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7. Give the reasons for believing the earth to be round.
8. Locate the principal lead, iron, and copper regions of the United States.
9. In what country and upon what water is each of the following cities: To- ronto ? Milwaukee? London? Rio Janeiro ? Cairo ?
10. Draw an outline map of Ohio, and locate at least three of its largest rivers, five of its largest cities, and Medina.
ORTHOGRAPHY.
1. Indicate, by diacritical marks, the sounds of the vowels in the following words ; also the sounds of the consonants which are used to represent more than one sound : Cent, cane, large, good, raise.
2. Write the following words, and draw one line under each aspirate, two lines under each sub-vocal, and three lines under each vowel : the cities of Ohio. .
3. How do you teach the elementary sounds, and for what purpose ?
4. What are the comparative advantages of oral and written spelling? How much do you use each ?
5. What difference, if any, is there between the name of a letter and its power? Perfection in the above will count as 50 per cent., and perfection in all the papers as 50 per cent.
MEIGS COUNTY.
GRAMMAR.
1. Write two sentences showing that sentences can have adjective elements, and yet not employ adjectives. Each sentence must have a different kind of sub- stitute.
2. Write a simple sentence, and contract it. Same with a complex and a com- pound. Give nature of the contraction.
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3. Write a complex sentence, whose leading clause shall contain two correla- tive propositions. One whose subordinate clause shall contain the same.
4. Write an explanation of the agreement of the verbs in the following: "The ten farthings was paid." "The Pleasures of Memory was published in 1792."
5. Write sentences illustrating the meaning of the words: Impregnable, assidu- ous, luxurious, ruminate, touching, one with its physical or literal meaning, one with its figurative.
6 and 7. "They dreamed a dream, both of them, each man his dream in one night, each man according to the interpretation of his dream, the butler and the baker of the king of Egypt, which were bound in the prison."
(a). Parse both, the second dream.
(b). Parse in, in second line ; according to.
(c). Parse butler.
. (d). What difficulty in the analysis of this sentence ?
(e). Number and gender of which ?
8 and 9.
He lives who lives to God alone, And all are dead beside ;
For other source than God is none, Whence life can be supplied. .
(a). Unusual position of the relative in the first line?
(b). Is it possible to give alone more than one parsing? Give reason for answer.
(c). Parse beside, none.
(d). Parse God. How is source modified ?
10. (a). Put the diacriticals and accents on the words: Stalk, what, or, seas, gown, grown, sour, soup.
(6). Spell and accent the pronunciation of the words: Pronunciation, Christian, partial, partiality.
ARITHMETIC.
1. A grocer marked tea at 90 cts. a pound ; if he could fall 15 per cent. from the marked price, and yet gain 10 per cent. on the cost, what was the cost per pound ?
2. A and B can mow a field in 8 days, and A can mow only § as much as B; how long will it take each to mow the field ?
3. A bank charges $5 for discounting a note of $100, due in 60 days. What is the rate of discount ?
4. A contributes $2}, B $32, C $5}. What part of the whole amount does each contribute ?
5. What is the unit of a number ? The unit of a fraction ? A fractional unit ?
6. If 4 men in 73 days, 9} hours each, earn $523, how much will seven men earn in 32's days, of 72 hours each ? By proportion.
7. How many acres in a square field whose diagonal is 49.497 rods ?
8. How many barrels of 31} gallons will a cylindrical cistern hold whose diame- ter is 5 feet, and depth 6 ft., 4 in .?
9. A, B and C invested each $39,900 in 6 per cent. bonds, as follows: A at par value, B at 5 per cent. premium, and Cat 5 per cent. discount. Find the income of each.
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10. A merchant sells ¿ of an article for what { of it cost. What is his gain per cent. ?
MERCER COUNTY.
GRAMMAR.
