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About this time (1803) the authorities raised the standard of admission, and required examinations in Dalzel's "Collectanea Graeca Minora," the Greek Testament, Virgil, Sallust and Cicero, with a knowledge of Greek and Latin grammars. The candidates had to be well versed in geography and arithmetic...
...with Harvard from the change of curriculum effected in 1787. Up to that time the Latin and Greek provided had consisted of Virgil Cicero's Orations and the Greek Testament. By the changes made in 1787 the students were to read in Latin, Horace, Sallust and Cicero "de Oratore;" and in Greek, Xenophon and Homer. Even this was not a more advanced curriculum than that of the best preparatory schools of the present time. The study of mathematics was probably not carried much beyond geometry. Harvard, then, had 300 students and Princeton 130. A student's annual expenses at Harvard...
...Sallust, "Catiline," based upon the edition of Schmalz. By Charles G. Hebermann, Ph. D., LL. D., professor in the College of the City of New York...
Latin Readings. The Speeches and Mithridates' Letter from Sallust's Histories. Mr. Preble. Sever...
Latin Readings. The Speeches and Mithridates' Letter from Sallust's Histories. Mr. Preble. Sever...