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GRADE VII.
Fourth Reader, Pronouncing Speller, Mental Arithmetic, Common School Arithmetic, Geography, Grammar, Writing Book No. 4, Drawing Book No. 3, Song Garden.
GRADE VIII.
Fifth Reader, Speller, Arithmetics, Geography and Grammar the same as in grade seven, Writing Book No. 5, Drawing Book No. 4, Song Gar- den.
GRADE IX.
The books of grade eight, except the writing book and the drawing book, Writing Book No. 6, Blank Drawing Book, History, Comprehen- sive Dictionary.
BOOKS AND APPARATUS FOR TEACHERS.
In each grade, a copy of each of the text books for the grade ; The Bible, Dictionary, the Comprehensive in the first five grades, the Una- bridged in the others ; Register, Blanks for returns to the Superintend-
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ent, and for scholars' reports, copy of the Rules and Regulations of the School Board, and the School Report each year, to be carefully read and preserved in the room.
GRADE I.
Urbino's Animal Charts, Box of Form Blocks, Numeral Frame, Shel- don's Manual, Bundles of the Nursery.
GRADE II.
Bartholomew's Drawing Cards, Urbino's Animal Charts, Calkin's Color Cards, 12 Small City Maps, the Nursery.
GRADE III.
Same as grade two, County Map, State Map.
GRADE IV.
Cornell's outline Maps, Animal Charts, Hooker's Child's Book of Na- ture, Mason's Music Chart No. 2, Greene's Introduction to Grammar, Our Young Folks.
V. Same as in Grade IV. Globe.
GRADE VI, VII, VIII.
Cornell's outline Maps, Mason's Music Chart No. 3, Manual of Com- merce, Lippincott's Gazatteer, Globe.
GRADE IX.
Same as the last three, and Appleton's New American Cyclopædia, Cutter's Physiological Charts, Guyot's Wall Map of the World, Merca- tor's Projection, Johnson's Atlas, Demcker's Drawing Books, Copley's Alphabet, Chambers' Encyclopædia in Thomas street, Woodland street, and Dix street schools, Small Reference Library, Cube Root Blocks, Models for Drawing, Sphere, Cylinder, Cone, Cube, Square Prism, Hexagonal Prism, Rectangular Box, Square Pyramid, Hollow Square and Square Ring, Book Case, Piano.
HIGH SCHOOL.
Greek .- Goodwin's Grammar and Reader, Owen's Homer's Iliad, Arnold's Greek Prose Composition, Liddell & Scott's Lexicon.
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Latin .- Harkness' Grammar and Reader, Harkness' Cæsar, Allen's Latin Selections, Chase and Stuart's Cicero, Andrews' Ovid, various editions of Virgil, Chase and Stuart's Horace, Andrew's Sallust, Hark- ness' Latin Prose Composition, Andrews' Lexicon.
French .- Magill's Grammar and Reader, Picciola, Corinne, Molière, Noël et Chapsal's French Grammar, Spiers and Surenne's French Dic- tionary.
German .- Ahn's Grammar, Adler's Reader, Undine, Wilhelm Tell, Köhler's Dictionary.
Mathematics .- Eaton's Arithmetic, Eaton's Algebra, Greenleaf's Ele- mentary Algebra, Bryant and Stratton's Book-Keeping, Loomis' Geome- try, Loomis' Trigonometry.
Science .- Natural Philosophy, Chemistry and Astronomy, Rolf and Gillet's, Dana's Geology, Wood's Object Lessons in Botany, Upham's Mental Philosophy.
History .- Worcester's Ancient and Modern, Baird's Manual, Mitchel's Atlas.
English .- Quackenbos' Rhetoric, Pope's Essay on Man, Milton, Shakspeare, Spencer's Fairy Queen, Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.
Reference Library, over 500 volumes, Grand Piano, Square Piano, Laboratory, Chemical and Philosophical apparatus.
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QUESTIONS
FOR
WRITTEN EXAMINATIONS
JUNE 1872.
LANGUAGE .- FOURTH GRADE.
1. What is the use of language ?
2. In what two ways may we express our thoughts ?
3. What is a word?
4. What do we call all words which are the names of things that can be seen, heard, felt or thought about ?
5. Which words do we call articles ?
6. What is an adjective ?
7. Where should capital letters be used ?
8. What two parts must every statement have ?
9. How many words may there be in each of these parts ?
10. Can the same thing be said in more than one way ?
" The breaking waves dashed high On a stern and rock-bound coast."