1. Define grammar and analysis.
2. What is meant by "parts of speech" ?
3. Why do you give person and number to verbs?
4. Give the directions for writing sentences.
5. Why do adjectives admit of a change of form? Define the comparative degree.
6. Write a simple, a complex, and a compound sentence.
7. Define mode, tense and voice.
8. What is the difference between a person and a relative pronoun ?
9. Parse the words underscored : He that thinketh he is secure may be disappointed.
10. Choose any of the following subjects, and write a neat essay of not less than ten lines: History. Liberty. Expectations. Life. Education.
GEOGRAPHY.
1. Define mathematical, physical, and political geography.
2. Name the different movements of the water in the ocean, and tell how each is produced.
3. Name and locate 5 of the largest cities in the United States, and 3 in Ohio in order of size.
4. What are ocean currents? Describe the gulf stream, and name some of the effects it produces.
5. State cause of the thermal springs and volcanoes.
6. What and where is the great natural curiosity of Kentucky ?
7. Locate Mounts Ararat and St. Elias, and lakes Baikal and Champlain.
8. How many branches in the United States Government, and give principal duties of each ?
9. What political divisions border on the Mediterranean sea ?
10. Name the bodies of water you would sail on going from Wheeling to Havana.
ARITHMETIC.
1. Having the principal, interest and time given, how do you find the rate ?
2. What per cent. is 1872 lbs. of 2.3 tons ?
3. If multiplying increases numbers, why does multiplying } by } give a pro- duct less than the multiplier or multiplicand ?
4. A note of $356, dated March the 10th, to run for ten months, with interest at 7 per cent., was discounted at the bank August 25. What were the proceeds?
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5. The true discount of a debt in three years was $27.90. Fnd the debt, the interest being 6 per cent.
6. The head of a fish weighs 8 lbs., the tail 3 lbs. more than the head and half of the body, and the body as much as the head and tail both. Find the weight of the fish.
7. The age of A is one-half the age of B, twice the age of A is } the age of C, C is 20 years older than B. What is the age of each ?
8. Define decimal, duodecimal and involution.
9. Define proportion, ratio and interest.
10. Two men engaged to build a house for $4,800; the first labors § as many days as the second, 10 days, and receives $2,100. How many days does each man work ?
ORTHOGRAPHY.
1. Name the different ways in which a derivative word may be formed, and give example of each.
2. What is essential to every syllable, and how many syllables do words have ?
3. Name three combinations of letters to represent elementary sounds.
4. Give four rules for the use of capitals.
5. In what does a knowledge of the letters consist ?
6. How many elementary sounds in the word orthography ?
7. How many sounds has O and U ?
8. Write a syllable, a primitive and a derivative word ?
9. Define labyrinth, spontaneous and accomplice.
10. Spell correctly the following : sursingal, croca, pressedent, ulogy, tension.
THEORY AND PRACTICE.
1. What preparation have you made to qualify yourself for the profession of teaching ?
2. What are some of the objects of school government ?
3. How many terms have you taught ? Did you attend the last County Institute?
4. What are your methods of teaching grammar ?
5. Do you prevent whispering in schools ?
MIAMI COUNTY.
GEOGRAPHY.
1. Bound Africa, and name four of its capes, four of its neighboring islands, four of its rivers, and three of its straits and channels.
· 2. Name and locate five of the largest towns of South America.
3. How did the U. S. Government acquire the territory of Ohio ? Of Florida ? Of Louisiana ? Of Texas ? · Of California ? What is the area of each ?
4. Name five of the largest towns on or near the line of the Union Pacific Rail- road.
5. Mention each lake, channel, river and canal, through which, a boat starting from Chicago, would reach the ocean.
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6. What are clouds, dew and rain ? In what countries does most rain fall ?
7. Of what country is tea a native? Tobacco? The potato?
8. Do degrees of latitude and of longitude vary in length ? If so, why ?
9. Name five states in which large coal fields are found ; five in which no coal is found.
10. Name two of the great cities of Japan.
THEORY.
