SPECIMEN EXAMINATION PAPERS.
HARVARD COLLEGE.
JUNE, 1889.
1. Place or explain the following: Capua; Numidia; Veii; Pharsálus; Comitia Centuriata; Decemvir; law of Majestas. With what important events was each connected? (Omit one; answer very briefly.)
2. The campaigns of Pyrrhus in Italy.
3. The causes and results of the Samnite Wars.
4. Cato's efforts to reform the government of Rome.
5. (a) Education in Rome. (b) Amusements at Rome. (Take one)
1888.
1. Basilica; Lex Publilia; Patrician; Triumvir; Tribune; Roman citizen,—what were they? (Take four.)
2. (a) How did Augustus obtain his power? (b) The reign of Hadrian; (c) The first Punic war. (Take one.)
3. (a) The Roman religion; (b) Decay of the Empire, (Take one)
4. Sulla's rule in Rome.
5. The tribes at the time of the Second Punic War. (4 and 5 are for "additional readings.")