11. State the above in other language.
12. Of what is something here said ?
13. What is the simplest thing said of it? .
14. What waves ?
15. Dashed : how?
16. Dashed : where ?
'17. What coast ?
18. What mark between rock and bound ?
19. Its use ?
20. What kind of word is rock-bound ?
FIFTH GRADE.
" The breaking waves dashed high On a stern and rock-bound coast, And the woods, against a stormy sky, Their giant branches tossed."
1. Answer questions 1, 2, 3, 7, 8, 9, for the fourth grade.
2. How many statements above ?
3. What is said of woods ?
4. What branches ?
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5. Whose branches ?
6. Tossed : where ?
7. What is the use of each word in the last two lines ?
8. State, in your own words, what is said in the last two lines.
9. From the teacher's explanation, why are these two lines prettier than a plain statement ?
10. Analyze these two lines.
11. Describe the waves referred to.
12. Describe the coast.
13. Tell what you can about the woods.
14. How do you think the sky appeared ?
15. What is the use of the word giant ?
16. What part of speech is giant, here ?
17. What is a part of speech ?
18. What is meant when we say the woods tossed their branches ?
19. Name the nouns.
20. Name the verbs.
SIXTH GRADE.
" And the heavy night hung dark The hills and waters o'er, When a band of exiles moored their bark On the wild New England shore."
1. In the fourth grade, answer questions, 1, 2, 3, 8, 9, 11.
7. In the fifth grade answer questions, 2, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11.
13. To what is night compared in the above lines ?
14. Where did the night hang?
15. These words, telling where, perform the office of what part of speech ?
16. What words tell the time at which the night hung dark ?
17. Describe the sort of night which, you think, is here referred to.
18. Who were these exiles ?
19. On what particular New England shore did they moor their bark ?
20. What does wild describe ?
SEVENTH GRADE.
1. In the eighth grade, answer questions, 13, 14, 15, 16, 18, 19.
7. What is it to analyze a sentence ?
8. How may a knowledge of English analysis be useful to you?
9. Apply each rule of syntax to an example from the quotation for the sixth grade, so far as examples are there found.
10. Give the principal parts of the verb go.
11. Why are these called principal parts ?
12. State some act that took place last year, and tell the tense of the verb.
13. State something that is now taking place, and tell the tense of the verb.
14. State something that will occur next month, and tell the tense of the verb.
15. State some act that was completed when the act mentioned in No. 12 was taking place, and tell the tense of the verb.
16. State some act just now completed, and tell the tense of the verb.
17. State some act that will be completed when the occurrence mentioned in No. 14 takes place, and tell the tense of the verb.
18. What parts of speech are inflected ?
19. Give a synopsis of the verb write.
20. How does the knowledge of the conjugation of a verb, aid us in speaking and writing correctly ?
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EIGHTH GRADE.
" Ay, call it holy ground, The soil where first they trod ! They have left unstained what there they found- Freedom to worship God !"
1. In the seventh grade, answer questions, 18, 19, 20.
4. In the above stanza, what part of speech is ay?
5. Could ay be omitted without injuring the sense ?
6. What is the construction of it?
7. Of ground ?
8. Of soil?
9. What describes the soil, here referred to ?
10. To what class of modifiers does the one referred to in the last question, belong?
11. Explain the use of what, in the third line.
12. What word is described by unstained ?
13. Of what word is freedom, explanatory ?
14. What modifies freedom ?
15. Express the same modification in another form.
16. State a fact and tell the mood of the verb.
17. State a condition and tell the mood of the verb.
18. State a permission, in the briefest form, and tell the mood of the verb.
19. Express a command, and tell the mood of the verb?
20. Express action in the most general form, and tell the mood of the verb.
NINTH GRADE.
Answer the questions for the eighth grade.
1. In the stanza there quoted, how many sentences ?
2. To what classes does each belong ?
3. How many clauses in each ?
4. Of what class is each clause ?
5. Correct : I wanted very much to have seen you.
6. Correct : A black and white calf were the only two I saw.
7. What is an ellipsis ?
8. Point out an example in these questions.
9. Parse : "To be or not to be, that is the question."
10. Analyze : " It is better to laugh than be sighing."-
ARITHMETIC .- FOURTH GRADE.
Mental.
1. Bought 4 apples at 2 cents apiece, and 3 pears at 3 cents apiece : how much did they all cost ?
2. A farmer had 28 chickens; 5 died, 6 were stolen, and he sold 12: how many had he left ?
3. 14+3+5+6+2+4-3+5=What?
