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5. Locate Toronto, Melbourne, Tokio, Ann Arbor, Adrianople, Sucre, Cairo.
6. Give the proper abbreviations for the states west of the Mississippi river.
7. Name two of the longest rivers, two of the loftiest mountains, and two of the largest inland waters of each grand division.
8. Where are the richest deposits of gold, silver, iron, lead, copper, granite and quicksilver in the United States ?
ENGLISH GRAMMAR.
1. Name and define the four general divisions of English grammar.
2. When does a proper noun become a common noun ? Give an example.
3. In what cases are the compound personal pronouns used ?
4. What are the properties of the verb ?
5 Give a synopsis of the verb know in the indicative mode, active voice, and in the potential mode, passive voice.
6. Into what general classes are connectives divided ? What parts of speech are used as connectives ?
7. Write a sentence containing a complex element of the third class.
8. Give examples of the use of the infinitive as (a) subject, (b) predicate, (c) object, (d) in apposition, and (e) as object of a proposition.
9. Diagram or analyze : He who openly tells his friends all that he thinks of them, must expect that they will secretly tell his enemies much that they do not think of him.
10 Parse the italicized words in the above sentence.
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ARITHMETIC.
1. How much will it cost to carpet a room 21 feet 4 inches long and 16 feet 8 inches wide, with carpet 2 feet 8 inches wide, at $1.37} per yard ?
2. What is the value of a pile of wood 6 feet 9 inches long, 3} feet high, and 15 inches wide, at $3.20 per cord ?
3. A wagon box is 103 feet long, 3} feet wide, and 15 inches deep ; allowing 5 cubic feet, = 4 bushels ; how many bushels will it hold ?
4. The diameter of the end of a cylindrical log is 20 inches and its length is 9 feet ; what is its weight if a cubic foot weighs 32 pounds ?
5 .. A pond of 5 acres is covered with ice 8 inches thick; what is the weight of the ice in tons, if a cubic foot weighs 930 ounces ?
6. A man drew 30 per cent. of his bank deposits and expended 25 per cent. of this money to purchase a horse worth $97.50; how much money had he in bank ?
7. If 7 men or 11 boys can do a piece of work in 10 days, in what time can 11 men and 7 boys do the same work ?
8. A person finds he can row a skiff 6 miles an hour with the current, and 3 miles an hour against it ; how far can he pass down stream and yet return to the starting point in 8 hours ?
9. The entire surface of a cube is 1458 square inches ; what is the diagonal and the edge of the cube ?
10. Divide $290 between A and B, whose ages are respectively 15 and 19 years, in such a manner that the parts, being placed on simple interest at 10 per cent., shall amount to such sums, at the time they are 21, that § of A's money shall be equal to § of B's.
ALGEBRA.
1. Find the value of 1 12 + 2 127 + 3 1 75 + 9 1 48.
2. Given x-3(3x-3) +4=}(20-x)-4 (6x -8) + 3 (4x - 4), to find the value of x.
3. Separate a6 - b6 into four factors.
4. The steamer Hiawatha sails r miles an hour in still water, and it takes her three times as long to come up as to go down stream; what is the velocity of the current ?
5. The surface of a garden 100 feet square is to be raised 2 feet with soil taken from a ditch surrounding it. The ditch shall be 5 feet deep, and outside of the garden ; how wide must it be ?
6. From 6235 feet of plank that is 2} inches thick, I wish to make a box, the length to be 4 times its width, and the width and depth equal ; find its dimensions.
THEORY AND PRACTICE.
1. What is a principle of teaching ? A method of teaching ?
2. What preparation for the recitation should the teacher make ?
3. What are the advantages of written exercises in spelling ?
4. Why should pupils be taught the geography of home before that of the earth ?
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GEOGRAPHY.
