Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1893-08-17
HIGHER BRANCHES.
PEDAGOG Y.-(Omit tl0o.)

l. EDduOu tOHttC tNc.J
S. C. MURPHY.
l. What is education? What is learn
ing?
2. What is power of the mind? What
is a faculty? When is imagination ac-
tive?
3. What do you understand by induc-
tive teaching? illustrate.
4. What is memory? Show the dual
nature of recollection.
5. What do you know of Froebel?
6. Give the order of the unfolding of
the mental faculties.
z. What is habit?
ALGEBRA.-(Omt tlOo)
l. What is Algebra? What is an
equation?
g. What is quadratic equation? Il
lustrate.
8. What is literal equation? What
is meant by reducing an equation?
4. What is elimination? How many
and what methods have we?
5. Illustrate each of the above methods.
6. Give the laws of the binomial
theorem.
PHYSICS.-(Onlit taDo).
l. Define force. On what only does it
depend, and in what does it always
manifest itself?
2. State Newton's laws of motion.
What is motion?
3. What is universal gravitation? To
what form of energy is it due?
4. State the principal distinction be-
tween liquids and gases.
5. Describe the phenomenon of boiling.
6. Define ohm, volt, and ampere.
z. Describe battery of Leydenjars.
GEOMETRY-(Omtt t,oo)
JAMES DUNCAN.
l. At a given point in a straight line,
to erect perpendicular to that line.
2. Define point, solid, surface, plane,
angle, postulate.
3. Prove that an inscribed angle is
measured by one-half the arc intercept
ed between its sides.
4. Prove that mean proportional be-
tween two quantities is equal to the
square root of their product.
5. How do you divide a given line
in extreme and mean ratio?
6. How do you inscribe regular
decagon in given circle?
z. Tell how to circumscribe square
about given circle.
RHETORIC.-(Omit toOO.)
l. In what ways may expression be
varied?
2. Define simile, allegory, vision, irony.
epegram, litotes.
8. Define these styles of poetry: Lyric,
pastoral, epic, dramatic.
4. Define history, fiction, news, essays.
5. Expand this simple sentence into a
complex, and then into compound:
My companion, climbing up alone, and
already nearly asleep, laid himself down
with his head upon the precious port
manteau.
6. How may simple sentence be COP
verted into complex one?
T. Correct the following, and give
reason for the same: That music sounds
very sweetly.
LITERATURE-(Omit t1oO.)
l. What is meant by an age or period
in literature?
2. You may name three ages.
g. Give the chief characteristics of
each age you have named.
f. What is poetry? Name the me-
chanical elements of poetry.
5 & 6. Name three books which have
greatly Influenced English literature.
Tell who wrote them. Tell when they
were written and why.
T. For what is each of these noted:
Bayard Taylor, Mark Hopkins, j. G.
Whittier, Chas. Darwin, John Burroughs,
| o. w. Holmes.
| CIVIL GOVERNMENTS .-(Omit ta0o).
T.. P. HARRIS.
l. What is the object of civil govern
ment?
g. How are cabinet officers chosen?
| Name the present members.
3. Give the mode of passing law.
| Allow may person become citizen?
5. With which branch of Congress
must bills of revenue originate? Give
reasons for your answer.
6. What is the constitution? In what
way may it be amended? How many
amendments have been added to the
constitution? Repeal one of them.
| z. What officers are elected in each
county? Give the duties of five of them.
s. How are laws made in Ohio?
LATIN.
l. How many declensions have nouns?
How are they distinguished? Give the
genitive endings of each declension.
g. What is the gerund? The supine?
Construct sentences illustrating each.
| 3. Translate into English, and parse
the italicized words: Cicero Roman
revocatus est. Miserunt legatos pacem
DetitxD. Difficile est .jttdicdre.
f. Give the principal parts OF caplo,
audio, laudo, active and passive. Name
the conjugation of each.
5. Give a synopsis of the verb dico,
third person, singular number, indicative
and subiunctive, active and passive.
6. Translate into English the following:
In castris Helvetiorum tabulae repertae
sunt, litteris Graecis confectae, quious
in tabulis nOminatim ratio confecta erat,
aui numerus domo eXisset eorum, qul
arma ferre possent; ct item separatlm
pueri, senes, mulieresque. Summa ON
mum fuerat ad milia trecenta sexa-
ginta ct octo. Forum, qui domum