4. 56-3-2-2-1-4-5-3-1=What?
5. 62-3-4+2-7-5+1-8-9=What?
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Written.
6. Add 312, 59, 416 and 12.
7. At $175 each, what will 16 horses cost.
8. The distance from Boston to Albany by rail is 200 miles; from Boston to Springfield the distance is 66 miles : how far from Springfield to Albany ?
9. Divide 1344 by 24.
10. In a certain school there are 49 scholars, each weighing 58 pounds : how many pounds do they all weigh ?
FIFTH GRADE.
Mental.
1. 36 is 8 less than what number?
2. 42 is 12 more than what number?
3. John has $22 and Paul $9 : how many dollars has John more than Paul?
4. Four pecks make a bushel : how many pecks in 16 bushels ?
5. Sarah has 10 pennies, and Jane 3 more than Sarah : how many have both?
Written.
6. Bought 350 acres of land for $17.60 and 350 more at $7 per acre, and sold the whole at $16 per acre : did I gain or lose, and how much ?
7. If a horse eats 15 lbs. of hay in one day, how many tons will he eat in 365 days.
8. How many square yards in a rectangular school yard 150 ft. long and 300 feet wide.
9. How many cords of wood piled six feet high might be placed on a piece of ground 10 feet wide and 20 feet long ?
10 State your age in years, months and days. How many days have you lived?
SIXTH GRADE.
1. Find the least common multiple of 9, 4, 16, 18, 28.
2. If one yard of cloth costs 3-7 of 6-8 of $2, what must be paid for 5-9 of 114 yards.
3. Add 7-16 of 2-9 and 3-4 of 5-6.
4. What is the cost of 1 5-8 yards of silk at $6 7-8 per yard ?
5. Six men are to be clothed with cloth that is 1 1-2 yards wide. If it takes 2 2-3 yards of this cloth for each man, how many yards of cloth 3-4 yard wide will be sufficient to line all the garments ?
6. If 62.5 tons of iron are required for one mile of railway, how much iron will it take to lay 371.75 miles.
7. A's farm contains 267.58 acres ; B's 124.37 acres ; and C's 79.124 acres : how many acres in the three farms ?
8. How much less than a square mile in these three farms?
9. Five gallons, 3 quarts, 1 pint, and three gills, are what part of 10 gallons.
10. Name and define all the classes of fractions.
SEVENTH GRADE.
1. If 2 yards of cloth cost $3.25 what is the cost of 41 yards ?
2. How does a decimal differ from a common fraction ?
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3. Cincinnati is 9º 40' west of Trenton : when it is noon at Trenton what time is at Cincinnati ?
4. What time at Trenton, when it is noon at Cincinnati ?
5. What will it cost to carpet a room 18 feet long, and 16 feet wide, at $1.50 per square yard ?
6. Why are decimals so called?
7. By what ratio do the denominations of duodecimals increase from right to left ?
8. As duodecimals increase from left to right by a constant ratio, why can they not be as easily written and operated upon, as decimals ?
9. From a cask containing 120 gallons, 90 gallons were drawn. What per cent. of the whole was drawn? what per cent. of the whole remained ? what per cent. of the remainder, was the number of gallons drawn? what per cent. of the number of gallons drawn was the remainder? what per cent. of the remainder was the whole? what per cent. of the number of gallons drawn, was the whole ?
10. How much should be paid for the use of $420.75, 2 years and 8 months at 8 per cent. ?
EIGHTH GRADE.
1. My house cost $5,000 ten years ago; money being worth 7 per cent. what per cent. shall I gain by selling now at $6,000 ?
2. A merchant increased his capital the first year by 1-2 of itself; the second year he increased this sum by 3-5 of itself; the third, he lost 1-4 of all he had, which left him $6,750; how much had he at first ?
3. What are the proceeds of a note for $750, due in 90 days, if discounted at a bank, at 8 per cent. ?
4. A Boston merchant bought a draft on Chicago at 3 per cent. discount, for $5,820; what was the face of the draft?
5. I owe $150, due in 30 days, $200 due in 60 days and $250 due in 90 days ; what is the average time of payment ?
6. Sold 10 acres of land for $840, and lost 12 1-2 per cent. of the cost: for how much per acre should I have sold it to gain 12 1-2 per cent. on the cost.
