Posted by Andrew Craig-Bennett on January 06, 2010 at 19:55:42 user ACB.
In Reply to: Re: Ages in GN posted by Peter Ceresole on January 06, 2010 at 19:39:31:
I needed Latin to read History at Cambridge in 1971; in the upshot I took the scholarship paper in English and I don't recall that it was a requirement for that Tripos, althought I had "sweated" it and scraped an O level pass just in case. A Latin requirement for History does seem sensible.
On the subject of Cambridge matriculation requirements, my father went up to read Natural Sciences (specifically zoology) in 1921 and to his lasting amusement he had to sit a compulsory paper on Paley's Evidences for "Little Go", as the entrance exam was then known; this tickled him because he was applying to Darwin's old college, whither he went, as in due course did I.