Posted on 07/22/2011 10:18:03 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The following 1869 Harvard entrance exam was supposed to be a breeze, believe it or not (via GOOD).
In those days colleges had to go out of their way to attract students. Harvard pointed out in a newspaper ad that 185 of 210 candidates passed the entrance test and were accepted in the previous year.
But those candidates had the benefit of a focused prep school education.
You will find this exam, which ranges from geography to geometry to Latin, extremely difficult. Take a stab at the answers in the comment section.
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Very good. Simulataneous equations does the trick:
W = price of watch
C = price of chain
L = price of locket
W + C + L = 216 — equation 1
W - 3c + L = 0 — equation 2
0.5W + C + L = 0 — equation 3
A 10th grader in a good school in the USA could solve this.
The math questions are actually easy, but I learned old-school math - the real deal. I never took latin, so I would be totally lost there. I’ve done a lot of reading of history, so I might be able to pass that part.
1) 157,480
2) 3, -1, 2, -4
Latin was still offered when I started HS in 1969 and I now regret not taking it (took French to be around the cute girls instead). Of course, the Latin teacher was the same one teaching the course when my mother took it in 1939 when it was a required course. Given that she went into nursing, it worked out well for her.
I would have failed that entry exam miserably.
They didn’t ask about updock either.
“the writer took the opportunity to mock republican President George Bush, who has a Master’s from Harvard.”
I believe that’s the same George Bush who beat Harvard grad Al Gore and Yale grad John Kerry in back-to-back presidential campaign victories. The media has never been particularly adept at disguising their contempt for Republicans.
Show Off. LOL ;}
did # 1 wrong
Should be 6.44 Kilometres
Old brain cells
need kick starting
I didnt go to 10th grade in the US
I had an even better British education in NZ
Once again, the “business insider” blog is about 5 years late with its breaking news. This has been going around a long, long, time.
And if true, proves only that many people could not pass the 1869 Harvard Entrance Exam. Yeah? I’m sure 99% of folks everywhere in 1869 couldn’t pass the 1869 Harvard Entrance exam.
Contrary to what folks want to believe, there was never, ever, ever a golden age where everyone walked around with brains the size of houses.
A plane crashed right on the border of France and Spain
in which country did they bury the survivers ???
If a hen and a half laid an egg and a half in a day and a half how long would it take a rooster to lay three eggs?
RE: Compute the value of 4 miles in km
Well, from someone who drives in the USA ( where we use miles ) and in Australia ( where they use km ), I know that
1 mile = 1.61 km ( approx ).
Therefore 4 miles = 6.44 Km (approx ).
RE: A plane crashed right on the border of France and Spain
in which country did they bury the survivers ???
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Harvard Freshman in 1869 : “What pray tell is a plane?”
My grandmother and her twin sister, born in Illinois in 1900, had to spend a year in cram school to pass the Greek exam to get into Wellesly. Her sister was a successful Wellesly graduate of the time, she married a Harvard man. Her sister had to settle for an MIT grad.
I worked with an old E.E. who had graduated from Harvard Physics around the same time. He had to spend a year in cram school to get into Harvard, to study physics, too.
RE: My grandmother and her twin sister, born in Illinois in 1900, had to spend a year in cram school to pass the Greek exam to get into Wellesly.
The more interesting question to me is this — HOW MUCH WERE TUITION FEES THAN ? How much of an average person’s yearly income would it cost a family not on schoalrship or any aid? ( was there any such thing as aid then ?).
Well, you have to know these things when you’re a king, you know.
Didn’t have Latin in my HS—started in ‘73. In fact, we were lucky to even have English, I would guess. LOL
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