HYDROSTATICS. 1. (a) What is a fluid? (b) Give difference between a fluid and a powder. (c) What do you mean by liquid and gazeous fluids, and by density of fluids ? 2. What is the pressure of the atmosphere on bodies, and how is it we feel no inconvenience from it? 3. How is it that a barometer is a means of ascertaining approximately the height of a mountain ? 4. Describle the Siphon, and explain its principle? 1. Explain flotation in water. PHYSICS. 2. How do you explain the action of blotting paper on liquids? 3. What is the difference between a noise and a sound? 4. What is an echo? 5. Name the good and bad heat conductors which are in use in common households. 6. What is the influence of points on electricity? Class I.-Chemistry and Botany. Examiners....... S REV. D. GRATON, B.A. MR. THOMAS GROVER, B.A. CHEMISTRY. 1. What is meant by (a) a chemical action, (b) metals and non metals. 2. Name the metals which are lighter than water. 3. Say what you know about hydrogen. 4. What is the composition of coal gas, and how is it produced for illuminating purposes? 5. What is fermentation, and what are the principal forms of fermentation? (c) an incomplete do (d) an irregular do 5. What is a simple fruit? and how are simple fruits classified? 6. Describe the action of a plant. Examiners...... Class I.-Physiology and Hygiene. Time, 2 hours. REV. D. GRATON, BA. PHYSIOLOGY. 1. Give the principal bones and cartilages of the skeleton. 2. Describe the heart and its working. 3. What is the function of the blood? 4. What is the composition and quantity of sweat? 5. Describe the principal organs of the voice. 6. Describe the general structure of the brain. HYGIENE. 1. Give the principal causes of fever, and treatment of fever cases. 2. What is the importance of teeth as agents in digestion, and how to keep them in healthy condition? 3. How does manual exercise act upon digestion ? 4. How should the feet be kept so as to contribute to the general health of the body? 5. What is the importance of sunshine as a hygienic agent? Class I.-School Organization, Management, Principles and Practice of Teaching. Examiners........... Time, 2 hours. { MR. THOMAS GROVER, B.A. 1. Define pedagogy and psychology, and state the educational value of the latter, as an aid in teaching. 2. What course would you pursue as regards organization, classification and general management, when you take charge of a school? 3. Explain school tactics and state their value as an aid in school management. 4. How would you classify an ungraded elementary school? State the advantages of a room classification over a loose. 5. Why is the first day of the school the most important day of the term? 6. What are methods of teaching? Name some of the characteristics of a good method. What is the value of object lessons? 7. State the difference between the old education and the new? Give a brief outline of your method of teaching a Primary Class reading and numbers. 8. Mention some of the essential qualifications of a good teacher. APPENDIX E. CORRESPONDENCE re SCHOOL LANDS. OTTAWA, 10th November, 1887. SIR,-Adverting to my letter of the 19th September last, I beg to say that I have submitted to the Minister of the Interior your letter of the 14th July, and in reply to the several paragraphs thereof, am directed by him to say: 1. The same means are taken to inspect and protect the hay and timber on School Lands throughout Manitoba and the Territories as are taken to protect the hay and timber on Dominion Lands generally, and no proportion of the expense is charged against the School Fund. 2 and 3. As stated in my letter of the 13th September, there are, so far as the records of this Department show, only two quarter-sections of School Lands in the North-West Territories which have been disposed of by the Dominion Government in lieu of which no lands have been selected. The attention of the proper Agent of Dominion Lands has been called to these two cases, with the request that he will at once report lands of equal value which may be so set apart. A circular letter has also been addressed to all the Agents of Dominion Lands in the Territories, asking them to report what School Lands within their respective districts have been disposed of, and in each case whether other-and if so, what-lands have been selected in lieu, In this way, the opportunity will be afforded of confirming the accuracy of the record at headquarters, or of correcting it if that should. be necessary. You will be duly informed of the result. No provision is made in the Dominion Lands Act for the reservation of any portion of the public domain for school purposes until it has been surveyed into sections. Nevertheless the Minister thinks it but fair, in those localities where the land has been laid out into River Lots instead of into Sections, that one-eighteenth of the area should be reserved tor School purposes, for there does not appear to him to be any reason why, because people in certain settlements have had surveys made for them different to the ordinary sectional surveys, those settlements should not be called upon to contribute their share to the School Endowment. Instructions have been issued accordingly. 