Word: similarities
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...scholar who does not know that AEmilia Secunda, the younger daughter of Lucius AEmilius Paulus, married Marcus Porcius Cato, the son of Cato Major? or that Hermogenes Tigellius was a music-teacher, probably a Greek, and perhaps an adopted son of L. Tigellius? Assuredly not. These and similar facts constitute the very basis of an education...
Resolved, That an undergraduate connected with any institution be declarede ligible for its representative or University crew; meaning by "undergraduate" all candidates for the degree A. B., Ph. B., or such other degree as represents a similar or parallel course. But no person shall be allowed to row on the crew of one college who has graduated at another...
...copy of an examination paper on Latin composition, which has in its foot-notes Latin equivalents for most of the English words in the text. He leaves his readers to infer from this single copy that all examination papers presented to candidates for admission to Harvard are of a similar easy character. Such a conclusion is manifestly erroneous, and unjustified by the facts in the case...
Bearing this statement in mind, and taking the specimen copy referred to above, together with the inference, evidently intended to be drawn, that all are of a similar nature, what kind of a set of examination papers would the writer in the Courant leave us to conclude are presented to candidates for admission to that beloved institution for which he is a champion? Undoubtedly the author has paid more attention to the sarcastic style in which his piece was written than to a fair and comprehensive discussion of his subject...
...will not follow that the system of the college sending the winning candidate in any particular year is all right, and that the others are all wrong; but if the prize is taken for many successive years by the same college, or by several whose modes of instruction are similar, it will behoove the unsuccessful academies to look to the differences between themselves and the former, and see whether there be nothing to abolish in the one case or to copy in the other...