Could You Pass Harvard's Entrance Exam From 1869? 741
erfnet writes "The New York Times remembers back to when '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; Harvard's entrance exam from 1869 is posted (PDF). Could any of us pass the exam today?"
hmm... (Score:5, Funny)
lol@Exam [hint:joke] (Score:5, Funny)
Man, if the examiner had been smart he'd written page 3-4 in LaTeX and saved himself a lot of handwriting!!!!
PDF Files? (Score:5, Funny)
I find it hard to believe they had PDF files in 1869.
Re:Nope (Score:5, Funny)
I've never even heard of Greek being taught in high school...
I heard Greek is mandatory in Greek high schools.
Re:hmm... (Score:5, Funny)
I feel certain there was no rule forbidding the use of calculators.
Re:Middle English (Score:4, Funny)
So when I was a kid, and that old guy from Sussex was always yelling, "áwiergedon cild! tengest min ediscum!", he really was making sense and not just yelling gibberish?