-254-

OCTOBER

6. None shall under any pretense whatsoever, frequent the company and society of such men as lead an unfit and dissolute life. Nor shall any, without his tutor's leave, or (in his absense) the call of parents or guardians, go abroad to other towns.

7. Every scholar shall be present in his tutor's chamber at the seventh hour in the morning, immediately after the sound of the bell, at his opening the Scripture and prayer: so also at the fifth hour at night, and then give account of his own private reading (as aforesaid in particular the third), and constantly attend lectures in the hall at the hours appointed. But if any (without necessary impediment) shall absent himself from prayer or lectures, he shall be liable to admonition, if he offend above once a week.

8. If any scholar shall be found to transgress any of the laws of God or the school, after twice admonition, he shall be liable, if not "adultus" to correction; if "adultus" his name shall be given up to the overseers of the College, that he may be admonished at the public monthly act.

The Time and Order of Studies observed at Harvard (1643) are as follows:

Monday and Tuesday --read lectures as followeth:

     1st year --8:00 A.M. --Logic, the first three quarters; Physics, the last quarter
     2nd year --9:00 A.M. --Ethics and Politics
     3rd year --10:00 A.M. --Arithmetic and Geometry, the first three quarters; Astronomy the last quarter

Afternoon:    

     1st year --2:00 P.M. --Disputes
     2nd year --3:00 P.M. --Disputes
     3rd year --4:00 P.M. --Disputes

Wednesday --read Greek:

     1st year --8:00 A.M. --Etymology and Syntax
     2nd year --9:00 A.M. --Prosodia and Dialects

Afternoon:

1st year --2:00 P.M. --Practice the precepts of grammar in such authors as have variety of words 2nd year –3:00 P.M. --Practice in Poesy
3rd year --Perfect their theory before noon, and exercise style, composition, imitation, epitome, both in prose and verse, in the afternoon

Thursday --read Hebrew and the Eastern tongues:

     1st year --8:00 A.M. --Grammar
     2nd year --9:00 A.M. --Chaldee
     3rd year --10:00 A.M. --Syriac

Afternoon

     1st year --2:00 P.M. --Practice in the Bible
     2nd year --3:00 P.M. --Ezra and Daniel
     3rd year --4:00 P.M. --Trostius' New Testament

Friday --read Rhetoric to all at 8:00 A.M.
     9:00 A.M. --Declamations; every scholar declaiming once a month
     10:00 A.M. --Rhetoric --through the rest of the day

Saturday --read Divinity Catechetical at 8:00 A.M.
     9:00 A.M. --read Commonplaces

Afternoon:

     1:00 P.M. --read History --in Winter
          read Nature of Plants --in Summer

     The sum of every lecture shall be examined before the new lecture be read.

The Requirements for Degrees issued Harvard in 1645 read --

     Bachelor's Degree: (First Degree)

Every scholar that on proof is found --

     1. Able to read the originals of the Old and New Testament into the Latin tongue, and to resolve them logically, withal being --
     2.Of Godly life and conversation,
     3. And at any public act hath the approbation of the overseers and master of the College --
is fit to be dignified with his first degree.

     Master's Degree: (Second Degree)

Every scholar that --

     1.Giveth up in writing a system or synopsis, or summa of logic,
     2. Natural, and
     3. Moral philosophy,
     4. Arithmetic
     5.Geometry,
     6. Astronomy,
and is ready to defend his theses or propositions withal skilled in the originals as aforesaid,
     7. And of Godly life and conversation, and so
     8. Approved by the overseers and master of the College at any public act --
is fit to be dignified with his second degree.
 

Previous   Next