Posted by Peter Ceresole on January 06, 2010 at 19:39:31 user PeterC.
In Reply to: Re: Ages in GN posted by Adam Quinan on January 06, 2010 at 19:08:08:
I found a googled reference to Oxford and Cambridge dropping the Latin requirement in "the early 1960s".
Indeed. I took my 'O' levels in the '50s, and although my aim was do do engineering, I still sat the Latin exam. And passed, with 41% and 42% (40% was the pass mark).
Yike.