High School Department 174TH EXAMINATION ENGLISH COMPOSITION Monday, June 16, 1902-1.15 to 4.15 p. m., only Answer questions 11-15 and five of the others but no more. If more than five of the others are answered only the first five answers will be considered. Each complete answer will receive 10 credits. Papers entitled to 75 or more credits will be accepted. 1 Write a paragraph of at least 75 words on one of the following topics: (a) The first Appearance of the Black Knight, (b) The Necessity of Exercise. 2 Rearrange the following, making two distinct paragraphs and combining the sentences where necessary: At the foot of the Catskill mountains is a little village of great antiquity. In this village there lived a simple good-natured man. His name was Rip Van Winkle. The village was founded by some of the Dutch colonists. It was founded in the early days of the province. Rip Van Winkle was a kind neighbor. He was an obedient, henpecked husband. The village was founded about the time of the beginning of the government of Peter Stuyvesant. Rip Van Winkle possessed, moreover, a certain meekness of spirit which gained him universal popularity. 3 Write a letter to a friend, asking him (her) to lend you a book. State in detail why you wish this particular book. 4 Write the following in correct form: (a) He can not be persuaded to go or into buying what he does not want, (b) The carriage did not come and it rained and so we did not go, (c) They did not object to her marrying him but preferred her to have waited a few years, (d) I have selected both the blue and brown dress, (e) Lost-A gold ring, containing a ruby set with diamonds between Main and Pearl streets. 5 Rewrite the following sentences, substituting correct connectives for the italicized words; give a reason for each change made: A short time afterward I was invited by my aunt to pay her a visit and I was ill and could not go and I told her that I should be glad to go as soon as I was better. She answered immediately telling me to come whenever I could and she would always be glad to see me. 6 Show by original sentences the difference between (a) contraction of sentences and expansion of sentences, (b) a loose sentence and a periodic sentence. 7 Correct the errors in the use of words in the following sentences without giving reasons: (a) As he was a thorough gentleman, he treated us very respectively, (b) You must have thought it funny that I did not come, () I shall be very glad to except your kind invitation for next Tuesday, (d) The people in this part of the city are noted for their observation of the Sabbath, (e) Lots of people go to Florida in the winter. 8 Assume that you live in New York and that your brother has applied for a position as department manager with Green & Co. New York, dealers in dry goods. While he is away in Boston you learn that the position is vacant and that it will be kept open for him two days. Telegraph your brother to come, stating important facts in not more than 10 words. 9 Mention three traits of Athelstane's character, illustrating each by reference to Ivanhoe. 10 Describe Cedric's plan for restoring the Saxon independence and explain why he was compelled to abandon it. 11-15 Write an essay of at least 250 words on one of the following topics, paying particular attention to introduction and conclusion, sequence of thought, paragraph structure and sentence transition [Essays on subjects other than those assigned. will not be accepted]: (a) The Storming of a medieval Castle [Give Rebecca's description of the storming of Front-de-Boeuf's castle up to the time of the fall of the postern-gate], (b) A Slave's Devotion [Let Cedric tell how Wamba rescued him from Front-deBoeuf's castle]. NOTE Students not familiar with Ivanhoe may write on one of the folowing: (a) The Pleasures of Nature, (b) The Adventures of a lost Letter. High School Department 172D EXAMINATION ADVANCED ENGLISH COMPOSITION Wednesday, January 29, 1902 -1.15 to 4.15 p. m., only Answer eight questions but no more. If more than eight are answered only the first eight answers will be considered. Division of groups is not allowed. Each complete answer will receive 121⁄2 credits. Papers entitled to 75 or more credits will be accepted. I Explain in detail what is meant by the plot of a narrative. Mention, with explanation, two ways in which a narrative may be introduced. 2 Assume that you have lost an umbrella. umbrella minutely. Describe the 3-4 Write a narrative connected with the loss of the umbrella mentioned in question 2, using the following details: discovery that the umbrella was taken by a friend through carelessness, return of the umbrella with a new handle, an explanation and an apology. 5 Write a character sketch of one of your friends, bringing out commendable characteristics. 6 A very quiet night. When the moon shines very brilliantly, a solitude and stillness seem to proceed from her, that influence even crowded places full of life. Not only is it a still night on dusty high roads and on hillsummits, whence a wide expanse of country may be seen in repose, quieter and quieter as it spreads away into a fringe of trees against the sky, with the gray ghost of a bloom upon them; not only is it a still night in gardens and in woods, but even on this stranger's wilderness of London there is some rest. Classify the description illustrated in the above paragraph as impressional or circumstantial. Justify your classification by a discussion of the paragraph. 7-8 Two friends, after a separation of several years, meet unexpectedly in a strange city and talk over the experiences of each since their last meeting. Report the conversation. 