1. What does the theory and practice of teaching embrace ?
2. Who decides whether a teacher has been successful in teaching ?
3. Who gives the teacher authority ?
4. What is that knowledge called which is derived through reason ?
5. Which is your greater inducement to teach, renown or money ?
SPELLING.
1. Moot,
9. Calyx,
2. Bowlder,
10. Existence,
3. Covetous,
11. Brilliant,
4. Erosive, 12. Tenet,
5. Felloe,
13. Pachyderm,
6. Fellow,
14. Thoracic,
7. Affability,
15. Chillicothe,
8. Nocturnal.
GRAMMAR.
1. Define letter, syllable, word, lingual and labial.
2. How do you form the plural of nouns ending in o? Give the plural of tomato, ratio, who and thou.
3. What are conjunctive adverbs, to what are they equivalent, and how should they be parsed ?
4. How is a verb in the active voice changed to the passive ?
5. What is a participle ? What does the compound participle denote, and how is it formed ?
6. Correct the following: He divided the estate between the four brothers. I differ with you on that point. I bought a couple of ducks.
7. Indicate the accent in the following words: Legislature, telegraphy, impious.
8. Analyze: The fires of the bivouac complete what the fires kindled by the battle have not consumed.
9. Into how many classes are numeral adjectives divided ? Name them.
10. Parse the italicized words in the 8th.
ARITHMETIC.
1. Find the value of 7 tuns, 3 qts. of wine, at 44 cts. a pint.
2. From 39 and 15 thousandths take 81935 hundred-thousandths.
3. If the oats for 10 horses for 8 mo. costs $450, when oats are 37} cts. per bu., how long can 20 horses be fed for $1,050, when oats are 50 cts. per bu. ? 23 S. C.
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4. Find the amount of $15 for 3 days at 3 per cent.
5. If I sell } of a farm for what § of it cost, what per cent. do I gain ?
6. How wide must a man make a door-way 7 ft. high, so that a circular saw 8 ft. in diameter will pass through ?
7. Find the cube root of 81 hundredths.
8. Divide $2,331 among A, B and C, in the ratio of }, { and &.
9. The bank discount of a note of $750 was $8.50; what was the time ?
10. What rate per cent. will be lost by selling apples at 5 for a cent that cost .
$1.50 per barrel of five hundred ?
MONROE COUNTY.
THEORY AND PRACTICE.
1. Define school government. Under what heads may school government be embraced ?
2. What is education ? What is teaching? What is learning ?
3. What is discipline ? What may be considered as proper penalties ?
4. What may be considered as the most important qualifications of the teacher?
5. Into what divisions are the faculties of mind comprised ?
6. What is that knowledge called which man derives through the senses ? What does this knowledge include ?
7. What does education do for the individual? What for a people ?
8. What is a recitation? How should the recitation be conducted ?
GRAMMAR.
1. In which modes and tense are verbs conjugated emphatically ? Interroga- tively ? Conjugate "recite", "laugh", "be" and "hope", emphatically, each in a different mode.
2. Name three objects or advantages in the use of the passive voice, and give the reason why.
3. Name the' different kinds of connectives. What is the difference between a preposition and a conjunction ?
4. What modifications have adverbs ? What is comparison of adverbs ? Com- pare four adverbs regularly. 1
5. What is a relative clause ? A concessive clause ? Of what are elements com- posed ? Classify elements.
6. Analyze the following sentence, and parse the italicized words: Seest thou who they be that they act as leaders ?- Scott.
7. Parse italicized words:
For once, be every care forgot ; Let gentle Peace assert her power, And kind Affection rule the hour.
-Sprague.
8. May God forgive the child of dust, Who seeks to know where Faith should trust.
- Whittier.
STATE COMMISSIONER OF COMMON SCHOOLS.
" To live in a fine house and drive fast horses is the height of his ambition".
"Needful auxiliaries are our friends, to give
To social man true relish of himself".
Proposition XVI.
Problem :
Through a given point, to draw a tangent to a given circumference.
