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3. Give the order of exercises in a school consisting of fifty pupils learning their letters, reading in the first, second, third, fourth and fifth readers, and studying Orthography, Geography, Arithmetic and Grammar.
4. What general exercises, if any, in such a school ?
5. Would you keep any record of conduct or recitations ? If so, what? And what use would you make of it ?
GRAMMAR.
1. Define prosody, case, conjugation and synopsis.
2. Give the plural of cargo, folio, index, r, seven, lady and I.
3. Give a synopsis of " sing" through all the modes and tenses.
4. Give the principal parts of rise, raise, ring, drink and draw.
5. Define a simple, compound, derivative and primitive word ; give an example of each.
6. How many tenses does each mode have ? Name them.
7. Write short sentences containing examples of the following: a-An abstract noun, b-A perfect participle. c-An objective element of the third class.
8. Into how many classes are sentences divided, as to form and nature ?
9. Analyze the following: Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might.
10. Parse underscored words in the above sentence.
GEOGRAPHY.
1. What is the form of the earth ? How is it proved ?
2. How many degrees from the equator to the south pole ?
3. Define the Gulf Stream.
4. Define plateau and give an example.
5. What is a river system ? Give an example, naming the principal rivers.
6. Define a monarchy, a republic and a kingdom, and give an example of each.
7. What is the source of heat and light on the earth's surface ?
8. What part of the earth is warmest, and what causes it to be so ?
9. What countries of Europe have about the same latitude as Ohio ?
10. Are they warmer or colder than Ohio, and why ?
SUMMIT COUNTY.
ARITHMETIC.
1. A tree 51 ft. high was broken by the wind ; § of the part that fell was equal to & of the stump. How long was each ? Written analysis required.
2. I bought a lot of glass; lost 15 per cent. by breakage. At what per cent. above cost must I sell the rest to clear 20 per cent. on the whole ?
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3. When it is 7 A. M. at Washington, long. 77 deg., 1 min. 30 sec. W., what is the time at Mexico, long. 99 deg., 5 min. W .?
4. A and B are partners. A's capital is $4,200, B's $5,600. After four months how much must A put in to entitle him to ¿ of the year's gain ?
5. What is the diagonal of a cube, the area of whose entire surface is 225816 sq. in'?
GEOGRAPHY.
1. Locate three rainless regions, and give the theory for each.
2. Explain fully the change of seasons.
3. On what waters would you sail in going from Chicago to Cincinnati ?
4. What and where are the following : Titicaca, Corsica, Indus, St. Elias, Alaska?
5. Name the five races of men, and the principal countries inhabited by each.
GRAMMAR.
1. Write a sentence containing an adjective clause, the connective being a rela- tive pronoun ; one the connective a conjunctive adverb. One containing an adver- bial clause, the connective a conjunctive adverb; one the connective a conjunction.
2. Give examples of the infinitive used as subject, predicate, object of a verb, of a preposition, appositive.
3. Illustrate by examples the difference between ellipsis and abridgment.
4. " It was also true that the Earl of Lauderdale, who, both from his talents and from the long imprisonment which he had sustained ever since the battle of Wor- cester, had a peculiar title to be consulted on Scottish affairs, strongly advised the King that he should suffer his northern subjects to retain possession of their darling form of worship."
Point out the principal clause in the above selection, and name its subject and predicate. Name the subordinate clauses and tell what each modifies.
5. Parse the italicized words.
THEORY AND PRACTICE.
1. Define education, teaching, training, object-teaching, habit.
2. What do you understand by unconscious tuition ? What can you say of its importance ?
3. What have you read or studied concerning the human mind and its devel- opment and training ?
4. What are the essentials of a good school ? How may they be secured ?
5. What improvements are needed in the schools of this county ? What can be done to secure them ?
TRUMBULL COUNTY.
Any applicant, known to examiners to be guilty, in any manner, of giving or receiving assistance during the time of this examination, in order to procure a cer- tificate, will not be permitted to enter any succeeding class for one year thereafter.
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Penmanship is judged from spelling manuscript.
In estimating a paper, the general appearance, as well as correctness, is con- sidered.
ARITHMETIC.
1. Define (1) rule, (2) demonstration, (3) present worth, (4) bank discount, and (5) tax.
2. Prove that any number ending in 0 or 5 is divisible by 5.
3. A and B can do a piece of work in 15 days, A can do § as much as Bin a day. How many days will it take A and B separately to do the work ?
4. What are the square feet in the surface of the following box : Width 3 feet, length 3 feet, height at one end 3 feet, and height of the other end 2 feet ?