1. What is climate ? Name five conditions on which it depends.
2. In what direction does the earth rotate diurnally ?
3. Locate the five largest cities in the United States on the Great Lakes.
4. Bound Indiana and locate the principal cities.
5. What is the prevailing religion of South America ?
6. Locate two noted volcanoes in Europe.
7. What and where are Belgrade, Constance, Moselle, Cattegat, Matapan ?
8. What are the capitals of Persia, India, Birmah, China, Japan ?
9. Name the principal bodies of water that wash the shores of Africa.
10. To what European power is Australia subject ?
ENGLISH GRAMMAR.
1. Indicate the pronunciation of the following words: Anemone, subsidiary, hymeneal, croquet, illustrate.
2. Form adjectives by adding able or ible to the following words : Perceive, cure, control, repair, erase. What do these suffixes mean ?
3. By what general rule of derivation may adjectives ending in ly be distin- guished from adverbs of the same termination ? Give examples. What does the suffix mean ?
4. Is case, in English, a form, a use, or a relation ? Name the cases and give an example of each.
5. Give case and instruction of the italicized words in the following sentences : I was offered money. Money was offered me. She was known as Curiosity. And Gilpin, long live he. Give us this day our daily bread. To die a hero is sublime. His being a foreigner prevented his election.
6. Diagram: There shall nothing die of all that is the children of Israel's.
7. Analyze briefly : When Hercules was in that part of his youth, in which it was natural for him to consider what course of life he ought to pursue, he one day retired into a desert, where the silence and the solitude of the place very much favored his meditations.
FAIRFIELD COUNTY.
ORTHOGRAPHY.
1. How many sounds has p, and when is it silent ?
2. By what letter is q followed ?
3. What letters are never doubled ?
4. Define the following and place the proper diacritical marks:
Graphic, rebate, flageolet, caucus, dilemma, regatta, monogram, avalanche, aeronaut, affinity.
GRAMMAR.
1. Combine the following statements into one simple sentence :
The electric telegraph has greatly facilitated business. It has done so by bring- ing distant parts of the world into instant communication. The electric telegraph was invented by Prof. Morse. Professor Morse was an American.
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2. Combine the following group of statements into one complex sentence :
There will be a camp-meeting. It is to commence the last Monday of this month. It is to be at the double-spring grove. This grove is near Peter Brinton's. Peter Brinton's is in the county of Shelby.
3. Correct the following :
(a) I was exceeding glad to hear from you.
(b) The boys don't want no holidays ..
(c) I will pay you something during the next week.
(d) The answer is the same with that in the book.
(e) I shall not go without you go with me.
4. Analyze or place in diagram :
The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change,
And pleased with novelty, might be indulged.
5. Parse words in italics :
The traveler stopped to ask what was the matter. He came as an ambassador.
GEOGRAPHY.
1. Name the Atlantic coast States and their capitals.
2. Name the political divisions and give the capital of each.
3. Name and locate the principal Peninsulas of the world.
4. Define the apparent horizon and real horizon.
5. What are the trade winds, and why so called ?
6. What are isothermal lines? How do they differ from parallels ? What is the cause of their variation ?
7. What river in the world has the greatest basin, and what is its extent ?
8. Name and locate the principal cities of the U. S., and tell for what each is principally noted.
9. Name the ranges of mountains of the Apalachian system.
10. Name the mountain peaks in the western port of the U. S., including those of the Rocky Mountains.
ARITHMETIC.
1. I wish to obtain from a bank $500, for 60 days; for what sum must I give my note at 8 per cent. discount ?
2. I bought books at $1.50 per volume, which was 10 per cent. discount from the retail price, and sold them at the retail price. What was my gain per cent .?
3. Two men dug a ditch for $53; one man worked 3} days and dug 14} rods; the other worked as many days as the first dug rods per day. How much did each receive, if they shared in proportion to the time they worked ?
4. A tree 124 feet high was broken in two pieces by falling; ¿ of the length of the shorter piece equaled ? of the length of the longer piece. What was the length of each piece ?
5. Which is more profitable, and how much, to invest $5,000, in 6 per cent. stock, purchased at 75 per cent., or 5 per cent. stock purchased at 60 per cent.
