MAY, 1889. ORTHOGRAPHY. 1. (a) What is spelling? (b) How do you teach spelling? (c) How is spelling rela. reading? 2. Use the following words in sentences: session, counsel, miner, strait. 3. Distinguish between the following and incorporate each in a sentence: knowledge, wisdom; instruction, education; duty, obligation. Learn, t 4. Write a list of five compound words requiring a hyphen and fire not requiring a hyphe Write the following sentence, using complete words in place of abbreviations: T was lost in Lat. 30° N., Long, 40° I'. 5. 6. Explain the meaning of each of the following abbreviations: A. D., etc., prox., ul. 7. Write the correct abbreviations of each of the following words: doctor, Illinois, tr, namely, pounds, barrels, February, Kentucky, for example, S. Write imperfect participles of Cach of the following words: pile, loan, refer, koe, on tie, ply, hop, occur. 9. Write at dictation the following: "Oliver Twist's ninth birthday found him a pale: child, somewhat diminutive in stature, and decidedly small in circumference. But natu inheritance had implanted a good, sturdy spirit in Oliver's breast. It had plenty of room expand, thanks to the spare diet of the establishment; and perhaps to this circumstance ma attributed his having any ninth birthday at all. Be this as it may, however, it was his 1 birthday; and he was keeping it in a coal cellar with select party of two other young gentier who, after participating with him in a sound thresting, had been locked up therein for atrocie presuming to be hungry." 10. The examiner will pronouce the following words (to be written by the applicantura ward, couple, committee, courageous, ceiling, leisure, treasure, intelligence, grandeur, abhorrent, necess unparalleled, noticeable, miscellany. 1. READING. For what purpose, if any, may "concert reading" be used in teaching reading? 2. Why do children read poetry in a sing-song way? How would you correct the habit: What means do you employ for cultivating a taste for good reading? 3. 4. What is meant by oral reading, silent reading, supplementary reading? 5. How should correct expression be taught? 6. Describe your plans for training children to distinctness of articulation and 1. From what is the term geography derived? Of what does geography treat? 2. Give some reasons for believing that the earth is round. 3. Define affluent, delta, estuary, peninsula, island, continent, isthmus, zone, strait. 4. Name the largest river, largest lake, largest bay and largest city in the Unite) States. 5. (a) What five States are bordered by the Ohio river? Name the largest city in each ‹ them. (b) Name in order the States bordered by the Mississippi river, going up the east bank an down the west. Savannah? Wabash? Potomac? Merrimac 6. (a) Into what do the following rivers flow: Niagara? (b) Where are the Adirondacks? The White Mts.? The Ozark Mrs.? The Green Mis The Blue Ridge? 7. State two things for which Massachusetts is remarkable. The same with Pennsylvania. Name five States that produce iron ore in great quantities. Five that produce cotton. 8. 9. Where would you go to find orange groves? Lead mines? Copper mines? Sugar plantations? Pine forests? (It must be in the United States.) 10. Which is the largest State? The most populous? The richest? Which extends farthest HISTORY. 1. What aids would you use in teaching history? What place would you give to biography, and why? Compare the United States of to-day with the same territory in 1789 in any three of the following. (a) territory; (b) population; (e) commerce; (d) manufactures; (e) means of communi 3. Name some of the causes of the Revolutionary war. Name and describe the first battle of this war. 4. (2) Name some of the distinguished Europeans who served in the American army during the Revolutionary war. (b) What was the "Stamp Act," "Writs of Assistance"? 5. Name and describe briefly three battles of the war of 1812-14.j Give a brief description of two battles fought during the Mexican war. Same the major causes that led to the Civil war. (b) Give a brief account of the cap ture of Fort Sumpter, and of the first battle of Rull Run. For what do we remember Benjamin Franklin, Andrew Jackson, William Penn, Thomas Jefferson, John Hancock, Israel Putnam? What is the "Monroe doctrine," "protective tariff," "Dred Scott decision"? 10. Give an outline of your methods of teaching history. 