Word: graeca
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Kirsopp Lake to prepare for several publications including "Lectionaria Graeca" being edited in conjunction with Professor Hoeg of the Danish Academy; Alan M. G. Little to continue study of the theatrical influences in Hellenistic art; Ralph B. Perry for a study of puritanism and democracy...
...entrance 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...
About this time (1803) the authorities raised the standard of admission, and required examinations in Dalzel's "Collectanea Graeca Minora," the Greek Testament, Virgil, Sallust and Cicero, with a knowledge of Greek and Latin grammars. The candidates had to be well versed in geography and arithmetic...
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