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SOPHOMORE

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 429 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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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. 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. The earlier word " sophimore " (cf. " See also:Laws of Yale See also:Coll., 1774," in See also:Hall's College Words) represents " sophismer," a doublet of " sophister," and means an arguer or debater (cf. the Cambridge use of " wrangler "), and is formed from the See also:Greek oo4ivaµa, sophism, an ingenious or captious See also:argument.

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