Could you pass the Harvard Entrance Exam from 1869?

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| Could You Pass Harvard's Entrance Exam From 1869?
| from the learning-for-learning's-sake dept.
| posted by samzenpus on Sunday April 10, @22:13 (Education)
|https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/04/10/230222/Could-You-Pass-Harvards-Entrance-Exam-From-1869?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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[0]erfnet writes "The New York Times remembers back to when '[1]college
was a buyer's bazaar' and digs up 19th-century classified ads from
Columbia, Harvard, Yale, and others. In competitive efforts to attract
students from the limited pool of qualified candidates, applications were
taken as late as September for an October freshman class. Vassar offered
lush room accommodations. The expectations were high: Latin, Greek,
Virgil, Caesar's Commentaries; [2]Harvard's entrance exam from 1869 is
posted (PDF). Could any of us pass the exam today?"

Discuss this story at:
https://news.slashdot.org/story/11/04/10/230222/Could-You-Pass-Harvards-Entrance-Exam-From-1869?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email#commentlisting

Links:
0.http://www.erfolk.net/
1.http://thechoice.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/31/remembering-when-college-was-a-buyers-bazaar/
2.http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/education/harvardexam.pdf

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