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Monday, May 26. Latin 7; English 2; German 2; History 2; History 7; Chemistry 2; Grad. 17; Grad. 36 (Palaeontology...
...following Commencement Parts have been accepted: Hale, The Poetry of Doubt; Hyde, Modern Idolatry of Culture; McFarlane, The Decline of American Shipping; Patten, Latin Salutatory; Poor, the Platonic Idea in Art; Schofield, Present Commercial Agitation in England; Swazey, Lord Beaconsfield's Recent Diplomacy; Taussig, The New German Empire...
...satisfactorily in any eight of the following subjects: 1. English; 2. Physical Geography; 3. Botany or Physics; 4. Mathematics 1 (Arithmetic; Algebra, through equations of the first degree, including Proportions, Fractions, and Common Divisor); 5. Mathematics 2 (Algebra, through Quadratics; Plane Geometry); 6. History; 7. French; 8. German; 9. Latin; 10. Greek. This examination will be held in Cambridge, New York, Philadelphia, and Cincinnati, beginning Wednesday, May 28, 1879. The regular fee for the examination is $15. For this year a special examination will be held in Cambridge, during the last week in September, for those who are unable...
PHILLIPS Exeter Academy is the only leading preparatory school for Harvard that has not adopted the recommended system of Roman pronunciation of Latin...
...living in China have appeared in the Boston Advertiser. The writer advocates the establishment of a "teachership" of the Chinese language at Harvard, and in the support of his argument even goes so far as to say that a knowledge of Chinese, as well as of Greek and Latin, is desirable on account of the literary wealth of the language. Some persons may be a little skeptical in regard to this literary wealth of the Chinese, and we do not fear that a Chinese elective would attract students from Latin and Greek. It is not in this direction...