Author: Harry Thurston Peck

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2015-07-05

Total Pages: 78

ISBN-13: 9781330775844

Excerpt from Examination Papers: Used During the Years 1877-1882; In Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Cornell, Amherst and Williams Colleges During an experience of several years in preparing students for collegiate examinations, I have found nothing more serviceable in giving a finish and completeness to their preparation, than the use of papers employed in the examinations of previous years. Student's have often remarked to me that nothing else afforded them so clear an idea of what was likely to be required of them; for while the questions are not alike each year, their general scope and tenor are the same; and there is a general similarity, throughout them all. I have been led to think, therefore, that what I have myself found useful may be of some slight service to others; and it is in this belief that the papers here collected are now published. Complete sets of entrance questions used at Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Cornell, Amherst, and Williams Colleges; sets of papers used at the intermediate and concluding examinations of the freshman, sophomore, junior and senior classes in Columbia College; and the questions asked in the scholarship and other prize examinations at Columbia, have been included in this little volume, so that the student who is preparing to pass examinations, and the instructor who is assisting him, may engage in their work with a better understanding of what is to be required of them both. The colleges enumerated above have been chosen for the reason that of all American universities, these are acknowledged to stand highest, both in their requirements for admission and in the scholarship and literary attainments of their graduates. Whoever can successfully pass the examinations at these institutions need not fear to present himself before the faculty of any other in this country. It will be noticed that among the Columbia sets, those in mathematics are the most numerous. The reason of this will be sufficiently obvious to the Columbia student who remembers that it is in mathematics that more undergraduates are conditioned than in any other study of the curriculum. Still another reason is found in the fact that copies of these papers are seldom seen, it not being permitted to take them from the room. In conclusion, I desire to express my thanks to members of the different faculties for many favors courteously extended; and to express the hope that the study of the papers herein contained will be of service alike to undergraduates and to those whose special work lies in the line of collegiate preparation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.