of the lower limbs. 7. Define vitreous humor, villus, varicose veins, trichinae, trachea, tissue, synovia, sternum, ileum and chyle. 8. Show the importance of proper ventilation in a school room. How ventilate a school room properly? SCIENTIFIC TEMPERANCE. 1. State the substance of the Ohio law concerning teaching the effects of narcotics in the public schools; in teachers' institutes. 2. Define stimulant, narcotic, and delirium tremens. 3. Do you approve of the use of charts to show the effects of alcohol on the various organs of the body? Why? 4. Is alcohol a food? A poison? 5. What is your method of teaching this subject? 6. Discuss briefly the effects of the use of alcoholic drinks and cigarettes upon character. 7. What lessons should we draw from the attitude of railroads towards the use of alcoholic drinks by their employes? ZOOLOGY. 1. Name two American and three European zoologists with the work upon which the fame of each rests. 2. Define zoology and name its related sciences. 3. Define structural and comparative zoology. 4. Define series, subkingdom, class, order, family, genus, species, individual. 5. Under what four heads may all essential manifestations of animal life be classed? 6. Classify: man, cow, whale, opossum and sponge. 7. Name a marsupial found in Ohio. MUSIC. 1. Why should music be a part of What the public school curriculum? importance attaches to the kind of songs taught? 2. Why teach rote songs? How do you teach them? How long do you continue their use? What is a monotone? How should they be treated? 4. Should pupils be taught to sing the names of the letters on the staff? Why? 5. Write the chromatic scale in the key of B flat. 6. Give your method of procedure in the first primary grade. 7-10. Will be given orally. LOGIC. 1. Write in proper form a syllogism of which the following is the conclusion: This man is trustworthy. 2. State what is meant by reasoning by analogy and give an illustration. Show why this kind of reasoning is not always valid. 3. State the rules for correct definition. Give examples of violations of these rules. 4. What is a fallacy? Write a list of the most important formal fallacies. 5. Define and illustrate the laws of identity, contradiction, excluded middle and sufficient reason. BOOK-KEEPING. 4. 1. Define book-keeping, day-book, cash-book, journal and ledger. 2. Show the difference between the single and double entry book-keeping. 3. Write a statement, a receipt, a promissory note and a time draft. Define invoice, acceptance and bill of lading. 5. Rule sheets for a complete set of double entry books. 6. Railroad bonds bought at 87 bearing 7% interest yield what per cent. income to the purchaser? 7. Require the cost of a 60-day draft for $3,000, exchange being 1% premium and interest 6 per cent. UNITED STATES HISTORY. 1. What important voyages and discoveries were made by the Northmen before Columbus? When? 2. What were the trade relations between Europe and Asia before the days of Columbus? 3. Name two famous geographers whose work influenced Columbus and led to much valuable knowledge. 4. Who was Mercator? What is "Mercator's Projection"? Illustrate with drawing. 5. Name points of difference in construction between the ocean vessels of Columbus and those of to-day. 6. What was the great work of Raleigh? When? Where? 7. Who was Virginia Dare? Andrew Rowen? John Hay? Caesar Rodney? John Singleton Copley? 8. Give a detailed account of the great work of George Rogers Clark. 9. Trace the wonderful journey of Lewis and Clarke in the discovery of the "Oregon Country." 10. Name the presidents who have met a tragic death, with a short account of the circumstances of each death. In what way have these tragic events affected history? 11. Give a short review of the world's great events of the past year. 12. Name the date of the admission of Ohio into the Union; Columbus as capital of the state; the World's Fair at Chicago: "The Monroe Doctrine"; death of Alexander Hamilton; the great debate between Webster and Hayne; inauguration of the next president of the United States; the administration of President Jefferson; the purchase of Alaska and the death of General Custer. What great Indian chief of the old "school" is still living? Name two famous Indian schools of to-day. GEOMETRY. 1. Demonstrate: In the triangle C A B the bisector of the angle C makes with the perpendicular from C to A B an angle equal to half the difference of the angles A and B. 2. Demonstrate: The perimeter of an inscribed equilateral triangle is equal to half the perimeter of the circumscribed equilateral triangle. 3. In a triangle A B ̊C, draw DE parallel to the base B C, cutting the sides of the triangle in D and E, so that D E shall equal D B+E C. 4. Demonstrate: If two circles touch each other, their common tangent is a mean proportional between their diameters. 