which was followed by another, then a third and a fourth, until he could count fifteen of them. He paid little heed, knowing that those animals seldom attack a man, but usually follow him, waiting until the horse takes fright and throws its rider. My grandfather's horse was accustomed to these encounters, and calmly proceeded on its way. Having reached the gate of his friend's house he stopped to ring, when one of the fifteen who formed his suite sprang up and seized the corner of his cloak. Having no weapon but his riding-whip, he dismounted and violently shook his cloak in the faces of his assailants, who fled. He afterwards confessed that the gate seemed to him to be a very long time opening. 2. Translate into English: a. Celui qui, de nos jours, porterait dans la bataille de la vie une telle délicatesse, serait victime sans profit; son attention ne serait même pas remarquée; "au premier occupant" est l'affreuse règle de l'égoïsme moderne. Observer, dans un monde qui n'est plus fait pour la civilité, les bonnes règles de l'honnêteté d'autrefois, ce serait jouer le rôle d'un véritable niais, et personne ne vous en saurait gré. Dès qu'on se sent poussé par des gens qui veulent prendre les devants, le devoir est de se reculer, d'un air qui signifie "passez, monsieur." Mais il est clair que celui qui tiendrait à cette prescription en omnibus, par exemple, serait victime de sa déférence; je crois même qu'il manquerait aux règlements. En chemin de fer, combien y en a-t-il qui sentent que se presser sur le quai, pour gagner les autres de vitesse et s'assurer de la meilleure place, est une suprême grossièreté ? ERNEST RENAN. b. J'écris près de la lampe. Il fait bon. Rien ne bouge. Loin d'elle, l'autre hiver, mais sans trop d'épouvante, FRANÇOIS COPPÉE. 3. What is the construction of faire when followed by an infinitive? Translate: he made them read the book; he had the book read to them; he made them laugh; he made them sit down. 4. Distinguish between the use of the imperfect and the past definite tenses. Translate: Boswell waited upon Dr. Johnson on Tuesday, the 3rd of February, at half-past two, conversed with him for three hours, and on leaving expressed his admiration for that great man. 5. Give the rules for the construction after verbs of fearing. Translate: I am afraid he will not go. 6. Distinguish between auparavant, avant, and devant. Translate: I saw him before; she stood before me; come before night; knock at the door before coming in; give it to her before she leaves. 7. Translate: she has amused herself; she has hurt herself (se nuire); they would have told you; would she have remembered (se souvenir)? she would not. GERMAN. Time: three hours. 1. Write down the borrowed plurals of the following nouns: Bestreben, Betrug, Bund, Dank, Erbe, Gunst, Rat, Schmuck, Segen, Streit, Tod, Unglück. Also add the meaning of each word (singular and plural). 2. Distinguish between die Bande and die Bänder, die Worte and die Wörter, die Bänke and die Banken, die Gesichte and die Gesichter, die Zolle and die Zölle, die Laden and die Läden, die Strausse and die Sträusse, die Thore and die Thoren. 3. Give the comparative and superlative degrees of the following adjectives: arm, dumm, früh, gross, gut, hart, hoch, klug, nah, sanft, schön, viel. 4. Indicate the preposition required by each of the following verbs: abhängen, sich bemühen, sich beschweren, bestehen, denken, sich fürchten, Mitleid haben, streben, warten. Also add the meaning of each verb and mark the case governed by each preposition. 5. Give the first person singular of the imperfect (preterite) and perfect tenses of abfahren, antworten, aufstehen, aufwecken, bedecken, bestellen, darlegen, einschlafen, heimkehren, hintergehen, widerstehen, zerreissen. 6. Answer the following questions by forming derivative nouns with the suffix -er, -ler, or -ner: Wer arbeitet im Garten? Wer geht zu Fuss ? Wer druckt Bücher? Wer geht in die Schule? Wer hütet die Schafe? Wer jagt? Wer liebt die Kunst? lügt? Wer macht Schuhe ? Wer raubt? Wer schaut zu? macht Tische? 7. Translate into German: Wer A beggar said to a rich man: "Brother, give me something." The rich man asked: "Since when have we been brothers ?" "Why," said the beggar, "are we not all sons of Adam ?" "You are right," said the other; "I did not think of that." Saying this, he gave the beggar a penny. "But a penny is too small a present for a brother," said the beggar. "Friend," cried the rich man, “if all your other brothers gave you as much as I, you would be the richest man on earth." 8. Translate into English prose: Aus dem Himmel ferne, wo die Englein sind, 9. Translate into English: Es wird Abend. Die Sonne sinkt an den Rand des Himmels, und die Wolken in ihrer Nähe färben sich rot. Die grosse Hitze hat aufgehört; es wird allmählich kühler. Ueber dem Wasser erhebt sich Nebel, und das Gras wird vom Tau befeuchtet. In der Luft spielen Mücken in zahlreichen Schwärmen; die Vögel in den Büschen singen ihr letztes Lied. Die Arbeiter sind vom Felde heimgekehrt, und die Viehherde von der Weide. Alles ist müde und sehnt sich nach Ruhe. Aber Menschen und Thiere sind auch hungrig und warten auf ihr Abendbrot. Bald werden alle satt sein und sich dem Schlafe überlassen. ARITHMETIC AND ALGEBRA. Time: three hours. 1. Two spheres of lead, one 4 inches and the other 3 inches diameter, are melted and formed into a single pyramid on a square base 3 inches square. Find the height of the pyramid correct to two decimal places. 2. A grocer buys two kinds of tea, one of which is 10 per cent. dearer than the other. By selling the cheaper tea at 2s. a pound he makes a profit of 20 per cent. At what price must he sell the other to make on it a profit of 25 per cent. ? 3. The sides of a rectangular area are measured and found to be 16-575 and 13.846 inches respectively. It is known that these distances are not in error by more than of an inch. is the maximum error possible in the computed area? 4. Simplify 5x-7y 2.25xy+2y2 8x + y + 2(x-4y) 22+3xy-2y2 x2 - 4y2 What 5. The price of palings per hundred is lowered by 3s. 6d., with the result that a customer receives 35 more palings for £1 than he did previously. What was the original price per hundred? 6. Prove that a quadratic equation cannot have more than two roots. If a and ẞ be the roots of ax2 + bx + c = 0, find the value of a3 + B3. the same quantity to both a and b, according as a is greater or less than 6 respectively. Given that log 2 = y - = 30103, find log 125 and log 002. Also find, correct to four places of decimals, the value of x that satisfies the equation 5* = 50. 10. A man having £1,600 lends part of it out at one rate of interest and the remainder at another rate. Each portion produces the same income. If he lent the first part out at the second rate of interest and the second part at the first rate, one part would produce £16 more annual income than the other part, and his total income would be increased by £2. Find the rates of interest and the amount he lends out at each rate. GEOMETRY. Time: three hours. 1. Describe a parallelogram equal to a given triangle, and having one of its angles equal to a given angle. On a straight line AB, 6 cms. in length, as base draw a triangle of 21 square cms. area, and having the median through A equal to 5 cms. How many solutions are there to this problem? 2. Divide a given straight line so that the rectangle contained by the two parts may be equal to a given square. Hence find graphically two numbers whose sum is 9 and product 16. 3. If from the point of contact of a tangent to a circle a chord be drawn, show that the angle between the chord and the tangent is equal to the angle in the alternate segment. |