5. Write a 90 days promissory note for $900, drawing 8 per cent. interest, and payable in bank.
6. Suppose this note were discounted at bank 10 days after it was given at 9 per cent .; what would be the discount and what the proceeds ?
7. TI is .0002 per cent. of what number ?
8. At what price must cloth costing $4 a yard be marked so that I can deduct 7 per cent. from marked price and still make 11 per cent .?
9. 345 is a certain dividend ; there is a remainder of 7 and the quotient is double the divisor. What is the divisor ?
10. Find the cube root of 7 true to tenths.
GEOGRAPHY.
1. What two meridians are selected by geographers to divide the eastern from the western hemisphere ?
2. Describe the Gulf Stream, Japan Stream and Sargasso Sea.
3. What race of people are the most numerous ? Describe that race fully.
4. Describe Limited Monarchy and Democracy.
5. Name all the political divisions crossed by 233° south latitude.
6. Name 1 lake in S. A., 2 U. S., 3 in Dominion of Canada, 3 in Africa and 3 in Europe.
7. Which has the longest day to-day, Racine or New Orleans ? Why ?
8. Name all the Republics of Europe, and all the Monarchies of South America.
9. What is the length of the Equator? The Tropics? The Earth's Axis ? North Pole ?
10. How wide is the Temperate Zone ? The Frigid Zone ? The Equator ?
ENGLISH GRAMMAR.
Number answers to correspond with questions.
Leave space for answers not given.
No word will be considered parsed which is not fully parsed.
1. What is a sentence ? Paragraph ? Discourse ?
What are the elements of sentences ? Write a sentence using all the elements.
3. What is a participle ? How many are there? Name each and give examples. 25 S. C.
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4. Define a co-ordinate, subordinate, copulative, adversative and illative conjunc- tion. Write examples of each in sentences.
5. When is as used as a pronoun ? Make sentences showing the different uses of like.
6. Define declension, conjugation and comparison. What words admit of these different variations ? Give examples.
7. How may verbs be divided with respect to their use? Make sentences show- ing the use of each class.
8. Give the mode and tense of the verbs in the following sentences: If I will that he tarry till I come, what is that to thee? Were I in your place I would not go.
9. Tell the number of elementary sounds in the following words, and give the class of each sound : Tree, home, coat, night, beau, and owe.
10. "Whom will ye that I shall release unto you ?" Analyze the sentence and parse all the words it contains.
TUSCARAWAS COUNTY.
ENGLISH GRAMMAR.
I. *
* Be this or aught
Than this more secret now designed, I haste
To know, and this once known, shall soon return, And bring ye to the place where thou and Death Shall dwell at ease, and up and down unseen Wing silently the buxom air, embalm'd
With odours ; * *
-Milton.
II. Name me not death with praiseful words, noble Ulysses, I Would sooner be a bonded serf, the laborer's tool to ply To a small cotter on the heath, with wealth exceeding small, Than be the Lord of all the Shades in Pluto's gloomy hall.
1. Parse the italicized words in I.
2. Analyze II.
8. Render both into simple prose.
4. Name the two prime practical uses of a knowledge.
5. What names are applied to exercise in these two uses, respectively, in tech- nical English Grammar ?
6. Give the distinction between ellipsis and abridgment.
7. Punctuate and capitalize the following:
(1). toast woman without her man would be a savage.
(2). * He above the rest
In shape and gesture proudly eminent
Stood like a tower * *
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GEOGRAPHY.
1. To what extent was the earth known in the days of Herodotus? At the time of Ptolemy ? After the discoveries of Columbus and the voyages of Captain Cook ?
2. What geographical discoveries were made by D. Livingstone, H. M. Stanley, Dr. Kane and Prof. Nordenskjoeld ?
3. Give a general description of the natural geographical features of North and South America.
.4. What channel leads from the sea of Marmora into the Black sea ? Locate the sea of Azov.
5. Name and describe the different bodies of water which surround the Scan- dinavian, the Spanish and the Arabian Peninsulas.
6. Describe the Niagara and Hudson rivers. Indicate where they rise and into what bodies of water they empty, and mention some of their distinctive features.
7. Name the provinces of the British Dominion of Canada. Give the capital and other important cities of said Dominion, and indicate its political constitution or form of government.
9. What countries of Africa lie south of the equator ?
9. Describe Afghanistan physically and politically.
10. How does Ohio compare in area and population with Switzerland ?
Note .- Orthography and Penmanship are generally graded from the papers on Geography.
