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2. How many ways can the per cent. of a number be expressed! Give num- bers.
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3. What is 5 per cent. of 300? What is 6 per cent. of 200! What is 10 per cent. of 500!
1. In a school of 250 pupils, 10 per cent. are absent. How many are absent! How many are present!
5. What per cent. of 12 is 4? What per cent. of 60 is 12! What per cent. of 56 is 8!
6. 30 is 6 per cent. of what number? 80 is 10 per cent. of what number?
7. An etching costs $48, which is 80 per cent. of the cost of an engraving. What is the cost of an engraving?
8. A farmer having 600 bushels of wheat sold 20 per cent. to one man and 3712 per cent. to another. How many bushels did he keep?
9. A clerk receives an annual salary of $3,500 a year. He expends 16 per cent. for board, 10 per cent. for clothes, 9 per cent. for charity, and 22 per cent. for other expenses. How much does he save per year.
EIGHTH YEAR.
1. What is ratio, antecedent, consequent!
2. Find x in the following: 72 : x : : 250 : 4; $16 : $5: : 288 : x.
3. If a tree 100 feet high cast a shadow 90 feet long, how long a shadow will a tower 250 feet high cast at the same time and place !
4. If 45 men in 16 days of 9 hours each can dig a ditch 100 rods long, 5 yards wide and 4 feet deep, in how many days can 16 men working 10 hours a day dig a ditch 250 rods long, 4 yards wide and 3 feet deep ?
5. A, B and C build a road. A furnishes 50 men 25 days; B 40 men 40 days and C 100 men 50 days. They re- ceive $20,400 for the work; what is the share of each !
6. Find 9 raised to the seventh power. 2
V 622,521.
7. The area of a circle is 962,115 feet. What is its diameter and circum- ference ?
8. Find the entire surface of a cube whose volume is 91,125 enbic feet.
9. What is the tariff on 40 yards of silk that cost $5 a yard, at 50 cents spe- cific and 50 per cent. ad valorem ! a3-13
10. Solve + a2 + ab + b2
HISTORY.
SECOND YEAR.
1. Tell some of the things the early homes did not have.
2. Mention some things that were used long ago in the homes but are not now used.
3. Tell about Hiawatha.
4. Tell what you can of Indian tribes ?
5. What weapons did Hiawatha use ? What clothing did he have ?
6. Name some things that you have in your home that your grandparents did not have.
7. What was the spinning wheel used for ?
8. How was clothing made in early times ?
THIRD YEAR.
1. Name some leading men of Indiana.
2. Tell the story of Columbus.
3. Who was George Washington ? Tell an interesting story of hin.
4. What did Lincoln do !
5. Draw an outline map of the United States and locate the homes of George Washington, Abraham Lin- coln, Captain John Smith and Miles Standish.
6. Draw an outline map of Indiana and locate the homes of Benjamin Har- rison, Thomas Hendricks, James Whitcomb Riley, Edward Eggles- ton, Sarah K. Bolton and Governor Durbin.
FOURTH YEAR.
1. Who was Cleon ?
2. Describe the home of Cleon ?
3. Who was Hercules ?
4. Tell what you know of Homer.
5. Name some great men of Greece.
6. How many gods and goddesses did the Greeks have ?
7. Tell what you know of Solon and Socrates.
FIFTH YEAR.
1. Give the names of some of the Saxon gods.
2. Describe the home of Wulf.
3. What was the Swan-road !
4. What people did the Saxons plunder ?
5. Who were the Britons? Where did they live !
6. Tell a short story of King Arthur.
7. Explain this quotation: "The banner of the white horse went ever for- ward."
SIXTH YEAR.
1. What was the outcome of the discovery of America by the North men ?
2. Give an account of Columbus' efforts to secure aid.
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3. What induced Columbus to make the voyages to America ?
4. Who was Ponce de Leon ?
5. Tell about Sir Francis Drake and his voyage.
6. What were the weapons of soldiers in early times ?
7. Compare and contrast the Virginia colony with that of Massachusetts.
8. Name five persons connected with the early history of Virginia; five with the early history of Massachusetts.
9. What was the Magna Charta ?
10. Who is governor of Indiana ! What is the length of term of office ?
SEVENTH YEAR.
