The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-08-18

Held in the County and the Question
c,v.p Below Have All Been Discussed
During the session-Can :You Answe
Them Perfectly? is q Question Apply
ing to An-FrIday and Saturday the Ex
aminations.
With this week the Sedgwick county
oormal closes. and by all the session i:
pronounced TO be the most successful
and one which has caused the creates
research of any normal ever held IL
the county.
On Friday the county examination
will be held and as an idea Of what th'
teachers will have to answer to pass
successful examination the following
ret of questions used in a,recent exami,
nation are given:
READING.
(Fairchild.I 10 Ininutes)
1. Give such definition of tone, inf1ec
lion. and emphasis as you would give
to a fourth-reader Class.
2. Give ways of preventing habits OF
Hrawling in first-reader classes.
3. Give methods of encouraging the
use of a dictionary with advanced
plasses.
4. How can study of reading lessons
be secured?
5. Illustrate the effect of infection by
reading short selection.
(Oral reading, so per cent?
ARITHMETIC.
6Stanley-Time, 80 minutes)
1. Explain fully the process of divis-
Ion by fractions, and illustrate by an
original problem
2. Why do fractions multiply by frac-
lions produce result less than either
the muhiplier or multiplicand? Illus
trate
3. What effect both fire and life insur-
hnce risks. and why?
4. The distance from the center Of a
square field ITO one corner is so rods.
What will it cost to pillow the field at
81. 25 per acre?
S. State clearly the analysis for the
following: If five men perform a GER
tain piece of work in 6 days of hours
each, how long will it take 8 men TO
perform the same, working 10 hours a
day?
g. Find the greatest common diviser
of So and 200 by factoring.
z. What is the interest on $500 for 1
year, 9 months and 10 days, at per
cent? (Solve by per cent method.)
8. Which is the better investment and
how much, 5000. 3-per-cent govern
ment bonds at 1917, or $1,000 taxable
stocks at par (taxed at per cent on u
value), and yielding an income of per
GENT?
ORTHOGRAPHY
(Snow.-Time, 80 minutes)
l. Define photography, elementary
sound, diphthong, digraph, substitute.
2. Give number and classification OF
sounds.
8. Give words illustrating the vari-
pus sounds of a, using the proper mark
to indicate each sound. Same for o.
4. Analyze, showing stem, prefix, suf-
FIX, and significance of each: Impair
tial, illegible, factory, bicycle, upright
eousness.
5. How should final silent be treated
when sufixes are received? Illustrate.
GEOGRAPHY.
Klock.lTfme, 80 minutes)
I. Give briefly your method Of treat
ing the following subjects: Surface,
boils. cardinal and semi-cardinal points.
2. How would you develop the idea
Of mouth, source, and tributaries of
rivers?
3. Compare the eastern and western
boasts of North America. Notice direc-
ton. indentations, projections, islands.
and 5. Draw a physical map of
North America. Index and draw ap-
propriate lines to indicate the elevation
below one thousand feet; between one
thousand and six thousand feet; above
six thousand feet.
6. What is meant by dew point? What
effect has a cloudy night upon the for
nation of dew? THE temperature in
the desert of Sahara sometimes rises
during the day to $50 degrees F., and at
night water freezes" How do you ac-
Gount for these extremes?
z. In a voyage up the Nile, mention
principal cities, describe climate, seen
FRY, etc.
In what proportion is the area OF
North America to the area of each OF
the other continents?
UNITED STATES HISTORY.
(Stanley.-Time, so minutes)
L. Compare colonial industrial life OF
the New England and Southern col.
pnies.
rect causes of the revolution.
3. Give something of the origin. &C
ceptance. and the two provisions Of the
Monroe doctrine.
t. What has the spirit Of inventor
done to open up the resources of tn,
United States?
5. Name the f5th state admitted int
the Union. What objections were mad,
to its earlier admission, and how wer,
they removed?
6. Name and give causes for thre,
prominent economic or social disturb
ances within the United States within
the past five years.
Z. Give three prominent historians
three poets, and three novelists of TIT
United States, and give a character
istic work of each class of American
writers named above.
s. What three compromises have af
fected the history of Kansas?
g. What had the Mexican war to d
with the propagation of the institution
OF slavery:
(Answer of the aibove)
GRAMMAR
(Taylor.-Time. 60 minutes1
!. AnalyZe the following: When tn
havest from the fields. the cattle from
the hills, and the ores from the earth
shall have been weighed, counted. an
valued. we will turn from them all. I
crown with highest honor the state tina
has promoted education ana patriot
ism among the people"
p Give voice, mode and tense of a.
verbs in the above quotation.