The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1899-05-16
LOGAN COUNTY SCHOOL EXAM.
INERS' QUESTIONS.
PEDAGOGY.

1. Discuss the various methods OF teaching
Reading, emphasizing the best and giving
reasons.
2. (a) What can you say regarding the use
fulness OF Incentives to study? b) Name
some incentives to be commended.
3. To what extent do you use mechanical
devices in teaching the following: (a) Arith-
metic. (b) Grammar. (c) Geography?
L. (a) What points are emphasized by 1.-THE
Arnolds" along the lines OF school morals?
(b) OF school organization? (c) OF methods in
instruction?
s. What is your estimate Of an ideal teacher
in character, education and discipline.
6. Name some devices that should be a part
of any primary school.
2. What one educational precept do we find
in the works OF Froebel, Bacon and Pestalozzi?
8. Solve: (a) Ii A apples are worth 1sc., what
is the value OF apples? (b) Reduce bu. 2 pix.
qt. to pts. (c) Add AZ and 3-5. ID Reduce
8 1-6 and Ill to improper fractions.
ORTHOGRAPHY.
1. Give the derivation of the following words:
Sequence. Geography, accident and etymology
2. Define collocation, centrlpetal, acidulous
phlegmatic and acoustics
3. Write all the diacritic marks an6 illus
trate their uses
4. Give an photographic analysis of the
words quiescent and comprehend.
s. Spell correctly: velosipeed, vassiilate,
simeter, ransid, reconsile, and minyonet.
6. What are homonyms, synonyms, orthoe-
ply, mutes and semi-vowels?
z. Name the diphthongs, diagrarhs and sub
stitutes most common In our alphabet.
oDefine the following words: Utensils, oasis,
vassalage, surgical, Uranus.
PHYSIOLOGY.
1. Define respiration, carbonicacid, oxygen,
nitrogen, micro-organism and expiration.
2. (a) How Is the atmosphere made impure?
(b) How is the air made impure by breath
ing?
(c) What the effect of impure air on the
health?
(d) Name some diseases aggravated by
impure air2
g. What are nerve cells, and nerve ibers?
4. Explain myopia, or short-sightedness by
| means Of drawings and illustrations.
S. Tell something Of absorption as it Is car
| ried on In the mouth, stomach, and intest-
ines.
6. Locate the liver. Tell something of It's
structure circulatory organs, and secretions
2. Describe humerus, giving form, covering
and articulation.
| 8. What are some of the most common disin-
fectants and anaesthetics?
| ARITHMETIC.
| 1. The area of an equilateral triangle 1.
1Os2h SO. tt. Find side.
| 2. Sold a COW at a gain of 10 per cent; haG
| she cost me $40 more I would have lost IL pei
| cent. Find cost.
3. A cubical vat contains kilos of distilled
water. Find side in common linear units.
4. What must be asked for horse COSTING
$41, so that after raising the price 30 per cen
| 1 may yet make Is PEE cent on the cost?
5. At what time between and O'Clock will
the minute hand be the distance from IL t,
the hour hand?
6. An agent soldwheat at per cent commits
sion, and invested the proceeds in cotton at
per cent commission, his entire commission
being $780, Find amount of wheat sale, invest
ment in cotton, and each commission?
z. The diagonal of cube Is thirty times tn
square root of 3; find the diameter of a spher
having the same volume.
8. The total duty on two different invoice
was s4O9.50. The rate of duty on the first wa
25 per cent, on the second 1S per cent. Ha
the rate of duty on the second also been Is pc
cent. the total duty would have been s49(
Each invoice required.
| GEOGRAPHY.
l. Define geography topography and ethnog
raphy.
T 2. Show by diagram the relative position
/ of the earth and sun today.
, 3. What benefits arise from the inclinatio
of the earth's axis?
4. Define centripetal and centrifugal forc'
S. Discuss the area, population, climate, pre-
( ductions and government of India.
t 6. Locate the races Of mankind, namin
them in order of civilization.
v 2. How are monsoons produced?
8. Why Is the Sahara q desert?
READING.
l. Give an outline Of the o. T. R. O. work Il
q this year.
y 2. What part of the work have you accon
plishedP
1 g. Outline the substance Of any one of IL
books in above course.
4. What value do you attach to the teachir
: of reading?
S. How do you make good readers?
AMERICAN HISTORY.
/, 1. State some of the causes that led the PEI
il ple of the several European nations to NAL