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Example sentences for "undergraduate"

Lexicographically close words:
undergo; undergoe; undergoes; undergoing; undergone; undergraduates; underground; undergrowth; underhand; underhanded
  1. Undergraduate education was considered to be for the purpose of good living as well as good learning.

  2. The undergraduate students were required to have a particular tutors, who were responsible for their moral behavior as well as their academic studies.

  3. Undergraduate students entered about age 16 and resided in rooms in colleges rather than in scattered lodgings.

  4. The grammar student and the undergraduate were tested for proficiency by written themes and oral disputations, both in Latin.

  5. But indeed, so far as looks went, though he was now thirty-four, he might almost have been an undergraduate himself.

  6. AGED 21 As an Undergraduate at Cambridge.

  7. Perhaps the present-day undergraduate would call some of them "simple.

  8. Such a method would involve the utter destruction of the football and rowing seasons, unless the universities took some decided measures looking toward the preservation of these branches of undergraduate endeavor.

  9. Why, you are only an undergraduate at Cambridge.

  10. It is not every undergraduate who has a chance to talk to you for a week at a time.

  11. Our undergraduate days are past, and yet I doubt that any of us would really care to live them over again.

  12. But at last the eventful Tuesday had come--the Commencement that was to end the undergraduate days of the class.

  13. Truly, it had been a great class, but its undergraduate days were over.

  14. Gostar and two or three sedate Bostonians of his age seating themselves on the grass, and looking as cheerful and merry as the youngest undergraduate there.

  15. Well, the average undergraduate would almost rather be suspended for three months than find himself within our grounds.

  16. An enormous sum for an undergraduate to owe.

  17. Once a week during the winter the Seniors were at home for an informal afternoon tea, and it was only on this set day that an undergraduate ventured within the precincts.

  18. Monteagle and I in our undergraduate days had been friends; but like many University friendships, ours proved evanescent; our paths had lain in different directions.

  19. You allowed me that freedom, of manner and matter, which I have only experienced in undergraduate periodicals.

  20. How we Lost the Book of Jasher' and 'The Brand of Isis' were contributed to two undergraduate publications, The Spirit Lamp and The Oxford Point of View.

  21. This is one of the two reasons why pictures of Oxford, from the undergraduate side, are generally false.

  22. The picture daubed by the emancipated undergraduate who dabbles in fiction is as unrecognisable.

  23. The men were mostly from Christ Church; for Landor was intimate, he says, with only one undergraduate of his own college, Trinity.

  24. As a politician, the undergraduate poet knows no mean between Mr. Peter Taylor and King John.

  25. And he, again, would not see Oxford life steadily, and see it whole, as a more cultivated and polished undergraduate might.

  26. One thinks, foolishly of course, of even Georgian Whigs as orthodox men, at least in their undergraduate days.

  27. The years of undergraduate life are those in which, to many men, the enigmas of religion present themselves.

  28. There is yet another cause which increases the difficulty of describing undergraduate life with truth.

  29. Though I wrote better Latin verses than any undergraduate or graduate in the University," says Landor, "I could never be persuaded by my tutor or friends to contend for any prize whatever.

  30. He never encounters the undergraduate who haunts billiard-rooms and shy taverns, who buys jewelry for barmaids, and who is admired for the audacity with which he smuggled a fox-terrier into college in a brown-paper parcel.

  31. The undergraduate poet is a not uninteresting study.

  32. Richards, an undergraduate of Exeter, was a man of splendid physique.

  33. They weren't interested in Cassel's undergraduate days, or in Morse's conquests.

  34. The beard was a memento of his undergraduate days.

  35. When I was an undergraduate there was a song from a comic opera by Offenbach so much in favour as to be de rigueur at festive meetings.

  36. No man had a higher regard for the due maintenance of discipline, or his own dignity, and the reputation of the college; yet nowhere among the seniors could the undergraduate find a more judicious or a kinder friend.

  37. Then he took up some of the little pieces he had begun to write during the latter part of his undergraduate life at Cambridge, and began to cut them about and re-write them.

