USA > Ohio > Annual report of the State Commissioner of Common Schools, to the Governor of the State of Ohio, for the year 1880 > Part 31
Note: The text from this book was generated using artificial intelligence so there may be some errors. The full pages can be found on Archive.org (link on the Part 1 page).
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9 | Part 10 | Part 11 | Part 12 | Part 13 | Part 14 | Part 15 | Part 16 | Part 17 | Part 18 | Part 19 | Part 20 | Part 21 | Part 22 | Part 23 | Part 24 | Part 25 | Part 26 | Part 27 | Part 28 | Part 29 | Part 30 | Part 31 | Part 32 | Part 33
1. In what respect does w differ from u, e from c?
2. How many straight lines in x? What difference in their slant ?
372
ANNUAL REPORT.
3. How would you classify an ungraded school of fifty pupils for writing lessons ?
4. How many letters contain the 4th principle ? Write them.
5. Give the important rules for position, slope, and distance of letters.
6. Write all the letters one space in height.
7. Give a short specimen of your penmanship.
NATURAL PHILOSOPHY.
1. Define mind, matter. In what two states may matter exist ?
2. What is Philosophy ? Into what may Natural Philosophy be divided ?
3. Define magnitude, form and impenetrability.
4. Explain the law of universal gravity.
5. What is a pendulum? Explain the laws that govern the vibration of the pendulum.
6. State how you find the specific gravity of a liquid by the balance.
7. Why does evaporation produce cold in surrounding bodies? Explain the experiment with sulphurous acid.
8. Explain Morse's registering telegraph, and the mode of working it.
9. The flash of a gun is seen by you 32 seconds before the report is heard. At what distance is the gun from you ?
HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES.
1. By what treaty did Great Britain acknowledge the American Independence ? What territories did Great Britain lose by this treaty ?
2. Give a brief account of the causes of the Southern rebellion.
3. Relate the operations of Washington until he arrived at Yorktown.
4. When and by whom was Fort Hatteras captured ? Ať what engagement was General Lyon killed ?
5. Who discovered Florida? Where was the first English settlement made in the United States ?
6. Who discovered the Hudson river ? What towns did the Dutch form?
7. Give a clear account of the Stamp Act. How did the Americans regard it ?
8. Name the original thirteen States of the Union.
MUSIC.
1. State what is meant by the major scale, the staff, tonic and dominant.
2. Name the different kinds of notes and rests.
3. What do you understand by beating time ? Its object ?
4. State the difference between the office of a single bar and a double bar.
5. If G is made the key-note, what sharp is introduced ?
6. Describe quadruple measure. Where does the accent occur in quadruple measure ?
7. Give the distinction between the bass and tenor; also, between the alto and treble.
8. What reasons can you give why music should be taught in all schools ?
373
STATE COMMISSIONER OF COMMON SCHOOLS.
GRAMMAR.
1. Define the following: Transitive and intransitive verb, participle, infinitive, case and passive voice.
2. Decline all the simple personal pronouns.
3. Repeat all the rules that apply to the objective case.
4. Give a synopsis of the verb "to see" in the indicative, potential and subjunc- tive modes, active voice.
5. Parse the italicized words in the following sentences :
"One evening, after the sheep were folded, and we were all seated beneath the myrtle which shaded our cottage, my grandsire, an old man, was telling of Marathon and Leuctra, and how, in ancient times, a little band of Spartans, in a defile of the mountains, had withstood a whole army. I did not then know what war was; but my cheeks burned. I knew not why, and I clasped the knees of that venerable man, until my mother, parting the hair from off my forehead, kissed my throbbing temples, and bade me go to rest, and think no more of those old tales and bloody wars. That very night the Romans landed on our coast. I saw the breast that had nourished me trampled by the hoof of the war-horse; the bleeding body of my father flung amid the blazing rafters of our dwelling."
GEOGRAPHY.
1. Draw a map of Putnam county, O., locating properly its townships, and mark- ing the courses of its creeks and rivers. Give its latitude and longitude, and its ap- proximate population.
