The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-05-21

These examinations have been held
annually but will cease this year ow-
ing to other provisions made by the
school code.
5oxwelI-Patterson Examination May
16, 1914, Forenoon.
ARITHMETIC.
l. Find the proceeds of note by
bank discount, the face of which is
SS5, the time 80 days, and the rate 10.
2. A car has 100000 lbs. capacity.
How many bushels of wheat can it
carry?
3. At SITS per ton how many yards
of rails weighing 80 Id. to the yd. can
be bought for $1263SO?
4. A school house is 300 rods from
boys home. How many miles would
he walk going to school in the morn
ing and returning home in the evening
for school month?
5. A grocer buys tea at soc per lb.
less a discount of SO. He sells it at
7Oc per Id. What per cent of profit
does he make?
6. If Az yds. of silk cost $3.50 what
would 61a yds. cost?
Z. If A has 5000 and b has $500 in
vested in business how shcGld they
divide a profit of $1SO6?
8. A train runs 40 miles per hour
Find it's speed in yards per minute.
Afternoon Examination.
GEOGRAPHY.
1. Name seaports on the east coast
of Asia.
2. What countries besides the Uni
ted States are great producers of cot
ton? Of steel?
3. What grand divisions border on
the Atlantic Ocean? The Indian
Ocean? The Arctic Ocean?
4. Name two of the most important
OF Georgia. OF Massachusetts. OF
| Michigan.
s. Name all of the counties that
touch your county. Name the five
largest cities of Ohio. What is the
population of the largest?
6. Name republics in the world.
Name monarchies. What is an en-
pire?
7. In what country or state is the
greater part Of each of the following
rivers: Amazon, Thames, Nile, Indus,
Danube, Wabash, st. Lawrence, Sacra-
mento, Penobscot, Loire?
s. Locate the following: Andes
Mountains, Greece, Maumee River,
| Yucatan, Strait of Gibraltar, Wheeling,
Cascade Mountains, Mt Washington,
Cape of Good Hope, Bay of Bengal.
WRITING.
Copy the following selection as a
specimen of your best penmanship:
Out of the ancient east he comes,
The radiant hunter clad in stars;
Nor noise of war, nor beat of drums
The deep supernal stiffness mars.
Above the shadow of his eyes
A starry helmet circling lies
M. E. Buhler.
READING.
The examination in reading will be
conducted by the examiners.
PHYSIOLOGY.
l. How many and what compart-
ments has the heart? What is the
heart beat?
2. Describe the spinal cord.
3. What is the use of the perspira-
ton?
4. Why should food be chewed thor
oughly? Why should the hands be
clean when one is eating? Why is
bread and butter good food?
s. What is the normal temperature
of the body? What is the normal rate
of pulse? Why do the veins appear
blue?
6. What is the use of the liver?
7. Name in order the parts of the
alimentary canal.
8. Give the names of the following
bones: of the upper arm, of the spine,
of the ankle, of the fingers, of the hip.
Give the names and tell the functions
of three large or important muscles.
HISTORY.
l. Name three Spanish and three
English explorers of America.
2. Name the five presidents follow
ing Lincoln. Give a brief biography
of one of them.
3. State two occasions which
brought Henry Clay into prominence.
For what was Alexander Hamilton
uOLcu! Syl 10 lClu
4. State the location and name the
generals in the following battles (a)
| Yorktown; (b) Antietam.
| 5. Give the substance of the thir-
teenth amendment to the constitu-
ton.
6. Who were the two great com
manders of the United States armies
in the war with Mexico? What terri.
tory was ceded to the United States
as a result of that war?
| 7. What is the meaning of (a) The
Emancipation Proclamation? (b) The
Boston Tea Party? (c) "Fifty-four
forty or fight? (d) Notification? (e)
Civil Service Reform?
GRAMMAR.
1. Write complex sentence. Write
compound sentence.
2. Write a sentence containing two
relative pronouns, two personal pro-
nouns and possessive pronoun. State
what kind of pronoun each one used is.
s.
"And on that morning, through the
grass
And by the steaming rills,
We travelled merrily, to pass
A day among the hills"
In the above quotation (a) What
does ION that morning" modify? ~
What does day" modify? (c) Parse
Ito pass
4. Give synopsis of the verb. "feel'
in the active voice, indicative mode,
first person, plural.
5. What is participle? What kinds
of participles are there?