Word: admittatur
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...kind. In the 17th Century, the President and tutors of the College customarily administered an oral entrance exam to each candidate for admission. This exam consisted of dissertations in Latin and Greek. Once admitted, the prospective freshman received a copy of the College laws, and the President signed his "admittatur," thus officially admitting him to Harvard...
...practice in the earlier days to make the Freshman copy the rules of the college to make sure that they were read, and there are several of these copies still in the files. The "Admittatur" of Ebenezer Stores written in 1747, in his "freshmanship year," was signed by the president and the four members of faculty who formed the entire staff. In this record of the man who was to become the treasurer of the University in the post-Revolutionary period, and who was to have the task of straightening the accounts left by John Hancock whom he succeeded...
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