Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-03-20

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 decaitfully imbecility
 descendant inconceivable
 eccentric inconvenience
 eyanescent inefficient
 tier,eless irresistible
 Of the class of 1S46 only l5 of the S5 pupils stood as high as 70 per cent, while B of our ninth grade pupils had 70 per cent or over. The conlpar- ison of the old papers shows that the 3l pupils who misspelled .'baptism" spelled il in 15 different ways and that ''hei,css" was written in a.2 dif- ferent ways.
 Below are the problems in arithme- tie:
 1--Add together the following nln- bers: Three thousand nine. twenty nine. one. three hundred one. sixty. one, sixteen. seven hundred two nine thousand. nineteen and q half. one and . half.
 2-Multiply 1O0OS by 5000,
 3.-In a town five miles wide and six miles long. how many acres?
 4-IIow many steps of two and n half feet each will Il person take in walking enc mile!
 .-What is one.thirl of 1IJ 1-2.
 GA boy bought three dozen of oranges for 31 1-2 cents and sold them for t-2 cents apiece: what would he gain if he had sold them for , l2 cents apiece.
 There is a certain number one third of which exceeds one-fourth of 1t by two: what is the number?
 S--Wbat is the simple interest of S1.2O0 for F years. II months. and o9 days
 Principal Riley of Springfield who examined the lSi6 papers says that one e-fourth of the examples were pass. cd over as too difficult to attack, and the incorrect answers were so far from the mark as to overwhelm one with the conviction that the children were entirely lacking in power to mentally approximate the results" :" Answers to the fifth example varied from ! 1-3 to Gs12. The answer to the cighth example. which was correctly worked by only i3 pupils. varicd from 52 1-2c to 1lU3s9SOOO.
 Since tho questions In geography concerned only inc state of Massa- rhusetts they were not given In our zcbools but some of the results from he old papers are very interesting. Dne-third of the class could not naiac
 single county fin Massachusetts, yhjle two pupils wrote Worcester. Providence. Lowell and IIartfori as he only counties ther could r,mcin. ,cr Twenfy-threc pupils failed to 1.-Two any answer to tho question. What is inc largest river in the astern part of Massachusetts,; One uurtb af the class wrote tho Conncc. tcut and among other answers wers he st Lawrence. Hudson. Mississip- and FaII River.
 Fairness of These Tests.
 Principal Riley states that tho
 .hools of Springfield in isI6 wers |eperaIIs regarded as among the Scry
 rrt in New England and had been ,e first in Massachusetts to havs killed supervision. which had heci
 exis,encc six years prior to ib,'ss ests A definite course of study va, operation and the work in aritbne' q geography and spelling va, roueiv emphasizel. Again he state. ,as English was spoken in all cf th' pmes that there were fewer stusiie. that more time could I,e given t' .rb and that the avcraee age "f il'' mil was higher than that Of ih' r<ent ninth grade.
 Notwithstanding these advsntagei
 e tests show the superiority of tls' r.ieru schools Ipofh tn Spring1islt Sd i'm Waterbury in surh sOmnoI |sprbrS as spelling and aTithTaetir.
 I'm this connection l rrcsIl a Per hal exrericnce of my own soI' srs ago. \ urmher of flse s<isrn
 srJ .f another city stated that L' s that the wvrk in arithmetic Ssi nearly a. well done s~ wissa h' < a Iny- After some di~ruSsios b
 s~rpfe-I fs vi<if the srboois and S- As what was I-einx accomplished n study. We spent reseral dsyI