THEORY AND PRACTICE.
1. What faculty of the mind is especially developed in the study of arithmetic; of English analysis; of spelling ?
2. Give the fundamental rules you observe in the government of your school.
· 3. Do you give any instruction in politeness in your school, and how ?
ARITHMETIC.
1. A certain principal is to its interest as the amount is to $14.73. The rate per cent. is 6; what is the time ?
2. Multiply 1.772453851 by itself, reserving only nine decimal places.
3. Paid $180 for a claim due in 6 months. A broker bought the claim on the same day, taking bank discount at 6 per cent. I cleared $13.90. What was the amount of the claim ?
4. A man walks around a circle, with a flag-staff in his hands. If the staff lean out from the vertical 30 degs., how much farther will the upper end move than the lower, in going once around ?
5. Find cube root of 605.495736.
6. A sq. floor measures 24 ft. on a side. What is the length of a chalk mark which, starting from the middle of a side, will divide the floor into parts as 161:127 ?
7. Find amount of 4 cents for 4 years, 4 months, 4 days, at 4 per cent. compound interest. 1
8. Define decimal, ratio, factor, duodecimal.
9. Give an example in finding the least common multiple of fractions.
10. State and solve a problem in compound subtraction, having only units in each denomination of the minuend.
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UNION COUNTY.
GEOGRAPHY.
1. Name and define the divisions of Geography.
2. Name five of the principal islands and peninsulas of North America.
3. Where are the Corsica and Elba Islands, and for what are they noted ?
4. Give form, size and motions of the earth, and its distance from the sun.
5. On what bodies of water would a vessel sail from Constantinople, to Alexandria ?
6. State the departments of the Federal Government, and describe each.
7. Name and locate the rivers in Ohio that flow into the Ohio river.
8. What group of islands composes the West Indies; what the climate and chief products ?
9. Name and locate the largest State, and the smallest one, and bound and give capital of the State last admitted into the Union.
10. Name and locate the largest ocean, the largest lake, the largest river, the highest mountain, and the largest city in the world.
ORTHOGRAPHY.
1. Define letter, syllable, word, prefix and suffix,
2. What is a vowel ? Name them.
3. What is a consonant ?
4. What is the penult ? Ante-penult ?
5. What is a polysyllable ?
6. Spell correctly and define the following words : Injun, baybee, balot, cornace ravisid, pergitory, elifant, bizness, Allabamma, and dylligent.
GRAMMAR.
1. Define a sentence, then a simple, compound and complex sentence.
2. What are essential elements of a sentence, and why so called ?
3. Write sentences containing that as a relative pronoun, an adjective, and a conjunction.
4. In what respect does the infinitive mood differ from the other moods ?
5. Correct, where necessary, and then parse each word in the following sentence :
" Every teacher should instruct their pupils to speak proper."
ARITHMETIC.
1. Draw the base, perpendicular and hypothenuse of a right-angled triangle; also draw a rectangle, a square, a cube, a parallelogram, a pyramid and the frustum of a cone.
2. How do common fractions differ from decimal, and how is each changed to. the other?
3. Find the value of the following: { of 1 X 6+ 4.7. of
4. Divide sixty thousand and eight billionths by four ten thousandths and multiply the quotient by five millionths.
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5. A can mow an acre of grass in 53 hours, and B can mow 1} acres in 8} hours ; in what time can they jointly mow 82 acres ?
6. If five horses eat as much as six cattle and eight horses, and twelve cattle eat twelve tons, of hay in forty days, how much hay will be needed to keep seven horses and fifteen cattle sixty-five days ?
7. Required, the balance due on a note dated January 1, 1875, for $580, at 5 per cent., to run 2 yrs., on which a payment of $85 is made every 3 months.
8. The diagonal of the ceiling of a square room is 18 feet, and the room is 10 feet high ; how many square yards of plastering in the room ?
9. A ran around an acre in the form of a circle, and B ran around an acre in the form of a square ; how many rods did each travel ?
10. A'had a cubical vessel that contained a gallon of beer, and B had a similar one that would contain a gallon of wine; what were the dimensions of each? If A should fill B's vessel with beer, what per cent .. of his beer would he have left ?
VAN WERT COUNTY.
ARITHMETIC.
1. In writing all the integers from one to one quadrillion, how many ciphers will be used ?
2. I have a rectangular box, whose width is 3 inches more than its hight, and whose length is 10 inches more than its width. A plank 30 feet long, 20 inches wide, and 2 inches thick, was used in its construction. Required the dimensions of the box. Solve without algebra.
