Word: greeke
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Fine Arts 2, Professor Norton has finished his lectures on Greek...
...Greek, 7. Natural History...
...requirements for admission have been raised in Greek, Latin, and Mathematics; and French has been added to the work of the Freshman year...
...have served for half a dozen years on the academical examining committee appointed by the Harvard Overseers, and have been assigned, during several of these years, to the sub-committee on Greek. I confidently assert that Harvard College produces better Greek scholars than it produced thirty years ago. That the general interest in Greek is less cannot be doubted; but the repeated evidence of the aforesaid examining committee shows that this is not true of Greek alone, but of all purely literary studies, English not excepted. This is due partly to the great scientific advances made during the last...
...Dean's report concerning the examinations for admission in 1876 we learn that fifty-two per cent of the candidates failed to pass in English composition, while the percentage of those who failed in Greek composition was only twenty-seven per cent, and in Latin only twenty-five per cent...