EXAMINATION PAPERS, DECEMBER, 1878.

MATRICULATION.

MONDAY, 16TH DEC., 10 A.M. TO 1 P.M.

GENERAL ENGLISH.

REV. GRO. PATTERSON: J. B. BILDERBECK, B.A.; J. Cook, M.A.

I. Paraphrase :

PART I.

The streams which kissed the living banks,
Ran smooth and winding, deep and clear,

Now edged by graceful willow-ranks,
Now tufted palms approached so near,

That every long leaf mirrored lay,

On waves that crept and stole away

With murmurs musical and low :

While many a lily at the brink,
Pressed down her lips of gold to drink,

And drinking lovelier seemed to blow.

II. Correct the following, making no unnecessary changes

(1.) He asked them whence they came from, and they replied

him from Italy.

(2.) Being driven by a stormy weather towards land, two of the men landed ashore, while another two remained on the boat.

(3.) I asked him what I can do, and he said to be more industrious.

(4.) I will not go until a year in the least.

(5.) The city of Madras, having an occupation nearly of twenty-seven square miles, makes up of thirty-six distinct villages, and with the purpose of the Muni

cipal administration divided into eight Municipal divisions.

- (6.) He threw his eye upon him in scorn, and requested whether he could distinguish black with white.

(7.) You shall seldom or ever meet upon an ungrateful person, who, if you look backward and trace him up to his original, you shall find that he was born so: and, if you could look forward enough, it is a thousand for one but you shall find him also die so.

III. (a) Distinguish the meanings of the following synonyms (1.) Notorious, famous. (2) Sensible, sensitive. Custom, habit.

(3)

(b.)-Give the precise meaning of the italicized word or words in the following:

Tell him to come.

Tell me everything.

I cannot tell what is the matter with him.

Too hard study will tell upon your health, and that will tell against you in the examination.

(c.) — In the following sentences make the changes indicated, and such others only as are absolutely necessary :

"It is so difficult that I cannot understand it." Replace so, (1) by too, (2) by very and (3) by such.

"I have not seen him since 1870."

Replace since by ago.

PART II.

IV. (a.)—Analyse the following, giving the character of each subordinate sentence.

"I have often wished, that, as in our constitution there are several persons whose business it is to watch over our laws, our liberties, and our commerce, certain men might be set apart as superintendents of our language, to hinder any words of foreign coinage from passing among us, when those of our own stamp are altogether as valuable."

(b)-Write the above so as to have only two subordinato

sentences.

V. (a.)-Give the two plural forms for die, genius, penny, and construct short sentences which will clearly illustrate

the difference in the meaning of the forms.

(b.)-Give the masculine forms corresponding to sow, doe, hind, lady-in-waiting, lass, madam.

VI. (a.)-Express the following by means of appropriate collective nouns, two partridges, twenty boys, one hundred

and forty-four buttons.

(b.) Distinguish between

(1.)-He looked over my paper.

He overlooked my paper.

(2.) He brought me two cup-fulls of marbles.
He brought me two cups full of marbles.

(3.)-James said that John should do so.
James said that John would do so.

VII. "I told you before all about it."

(a.)-The above may be interpreted in three different ways. What are these?

(b.)-If you were to read the above sentence aloud, point ont where you would place the pause or emphasis so as to express the meaning in each case.

PART III.

VIII. (a.)-Mark the accented syllable in each of the following words, and give one synonym for each :

enigma, hazardous, imaginary, anonymous, ramification, preposterous, prognosticate, tumultuous.

(b.)-Assign different meanings, according to accent, to the following:

august, gallant, refuse, incense.

IX. (a.)-Give the comparative and superlative of nigh, holy, melancholy, grey, red, far, fair, fore.

(b.)—Parse fully each word in the following :

Fain would the cat fish eat,

But she is loth to wet her feet.

X. (a.)-Illustrate by short sentences the use of each of the following as (1) a noun, (2) an adjective, and (3) a verb :

IX.

mean, rank, tender, sound.

(b.)-Illustrate by sentences the idiomatic use of the phrases take in, take off, take to, take over; set to, set in,

set up, set over.

Write an essay (not exceeding two pages of your paper) on "Cruelty to Animals."

MONDAY, 16TH DEC., 2 TO 5 P.M.

ENGLISH TEXT.

D. WILSON KIDD, B.A.: R. HARVEY, M.A.: GEO. BICKLE, ESQ.

PART I.

1. It has been said that Longfellow's fondness for medieval illustrations has betrayed him into inaccuracies of expres.

II.

sion;
and that Evangeline is blemished by inappropriate
Scriptural allusions.

Give two-only two-instances from Evangeline where this
criticism is true, and justify it in each case.

Tell me not, in mournful numbers,

"Life is but an empty dream,"

For the soul is dead that slumbers,

And things are not what they seem.

(a.)-Expand the last two lines, so as to show how they contain a reason for the antecedent sentence.

(b.)-Where you find "for" in the following, substitute an equivalent expression.

(1.) Take her for your wife.

(2.) A heart for any fate.

(3.) Having the glare of the burning village for

funeral torches.

(4.) For three hours he sobbed.

(5.) We will work for William's children.

(6.) I sold it for a rupee.

III. Express in your own words, the meaning of the follow

ing:

(1.) She broke out in praise

(2.)

His face, like the face of the morning, Gladdened the earth with its light, and ripened

thought into action.

(3.) By her beating heart Evangeline knew who was with him.

(4.) Might is the right of the strongest.

(5.) It was the thought of her brain that assumed the shape of a phantom.

(6.) Into her thoughts of him time entered not, for it

was not.

IV. Shew the force and suitability of the following epithets :honest sweat startled air: gossipping looms: envy, the vice of repub

:

:

lics briny hay: ambrosial meadows: sheeted smoke: wimpling waves: Penn, the Apostle.

PART II.

V. (a.)-The following expressions printed in italics occur in Scott's Autobiography but with a different context. Show that you clearly understand their meaning.

(1.) Their master gave them several hints on the subject which if they are wise they will improve. The boy has been absent from school and therefore it will take him some time to make up his leeway.

(2.)

(3.) The lad's parents consulted the most respectable of the Faculty as to the possibility of a cure.

(b.)-Scott says that when he was sent to College he was put at once to the Humanity class.

(1.) What kind of class is this?

(2.) Why did it receive the name?

(3.) The word Humanity has two meanings as a noun.

What are they?