no candidate is allowed to leave the schools before he has done all he can ...
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... translated . Feeling confident that he had not yet been seen to enter the schools , he kept his eye fixed on the master , and backing out , ran off , and procuring a translation in the way described , he then presented himself and ...
... translated . Feeling confident that he had not yet been seen to enter the schools , he kept his eye fixed on the master , and backing out , ran off , and procuring a translation in the way described , he then presented himself and ...
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... translated into Latin . No grammars or dictionaries are to be seen , nor is one syllable of assistance to be ... translations of Greek , and answers to questions on logic . They are seated now , and here comes the clerk of the schools to ...
... translated into Latin . No grammars or dictionaries are to be seen , nor is one syllable of assistance to be ... translations of Greek , and answers to questions on logic . They are seated now , and here comes the clerk of the schools to ...
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... subsided , and Belton was persuaded to continue his examination . One day more ended the paper - work , as it was very commonly called . So far , the knowledge of every candidate had been shown by translating a passage ,
... subsided , and Belton was persuaded to continue his examination . One day more ended the paper - work , as it was very commonly called . So far , the knowledge of every candidate had been shown by translating a passage ,
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James Pycroft. every candidate had been shown by translating a passage , and writing answers to printed questions from each of his two Greek and from each of his two Latin books ; as also by writing answers to questions on logic . All ...
James Pycroft. every candidate had been shown by translating a passage , and writing answers to printed questions from each of his two Greek and from each of his two Latin books ; as also by writing answers to questions on logic . All ...
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