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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. Modern students might find the exam, which ranges from geography to geometry to Latin, extremely difficult.
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