The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-06-30
Examination of the High School.
SECOND DAY.


We discovered yesterday morning,
much to our modification, that seye-
ralerrors, typographical, had crept into |
our report of the High School, not
withstanding we had taken great care
to write correctly. as we know we did,
and to- write it plainly. The Greek /
apothegm we wrote, g Archa de tOi
.qa,fsu odntos. In the first word a was
changed into G, and the same error
occurred in apsisp. A better orthog-
raphy Of the latter would, perhaps,
have been hanaisu, as in Greek it is
spelled with eta aspirated.. In the
French phrase, ben was spelled ban,
and one Of the Latin phrases was
made to read, Nor fms, sed iai-
INN, e ihstead:of Noeyfaiss &c. These.
errors are VACATIONS, but they will oc-
cur.
The number of spectators present
/ yesterday was very large, the room be-
ing crowded during, thesafternoOn, and
| all were warm intheir expressions of
admiration and qualification,
The examination commenced yes
terday with a Latin class in Cesar,
the pupils reading with remarkable fa-
ciIity manyfof its most difficult pas
sages, such as CAESARS sententious
4 speeches, including his spicy one to
the Helvetian Legates in reply to Di-
vico's insolent boast. They construed
! these difficult passages admirably; and
were very perfect In the government
i The graduating class was examined
3 in Mental Philosophy, and the mem
4 bers acquitted themselves in a highly
honorable manner, eyincing careful
study and close Thought. The Greek
class also passed a very creditable e4-
animation, readingex tracts from Ken
onions Anabasis, as found in the
Greek Lessons r The, pupils were
!. quite expert IN digging Greek-roots,
rarely failin gs0f success
The first Algebra class gave evil
s dence of avery. accurate Knowledge Of
that branch of Mathematics, working
out difficult questions with much read
mess and accuracy. $500
In Cicero the members Of the grad
' uatory class acquitted themselves won
. drously well, reading smoothly, aeeur
ately, and with manifest appreciation
! of the sense of the author.
After poon a class of eleven girl
! were examined at length on Physiea
Y Geography, in which they were quit
: proficient.
During the examination, many har'
questions were propounded by visi
o tors, all Of which were answered read
u lily and with precision.
n In all the examinations by PROBES
e sor Hutchinson, the use of books
q dispensed with as far as possible, b
m both teacher and pupils, the que:
= tons being propounded as they oceu
4, red to the mind Of the teacher, an
as often an attempt would be made
r. cast doubt upon the correctness
h, the answer, but the pupils invari
al bly, stood firm This is Al exec
IT lent method, in our Judgment, as
creates independence OF thong
he on part of the student, and leads the
q I 70 be always Oh theft guard.
". The regular examination clos
j with the class In Physical Geograpl
zee after WINCH ---., ls.sad discussion
of Master Dodge and Master schuTFt2z'
"a. the question: a 1000, SO
no Nv. Should d man be censured fort
2 loving the dictates Of his cons
u, ~ enee?r which was conducted W
M much abilitybybsth The young s
H. dents, giving, evidence Of much sly
he and careful preparation on a very N
aphysicaI subject
Next followed a series OF ess
,ysdl and declamations. nearly all show
Iay, marked ahilits4anda few Of them
ned highly superior character.
the We give fheaIist IN order, with
and yenturing any criticism. 10
fer Essay by Miss McJohhson :
-k;aject; Every man the architect
ME his own fortune.
oio' Defamation by james Wall
ap Subject; Charles Chatterbox 5 era
2f,n Eloquent account Of himself.
oai Essay by Miss Carson. SUBJ
~ I g Pictures ia the Fire.
was wa; s. Essay BIZ Miss Bowdon. Subj
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