10.
I cannot tell what you and other men
Think of this life ; but for my single self,
I had as lief not be as live to be
In awe of such a thing as I myself.
-Shakespeare.
ARITHMETIC.
Time, 1 hr. 20 min.
1. I loaned E. C. Boughner $500.00, which he kept 10 months ; 3 yr's afterward I borrowed of him $1,000.00. How long should I keep it to balance the favor ?
2. A and B can do a piece of work in 30 days. If B does 3-5 as much as A, in how many days can each do it ?
3. What income in currency would G. O. Dougherty receive by investing $5,220 in U. S. 5-20 6 per cent. bonds, at 116, when gold is 105 ?
4. 30 per cent. of Schoolcraft's money invested at 8 per cent. yields him an annual income of $768.00. How much money has he ?
5. If I wish to make 8 per cent. per annum on my money, what shall I pay for a note of $360.00 due 2} years hence, bearing int. at 6 per cent. ?
6. A and B invested equal sums in business. A gained a sum equal to 25 per cent. of his stock, and B lost $225. A's money at this time was double that of B's. What amount did each invest ?
7. The area of a triangle is 625 sqr. ft., the base is 50 ft. What is the perpen- dicular ?
8. A cubic foot of water weighs about 62 lbs. What will be the pressure or weight on a sqr. yd. where the sea is 20 fathoms deep ?
9. John Suppes bought a bill of goods for $4250 on 60 days' credit, or 5 per cent. dis. for cash. He borrowed the money the same day at the Monroe Bank and dis- charged the debt. Did he make or lose by the transaction, money being worth 9 per cent. ?
10. A and B are partners ; A's stock is to B's as 4 to 9; after 4 months, A with- draws & of his, and B § of his; divide their year's gain, $2100.
11. What is the distance in ft. from the S. W. cor. to the N. E. cor. of a section of land ?,
ORTHOGRAPHY.
1. Into how many and what classes are the phonetic elements divided ? Define each class.
2. Why is the final e retained in the word peaceable ?
3. From what language is the English chiefly derived ?
4. State the difference between equivalents and cognates.
5. By what rule do you spell getting with two t's ?
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6. Which are the silent letters in the words mosque, slaughter, victuals ?
7. What are the names of the syllables of words ?
8. Why is the letter k inserted after c in certain derivatives ?
9. For what purpose are words divided into syllables ?
10. What is the standard of pronunciation ?
GEOGRAPHY.
1. From what is the term geography derived ?
2. Define affluent, delta, and estuary.
3. What fact is true of well articulated countries ?
4. How do continental islands compare in size with oceanic islands ?
5. How many and what departments in the government of Ohio ?
6. Give the capitals of the republics of Europe.
7. What rank does Illinois occupy as to population ?
8. Name the longest river, highest mountain, largest lake, largest city, and smallest State in the U. S.
9. Bound and give the capital of the last State admitted to the Union.
10. Where are the following mountains : Black, White, Green and Blue ?
HISTORY.
1. When was the first legislative assembly ever held in America ?
2. Where was the first settlement made in Ohio ? In Indiana ? In Illinois ? In Massachusetts ? In Georgia ?
3. Who was the author of the " Missouri compromise ?"
4. What is the Monroe doctrine ?
5. Who was it that said " millions for defence, but not one cent for tribute ?"
6. What great men did the colonial times produce ?
7. When was the first Continental Congress held ?
8. When were the Stars and Stripes adopted as the emblem of our nationality ?
9. What States have been formed from the Northwest Territory ?
10. What territory have we acquired by purchase ? By annexation ? By conquest ?
GENERAL QUESTIONS.
1. What educational journal do you read ?
2. Do you take either of our county papers ?
3. What is a school district ?
4. Name our county officers.
5. Who is our representative in the Ohio Legislature ? In the Senate ?
6. Name the author of the following poems: "The Raven," "The Village Blacksmith," "The American Flag. "
7. Name our lexicographers. Our poets. Our historians.
8. What counties compose this Congressional district?
READING.