5. Demonstrate: In an inscribed quadrilateral, the product of the diagonals is equal to the sum of the products of the opposite sides. 6. Demonstrate: The area of an inscribed regular octagon is equal to that of a rectangle whose sides are equal to the sides of the inscribed and the circumscribed squares. 7. Two pyramids standing on the same plane are 14 feet high. The first has for a base a square measuring 9 feet on a side; the second a hexagon measuring 7 feet on a side. Find the areas of the sections made by a plane parallel to their bases and 6 feet from their vertices. 8. In each of two right circular cylinders the diameter is equal to the height. The volume of one is 34 that of the other. What is the ratio of their heights? HISTORY OF EDUCATION. 1. Discuss the caste system of Egypt. What were the essentials of the Egyptian system of education? 2. Give a brief account of the history of Mohammedanism, including their plan of education. What was the general condition of education during the middle ages? Reasons. 3. A briet account of Luther's pedagogy. 4. Name the two great educational works of Comenius, and give the essentials of his teaching. 5. What did Milton contribute to educational progress and scholarship? Write a short personal sketch of Pestalozzi. Give an account of his author 6. shin. Name his great principles and discuss his influence. 7. In what way has Froebel supplemented the principles of Pestalozzi? 8. Name six prominent principles that stand forth in Christ's work as a teacher. What is the famous saying of Rousseau in regard to Christ? 9. When and where were the first Christian schools established? What were the so-called seven liberal arts of the Benedictines? Give a short account of the great educational work of the Benedictines, naming the great teachers which their system produced. 10. What are the features to be commended in the present Ohio school code? What changes and amendments would you suggest in the school laws of Ohio? POLITICAL ECONOMY. 1. Define production and name the factors and conditions of successful production. 2. How are wages determined? What are the advantages of profit-sharing? 3. Name the economic institutions that grew out of trades and commerce. Show how one of them originated. 4. Show how the government in the United States regulates competition. 5. State the advantages and disadvantages of the division of labor. 6. Define money. State the evils of inflation; of contraction. What is bimetallism? 7. Define socialsim, anarchism and tax. How do the socialists account for wealth? 8. Classify publice revenue. What is the justification of taxation? 9. What is the basis of rent? Define capital and tell how capital arises. SCIENCE OF EDUCATION. 1. Name Dr. White's "Trinity of Principles." Also his "Trinity of Ends." 2. What is the scientific value to the teacher of "Child Study"? What writer is the leader on the subject of "Child Study"? How may this subject be overdone by the teacher? 3. How may you test your process? Is it necessary to test your work, however successful you may think it to be? 4. Give two or three strong illustrations of the way in which the skillful teacher may make knowledge, already known, clearer. How did Pestalozzi render his teaching so forceful and clear to the pupil? 5. To what extent does learness of view enter into the work of the skillful, successful teacher? Do you believe a subject can be taught as well without as with a text? Examples. 6. Why should the question fit the pupil? Write a question fitted for the Senior class of your High School, and the same question fitted, or worded, for a boy in the fifth year. 7. Give the arguments in favor of and against semi-annual promotions. What is your preference in the matter? What do you understand by the so-called "busy work" so often used by teachers in primary grades? Is it worthy? 8. What plans do you employ to correct errors in speaking, and in writing? At what age do you begin to teach pupils the accurate use of language? Name the best methods in teaching the alphabet. 9. What text have you read upon the subject of Science of Education? What is the socalled "Spiral Theory"?, How is power developed by activity? 10. Is it possible for a pupil to know a statement, and not know the fact stated? Illustrate clearly. What is the teacher's duty in such a case? 11. Name the powers of the mind. Write a good definition of memory. Discuss imagination as a factor in education, both on the part of the pupil and the teacher. GENERAL HISTORY. 1. Into what periods is this subject usually divided? What is your preference in this matter? Make your own division of the subject, stating the ground covered by each, with reasons. 2. Discuss Egyptian art. Greek art. Roman art. 3. Name the three great philosophers of Greece, giving in brief an outline of the philosophical teachings of any one of them. 4. Describe Grecian styles of architecture. What is the most precious legacy left us by the Greeks? 