The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-10-14
GEOGRAPHY.

river is the natural highway from the
Altai plateau to the Pacific coast?
What part of our continent lies
nearest Asia? What are the usual
routes of ships from the continental
United States to Asia?
Where is the cotton belt of the
United States? What climatic condi.
tions are essential for raising cotton?
Where are our greatest cotton mills?
What reasons are there for their Joca.
ton?
What important cities are there IN
Puget sound? Explain somewhat fully
what factors have contributed to their
greatness.
Give some account of the varieties
Of climate in the different regions of
Africa.
PHYSIOLOGY.
Discuss the results of drinking too
little water; too much at certain times
Give brief description of ABSORB.
tion in the intestines.
What are the most important rea.
sons for refraining from using alco.
holic drinks?
Discuss the care Of the-eyes.
Explain the exact function of the
capillaries. Do the veins return all
the blood carried out by the arteries?
Explain.
Explain the course of common
cold, the nature of the disease, it's
treatment and the reasons for the ef.
fectiVeness of the treatment.
What are the organs of the nervous
system? What in general is the func.
tion of each?
What relation is there between the
work Of the skin and that of the kid.
neys? What would result if the skin
could not do it's work at all?
WRITING.
How do you keep pupils from ac-
quiring or retaining cramped styleR
Execute an exercise for practice on
small o; on capital o.
Write column of 10 numbers each
of four places.
Copy as specimen of your penman.
ship;
Judge, o you gods, how dearly Caesar
loved him!
This was the most unkindost cut Of
all;
For when the noble Caesar saw him
stab,
Ingratitude, more strong than traitors
arms,
Quite vanquished him; then burst his
mighty heart;
And in his mantle muffling up his
face,
Even at the base of Pompey's statue,
Which all the while ran blood, great
Caesar fell.
LITERATURE.
Give brief outline of "The Snow.
storm" Name author; give quotation.
What was general characteristic of
writings in colonies prior to 1850?
Who was the first American writer
of great detective stories? Name two
of these stories. What do you know
of his early life? OF the latter part of
his life? Iaae a-s-,
Did the author of Uncle Toms Cabin
write anything else of merit? Were
the characters of this story real or i'm.
aginary?
Who was our greatest writer of
short stories? Outline one story, nam
ing principal characters.
Who wrote, aye! Tear Her Tat
tered Ensign Down." etc? Name at
least another poem and two prose
works by the same author.
Name author of The Conquest of
Peru, The Conquest of Mexico, The
California and Oregon Trail, Little |
Boy Blue, America The Battle Hymn
of the Republic Paul Revere's Ride
and Little Orphan Annie.
Choose a subject and write a poem
on this of not less than eight lines.
GRAMMAR.
What are the three chief aims of
language teaching? How should the
time in the seventh and eighth grades
be divided between composition end
technical grammar?
Define participle. Illustrate all of
the different ways in which partciple
can be used.
What is the rule for the agreement
Of relative pronoun? Write three
sentences containing such pronouns
and point out the application of the
rule in EACH
Diagram: Upon receipt of five cents
in stamps l will send the booklet re.
quested in your letter which just re.
ceived.
Conjugate the verb lose in the sub.
iunctive and potential modes, passive
voice, present, past and future perfect
lenses.
Write a paragraph on the advan-
tages of correct use Of language for
securing a position. (The object Of
this is primarily to rate the appli-
cant's ability in composing para.
graph.)
Explain the construction (syntax) Of
the words in black in this passage:
Sleep, gentle winds. as he sleeps now,
My friend, the brother of my love;
My Arthur, whom | shall not see
Make a classification of all kinds of
ut should be arranged as
IN outline.)
Till all my widow'd race be run;
Dear as the mother to the son,
More than my brothers are to me.
ORTHOGRAPHY.
Spell and define: Sarcastic, precise.
'vaporate, semester, emergency, cata.
,lysm, majority, capillary, debilitate,
apparent.
Spell: Assassin, gymnastics, refrig.
'rator, catechism, paralyze, capsule,
,artridge, circumference, beginning,
Halloween, recollection, dis
ipline, emphasis, privilege, gauge
also gage), advantageous, Bordeaux.