17. What advantages attend the practice of "boarding round" by teachers?

18. Would you encourage pupils to report the delinquencies of each other?

19. To what extent would you teach morals in school?

20. Would you require "compositions and declamations ?"

SECOND PART.

CHAPTER XII.

BOTANY.*

1. Define Botany, and describe the departments into which it is divided. Wood's Class Book, page 13.

2. Describe the relations of Botany to our sustenance, protection, and the healing of our diseases. Wood's Class Book, page 14.

3. Define a plant and give the difference between it and an animal or a mineral; how is it affected by cultivation? Describe the early stages of plant life. 14.

4. Describe each of the elementary tissues that enter into its structure. 20.

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Where found?

23.

5. What are Ducts? Their use? 6. What is the Epidermis, or Skin, of which it is composed?

7. Describe the Stomata. Give their use and location. 24. 8. What are Hairs, Stings, Glands, Prickles, Thorns? 25. 9. Describe the two grand divisions of the vegetable kingdom, the Phainogamia or Flowering, and the Crytogamia or Flowerless plants. 26.

10. Ilow are they readily distinguished by their Tissues, Seeds, general structure? 27.

11. The Flowering plants are subdivided into Endagenous and Exogenous. Describe the mode of growth and leaf of each. Name example of each class. 77.

12. Name and describe the Floral envelopes. State which constitutes a regular flower. 29, 30.

*In the First Grade of all our Grammar Schools, Botany is taught, unless it be postponed to be pursued in the High School. Ilence it is expected that Candidates will prepare themselves in this interesting branch.

13. Mention those organs which are essential for the production of fruit. What is the office of the Pollen?

14. What did Linnæus take as the basis of the Artificial System of classification of the Genera? 34.

15. How does it differ from the system of Jussieu ? 112.

16. Describe compound and simple Ovaries and the Ovules. 42.

17. What do you understand by Dehiscence? Describe the different modes.

18. What is the ultimate product of vegetation? 57.

19. Describe the parts of the seed. Where is the Embryo plant found? What are its parts? 57, 58.

20. What is the Cotyledom, and what office does it perform to the new plant? 58.

21. What is Germination? What are essential conditions to it? 60.

22. Define a root, and give its office to the plant. 62.

23. In what part of the root does Absorption take place? 67. 24. Describe the different forms of the root. 63, 64. 25. How can you prove that Absorption takes place in the Spongioles?

62.

26. Define the stem and tell wherein it differs from the root.

27. Tell the difference between a Branch, Thorn and Prickle. 71.

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28. How does a leaf bud differ from a flower bud? 70.

29. What are Axillory and Terminal buds? 70.

30. Describe the Caulis, Runner, Scape, Vine, Trunk, &c.?

31. How does the Herbaceous stem differ from the Woody? 77.

32. Describe the mode of growth, and the bark, pith, and woody layers of Exogenous stem. 77.

33. How can the age of a tree be ascertained? 78.

34. Describe the mode of increase of the Endogenous stem, and tell what each bundle consists of. 81.

35. What is vernation? Give the different modes of folding the leaf in the bud.

82.

36. When are leaves said to be Opposite, Alternate, Verticellate and Fasciculate? 83.

37. When are leaves said to Cauline? When Radicle?

38. When Net Veined? When Parallel Veined? leaves Simple? When Compound? 85.

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When are

39. What is the Skeleton and Venation of the leaf? 77. 40. Name and describe the different forms of the Feather Veined leaf, and mention examples of each form. 87.

41. Describe the different forms of Parallel Veined leaves. 83.

42. How are the Margins of leaves modified by the Venation? Describe the forms of Margins. 90.

43. When is the Apex of the leaf said to be Entire? Dentate, Serrate, Crenate, Spinous, Lacinate, &c.? 90.

44. When is the surface of the leaf Rough, Pubescent, Glabrous, Pilose, Vilose, Rugose, Woody, Hoary?

45. Describe the Compound leaf and name its parts. 91. When is the leaf Pinnate, Bipinnate, Tripinnate?

93.

46. When is the leaf Amplexicaul, Perfoliate, Connate, &c.?

47. Describe the Sarracenia or Pitcher plant. 93.

48. When are leaves Deciduous, Fugacious, Persistent? 96. 49. Describe Exhalation, Absorption, Respiration. 98. 50. How can you illustrate by experiment? 99.

51. Define Digestion in plants. Tell where and how performed. 191..

52. What is Inflorescence? Describe the different modes. 102.

53. Mention some of the Chemical elements that enter into the structure of plants. 106.

54. Mention any other important principles in Botany.

CHAPTER XIII.

ALGEBRA.

REMARK.-In examinations in Algebra it has been found that the majority of students have devoted their energies mainly to the solution of problems, carelessly passing over the principles involved in the questions proposed. This is a fatal error. Every Candidate should carefully prepare himself in the definitions, and thoroughly qualify himself in the principles of the Science; then all problems can be easily solved.

In giving answers give reasons for every statement made, whether called for or not.

NOTE. The references in the following questions in Algebra are to "Davies' Bourdon." P. stands for page. Art. for article. Ex. for example.

1. What do you understand by Quantity? Art. 1.

2. What is Mathematics? Art. 2.

3. Define Algebra. Art. 3.

4. How many kinds of quantities are considered in Algebra? Art. 4.

5. Name and describe those quantities. Art. 4.

6. How many signs are used in Algebra?

Art. 6. Art. 6.

7. What is the sign for Addition, and how made? Art. 5.
8. Make the sign for Subtraction, and tell its meaning.
9. Which is the Positive Sign? Which Negative?
10. How many signs are there for Multiplication?
11. Make the signs for Multiplication. Art. 7.
12. How many are there for Division? Art. 8.

13. Make signs for Division. Art. 8.

14. Make and define the sign of Equality. Art. 9.

Art. 7.

15. Define the sign of Inequality. Make it. Art. 10.

16. What sign is used to denote that there is a difference between two quantities without knowing which is the greater? Art.

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17. What sign is used to denote that one quantity varies as another? Art. 12.

18. What are the signs of Proportion? How read? Make them. Art. 13.

19. What sign is used to denote hence or consequently? Art