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Can You Pass Harvard's 1869 Entrance Exam? (Before there were GPA's and SAT's)
Business Insider ^ | 07/22/2011 | Leah Goldman

Posted on 07/22/2011 10:18:03 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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To: SeekAndFind; SunkenCiv; Slings and Arrows

I'd've aced it.

41 posted on 07/22/2011 11:42:15 AM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: martin_fierro

RE: I’d’ve aced it.

Well, first, you have to show us the picture :)


42 posted on 07/22/2011 11:43:31 AM PDT by SeekAndFind (u)
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To: TheOldLady

I’ve already contributed once today, but when I saw this adorable critter, Upchuck, I thought it was certainly worth another contribution especially when invited to “boop” his cute little nose. Problem is the link doesn’t work. :-(


43 posted on 07/22/2011 11:47:30 AM PDT by mupcat
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To: anchorclankor

Until hell froze over?


44 posted on 07/22/2011 11:49:40 AM PDT by Roos_Girl (The world is full of educated derelicts. - Calvin Coolidge)
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To: SeekAndFind

My grandmother’s family was rich, her husband’s, comfortably middle class. I only inherited $25,000 in 1985, but that was 1/42 of her estate and she had given most of it away before she died.


45 posted on 07/22/2011 11:49:54 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Somewhere in Kenya a village is missing its idiot)
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To: SeekAndFind

I know without looking I can’t.

I’m not too bright...anyone posts here regular knows that.


46 posted on 07/22/2011 11:53:06 AM PDT by wardaddy (Palin or Bachman..either with Marco....I'm often on a DroidX..in bed late...hence my spelling..sorry)
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To: SeekAndFind
Harvard Freshman in 1869 : “What pray tell is a plane?”

- a two-dimensional group of points that goes on infinitely in all directions; made up of infinite lines

47 posted on 07/22/2011 11:55:17 AM PDT by ThomasThomas (I am still looking)
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To: SeekAndFind
HOW MUCH WERE TUITION FEES THAN ?

College tuition was unbelievably cheap in 19th century America.

I have forgotten the figure I heard ($40 a year?), but I remember even adjusted for inflation it was astoundingly cheap.

When I went for my undergrad forty years ago, tuition at my school was the highest in the country: $1000 a semester.

Tuition loans that have thrown this out of kilter. The more money you give people to spend on something, the more that something will cost. And look at the fluff colleges spend their money on: million dollar a year sports coaches, for example and other nonsensical status symbol wastes of money.

48 posted on 07/22/2011 11:58:13 AM PDT by Age of Reason
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To: anchorclankor
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?

Depends where he's laying them.

49 posted on 07/22/2011 11:58:13 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS (Rose, there's a Messerschmitt in the kitchen. Clean it up, will ya?)
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To: SeekAndFind

Such tests are always tailored to the prior curriculum.

Since the curriculum has changed greatly since then, it is no surprise many today would fail the test.

qed


50 posted on 07/22/2011 12:04:31 PM PDT by Moltke (Always retaliate first.)
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To: SeekAndFind

In 1869 Harvard was an all male school. I’m a young buck still counting my lucky stars for missing the Civil War by just a few years. Why the heck would I throw that luck aside and pass up on going to a co-ed school? I’ll take a rain check on the Harvard exam thanks, now what school had the most women to men ratio in 1869? The important stuff.


51 posted on 07/22/2011 12:09:13 PM PDT by NavyCanDo
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To: SeekAndFind
42.
52 posted on 07/22/2011 12:35:59 PM PDT by headsonpikes (Genocide is the highest sacrament of socialism - "Who-whom?")
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To: IYAS9YAS

Hell I know the answer to that one. Never wanted to go to that damaging place as find liberals lying slimes.


53 posted on 07/22/2011 12:37:37 PM PDT by mcshot (Under construction..Ditch Mitch, expose Barry's real life and handlers,Save US.)
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To: mupcat
Thank you so much for letting me know! This one will work.
54 posted on 07/22/2011 12:45:15 PM PDT by TheOldLady (FReepmail me to get ON or OFF the ZOT LIGHTNING ping list.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Incredible.. 185 of 210 passed it despite not having trillions of dollars flowing into the pockets of worthless union teachers.


55 posted on 07/22/2011 12:48:35 PM PDT by rjeffries
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To: wardaddy
You are one of the brighter posters around here. :)

The very questions make my head spin. It takes me back to the years I struggled in school before I finally figured out how my own brain worked.

Unless I took pencil to paper and took notes/outlined, forget it. Underlining or highlighting was useless. A textbook was nothing more than words on pages. I knew all of the words, I knew the meaning of the words, but unless I allowed my brain to digest it piece by piece nothing would stick.

I think it is my way of slowing the parts of my brain which are always in a hurry.

56 posted on 07/22/2011 1:12:50 PM PDT by Protect the Bill of Rights
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To: martin_fierro

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Thanks martin_fierro.

Aced it? Not bad. Of course, I don't know what the graphic is, it didn't load.

Just adding to the catalog, not sending a general distribution.

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57 posted on 07/22/2011 1:27:37 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Yes, as a matter of fact, it is that time again -- https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: TheOldLady

You are very welcome. NOW I will make another donation. I’m just a complete sucker for cute, fuzzy critters so please don’t put another one up or I’ll be broke before the day of over. :-)


58 posted on 07/22/2011 2:30:48 PM PDT by mupcat
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To: SeekAndFind

LOL


59 posted on 07/22/2011 2:45:15 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: SeekAndFind

Well the chances in 1869 are that you had been exposed to smallpox, polio and TB.

People on the plains were getting butchered by godless savages.

I prefer to live now, as an idiot.


60 posted on 07/22/2011 2:58:19 PM PDT by Vermont Lt (I can't think of anything clever, so I'll just say, "Obama sucks.")
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