4. This paragraph is covered by the remarks made in respect to No. 1. 5. The Department has never administered the hay lands in any portion of Manitoba or the Territories with a view to deriving a revenue therefrom. The sole object of the hay permit system has been to prevent the monopoly of hay privileges to the disadvantage of actual settlers. A scheme for the leasing of School sections, valuable for hay purposes, for a definite period of five years, has recently been under the consideration of the Minister, upon which I hope to write you further within a short time. 6. The School Sections are specially exempted from cattle ranche leases, but their area is included in the total area charged for, and the Minister thinks it but reasonable that the School Fund should be credited with the proper proportion of the revenue derived from grazing lands. It will be easy to rectify the accounts in that manner, and steps are being taken with that end in view at the present time. 7. Reference to the provisions of the Dominion Lands Act on the subject of School Endowment will show that the endowment has no existence until the land has been regularly sub-divided into sections, and the Minister is of opinion that the answer to the question asked in the 7th paragraph of your letter must be in the negative. There is only one School Section mentioned in your communication as 15-4**** being included in an Indian Reserve, namely, Section 11, Township 47, Range 25, West of the 3rd Meridian, and this reserve was created before survey.. I have the honor, etc., etc., (Sd.) A. M. BURGESS, Deputy Minister of the Interior. With reference to the remarks under paragraph 5 of the above, the following Order in Council was passed at Ottawa with respect to the leasing of School Lands for haying purposes. CERTIFIED COPY of a Report of a Committee of the Honorable the Privy Council, approved by His Excellency the Governor General in Council on the 22nd November, 1887. On a Memorandum dated 15th November, 1887, from the Minister of the Interior, representing that application has been received to lease certain School Lands in the North West Territories for the purpose of cutting hay thereon. The Minister observes that it has not hitherto been the practice to grant leases of School Lands for any purpose; but permits to cut hay at a nominal rate have been issued to settlers. That a letter dated 24th August last, has been received from the Secretary of the Board of Education for the North-West Territories in which it is stated that from correspondence with the Chairmen of the various Boards of School Trustees to whom a Circular on the subject had been a idressed by the Board, it would appear that a considerable revenue might be had by leasing School Sections in the more settled districts for grazing or hay-making purposes. The Minister represents that Grazing Leases of Dominion Lands are issuet under the provisions of Section 50 of the Dominion Lands Act, Chapter 54 of the Revised Statutes of Canada, which require that two years' notice must be given before such leases can be cancelled, but in cases of School Lands being issued it is desirable that they should be revocable at pleasure after the lapse of some reasonable period of time. The Minister, in view of the opinion expressed by the Board of Education of the North-West Territories as to the desirability of granting leases of School Lands, and of the fact that under the very indefinite tenure afforded by a Hay Permit, there is no encouragement to the holder to improve the land by draining, or otherwise, for hay purposes, recommends that he be authorized to issue leases of School Lands in the North-West Territories for the purpose of cutting hay thereon for a term not exceeding five years; provided that a lease shall not issue to any person for more than a section, or less than a quarter-section, and that such lease shall be revocable at any time it may be deemed advisable by the Minister of the Interior to offer the land so leased for sale by public auction in the interest of the School Endowment, or for any other reason, and that in such case the lessee shall receive one year's notice of the intention of the Minister to terminate the lease, but shall not be entitled to compensation for any improvements made by him; and further, that in case of there being only one applicant for the lease of a School Section, or any part thereof, the rental shall be at the rate of 25 cents per acre per annum, but where there there is more than one applicant for such lease, it shall be put up for tender at an upset rental of 25 cents per annum, which would be the product of a minimum price of $5 per acre, provided the money were invested at 5 per cent. per annum. The Committee concur in the foregoing recommendation and submit the same for Your Excellency's approval. (Signed) JOHN J. MCGEE, To the Honorable The Minister of the Interior. Clerk, Privy Council |