UNIFORM EXAMINATION QUESTIONS

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FOR JUNE.

GRAMMAR.

Remember, then, that readers are 2 a busy people, who would have their 3 stories served in condensed pellets if 4 they could, and that to win their ap5 probation you must begin well along 6 in your tale, where enough complica7 tions are to be found to catch the in8 terest in writing, as nowhere else, 9 can be seen the truth of the trite old 10 proverb, "Well begun is half done." 11-L. W. Quirk.

The first eight questions refer to

the selection given above.

1. Name (as to subject and predicate) and classify (as objective, adjective or adverbial) all subordinate clauses. 2. Give all the modifiers of along (5); of can be scen (9). 3. Mention and give the mood of all finite verbs. 4. What part of speech is each of the following: then (1), that (1), condensed (3), nowhere (8), half (10)? 5. Point out and give the syntax of all participal forms. 7. Attach all infinitives to their modifiers. 8. Parse could (4), well (5), as (8), else (8), well (10). 9. State how the following verb forms are made and illustrate each emphatic, progressive, passive.

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Give a complete classification of pronouns.

THEORY AND PRACTICE. The first five questions are based on Rational Living by Henry C. King.

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1. Show from the history of literature that every phase of its development has been a protest against a onesided view of life. 2. In the first years of his life, is the child most interested in persons or things? Does the answer to this question bear witness to man's being dependent upon, or independent of, personal and social relations? Why must there be a limit set to the intimacy of even the closest friendships? 4. Repeat the four great psychological inferences upon which King's whole discussion of Rational Living is based. 5. As the final result of his discussion, what does King conclude are the great conditions of the largest and richest life? 6. Have you done your duty toward your pupils when you have thoroughly taught them what is in the textbooks? Why, or why not? 7. How does the purpose of reading differ in the primary from its purpose in the

advanced grammar grades? 8. What are natural incentives? Artificial incentives? Why is interest a good incentive? 9. Do you believe in a system of school government which includes self-reporting in deportment? Why, or why not? 10. In what parts of the school program can the teacher suitably introduce moral instruction?

ARITHMETIC.

1. The L. C. M. of several numbers is 8190, and their G. C. D. is 7; what are the numbers? 2. Write a compound denominate number; a compound proportion; a promissory note. 3. A man invests $4500 in Pullman Car stock at 156, brokerage, and receives semiannual dividends of 3%. Find the annual rate of income on his investment. 4. Indicate a short method of multiplying by 10; by 25; by 333; by 9. 5. On March 30 a coal dealer borrowed $19,000 at 5%, with which he purchased his summer's supply of coal at $4.75 a ton. He sold the coal for $5.60 a ton, and on November 10 settled an account of $90 for unloading and delivery and paid back the money he borrowed. How much did he clear? 6. If the interest on the sum of A's and B's money for 3 yrs. 9 mos., at 8%, is $3,213, and A's money is equal to of B's, how much has each? 7. If I sold an article at 20 and 10 off and my discounts amounted to $3.50, how much did I get for the article? 8. What is mensuration? Make a list of the subjects considered under it in a complete grammar school arithmetic. 9. A boat, in crossing a river one mile wide, drifted with the current 1,000 yards; how far did it go? 10. Define three of the following: circulating decimal; continued proportion; sight draft; ad valorem duty.

ORTHOGRAPHY.

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1. Classify words according to the number of syllables they contain and give an example of each class. 2. Define the following: diacritics, liquids, cognates, trigraph, antonym. 3. Indicate the correct pronunciation of the following synagogue, despicable, thyme, contour, infantile. 4. Distinguish in meaning between the words in the following pairs: agile, swift, frolicsome, mischievous; careless, slovenly; epidemic, plague; accident, casualty. 5. Write five words, of more than one syllable each, for which two spellings are allowable (do not use phonetic

spellings). 6. Write the following: divisible, nuptial, Sacrame to, articulate, prodigy, fiendish, corpuscles, antedate, effervesce, derelict, sociology, Sitka, imperishable, dominoes, Rebecca, ensuing, decalogue, whittle, fiscal, jaundice, exempt, reactionary, momentous, shoeing, referee.

PHYSIOLOGY.

1. Describe a ball and socket joint and give two examples in the body. 2. Locate the jugular vein, the tricuspid valve, and the pulmonary artery. 3. How is air expelled from the lungs? 4. As to the salivary glands, state location, function, nature and amount of secretion? 5. Name several foods rich in albumen. What digestive juice acts chiefly upon albumen? 6. What is the effect of exercise upon the circulation of the blood? What are the best times for schoolroom exercise? 7. How is the eye protected from dust? The ear from insects? The nose from dust? 8. What is the normal temperature of the body? Give one way in which it is regulated. 9. When may a cold water bath be taken? When should it not be taken? Why? 10. What danger lies in the moderate use of alcoholic drinks?

