High School Department 174TH EXAMINATION Friday, June 20, 1902-1.15 to 2.15 p. m., only The following numbered words are to be written by each candidate. The examiner should distinctly and properly pronounce each word (with its number prefixed), allowing sufficient time for writing it before the next word is pronounced. Papers entitled to 75 or more credits will be accepted. The (1) movement (2) directed (3) toward the (4) beautifying of (5) public schoolhouses, which is (6) becoming more and more (7) marked, is one of the most (8) important that has taken place in (9) connection with the (1o) cause of (11) education in (12) America. The (13) architectural beauty and (14) dignity of (15) certain schoolbuildings (16) erected not (17) only in the larger (18) cities but even in the small (19) townships, have (20) recently been (21) noticeable. Where (22) nothing has yet been done (23) tending to (24) improve upon the old time schoolhouse, it is at (25) least (26) freely (27) admitted in (28) principle that a school should be outwardly (29) acceptable to the eye. It is also admitted that it should, (30) whenever (31) possible, be (32) inwardly (33) adorned, with (34) reproductions-(35) casts, (36) engravings, fine (37) photographs—of beautiful things: the masterpieces of architecture, (38) painting, (39) sculpture. The (40) significance of all this lies in the (41) recognition it (42) implies of a fact that (43) hitherto has (44) received little or no (45) practical (46) acknowledgment in our American life. We have always acted as if we (47) assumed that the (48) sense of the beautiful could be (49) acquired as some (50) persons acquire (51) wealth, as some (52) others get (53) learning; that it could be (54) obtained by (55) putting (56) forth will power and (57) taking an (58) industrious (59) interest in the (60) subject. But the (61) present (62) effort, to make the schoolbuilding a place that shall (63) exert an (64) enlightening (65) influence on the esthetic (66) nature of the most (67) youthful (68) scholar, shows a (69) growing (70) understanding that the love and the (71) perception of beauty do not come to any one (72) merely by (73) willing that they shall. (74) Reading, (75) study, (76) observation, a (77) sincere (78) desire for (79) communion with the beautiful, may (80) deepen, (81) intensify, and (82) illuminate such love and perception. But the (83) essence, the (84) germ, of them, to be truly (85) vital, must have been (86) built into the (87) constitution before there was any (88) conscious (89) exercise whatever of the will with (90) regard to them. If the (91) appropriate means of (92) cultivation be brought to bear soon (93) enough, a child who has in any (94) degree the (95) right gifts comes to feel (96) confusedly what beauty is, and has his (97) imagination and his (98) emotions (99) enlarged and (100) uplifted. High School Department 174TH EXAMINATION SPELLING Wednesday, June 18, 1902-4.15 to 5.15 p. m., only The following numbered words are to be written by each candidate. The examiner should distinctly and properly pronounce each word (with its number prefixed), allowing sufficient time for writing it before the next word is pronounced. Papers entitled to 75 or more credits will be accepted. The (1) science of linguistics is among the (2) youngest, and yet it has (3) already (4) established (5) itself so (6) firmly on the solid ground of (7) ascertained truth that it has been able to (8) overthrow with (9) ease one and (10) another of the (11) theories which were (12) accepted (13) without (14) question before it came into being. For (15) example, time was-and the time is not so very (16) remote, it may be (17) remarked-time was when the little (18) group of more or less (19) highly (20) educated men, who were at the (21) center of (22) authority in the (23) capital of any (24) nation, had no (25) doubt (26) whatsoever as to the (27) superiority of (28) their way of (29) speaking their own (30) language over the (31) manner in which it might be (32) spoken by the (33) vast (34) majority of their fellow (35) citizens (36) deprived of the (37) advantages of a (38) court (39) training. This little group set the (40) standard of (41) speech; and the standard they set was accepted as (42) final and not to be (43) tampered with under (44) penalty of (45) punishment. They held that any (46) divergence from the (47) customs of speaking and writing they (48) themselves (49) cherished was (50) due to (51) ignorance, and (52) probably to (53) obstinacy. They (54) believed that the court (55) dialect which they had been (56) brought up to use was the only true and (57) original form of the language; and they (58) swiftly (59) stigmatized as a (60) gross (61) impropriety every (62) usage and every (63) phrase with which they themselves did not (64) happen to be (65) familiar. In thus (66) maintaining the (67) sole (68) validity of their (69) personal (70) habits of speech, they had no need for self-assertion, since it never (71) entered into the head of anyone not (72) belonging to the court (73) circle to (74) disparage for a (75) second the (76) position thus (77) tacitly (78) declared. If (79) modern (80) methods of (81) research have made (82) anything whatever (83) indisputable in the (84) history of (85) human speech, they have (86) completely (87) disproved the (88) assumption which (89) underlies this (90) implicit claim of the (91) courtiers . (92) Generally it is the (93) stability given by (94) political (95) preeminence (96) which leads to the (97) development of a (98) literature, without which no dialect can (99) retain its linguistic (100) supremacy. Brander Matthews High School Department 172D EXAMINATION ELEMENTARY ENGLISH Friday, January 31, 1902-9.15 a. m. to 12.15 p. m., only Answer questions 11-12 and six of the others but no more. If more than six of the others are answered only the first six answers will be considered. Each complete answer will receive 121⁄2 credits. Papers entitled to 75 or more credits will be accepted. 