The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1888-02-23
SCHOOL EXAMINERS QUESTIONS.
Wesult Of the Meeting On saturday,
February ~.
HISTORY.

HISTORY.
Give the early history of Ohio.
Give an account of the Peace Con-
1 ference at Washington, 1851.
How did the u. 3. acquire the terri.
tory where st. Louis now stands?
Flvw where Chicago stands? How
where Olympia stands
Why was there u. &. Electoral
Commission In 1927? What was Its
action?
why did President Hayes take the
oath Of office privately the day before
his public Inauguration
Have the President and Vice-Presi-
dent always belonged to the same
party?
What influence did the following
statesmen have on Congressional legis.
lation William H. Seward, Alexan-
der Hamilton, Henry Clay, John @.
Adams, John 9. Calhoun
What was the Gadsden purchase
What constitutes citizenship in the
U. g.?
What is the probable origin of the
name California; Why did Cortez
explore that region?
What is language Discourse? Sem
tence?
What is collective noun I? Abstract
Verbal?
What are inseparable phrases 1? Sep
arabic? Idiomatic? Example of each.
What is q principal of element the
third class
Give the general rule for. abridging
the subordinate clause.
What are defective verbs Z? Redun.
dant? Impersonal?
Write the .possessive of birds.eye,
oamels:hair, Rufus, ratsbane and
children.
What is Antecedent? Antithesis Z
AppOsition
After what words is the to-of the in.
fnitive omitted?
Diagram:
''There is tide in the affairs OF men,
Which taken at the flood, leads on to
fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage Of their life
Is bound In shadows, and in miseries.' p
THEORY AND PRACTICE.
Give plan for preventing tardiness
Outline your method Of teaching
number in primary work.
What Is the greatest means of get.
ting and giving concepts apart from the
direct presentation of the object?
What is the difference between quail.
ity and quantity of mind?
How shall 1 succeed with dull
scholars?
Should pupils be detained aftel
school for poor lessons?
In the primary grades what kind o
examinations are most profitable?
What shall do to get my pupils tc
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AR1THMRrIo.
A note of $500 for 60 days, with in
terest at per cent, was made Sept
3d, and discounted the same day at 9
bank at per cent. What were the
proceeds?
A merchant bought 1853 yds. of broad
cloth for $S4O, paying $41s, $54, :ant
$eN yard; how many of each did he
buy?
be diminished that the result may b,
Ais?
A farmer sold produce, for which h,
received q As days. note, which he ina
mediately had discounted at the bant
at per cent. Required the face of tn.
note and its proceeds provided the dis
count was $1.935 1926.
A man having $40 1.s expended it fol
corn and wheat, of each an eaua
quantity; for the wheat he paid Sl Al
bushel, and for the corn So busheI
how much of each did he buy?
The side of an equilateral triangle IL
4 feet 7.42 3l4.433 inches find the dia.
meter of u circumscribed circle.
What are the linear dimensions of q
rectangular box whose capacity is
659lO cubic feet; the length, width and
depth being to each other as S, 8,
and g?
How many square rods in an ellipti.
cal garden, whose transverse diane.
ter Is S40 feet and coDjugate diameter
220 feet?
How long must tape be to wind
.spirally around a cylinder that is 40 fee,
long and feet In circumference, pro-
vided 1t pass once around the cylinder
every feet?
There is a tree 12O feet in height
standing by the side of river 100 fee
wide where must this tree break off 81
that the top will reach across tn,
river, while the broken parts remain IL
contact Z?
GEOGRAPHY.
II you were standing to-day on th,
Tropic OF Cancer, in what direction
would your shadow fall?
To what race do the Abyssinians be
long? What IL their religion?
What fraction of the earth's surface
Is the land north of the equator?
What countries of 8. America borde
Oh the Pacific? Give their capitals.
What causes the change of the sea
sons Answer in full.
What keeps the earth In motion an,
what mOdifies its motion?
What and where are Cayenne
Guernsey, CitteDje, Batavia an,
Alsace
In what does Ohio excel the othe
States?
What distractions to navigation be
tween Quebec and Duluth? ? How
each overcome
Name the republics and empires O
Europe. What is the latitude an,
longitude of the North Pole?
II you were standing on the Nortl
Pole where would north be to you