The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-08-20
THEY WANT TO
STUDY MEDICINE
Five Young Men Took the Examina'
tions Yesterday 10 This City.
QUESTIONS THEY WERE ASKED
Examination Was Conducted by Sup
erintendent of Schools Howell and
Is in Accordance with n Recent Act
ofthc Grammar, Geo.
graphy, Arithmetic and Spelling
Were the Branches Taken Up.
Questions Are Not Difficult.

Five young men were yesterday ex-
amined by Superintendent OF Schools
Howell for admission to Jefferson
Medical college. They were Angus Nc
Odrum, of Worcester, Mass: S. War
rem Richard, of Wilkes-Barre; II. w.
Atherton of Dallas, and e. S. Dough-
erty, of Pittston.
The examination was conducted in
pursuance of a state law passed two
years ago making it obligatory upon
applicants for admission to any medi-
cal or dental college to pass a pre-
liminary examination before COM
missioner appointed by the state de-
partment of instruction. Applicants
who pass are admitted to study in
whatever medical or dental college they
may elect. That conducted yesterday
is the last before the opening of the
fall term.
An idea of the amount of knowledge
| required for admission may be had
| from the following list of questions
submitted yesterday:
GRAMN4-AR.
1. Meaning of subject and predicate.
Examples
| 2. Meaning of phrase and proposition
| Examples. ,-.
3. Write five sentences, using properly
| five punctuation marks.
2. What is the rule for agreement of
| verb with the subject?
S. Underscore adjective phrases and
| doubly underscore adverbial phrases In
the following: The house on the hill
was burned. In ancient times France
| was called Gaul. A treaty of peace was
| signed at Paris.
| 6. Use correctly in sentences the fol-
| lowing words: Their, there, to, two, too,
| seen.
| Z. Write a letter to your mother ask
| ing permission to go to college. state
the advantages of an education.
| 8. Write ten lines on some topic in
| history.
g. Write ten lines on some topic in
| geography.
GEOGRAPHY.
1. Name the capitals of Maine, Mas
sachusetts, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Cali
fornia, Missouri, Montana, New Jersey
g For what are the following cities
| noted: Grand Rapids, Lynn, Scranton,
Providence, r. l., Milwaukee, West
Point, New Orleans, Annapolis, Denver,
| Washington, d. c.
g. Name the copper region, the cotton
region the grazing region, the hard coal
region, the wheat region of the United
| States.
Il.
| the United States.
5. Name the cities on the Atlantic and
| Pacific coasts.
6. Name the capitals of Lackawanna
county, Pennsylvania, the United States
Z. Name five facts (each) about the
People of this country, the government
| of this country, and the country Itself
s. How would you go from here to
Chicago; give the time, cost and dis
tance.
9. What mountains surround your
home, and of what use are they?
ARITHMETIC.
I. Three boys form a partnership, A
put in SO, b, $12, and G, $l4 They gain
Sl2; what was each ones share of the
gain?
2. If the radius of a wheel Is feet
what is the diameter; what is the cir.
cumference, and what is the diagonal OF
the largest square that can be placed ir
the circumference?
8. My friend lends me 81 for 30 days
How long must I lend him $3.50 to re-
quite the favor?
a. A. B, and C can do piece of worl
in days. A can do it alone in IL days
b, alone in Is days; how long would
1t take C to do it alone?
A can do a piece of work in days
3 can do it in 10 days; what should
receive per day if BIS wages are 81 pei
day?
s. A man weighs $50 pounds Avoirdu
pois, what would he weigh Troy weight
SPELLING.
Antarctic, sandwich, tortoises, cologne
vands, annually, allspice cinnamon, an
kle-deep, wrangle marine, cocoa fiftieth
timorous, aping, emptied wholesale
switched, dying, dyeing. icicles, prairie
ferule, nuisance, apparel, peaceable, mu
cilage, shrieked, dessert, cemetery, SINCE
Ing, prodigious, ferocious, transient, ac
celerate, cayenne, malefactor, untutored
reiterate, civilian, hemorrhage, exhla
rate, coerce, domicile, eligible, dilema ex
asperate, facetious, satirical, reminis
cence.