1 Analyze by diagram or otherwise the following sentence: The favorite position of the deer is still spirited and graceful, and wholly unaffected by the pictures of him which the artists have put upon canvas. 2 Write sentences containing a) the nominative plural of thief, b) the possessive singular of negro, c) the possessive plural of man, d) an abstract noun derived from an adjective, e) an adverb of manner. 3 Write a letter to a cousin whom you have never seen, inviting him to visit you on Washington's birthday and stating how you have planned to entertain him. 4 Give the part of speech and the syntax of each of the italicized words in the following: a) The frightened beast, fleeing from the unreasoning brutality of the hounds, will often seek the open country, b) She descended the slope of the mountain until she reached the more open forest of hard wood. 5 Select from the following the incorrect sentences and rewrite in correct form, giving the reason for each correction: a) I do not like these sort of men, b) The tramping of many feet were heard all day long, c) "Scamps" is what he said, d) Let you and me decide this, e) He is tall like his brother is, f) I do not know whom to expect, g) She and myself will visit you shortly. 6 Write the third person singular of each of the tenses of the indicative active of bear. Give the active infinitives and participles of bear. [State in each case the name of the tense.] 7 Combine the following statements into a simple sentence: The hermit was a good man. He was in his garden. He sat on a bench. The bench was under a tree. He held his prayer-book in his hand. 8 Write a) an exclamatory sentence containing an infinitive phrase, b) a compound imperative sentence, c) a complex sentence containing a noun clause. 9 Parse the italicized words in the following: a) New York, the Empire state, is first in the value of its commerce, b) George, bring your sister her book. 10 Explain the meaning of five of the italicized words in the following: a Down the long street she passed, with her chaplet of beads and her missal. Under the sheltering eaves, led up to the odorous corn-loft. c Late, with the rising moon, returned the wains from the marshes. 11-12 Write an essay of at least 100 words on one of the following topics, paying special attention to spelling, capitalization, punctuation, grammatic construction, proper use of words and sentence structure [Essays on subjects other than those assigned will not be accepted]: a) Basil the herdsman [Give a description of Basil's Louisiana home and of his new occupation], b) Fellow-sufferers [Let Evangeline give an account of her meeting with the Shawnee woman and of their conversation about their disappointments]. NOTE-Pupils not familiar with Evangeline may write on one of the following: a) My baby brother, b) After school has been dismissed. High School Department 173D EXAMINATION ELEMENTARY ENGLISH Wednesday, March 26, 1902-9.15 a. m. to 12.15 p. m., only Answer questions 14-15 and eight of the others but no more. If more than eight of the others are answered only the first eight answers will be considered. Each complete answer will receive 10 credits. Papers entitled to 75 or more credits will be accepted. 1 Analyze by diagram or otherwise the following sentence: For a quarter of an hour she went on, clearing the moose-bushes with bound after bound, flying over fallen logs, pausing for neither brook nor ravine. 2 Write sentences containing a) the possessive plural of deer, b) since used as a preposition, c) still used as an adjective, d, e) a proper noun used as the object of an infinitive and a noun in apposition with the proper noun. 3 Write a letter to a former schoolmate, describing an incident that occurred either during the holiday vacation or on Washington's birthday. 4 Parse the italicized words in the following: a, b) Every way was closed but one, c) At her first step into the water she saw a sight that sent her back with a bound, d) Had she strength to swim it? 5 Write the third person singular of each of the tenses of the indicative of lie (to recline), giving in each case the name of the tense. Write four infinitives of lie, giving the name of each. 6 Select from the following the incorrect sentences and rewrite in correct form, giving the reason for each correction: a) Neither John nor James know what is to be done, b) I do not know who to ask, c) I know who the boy is, d) I saw the change most as soon as I saw you, e) They divided the money between John and her, ƒ) There was nobody here but myself, g) Will you let him and me see the painting? 7 Combine the following statements into a complex sentence: The old man turned round. He turned slowly. He displayed a face of great dignity. His face was rendered doubly venerable by his hoary beard. His beard descended to his breast. 8 Give the part of speech and the syntax of each of the italicized words in the following: a, b) Even the swallow will fight the cat, relying too confidently on its powers of flight, c) It is because the shrike is a rare visitant, d) It is amusing to |