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pitdesi on April 9, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Harvard's 1899 Entrance Exam [pdf]

Original article here is worth reading: http://thechoice.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/31/remembering-wh...

Notes that... "of the 210 candidates who took its 1870 test the June before, 185 were admitted."

Also, according to the NYT, this is the 1869 exam, not the 1899 exam (maybe it was added to the library in 1899, hence the stamp?)

VMG on April 9, 2011 [–]

It also says 1969 on the bottom of the last page

stevenae on April 9, 2011 | [–]

Erm - 1869 :)

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