The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1911-07-13
Arithmetic.

extends back from the street 100 feet
What is 1t worth at $500 per front foot,
counting the front feet that touch the
street.
What is due March 12, 1912, on a note
Of $3.50, drawing per cent interest, dated
January !, 1910, with the following en-
$50; May 6, 1911; SIS; January IL, 1912;
A square farm contains 100 acres; what
will 1t cost to fence II at $500 per rod?
If a customer receives discounts of 20,
10 and per cent from a list price of $500
on piano, what does he pay for the
| piano?
What principal at per cent will gain
$12O.7O in 3 yr 6 mo. Is da.?
What is a ratio? Write one. What is
proportion? Write one. A pupil counts
his fingers in adding; what Is wrong?
Which is the better investment-$4,75 ,752
/ in real estate mortgage at per cent
or per cent r. r. bonds at 110, broker
age * per cent, the mortgage being tax
ed IL per annum?
Name one idea that should be developed
in each of the first four years of teach
ing music in the public schools. Describe
| briefly how you develop one of these.
What is your method of bringing up
child that is backward in music? One
who Is careless. ana yet can learn music
easily?
Write the ascending scale of D minor
| in Harmonic and Melodic form.
Name four of the masters in music and
| tell Of what nation each was native.
Name four authors Of vocal music and
| name a selection of each.
Explain each figure Of the meter sig
/ nature fully as to a class.
Write the relative and absolute pitch
What are bars? A time signature?
Triple time? A tie? Accent? A chord?
How much individual singing do you
have your pupils do? Why
| What IL meant nv the SPiance of muSic2
| The art of music. By musical idea?
What is the cause Of faulty intOnation?
How correct it? What are monotones?
Drawing.
Outline course in drawing for high
school.
What are the educational advantages Of
Constitutional work? OF clay modelling?
How does drawing Intensity thought
getting and thought expression? OF what
value is it in nature study?
Define unit, illumination, Illustration
| perspective, composition.
| What is your opinion Of copy work as
means of expression? Is 1t advisable as
reliable means of teaching drawing?
| Why, or why not?
How do you teach map drawing? What
| are the chief aims in such work?
Draw group of three or more kinds OF
| fruit
in introducing drawing into rural schools
| that have never had drawing? How do
you get your instructions carried out?
| Make a drawing OF group OF objects
set for you by the examiners.
| Physical Geography.
What study Of the birds do you make in
connection with this subject? How Is
| this a profitable study in connection with
that of fruits? What are some of the
| birds that you may study very early In
the spring? Later in the summer?
Describe the divisions into which the
| soils are divided.
Write about the wind as (a) CONNER
cial agent, (b) dislntegrating agent, (c)
very important factor in the weather.
GIVE the results of the great ice sheets
in the northern United States.
| What is a cyclonic storm? How does
| tornado differ from a cyclone?
Mention the important facts concern
ing giaciation, Concerning icebergs.
What are the physical elements of a
good road? What are some of the diff
culties to be overcome in road building?
Define erosion and give the important
agencies in erosion.
What use of note book do you make in
| teaching this study? How do you man
age the use of such?
Discuss hot springs and geysers. How
are these and the volcanoes related?
| GEOMETRY.
lnscribe a circle in given triangle,
| Prove: Two triangles which have their
| sides parallel each to each, or perpendic-
| ular each to each, are similar.
lnscribe square in a given quadrant.
Prove: The volume of triangular pyr-
Of oG it's Base ean ana its its altitude altitude. ' pUD'
Prove: The line joining the middle
| points of the diagonals of trapezoid is
equal to half the difference of the bases.
| Erect perpendicular to a plane at any
given point in the plane.
| Prove that the intersection of two
planes is straight line.
| Prove: Any section Of a cylinder paral-
| lei to the base is equal to the base.
| RheforIc
Write the first paragraph of an essay
upon the subject, Forest Conservation
and the Value of Trees"
Give two rules for the colon and four
| for the comma.
| What are some Of the requisites OF a
| good figure of speech?
Upon what quality of words does clear
ness depend? Upon what does force de-
pend?
What relation does rhetoric bear to
grammar? To literature? Distinguish
between rhetoric and grammar
In rhetoric, what constitutes sublimity?
Beauty? Wit? Humor?
Mention four elements of strength in
prose composition. How produce each
of these?
Explain the difference between the an
alytic and the synthetic methods in COM
position.
| Physics.
Name and define five properties OF
matter.
| What is the difference between inertia
and momentum? Between mass and
| weight?
| Draw and explain the siphon.
Draw and explain the still
| Define sound, music, refraction, crit
ical angle work and focal length of a
convex lens.
How does the dynamo produce an cleo
trical current?
Give the theory Of heat.
ihn n a orr am n
scope.
How may it be shown that air has
weight? That it has elasticity? That 1t
has compressibility?
Geography.
What are the chief yocations of South
ern Europe? How do you account for
these predominating there?
Write of the Nile valley, its people,
products, ruins, climate, etc
Bound California; bound Maine. Com
pare these two states In any three points
| Name the countries Of the world that
produce cotton; name the states OF the
United States in the cotton belt. Name
the wheat producing countries OF the
world name the states of the United
States in the wheat belt.
| What is the width of each zone? VIVA,
4 determines their limits? What are the
vegetable products OF each zone?
Trace a vessels route from Baltimore
to Manila via Suez canal. What would
likely be the cargo each way? What cit
les might you touch at on the way?
Sketch a map of western North and
South America, showing some cities,
rivers and any other objects of special
interest in each. What products might
be exchanged between the ports of each!
Write good paragraph on one OF the
following topics: Ancient and Modern
China" Reciprocity" The Future OF
/ Africa, f" ''The Country of To-day that is
Best Governed, and Why" or How the
world us clothed.