7. Two men hire a horse for $10; they ride together 30 miles when the first man gets out; the second man takes in a third, and travels to the right 40 miles ; a fourth man takes the team and goes alone to the starting place, distant 50 miles : what part of the $10 should each of the four men pay ?
8. How many shares of railroad stock, par value $100, can be bought at 25 per cent. premium, for $10,000?
9. If a family of 6 eat one barrel of flour in 4 months, how many barrels will suffice for a family of 10 persons, two months ?
10. How much sugar at 10 cents must be mixed with 30 pounds at 20 cents to make a compound worth 15 cents? Prove the correctness of your answer.
NINTH GRADE.
Answer the questions for the eighth grade.
11. A man engaged in trade, lost two-fifths of his money invested, after which he gained $740, when he had $3,500 : How much had he at first.
12. A boy 14 years old, apprenticed to a trade, is to receive $50 the first year, and an increase of $75 yearly till he is of age; how much will he receive the last year ?
13. Find the amount, in Sterling of £42 16s. 3d. for 3 years, 6 months, at 6 per cent.
14. Extract the square root of 100.8016.
15. Bought 1-5 of 4 1-3 cords of wood for 2-5 of 1-3 of $30: what is that a cord ?
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16. A man bought 4-9 of a farm and sold 3-7 of his share for $420 : what was the value of the whole farm ?
17. How many cubic feet in a pyramid 4 feet square at the base and 60 feet high ?
18. Bought silver weighing 8 lbs. Av. at $1.00 per oz., and sold it $1.00 per oz. Troy : did I gain or lose, and how much ?
19. What is the compound interest of $4,000 for 2 years, 8 months, 20 days, at 8 per cent. per annum ?
20. Sold cloth at $1.00 per yard and gained 25 per cent .; sold of the same to the amount of $118.80 and gained 35 per cent. : how many yards in the last piece, and at what price was it sold ?
GEOGRAPHY .- FOURTH GRADE.
1. In the journeys described in your geography, with what great plain did you commence ?
2. What do you find in this plain at the north, and what at the south ?
3. What mountain system west of this plain? In what state do you first learn of them ?
4. Of what plain is Ohio a part?
5. How does this plain differ from the first mentioned plain ?
6. What mountain system farther west? and how does it differ from the one mentioned above ?
7. Describe a valley, a plain, a table land, a mountain range, a moun- tain peak.
8. Explain where the water comes from in springs and brooks.
9. What different races of people are there? and where does each live ?
10. Name five principal occupations of people, and tell where each is engaged in, whether in cities, in the country or by the sea, &c.
FIFTH GRADE.
1. Name five principal bodies of water.
2. Name five divisions of the land.
3. Mention two important uses of rivers.
4. How may you determine the position of the water-shed of a country from visiting it? and how, from the map?
5. Why is it important to become acquainted with the physical features of a country-its plains, river systems, mountain ranges, &c.
6. Describe the surface of South America.
7. What singular fact about the plains of the Orinoco and those of the Amazon ?
8. Describe briefly the climate, the vegetation and the animals in the southern part of North America; in the central part; in the northern part.
9. What is the climate of the United States? Name the principal mountain systems wholly or partly within it.
10. Name the six groups of states according to their position. Give a leading occupation or product of each group.
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SIXTH GRADE.
1. What is the greatest latitude? Longitude? How many zones? The largest? How many degrees in width is it ?
2. Through what states and territories does the Pacific railroad pass ?
3. What is the largest state, territory and city of the United States ?
4. Through what waters would you pass in sailing from St. Louis to Quebec ?
5. Which is higher, Lake Superior or the ocean? How do you know ?
6. Tell in what localities in the United States the following minerals are most abundant : coal, iron, copper, silver, gold.
7. What parts of South America have a temperate climate ?
8. What is the source of the Nile? What peculiarity has this river ?
9. To what country does Australia belong ?
10. Which is the most elevated country in Asia ?
SEVENTH GRADE.
1. Name and locate ten islands of North America, in order.
2. Of the first named, describe the surface, climate, soil, productions and in- habitants.
3. State one or more facts concerning the occupation, the civilization, the language, the government and the history of the people.
4. Name the countries of South America.
5. Bound the great central plain of North America.
6. How many states in the United States ?
7. Name them with the capital of each.
8. What are the principal branches of the Amazon?
9. Mention five cities of South America with some important fact con- cerning each.
10. Describe at length the principal mountain range of South America.
EIGHTH GRADE.