3. A invested in trade $100 more than B, B, $100 more than C; C, $100 more than D, an D, $200 more than E. If the united capital of the first two is equal to that of the last three, and the profit $510, what is each partner's share of it ?
4. Sold horses on a commission of 4 per cent., and invested the proceeds in salt on a commission of 1} per cent. My entire commission was $300. Required the value of the horses.
5. The annual interest of $1,000, at 6 per cent., for a certain time, is $15 more than the simple interest of the same sum for the same time at the same rate. Re- quired the time.
6. A sum of money at compound interest doubles itself in 18 years. What is the rate per cent. ?
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7. In finding the g. c. d. of two numbers by the " Common Rule," I observed that the quotients, taken in order, commencing at the first, were 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8. Required the ratio of the two numbers in the lowest terms.
8. A, B and C together have $2,000; } of A's money is $50 more than § of B's ; and § of B's is $100 less than § of C's. How many dollars has each ?
9. A takes } of the number of apples in a basket, and § of an apple more. B takes $ of the remainder, and one apple more ; and C takes the remaining 20 apples. How many apples were in the basket at first ?
10. A hired a house for one year for $400 ; at the end of 4 months he takes in B as a partner, and at the end of 7 months he takes in C. At the end of the year what rent must each pay ?
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GRAMMAR.
1. Write an application for a position as teacher.
2. Write a simple, a complex, and a compound sentence.
3. Give a full synopsis of tense signs.
4. How do you teach language, and how does it rank in importance with other branches of study ?
5. Correct and give reasons :
(a). Some only work for pleasure.
(b). Him I most loved fell at Gettysburg.
(c). Each day and each hour bring their portion of duty.
(d). The preacher declared that beneficence was not benevolence.
(e). To study mathematics require maturity of mind.
6. Write a declarative, an imperative, and an interrogative sentence.
7. Add ing to sit, benefit, die, dye and come.
8. Write possessive, singular and plural of lady, child, mouse, it, and hero.
9. Name and define the use of the various marks of punctuation that are used in writing.
10. Parse marked words: "Night, sable goddess, from her ebon throne, in rayless majesty, now stretches forth her leaden scepter v'er a slumbering world."
GEOGRAPHY.
1. What is climate, and what are its main conditions ?
2. Define sea, and name those touching any part of Asia.
3. Distinguish between gulf and bay, channel and strait, sea and lake.
4. Name the four longest rivers of the world, and give their location, length, course of channel, and into what water they empty.
5. Locate Pekin, Bangkok, Berlin, Constantinople, Liverpool.
6. Name the colonial possessions of Great Britain.
7. What is civilization ? Give the different grades, with examples.
8. What is government? Give the various forms, with examples.
9. What is religion ? Give the great divisions, with examples of their su- premacy.
10. Describe Ohio ; giving its location, size, population, name, location, and course of its principal rivers ; name and location of its principal cities ; its minerals, and where found ; the principal occupations of its people, and its chief exports.
VINTON COUNTY.
GEOGRAPHY.
1. Name and locate the zones, giving their width in degrees.
2. Bound California, locate its chief city, and capital.
3. Name the five principal rivers in Ohio.
4. Locate the following mountains : Cotopaxi, Catskill, Ætna, Everest.
5. What months are summer in New Zealand, and why ?
6. How do you explain the frequent lack of rains in Western Kansas, etc. ?
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7. Name four conditions that influence the climate of a place.
8. Where is Cuba; to whom does it belong ; its chief products ?
9. Name the capital and three chief cities, two chief mountain systems, chief river, form of government, and prevailing religion of Italy.
10. Draw an outline map of Vinton county, locate and name its townships, five chief towns, and two railroads.
ARITHMETIC.
Time, 12 hours.
1. Divide three thousand and seven hundred-thousandths by four units and four millionths. (Give six decimal places.)
2. Two men can do a job of work in four days, and three boys can do it in five days; how long will it take one of the men and two of the boys to do the job ?
3. Took up my note to-day which had been running 2 years, 7 months and 15 days, at 6 per cent. interest, and paid therefor $810.25; what was the face of the note ?
4. Band C were partners. B put in $4,500 capital, and received 3-5 of the profits. What was C's capital ?
5. Bought corn at 57 cents per bushel ; the wastage in handling is 5 per cent .; at what price per bushel must I sell it to gain 333 per cent .?
6. When it is 8 hours 14 minutes 40 seconds, A. M., at a place 42° 25 min. 40 sec., west of Ravenna, which way, and how far from Ravenna, is it 12 o'clock (noon)?
