3. State the difference between a simple and a labored style. Illustrate. 4. Define argument, presumption, personification, enthymeme.

5. What is rhythm? Upon what does it depend? Give difference in prose and poetry as to rhythm.

6. Define iambic pentameter. Why is it that blank verse is mostly written in this form? Name some literary compositions as an example.

7. What are the objectionable effects of punning upon the mind? What are the dangers of wit? What are the advantages of wit?

8.

Give the difference between purity and propriety of diction.

ENGLISH LITERATURE.
(Select any ten questions.)

1. Give a general outline of the history of literature in England prior to the time of Chaucer.

2. Give an outline of one of Shakespeare's dramas.

3. Describe the main characteristics of the literary style of Sir Francis Bacon, John Milton and Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

4. Indicate the times and countries about which these historians wrote: Edward Gibbon, T. B. Macaulay, Thomas Carlyle, George Grote, John Richard Green, and James Anthony Froude.

5. Describe the main characteristics of these works of fiction: The Vicar of Wakefield, The House of Seven Gables, The Last of the Mohicans, and Silas Marner.

6 Give a general description of The Sir Roger De Coverley Papers and Tennyson's Princess.

7. What were the relations between Samuel Johnson and Boswell? Describe them as men and writers. 8. Who wrote The Light of Asia? Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush? The

1. Compare the topography of the old Northwest Territory with that of France. Compare the two in area, climate, latitude.

2. Show how physical features and climatic influences modify industrial de velopment and race characteristics.

3. Show how the study of geography involves almost every branch of natural science.

4. What do you understand by a "production" map. How would you

make one? What of its value as an aid to study?

5. What is the elevation of the sun at noon to-day in this latitude? On the Arctic Circle? On the Antarctic? each of the tropics?

At

1. State the essential characteristics of the education of the ancient Athenians.

2. Indicate the main characteristics of ancient Roman education. Name the three most prominent Roman writers on education.

3. When and where did Alcuin live? Aristotle? Rousseau? Loyola? Comenius? Montaigne? John Locke? Pestalozzi? Socrates? Froebel?

4. State the views of Rousseau on these points: (a) Early education. (b) Child study. (c) The cultivation of the senses. (d) The study of nature. (e) Self-teaching.

5. Give a general summary of the educational principles of permanent value announced by Comenius.

6. According to Pestalozzi, what is the main object of the school? The true function of education? His fundamental ideas of moral and religious education? The personal experience of the learner in the process of instruction? The causes of inattention in pupils?

7. Name five persons who, by their work or writings, have been leaders in working out and spreading the principles of Froebel.

8. Explain Froebel's theory of selfactivity and development.

9. Name the leading influences that have grown out of the ideas of Froebel.

10. State briefly Herbert Spencer's views of the relative value of these branches of knowledge: The classics: the useful sciences; history; the literature of the English language; poetry and the fine arts.

GENERAL HISTORY.

1. Give the main facts regarding the Punic wars.

2. What were the leading differences between the Athenians and the Spartans?

3. Name the greatest ruler of Russia, of England and of Spain. Give reasons for your choice in each instance.

4. For what were the following named persons famous: Demosthenes, Alexander the Great, Nero, Cleopatra, Hannibal?

5. At what time did Charlemagne live? What was the extent of his empire? What was his purpose in waging wars?

6. What was Feudalism? Where did it exist?

7. Name the English queens, and give the times of their reigns.

8. Give the causes which led to the French revolution.

9. What European governments have possessions at the present time in Africa? Of what benefits to them are these possessions?

10. What wars have been carried on in 1897?

ASTRONOMY.

1. Locate in a general way the following: Great Bear, Little Bear, North Star, Cassiopeia, Pleiades, Orion.

2. Account for the precession of the equinoxes.

3. What must be known in order to locate a star?

4. Name all the kinds of tides, and account for spring tides.

5. Was the earth ever all atmosphere? Will it ever have no atmosphere?

6.

Account for the "Chinook" winds. 7. My room is full of dust: Enumerate 15 or more possible sources of that dust. "No dust no clouds." Why?

