From the Greek, hoi polloi: the many; used of the great majority of undergraduates who did not achieve, and often did not aspire to, honours in the tripos.
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Poll men
From the Greek, hoi polloi: the many; used of the great majority of undergraduates who did not achieve, and often did not aspire to, honours in the tripos.
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