1. How does the constitution differ from the articles of confederation ?
2. Who were some of the ablest men who met at Independence Hall in May, 1787, to form a constitution for the United States ?
3. Whom did Washington select as his cabinet officers ?
4. Which was the fourteenth State of the Union !
5. What was the Whisky rebellion ?
6. When was the United States bank or- ganized ?
7. Where, by whom and for what purpose was the first national Thanksgiving day appointed !
8. What valuable rights did we secure by a treaty with Spain in October, 1795 !
9. What state of affairs existed between our country and France when John Adams became president !
10. What is the purpose of the World's Fair at St. Louis this year ?
EIGHTH YEAR.
1. What was the result of Lincoln's first call for volunteers in the North? In the South ?
2. Why was Harper's Ferry so valuable to the North !
3. Name five Union and five Confederate generals of the civil war.
4. Name five important battles of the civil war and state the result of each.
5. Give an account of Sherman's march to the sea.
6. What was the one great purpose in the West and who carried this out !
7. For what was Andrew Johnson im- peached ?
8. What presidents have not been elected by the electoral college !
9. Who were presidents of the United States while the capital was at Philadelphia ?
10. What is the significance of the World's Fair at St. Lous this year ?
NATURE STUDY. FIRST YEAR.
1. Name three parts of your body.
2. What trees have notched leaves ?
3. Describe the kind of day it is.
4. Will seeds sprout if the earth is dry ?
5. Name as many parts of a plant as you can.
SECOND YEAR.
1. What makes the leaves fall ?
2. What seeds do we sow ! Name some seeds that sow themselves.
3. What insects can fly
4. How does the old bird feed her young ?
5. Do yon sit up straight !
6. Which side of the house does the sun shine on at noon ?
THIRD YEAR,
1. Of what do we make sugar !
2. Tell how to raise potatoes.
3. Should the windows that light your school room be at your sides, your back, or in front of you ?
4. What do snakes live on ?
5. What "tame" animals do you like best ? What other word can you use for tame !
6. In how many forms have you seen water ?
PHYSIOLOGY. EIGHTH YEAR.
(Answer any eight, not omitting two, three and four.)
1. State the relation between the skin and the kidneys.
2. (a) Draw a diagram of the brain and spinal cord. (b) Where is the in- telleet supposed to be located ?
3. What is the relation of good, whole some food to a strong, nervous or- ganism ?
4. What effect has late hours, cigarette smoking and personal bad habits upon the nervous system ?
5. Deseribe the heart.
6. Name the organs of special senses.
7. How many of the special senses are located in the head ! Why ? (An- swer fully.)
8. What is the difference between a healthy brain and a drunkard's ?
9. Why ean not the drunkard keep from drinking aleohol ?
10. If every boy and girl in our State would graduate in scientific tem- perance, would drinking alcoholic drinks be less in the future ?
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MUSIC.
1. What is meant by chromatic scale ?
2. How far does the influence of an acci- dental extend in a piece of music and what tones are affected by it !
3. What effect has a dot placed after a note ?
4. Give a quotation from the Battle Hymn of the Republic.
5. In what key is Home, Sweet Home written. and who wrote it ?
What is music !
7. Write a measure iu double, triple and quadruple time.
COMMITTEE ON BI-MONTHLY QUESTIONS FOR 1903-1901.
ELIJAH MCFARLAND, Chairman, Martin County.
LEVI H. SCOTT, Floyd County.
SAMUEL SCOTT, Clark County. A. A. MANUEL, Brown County. C. A. ROBERTSON, Crawford County.
E. A. GLADDEN, Scott County.
J. D. HOSTETTER, Hendricks County.
R. H. HARNEY, Boone County,
LEE O. HARRIS, Hancock County.
MAY. 1903
1903.
STATE OF INDIANA.
Questions for Examination of Pupils Completing the Course of Study in the " Common Branches."
