- and third-class
mathematics degrees are
known as
Senior Optimes (second-class) and
Junior Optimes (third-class).
Cambridge did not
divide its examination...
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Lucis Creator Optime is a 5th-century
Latin Christian hymn
variously attributed to St
Gregory the
Great or
Saint Ambrose. It
takes its
title from its incipit...
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achieved the
lowest exam
marks but
still earned a third-class
degree (a
junior optime) in the
Mathematical Tripos. The term "wooden spoon" or
simply "the spoon"...
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Rerum Creator Optime was a hymn sung in
Matins prior to 1962. Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Rerum
Creator Optime" .
Catholic Encyclopedia. New York:...
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Joseph Lo, How a Rose E'er
Blooming Lord of All
Hopefulness Lucis creator optime Lumen Christi Magnificat Mary Immaculate, Star of the
Morning May Flights...
- ****umption that it was
meant as a
political slogan.
Austria est
imperio optime unita ("Austria is best
united by the Empire").
Austria erit in orbe ultima...
- A
motto of many
morgues or
wards of
anatomical pathology. hic
manebimus optime here we will
remain most
excellently According to
Titus Livius the phrase...
- In
Walter Heissig et al.,
Tractata Altaica –
Denis Sinor, ****agenario
optime de
rebus altaicis merito dedicata. Wiesbaden: Harr****owitz. pp. 487–508...
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Archived January 1, 2016, at the
Wayback Machine " … sed ex
nostra causa optime explicatur, quae est absentia,
carentia &
abstinentia a
vegetabilibus recentibus...
- the "Senior Wrangler."
Below the
Senior and
Second Wranglers were the
Optimes. The
exams concerned not just pure but also "mixed" or
applied mathematics...