  38. I need not however describe them, as the life of a quiet steady-going undergraduate has been told in a score of novels better than I can tell it.

  39. The presence of a few senior members of the College on the committee provides the continuity so difficult to maintain with the short-lived generations of undergraduate life.

  40. These examinations were not very severe, and to the somewhat overtaxed undergraduate of the present day might seem almost trivial.

  41. At the close of his undergraduate career he undertook a literary tour through Germany, Holland, France and England.

  42. The fashion started, they say, among a certain coterie of correct dressers in the freshman class and spread until it enveloped the entire undergraduate body.

  43. Cobb had a Latin book under one arm--for even if one labors on a college paper to mold undergraduate opinion, he is not exempt from a certain amount of class attendance--and carried an open letter in his hand.

  44. It is true that those Cambridge men who remember him as an undergraduate remember him as serious, but full of high animal spirits and sense of fun; while everyone speaks of his charm and gaiety.

  45. Another project of these undergraduate years was less his own than his grandfather's.

  46. Since his undergraduate years Charles Dilke had entertained the project of writing on Russia, and perhaps the journey to his father's death-bed revived the plan.

  47. Under normal conditions, an undergraduate going up to an English University without public school friendships is at a disadvantage: and this was Charles Dilke's case.

  48. Footnote: A scholar of Sir Charles's year, and one of his most frequent associates in undergraduate days.

  49. Judge Steavenson adds that the dislike of coarse talk which was marked with him later was equally evident in undergraduate days.

  50. Sometimes people over here have pointed out to me that it is impossible for an undergraduate to work his way through our older universities.

  51. I was not an undergraduate in search of a step-father, but a gentleman and an officer of the college.

  52. The undergraduate body, as a whole, is glad that Mr. Sunday came to Philadelphia.

  53. The editor of Old Penn asked opinions from members of the faculty and undergraduate body.

  54. Nay, I hear that some colleges have even gone so far as to appoint one, or, maybe, two special tutors for the purpose of putting the facts and principles of physical science before the undergraduate mind.

  55. Cardinal Wolsey thought it proper that an undergraduate should be whipped until he had completed his twentieth year.

  56. An offending undergraduate might be sentenced to feed by himself, at a small table in the middle of the Hall, and in aggravated cases to the monastic penalty of bread and water.

  57. The penalty of "sconcing," still inflicted at Oxford, for offences against undergraduate etiquette, finds a place in the Parisian statutes among serious punishments.

  58. A code of these statutes, printed for the first time by Dr Rashdall, shows that the liberty of the earlier medieval undergraduate had largely (p.

  59. Attacks on townsmen were not mere undergraduate follies, but were countenanced and even led by officials of the University, e.

  60. We have quoted instances of undergraduate offences, but the evil-doers are by no means invariably young students, e.

  61. Penalties were prescribed for both kinds of offenders; but though the Oxford undergraduate never succeeded in annexing the hood, he gradually acquired the biretta, which his successor of to-day is occasionally fined for not wearing.

  62. The points of undergraduate discipline on which he lays stress are feasting, dressing improperly or wearing the clothes of laymen, quarrelling, and games and dances "dissolutas et inhonestas.

  63. To a man who has worked without a holiday for three years either in a drawing-office or an engineering-shop in South London, an undergraduate riot of the most primitive description is not without its points.

  64. The undergraduate tolerates and, too often, admires the vicious individual who is reputed to be a devil of a fellow.

  65. The dinner was served in the immaculate fashion customary at undergraduate feasts and other functions where long-suffering parents loom in the background with cheque-books.

  66. This was the real Dicky Mainwaring--the unregenerate, unrestrained Freak of our undergraduate days--my friend given back to me in his right mind after a lamentable period of eclipse.

  67. Not eyen with that solace will the vagrant undergraduate consent to be douched under the stream of my suggestive conversation.


  68. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "undergraduate" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    bookish; cadet; collegiate; freshman; graduate; junior; learned; midshipman; novice; postgraduate; scholar; senior; sophomoric; student; studious; undergraduate