...Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society. Rules and Precepts that are observed in the College. 2. Let every student be plainly instructed, and earnestly...studies is, to know God and Jesus Christ which is eternal! life, John xvii. 3, and therefore to lay Christ in the bottome, as the only foundation of...

...in the Greek tongue, let him then, and not before then, be capable of admission into the college. " 2. Let every student be plainly instructed and earnestly pressed to consider well the main end of his life and studies is, to know God and Jesus Christ, which is eternal life (John 17:3);...

...verse and prose, suo ut aiunt Marte : and decline perfectly the paradigms of nouns and verbs in the Greek tongue ; let him then, and not before, be capable of admission into the College." Now whatever may be my private opinion, I do not venture publicly to question the ability...

...verse and prose, »«<> at aiinit Marte, and decline, perfectly the paradigms of nouns and verbs in the Greek tongue: Let him then and not before be capable, of admission into the college.' After the examinations had been successfully passed, the candidates were received into the,...

...except to those who practise it." The following extracts exhibit the spirit of the Dunster code : — " Let every student be plainly instructed, and earnestly pressed to consider well, thu maine end of his life and studios is, to know God and Jesus Christ, which is eternal! life ; and...

...Verse and Prose suo ut aiunt Marte ; And decline perfectly the Paradigmes of Nounes and Verbes in the Greek tongue : Let him then and not before be capable of admission into the Colledge.' And though these excursions rather distract our attention we follow him, nothing loth, to find the...

...true Latin in verse and prose ; . . . and decline perfectly the paradigms of nouns and verbs in the Greek tongue, let him then, and not before, be capable of admission into the college."4 In 1719, when Jonathan Edwards was a Junior at Yale College, he sent to his father this...

...true Latin in verse and prose ; . . . and decline perfectly the paradigms of nouns and verbs in the Greek tongue, let him then, and not before, be capable of admission into the college."4 In 1719, when Jonathan Edwards was a Junior at Yale College, he sent to his father this...

...prose, sno ut aiunt Marte, and decline perfectly the paradigim's [sic] of nounes and verbes in the Greek tongue : Let him then and not before be capable of admission into the colledge." Such classical preparation was given to boys by the ministers in and about Cambridge, who were well-educated...

...was, " that every student be plainly instructed and earnestly pressed to consider well that the main end of his life and studies is to know God and Jesus Christ." It is not strange, then, that its undergraduates were expected to " read a chapter out of Hebrew into...