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...this old ivy puzzle is the University of Pennsylvania. Penn dates its founding from 1740 and the erection of a building which eleven years later opened '"for the instruction of poor Children gratis in Reading, Writing and Arithmetick." The Academy and Charitable School, as it was originally titled, was actually chartered as a college...
...requirements, too, differ entirely from the ones now in use. In 1820 the prospective student had to be: "Well versed in the grammar of the English, Latin and Greek languages; in 'Virgil', Cicero's 'Select Orations', 'Salust', 'The Greek Testament', Dalzel's 'Collectanea Graeca Minora', 'Latin and Greek Prosody', 'Arithmetick', and 'Ancient and Modern Geography...
...able, properly, to construe and parse any portion of the following books, namely : Jacobs' Greek Reader, the Gospels in the Greek Testament, Virgil, Sallust and Cicero's Select Orations, and to translate English into Latin correctly. He must be versed in ancient and modern geography; the fundamental rules of arithmetick; vulgar and decimal fractions; proportion, simple and compound; single and double fellowships; alligation, medical and alternate; and algebra to the end of simple equations; comprehend, also, the doctrine of roots and powers, and arithmetical and geometrical progression. . . . . Every person, before admission to any of the classes or schools...
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