23 September 2015

sophomore

[sof-uh-mawr, -mohr; sof-mawr, -mohr]

noun
1. a student in the second year of high school or college.
2. a person or group in the second year of any endeavor:
He’s a sophomore on Wall Street.
adjective
3. of or relating to a sophomore.
4. of or being a second effort or second version:
Their sophomore album was even better than their first.

Origin of sophomore
1645-1655; earlier sophumer, probably equivalent to sophum sophism + -er1

Related forms
presophomore, adjective

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Today’s quote

You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.

― Winston S. Churchill

On this day

23 September 63BC – birth of Augustus Caesar, founder of the Roman Empire and first Roman Emperor. Died 19 August 14 AD.

23 September 1122 – The Concordat of Worms, sometimes known as Pactum Calixtinum, which was an agreement between Pope Calixtinum and Holy Roman Emperor Henry V, near the City of Worms, to end the first phase of the power struggle between the Papacy and the Emperors by granting Kings the right to grant Bishops in their territories with secular authority, but not sacred authority. Bishops then swore allegiance to the King and the Pope. The Kings could also call on them for military support.

23 September 1215 – birth of Kublai Khan, of the Mongol Empire. He was the grandson of Genghis Khan. In 1271, Kublia Khan established the Yuan Empire ruling over modern-day Mongolia, China and Korea. He became the first non-Chinese Emperor to conquer all of China. Died 18 February 1294.

23 September 1913 – French aviator Roland Garros, becomes the first person to fly across the Mediterranean Sea.

23 September 1918 – Birth of Faith Bandler. Australian civil rights activist. Her father was from Vanuatu. Her mother of Scottish-Indian descent. Campaigned for the rights of indigenous Australians and South Sea Islanders. She was a leader in the 1967 referendum on aboriginal Australians. She was involved with the Aboriginal–Australian Fellowship and the Federal Council for the Advancement of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders (FCAATSI). She was awarded a Member of the Order of Australia in 1984 and Companion of the Order of Australia in 2009. Died 12 February 2015.

23 September 1949 – birth of Bruce Springsteen (a.k.a. The Boss), American rocker.