6. Find the difference between 31 rds., 5 yds., 2 ft., 11 in., and 32 rds., 1 ft., 4 in
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7. A merchant sold a quantity of goods at a gain of 20 per cent. If he had purchased the goods for $60 .less than he did his gain would have been 25 per cent. What did the goods cost ?
8. If it costs $240 to board 16 persons 5 weeks, how much will it cost to board 9 persons 22 weeks?
THEORY AND PRACTICE.
1. What is meant by the organization of a school?
2. Name some proper incentives to study. Name some incentive of doubtful propriety.
3. What are the employments of a school ?
4. What does education do for a people ?
5. What do you consider sufficient education for the common school teacher ?
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
GRAMMAR.
1. Give the plural of alderman, genus, who, mouthful, galley, plus, 2.
2. Name and define the several modes of verbs.
3. Write a sentence containing a participle, an infinitive, and a verb in the passive voice. Parse the verbs and participle.
(Parse the words in italics in the 4th, 5th and 6th, and analyze the 5th).
4. Their being strangers was itself sufficient reason for our being cautious.
5. We took them to be our friends that we saw passing.
6. Why he acted like he did is unknown.
GEOGRAPHY.
1. Give six proofs that the earth is round. [20 per cent].
2. Give three proofs that the earth is an oblate spheroid. [20 per cent].
3. Where is the earth ? How far from the sun ? [20 per cent].
4. Name some rainless regions, and tell why they are so. [20 per cent].
5. Locate the Dead Sea. Why so called ? [10 per cent].
6. Name and locate three seas, two bays, three gulfs, three rivers. [10 per cent].
THEORY AND PRACTICE.
1. Give the objects of schools.
2. Name some characteristics of the good teacher.
3. Would you teach manners and morals ?
READING.
1. Write a verse of poetry, and mark the emphatic words. Also designate the inflections.
PENMANSHIP.
1. Make the principles of any system with which you are familiar.
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ARITHMETIC.
1. How many bushels of wheat may be put in a bin which is 12 ft. by 6 ft. by 6 ft ? [10 per cent].
2. What is the difference between the true and bank discount at 8 per cent. of a $5,000 note due in four months ? [15 per cent].
3. What is the value of a greenback dollar when gold is at a premium of 80 per cent. ? [12} per cent].
4. A merchant marked his goods to sell at 40 per cent. profit. What per cent. will he make if he falls 10 per cent. from selling price ? [12} per cent].
. 5. How do you find the three equal factors of a number? Give rule in full. [12} per cent].
6. State and solve a problem in compound proportion. [10 per cent].
7. State and solve a problem in Alligation Medial. [10 per cent].
8. How far from the end of a stick of timber 30 ft. long, of equal size through- out, must a lever be placed so that 3 men, two at the lever and one at the end, may each carry one-third of the weight? [12] per cent].
FULTON COUNTY.
The following rules were adopted by the board :
1. There must be but one applicant in a seat.
2. Assistance must not be given or received.
3. Books in the desk must not be used or referred to. .
ARITHMETIC.
1. Give a rule for addition that can be applied with equal propriety to simple, decimal, and compound numbers.
2. If 14 men in 20 days of 10 hours each perform a piece of work, of which the difficulty is reckoned 10, how many days of 8 hours each must 20 men work to finish the same amount if the difficulty is reckoned 14 ?
3. I bought a bill of goods for $468 on a credit of six months. I accepted an offer of 6 per cent. discount for cash, and borrowed the money at the bank, giving my note for 60 days, discounted at 52 per cent. Did I gain or lose by the operation ? How much ?
4. Sold 20 doz. summer dusters, giving the purchaser discount of 10, 10, and 10, per cent. off: his discount amounted to $325.20; what was my price per doz. ?
5. What will be due on six $500 city bonds running three years, with interest 6 per cent., payable annually, if the interest should not be paid ?