Prepared by the following committee of the County Superintendents' Association, 1901: Isaac F. Myer, Chairman, Carroll County; T. S. Thornburg, White County; Wil- liam F. Landes, Marion County; E. E. Helt, Vermillion County; J. W. Barlow, Shelby County; Levi Scott, Floyd County; R. W. Stine, Wells County.
TO BE USED THE THIRD SATURDAY IN MAY, 1903.
INSTRUCTIONS,-Pupils need not copy the questions, but must number each answer to correspond with the question, and must write the manuscript in INK. When you are asked to answer "any six" or "any seven," etc., out of eight or ten questions respec- tively, stop when you have answered the number required. To answer more is a loss of time and may lower your grade, as all mistakes will be marked off.
Writing .- The penmanship shown in the entire manuscript of the examination will be graded on a scale of 100 per cent., with reference to legibility (50), regularity of form (30), and neutness (20). The handwriting of each pupil will be considered in itself, rather than with reference to standard models.
Spelling .- The orthography of the entire examination will be graded on a scale of 100 per cent., and 1 per cent. will be deducted for each word incorrectly written.
The county superintendent will grade the manuscripts, and certificates of gradua- tion will be issued to every applicant who attains a general averagelof 75 per cent., with- out falling below 60 per cent. in any subject.
NOTICE TO APPLICANTS .- On the first white page in your manuscript answer these requests:
1. Give your name or number. 6. Give the name of your township.
2. Give your age.
3. Give number of your school district.
4. Give your teacher's name.
5. Give your trustee's name.
7. Give your postoffice.
8. Give place of birth.
9. Give date of birth.
10. Give number of years you have at- tended school.
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GRAMMAR.
(Insicer any eight.)
1. In each blank space supply the past tense of sit or sel.
a. Hawthorne kept many note books in which he - down things he wished to remember.
b. Mr. Green came in and -- awhile.
c. He always-apart one-tenth of his income to give to the Lord.
d. He - the hen on fifteen eggs and there she - two weeks.
2. Define the relative pronoun. State the distinctions in the use of who, which, what, that.
3. What is a thought! What is a sen- tence!
4. Name the kinds of sentenees on basis of use and on basis of form.
5. Analyze: How strangely the past is peeping over the shoulders of the present.
6. Write a letter to a business firm order- ing a bill of goods.
7. Give the principal parts of: sit, set, lie, lay, see, throw, sing, run, bid, fight.
8. Write sentences illustrating the eo- ordinate conjunction and the sub- ordinate conjunction.
9. Write the possessive, singular and plural of these words: man, ehil- dren, boxes, tomato, penny, Mr. Brown.
10. What is comparison? What parts of speech admit of comparison? Com- pare fast, pretty, disagreeable, dead. little, mueh.
HISTORY. (Answer any eight.)
1. Show how Marco Polo's book on his eastern travels suggested the dis- eovery of America.
2. What two companies were organized in England to colonize America? What territory was controlled by each!
3. Name four inventions that have ma- terially affected the industrial growth of our country.
4. Tell the story of the Boston Tea Party. Of the Charter Oak.
5. What was England's argument for tax- ing the colonies!
6. Give a brief account of Hamilton's plan for restoring the credit of our country.
7. What were the Alien and Sedition Laws?
8. How did slavery divide our country in regard to trade with Europe?
9. Give the most important provisions of the Omnibus Bill.
10. Why did Congress impeach President Johnson?
MUSIC. (Answer any fire.)
1. Construct scale ladders, on one place the seale names in the key of E; on the other, the key of Eb. Show to what extent they are alike? Unlike?
2. What is an interval? An accent! Name two kinds of aeeent.
3. In four-part musie, how many voices are represented ? Give name of eael.
4. There are how many kinds of keys! Give name and signatures of each key.
5. What is a scale? Name two kinds. Do in one kind is what in the other!
6. Give all the uses of sharps and flats.
READING.
Based on the Legend of Sleepy Hollow.
