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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—M

Mods

In Oxford a contracted form of moderations. The three necessary examinations in Oxford are the Smalls, the Mods, and the Greats. No one can take a class till he has passed the Mods. There are no Mods at Cambridge.

“While I was reading for Mods I was not so unsettled in my mind.”—Grant Allen: The Backslider, part iii.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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