1. Name the countries of Europe.
2. The principal mountains of Asia.
3. The rivers of Africa.
4. The cities of Australia.
5. Of China; describe the government and the capital.
6. Mention three cities, their location and business.
7. State five facts about the inhabitants.
8. Mention two incidents in the history of the nation.
9. In what zone is China ? its latitude.
10. Name the principal exports of China. Describe the people.
NINTH GRADE.
1. What is climate ? upon what does it depend ?
2. Describe the surface of Europe.
3. Describe the river systems of South America.
4. What are meridians ? how many degrees in length ?
5. Name three volcanoes, and tell where they are situated.
6. What causes volcanoes ? what other phenomenon results from the same cause ?
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7. What is the length of a degree of longitude at the poles ? at the equator ? 8. Name the recent changes in the political geography of Europe.
9. In what latitude and longitude are our antipodes ?
10. What are the tropics ? the polar circles ? where are they each situated ? What is an isothermal line ?
HISTORY .- NINTH GRADE.
1. Name the first permanent settlement made by the English, and the first by the French in America.
2. Name five men, each the founder of a colony.
3. What was the cause of the French and Indian war?
4. What was the Boston Port Bill ?
5. What caused the French to become our allies during the revolutionary war?
6. What is the Monroe doctrine ?
7. State the important differences between the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution of the United States.
8. What were the two national purchases of Jefferson's and Monroe's administrations.
6. What other territory has been acquired by purchase ? how was the terri- tory of New Mexico and California, etc., acquired ?
10. In what year and in whose administration did the Great Rebellion begin ? when, and in whose administration did it end ? Describe the first battle of Bull Run.
PHYSIOLOGY .- NINTH GRADE.
1. What constitutes the frame-work of the body ?
2. About how many bones in the human body? how are they classified ?
3. What forms the principal bulk of the body ?
4. What is the use of the muscles ?
5. By what process is the food prepared to nourish the body ?
6. How are the nutritive particles deposited where they are needed ?
7. What causes the circulation of the blood ?
8. Where is the blood purified ?
9. What does hygiene teach ?
10. How does irregular or excessive eating injure the health ?
SPELLING .- FOURTH GRADE.
1 People.
2 Support.
3 Family.
4 Business. 7 Costly.
5 Spoiled. 8 Prize.
6 Jewels. 9 Public.
10 Uncle.
11 Poisoned.
12 Supper.
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13 Understand.
17 Fastened.
20 Confusion.
23 Satisfy.
18 Bitterly.
21 Beach. 24Puzzle.
19 Rigging.
22 Voyage.
25 Chinese.
FIFTH GRADE.
1 Chaff.
14 Breadth.
27 Though.
40 Thumb.
2 France.
15 Wrench.
28 Rough.
41 Touch.
3 Beard.
16 Birch.
29 Such.
42 Sponge.
4 Thrive.
17 Myrrh. 30 Known.
43 Gouge.
5 Priest.
18 Plight.
31 Nymph.
44 Drought.
6 Shriek.
19 Scourge.
32 Niche.
45 Ounce.
7 Seize.
20 Search.
33 Stitch.
46 Slough.
8 Wheeze.
21 Dearth.
34 Twitch.
47 Quoit.
9 League.
22 Writhe.
35 Sword.
48 Noise.
10 Fiend.
23 Glimpse.
36 Soothe.
49 Mound.
11 Shield.
24 Quince.
37 Prompt.
50 Tough.
12 Fierce.
25 Ghost.
38 Yacht.
13 Wedge.
26 Vogue.
39 Wound.
SIXTH GRADE.
1 Certain.
14 Hyphen.
27 Thistle.
40 Sojourn.
2 Nervous.
· 15 Beguile.
28 Million.
41 Quotient.
3 Vertex.
16 Disguise.
29 Kitchen.
42 Trophy.
4 Converge.
17 Cypress. 30 Livelong.
43 Thorax.
5 Journey.
18 Esquire.
31 Scripture.
44 Profile.
6 Circle.
19 Bishop.
32 Quadrille.
45 Poultry.
7 Burglar.
20 Chisel.
46 Shoulder.
8 Thirty.
21 Frigid.
47 Poultice.
9 Resign.
22 Chimney.
35 Mystic.
48 Yeoman.
10 Untried.
23 Scissors.
36 Chorus.
49 Wholesome.
11 Benign.
24 Hiccough.
37 Hosier.
50 Eclipse.
12 License.
25 Mischief.
38 Portrait.
13 Oblige.
26 Nimble.
39 Programme.
SEVENTH GRADE.
