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4. What would you do with a pupil who occasionally neglects his lessons? With one who habitually does so?

5. On what qualities in the teacher does the good discipline of the school depend? How would you train your pupils in habits of good behavior?

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7. Would you teach manners and morals in school? If so, when and how?

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How do you arrive at principles?

10. What would you do the first day of school? Give a plan of the first day's work.

ENGLISH GRAMMAR.

1. (a) Describe and illustrate the different ways of marking gender in nouns.

(b) Name (1) three nouns that have the same form in both numbers; (2) three that are used only in the plural; (3) three that have no plurals.

(e) Give the possessive case, singular and plural of Mussulman, madam, fly, staff, dwarf. 2 Distinguish between the following words:

(a) Courts-martial and court-martials;

(b) Fishes and fish ;

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Latest and last;

(d) Oldest and eldest;

(e) My and mine

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plural?

Account for the two forms of the plural of cherub, dogma, bandit.

(b) Give the plural of attorney-general, Knight-Templar, son-in-law, James, cupful.
(c) When is a collective noun followed by a verb in the singular? When by a verb in the

(d) Write three sentences showing the word as used as a different part of speech in each. 4. (a) What is person?

(b) Name the different kinds in their order of importance.

(c)

What parts of speech have this inflection?

5. (a) Distinguish between a defective verb and an intransitive verb.

(b) How are adverbs inflected?

6. Give the past tense and past particle of the verbs flee, fly, lie, (to recline,) lay, sit, set, bereave, dream, clothe, go.

7. (a) Detine analysis and synthesis.

(b) What do you understand by the grammatical subject of a sentence? What by the logical subject?

8. (a) What is an expletive? Name two words used as such.

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(b) Explain the difference between a conjunctive adverb and a conjunction.

Correct the following, if necessary, stating reasons:

(a) He was angry at me running away.

(b) What signifies promise without performance?

(c) Either he or I am in fault.

(d) Good order, not mean sayings, produce great profit.

(e) Somebody told me, I forget who.

10. Parse the words italicized in the following:

In them is plainest taught, and easiest learnt,
What makes a nation happy, and keeps so,
What ruins kingdoms, and lays cities flat;
These only with our law best form a king.

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Divide into syllables and mark the proper accent of the following words: acclimatize. allopathist, chastisemen', comparable, despicable, exemplary, irreparable, peremptory, revocable, vehement.

5. Give your methods of teaching spelling.

(Section 2. Fifty Credits.)

6. The following words are to be pronounced by the examiners and written and spelled correctly by the applicants:

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ENGLISH GRAMMAR.

1. Write the plurals of pailful, son-in law, sheep, brother. ties of formation.

Give reasons for their peculiari

2. Compare the following adjectives: Wise, late. beautiful, worse, straight. Account for the difference in these forms of comparison.

3. Specify the distinctive meaning of the verb in each of the following expressions : Is he wise? He must be wise. He might have been wise. If he were wise. If he is wise.

4. Describe each of the above verbs by means of the usual grammatical terms.

5. Give two rules for forming the possessive case of nouns and noun-phrases.

6. Write the full declension of the pronouns I, he,

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How are verb phrases formed?

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What is a verbal? Give examples,

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she.

Correct the following, giving reasons for each correction.

(a) I fear I will be too late for school.

(b) Will I assist you in this lesson?

(e) He has set in his seat during the season.

(d) Come into the setting-room.

(e) The men got killed by a falling house.

(f) Please learn me how to study.

(g) I doubt if he will come today.

(h) Ice is where water is frozen.

10.

Correct the syntax, analyze and parse all of the words in the following sentence: They that honor me I will honor.

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GEOGRAPHY.

Name and locate the five largest cities in this State.

There are ten seas in and around Europe; name them.

Name in order, the ten States that touch the Mississippi river, beginning at its source.

