Timeline for What did it mean to be a Grecian in late-18th Century British schools?
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| Apr 20, 2021 at 14:33 | vote | accept | walrus | ||
| Apr 12, 2021 at 14:14 | comment | added | walrus | Yes - the comment about Xenophon clearly indicates that to my mind, but I was asking if it didn't only mean that he'd learnt ancient Greek. | |
| Apr 11, 2021 at 13:44 | comment | added | Henry | I would say the context suggests precisely that to be a Grecian did mean that he had learnt ancient Greek. | |
| Apr 11, 2021 at 10:15 | comment | added | walrus | Yes indeed, I appreciate that he could have gone to university at 17, but it seems extremely unlikely that he would have finished university and gone to sea by 17 without the novelist mentioning it. | |
| Apr 11, 2021 at 5:04 | comment | added | user3482749 | @jamesqf Under 18? Certainly not. In particular, it is extremely common for students from Scotland to start university at 17. Under 16 is much rarer, but still by no means newsworthy, except perhaps in the local papers of some very small village that such a student might come from. | |
| Apr 11, 2021 at 3:48 | comment | added | jamesqf | @user3482749: But how often are they used? Seldom enough, I think, that the occasional university student under 18 is newsworthy. | |
| Apr 11, 2021 at 3:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackHistory/status/1381079728291987456 | ||
| Apr 10, 2021 at 16:37 | comment | added | user3482749 | @jamesqf Cambridge, at least, still has policies and arrangements in place for students under 16. | |
| Apr 10, 2021 at 4:10 | comment | added | jamesqf | Re being only 17, British (and other) universities were not so age-obsessed then as they are in the modern day. Apparently students could be admitted even younger than 14, per the answer to this question: history.stackexchange.com/questions/41469/… | |
| Apr 10, 2021 at 0:24 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Apr 9, 2021 at 16:38 | answer | added | Pieter Geerkens | timeline score: 16 | |
| Apr 9, 2021 at 16:21 | history | asked | walrus | CC BY-SA 4.0 |