1. Give an account of the author. Name other selections that he wrote.
2. Describe Ichabod Crane.
3. Name two other characters and de- scribe them.
4. What is the author writing about?
5. Describe the barn-yard seene.
6. What does the author think of ghost stories? Why do you think so?
7. Let the applicant be graded from 0 to 40 on his oral reading.
ARITHMETIC.
(Answer any eight.)
1. At $3.50 per eord, what is the value of a pile of wood 16 feet long, 7 feet wide and 5 feet high?
2. Ten cents is 3 of Frank's money; Frank's money is 3 of mine; how mueh have I!
3. Define ratio, addition, cirele, rate per eent. and commission.
4. A man bought 3 bales of hay of 1123 lbs. each at $12.00 per ton. How much did it cost!
5. A man bought the E. } of the N. E. ¿ of N. W. quarter of a seetion of land at $25.00 per aere. How much did it cost!
6. Find the interest on $1,025.00 for three months and 6 days @ 6 per cent.
7. How many bushels in a bin 12 feet long, 5 feet wide, and 4 feet deep!
8. Sold 25 bbls. of apples for $69.75 and made 24 per cent. How much did they cost per bbl .!
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9. The diameter of a spherical balloon is 25 feet. How many square yards of silk will cover it!
10. An agent who purchased a lot of wheat forwarded his bill for $568,875. If this included his commission of 23 per cent., what sum was paid for wheat!
GEOGRAPHY. (Answer any eight.)
1. Give the circumference and diameter of the earth.
2. What is a mountain system? A moun- tain range! Give an example of each.
3. What is latitude! Longitude? Give the latitude and longitude of the place in which you live.
4. Name and describe five large rivers in North America.
5. Name the races of men and tell in what respects they differ.
6. What are the chief articles of food of the people of the hot belt!
7. Name the coal districts of the U. S. 8. Locate Trieste, Lmeknow, Bogota, Va- lencia and Tokyo.
9. Name three state, three religious, and three private schools of Indiana.
10. Describe the state government of li- diana.
PHYSIOLOGY. (Answer any eight.)
1. What do we mean by lesser circulation? By greater circulation?
2. Name the organs found in the thorax. 3. Give four reasons why we should not use intoxicants.
1. Describe the heart.
5. Show how the heart is adapted in sev- eral ways to do its work.
6 and 7. Trace a piece of bread and butter from the hand until it becomes blood, noting the changes that oc- eur in it.
8. Name the parts of the ear.
9. Draw a cross section of a long bone.
10. Of what benefit do you think the study of physiology is!
GENERAL STATEMENT.
After you have finished your examina- tion, copy and fill the blanks in the follow- ing:
STATE OF INDIANA,
County of ..
Township of.
I am ...... years of age; have been a stu- dent in public schools for ...... years; and I do solemnly declare that in the examina- tion to-day I have not given or received aid in any manner whatever.
*(Name or number)
(Postoffice) (Date ....... 1903.) *NOTE .- Use name or number, as county superintendent may desire.
1904.
APRIL. 1904.
STATE OF INDIANA.
Questions for Examination of Pupils Completing the Course of Study in the " High School Branches."
FIRST EXAMINATION.
Prepared by the following committee of the County Superintendent's Association, 1903: Jas. W. Frazier, Madison County, Algebra, Plane Geometry and Solid Geometry ; H. E. Coe, Dekalb County, American and English Literature and Rhetoric; Edgar Men- denhall, Decatur County, Chemistry and Physics; Jesse M. Neet, Parke County, General History, Civics and Physical Geography; William H. Stone, Owen County, Latin and German; John W. Lewis, Wabash County, Botany and Zoology.
TO BE HELD FRIDAY, APRIL 1, 1904.
INSTRUCTIONS .- Pupils need not copy the questions, but must number each answer to correspond with the question, and must write the manuscript in ink. When you are asked to answer "any six" or "any seven," etc., out of eight or ten questions re- spectively, stop when you have answered the number required. To answer more is a loss of time and may lower your grade, as all mistakes will be marked off.
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Writing .- The penmanship shown in the entire manuscript of the examination will be graded on a seale of 100% with reference to legibility (50%), regularity of form, (30%), and neatness (20%). The handwriting of each pupil will be considered in itself, rather than with reference to standard models.
