"Matriculate" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... defend his country should he not be given THE SAME CHANCE AS THE WHITE MAN? "You will say that he should go to West Point. Well and good; but who is to send him? Next, who will defend him while there against the "Unwritten Law" of the white students not to allow him to matriculate? "The first officers of such regiments could be easily picked, made from Spanish War veterans and non-commissioned officers of the regular army, and second lieutenants from graduates from colleges giving military training. Such an organization officered in this manner would be ideal, ...
— History of the American Negro in the Great World War • W. Allison Sweeney
... error in describing Johnson as a servitor. He was a commoner as the above entry shows. Though he entered on Oct. 31, he did not matriculate till Dec. 16. It was on Palm Sunday of this same year that Rousseau left Geneva, and so entered upon his eventful career. Goldsmith was born eleven days after Johnson entered (Nov. 10, 1728). Reynolds was five years old. Burke was born ...
— Life Of Johnson, Vol. 1 • Boswell, Edited by Birkbeck Hill
... matriculation fee of 10 shillings which that official was allowed to keep for his own use. The fees were reduced a few months later to L3, of which the House Fund received L2 13s. 4d., and the Bursar 6s. 8d. Students under fourteen years of age and over eighteen were not allowed to matriculate into the ordinary classes except in very exceptional cases. The matriculation examination was at first mainly in Latin and Greek Grammar and the 1st Book of Caesar's Commentaries. Students who failed to pass this examination were allowed to enter the College and were formed ...
— McGill and its Story, 1821-1921 • Cyrus Macmillan
... was born at Brodie in the north country in the year 1617. That was the same year that saw Samuel Rutherford matriculate in the College of Edinburgh. Of young Brodie's early days we know nothing; for, though he has left behind him a full and faithful diary both of his personal and family life, yet, unfortunately, Brodie did not begin to keep that diary till he was well ...
— Samuel Rutherford - and some of his correspondents • Alexander Whyte
... MATRICULATE. Latin, Matricula, a roll or register, from matrix. To enter or admit to membership in a body or society, particularly in a college or university, by enrolling the ...
— A Collection of College Words and Customs • Benjamin Homer Hall |
