Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1893-11-11
"After the Ball" (Examinataon).

The following persons wrote the late
examination for teachers certificates:
Prof. Schuyler Opp, Bertha Morgan,
Clara McCollum, John r. Parsons, Min
ME Chapman, Katie Flood, Nellie
Sweet, Mrs. Jennie Ginder, A. S. Beason,
Mabel Barber, Hannah Mullen, Edna
Mapes, and May Rhoades. One first
grade and ten third grade certificates
were issued. Of the latter four were is
sued to teachers of adjoining counties,
one each In Graham, Cove, Ness and
Ellis. Two of our own people failed,
only. Does this look as If our examin-
ing board were unfair to outsiders?
hope teachers will allow me to ask
few questions and submit a few sam
pie answers (by teachers) on the Oc-
| tober Eek"
Is the year 1900 to be a leap yearP
What year of which century win it be?
Will any more rain fall on a house with
a slanting room than viii fall on the
same house if the roof be fat? All but
one applicant figured great difference
In favor of the slanting roof and only
one correctly answered my first question
given above.
Only two teachers understand the use
of the term association" in Theory"
Various answers were given, but gener-
ally the idea of companionship was sub
stituted for mental association of facts.
The teacher who answers five import
ans questions in eight lines without
spacing or paragraphing cannot be ex-
pected to insist on especially neat work
on the part of her pupils.
Some applicants wrote on both sides
of one sheet of paper and then took a
whole sheet on which to write their
names only. 1t is best to write on one
side only whether it takes two or more
sheets.
One teacher OF penmanship would
have pupils correctly placed upon their
first attempt to write and says they will
never change their position"
Another teacher gives the following as
q good rule for the government of q
school; "Always 'speek' the truth"
Who was it spelled it "prinsipal?"
A teacher seeking employment in our
normal of 1894 offers good references. !"
Shall I employ him?
Under the head of Geography we
learn many interesting things. We are
told that the drainage of Kansas very
extensive, consisting of many streams
of water. The prinsipal stream are Re-
publican in the north the Kansas" etc
otherwise we should have gone on in
our blind ignorance still thinking it a
land flowing with milk and honey and
retaing the impression that at least
some of the "prinsipal'' streams are
populistic and democratic in their ten
denotes.
Concerning the origin of rain, snow,
dew and hoar frost we are told as fol-
lows word for word and letter for letter
Water of the ocean becoming heated
evaperates rising in the air is then
blewn by wind over the land and upon
becoming cool fall to the ground be
HEAVIER than air, (Rain)
Snow is originate about same as rain
only become more colder freezes
Dew is cooled damp Atmosphere
coming so coal as to freeze
In all these above Water is Heavear
than air
Lontitude is distance east & West
from a given maridean called main
Maridean"
Does the. United States export sugar?
A great number of the countries and
rivers of Asia were lately moved into
Europe.
Longitude is distance and west from
certain meridian parallel to the
equator"
"From France we obtain Silk &
Fashion"
(Western Kansas) is given as rain
less region.
These lines are not written for the
purpose Of ridicule, but simply to show
teachers wherein they may improve
their examination papers.
A. S. PEACOCK,
o County Superintendent.