1 A kite arose 48 rods in 33-7 minutes; how far at this rate will it ascend in 6 minutes? A watch cost $0, which is 3-9 of ten times what the chain cost; required the cost of both. 3. Mr. Brown exchanged 20 pounds of butter, at 15 cents a pound, for calico, worth 121⁄2 rents a yard: how many yards did she receive? 4. Mary gave 34 of her money to the poor, and then found 2% as much as she gave away, and then had $30; how much had she at first? 5. Two-thirds of 30 is 5-2 of the difference between two numbers, and the less is 3-5 of the Teater; what are the numbers? 6 If $300 be divided into two parts to each other as 2 to 3, it will respectively give % of A's and 4 of B's fortune; required the fortune of each. 1 It it require five men 8 days to build 20 rods of wall, how many men can, în 2 days, build as much wa.l. A man sold two watches for 880 each, on one he lost 20 per cent and on the other he gained per cent; how much was gained or lost by the transaction? James engaged to labor on condition that for every day he worked he should receive $1%, and for every day he played he should pay $% for his board; at the expiration of 30 days he Nived $35. How many days did he work! A lost 34 of his hens; now, if he finds 10 and sells 34 of his number then for cost, he will rerove 60 dimés; but if he loses 10 and sells 34 of the remainder, he will receive 30 dimes; how aly had he at first? 1. Define the following: Numeration, Addition, Subtraction, Division, Factoring, Greatest Common Divisor, Least Common Multiple, Prime Number, Common Fraction, Percentage, Simple Interest, True Discount, Ratio, Proportion, Involution, Evolution. 2. What is the value of the following: (729)x487-244)-:-(247-210x71)? 3. A merchant had $5,000 in one bank, which was 5-6 of what he had in another bank; after drawing -5 of the amount from the first bank and depositing it in the second, what was his deposit in each bank? 4. How many cords of wood, at $5.121⁄2 a cord, must I give for 91.25 bushels of wheat, at $1.40 a bushel, and so bushels of rye, at $1.25 a bushel? A tank 7 ft. long, 5 ft. wide and 3 it. deep can be emptied by a waste-pipe in 2 hours; how ay gallons are discharged in 1 minute? The sum of A's and B's money on interest for 4 yr. 6 mo., at 6 per cent gives $5,400 interest; bos mueli money has each, if 3 times B's equals A's? 7. If 35 horses can eat a lot of grain in 36 days, in what time will 3 times as much grain be usumed, if 5 horses are added when the grain is 34 eaten? Three persons engage in cotton speculation; A contributed $6,400, B $7,200, and C $5,400; by lose 15 of their stock by fire, and gained on the remainder 2-5 of cost; what was the gain of What is the difference between the true discount and the bank discount of $1,200 for 2 tears, 9 months, 15 days, at 8 per cent? 10. An agent receives 4 per cent commission and 21⁄2 per cent for guaranteeing payment; he emits to his employer $7,480; what does the agent receive? ENGLISH GRAMMAR. 1. Make five sentences, using a collective noun as subject of each. Give your understanding the meaning of each. 2. Make sentences showing the use of the possessive plural form of each of the following words: Goose, child, lady, man, fox. 3. Derive five adjectives from other parts of speech, using the greatest variety of suffixes and prefixes. 4. Define the following: Clause, sentence, case, object-complement, attribute-complement verb-phrase, parsing. 5. Correct all errors in the following: "I would have went if you had not came." "We were setting by the fire when you past." "After he had rose from his seat he sat the pitcher on the table. Mr. Jones only left me an hour ago." This is no other but the gate of Paradise." "Of all our presidents Washington was the greater." 6. Analyze the following: "Ye crags and peaks, I'm with you once again! Methinks I hear A spirit in your echoes answer me. 7 to 10. Parse the italicised words in the following: 1. 2. Amid the noblest in the land It is true that he can have what he wants." Name the chief object and some of the minor objects of the recitation. What is the main purpose of the reading lesson? Into what parts should a reading lesson be divided? 3. What is the difference, as an educational process, between learning the meanings of words and the meanings of things? 4. How is self-restraint best taught? 5. Give your estimate of the educational value of arithmetic, geography, history, grammar, drawing. 6. Name two studies that are distinctively objective. 