Colonial Schooling And School Administration ( Originally
Published 1907 ) THE studies of the grammar schools were
necessarily deter-mined by the relation of those schools to the
colleges. They taught such subjects as entered into the college
admission requirements. These requirements at Harvard College
appear as follows in that early apology for Massachusetts Bay
Colony, the New England First Fruits : " When any Scholar is
able to understand Tully, or such like classicall Latine Author
extempore, and make and speake true Latine in Verse and Prose,
suo ut aiunt Marte; And decline perfectly the Paradigm's of
Nounes, and Verbes in the Greek tongue : Let him then and not
before be capable of admission into the Colledge." The laws for
Harvard College drawn up in 1734 contain the following
prescription : " Whoever upon examination by the President, and
two at least of the Tutors, shall be found able extempore to
read, construe, and parse Tully, Virgil, or such like common
classical Latin authors, and to write true