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I wonder how many of today's Harvard graduates can pass this exam...
I heard that George Bush sat these papers and passed with straight A's but after the drugs wore off and he was reduced to his normal state of a drunk vegetable.
I dare any student at Harvard to pass this exam now!
It's dated July 1869. Harvard used a 30 year old entrance exam? And one math question used British monetary units? It may be rubber stamped as being registered in the Harvard library in 1899 but nothing indicates that this is an entrance examination.
I failed. :(
Harvard would be a pretty empty place today if they hadn't lowered their standards.
The maths part is really easy actually.
The date at the bottom of all of the pages is actually 1869, not '99.
Peanuts, that's like I had to do at my MATURA C at "Kantonale Oberrealschule" in Zurich in the sixties ( last century). I was still able to solve these questions.
Doesn't this say '1869'?, not that it matters, of course.
Latin and Greek are both pretty easy languages, and these are famous quotes, which if you had taken even elementary Greek or Latin you would have learned anyway... they even provide most of the root words to use. The math is Grade 11 (or used to be when I was in high school in 1979), and the geography/history is also pretty easy so long as you were taught these in secondary school.
All in all the test is more elementary than it looks, but there is an art to taking exams as well.
Would you like fries with that?
Quis custodiat custodiensis? Caveat Emptor! Quid Pro Quo et Alia Jacta Est. In Hoc Signo, eh?
It's 1869 not 1899
We've become stupid and uneducated. I guess progressive education has failed.
Do they grade on a curve? Today if someone got even part of one right he might have a passing grade.
Although these are stamped "Harvard College Library" 1899, they are dated July 1869 and there is one calculation in £:s:d (which, until recently, was the UK currency). Also, I see no evidence of US spelling. I wonder where these papers actually came from.
Interesting...Thanks!
P.S. Might want to make a correction on the date: The date on papers is 1869 and not 1899 (1899 is the date on the library stamp)
I can see W. passing this one!
Hey guys, obviously we can't have something like this today, because it discriminates against minorities! COME ON! Thank God we've lowered our standards for the sake of diversity, it's definitely benefiting our country.
The maths is easier than an average (European) highschool's last exams... And if they had to study this kind of information to enter a prestigious University then I'm surprised you all find it impossibly hard.
-ioanna
For the currency wonderers: The UK controlled a third of the world at the time, which made its currency extremely important. Also, the non-trivial relations between the subdivisions (1:12:240) is more challenging for the interest calculations needed here.
Ok, I'd get the math part right, but ONLY the math part