2. Draw a map of the State of Ohio, with its rivers, and the location of the fol lowing cities and towns : Steubenville, Zanesville, Lancaster, Columbus, Portsmouth Hamilton, Urbana, Toledo, and Akron.
3. Describe the following rivers: Connecticut, Potomac, Tennessee, Red River, Rio Grande, and Columbia.
4. Name all the political divisions of Central America, and the form of govern- · ment of each.
5. Name all the capes on the Atlantic coast of South America.
6. Describe Africa as to the following particulars : Its people, its progress in civilization, its religion, political institutions, climate, and productions.
7. What two empires lie partly in Europe, and partly in Asia? What one lies in all the grand divisions ?
8. Explain why our days are longest in June and shortest in December.
9. Describe the shortest route by water from Rome to Bombay.
10. Name all the peninsulas of Asia.
PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY.
1. What is the orbitual velocity of the earth per minute ?
2. Classify the rocks that compose the crust of the earth.
3. In what respect are the Eastern and Western hemispheres alike, and in wha unlike ?
4. What is a lagoon island ?'
5. Name the three mountain systems of North America.
374
ANNUAL REPORT.
6. Classify volcanoes.
7. How would you explain the phenomenon of periodic springs ?
8. What is the utility of ocean currents ?
9. What causes thunder ?
10. Classify mankind as to their social condition.
MENTAL ARITHMETIC.
1. If 15 men, working 10 hours a day, can do a certain piece of work in 18 days, how many days will it require for 13 men to do the same work, by working 8 hours a day ?
2. A man engaged to work a year for $240 and a suit of clothes. At the end of 9 months an equitable settlement -was made by giving him $168 and the suit of clothes. What was the value of the clothes ?
3. What must be asked for apples which cost $3 per barrel, that I may reduce my asking price 20 per cent., and still gain 20 per cent. on the cost ?
4. A man being asked the time of day, replied that it was past noon, and that & of the time past noon was equal to § of the time to midnight. What time was it ?
5. A is 20 years of age ; B's age is equal to A's and half of C's, and C's is equal to A's and B's together. What is the age of each ?
6. A man spent $4 more than half of his money in traveling, one-half of what he had left and $2 more for a coat, $6 more than half of the remainder for other clothing, and had $2 left. How much money had he at first ?
HISTORY OF ROME.
1. When and by whom was Rome formed ?
2. Who were the Triumvirs ?
3. Who was Pyrrhus, and when was he defeated ?
4. Where was Carthage? What were the relations between Carthage and Rome, friendly or otherwise ?
5. Give an account of Hannibal's campaign against Rome.
6. What condition of things immediately preceded the downfall of civil free -* dom in Rome ?
7. Who was Cicero, and who was Julius Cæsar, and for what are they both noted ?
8 .. What was the first Triumvirate, and who composed it ?
9. When did the empire begin, and who was the first Emperor ?
10. How long did the empire last ?
PHYSIOLOGY.
1. Of what use are bones in the human body.
2. What are the two component parts of bones ?
3. Define voluntary and involuntary muscles. Define tendon.
4. Define cuticle and epidermis.
5. What are the benefits of perspiration ?
6. State briefly the office of the human heart.
7. What are veins, and what are arteries ?
8. Why must air be introduced constantly in the lungs ?
375
STATE COMMISSIONER OF COMMON SCHOOLS.
9. Explain the two-fold use of nerves.
10. Of what use is pain to us ?
DRAWING.
1. Name three advantages to be derived from drawing.
2. Draw a square, each side being 3 inches long, bisect each side by perpen- diculars drawn through the entire square; draw a circle whose radius shall be one- half the distance from the center of the square to either side, draw diagonal and erase the lines within the circle.
3. Draw a chair, bell and desk.
4. Give four rules of drawing.
5. Describe perspective.
MAP DRAWING.
1. Give directions for drawing the map of North America.
2. What items would you consider necessary in order to make a map of any of the States (for instance, Pennsylvania or Virginia) full ?
3. Draw Iceland.
4. Give representative marks of coast, mountains, railroads, canals, cities, capi- tals, marshy places and rivers.
5. Draw Missouri and France.
ARITHMETIC.
1. Bought nineteen-twentieths of a farm for & of its value, what would the whole farm have cost me at that rate, if § of its value is 5 of $16,000 ?
