German.

Senior.

GRAMMAR; TRANSLATION; DER ERSTE KREUZZUG;
DIE PICCOLOMINI.

1. Translate:

Die Jalousieen waren geschlossen, um der Sonne den Eingang zu wehren. Eine angenehme kühle Dämmerung herrschte in dem Raum, deren wohlthuender Eindruck durch die grauen Marmorwände und die sanfte Farbe der blassgrünen seidenen Vorhänge, deren reiche Falten auf dem Parket scleppten, noch erhöht wurde. Bei der Aufstellung der gleichfarbigen Divans und Fauteuils hatte man augenscheinlich beabsichtigt, aus dem grossen Saale mehrere kleine Gemächer zu schaffen, und ich muss sagen, dass diess sehr wohl gelungen war.

(i) Write out the indicative and subjunctive of schaffen and gelungen. (ii) Account for the use of s in the plural Fauteuils. Give other examples. (iii) Decline Gemächer. What other neuter nouns, having the prefix ge, take for their plural er?

2. Give the principal parts of the verbs: denken, geschehen, hauen, greifen, fressen, verzeihen, sitzen, bitten, wachsen.

3. Give the German of the following: The more one learns the more one knows.-Where did you get those pictures framed? -I was just going to reply, when the door opened, and the Emperor entered.-He is said to be very generous.

4. Translate: Der Erste Kreuzzug, p. 25, 1. 1, to 1. 26.

Give the genitive, singular and plural, of Sieg, Herzog, Meer, Auführer, Pilger, Mensch, Schiff, Fürst, Entschluss, Monat, and decline die Thür, der einzige Weg.

5. Give a short account of the fate of the armies led by Godfrey of Bouillon, Hugo of Vermandois, and Boemund of Normandy.

6. Translate: Die Piccolomini, Act I. Sc. iv. "Max.-0 schöner Tag" to the end of Scene.

7. "Wallenstein.-O sie zwingen mich, sie slossen

Gewaltsam, wider meinen Willen, mich hinein."

Translate and explain the above quotation.

8. Translate: It is your fault.-Calm yourself.-Princess! I bid you welcome in the camp.-An idea strikes me.-What is the meaning of all this long speech?

German.

Higher Local.

GRAMMAR; TRANSLATION; PHILOLOGY; LITERATURE, 1750-1800.

1. Translate:

Sie

Lange schon habe ich, obgleich aus ziemlicher Ferne, den Gang Ihres Geistes zugesehen, und den Weg, den Sie Sich vorgezeichnet haben, mit immer erneuter Bewunderung bemerkt. suchen das Nothwendige der Thaten, aber Sie suchen es auf dem schwersten Wege, vor welchem jede schwächere Kraft sich wohl hüten wird. Sie nehmen die ganze Natur zusammen, um über das Einzelne Licht zu bekommen; in der Allheit ihrer Erscheinungsarten suchen sie den Erklärungsgrund für das Individuum auf. SCHILLER to Goethe.

Give some account of the relation between Schiller and Goethe. What work did they undertake together?

2. Name Schiller's chief plays. Sketch briefly the subject of the Wallenstein trilogy.

3. Translate into German: Gostwick and Harrison, p. 315. "The influence" to "made Schiller noble."

4. What were the following, and by whom were they written? Sturm und Drang, Leonora, Luise, Critique of Pure Reason, Reinecke Fuchs.

5. Give the original meanings of the prepositions an, auf, bei, durch. Shew how other meanings are developed from these.

Translate: He lives at his father's.-There is not a word of truth in it.—It does not depend on me.-He came at the stroke of eight. I am going to a ball.-They came as far as the house.

Arithmetic.

Junior, Senior, and Higher Local.

Junior work Nos. 1-8 inclusive.

Senior work Nos. 5-12 inclusive.

Higher Local work Nos. 9-16 inclusive.

1. How many seconds are there in 100 years of 365 days each?

2. If 1000 sovereigns weigh 21 lb. 5 oz. 16 dwt., what weight is contained in 192 sovereigns?

3. Of two weavers A and B, A wove 9 more pieces than B, who wove 611 pieces; find the total quantity woven.

4. Divide £48 68. 3d. by 24, and add 13 of a guinea, § of £1, of 28. 6d., and 2918 of 74d.

5. What sum of money will in 2 years at 5 per cent. yield £87 10s. interest?

6. Simplify:

(711⁄2 +6§) + (711⁄2 − 6§) + (711⁄2 of 6§) – (711⁄2 × 6§)

Multiply 491 by 50%, and add

+ [(7,5 ÷ 6ğ) × (6§÷7,5)]. to the result.

7. Divide 0257 by 0041, 325:46 by 0187, 0719 by 27:53, to three places of decimals.

8. Find the cost of lining with tin a cubical box, one edge of which is 4 ft. 6 in., at 18. 6d. per sq. yard.

9. A person who values his property at £3500, insures half at 58. 6d. per cent. and half at 4s. 6d.; what does it cost him?

10. A person sells £5000 Consols at 947, and on their rising he sells £5000 more at 95§; on their again rising he buys back the whole £10000 at 96. What does he lose?

11. How long must a ladder be to reach the top of a house 60 ft. high, when its foot is placed 11 ft. from the wall?

5

7

12. Find the G. C. M. and L. C. M. of †, §, †, 3, §, 10.

13. How much cheese at £1 18. 6d. per cwt., together with £17 in cash, must A give B for 16 pieces of cloth at £3 15s. per piece?

14. A debt of £105 128. is to be discharged by monthly payments of £6 128.; find the equated time.

15. Find, correct to two places, the side of a cubical block of cast iron weighing a ton, if iron weighs 7.2 as much as water, and a cubic foot of water weighs 1000 oz.

16. What effect is produced on (i) the L. C. M., (ii) the G. C. M., (iii) the average, of several numbers if each is multiplied by the same number.

Geometry.

Junior, Senior, and Higher Local.

Junior work Nos. 1-8 inclusive.
Senior work Nos. 5-12 inclusive.

Higher Local work Nos. 9-16 inclusive.

1. If two triangles have two sides of the one equal to two sides of the other, each to each, and have likewise their bases equal, the angle which is contained by the two sides of the one shall be equal to the angle contained by the two sides equal to them of the other.

2. If two straight lines cut one another, the vertical or opposite angles shall be equal.

3. Given two points, one on each side of a given straight line, find a point in the line such that the angle contained by two lines drawn to the given points may be bisected by the given line.

4. Make an isosceles triangle of given altitude whose sides shall pass through two given points, and have its base on a given straight line.

5. If a straight line falling on two other straight lines make the alternate angles equal to each other, these two straight lines shall be parallel.

6. Triangles upon the same base and between the same parallels are equal to one another.

7. If either diameter of a quadrilateral figure divide it into two equal triangles, is the figure of necessity a parallelogram? Prove your answer.

8. In the base of a triangle, find the point from which lines parallel to the sides of the triangle, and limited by them, are equal.

9. What axiom is assumed in proving the first eight propositions of Euclid II.?

10. If a straight line be divided into two equal and also into