1 Payable.
14 Passenger.
15 Apparel. 28 Gymnastic.
3 Alcohol.
16 Rarity.
29 Paragraph.
42 Argument.
4 Accident.
17 Tabular.
30 Parallel.
43 Marvelous.
5 Appetite.
18 Traveler.
31 Garrison.
44 Pharmacy.
6 Avenue.
19 Ecstatic. 32 Catholic.
45 Gigantic.
7 Bachelor.
20 Enamel.
33 Chariot. 34 Tobacco,
46 Hosanna.
8 Raspberry.
21 Financial.
22 Assassin.
35 Metallic.
48 Composition.
10 Affluence.
23 Vaccinate.
36 Architect.
11 Catechism.
24 Mechanic.
37 Artifice.
50 Parasol.
25 Piazza.
38 Guardian.
26 Scholastic.
39 Particle,
40 Mustache.
2 Bayonet.
41 Cathartic.
47 Manuscript.
9 Atmosphere.
49 Paradise.
12 Character.
13 Cavalry,
14 Anxious.
15 Truant.
16 Belonged.
27 Sarcastic.
33 Gypsum. 34 System.
SCHOOLS .- APPENDIX.
EIGHTH GRADE.
1 Vertical.
14 Innocence.
27 Choleric.
2 Desertion.
15 Suspicion.
28 Chronicle.
3 Coercion.
16 Existence.
29 Conjugal.
4 Firmament.
17 Physician.
30 Consonant.
43 Chaotic.
5 Nursery.
18 Malicious.
31 Occupant.
44 Crucible.
6 Dialogue.
19 Tuition.
32 Phophecy.
45 Accouter.
7 Diary.
20 Violin.
33 Proselyte. 34 Protestant.
46 Crucify.
8 Icicle.
21 Terrific. 22 Forgery.
35 Monitor.
48 Obelisk.
10 Defiance.
23 Ferocious.
36 Sophistry.
49 Oasis.
11 Violence.
24 Syllable.
37 Sirocco.
12 Insolence.
25 Tyranny.
38 Unconscious.
13 Liquefy.
26 Typify.
39 Colossal.
NINTH GRADE.
1 Censorious.
14 Garrulity.
27 Atrocity.
28 Monopoly.
41 Destructible.
3 Euphonious.
16 Monastery.
29 Responsible.
42 Effrontery.
4 Chronology.
17 Mahogany.
30 Testimonial.
43 Futurity.
5 Apostasy.
18 Hospitable.
31 Restorable.
44 Community.
6 Hypothenuse.
19 Authority.
32 Colloquial.
45 Colleague.
7 Phenomena.
20 Hypocrisy.
33 Expositor.
8 Apocrypha.
21 Honorable.
34 Priority.
9 Rhinoceros.
22 Zoology.
35 Horizontal. 36 Ferocity.
48 Incense.
49 Annunciate.
11 Corroborate.
24 Curiosity.
37 Equinoctial.
12 Repository.
25 Comparable.
38 Restitution.
13 Annuity.
26 Majority.
39 Idolatry.
40 Penurious.
2 Eulogium.
15 Enthusiast.
46 Argument. 47 Essay.
10 Synonymous.
23 Mythology.
50 Editorial.
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40 Morocco. 41 Apostle.
42 Soluble.
47 Opossum.
9 Disciple.
50 Vigilance.
QUESTIONS
SUBMITTED TO
CANDIDATES FOR TEACHERS.
ARITHMETIC.
1. In addition and subtraction, why write units under units and tens under tens ?
2. In what columns do you place the product of a hundred and a unit? Of a tenth and a hundred ?
3. Is the dividend an abstract number or a concrete number? In either case of what sort must the divisor be ?
4. Write a proper fraction. Express the same decimally. Write its value as a per cent. Write it as a proportion.
5. Write an improper fraction. Change the form of expression as in the last example.
6. What data are required to determine the gain or the loss? What to find the gain per cent. or the loss per cent. ?
7. In computing interest by the usual "rules," we reckon as a month, 30 days. What portion of the yearly interest, thus, is the daily interest ? Is this larger or smaller than the actual daily interest ?
8. At 7 3-10 per cent. per year of 365 days, the daily interest of $100 is two cents. By this reckoning, find the interest of $1000 from Dec. 1, to Feb. 1.
9. Find the same by the method indicated in the 7th question. Why do not the results agree ?
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