The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-02-13
THE TEACHERS TEST.
Quarterly Examination of King
County Opened.
SOME HARD NUTS TO CRACK.
Forty Four Applicants Appear The
Basis OF Awards -The Questions
to Be Answered.

The King county board of examiners
began its regular quarterly inquest of the
mental equipment of applicants for teach
ers' certificates yesterday morning in
Young Naturalists' hall. The inquisition
will occupy two more days, closing Satur-
day evening. A class of forty-four appli-
cants submitted their professional qualifi-
tons to the test prescribed by the state
board of education.
The board of examiners is composed of
County Superintendent V. A. Pusey, Pro-
fessor 0. s. Jones, of the Denny school,
and Professor j. NJ. Taylor, of the State
university.
The questions given yesterday covered
history, theory and practice. photography,
constitution. and arithmetice
Among the teachers undergoing examin-
alton are ten teaching in the city schools.
Their pupils were dismissed yesterday for
the week. Following are their names:
smith, Mary ,. Bruce, Anna NJ. Young. j.
ID. Atkinson, Letta A. Lodge, Lillian
Smoke. Mary NJ. Amesbury and Meta s.
Armour. Following are the names of the
other applicants: Joseph Eugene Wood
ruff. Seattle; Beatrice Price. Seattle;
Maggie 81. Reid, Kent; Mary L. Sutton,
Kent; Helen II. Lodge. Seattle; Gertrude
son, Seattle; Vivian II. Hopson,
Olive 4. Gill, Seattle; Robert B. Banks,
Seattle; w. b. Main. Falls City; Unnie
Mcintosh, Seattle; Sherman T. Kennedy.
Seattle; Sarah N. McNaughton, Seattle;
Viola Startup Seattle; Margaret H. Ross,
Ross; Winifred l.. Smith, Seattle: Eliza
beth Baker. Tracyton: Annie NJ. Williams,
Seattle; Annie l.. Morrison, Seattle; Hat
tie NJ. Ring, Seattle; Lulu Earle, Gilman;
Ida III. Gou, Sumner; Frank H. Mccall,
Seattle; Carrie Davis, Seattle; Cornelia 5.
Nourse, Seattle; Ella NJ. Huff. Seattle;
James c. Johnson, Seattle; Bernard +.
Dusenbury, Seattle; Robert A. Langford,
Seattle; Ida Seatield, Seattle; Irwin Myers,
Seattle
1t viii be several days before results will
be learned. The scale of marking is on the
basis of a possible 100 credits on each SUBJ
ject or total of |, 800 For first grade GER
tificates, applicants must receiver 1850
credits according to the above scale, and
must not fall below so per cent in either
written arithmetic or grammar, and must
have taught at least one year. For second
grade certificates, applicants must receive
800 credits. and must not fall below IS per
cent. in either arithmetic or grammar.
For third grade certificates, applicants
must receive 20 credits. and must not fall
below 90 per cent in either arithmetic or
grammar. Following is the programme
for today and tomorrow: Friday, morning
session, begin at Q a. M, grammar, physi-
ology; afternoon session, begin at l 80 D.
M, mental arithmetic, geography, school
law, reading. Saturday, morning session,
begin at a. m, algebra, philosophy, Eng
lish literature.
The questions on the various subjects
were, III the main, easy, but required
general know ledge of each science.
If Is safe to saw that there were more
failures to answer the first question in con-
stitution than any other. 1t is doubtful if
two per cent. of the teachers could an
swer it off hand without reference to a
campaign manual. Yet it was probably
the question least calculated to determine
the presence of gray matter in the appli-
cant's brain. 1t was, "name the divisions
of the legislative branch of our govern
ment and state the number of members
belonging TO each branch" Five of the
ten questions Oh this subject were in ref
erence TO the state constitution, as follows:
according to the state constitution what is the
right of eminent domain
What is corporation as defined by the state
constitution?
What is the duty of the state in regard to edu-
cation? Why?
What constitutes the permanent school fund
in this state?
What executive offices may be abolished by
the state legislature?
Which are preferable, male or female
teachers, and why. was the first point in
theory and practice that the state board of
education submitted to the arbitration of
the applicants. The ten credits for each
applicant dependent on the correct answer
to this question are guarded by a clause in
'the rules and regulations governing this
question, which provides that answers
shall receive credit Though they do not
conform to the peculiar theories of any
member of the board of examiners"
The applicants also wrestled with the
important state question now agitating the
British and American governments, viz:
What points are at issue III regard to
catching seals off the coast of Alaskan"