Arizona silver belt., 1889-09-07
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The labor of tue Bunsbys of the Territorial Board of Examiners has, in Gila county, been revealed n the prepared questions for the use of the County Board of Examiners. The school laws of Arizona, as new in force, require that applicants for T first grade Certiiicats must possess an enormous mental appetite, erammed with science and literature, and able to answer, orally and in writing, ques- tions in algebra, geography, history, and questions relating to the Consti- tuition of the United States, physiolo- gy, hygiene, natural philosophy, or biography, defining, penmanship,read- ing, method of teaching, grammar, arithmetic and school laws of Arizona.
 The Territorial Board of Examiners is empowered to enuneiats rules gov erniug examination of applicants for Territorial certificates and for the gov eynment of County Boards of Exam iners, which are SO stringent that desks and seats are so arranged that Applicants cannot readily communi- cate with each other" This, it will be observed, is with the view of pre- venting applicants constituting mu- tual aid society while upon the anx- ious seat. The rules governing coun. ty examiners number sixteen, and are alike drastic, and calculated to men tally worry the applicant fer certif- cate. The 16th and last rule pays its respects to applicants for renewal of a county certificate bearing date prior to May lst, 1885, which says county boards of examiners must not renew. Y Credits required for first grade eer- tifcate shall be 80 per cent. of the total number of standard credits.
 The reason why so many fan in climbing the hill of science is because the Territorial Examiners fix too steep
 a grade and because of catch ques. tions which cloy the mind and disgust the climber, and often cause him or her, although qualified for the lnstruc- ton of youth, to retire from the con test in disgust. Take for instance the questions in physiology for which an hour only is given for the,r mental solution. answers to be written, and say what you think of officials who propoand them. In this serles of questions . full description of the brain, average size in adults, weight, divisions, composition, and functions of each division etc. full description of the heart, its functions and opera ton is involved, as is also the subdi. vis,on of the alimentary canal.
 If the functions of the heart are to be confined to Laurence Sterne's de. scnption of it's operation upon the hearts of Uncle Toby and tue widow Wadman, it would be sad that it's functions were confined to affairs of love and especially so while the widow was endeayoring to discover the fly in Toby's eye.
 The subdivisions of the alimentary canal, so unlike in construction, the Chesapeake and Ohio canal, or other such commercial highways, would be difficult to describe and therefore, had better have been left out of the emu merated questions or specially refer. red to college of physicians and sur geons. It scents that the list of arith- metical problems submitted are slight ly mixed and may be regarded as trespassers under improper heads, but unlike the Senate's visiting committee to the arid West, they are there to stay.