Classes I and II.-Composition. Time, 2 hours. Examiners { REV. A. B. BAIRD, M.A., B.D. 1. Arrange the following passage properly, punctuate and insert the necessary capital letters: Heigho yawned one day king francis distance all value enhances when a mans busy why leisure strikes him as wonderful pleasure faith and at leisure once is he straight way he wants to be busy here weve got peace and aghast in caught think. ing war the true pastime is there a reason in metre give us your speech master peter i who if mortal dare say so neer am at a loss with my naso sire i replied joys prove cloudlets men are the merest ixions here the king whistled aloud lets heigho go look at our lions such are the sorrowful chances if you talk fine to king francis. 2. Change the following passage from direct to indirect narration: "I thought in my dream that when my friend asked me: 'Do you observe anything curious in the conduct of him whom you are watching?' I replied: 'I do; do you not think it extraordinary that he should be so restless?'"' 3. Write a composition on "a prairie fire or "co-education." Classes I and II-Book-Keeping. Examiners..... REV. A. B. BAIRD, M.A., B.D. 1. Describe the cash book, journal, ledger and invoice book. 2. Define bill of lading, bill of entry, manifest letter of credit, acceptance. 3. Give an example of a sale for cash, one receiving the buyer's note and one on account. Give day book and journal entries. 4. Give in full your method of closing a set of books (double entry). 5. Show how to journalize in the following cases :— (a) When I buy goods of one sort for part goods of another sort, part credit, part cash and part bills; (b) When I receive a legacy in houses, lands or goods. (c) When I buy a bill of another for ready money and receive discount; (d) When I sell a bill for cash and give discount; (e) When any goods that were insured and lost by fire and I receive the money. (f) When goods belonging to my partner are brought into the company. Classes I and II-School Law. Examiners 1. During what hours shall school be held? { (REV. D. GILLIES, B.A, 2. What shall the duty of the teacher be during school hours? 3. What shall the duty of the teacher be in regard to the Secretary of the Trustees? 4. How shall the teacher forfeit all right to the Government grant on account of his certificate? or to a part of such grant? 5. What is the law in regard to religious instruction in schools? 6. What are the penalties regarding a Teacher who knowingly signs a false report, or keeps a false register, or makes a false return? Class I.-English Grammar. Examiners..... REV. D. GILLIES, B.A. 1. Show how the Indicative and Potential moods differ in their declarative force. 2. What is meant by historical etymology? 3. Mention the causes of diversity in orthography, and state in what the English alphabet is inconsistent. 4. Which of the Celtic stock of languages was most probably the language of ancient Gaul? 5. Analyze the following: "Away with all slanderers, Whose guilty tongue, Rends the reputation of the absent: 6. Derive: Epitaph, depose, quotient, scripture, pulverize. 7. Scan the following: "At last it chanced this proud Sarazin To meet me wand'ring: who perforce me led 8. Render the following into prose: "Of comfort no man speak: Let's talk of graves, of worms and epitaphs: 960 2. A man spent $2,50 more than 79 of his money at one time and $1.1 5 less than 6 of the remainder at another, and now has $2. 609; how much had he at first? 3. Name the elements in the operation of percentage and define each. 4. Sold two houses at $2,484 each; gained on one 8 per cent, and lost 8 per cent. on the other. What did I gain or lose? 5. The true discount on a sum of money for one year at 5 per cent. is $1 greater than the sum of the true discounts of one-half of it at 4 per cent. and the other half at 6 per cent. Find the amount. 6. Define alligation, and what is alligation medial and alligation alternate? 7. A farmer has three qualities of wool, worth respectively 33cts., 37cts. and 45cts. per pound, He wishes to make up a package amounting to 120 lbs, which he can afford to sell at 39cts. per pound. How many pounds of each must he take? 8. If 3 men and 4 women could do a piece of work in 11 days and 5 men and 3 women could do the same work in 13 days, and 1 man and 1 woman actually do the work, divide $20, the price paid for it, equitably between them. 9. At what time between 10 and 11 o'clock will the hands be directly opposite? 10. A traveller found on arriving at his destination that his watch, which kept correct time, was 1 hour 11 minutes slow. Which way was he travelling? How far had he travelled? 11. A rectangular field is 225 yards in length and 120 yards in breadth. What will be the length of a straight path from corner to corner? 12. Find to three places of decimals the cube roots of 128161281. 972504 and 3} 15 926 Class 1.-History. Protestant Section: EXAMINERS: Roman Catholic Section: REV. A. B. BAIRD, M.A., B.D. MR. THOMAS GROVER, B.A. 1. What were the chief events in the reign of Alfred King of Wessex? 2. What were the Constitutions of Clarendon ? 3. Describe the condition of the Jews in England during the time of Edward I. 4. Sketch the career of Wyclif. 5. Indicate in outline the relation between England and America from 1765 till 1782. 6. Sketch the career of the early explorers of the Mississippi who went from Canada. 7. What was the tragedy of Grand-Pré ? 8. What Canadian interests were settled by the treaty of Ghent? 9. Give in outline the history of the Canadian fur companies before 1821. Class 1.-Algebra. Examiners. ....... MR. THOMAS GROVER, B.A. 1. Define formula, homogeneous expressions, adfected-quadratics. 2. Prove the rule for finding the G.C.M. 3. A person had a capital of $30,000, for which he drew a certain interest per annum; but he owed the sum of $20,000, for which he paid a certain interest. The interest that he received exceeded that which he paid by $800. Another person possesses $35,000, for which he received interest at the second of the above rates; but he owed $24,000, for which he paid interest at the first of the above rates. The interest that he received exceeded that which he paid by $310. Required the two rates of interest. 4. A man bought a horse, which he sold for $24. At the sale he lost as much per cent. on the price of his purchase, as the horse cost him. What did he pay for the hors? 5. Show that 51/6 1/6 Find the square root of 37—20 √ 3 6. Show that a quadratic equation cannot have more than two roots. If a` and b' are the roots of ax2 + bx + c = 0 from the equation whose roots are a' b' anda' 8. The difference between two numbers is 1 and the difference between their cubes is 19. Find the numbers. 9. Two globes of lead whose radii are r and r are melted into a single globe, find its radius, it being given that the volume of a sphere varies as the cube of its radius. 10. Given A the first term and r the common ratio of a geometrical series, find the nth term and s the sum of n terms. Sam to n terms and also to infinity. 11. Show agebraically that the arithmetical, geometrical and barmonical means between a and b lie in the order of magnitude, arithmetically greatest. 12. Show also that if (ab) a4b is than 4 ab3 - 4b4 13. Write down the expansion of (a + x)n find the rth and the middle term of (a-1) 2n Examiners..... