Monday, July 10, 2023
A Proposed Requirement for College Graduation
Francis Glass (1790-1825), A Life of George Washington in Latin Prose, ed. J.N. Reynolds (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1836), p. 222 (from the Appendix):
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Nemo,4 ením, baccalaureatu, aliove gradu academico, qui Graecam et Romanam linguam (doctrinae omnis fundamentum,) non secùs ac sermonem patrium, loqui, scribere, et legere nequit, donari debet.
4 Nemo, &c., "for, no one, who cannot speak, write, and read the Greek and Latin languages, (the basis of all learning,) not otherwise than (just as) his native tongue, ought to be presented with the degree of bachelor, or other academic degree."
