Word: greeks
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...defeat of the luckless candidates and in preparation for the annual victory over the Funny Fellows, the great CRIMSON baseball aggregation throws down the catcher's mit at the plodding feet of the Phi Beta Kappa scholars. The only restriction of the challenge is that no coaching in Greek will be allowed...
...chief change, it may be noted, for those who enter without conditions, lies in the fact that when Elementary Greek and Latin is offered, there is one less examination; under other circumstances the 16 1-2 units is equivalent practically, to the old 26 points...
...made is in the Old Plan of Admission. Technically expressed it amounts to this: that hereafter instead of requiring 26 "points" for admission, the candidate must pass examinations in studies amounting to 16 1-2 units of school work, except that candidates who present both Elementary Latin and Elementary Greek will be admitted without conditions on 15 1-2 units of school work. In not less than five units a candidate must pass examinations with grades above D. (A "unit" amounts approximately to one-fourth year of school work...
...changes of importance are included in the modification, just adopted, of the Old Plan of Admission to Harvard College. In the first place, an attempt has been made to foster the study of Greek by requiring one less examination if the candidate offers both elementary Greek and Latin. A change has been made in the nomenclature of the examination system: instead of requiring 26 "points" for admission the candidate must pass in studies amounting to 16 1-2 "units" of school work, a unit amounting approximately to one-fourth year of school work. However, provided the applicant for admission offers...
...this episode had instincts which were truer because simpler. Though Mr. Cummings' imagination makes Swinburne's seem sluggish, the glimpse of any imagination whatever is too rare a joy to permit of cavil. Let us trust that this one may for a time be set to tend a Greek temple--or even to learn how Keats...