2. An agent has three pieces of land containing 497, 355 and 639 acres, respect- ively. What is the least number of farms, all of equal size, that can be obtained from each ?
3. What decimal of a cord is 9 74 cubic feet ?
4. If I buy goods 33} per cent. below their value, and a discount of 5 per cent. is allowed for prompt payment, what per cent. is my profit, if I sell them at 10 per cent. above their value ?
5. What sum will produce $832.25 interest from March 1, 1878, to July 11, 1878, at 4 per cent. ?
6. If 9 horses or 18 cows, or 12 sheep, can eat $ tons of hay in 32 days, how many horses, cows and sheep, of each an equal number, will, feeding together, eat 1§ tons of hay in 94 days ?
7. If a watch that loses 3 minutes in 24 hours is set right at 10 A. M., on one day, what will be the correct time when the watch marks 12 o'clock noon the next day ?
8. Find the cube root of 34518.612116 ?
9. The radius of a circle is 1000 yards, what is the diagonal of an inscribed square ?
10. What is the length of the longest straight line that can be drawn in a cubical room whose volume is 15,625 cubic feet ?
376
ANNUAL REPORT.
CHEMISTRY.
1. How many chemical elements in nature ?
2. Write 20 elements, giving their symbols and equivalents.
3. Is the chemical equivalent of an element based upon its relative bulk or weight ?
4. Give 10 formulae and explain any 5 of them.
5. Name 5 acids, 3 alkalies and 6 salts, and give formulae.
6. Give 3 of the laws based upon the atomic theory.
7. How many pounds of O in 54 lbs. of HO?
8. In making O from KOCI O5, how much can be obtained from 2 pounds of the salt ?
9. What is the unit of specific gravity for solids, and what is it for gases ?
10 Name some of the principal effects of O.
11. What element will not unite with O ?
12. If the formula for starch, gum, pectic acid, cellulose, legnine, &c., is C12 H10 010, how will you account for the different products when the same amount of each is used ?
MUSIC.
1. Define andante, cres, dim. forte, mf. p. pp. f.
2. Write and name the sharp and flat signatures of each letter.
3. In the key of A and E sharp, what letters are sharped ?
4. Explain the difference between a major and minor piece of music.
5. Give directions for transposing a piece of music from the key of G to A.
6. Draw a music staff of 6 measures representing a hold, 4 kinds of notes, a rest,
7. In representing time by fractions, what does the numerator denote, and also , a repeat and a swell.
the denominator ?
8. What governs the length of a hold ?
THEORY AND PRACTICE.
1. How far is the teacher responsible for the moral training of the child ?
2. Name the mental faculties most active in childhood.
3. Name the most common faults of teachers in giving moral instructions.
4. What are the ends to be secured in the exercise of discipline ?
5. Give an outline of your methods in teaching penmanship.
6. Give a full explanation of the phonic system of teaching reading and spelling.
GEOMETRY.
1. Define plain, solid and spherical geometry. .
2. Draw an equilateral, isosceles and scalene triangle, also a trapezium, trape- zoid, frustum of a cone, frustum of a pyramid, a truncated cone, a triangular prism and an oblique rhombic prism.
3. Give the subjects of which each of the nine books of Davies' Legender treats.
4. If from any point within a triangle two straight lines be drawn to the
377
STATE COMMISSIONER OF COMMON SCHOOLS.
extremities of either side, their sum will be less than that of the two remaining sides.
5. If four quantities are in proportion they will be in proportion by composition and division.
6. The square described on the hypothenuse of a right-angled triangle is equiva- lent to the sum of the square described on the other two sides.
7. The convex surface of the frustum of a cone is equal to its slant height, multiplied by half the sum of the circumference of its bases.
PRINTING.
1. Name the materials required for printing.
2. What should constitute the work of the first week ?
3. Would you teach the small or capitals first ?
4. How long would you keep a pupil on the same form of a letter ?
5. Print all the capital letters.
6. Print all the small letters in two different forms.
7. Print the following mottoes in different forms :
(1). Speak kindly to all.
(2). Be prompt.
