Climbing Parnassus by Tracy Lee Simmons

Author:Tracy Lee Simmons
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781497651395
Publisher: Intercollegiate Studies Institute

When any scholar is able to read Tully [Cicero] or such like classical Latin Author extempore, and make and speak true Latin in verse and prose…without any assistance whatever and decline perfectly the paradigms of nouns and verbs in the Greek tongue, then may he be admitted into the College, nor shall any claim admission before such qualifications.

Getting into Harvard then was not, we might conclude, the mystery it is today. Requirements were clear, regardless of family or wealth. One was a student of the classics, or he didn’t matriculate. When the College of William and Mary was founded in 1693, Latin and Greek were the only keys to entry. Yale followed suit, making this proclamation in 1720:

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