Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1912-04-12

Text Book Of Vermont Needed in
SchooIs

in this column as taken from the Ben
nington Banner, we print the answers In
this issue. The following Is an excerpt
from the Banners editorial on the sub
iect: MANY lists of answers have been
filed, and all the questions have been an
swered correctly, but not by the same
person. The strange thing about 1t, too,
has been that the questions which we
deemed the easiest have been the ones
on which most have failed Only very
small percentage of the answers have
given correctly the names of the six larg-
est towns in Vermont. and not one has
named correctly the six largest towns,
the five largest rivers and the five largest
lakes in this state. Only fraction nave
been a BILE to name the half dozen largest
cities of New England and the errors
that have been made in trying to name
the leading natural products and the prin-
cpal manufactured products of Vermont,
| indicates that a text book on Vermont
is urgently needed in our Schools,
The twenty questions given were as
follows:
/. Name the members of President
Taft's cabinet.
2. Name the governors of the six New
England states.
| mont
4. Name six of the principal natural
products of Vermont.
5. Name six of the principal manufac-
| tured products of Vermont.
6. Name the five largest rivers in Yer
| mont
I. Name the five highest mountain
peaks in Vermont.
s. Name the five largest lakes in Yer
| mont.
8. Name the presidents of the United
| States who were born in New England.
10. Name the six largest cities in New
England.
| II. What was the Brook farm COM
| munity and who were some of the men
who made it famous?
| 12 What poet of national reputation
was Vermonter?
10. Name one of the greatest American
naturalists whose home was in New Eng
land
IA. What great New England thinker
| and writer is said to have failed of cleo
ton to an important college professorship
| because he dressed so poorly?
Is. Name five great American poets
| who were either born in Massachusetts
or lived much in that state
| 16. Who served longer in the L. S. Sem
| ate than any other man and how long
was his term of service?
| II. Name three of the greatest of Amer
lea editors who were natives of New
! England.
is. In what important feature of gov
eminent do all the New England states
differ from all the other states of the
nation?
10. From what country was derived the
New England common school system,
| which has come into use throughout the
! United States?
90 Who was the greatest American
| orator and of what state was he a ma
| tive?
Below are given the correct answers
to the series of questions
% Phander c. Knox, secretary of
| cta E-r-1r nj, MacVea of
the treasury; Harry L. Stimson, secre-
| tary of war: George Won l.. Meyer sec
rotary of the navy Walter l.. Fisher,
secretary of the interior; Charles Nagel
| secretary of commerce and labor; James
| Wilson, secretary of agriculture; George
| Wickersham, attorney general; Frank II.
| Hitchcock postmaster general.
| (2) Maine, Frederick w. Plaisted; New
| Hampshire, Robert p. Bass; Vermont,
John A. Mead; Massachusetts, Eugene
~ Foss: Rhode Island, Aram ]. Pothier;
Connecticut, Simeon E. Baldwin.
go Burlington, Rutland, Barre Ben
nington, st. Johnsbury, Montpelier.
() Granite, marble, slate, asbestos,
timber and hay.
CD Dairy products, maple products
scales, paper, cotton and wooden cloths
knit underwear.
co otter creek, Winooski, Missisquoi
Lamoille and White rivers.
| 90 Mt Mansfield, Killington peak
Cancels Hump, Mt. Lincoln. Jay peak
go Champlain, Memphrema COG, Bonn
oseen, Willoughby and Maidstone.
go John Adams, John Quincy Adams
Franklin Pierce, Chester A. Arthur.
| GO) Boston, Providence, Worcester
New Haven, Fall River Lowell
GD Brook farm was a communistic
settlement at West RoXbury, Mass. The
plan included both manual and intellect
ual labor, in which all were to share
while the proceeds were to be held ir
associated with the scheme were George
Ripley, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Bronson
Alcott, Theodore Parker, Emerson. Cur
tbs and Dana.
| G2) John G.. SAKE.
| 13 Louis j. Agassiz, ANSWERS givint
the name Of his son, Alexander Agassiz
were also counted as correctly
Q4 Henry d. Thoreau.
G5) Henry w. Longfellow, John G
Whittier, James R. Lowell, William Cul
len Bryant and oliver Wendell Holmes.
| ANSWERS were also counted correct in
Guiding the names of Ralph Waldo EN-
erson, William Lloyd Garrison and ]. G
| Holland)
16) Justin S. Morrill, of Vermont, wh'
served nearly 80 years.
| 40 Horace Greeley, Samuel Bowie!
and Charles A. Dana.
| 1S) In having the town system of gov
eminent including the town meeting.
G9) Holland, where the Pilgrims spen
some time before coming to America
(Our American school system was de
veloped in this country, but the germ o
the idea came from Holand.)
600 Daniel Webster who was nativ
Of New Hampshire