(3). Avoid anger.
(4). Study diligently.
ALGEBRA.
1. A man has a hours at his disposal ; how far may he ride in a coach which travels b miles per hour, and yet have time to return on foot, walking at the rate of c miles per hour ?
2. A cask a contains 8 gallons of wine mixed with 18 gallons of water; another, b, contains 9 gallons of wine, mixed with 3 gallons of water. How many gallons must be drawn from each to make a mixture of 7 gallons of wine and 7 gallons of water ?
3. The sum of the squares of three numbers in arithmetical progression is 83, and the square of the mean is greater by 4 than the product of the extremes. Re- quired the numbers.
4. Reduce the following to a common index : 3 raised to the two-thirds power, and 2 raised to the three-fourths power, and 5 raised to the one-half power, and ex- press them under radicals.
5. When wheat was 5 shillings a bushel, and rye 3 shillings, a man wanted to fill his sack with a mixture of rye and wheat for the money he had in his purse. If he bought 7 bushels of rye and laid out the rest of his money in wheat, he would want 2 bushels to fill his sack ; but if he bought 6 bushels of wheat and filled his sack with rye, he would have 6 shillings left. How must he lay out his money and fill his sack.
378
ANNUAL REPORT.
ROSS COUNTY.
GRAMMAR.
1. Analyze the following stanza :
" The farmer sat in his easy chair, Smoking his pipe of clay,
While his hale old wife, with busy care, Was clearing the dinner away ;
A sweet little girl, with fine blue eyes On her grandfather's knees was catching flies."
2. Parse the underscored words :
3. Correct, if necessary, the following, and give reasons for the corrections
(a). That is all the further I got.
(b). Please let John and me pick some berries. 1
(c). It is uncertain if a swan lives longer than a raven.
(d). There is none nobler than her.
(e). If I was you I would not go.
(f). The Governor's of Texas life has been an eventful one.
(g). Who do you suppose it to be ?
(h). Cotton is more valuable, but not so certain as corn.
(i). She will not sing for anybody else but him.
(j). LaFayette is the best character of any in French history.
GEOGRAPHY.
1. How many states are there in the German Empire ?
2. Give its area, define its physical features, and in what does its wealth con-
sist ?
3. Name five of the most populous cities of the German Empire, and for what are they noted ?
4. What is the area of France ?
5. Tell about its surface, climate and leading industries.
6. Name four of the most populous cities of France, and for what are they noted ?
7. How many states in the U. S., and for what are they noted ?
8. In what does the wealth of the U. S. consist ?
9. Name the population of the U. S.
10. Name the branches of the Mississippi.
READING.
1. What is stress ? 2. How many kinds of stress are there ? 3. Define each.
4. What are your chief difficulties in reading ?
ARITHMETIC.
1. % of § : 33 = what ?
5
2. Reduce 8230 35, to decimal, add § of 2% + % of 2, all reduced to decimals.
379
STATE COMMISSIONER OF COMMON SCHOOLS.
3. Make out the following bill and receipt it by note for 6 mo. at 8 per cent. : Nov. 10, 1869, 23 yds. calico, @ 163c., 45 yds. sheeting, @ 25c .; Dec. 12, 1869, 12} yds. silk, @ $1.622, 8 collars, @ 40c .; Dec. 25, 1869, 2 pr. kid gloves, each @ 75c. and 87}c.
4. What is the hypotenuse of a triangle whose area is 270 sq. in., and side is 36 in. ?
5. A building 60 ft. long has a foundation wall 12 ft. deep, 2 ft. wide; how many cubic ft. in the foundation ?
6. How many bricks 8 in. long, 4 in. wide, and 2} thick in the above foundation ?
7. What must I pay for U. S. 4} per cent. bonds, to make 3 per cent. on my in- vestment ?
8. A man owes $2,000; } to be paid down, } in 3 mos., { in 4 mos., and the re- mainder in 8 mos .; what is the equated time for the whole?
9. A and B engage in trade ; A puts in $200 for 5 mos., B $300 for 2 mos .; they draw out capital and profits to the amount of $1,389; what was each man's share ?