7. What has the method of teaching a subject to do with retention by the learner of what is taught? 8. What is the chief practical benefit of objective teaching? Discuss briefly any one of the following topics: 9. 10. Outline a lesson for teaching the first step in multiplication of fractions. 1. What changes does food undergo in the mouth? In the stomach? What is meant by pure air? What are the effects of impure air in the school-room? 7. Can alcohol be properly called a food? What salutary effects, if any, result from its use? What are some common effects of its habitual use (a) on any one of the physical organs; (b) on the moral nature and the will? 8. What general relation has the nervous system to the other parts of the body? Name three important organs of the nervous system and briefly state their uses. 9. What is the normal temperature of the body, and how is it regulated? How is animal heat produced? State some hygienic rules relating to clothing. How many sounds may u represent? How is it marked to represent each of them? 3. Write three rules for spelling. 9. Spell correctly the following words: Cansell, canselation, analise, amfibian, arabesk, asenine, assafideta, minyonet, mocasin, moskity, zefer. 10. Write and spell correctly forty words pronounced by the examiner. READING. 1 Define reading. Tell what is required in order that one may read well aloud. 2. Define articulation. Tell the most common fauits, and how they may be corrected. 3. What is accent? Give examples. Give faults in accenting, and tell how they may be orrected. 4. Write a short article on inflectien, illustrating with examples. 3. Define emphasis, and tell how words may be made emphatic. 6. Define pitch. Tell how the compass of the voice may be improved. 7. Define quantity and movement, and give divisions of each. 8. Distinguish between grammatical and rhetorical pauses. Give some directions for the use of the latter. 9. In the following sentences mark the inflections: Have you recited your lessons? Sir, I believe the hour has come. I will not stir, nor wince, nor speak a word. Nor look upon the iron angrily. Are you going to school? Yes, I am. What do you want? What do you want? Do you need money? Do you need money? Which will you have? I don't care. 1). (a) Copy the following, and mark inflections, pauses, emphasis and monotone: Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean, roll! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Stops with the shore; upon the watery plain He sinks into thy depths with bubbling groan, Without a grave, unknell'd, uncoffin'd and unknown, (b) Read selections furnished by the examiners. PENMANSHIP. 1. What system of penmanship do you follow ? 2. Give the principles of your system. 3. Analyze 1. X. B. z. 4. What plan do you follow in teaching young children to write? What position, manner of holdingen, etc., do you teach? 6. How often do your pupils write? 7. Do you teach children to print, and if so, before or after writing script? Do pou write the copies or use printed ones? Do you teach your pupils a formal system of penmanship? 10 Write a few lines as a specimen of your penmanship. GEOGRAPHY. 1. How many and what are the empires of Europe? 2. Name the five longest countries of the world. What is the common form of the land masses? 4(a) How are clouds formed? (b) When do clouds yield rain? 5. What is the origin of glaciers? 6. Draw a map giving a general outline of South America. 7. Name the middle States. Locate their rivers and mountains. Bound Linn county, Oregon. Locate the following: Nile, Danube, Niger. Bay of Funda, Hudson Bay, Long Island d. Bombay, Calcutta, Rome, Colorado, Missouri, Rhode Island. Name the principal railways connecting the Atlantic and Pacific seaboards. (b) Name several States and Territories. UNITED STATES HISTORY. 1. When, where, and by whom was the first settlement in the United States made? 2. When and where was the first English settlement made in the United States ? 3. What is said of Captain Smith and the heroism of Pocahontas? 1. Who came over in the May Flower, and where did they settle? Give a brief account of the "Old French War," and of the battle on the Heights of raham. 6. What was the Stamp Act? 7. What were the chief causes that led to the Revolutionary war? Give a brief account of the causes, events, and results of the Mexican war. 9. What led to the war of the rebellion? 