Word: latin
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...they wished from a scheme of examinations including a wider range of subjects than has ever been given. Under the former scheme of admission examinations, the common method of entering was by presenting all the required elementary subjects, together with either French or German, and, of the advanced subjects, Latin and Greek with composition. The per cent. of candidates choosing that set of subjects for the years 1883 to 1886 inclusive was 221 out of 315. In 1888 the average had been lowered to 144 candidates out of 315. By the remaining 171 men, seventy-five different combinations of subjects...
...widen the avenues which lead to the university, without impairing in quantity or quality the preliminary training of any individual boy; and ultimately to utilize as preparatory schools for the university the best of that large class of American schools in which no Greek and only the elements of Latin are taught...