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Show MMnilitK of "?cpi homorp." BaysaCinetnnatiUterarymiui ' Iuwnl 1 think that tho wurl 'sophotnon was lua lo up of tlie Greek word surnif)lng wih an I the UiirtlUh word 'mrt.' Hie woiil was thus upplluible, I thought, to the sr m I choB in a college, KvanMi tliey were 'more wlso than thoir fellows In their own eitlmatlnu. Hut It seimi th it the word has pun r gi nealogy nnd it meaning oven K lift Hiring to the (hutx f cMlIegliiiulo whtii.i it in applied It wu firt um-1 at the rnlitrdi) of Cambriilge, Him Is ml, a;. I In lu Itii.tiuy appeared in lie form 'soph mor ,Jt wa coi(ip(M(el of tho word 'soph,' m contra tion for 'KopMster and a (lixtk wcnl meaning folhh (monk-). "ThesrIleRO euuise extended oer tVrce )etirs and ono tutu. The rejeLt lie thine ff i indents lii tnmd freshmen, or flirt )oar men, junior frcphs or soph m rs, Niilor sophs anl ipiustj Jiiers This noiiicncUturu wan triiiferrt?l to tho American higher institutions in-stitutions of learning, nnd in tho fam freshmen, jtiiilorn nnd w nlors still i xit, while it Ins wholly dianvnr-Hl m th other side of tho water" New York Tribune. |