Spelling .- The orthography of the entire examination will be graded on a seale of 100%, and 1% will be deducted for each word incorrectly written.
The county superintendent will grade the manuscripts, and certificates of gradua- tion will be issued to every applicant who attains a general average of 75%, without fall_ ing below 60% in any subject.
NOTICE TO APPLICANTS .- On the first white page in your manuscript answer these requests:
1. Give your name or number.
2. Give your age.
3. Give number of your school dis- triet.
4. Give your teacher's name.
5. Give your trustee's name.
6. Give the name of your township.
7. Give your postoffice.
8. Give place of birth.
9. Give date of birthi.
10. Give number of years you have at- tended high school.
ZOOLOGY. (Any seren.) .
1. What is the difference between plants and animals!
2. Make a drawing of the fresh-water hy- dra. Indicate the parts.
3. Give full description of hydra and life history.
4. Give a full description of the " flicker," giving his nesting place, number of eggs, food, use to the farmer, ete.
5. Discuss fully the benefit of honey and bumble bees to the fruit grower and farmer. (Be explicit.)
6. Give the life history of the house fly.
7. Give the life history of the electric light bug.
8. Define symbiosis; give an example.
9. Distinguish beetle and bug. Give two examples of each.
ALGEBRA. (Any seven.)
1. Factor 9a4+38a212+49c2.
a2-(b+e)2
2. Reduce to lowest terms: a2 +ab+ac.
3. The sum of 1/2 of one number and 2% of another is 38; and if 3 be added to the first, the sum will be equal to 3% of the difference between the second and 8. Find the numbers.
4. Solve: 1 1 - 2 2=1/2. X-1
5. A rectangular field is 12 rods longer than it is wide and contains 7 acres. What is the length of its sides?
6. Find the values of x; x++3x2=28.
Find least common multiple of: a2+3a-4, a2-6a+5 and a2-a-20.
8. What two numbers are there, such that their sum increased by their prod- uct is 34, and the sum of their squares diminished by their sum is 42?
9. Find the highest common divisor of; x2-6xy +8y2 and x2-8xy + 16y2.
LATIN. (Any seren.)
N. B .- Pupils who have had two years Latin answer any seven; and pupils who have had three years answer eight, inelud- ing No. 7 or 9, and No. 8 or 10.
1. Deeline one noun from each deelen- sion. Give principal parts of one verb from each conjugation.
2. Give rules for the formation of ad- verbs from adjectives and compare the following: misere, fortiter, pa- rum.
3. How many infinitives has the regular verb in Latin? Name them and give rule for the formation of each.
4. How many participles has the Latin? Name themu and tell how each is formed.
5. How is the active periphrastie conju- tion formed? The passive peri- phrastie! How is each nsed?
6. Translate: Cæsar said that he would invade Gaul. He (another) said that Cæsar would invade Gaul. It was said that Cæsar would invade Gaul.
7. Translate: Cæsar omni exereitu ad utramque partem munitionum de- posito, ut, si usus veniat, suum quisque locum teneat et noverit, equitatum ex castris educi et pro- eliumu committi iubet.
8. Translate into Latin: But the enemy attacked the cavalry so quickly, while they had no fear, because the deputies a little while before had asked Cæsar for a truce, that they threw them into confusion.
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9. Translate: Hisce omnibus, Catalina, cum summa rei publicae salute, cum tua peste ac pernicie, cumque eorum exitio qui se tecum omni scelere parricidioque junxerunt, proficiscere ad impium bellum ac nefarium.
10. Translate into Latin: Cicero prom- ised so to manage this treacherous war as a civilian that all good men would be safe. For he thought that the gods, who had formerly de- fended the Roman people from a foreign foe, would now defend the city and their own temples.
BOTANY. (Any eight.)
1. Distinguish between cryptogams and phanerogams.
2. Draw and describe fully, one of the lower cryptogams.
3. State difference in structure between aquatic and dry land plant stems.
4. (a) Show how fungi are different from green plants.
(b) Name some of the common ones.