6. A club spent £ 2, 12 s., 1 d. ; on settling, each paid as many pence as there were individuals in the party; how many were there in the party ?
7. A note dated February 19, 1876, payable January 1, 1877, and bearing 8 per cent. interest, was discounted October 12, 1876, at 6 per cent .; the proceeds were $1,055.02 ; find face of note.
21 S. C.
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Mental.
8. A man bought a sheep, a cow, and a horse; the sheep cost $8, the cow cost as much as the sheep and { as much as the horse, and the horse cost twice as much as both sheep and cow ; find cost of each.
9. If 9 men mow a field in 12 days, how many men can mow } of it in } of the time ?
10. What is the hour afternoon, when the time past noon is equal to } of the time past midnight ?
ORTHOGRAPHY.
Barrenness.
Ignitible.
Plebeian.
Strychnine.
Defensible.
Ventilate.
Rehearsal.
Pleurisy.
Puissance.
Captious.
Fascinate.
Avoirdupois.
Asparagus.
Forcing.
Ancillary.
Charade.
Leasable.
Japonica.
Leprosy.
Thatch.
GEOGRAPHY.
1. Give the size, form, and motions of the earth.
2. If the Mediterranean and Dead seas were connected by a channel, what effect would be produced ?
3. Why is the earth an oblate spheroid ?
4. What is meant by the Ecliptic, trade-winds, tides, ocean currents, and Gulf Stream ?
5. What countries of S. A. border on the Pacific ?
6. Name and locate principal mountain systems of Europe.
7. Name in order of their size the five largest cities of Ohio, of the N. E. states.
8. Name the states and important bodies of water you would cross in going in a direct line from Albany to the capital of Colorado.
9. Bound Alabama.
GRAMMAR.
1. Give the synopsis in the progressive and passive forms of the verb teach in the indicative and potential modes, 3d, sing.
2. How is each of these forms made ?
3. Pluralize court-yard, spoonful, toothbrush, basis, canto, tornado, thou, chim- neys, lily, Miss, Clark, and datum.
4. State the difference, if any, between the following sentences: (a) I bought John's and Anna's book ; (b) I bought John and Anna's book.
5. Parse the following italicized words: (a) The well is said to be ten feet deep. (b) To do what is right is a duty belonging to all. (c) Whoever lives noblest lives best.
6. Punctuate and capitalize the following : it was the great hall of william rufus the hall which had resounded with acclamations at the inauguration of thirty kings the hall which had witnessed the just sentence of bacon and the just absolution of somers.
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GALLIA COUNTY.
PENMANSHIP.
"To live in hearts we leave behind, Is not to die".
GRAMMAR.
1. What parts of speech admit of variation ?
2. Write the plurals of the following nouns: die, pea, index, halo, studio, bandit, helix, dotam, wife, half, and calf.
3. Analyze the following sentence and parse italicized words: Men of stubborn will, who boldly defy the law, may be crushed under the iron heel of power that they may learn obedience.
4. Correct the following, if necessary : 1. Were Cain and Abel's occupations the same ? 2. Who should I meet the other day but my friend! 3. Whom do they say it is ?
5. Write a simple, complex and compound sentence.
6. Write six rules for the use of capital letters.
7. Analyze by diagram the following:
"Who hath not learned, in hours of faith, The truth to flesh and sense unknown, That life is ever lord of death, And love can never lose its own !"
8. Parse the italicized words in the above.
9. The baptism of John, was it from Heaven, or of men ? This point gained, we proceed to the next. I walked seven miles yesterday. Parse the italicized words.
10. Correct the following: the Gentlemen played croka while the Ladys busyed themselves with crosha i will rite to my Cuzin and git bale on the Note before it is dew.
THEORY AND PRACTICE.
1. Name some of the needs of a school-room.
2. Write five lines concerning the object of a school education.
3. What is the best method of ventilating a school-room ?
4. What general questions would you ask during the recitation of an advanced reading class, and at the close of it ?
5. What attention should a teacher give to his personal appearance ?
6. How many months have you taught ?
STANDARD.
