Word: paradigm
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...college yard. Latin was the main requirement for admission to Harvard College. The rule was: "When a scholar is able to understand Tully (Cicero) or such like classical Latin author extempore, and make and speak true Latin in verse and prose suo ut aunt Marte, and decline perfectly the paradigm's of nouns and verbs in the Greek tongue; let him then and not before be capable of admission into the college." Such classical preparation was given to boys by the ministers in and around Cambridge, who were well educated Englishmen and talked Latin with their pupils. There was also...