PROPOSED TO CANDIDATES FOR ADMISSION INTO TRAINING COLLEGES, AND FOR THE OFFICE OF TEACHER MIDSUMMER, 1877. A Notice to the following effect is issued to Candidates as to Copying and Clandestine Assistance. CANDIDATES WHO ARE DETECTED— (a.) Introducing into the Examination Room, or (c.) Answering, under any circumstances what- (d.) Copying under any circumstances whatever, (e.) Conniving at any misconduct of this kind; Whatever questions Candidates may have to usk, or remarks to make, during the Examination, must be addressed to the Inspector only. A 2 NOTE.-Except where different directions are printed, the time allowed for each paper in the following series was three hours, and Candidates were restricted to one question in each section. GRAMMAR. Two hours and a HALF allowed for this Paper. SECTION I. Parse the words in italics in the following passages: Then raising her voice to a strain Some clouds, which had over us hung, And methought, while she liberty sung, 'Twas liberty only to hear. When he heard the horse stop," Come in, Dostor," said he, 66 if you have a few minutes to spare; you were never more welcome." "I hope nothing ails either Deborah or yourself," replied the Doctor. SECTION II. Write in simple prose one of the following passages:(a) I love the season well When forest glades are teeming with bright forms, Nor dark and many folded storms foretell The coming-on of storms. The softly warbled song Comes from the pleasant woods, and coloured Glance quick in the bright sun, that moves along or (b) At length the freshening western blast And first the ridge of mingled spears And plumed crests of chieftains brave, SECTION III. Analyse the following passage; Cæsar, who is commonly esteemed to have been the founder of the Roman Empire, possessed very eminently all the qualities, both native and acquired, that enter into the composition of a hero, but failed of the honour, because he overthrew the laws of his own country and raised his greatness by the conquest of his fellow-citizens more than of their enemies. SECTION IV. Write out the plurals of cow, cloth, deer, datum, quarto, factory, species, and the past tenses of the verbs strike, swing, sing, tear, split. Give words (not more than six) derived from the Latin duco, I lead, fundo, I pour, with their meanings. Write out the classes of pronouns with two examples of each. (These form one question.) SECTION V. Give the force of the prefixes in the words printed in italics in the following passages: Scenes so singularly opposed are peculiar to beds of slate, which are both vast in elevation and easy of destruction. The comparative durableness of the rock forbids vegetation, but the exposed summits are not subject to laws of rapid destruction. The imprudent zeal with which the nobles had supported the royal prerogative in opposition to the Commons in the commotions of the previous year, enabled Charles to depress one of the orders and to destroy the balance to which the constitution owed its security. SECTION VI. Write full notes of a lesson on one of the following subjects:- (a) Relative pronouns. (b) Substantive clauses. (c) The channels through which Latin words have been introduced into our language. SECTION VII. Write a letter descriptive of (a) The Arctic Expedition of 1876, or, (b) The rescue of the Welsh miners at Pontypridd, or, (c) A pupil teacher's course of studies, or, (d) The natural beautics of your own neighbour hood. Underline any words you know to have come down to us from other sources than Anglo-Saxon. GEOGRAPHY AND HISTORY. Draw a full map GEOGRAPHY. SECTION I. (a) Of the West Coast of Great Britain from Land's End to Great Orme's Head, Or (b) Of Ireland, Or (c) Of South America. SECTION II. 1. Define the terms estuary, strait, archipelago, valley. Illustrate your definition of the first from America, of the second from Asia, of the third from Europe, of the fourth from Great Britain. 2. Give accurately the shape of the earth, its equatorial and polar diameters, the proportion of land and water on its surface, the positions of the polar and tropical circles, the latitudes of London and Edinburgh. 3. State clearly how deltas and glaciers are formed. Draw your illustrations from the continents of Europe and Africa. |