7. A sold a carriage at a gain of 20 per cent .; if it had cost him $60 less he would have gained 32 per cent ; what was the cost of the carriage ?
8. How many feet of inch lumber in a wagon tongue 3} inches square at one end, and 2} inches square at the other end, and 12 feet long ?
9. From the middle of the side of a square field containing 10 acres, B runs a line cutting off 3g acres ; what is the length of the line ?
10. How many cubical blocks, each side of which is } of an inch, will fill a box 13 feet wide, twice as deep as wide, and three times as long as deep ?
ENGLISH GRAMMAR.
1. Give an example of the nominative absolute with a participle, of a noun in apposition, of the predicate nominative.
2. Give a synopsis of " have," active voice, ind. mode.
3. What pronouns, by their forms, distinguish sex ?
4. "You or I am mistaken." In what person is the verb, and why ?
5. How do you distinguish between a verb and a participle having the same form ?
6. Parse the italicized word : "The baptism of John, was it from Heaven or of men ?"
7. "I warrant him a warrior tried." Parse italicized words.
8. What modes alone are used interrogatively?
9. Give the syntax of the italicized words in the following :
1. " I am here."
2. " I think him to be a wise man."
10. Decline I, myself, and Ohio.
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WARREN COUNTY.
[Examinations are held on the first Saturday of every month, and the third Saturday of February, March, April, August, September and October, at the Union School House in Lebanon, beginning at 10 A.M.]
Certificates are graded on a scale of 10, and classified as follows:
6-months, requisite average grade, 6. 12-months, requisite average grade, 7. 18-months, requisite average grade, 8. 24-months, requisite average grade, 9. 36-months, requisite average grade, 9₴.
The grade should not fall below 5 in any branch to merit a certificate.
A six-months' certificate is only a trial certificate.
Applicants at their option may be examined in Algebra, Physiology and Natural Philosophy. Including these branches, an average grade of 8} will merit a certificate for twenty-four months, and 9 for thirty-six months. The three-years certificates are first-class and testimonials of high professional standing. They will only be granted to teachers who receive the requisite grade and have had successful experience for two years, and manifest professional ability and an acquaintance with the theory and principles of education.
GRAMMAR.
Time-1:15 to 2:15.
Parse the words in italics :
So live, that when thy summons comes to join
The innumerable caravan that moves
To that mysterious realm, where each shall take His silent chamber in the halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave
Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
-Bryant.
Diagram the following :
"No ax had leveled the giant progeny of the crowded groves, in which the fan- tastic forms of withered limbs, that had been blasted and riven by lightning, con- trasted strangely with the verdant freshness of a younger growth of branches."- Bancroft.
GEOGRAPHY.
Time-2:30 to 3:5.
1. Name four of the principal rivers of France.
2. Name five tributaries of the Amazon.
3. What season is it now in Central Asia at the same latitude as Cincinnati ?
4. Name the principal forms of government, and give two examples of each.
5. When are the days longest at the Arctic Circle ?
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6. If a traveler starts from Greenwich and travels 290° west, what is his longi- tude ?
7. Name and locate five peninsulas in Asia.
8. What cities have more than a million of inhabitants ?
9. Name two absolute and two limited monarchies.
10. Through what waters would a vessel pass in sailing from Odessa to Liver- pool ?
ARITHMETIC.
Time, 10 to 12.
1. Write the metric tables for length, capacity and weight.
2. If } of a number be subtracted from } of the same number, the remainder will be 6 less than one-fifth of the number. What is the number ?
. 3. A watch which cost me $30, I sold for $35, on a credit of 8 months. What did I gain by the transaction, rate per cent. being 6 ?
4. The difference of longitude between Cincinnati and London is 84° 20'. At a certain time it is as much past noon at London as it lacks of noon at Cincinnati. What time is it at Cincinnati ?
5. Received 6 per cent. dividend on stock purchased at 25 per cent. below par. What per cent. did the investment pay ?
6. If 85 gallons of wine cost $116.95, what would be the cost of 63 gallons, com- posed of four parts of the same wine and one part of water ?
7. Required the contents of the largest cube that can be inscribed in a sphere 20 inches in diameter.
8. Five per cent. of 80 is 21 less than 16 per cent. of what number ?
9. A can reap a field in half the time required by B; B in two-thirds the time required by C; all can reap it in 6 days. Required the time of each ?
10. How many wine gallons will a hollow sphere contain, the diameter of which is 12 inches, and the crust one inch in thickness ?
WASHINGTON COUNTY.
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