4. Name four States in which coal is found in abundance.

5. Describe the shortest all-water route from New Orleans to Borneo.

6. On what geographical circle are the days and nights always of equal lengths?

7. Why is the climate of Northern Europe warmer than that of North America in the same latitude?

8. Name (a) the three most northerly counties of this State; (b) the most easterly county; (e) the most southerly county; (d) the most westerly county.

9. Name and locate five large European cities.

10. Name the largest river in Africa that flows westerly.

HISTORY.

1. Who were the Norsemen? Give some supposed facts about their visits to what is now the United State,.

2. What people first settled Virginia? New York? Pennsylvania? The St. Lawrence valley?

3. Name three places of special historical interest in New York, and mention the historic incident associated with each.

4. Mention the most prominent battle of the French and Indian war, naming the general in command on each side.

5. State the circumstances which brought about the repeal of the stamp act.

6. Was the Boston tea party a cause of the Revolution, or an incident? Give a reason for

your answer.

7. State the important results of the war of 1812.

8. Who commanded the Union forces at Antietam? Chancellorville? Vicksburg? Gettys

burg?

9.

What were the Alabama claims? How were they disposed of?

10. Name the prominent historians of the United States.

WRITING.

1. What position at the desk, in writing, do you prefer, and why?

2.

At what age, and how, would you have young pupils write?

3. Construct each letter of the alphabet in small and in capital form.

4. Describe the structure of the letters y and r.

5. Construct the principles used in the formation of letters.

MENTAL ARITHMETIC.

1. Three times a certain number increased by 2% of itself, equals 22; required the number.

2. James, having twice as much money as John, lost of it, then earned $15, and then had $45: how much money had each?

3. A pole, 36 feet in length, was broken into two unequal pieces, so that % of the longer piece equals the shorter; required the length of each piece.

4. Five-sixths of the difference between A's and B's fortune is $500, and 2-5 of A's equals 4-7 of B's fortune; what is the fortune of each?

5. How many men, in 10 days of 6 hours each, ean earn as much as 6 men in 20 days of 8 hours each?

6. A man bought 25 barrels of flour; he lost 20 per cent of it, and sold 25 per cent of the remainder; what per cent of the whole remained?

7. A's money, added to B's, being on interest for 5 years and 4 months at 6 per cent., amounts to $660; what sum has each, if A's is 4 times B's?

8. A and B agree to perform a piece of work, A receiving $2 and B $3 a day; A works twice as many days as B and they together receive $70; how many days did each labor?

9. A tree 90 feet in length, by falling, was broken into two parts so that 14 of the shorter equaled 1-5 of the longer; how much must be cut from the longer so that 4 of it may equal 1-5 of the other part?

10. The head of a fish is 10 inches long; 7 times the length of the head equals the length of the body and tail, and 3 times the length of the tail equals the length of the head and body: required the length of the tail and body respectively.

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What is the pupil of the eye?

4. Name two reasons which a teacher might give pupils in advising them to bathe frequently. 5. What would be good advice for a teacher of hygiene to give in reference to the times of eating? Give reasons for the advice.

6. What gland secretes the bile?

7. Describe the movement of the walls of the stomach when containing food. For what purpose is the movement?

8.

What part of a bone is hardest?

9. What beneficial purpose is served by the readiness of the blood to coagulate?

10.

Does alcohol impart heat to the body? State some fact which you have observed, or of which you have read, to prove your assertion.

WRITTEN ARITHMETIC.

1. Define (a) greatest common divisor; (b) least common multiple.

2. Upon what general principle of division is cancellation founded?

3. Gave 6% pounds of butter, at 36 cents a pound, for 3 1-5 gallons of oil. What was the oil worth a gallon?

4. A lumber dealer bought 212,500 ft. of lumber at $14.371⁄2 per M, and retailed it out at $1.75 What was his whole gain?

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What will be the cost of a pile of wood 12 ft. 6 in. long, 8 ft. wide, and 4 ft. 6 in. high, at $3.75 a cord?

