idation, conservation of energy, food, digestion, assimilation, boils, dropsy, vasomotor nerves, taking cold.

8. Write briefly of stimulants and narcotics.

ORTHOGRAPHY.

I. Write five words, and state what each is derived from.

2. Write a six-line paragraph, as for publication; make six different kinds of mistakes, and correct the same without re-writing the article-same as if you were proofreading.

3. Write in full English: Viz., i. e., et seq., et al., Sc., q. e. d., MSS., LL.D., e. g.

4. Use the hyphen, the period, and the apostrophe for three purposes each.

5. Use five words, pointing out and defining five prefixes; do same for five affixes.

6. Give three rules for spelling. 7. Write five words, using the accent on as many different syllables.

8. Analyze controversial and parse same orthographically.

9. Use both a consonant and vowel diagraph, and trigraph.

10. Spell: Stomach, Stomach, license, angkor, pangshang, mammoth, crystallize, codicile, Niagara, precedence.

RHETORIC.

1. What is a mixed metaphor? Give an example.

2. What is meant by the "unities of the drama?"

3. What governs the length of the poetic foot in English verse? 4. How does a figure of syntax differ from a figure in rhetoric? 5. What is meant by purity of diction? What is a literary masterpiece?

6. Give the difference between wit and humor. Give examples to illustrate the distinction.

7. What are the principal points necessary to sublimity in writing?

PHYSICS.

I. If the sun is 60° above the horizon, what angle will a line drawn from the eye to the sun's image in the water make with the surface of the water?

2. Fnd the value of the force of gravitation from the law of the pendulum.

3. Explain the underlying principle of a dynamo.

4. Explain the index of refraction. What is the index of refraction for the extraordinary ray in Iceland spar, when it makes an angle of 54° with the principal axis of the prism.

5. A luminous point is placed at a distance of 3 feet in front of a concave mirror of 1 foot radius; find the distance of the focus of the reflected rays.

6. Give Newton's three laws of motion.

7. Explain by a figure the optical center of a lens. What is meant by spherical aberration?

8. An elastic ball falls from a

angles that have their face angles respectively equal are equal or sup plementary.

6. Upon a given line, describe a segment of a circle such that any angle inscribed in it shall equal a given angle.

POLITICAL ECONOMY.

1. Name some recognized authorities on economics.

2. Define exchange, balance of trade, legal tender, monopoly and syndicate.

3. What are strikes? Is the principle upon which they rest sound? Why?

4. What is the relation of Political Economy to other sciences?

5. Distinguish between value and utility.

6. What determines the value of money?

What is seigniorage?

7. What are the effects of an inflated currency?

8. From what sources may the revenue of the state be derived?

9. What effect will the organization of "trusts" have upon the commercial interests of the country? ·

3. What planets can be in inferior conjunction? Account for the dark globe that fills the slender crescent of the new moon.

4. Give Kepler's laws. How far can you see?

5. Account for meteors and

comets.

6. Give dimensions of the earth, counting the air as part of it. What would reduce the earth to a gaseous form?

7. What would two barometers register-one ten miles above the equator and the other the same distance above either pole?

8. Define azimuth, parallax, upward, downward, aphelion, perigee, nadir.

9. Name the early astronomers. IO. Write at some length concerning some one astronomer.

TRIGONOMETRY.

I. How are involution and evolution of logarithms performed?

2. Demonstrate the correctness of the arithmetical rule for finding the area of a triangle when the three sides are given.

3. How can the distance between two inaccessible objects be determined?

4. In a right-angled spherical triangle ABC, given AC 61° 3′ 22′′ and the angle A 49° 28′ 12′′, to find the other parts.

5. Reduce to its simplest form. Cos2B+-sin'B cos 24-sin2A cos2B.

6. Two angles of a triangle are

3. What were the effects of the crusade upon the civilization of Europe? (a) For good? (b) For evil?

4. Name five of the most decisive battles of modern times, and give reasons for your answers in each instance.

5. With what great event in English history is the name Runnymede associated? Give a brief account of this event.

6. Give the principal features of the Reform Bill of 1832. Of 1867. Of 1884.

7. Waterloo-What? Why? Effects?

When?

8. Give the leading facts concerning the growth of the British Empire in the East.

9. Give a brief account of the French Revolution.

CIVIL GOVERNMENT.

1. Which should be subordinate; the military or the civil power? Why? Who can declare war? Have we ever had war without that power declaring it? If so, when?

2. Speak briefly of the origin of political parties. Name times, if any, when we have had but one political party. Why?

3. Write at some length concerning the U. S. Courts. Are they in harmony with democracy? Why?

4. Compare our system of government with that of Great Britain. How are our new possessions governed?

5. How is the District of Columbia governed? How has the relation of our states to the Nation changed within the past hundred years?

6. State our provision for Presidential succession. Show whether our Constitution is an amendment to the Articles of Confederation or a new Constitution.

7. Contrast or compare Hamilton and Jefferson. What right has the state to levy taxes?

8. Define letters of Marque and Reprisal, embargo, impressment, proclamation, nullification, bill of rights, militia, outlaw, government, municipal ownership, referendum.

9. Why is the Probate Judge the most powerful factor in our system of public schools (Ohio)? Can a R. R. Company rightfully tear my house down and build the

I. Give the sources and uses of CO2, (a) in mortar used in bricklaying; (b) in bread making; (c) in soda water.

2. What materials enter into the composition of (a) common window glass; (b) steel, brass, soft solder, German silver?

3. Explain two processes, one physical and the other chemical, by means of which charcoal acts as a disinfectant.

4. Prove by experiment that gases unite in their nascent state. Write all reactions. .

5. Explain the luminosity of a. flame.

6. What is meant by the heat of neutralization? Avidity of acids? 7. What are the halogens? Give the properties of each.

8. What are the constituents of marble? Illustrate chemical and mechanical mixtures, using marble.

THE SCIENCE OF EDUCATION.

1. Define instruction, teaching, training.

2. What is concentration? State the different views and name the leading writers of each school.

3. Upon what sciences does the science of education rest? Distin