Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1893-12-02
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Here are twenty-five questions.
A Christmas prize worth trying for
viii be given for the best set of answers
on the following conditions to any Sec
ond or third grade teacher or any pupil
in the public schools of Trego county
who stands highest in relative rank.
Second grades must be per cent.
above third grades and third grades
must be per cent. above pupils to OBJ
tain the same credits.
One hundred points will be the maxi
mum.
Best set of full, correct answers 49,. so
Composition and rhetoric ....... Is
Penmanship. ................. 10
Spelling. ...-......... .......... III
General appearance and neatness of
manuscript. 10
Each misspelled word will be per
cent. off.
Papers below 70 per cent. viii not be
graded. There must be at least three
competitors and three prizes will be
gwen. Name and answers of the best
set viii be published, and winner viii
find prize at the Office OF County Super
Years.
1t is to be hoped that every one who is
on the eligible will try. A suitable COM
mittee viii do the grading.
1. Give a history, description and
Specification OF the great seal of Kansas
2. When did the nineteenth century
begin? When does it end?
3. A great German philosopher start
ed out to prove from pure reason the ex-
istence and nature of God. What is the
book2 and what his final conclusion.
A. Give a short biography of the
greatest or most famous living American,
president and ex-presidents excluded)
with your reasons for so considering.
5. Name the ten most popular Ameri-
can authors and their best work. Give
reasons.
6. When is ''x" function of "y2"
Z. What is meant by the doctrine OF
Pre- Established HARMONY"
g. Metempshychosis? Where and
when taught? By whom generally &C
copied now?
8. Describe the most probable course
of tornado Tor cyclone) originating at
the center of Kansas.
10. Explain the difference between
the commonly accepted theory of sound
and the accepted one prior to Newton.
II. Locate III the brain the organ OF
philo-progenitiveness. How can you
prove it?
70. Marasmus? Cause2 Remedy if
there is one?
13. Give history of discovery of
ALUMINIUM. Where found, description,
uses, process of manufacture?
IA. Name the six greatest, most i'm
portant or decisive battles of the world,
the commanding generals, probable re-
suits if terminating differently.
Is. Name all the products, by pro-
ducts and uses, of petroleum.
Is. Name all the products, by pro-
ducts and uses of coal.
II. How do we measure the distance
to the moon?
IS. Is there such a thing as "ehance?"
Why or why not?
10. What direction do climbing
plants take? Why?
20. ''That that man said that that
that, that that that referred to was an
adjective, is true" Parse and construe
properly all the ''thats" in the above.
2l. Who wrote, "Cogito ergo sum, ?"
as the beginning sentence Of his greatest
work? It's meaning? What the work
and intent2
%. What is the purpose of the gov
eminent towers in Trego county?
%. Bought horse for $50, sold for
800 taking two notes for $40 and $50 re-
spectively, shaved first % per cent, took
horse back for the second, fed him $40
worth of corn, sold again for $11O and
paid first note which | had Endorsed.
What per cent. gain or loss? and the
amount.
"a. What is the most useful Vegeta-
BILE or plant2 Why?
%. What is the measure OF man?
In answering the questions you will
observe the following rules:
1. Write only on one side Of paper.
Legal cap preferred.
2. Get no direct help of any one, but
acquire the information any other way
possible. You may ask where such and
such an answer may be found, but the
work, answers and language must be
your own.
8. Except where necessary to quote,
then give full credit to the authorship.
4. Sign not your own name but a
nom de plume and after it the class you
are in End, Bird Or P. according as you
are second grade, third grade or pupil.
5. Certify over the nom de plume
that YOU have obeyed the above rules.
6. The longest answer should not
contain more than twelve or fourteen
lines.
7. Number the answers to correspond
with question, but do not write question.
s. Send manuscript to Box 379, Wa
Keeney, Kansas, on or before December
81, 1893.
Trego Teachers Wages.