5. Brief account of the first Christian emperor of Rome. 6. Discuss the rise of the papal power in Europe. 7. Name Creasey's fifteen decisive battles of the world. Name the greatest land and the greatest naval battle of the Russo-Japanese war. 8. The feudal system-its value, and its legacy to the 20th century. 9. Name the Tudors. The Stuarts. The Romanoffs. What English monarch was driven from his throne? What king of Europe has just lost half his domain? 10. What authorities have you read on general history? What ones do you recommend? What is the tendency, toward the empire. or the commonwealth? Name a great authority in architecture, painting, music, oratory and the drama. THEORY AND PRACTICE. 6. 1. Explain the inductive method of teaching, and show how it should be applied in teaching primary geography, 2. Distinguish between training and instruction. Which is the more important in the training for life? 3. Name the most helpful book on teaching which you have read, and state how it helped you. 4. Give two reasons why much attention should be given to the formation of habit. 5. Give two objections to keeping pupils after school to learn poorly prepared lessons. What is the place of compulsion in school discipline? 7. State five provisions of the compulsory attendance law. 8. "No impression without expression." Show that expression is a necessary part of school work, and name the forms that it may take. 9. Define departmental teaching. Explain the leading features of the "Batavia system.” 10. Name three prominent educators connected with the development of the common schools in the United States, and give a summary of the work of each. BOTANY. 1. Name and define the parts of a typical flower. 2. What is the origin of weeds? How do plants protect themselves? 3. Name and describe three flowerless plants. 4. Define venation, name the different kinds of venation and show the relation of venation to the shape of leaves. 5. Explain the importance of vernation. What are dormant buds and adventitious buds? 6. Describe the process of circulation and respiration in plants. 7. Explain the fertilization of a flower; of a fern. 8. Name four plants which have been of most use to man. Tell the original home of each and the species, genus and order of each. 9. Make a drawing of a crosssection of the trunk of a tree, name the parts and state the function of each PHYSICS. 1. Name the sources of heat and state the laws of radiation of heat. Define conduction and convection. 2. Define microphone, dynamo, ohm and ampere. Make drawings and explain wireless telegraphy. State the theory of electricity. 3. Define diatonic scale. State the laws of the vibration of strings. Show the difference between the movable pulley and the fixed pulley in construction and power. 4. Distinguish clearly the terms, density, volume, mass, and weight. State the properties of light. Give the theory of light. 5. State the laws of falling bodies. A body is thrown upwards with a velocity of 96 feet per second; how long will it ascend? How far will it go upward? GEOGRAPHY. 1. Define standard time. When it is 12 o'clock noon by standard time in New York City, what is the time by standard time in (a) St. Louis, (b) San Francisco? 2. Give the location of each of the following cities in Ohio: Akron, Delaware, Findlay, Zanesville, Hamilton. State an important fact concerning each city mentioned. 3. What cultivated plants and domesticated animals has North America supplied? 4. Name three important east and west railway lines in Ohio, and trace each through the state. 5. Describe each of the following: Dardanelles, Giant's Causeway, St. Gothard Tunnel. 6. Name the Latin countries of Europe. Why are they so called? What is the prevailing religion in them? Give the capital of each. 7. Describe Norway, touching on (a) resources, (b) cities, (c) government. 8. Make a sketch map of European Russia, with principal rivers and cities, and locate Lapland, Finland and Poland. 9. Tell how to read a weather map. 10. Name two standard works on methods of teaching geography. PSYCHOLOGY. 1. State what is meant by the law of habit. Discuss the psychological importance of habit and give directions to be observed in forming a habit. 2. Define judgment and show how it differs from reasoning. Mention three essentials to an accurate judgment. 3. As you are walking along the street you notice that it is raining and raise your umbrella; give the physiologic and the psychologic process involved. 4. Define each of the following: Association of ideas, imagination, abstraction, unconscious cerebration, apperception. 5. Explain psychologically (a) how we are able to estimate distance by means of sight, (b) why we are able to walk without being conscious of the act. 6. Mention studies that are especially adapted to the development of (a) the feelings, (b) the imagination, (c) judgment. 