A Historical and Critical Discussion of College Admission Requirements ...Columbia university., 1902 - 157 страници |
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Страница 14 - Government : One of the next things we longed for, and looked after was to advance LEARNING and perpetuate it to posterity: dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches, when our present ministers shall lie in the dust.
Страница 14 - After God had carried us safe to New England, and we had builded our houses, provided necessaries for our livelihood, reared convenient places for God's worship, and settled the civil government, one of the next things we longed for and looked after was to advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity; dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches, when our present ministers shall lie in the dust.
Страница 13 - When zeal and godly knowledge Have put me in hope To deal with the Pope, As well as the best in the college ? Boldly I preach, hate a cross, hate a surplice, Mitres, copes, and rotchets; Come hear me pray nine times a day, And fill your heads with crochets.
Страница 135 - That we recommend that any piece of work comprehended within the studies included in this report that has covered at least one year of four periods a week in a wellequipped secondary school, under competent instruction, should be considered worthy to count toward admission to college.
Страница 29 - Tutors, shall be found ! able extempore to read, construe, and parse Tully, Virgil, or such like common classical Latin authors, and to write true Latin in prose, and to be skilled in making Latin verse, or at least in the rules of Prosodia, and to read, construe, and parse ordinary Greek, as in the New Testament, Tsocrates, or such like, and decline the paradigms of Greek nouns and verbs...
Страница 33 - None shall be admitted (unless by a particular Act of the Governors) but such as can read the first three of Tully's Select Orations, and the Three first Books of Virgil's Aeneid into English and the Ten first Chapters of St. John's Gospel in Greek, into Latin, and such as are well versed in all the rules of Clark's introduction so as to make true Grammatical Latin and are expert in Arithmetic so far as the Rule of Reduction.
Страница 58 - L' Allegro, II Penseroso, Cornus and Lycidas, Longfellow's Evangeline, the Sir Roger de Coverley papers in the Spectator, Macaulay's Essays on Milton and Addison, Webster's First Bunker Hill Oration, Irving's Sketch Book, Scott's Abbot.
Страница 135 - ... there, but are bound, so far as possible, to adjust the college work so that the students may not have to repeat in any branch work that has already been done, and presumably, by the college's own. recognition of it, well done, in secondary schools. IX. Resolved, That we approve of encouraging gifted students to complete the preparatory course in less time than is required by most students.
Страница 29 - Latin in prose, and to be skilled in making Latin verse, or at least in the rules of Prosodia, and to read, construe, and parse ordinary Greek, as in the New Testament, Isocrates, or such like, and decline the paradigms of Greek nouns and verbs, having withal good testimony of his past blameless behavior, shall be looked upon as qualified for admission into Harvard College.
Страница 18 - When any Schollar is able to read Tully or such like classical Latin Author ex tempore, and make and speake true Latin in verse and prose, suo (ut aiunt) Marte, and decline perfectly the paradigms of nounes and verbes in ye Greek tongue, then may hee bee admitted into ye College, nor shall any claime admission before such qualifications.