Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1892-05-26

volume of sphere and the cube from
which it was cut? Between the volume
of cone and the cylinder from which
it was cut?
RHETORIC.-(Omit ttOo)
l. Define Rhetoric, and give the origi-
nal meaning of the word.
z. Define diction, and give the three
heads under which the subject is treated.
3. What is Campbell's Law?
4. What is figure? What was their
origin?
5.Define and give example of balanced
sentence.
6. What are the special properties of
style?
2. Give an example of simile, meta
phor, personification, allegory.
GEOGRAPHY-(Omit taoo.)
l. Name the Lunda Islands and their
products and animals.
2. What are the tropics? Why so
placed? What would be their location,
if the inclination of the earth's axis to
the plane of its orbit were 500? What
would then be the width of each zone?
3. Under what conditions do we find
the highest development of mankind?
4. Account for the Great Lakes upon
or near the Height of Land.
5. WHAT makes England a manufac-
turing and commercial nation?
6. Whence comes tin, ivory, isinglass,
sponges, pearl, copper, zinc, platinum,
linen, and figs?
2. Name an important industry in
each of the following: Birmingham, Ala,
Cracow, Rome, Lyons, Geneva, Key
West, Ceylon, China, Minneapolis, and
Philadelphia. Be definite.
CIVIL GOVERNMENT.
l. In whom does the power of govern
men rest in our land?
2. Show in what way the House be-
comes a check on the Senate, and the
President on both.
3. How may a bill become law?
4. What was the general purpose of
the first eleven amendments? How may
an amendment be added?
5. What special provision is made in
our Constitution for all bills designed
to raise revenue or tax the people?
s ORTHOGRAPHY-(Omit t,oo.)
JAMES DUNCAN.
l. Give the advantages and disadvant-
ages of oral spelling.
2. The same of written spelling.
8. Give your way of teaching written
spelling, and tell what you wish the
pupil to learn to do.
4. Name the marks used in words;
tell the different uses of each, and how
you teach pupil to acquire this use.
5. Make table of the alphabet of
sounds, and classify the sounds.
6. Form twenty words from the root
act. and define the affixes used.
z. Name the different syllables.
(HISTORY-Omit tsoo.)
1. Give your idea of the best method
of teaching the history of Burgoyne's
Invasion.
2. Outline the knowledge you expect
the pupil to possess after he has salts
factorily completed this topic.
3. Give the causes which led to the
French and Indian war. What events
were transpiring in Europe at the same
time?
4. Name the two men you regard as
most influential during the time of the
Revolution, and state your reasons for
your views.
5. Tell something of Bolboa, Benton
vile, Missouri Compromise, Freedmen's
Bureau, Grand Model, Confederate cur
rency, Squatter Sovereignty.
6. What led to the formation and
adoption of the Constitution?
z. Name and write criticism on the
textbook you have been using, telling
its good points and deficiencies.
THEORY and PRACTICE.-Omit t,oo.
T. P. HARRIS.
l. What faculty is brought into action
first In instruction? What faculty
second? What third?
2. What objects are attained by the
pupils analysis of promblems in arith-
metic?
8. What are the best means of train
ing pupils in the correct use of their
own language?
4. Write, at least, ten lines on school
government.
5. What is testing? How do you con-
duct test? What is a drill?
6.What faculties are cultivated by the
study of grammar, geography, reading,
and history?
z. Name some proper and improper
incentives to study.
PHYSIOLOGY, HYGIENE and
NARCOTICS.
(Omit tioo of the first fue.)
l. Name the digestive organs. Describe
the alimentary canal.
2. Describe the structure and action
Of the heart, and trace the blood through
a complete circulation, naming the
changes produced.
8. Describe the organ of sight and the
process by which the sensation is pro-
duce0.
4. Explain the two-fold use of nerves.
What is reflex action?
s. How many bones in the human
skeleto? What are the functions of the
bones? What can you say of the me-
chanical construction of bone?
3. In what respect is the opium habit
worse than the use of alcohol or tobacco?
z. Name some of the most important
hygienic topics to be presented to young
children.
8. What organs are injured by the
habitual use Of alcohol? Tobacco?
GRAMMAR-(Omit taoo)
l. Illustrate seven uses of a noun or |
q prOnoun.
9 Name the kinds of Dhrases az to |