The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1886-12-09
SCHOOL EXAMINERS QUESTIONS.

SCHOOL EXAMINERS QUESTIONS.
Wesuls Of the Meeting om Saturday,
December 4
THEORY AND PRACTICE.
1. What attention do you give to
the distinct utterance of words in your
reading and other classes?
2. Have you read Pestalozzi? What
is your opinion of him as a teacher?
5. DO you set apart a portion of each
day in planning for your next days
work?
4. Practically considered. what is
education!'
5. What can you say of the nature,
force. and value of all forms Of knowl-
edge?
8. What influence has the personali-
ty of the teacher on his school? -.
Z. Did you attend the last Highland
County Teachers Association?
8. How many kinds of school dis
tricts are there in the county? Name
them.
8. How is the money for school pur.
poses obtained? For institute in.
structOrs?
10. Name the most valuable works
on education that you have read within
the last several years, and write short
criticism on one OF them.
HISTORY.
1. Name the events OF l115.
2. What statue was lately presented
to the U. 5. and by whom WAS it pre-.
sented?
3. Name the cause of each of the
Inter-COlOnial wars.
4. Sketch briefly John q. Adams
administration.
5. When was the first American cargo
taken to England? First cotton mill
set up In the U. 5 First written con.
stitution framed in America?
9. Under whose administration was
the mode of electing the President and
Vice President changed so that u dis
tinct ballot is held for each?
Z. From what authority do we re.
ceive our right to voter
s. OF what is the Electoral College
composed?
8. What town prosecuted the Qua.
kers? Was this before or after the
founding of the first collegeY
10. What prominent person lately
died? Give the principal events of his
lifeP
ARITHMETIC.
l. Bought $50 boxes of raisins at 6
per cent. less than the first cost and
sold them ut per cent. advance on the
first cost, and thereby gained $45.
What was the first cost per box?
2. The solid contents of round loe
II #. in length are l71s cuff. What ID
its diameter?
8. How many square feet of surface
In q stovepipe 10 #. long and Z In. In
diameter?
4. Divide $54.25 among three persons,
giving the second $40 less than the first
anC twice as much as the third.
8. A man bought piece of cloth al
ST. 40 q yard and lining for 1t at 60 cts
q yard. There were IS yds. altogether,
aud the total price was $37. How
many yards were there Of each?
6. How far must a person proceed on
stage which travels ~ miles All hour
In order that he may walk back at the
rate Of 3 miles M hour aud be gone
just ~ hrs?
Z. A boy earned Is cents q day for
prompt attendance during the 200
school days in the year, and forfeited
IL cents each day he was tardy. At
the end of the year he received $29.73
How many days was he punctual
8. A crew can row up stream a
certain distance in GA minutes and back
again in go minutes. Determine the
distance, the rate of the stream being
half a mile an hour.
8. Lead is ia times and 7.2 times
as heavy as water. Ifs pounds of lead
and 2 pounds of zinc be melted togeth-
er. compare the weight of the mixture
with that of water?
10. A pound of tea and Z pounds of
sugar cost $1.64. If sugar were to rise
GO per cent, and tea 25 per cent. they
would cost $2.33. Find the price per
pound of tea and sugar.
GRAxHAR.
!. What is grammar?
2. Frame IL sentence containing q
participle having the construction Of an
adjective and participial adjective.
B. Some verbs are used transitively or
intransitively. illustrate by example.
4. Write u sentence containing a..
objective clause, some part OF which II
modified by third class element.
8. What ARE elements of the sentence?
Define first. second, and third.ciass ele-
ments.
8. Name two distinctions between
finite verbs and participates.
Z. When is verb In the singular
number? When In the plural?
8. Parse the italicized words: Liber.
ty was theirs as men: without II they
did not esteem themselves az men.
o. Parse the italicized words:
know him to be sailor.
10. Analyze by diagram or otherwise
the following:
"Thou say'st his sports were hindered by
thy brawls;
Sw' ct recreation barr'd. what doth ensue,
But moody and dull mslancholy
Kinsman tn comfortless and grim
despair 2"