Minimum.
Average.
For 6 months
5
6
12
6
66 18 60
7
8
66 24 66
8
9
66
.. . 36 9
9.1
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RULE.
Any applicant detected in giving or receiving aid, will not oniy be rejected, but will also not be permitted to appear again before the Board, as an applicant, for the term of one year.
ARITHMETIC.
1. Sold a watch which cost me $30 for $35, on a credit of 8 months. What did I gain by the bargain ?
2. How many feet of boards would it require to make 15 boxes, each' of which is 7 feet 9 inches long, 3 feet 4 inches wide and 2 feet 10 inches high; and how many cubic yards would they contain ?
3. If 12 men in 15 days can build a wall 30 feet long, 6 feet high, and 3 feet thick, when the days are twelve hours long, in what time will 60 men build a wall 300 feet long, 8 feet high, and 6 feet thick, when they work only 8 hours a day ?
4. The height of a tree, growing in the center of a circular island, 100 feet in diameter, is 160 feet; and a line extending from the top of it to the farther shore is 400 feet. What is the breadth of the stream, provided the land on each side of the water be level ?
5. Required the solidity of a triangular prism whose length is 10 feet, and the three sides of its triangular end, or base, are 5, 4, and 3 feet.
GEOGRAPHY.
1. Describe in detail the way you would draw a map.
2. Name the seven principal physical divisions of North America.
3. Bound Maine, and name its capital and chiefcity.
4. Name the townships of Gallia county.
5. Bound Paraguay, and name its capital.
6. What two modern explorers have contributed most to our knowledge of · Africa?
7. Name the capes and principal groups of islands which would be passed in going from the mouth of the Lena to Calcutta by water.
8. Which of the following cereals is raised farthest north, and which farthest south : wheat, oats, corn ?
GEAUGA COUNTY.
ARITHMETIC.
1. Define Metric System. Meter. Ar. Liter. Gram. Giving tables for measures of length, capacity, weight.
2. Define Discount. Ratio. Proportion. Partnership.
3. Define Average. General Average. Equation of Payments.
4. Define a Polygon. A Parallelogram. A Rhombus. A Prism. A Pyramid.
5. In every geometric series, how many things are considered, and what are they ?
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6. Supposing the earth's circumference to be 25,000 miles, and the earth's atmosphere to be 1 mile high, what would be the circumference of the earth at the top of its atmosphere ?
7. If it is 95,000,000 of miles to the sun, and if sound travels at the rate of 1,142 ft. per second, when should an audience assemble on the sun to hear an oration delivered on the earth at 12 M. to-day ?
8. A purchased a farm from B for $15,500, paying $500 down, and the balance in 5 equal annual installments, at 6 per cent. interest. The same day he sold the farm to C for $15,000 down, and loaned the money to D for 5 years at 6 per cent. per annum. Required, at the end of 5 years, A's profits on the purchase and sale.
9. I paid $5.75 for papering the walls of my sitting-room, which is 17 ft. square and 9.ft. high. Deducting 5 doors, each 7 ft. 8 in. by 4 ft. 3 in., 2 windows, each 9 ft. by 4 ft. 3 in., and a base-board 1 ft. wide, and how much did I pay a square yard ?
10. Exchanged my wool at 50 cts. per lb., for foreign cloth at $4 per yard. Cal- culating { lb. on every yard of cloth when packed, and allowing 8 per cent. for tare, and 4 cts. per lb. for duty, the duty costing me $1,472. Required the tare, the number of yards of cloth, and the number of pounds of wool.
THEORY AND PRACTICE.
1. How many days did you attend the last Institute in this county?
2. What are the earliest faculties developed in childhood ?
3. How would you teach beginners to read ?
4. Name some good incentives to study.
5. What punishments do you use in school ?
6. Name some of the improvements in the art of teaching in the last twenty years.
WRITING.