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6. A merchant bought 15 pieces of broadcloth, each piece containing 23 yards, for $840, and sold it so as to gain 1834 per cent. What did he receive a yard?

7. A dry goods merchant sells delaines for 2 cents per yard more than they cost, and realizes a profit of 8 per cent. What was the cost per yard?

8. How many days will 21 men require to dig a ditch 80 feet long, 3 ft. wide, and 8 ft. deep, if 7 men will dig a ditch 60 ft. long, 8 ft. wide, and 6 ft. deep, in 12 days?

9. If a person breathe 80 cu. ft. of air in a minute, how long would he be in breathing the air of a room 24 ft. by 18 ft. by 11 ft. 6 in.

10. I sent $9,020 to my agent in Chicago, who purchased grain at an average price of $1.10 per bushel, and charged 21 per cent commission. How many bushels did he buy?

THEORY OF TEACHING.

1. What would guide you in assigning lessons to a class?

2.

What would you do if your class should have as many different text-books in arithmetic as there are pupils?

3. Do you approve of school exhibitions? If so, what good results would you expect from them? If not, what objections to them do you make?

4. What are the teacher's duties, if any, at recess and at dismissal?

5. What has the teacher to do with the "manners" of his pupils?

6. How would you deal with lying or any other form of deception?

7. What would you do with a pupil who occasionally neglects his lessons? With one who habitually does so?

8.

What habits, useful in future life, would you wish all school exercises to assist in forming? 9. What would determine you whether or not to open or close school with any form of religious service?

10. Would you have a code of rules and regulations in any school? Why?

READING.

1. What methods of teaching primary reading would you employ?

2. Should beginners in reading be taught to write in Roman or script letters first? Give reasons for your opinion.

3. State the difference between grammatical and rhetorical pauses, and their relation to each other in oral reading.

4. Mention a cause of poor enunciation in reading and reciting that is induced by schoolroom work, and suggest a remedy.

5. Read selections given by the examiners.

1.

What is good spelling?

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2. Define: (a) Oral elements. (b) Vowels. (c) Alphabetical equivalents. 3. Detine: (a) A letter. (b) A word.

4. Give three rules of spelling, with words to illustrate each.

5. Write words in which the following are used: ä, ç, ô, ï, û.

(Section 2. Fifty credits.)

6. The following words are to be pronounced by the examiners and written and spelled correctly by the applicants.

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1. What is the standard of pronunciation? What two things does pronunciation include? 2. Designate three degrees or kinds of force.

3. Name and define two kinds of emphasis. How do we determine the emphatic words in a sentence?

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5.

Define slides or inflections.

How do we determine the standard rate or movement of the voice in utterance? When should the rate be moderate? When fast? When slow?

Name and describe two kinds of stress, and tell where each may be applied.

State three general directions for reading poetry, and some of the errors to be avoided.
Name two qualities of tone.

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What is the primary object of gesture?

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Read selections given by the examiners.

MODERN HISTORY.

1. What was the main motive in the settlement of the following colonies: Massachusetts? Rhode Island? Maryland? Georgia?

2.

What gave the Indians of Pennsylvania so much confidence in William Penn?

3. Give some reasons that have been assigned for the betrayal of West Point by Arnold.

4. What attempt was made upon the life of William H. Seward?

5.

What was Bacon's Rebellion? What brought it on?

6.

State how and when gold was first discovered in California.

Name two great anti-slavery leaders.

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9 State facts as to (a) Sheridan; (b) Lee; (c) Burnside: (d) Sherman; (e) Hooker. What has been done in reference to Chinese immigration?

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PHYSIOLOGY AND HYGIENE.

1.

What effect on the heart's action has the use of tobacco by children, or the excessive use of it by adults? Where does the saliva originate?

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4.

In what two ways is the system benefited by exercise in the open air?

How is the capacity of the chest cavity affected by the contraction of the intercostal muscles?