10. State the dates and places of the first and last battles of the civil war, and who were the ading generals commanding the forces on both sides at the beginning and end of the war? 1. A boy having 36 marbles, lost 34 of them, and then found 5-6 as many as he had at first; how many had he then? 2. B bought 6 yards of ribbon, worth 5% cents a yard; how many apples, worth 13 cents each, will be required to pay for it? 3. Divide 36 apples among three boys, so that the second may have twice as many as the first, and the third ihree times as many as the first. 4. If three horses, in 1/4 of a month, eat 3/4 of a ton of hay, how long will 5-6 of a ton last five horses? 5. A's money is $400, which is of B's money; how much more interest will B receive than A in eight years, at 5 per cent? 6. A's money added to B's being on interest for five years and four months, at 6 per cent. amounts to $660; what sum has each, if A's is four times B's? 2 7. Robert agreed to carry 50 oranges to market for a cent each, on condition that he should forfeit 2 cents for each one he cat; he received 16 cents. How many did he eat? 8. There are 50 pupils in a certain school, consisting of girls and boys, and there are 8 boys and 2.2 girls; how many boys must leave the school that there may be 6 boys to 2 girls ? 9. A farmer bought a certain number of cows for $200; had he bought two more at $2 less each, they would have cost $216; how many did he buy? 10. A farmer bought a number of hens for a certain sum; and having killed ten, he sold 4-5 of the remainder for cost, and received 48 dimes, which was 72 dimes less than they all cost; how many did he retain? 1. Define arithmetic, fraction, factoring, interest, discount, banking, proportion. 2. (a) Write the rules usually given in arithmetic for finding the greatest common divisor and the least common multiple. used. (b) Write rules for addition, also subtraction of fractions, when different denominations are (c) Write one rule each for simple interest and compound proportion. 3. Find the value of the following complex froction: 4. Mr. Newlin paid $4,000 for a truck farm, giving $76.25 an acre for 27.25 acres, and $85.75 for the remainder; how many acres did he buy? 5. How many bricks of average size will it require to build the walls of a house 48 feet long. 25 feet wide and 21 feet high, the wall being 13 inches thick, allowing 240 square feet for doors and windows? 6. A banker bought 48 shares ($100) of canal stock at 6 per cent premium, and paid for them with $5,000 in drafts at 314 per cent discount, and the balance in cash; how much cash did he pay? 7. A man owes $600, of which one-third is to be paid in one year and the remainder in two years; what is the present value, money worth 6 per ceut? 8. If from a dairy of 24 cows, each giving eighteen quarts of milk daily, 16 cheeses of 60 pounds each are made in 12 weeks, how many cows will produce 40 cheeses of 75 pounds in nine weeks, if they give 12 quarts each? 9. A man bought 40 shares of stock, which is 25 per cent of what he already had; now if he sells 80 shares, the remainder is what per cent of his first number? 10. A, B and C entered into partnership and gained 8740; A had $1,200 in trade nine months; B $1,400 in trade eight months, and C $1,500 in trade 10 months; what was the gain of each ? How are phrases distinguished? 4. GRAMMAR. Point out and tell the oflices the different phrases perform in the following sentences; "To be, contents his natural desire." "His being a minister prevented his rising to civil power." "I doubted his having been a soldier." 5. Give at least five rules for the use of capitals. 6. How are sentences distinguished? 7. Give the plural of the following nouns: Gas, mass, bush, ox, lynx, church, book, pen, loaf, wolf, child, folly, city, beef, mouse, Sister-in-law, Miss Brown, Dr. Smith, genius, index, axis. 8. Mention the different kinds of pronouns, and define each. Illustrate by example. 9. Correct the following sentences in every particular, and give your authority: "the rapidity of his movements were beyond example? To study mathematics Require Maturity of Mind! Wisdom or folly govern us? They don't ought to do it, james feels very badly about it. He Mentions Newton's writing of a comentary. 10. Place in diagram the following sentences, and parse the italicised words: Earth has no sorrows that Heaven cannot heal." "On the cold cheek of death smiles and roses are blending, And beauty immortal awakes from the tomb.” |