1869 Harvard entrance exam

[grimey]

http://www.geekosystem.com/harvard-entrance-exam-1899/







For the math portion, keep in mind this was from 1869. You can use this:

http://www.sphere.bc.ca/test/build.html

[North Shore]

Guess I wouldn't have got into Harvard in 1869, either!

[Beefitarian]

+1 I also wouldn't have been thinking of the dude in a beard yelling, "Tonight we dine in hell!" reading question VIII on the history and geography page.

[niss]

Sir this exam is impossible. This is madness.

MADNESS? THIS IS HAAAARRRRRVVVVVAAAAAAARRRRRRDDDDDD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Then you get kicked into a pit which at the bottom is the admission office for brown.

[bmc]

I was surprised there weren't any questions about Biggus Dickus.

[Sasquash]

why is 288 coming back to mind over and over again....

[2R]

Now you know why it took a bicycle maker to make the first powered flight in North America

[Siddley Hawker]

Now you know why it took a bicycle maker to make the first powered flight in North America

+10!

You can always tell a Haavaahd man, but you can't tell him much.

[Driving Rain]

President George W. Bush is the very first President to hold a Masters Degree in Business Administration. Even better (or worse, depending on your perspective), his MBA is from Harvard Business School, where postgraduate management training was invented in the early part of the last century, and which to many stands as a symbol of the good, the bad, and the ugly faces of modern management. Harvard MBAs indisputably lead more major corporations, receive higher starting salaries fresh out of school, and carry with them more lan and glamour than the graduates of any rival business schools — facts which do not necessarily lead to admiration and love.