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...When any Schollar is able to Read Tully or such like classical Latin Author ex tempore, & make and speak true Latin in verse and prose suo (up aiunt) Marte, and decline perfectly the paradigmes of Nounes and verbes in ye Greeke tongue, then may hee be admitted into Ye College, nor shall any claime admission before such qualifications...
Needless to say, wine, liquor and tobacco were prohibited in undergraduate rooms, and kegs were absolutely not allowed in bathtubs. Furthermore, any schollar caught playing Crazy Eights or Double Solitaire or throwing dice with his chambermate could expect to add five shilling to Harvard's endowment. Get caught a second time, and it was a public confession...
...When any Schollar is able to Read Tully or such like classical Latin Authours ex tempore, and make and speake true Latin in verse and prose suo (ut aiunt) Marte, and decline perfectly the paradigmes of Nounes and verbes in the Greeke toungue, then may hee bee admitted into the College...
...When any schollar is able to read and understand Tully, Virgil or any such ordinary Classicall Authors, and can readily make and speake or write true Latin in prose and hath skill in making verse, and is Competently grounded in the Greeke language: so as to be able to Construe and Grammatically to resolve ordinary Greeke, as in the Greeke Testament, Isocrates, and the minor poets, or such like, having withall meet Testimony of his towardlinesse, hee shall be capable of his admission into the Colledge...
...early records of the college contain many references to punishment of students and reprimanding of faculty and presidents for indiscreet references to the scriptures. The following was one of the regulations in 1643: Every schollar shall be present in his Tutor's Chamber at the seventh houre in the morning, immediately after the sound of the bell, at his opening the scripture and prayer. So also at the fifth houre at night, and then give account of his own private reading in the scriptures...