When I was an undergraduate, long ago, there was a legend at my college concerning a student who was up for a summa cum laude degree in English literature and failed not only to garner that high honor but to receive an honors degree at all. According to the legend, this happened because, during his oral exams, he confessed that he had never read the multi-volume novel Middlemarch by British author George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans). The legend was assumed to be apocryphal, but also to indicate the English department's conviction that if you had not read this work, then ipso facto you had not mastered this chosen field of study.
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机译：当我很久以前我是本科生时，我的大学有一个传奇的学生，他在英国文学中召开了夏天奖项学位，而且不仅仅是为了获得高度荣誉，而且根本获得荣誉程度。 根据传说，这发生了，因为，在他的口头考试期间，他承认他从未阅读过英国作家乔治·艾略特（Mary Ann Evans）的多卷小说中间人。 传说被认为是奥波德里布尔，而且还表明英国部门的信念，如果你还没有阅读这项工作，那么IPSO事实你没有掌握这一选择的学习领域。
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