1. Give a chart of vocal sounds.
2. Give a principle of reading that will admit of general application."
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3. How can a good articulation be acquired ?
4. What is cadence ?
5. What are rhetorical pauses ?
6. What mental qualifications must a good reader possess and employ ?
MORGAN COUNTY.
ARITHMETIC.
1. How many sq. ft. in the four sides of a room 21} ft. long, 16} ft. wide, and 13 ft. high ?
2. Find the sum of 83 thousandths, 2101 hundredths, 25 tenths, and 94} units.
3. Bought hams at 8 cents a lb .; the wastage is 10 per cent .; how must I sell them to gain 30 per cent. ?
4. At what figure must be government 5 per cents to make my purchase pay 9 per cent. ?
5. What is the rate of interest when $29,200 produces $6.40 a day ? (counting 365 days a year.)
6. A owes $840, due Oct. 3; he pays $400 July 1; $200 Aug. 1; when will.the balance be due?
7. What is the difference between the annual and the compound interest of $5000 in 6 years at 6 per cent. per annum ?
8. A, B, and C are partners ; A's stock, $8000 ; B's $12,800; C's $15,200; A and B together gain $1638 more than C; what is the gain of each ?
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9. What number multiplied by ? of itself makes 504?
10. In extracting the square root of a perfect power, the last complete dividend was found 4725; what was the power ?
WRITING.
1. How many spaces high is the loop in the small letter h ? How many kinds of curves in the same letter ?
2. What is made the standard of measurement in width ? What in hight ?
3. Write ten letters, no one of which is properly more than one space in hight.
4. What good will it do a pupil to require him to trace the copy carefully with a dry pen ?
5. In teaching sentence writing, to what five points should the pupil's attention be called ?
THEORY AND PRACTICE.
1. Name some of the chief elements of success in a teacher.
2. How can our schools be made better ?
3. Which is the more important, the acquisition of knowledge, or mental dis- cipline ? Why?
4. Give some of the best methods of dealing with unruly pupils.
5. State your plan of giving instruction in morals and manners.
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GEOGRAPHY.
1. In what part of the United States is manufacturing carried on most exten- sively ? Mining ? Commerce ? Agriculture ?
2. Name the different classes of islands as to formation and location, and give an example of each class.
3. Tell the natural divisions-as to elevation-of North America.
4. Name the thirteen original colonies. To what government did they for- merly belong, and when did they declare themselves free ?
5. Name the four principal steps in the progress of formation of a coral island.
6. Name the predominant mountain system of each grand division, and the culminating point of each.
7. What agencies produce the changes to which the earth's crust is now subject?
8. Why is it warm here in June and cold in December ?
9. Name the principal countries and larger bodies of water through which the Tropic of Cancer passes.
10. What are the principal causes of constant oceanic currents ?
GRAMMAR.
1. Why is the sentence, "He ought to have went," incorrect ?
2. What is the difference between an adjective and an adverb ?
'3. Correct : If I was a teacher I would give shorter lessons, and give reasons for the change.
4. How may declarative sentence be made interrogative ?
5. Correct : He was eager of making money, and give the reason for the change.
6. Write sentences in which each of the following words is correctly used : Fearful, dreadful, frightful, terrible, tremendous, horrible, awful, shocking, delightful, charming, nice, lovely, beautiful, exquisite, elegant, fascinating, hateful, ugly, mean and stupid.
7. Define exquisite, fearful, nice, awful, fascinating and ugly.
8. Analyze : "None, SAVE THOU and THINE I've sworn shall be left upon the morn."
9. Diagram : " Granting this TO BE true, what is the inference ? "
10. Parse the words in small caps in the 8th and 9th.
MUSKINGUM COUNTY.
GRAMMAR.
