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CAMBRIDGE.—The Cambridge mathematical tripos this year contains 102 names. There are 33 classed as wranglers, 33 as senior optimes, 33 as junior opthnes, and 3 ægrotant. In 1879 the list contained 91 names: 28 wranglers, 33 senior optimes, 29 junior optimes, and I ægrotat. The senior wrangler, Mr. Joseph Larmor, of St. John's, is a native of Belfast, and was born in 1857. He was educated at the Royal Academical Institution and Queen's College, Belfast. In 1874 he graduated at the Queen's University, Belfast, obtaining a double first in mathematical and experimental sciences, with two gold medals and exhibitions. He obtained similar distinction when he became M.A. In 1876 he entered the University of London, where he obtained an exhibition for mathematics, subsequently being awarded the Arnott exhibition and medal in experimental physics. At the first B.A. examination in 1878 he obtained the University scholarship in mathematics. He subsequently proceeded to the degree of B.Sc. In 1876 he obtained an open Scholarship at St John's, and has been on several occasions a prizeman at the college examinations. The next in order are Mr. Joseph John Thomson, of Trinity College; Mr. Walter Burt Allcock, a scholar of Emmanuel; and Mr. Homersham Cox, of Trinity. It is remarkable that the senior wranglers of two successive years have been from Queen's College, Belfast.
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University and Educational Intelligence . Nature 21, 338 (1880). https://doi.org/10.1038/021338a0
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