U. S. HISTORY INCLUDING CIVIL

GOVERNMENT.

1. Give the number and character of the original colonists at New Amsterdam, Jamestown, Providence. 2. Summarize events in America between the passage of the Stamp Act and the battle of Concord. 3. Was Washington greatest as a general or as a statesman? Why? 4. Give an account of a dispute between France and the United States during John Adams' administration. 5. What were the Nullification Acts? How did President Jackson treat them? 6. To what political party did each of the following belong: Sumner, Douglas, Tilden, Seward, Chase, Greeley? 7. Mention an important event of the Civil War which took place in each of the following cities: Atlanta, New Orleans, Baltimore, Vicksburg, Richmond. What section of the United States was opposed to the War of 1812? Why? 9. Describe the method of electing the president of the United States and name all the presidents who have been natives of Ohio. 10. What is meant by the Civil Service? What has been the attitude of Presidents Cleveland and Roosevelt toward this system?

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LITERATURE.

1. State facts of importance concerning the personal life of Longfellow and mention the name and author of at least one prominent biography of the poet. 2. Name at least three writers of the Revolutionary Period of American literature and tell something of the character of the literature of that Period. 3. What qualities distinguish Poe from any other American fiction writer? 4. Make a list of Lowell's most important long poems and briefly analyze one of them. 5. What is a pseudonym? Name some famous American authors who have written under pseudonyms. 6. To what department of letters do most of the writings of Mark Twain belong? Name two of his books. 7. Quote at least eight consecutive Ines from one of Whittier's poems. 8. Define each of the following: autobiography, blank verse, ode. 9. Select one name from the following list of English authors and give an adequate idea of the character of his work: Dryden, Macaulay, Dickens. 10. What plays of Shakespeare's have you read? Which do you like best? Why?

GEOGRAPHY.

1. Approximately how many square miles of land- and water are there upon the earth's surface? 2. Name the thirteen original states and give the present capital of each. 3. Tell of the location, nature and extent of the work of the United States government in reclaiming arid lands. 4. Name two manufacturing centers of France. What shipping centers of Brazil. What products pass in and out? Name two articles are made? 5. Give a brief account of Belgium's political experiences in Africa. 6. Name the physical factors that have influenced the nature and extent of the settlement of Arizona; British Columbia. 7. What is meant by the relief of a country? Compare the relief of Holland with that of Switzerland. 8. Explain the terms metropolitan and cosmopolitan as applied to cities. Why is New York, U. S.. metropolitan? Why is Cairo, Egypt, cosmopolitan? 9. Name a railroad that connects Chicago with Cleveland and mention two cities along its route; a railroad that connects Cleveland with Cincinnati and mention two cities along its route. 10. Give facts to show that a high state of civilization prevails in New Zealand.

INAUGURAL ADDRESS.

A NEW DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE.

C. L. VAN CLEVE, TOLEDO.

I should be lacking in courtesy, if I should fail at this time to express my sense of appreciation of the honor here conferred upon me and my sense of the responsibilities herein involved by your suffrages in choosing me to preside over this great meeting. I apprehend that we shall have to say this year as we said on last, that a new record of attendance has been made in the Ohio Teachers' Association, for I believe that the numbers present at this first session are indicative of what we shall enjoy in the way of audiences throughout the entire meeting. We have certainly entered upon a record-breaking attendance at this historical spot.

The theme of my discourse as announced upon the printed program, is A New Declaration of Independence and yet I am confident that when I shall have finished what I have to say, you will feel that I have said nothing especially new nor anything revolutionary. You will in fact find that I have uttered only some old principles of human conduct, but I hope you will not find that I have been lacking either in courage or in sincerity. Precedents are not wanting to justify such conduct on my part, for the immortal document of Jefferson has its roots in Magna Charta and this in turn derived suggestion and

inspiration from earlier forms of statement in man's struggles for freedom. I bespeak therefore, your sympathy as well as your attention as I shall state or re-state some fundamental principles of common manhood.

We have in recent years fallen upon "parlous" times. We are enmeshed in the entanglements of commercialism. As long ago as 1888, Walt Whitman said, "We are so commercialized in this country that we will do nothing without the pay is in sight, nothing, nothing; the profits must be near enough to grab," and I am confident my friends that if there is to be a reversal of form in the attitude of the public mind relative to the ever-shifting phases of the questions involved in the term commercialism, it must come from men and women like ourselves.

The world looks to the educated man for leadership, that is for freedom. Freedom does not now reside in great movements of mankind wherein the mass is moved or lifted by the hypnotic power of some magnetic master of life, but in the larger liberty of the individual whereby he repudiates contaminating influences as they touch himself or boldly defies the tendencies working to lower his ideals. As leaders of youth we need to cry aloud for freedom, for the larger liberty of soul which comes when we like the prophet on Horeb hear the call of God only in the still voice. We, too, like our fathers of old must achieve our independence if we have not already attained it and to that end I am calling