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Harvard has always been hard to get into, but 150 years ago? It was a different kind of hard. We’re talking Latin grammar, ...

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Boys who had not learned their lessons were regularly hit with birch twigs, says a historian.

For more than a millennium after the fall of Rome, educated Europeans were distinguished by their knowledge of Latin. One of the three subjects of the trivium—the basic tier of a classical education, ...