8. Toward what is the sun moving? 9. Why is it "black as night" to the aeronaut seven miles high?

10. What do you know about the zodiac?

TRIGONOMETRY.

1. Define polar triangles, logarithm. How is a logarithm determined?

2. When the three sides of a triangle are given, form the equations by which the three angles are found?

3. Prove that the co-tangents of the two sides are to each other as the cosines of the segments of the angle.

4. Give the six cases presented for the solution of oblique spherical triangles.

5. In an oblique angled triangle given A B 2163, B C 1672, and the angle C 112° 18′ 22′′, to find the other parts.

6. In a right angled spherical triangle A B C, given A B 121° 26′ 25′′ and the angle C 111° 14' 37", to find the other parts.

7. From two stations 300 feet apart,

the horizontal angles made with a distant church are taken 88° 19′ and 89° 40'. Find the distances from church to stations.

GRAMMAR.

1. What are some of the common defects in teaching language?

2. What improvements have been suggested by the various committees of the N. E. A. in recent years?

3. Discuss briefly the topic: Sources of our English Speech.

4. Who are some of the great authorities on the origin and development of English?

5. Name the tests to be applied to any literary composition.

6. How are participles formed and governed?

7. Give a brief grammatical analysis of the first stanza of America.

8. Why is the case of a noun much more important than its other properties in determining what one's real knowledge of the sentence is?

9. Give a complete synopsis of write in the passive voice.

10. Construe the italicized words in the stanzas below. Give the sense of each in your own words. Name the author of the second, and the occasion of its being written

"What hand and brain went ever paired?

What heart alike conceived and dared? What act proved all its thought had been?

What will but felt the fleshy screen?" ROBERT BROWNING. "New occasions teach new duties;

Time makes ancient good uncouth; They must upward still, and onward, Who would keep abreast of Truth; Lo, before us gleam her campfires!

We ourselves must pilgrims be, Launch our Mayflower and steer boldly Through the desperate winter sea, Nor attempt the future's portal,

With the Past's blood-rusted key."

Translate "Dum in his locis Cæsar navium parandarum causa moratur, ex magna parte Morinorum ad eum legati venerunt, qui se de superioris temporis consilio excusarent, quod homines barbari et nostrae consuetudinis imperiti bellum populo Romano fecissent, seque ea, quae imperasset, facturos pollicerentur. Hoc sibi Cæsar satis opportune accidisse arbitratus, quod neque post tergum hostem relinquere volebat, neque belli gerendi propter anni tempus facultatem habebat, neque has tantularum rerum occupationes Britanniae anteponendas iudicabat, magnum iis numerum obsidum imperat. Quibus adductis, eos in fidem recepit. Navibus circiter octoginta onerariis contractisque, quot satis esse ad duas transportandas

legiones existimabat, quod praeterea navium longarum habebat, quaestori, legatis praefectisque distribuit."

Give the construction of concilio, opportune, quibus adductis, transportandas and all the infinitives.

Give the principal parts of moratur, fecissent, accidisse and recepit.

Decline parte and bellum.

Give the reason for the case of navium, of temporis, of consuetudinis and Britanniae.

Write the following sentences in Latin:

(a) A very high mountain overhung, so that a very few could easily stop them.

(b) The Aedui thanked Cæsar because he had delivered them from danger.

(c) Having learned these things, he sends forward scouts and centurions to choose a convenient place for the camp. Translate:

"Defessi Aeneadae, quae proxima litora, cursu

contendunt petere, et Libyae vertuntur ad oras.

Est in secessu longo locus: insula portum

efficit obiectu laterum, quibus omnis ab alto

frangitur inque sinus scindit sese unda reductos."

SCIENCE OF EDUCATION.

1. Make an outline of the conditions of good school government.

2. Make an outline of the arguments for and against the prize system in education.

3. State the relative value of love and fear as incentives. What rules should be observed in their use?

4. State the ends of school punishments; their true characteristics. Name the kinds of punishments that are improper or of doubtful propriety.

5. Define gymnastics. What the true aim of gymnastics? Make a gen