7. Outline a train of associated ideas suggested to you by the word storm, and explain the order of these ideas by reference to the laws of association. Show why this particular train of ideas is suggested to you rather than any other. 8. State specifically the value of a knowledge of psychology to the teacher. RHETORIC. 1. Write original sentences illustrating the following: Periodic sentence, balanced sentence, alliteration, metonymy. 2. Define iambric tetrameter, dactylic hexameter. Write and scan a line of poetry illustrating each. 3. Give the climax of a play of Shakespeare and explain in detail why you consider this the climax. 4. Define diction. Name and define the most important qualities of good diction. 5. How are sentences classified rhetorically? What rule should govern in the use of the different kinds of sentences? 6. State the rhetorical defect each of the following sentences: (a) He found some apples on the tree which he ate. (b) On all sides and in every direction we were completely surrounded by the woods. (c) The voyage of life is an isthmus between two eternities. 7. Define unity and show how it may be secured in (a) the sentence, (b) the paragraph, (c) the essay. 8. State the difference between description and narration. Mention some ways in which narration is aided by description. ENGLISH GRAMMAR. 1. Define inflection. Name the parts of speech inflected and show how they are inflected. 2. Name and distinguish the classes of adverbs. 3. Define idiom. Give three examples of clearly idiomatic English. 4. Define mode. Name the modes and illustrate in sentences. What mode has been omitted from the later grammar and why? 5. Analyze the following: A chill no coat, however stout, The coming of the snow-storm told. 6. Explain and illustrate the different uses of what and that. 7. What are verbals? Name the verbals and tell their uses. 8. How are words classified according to their formations? Define each class. Give a list of the principal English suffixes in forming abstract nouns; in forming diminutives. 52 1. Name five common rocks and give their composition. 2. Tell all you can 3. Explain of the ice age in Ohio. 4. volcanoes and caves. How have plants helped in the formation of the surface of the earth? 5. Define mineral. Name the most valuable mineral products of Ohio and tell in what counties they are found. 6. Account for the difference in the surface of northwestern Ohio and southeastern Ohio. 7. Classify rocks as to their origin and give examples. 8. State the theories Name concerning the origin of coal. the different kinds of coal and explain the cause of the difference. ASTRONOMY. 1. Distinguish between the sidereal day and the solar day. Explain what is meant by the equation of time. 2. Describe a method by which an observer 3. Commay find his latitude at sea. pare the Ptolemaic and the Copernican 4. Give the systems of astronomy. location of the zodiac and mention in order its signs. 5. State the cause of twilight. Explain why twilight toward the poles lasts longer than twilight at the equator. 6. Define parallax. Distinguish between horizontal parallax and annual parallax. 7. Explain by the aid of a diagram the phenomenon of the 8. harvest moon. Mention the conditions necessary for a total eclipse of the moon. 9. Describe a scientific method of determining the physical constitution of a star. 10. Describe the construction and explain the operation of the sextant. LITERATURE. 1. Alexander Pope. Life, works, influence. 2. Shakespeare's non-dramatic poems. His great tragedies. Where is What two great Shakespeare buried? one English actors are buried in Westminster Abbey? 3. Name the great English historians of the 19th century. May the works of a historian be regarded as litHis erature? 4. Robert Browning. greatest works, and an analysis of any 5. of them. Oliver Wendell Holmes. A sketch. Quote "The Chambered Nautilus," and show how you would teach it to a class in literature. 6. Name the seven greatest American poets. Give a brief sketch of your favorite American poet. 7. What important political office did John Milton hold? With what credit to himself did he perform the duties of that office? Name his four greatest shorter poems. Define literature. Poetry. Classify prose. Classify poetry. To which class does Goldsmith's "Deserted Village" belong? "Rock of Ages"? What is the Of a essential element of a lyric? drama? 9. What is meant by unity in the drama? What is meant by style? Name the qualities of style. Examples of each quality. What may be said of Irving's style? What is his greatest work? What is Kipling's style? wrote on 8. 10. the "The Who Cricket Hearth"? "The Cotter's Saturday Night"? "The Widow and her Son"? "The Gold-Bug"? "Song of the Chattahoochee"? "Rock of Ages"? "The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table"? Quote Shakespeare. Burns, Longfellow and Kipling. |