1. In what respect do adverbs and adjectives resemble each other? In what respect do they differ ?
2. How is a verb changed from the active to the passive voice, and why ? Write a sentence in which a verb in the passive form takes an object.
3. Write a synopsis of the verb teach, in the active voice, indicative mode, and in the passive voice, subjunctive mode.
4. Write the feminine plural of bachelor, earl, gentleman, nephew, host and Mr. Smith.
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5. Write five sentences, each representing a different use of the infinitive.
6. Name the principal points of difference between personal and relative pro- nouns.
7. Define co-ordinate and subordinate connectives, and state what parts of speech are used as subordinate connectives.
Diagram or analyze No. 8:
8. Of man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal touch
Brought death into the world, and all our toe, With loss of Eden, till one greater man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat ; Sing heavenly Muse.
9. Parse italicized words in No. 8.
Correct the following and give reasons :
10. (a). I never seen him, but she has.
.(b). You and me will go when she has come back.
(c). He said the earth was flat, and that I didn't know nothing.
(d). I will try and do my duty.
(e). A widow woman and infant was on the train.
GEOGRAPHY.
1. What is the Ecliptic ? What is mean annual temperature ?
2. Describe the three departments of our Government. What is the difference between a limited monarchy and a republic ?
3. In what mountains are the following peaks: Mount Blanc, Mount Brown, Aconcagua, Kilimanjaro, Mitchell.
4. On what bodies of water would a vessel sail from Odessa to Bombay?
5. Name five islands in the Mediterranean, and name the countries to which · they belong.
6. What rivers empty into the Persian Gulf, and into the Caspian Sea, and Sea of Azov ?
7. State the form of government and kind of religion in all the European countries.
8. Name the political divisions of North America, give the form of government in each, also the principal rivers, mountains and cities in each.
9. What are our imports from China ? What are our exports to England ?
10. Locate the following : Lake Simcoe, Pyramid Lake, Humboldt Mountains, Black Hills, Gulf of Georgia, Gulf of Guyaquil, Ghant Mountains, Andaman Isles, Isle of Rhodes, Gulf of Oman.
ARITHMETIC.
1. Define interest, per cent., quantity, discount, cone, radius, diagonal, diame- ter, slant-height, and pyramid.
2. How do you explain the rules for the extraction of square and cube root to your pupils ?
3. The wheels of a locomotive are 10 feet 5 inches in circumference, and make 8 revolutions per sec. ; in what time will it run 100 miles ?
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4. A man sold a horse for $175, which was 20 per cent. less than he asked, and his asking price was 20 per cent. more than cost; did he gain or lose, and what per cent. ?
5. If stock bought at 20 per cent. premium pays 8} per cent. on the investment, what per cent. will it pay if bought at 5 per cent. discount ?
6. If a silver globe 3 inches in diameter is worth $160, what is the value of one 6 inches in diameter ?
7. The area of a cube is 3456 square inches; what is its diagonal ?
8. A half-bushel measure is 13} inches in diameter, and 8116 inches deep; how near is it to being correct ?
9. What debt can be discharged in a year by weekly payments in arithmetical progression, the first $24, and the last $1,224 ?
10. A father left $7,000 to his two sons, A and B, aged 11 and 16 years, to be divided so that the shares loaned at 10 per cent., simple interest, should amount to equal sums when they became 21 years of age ; what was each one's share ?
. THEORY AND PRACTICE.
1. What do you consider a thorough recitation ?
2. Do you think any good is accomplished by requiring pupils to memorize what they do not understand ? Why ?
3. What are your plans to create an interest in study ?
4. Name some modes of punishment of which you approve, when punishment is necessary.
5. Why do you teach, and how much experience have you had in teaching ?
6. What are some of the principal ends which a teacher should strive to attain in the school-room ?
OTTAWA COUNTY.
GRAMMAR.
A. Of what is the old man thinking,
As he leans on his broken staff ?
B. There never was a country in the world, from the days of Pericles to the present time, which furnished such an unbounded scope for the demagogue as ours.
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