1. Define base-line, head-line, top-line.
2. Name some of the most common faults in penmanship, and the best exer- cises for correcting them.
3. How many principles in the system which you use ? Make them.
4. Analyze C, D, Q, c, d and r.
5. Write the following as a specimen of your penmanship :
As jewels incased in a casket of gold, Where the richest of treasures we hide, So our purest of thoughts lie deep and untold, Like the gems that are under the tide.
GRAMMAR.
1. Define subvocal, mute, syllable, primitive word.
2. Give complete orthographical analysis of the word "physiology."
3. Define participle. Write a sentence containing a present passive participle, and parse the participle.
4. Define passive voice, tense, subjunctive mode, infinitive mode, defective verb. Why is the passive voice used ?
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5. Parse italicized words in the following: He saw a star shoot from heaven, and glittering in its fall, vanish upon the earth.
6. Give three rules for the use of the period, and two for the use of the comma.
7. Give principal parts and all the participles of lie, (to recline) loose, lose, sit, teach.
8. Analyze or diagram : "It is reported by speculators that diamonds have been discovered in Arizona."
9. Parse italicised words :
" The hills are dearest which our childish feet Have climbed the earliest, and the streams most sweet
Are ever those at which our young lips drank, Stoop'd to their waters o'er the grassy bank."
10. Analyze or diagram 9.
GEOGRAPHY.
1. Through what waters does Lake Superior reach the ocean ?
2. Name six large lakes in British America.
3. What determines the width of the zones ?
4. Define the following-named religions : Pagan, Papist, Mohammedan, Jew, Greek Church, Old Catholic, Deist, Atheist, Buddhist, Christian, Materialist.
5. Which State produces the most cotton? Rice? Sugar ? Tobacco ? Sweet potatoes ? Corn ? Wheat ? ' Swine ? Cattle ? Horses ? Mules? Sheep ? gold ? Silver? Iron? Copper? Lead? Coal? Pine Lumber? Turpentine ? Resin? And tar ?
6. Name twelve seas in and around Asia.
7. Name eleven gulfs in and around Asia.
8. Define and locate the following: landes, downs, prairies, steppes, pampas, keys, reefs, llanos, selvas, wastes, plateau, heaths, oasis, tundras.
9. Define the following : cloves, nutmegs, mace, opium, camphor, sponge, pulque, peat, betel, and Haschish.
10. How is salt produced at Salina, New York? At Turk's Island ? At Cracow, Austria ?
GUERNSEY COUNTY.
GRAMMAR.
1. What are mass nouns ? Give example.
2. What is the difference between personal and relative pronouns ?
3. When is the passive voice used ?
4. Write a sentence containing a verb in the imperative mode, agreeing with it in the first person singular.
5. Conjugate the verb "have" in the progressive forms through the imperative, infinitive and participles.
6. Classify sentences with respect to form, and give examples of each class.
7. Abridge a sentence containing a final adversative clause.
8. The learned pagans ridiculed the Jews for being a deluded people.
9. 1. The ship rides buoyant on the deep. 2. It was so hot as to melt the ice.
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10. To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.
Map the 10th and parse underscored words.
ORTHOGRAPHY.
1. How do letters differ in the variety of their representation ?
2. When are letters said to be long, and when short ?
3. What difference is found in the accentuation of compound words ?
4. How would you analyze a word according to its significant parts ?
5. When is a hyphen generally used between the parts of a compound word ?
6. Separate the following words into syllables, and give the rules for so doing : paper, damper.
7. Why do you retain the k in spelling barrack, and omit it in spelling public ?
8. Why does the e come after i in spelling relieve, and before it in spelling deceive ?
9. Give five uses of silent letters.
10. Give a method of orthographic parsing.
GEOGRAPHY.
1. With what countries is the commerce of the United States ?
2. Why is the foreign trade of Austria limited ?
3. What is the cause of earthquakes ?
4. How are coast waters classified ?
5. What difference between oceanic and continental climate ?
6. How are the ocean depths estimated in the absence of soundings ?
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