(c) How are they useful?
5. How are rootlets especially adapted to grow in hard ground?
6. What constitutes the food of green plants? How is it secured!
7. At present great interest is taken in the preservation and maintenance of forests. Why is this true?
8. Name three native Indiana plants that are of economic value.
9. What is the purpose of the distribution of seeds? How is it accomplished!
10. What are stoma, where found, and of what value!
GENERAL HISTORY.
(Any seren.)
1. In what way did the characters of the Spartans and Athenians differ!
2. What were the Crusades!
3. Tell the story of Joan of Arc.
4. Who were Demosthenes and Cicero!
5. Why noted: St. Helena, Austerlitz, Elba!
6. Tell what you can of the Spanish ar- mada.
7. What was the edict of Nantes!
8. What do you understand by feudalism?
9. Mention some history connected with the Bastile; with the tower of Lon- don.
10. Describe the assassination of Julins Cæsar.
GERMAN.
N. B .- Second year pupils answer any eight; third year answer 6, 12, and any other six.
1. Define ablant; umlaut. Explain the origin of umlaut.
2. How many dectensions has the Ger- man? Give the distinguishing mark of nouns in the strong declension.
3. Decline, der Fall; die Folge; der Gedanke.
Write out in German, 101, 8755, 147936, 1000208.
5. Give the principal parts of the follow- ing verbs: frieren, gleiszen, fan- gen, sieden.
6. Translate: Der berühmte General Georg Washington sasz einmal mit mehreren seiner Offiziere bei Fis- che. Da steisz einer von ihnen einen Fluch ans. Washington liesz Messer und Gabel fallen, warf einen strengen Blick auf den Flu- cher, so dasz dieser die Augen niederschlug Washington sagte dann: "Ich hätte geglaubt, wir alle betrachteten uns selbst als an- ständige Männer."
t- Translate into German:
I thought of you, but I did not know where you were then.
You would do wrong if you thought so of me.
I did not know what you would think of it.
8. Give a synopsis of the verb, greisen, in the indicative, passive, singular.
9. Name three poems by Goethe; two by Heine.
10. Translate: Ein Reisender kam an einen Fluszund mietete ein Boot, um ihn überzusetzen. Da das Wasser ein wenig bewegten war, als ihm gefiel, so fragte er den Schiffer, ob jemand bei dieser Ueberfahrt ver- loren worden ware. "Niemals," erwiderte der Schiffer, "niemals! Mein Bruder ertrank hier letzte Woche, aber wir fanden ihn am nächsten Tag wieder."
11. Give case and construction of all nouns in 10.
12. Translate into German: Now-a-days, when a man, a woman or a child wants a pair of boots or shoes, he usually goes to a shoe store and buys ready-made whatever he wants in this line. But years ago it was different. There were no ready- made shoes in those days, and peo- ple always went to a shoemaker, who took their measure and made them the article.
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CIVIL GOVERNMENT.
(.Iny seren.)
1. State the preamble to the constitution.
2. Name five noted men who assisted in framing the constitution.
3. What is meant by the writ of habeas corpus? When may it be sus- pended!
4. How may the constitution be amended?
5. What bills must originate in the house of representatives!
6. How are United States senators chosen? What qualifications must . they have?
7. Name and define the different depart- ments of our government.
8. What is statute law! Unwritten law! Common law?
9. How are judges of the United States supreme court chosen? What is their term of office ?
10. What were the three great compro- mises of the constitutional conven- tion of 1787!
PHYSICS. (Any seren.)
1. Define physics. Define physical change.
2. Explain action and reaction, giving three illustrations.
3. Explain the hydraulic press. Upon what law of liquids does it depend?
4. Explain the rainbow.
5. What is the result and what is its di- rection: (1) When two forces act in opposite directions? (2) When they act in parallel directions! (3) When they act at an angle? Make drawings to illustrate.
6. What is the pendulum? State one law of the pendulum.
7. How is sound propagated? Describe and explain the telephone.
8. Give the construction of any battery with which you may be familiar. Name the chemicals used in it and thoroughly explain its use.
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