Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-07-07

The Questions Submitted to the Gradual
ing Class.
The present week is the occasion Of tn,
examination Of the members of the grad
uating class of Millersville state norma
school. These examinations it will bt
remembered are made under the direction
of the school department of the state
The examiners are Dep. Supt. Houck,
Prof. Thomas, principal Of the state nor.
NAL school at Mansfield, Prof. Nitrauer,
Bor. Supt. of Lebanon, and Prof. Buehrle
Of Lancaster.
The examinations in the practice o
reading, bookkeeping and vocal music
were oral. Physiology was omitted. There
are 30 members in the class and the fol-
lowing are the questions submitted tC
them for answers in writing:
1. Orthography.
1. Write two primitive words, and form
derivatives from them.
?. How does compound word differ
from derivative:
Illustrate.
5. Classify the letters according to the
organs required to produce the sounds rep.
resented by them.
4. How does syncope differ from aphaer-
esis?
5. What is the object of learning to
spell?
The following words were dictated for
written spelling: Lief, leaving, leaf, be.
lieving, conceive. conceit, receipt, recipe,
syncOpe. granary, sovereignty, deleble, in
delibe, cOncealing, rhythm, vermilion, mil
lion. clairvOyance, bier, beer, leer, rear,
Humboldt, tenon, sieve, stupefy, apprehen-
sible, accordion, me!odeon, inseparablc,
conscientious, conscious, unconscionable,
intelligibly, metaphysically, ctfacement,
pristine, principle, principal, rarely, Ma
caulay. Tuesday, Wednesday, February,
Christmas, Phidias, gauge, rise, rice. eclat
2. Reading.
% This is the forest primeval. The murmuriny
pine. and the hemlOcks,
Bearded with moss. and in garments green,
inH1stinct in the twilight,
prophetic"
Stand like harpcrs hoar, with boards that rest
Oh their DOsOms.
Loud from its rocky cavcrns the dcep-yOic
neiShbOrlng ocean
Speaks and in accents disconsolate answers
the wall OF the forest"
1. Name the quality of voice, the pitch
and the rate required in roading the
above.
9. What pauses are required in reading
poetry that are not required in reading
prose?
3. OF what use to the reader arc marks
of punctuation?
4. Explain what is meant by "murmur-
ing pines,' "bearded with moss"
" Druils.'' "eld," "voices," "accents, ;"
g the wall of the Forest" "hemlocks.''
D. What words show that pines are old:
Why are they compared to harpers?
). Grammar.
" The charicst maid il prOdigdI enough,
II she unmusk her beauty to the moon
virtue itself 'scapes not calumnious strokes.
The canker gals the infants OF the spring,
Too oft before their buttons be DISCLOSED
Ind IN the morn and liquid dew of yOuth
Contagious blastments are most imminent.
l. Analyze the 9th and 7th lines.
2. Parse the words italicized.
j.. Decline ''their" and "maid - COM
pare " chariest.''
4. Write synopsis OF disclosed in the
irst person, Indicative active, progressive
orm and passive in the present and pres
mt perfect lenses.
). How it is determined whether
StIohCo t HOul VI it NtTU, UclOfS
! proposition or an adverb?
4. Rhetoric
1. Scan the first three lines, naming
ieet and metre, and mark ing their quan-
ity.
2. This being an extract from Hamlet,
designate and define the kind of poetry it
S, and name the author.
;. Name and define the figures of rhet-
'rc in the fourth and fifth lines.
H. Which would be likely to use more
curative lansuage-a Sioux Chief or
'eorge Bancroft? Give reason for your
nswer.
5. Define the essential properties of
lyle.
6. How does barbarism differ from
Olecism
Z. Discriminate maid and girl =; enough
I'D sufficient infant, babe and child.
8. Define rhetoric and defend the study |
fit.
8. Arithmetic.