9-10 Write an abstract of the following article, containing not more than four well constructed paragraphs: One can not enter the gates of the Pan-American exposition at Buffalo without mentally reverting to the city of White Palaces of 1893, only eight years ago, with its throngs of amazed and delighted people. Even while the mind is filled with delight and astonishment, there comes a subconscious picture of the neglected "Pinta" which sailed so boldly across the Atlantic, and now lies abandoned in a marsh among the charred ends of many piles - the only remaining vestiges of that famous White city. What a shame if these marvelous creations at Buffalo are to meet a similar fate! "What a pity," the visitor reflects, "that another two or three millions could not have been added to the funds at the disposal of the commission, in order that the walls might stand in substantial brick and mortar instead of wood and staff." They might have required that the exposition should have been located a few miles farther out on the prairie. Then at its close the aggregation of palaces might be converted into a model city; the Palace of Liberal Arts might become a great factory; the Temple of Music stand as the theater hall; the Stadium remain a great amphitheater. The buildings constructed by the states of North and South America would become private houses set in the most beautiful of parks. Another million or, at the most, two millions expended would have left every wall in the most durable of materials. What a pity then, what a waste that this small additional sum should not have left the work of great artists in lasting form! For this is the lesson of the fair— that it illustrates what men working in harmonious effort may accomplish for the delight of all. Who believes that the people of the second half of our new century will be content to live in those abominations of desolation which we call our great cities- brick and mortar piled higgledy-piggledy, glaringly vulgar, stupidly offensive, insolently trespassing on the right to sunshine and fresh air, conglomerate result of a competition which takes no regard for the rights of one's neighbor? As one wanders in these streets of varied forms, the mind is entranced by the eternally changing color always in marvelous harmony. Down the great central court to the left, by the fountains on the Esplanade, in the maze of the Horticultural and Graphic Arts buildings, then under the graceful pergolas to the magnificent erections on the Bridge of Triumph, the colors change and change until the whole prismatic spectrum seems to have been exhausted twenty times over-yet there is never a repetition, only restful harmony. How was this present marvel constructed? Very simply. The men of high intelligence whose liberality is responsible for this exhibit came together and said: "Let us seek out the great artists in architecture, in sculpture, in landscape, and bring them here to Buffalo. Then we will ask them to work out in unison a scheme, every part of which shall be in perfect harmony with every other part; shape, environment, distance, color, shall all unite in one great harmony." This, then, may be taken as the great central idea of the Pan-American exposition. It is a prophecy of what the city of the future must be-a beautiful location arranged, first, with reference to its landscape; second, with reference to its form and perfection, and, next, with reference to satisfying the eye in its blending colors. When commerce ceases to be war, when the world ceases to educate its best brains for the destruction which is the result of competition, when human talent shall be converted to its highest sphere of usefulness, then we shall have the sites of cities selected by commissions having the highest good of the proposed community at heart. II Write a Christmas greeting of at least 75 words to an absent friend. 12 Write an answer to an advertisement for a clerk, stating qualifications and experience and giving references. High School Department 174TH EXAMINATION ADVANCED ENGLISH COMPOSITION Answer eight questions but no more. If more than eight are answered only the first eight answers will be considered. Division of groups is not allowed. Each complete answer will receive 121⁄2 credits. Papers entitled to 75 or more credits will be accepted. I State the difference between description and narration. Mention, with explanation, two ways in which narration is aided by description. 2 Write a description of a man in such a way as to convey the impression of strength of character. 3-4 Write a narrative in which the man mentioned in question 2 takes a prominent part, using the following details: a child on a railway track, an approaching locomotive, a rescue. 5-6 Two friends who meet at dinner discuss the value of a college education. Report the conversation exactly as given, in choice English. 7 Indicate a plan for a simple narrative by outlining a situation presenting a difficulty, an incident and the result of the incident. [Do not use any of the details given in questions 3-4. ] 8 In a single paragraph summarize the contents of some book that you have read in connection with your school work. 9-10 Write an abstract of the following article, containing not more than four well constructed paragraphs: Sixty young Cuban women, some of them representing the oldest and most influential families of Cuba, under contract with the Cuban government to teach in the public schools of Cuba, are receiving their professional training in the State normal school at New Paltz. The school authorities of the state of New York entered into contract with the Cuban government to receive these students, to assume the responsibility for their professional training, and to provide rooms, board, and ordinary washing for the sum of six dollars a week for each student. The use of the school equipment is given free by the state. In addition to traveling expenses to and from this country, each student is paid by the Cuban government twenty dollars a month to meet personal expenses. These students have had some educational advantages in the schools of Cuba, and they gained the privilege of professional training by passing special examinations conducted by the school authorities there. Many of them bear the names of men identified with the Cuban struggle for freedom -men who have given their all in defense of that cause. Others are |