5. State in general terms the office of the kidneys.

6. When beef is eaten, which of the digestive fluids is principally concerned in dissolving or

digesting it?

7. Mention three places where the sense of touch is particularly keen.

8. In what two ways is the process of perspiration beneficial to the system?

9. Give two objections to having the windows of a school-room in front of the pupils.

10. Give three directions for preserving the teeth, to which the attention of children should be called.

1.

ENGLISH GRAMMAR.

"There were intervals in which she could sit perfectly still, enjoying the outer stillness and subdued light." (2) "The red fire with its gently audible movement seemed like a solemn existence calmly independent of the petty passions, the imbecile desires, the straining after worthless uncertainties, which were daily moving her contempt."

2. Select the simple propositions in the above sentences, and tell whether each is principal or subordinate.

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4.

5.

Make a list of the prepositions in the above sentences with their terms of relation.
Make a list of the nouns with their cases.

Make a list of the adjectives, and compare such as admit of comparison.

6. Diagram or analyze sentence one by any method you have learned.

7. Change the voice of each verb without changing the sense in this: "Your composition must be copied if you are to hand it to me."

8. If a group of words be properly arranged, is it always a sentence? Give a reason for your

answer.

9. Explain why "had ought" is wrong.

10. Correct the following sentences:

(a) Every scholar may keep their books.

(b) He invited Grace and I to go with him.

(e) The number of scholars are large.

(d) Those kind of apples will do.

Either the president or cashier must add their signature.

(f) Write a composition of one hundred words, choosing your own subject.

1. Define the following: notation, numeration, discount, interest.

WRITTEN ARITHMETIC.

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A man bought 4 yards of cloth at $3.20 a yard and 37 pounds of sugar at $.08 a pound; he paid $6.80 in cash, and the remainder in butter at $.16 a pound; how many pounds of butter did it take?

7. A tank in the attic of a house is 4 ft. long, 3 ft. wide, and 1 ft. 8 in. deep. How many gallons of water will it hold, and what will be its weight?

8. Bought a hogshead of sugar containing 9 cwt. 56 b. for $86.04, and paid $4.78 freight and cartage. At what price per pound must it be sold to gain 20 per cent.

9. If 1 b. 12 oz. of wool make 2 yards of cloth 6 qr. wide, how many pounds of wool will it take for 150 yards of cloth 4 qr. wide?

10. For what sum must a vessel, valued at $25,000, be insured so that in case of its loss the owner may recover both the value of the vessel and premium of 24 per cent?

THEORY OF TEACHING.

1. What do you understand by the term methods as applied to teaching?

2. On what principle does the maintenance of order during class-room instruction chiefly depend?

3. What methods would you adopt in introducing a subject-grammar, for instance-to a class of beginners? State any principles that underlie these methods.

4. State some of the methods to be employed in making class-room instruction familiar. Mention a few of the axioms that are to be found in the writings or teachings of leading educational reformers.

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6. What is the proper place of the text-book in the class-room, and by what methods is its use to be supplemented by the teacher?

7. What is the value of repetition in teaching, and by what rule or rules is its employment to be limited?

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10.

1.

Name the faculties of the mind. Which of these is the most active in childhood?
In view of this, what should characterize the teaching of young children?

In teaching, what help should the teacher give his pupils? Why?

GEOGRAPHY.

Define, by outline or otherwise the boundaries or your own county, showing its position in

the State.

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3.

Name three canals in the United States, and mention the waters connected by each.
Give route by water from Boston to St. Louis; from St. Augustine to Naples.

4. Give the geographical position of France; its form of government; its climate and leading productions; three important cities; two rivers.

5. State what you know of the geographical distribution of coal and iron in the United States.

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Bound this State and draw a map of the same.

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Name and locate (a) the chief commercial city of the United States, (b) of Great Britian, (c) of Brazil, (d) of Holland.

10.

What is (a) the source of a river, (b) its right bank, (c) its delta

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