A college student in his second year.

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1726.  The Sophomores recite Burgersdicius’s Logic.—Josiah Quincy, ‘Hist. of Harvard,’ i. 441 (1840).

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1766.  That the Sophomores shall attend C on Mondays.—B. Peirce, ‘Hist. of Harvard,’ 246 (1833).

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1831.  The Sophomores were liable to have the freshmen taken from them by their seniors.—P. Wingate, id., p. 309.

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1888.  The trouble between freshman and sophomore classes at Cornell University has burst out afresh.—Philadelphia Press, Jan. 29 (Farmer).

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