Editing Tripos (section)

==Etymology==
The word has an obscure [[etymology]], but possibly could be traced to the three-legged stool candidates once used to sit on when taking oral examinations, known as ''[[Tripod#Etymology|tripods]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.study.cam.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses/structure.html|title=Structure of our courses|publisher=University of Cambridge}}</ref> An apocryphal legend says that students used to receive one leg of a stool in each of their three years of exams, receiving the whole stool at graduation. Another tradition holds that the name derives from the three brackets printed on the back of the voucher.<ref>"Essay on Triposes" in ''The Classical Journal,'' Volume 13; p. 83; No. XXV, March 1816.</ref>{{Citation not found}}