10. What is the difference between the true and bank discount on $576 for 6 months, @ 12} per cent. ?
ORTHOGRAPHY.
1. Analyze the word re-print.
2. Give the rule for the combination eiv and iev in such words as receive and believe.
3. Spell three words, each pronounced new, cite, rite, sent, seen, deviser, rain, meet, idle, fane.
4. Spell correctly, and define the following words, viz .: trienial, triweakley, chuff, chough, combatted, hieng, ufoney, sentepede, boquet, colicky.
SCIOTO COUNTY.
ARITHMETIC.
1. A merchant sells 2 of an article for what % of it cost him; what per cent. does he gain ?
2. How many yards of plastering in a cubical room, the longest diagonal of which is 12 yards, no deduction for doors or windows ?
3. Multiply one thousand and six hundred-thousandths by thirteen thousand and one hundred millionths.
4. Of the numbers given in the question above (No. 3,) use the multiplicand as a divisor, and the multiplier as a dividend, and find the quotient.
5. How many circles, each 4 inches in diameter, will equal in area a circle whose diameter is one yard ?
6. An estate yields $2,640 to each heir; had there been two more heirs, each · would have received $880 less; find the number of heirs and the value of the estate.
7. An article sold for $4 which was 37} per cent. of a gain; what would have been the gain per cent. if it had sold for $5.50?
8. I received 5 per cent. dividend on stock that I bought at 372 per cent. dis- count; what rate of interest did the investment pay ?
380
ANNUAL REPORT.
9. If a pipe whose diameter is 23 inches fills a cistern in 12 hours, in what time will a pipe whose diameter is 113 inches fill the same cistern ?
10. Divide 25 into two such parts that the larger will be 25 times the less.
GEOGRAPHY.
1. Give the boundaries of Spain, and name four of its larger rivers; which of these flow through Portugal ?
2. Locate the following capes: St. Vincent, Spartivento, Leuca and Matapan.
3. What countries border on the Bay of Biscay, and what cities are on or near it?
4. What two rivers of France flow into the Bay of Biscay, and what one flows into the Mediterranean sea ?
5. Describe the river Rhine, and name three of its principal branches.
6. Name four rivers that rise in the Alps. In what general direction does each flow ? Into what waters does each empty ?
7. What rivers of England flow into the North sea ? What two rivers flow into Bristol Channel ?
8. Locate the capes, gulfs and bays around Africa.
9. What continents, countries, rivers, oceans and seas are crossed by the equator ?
10. What are glaciers? What are geysers, and where found ?
GRAMMAR.
1. How are the progressive and emphatic forms of the verb formed ?
2. How many sounds in the word thought ? By which letters are they repre- sented ? Which letters, if any, are silent ?
3. Write sentences illustrating all the objective constructions of nouns or pro- nouns.
4. Diagram: The ball struck him directly behind the ear, and, having passed through the fleshy part of the neck, lodged just under the skin.
ɔ̃. Parse italicized words in the above.
6. Define declension, conjugation and parsing.
7. Give the participles in both voices of write.
8. Write sentences in which as is used as a pronoun, adverb, preposition and conjunction.
9. Diagram, and parse italicized words also : Multitudes of floating clouds had become vivid as lightning.
10. Write a sentence containing a causal clause, and tell what office it performs in the sentence.
SENECA COUNTY.
ARITHMETIC.
(No credit will be given for answers only. Indicate the process.)
1. A pile of wood contains 16 cords ; it is 32 ft. long and 8 ft. high ; how wide is it ? How many cord feet does it contain ?
381
STATE COMMISSIONER OF COMMON SCHOOLS.
2. If 3-tenth pound and 3-tenth ounce of butter cost 20 cts. and 4 mills, how much will 4-tenth pound and 4-tenth ounce cost ?
3. The hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle is 20 ft., the base and altitude are equal. What is the area ?
4. Jones and Smith sent their agent $1,890 to buy oats on 5 per cent. commission. How many bushels could he buy, at 24 cts. per bushel, deducting commission ?
5. How shall I mark goods which cost 20 cts., so as to allow my customer 25 per cent. reduction, yet make 20 per cent. ?
6. Find the average cost per bottle of 5 dozen wine at $9, 20 dozen at $122, and 25 dozen at $10.80.
7. What is a foot in board measure ?
8. If Rome is 89 degrees, 29 minutes, 45 seconds east from Washington, what time is it at Washington when it is 3 o'clock, 57 minutes, 59 seconds P.M. at Rome ?
9. Find the difference between .2 86 and .10 45. Give the answer in a common fraction.
10. What are the consequents of a proportion ?
Leave a specimen of your hand-writing on this manuscript.
PROGRAMME .- From 9 A.M. to 12 M., arithmetic. From 12 M. to 4 P.M., other branches.
GEOGRAPHY.
Note .- Orthography will be graded from papers on geography. Use no abbrevia- tions in your answers, but spell all words in full.
1. Bound Europe and Seneca county.
2. Give the latitude of that place where, at noon of the longest day, the sun is in the Zenith.
3. Name the five large seas on the eastern coast of Asia, and three peninsulas on the south.
4. Name and describe the movements of the sea.
5. Locate Chattanooga, Aden, St. Petersburg, Melbourne and Aspinwall.
6. Name the principal imports of the United States, and the countries from which they are brought.
7. Define horizon, ecliptic, zodiac and planet.
8. How is the government of Canada appointed ? Name the provinces of the Dominion.
9. What waters are passed over in sailing from Boston to Trieste ?
10. What are the political divisions of Australia? Give their capitals.
GRAMMAR.
1. How do you distinguish between a present, active participle and the pro- gressive form, present tense of the same verb ?
2. Give all the participles, both active and passive, of the verbs do, sing and enjoy, and designate each.
3. To what parts of speech does comparison belong ? Illustrate.
4. Decline who and which.
5. Give the principal parts of five irregular verbs.
6. Define adverbial phrase, conjunctive adverb.
382
ANNUAL REPORT.
7. Write a sentence containing a noun in the nominative case. Write a sentence containing a noun in the nominative independent. Write a sentence containing a noun in the nominative absolute.
Write a sentence containing a noun in the predicate nominative.
8. Correct the following :
(a) Me and you had went before they come.
(b) Had you and me not ought to go ?
(c) It was him and Mary who we seen going away.
9. Diagram or analyze the following sentence :
"Laughed the brook for my delight, Through the day and through the night ; Whispering at the garden wall, Talked with me from fall to fall". .
10. Parse the italicized words in foregoing sentence.
THEORY AND PRACTICE.
1. In what cases is corporal punishment necessary in the school-room ?
2. Under what circumstances is it right for the Board of Local Directors to dis- miss the teachers ?
3. What is the first work to be done in organizing a new class ?
4. How do you teach your pupils to avoid using a monotonous tone in reading ? .
STARK COUNTY.
ARITHMETIC.
1. In how many and in what ways may numbers be expressed ? Give examples.
2. If three men can mow 18 acres of grass in four days, how many men can mow nine acres in three days ? Give analysis.
3. A capitalist sent a broker $2,500 to investin cotton; after deducting his com- mission of 2} per cent., how much cotton at 5 cents a pound did the broker purchase ?
4. Find the interest of $650.40 from Oct. 19, 1876, to Nov. 25, 1880, at 7 per cent.
5. How many bushels of wheat will a bin 20 feet long, 5 feet wide and 6 feet deep contain ?
6. What is the metric system ? What is the primary unit of the system ? What is its length in inches ?
7. Multiply 6 ten thousandths by 60000; from the product take 16 thousandths and divide remainder by 4 millionths.
8. For what sum must I give my note at the bank payable in 90 days, at 10 per cent., to get $3,000 ?
9. How may the area of a circle be found ? What is the relation between the areas of two circles ?
10. Sold two carriages at $240 apiece, and gained 20 per cent. on one and lost 20. per cent on the other ; how much did I gain or lose in the transaction ?
383
STATE COMMISSIONER OF COMMON SCHOOLS.
THEORY AND PRACTICE.
1. For what purposes are recitations heard ?
2. What assistance, if any, do you give your pupils except at their recitations ?
Need help finding more records? Try our genealogical records directory which has more than 1 million sources to help you more easily locate the available records.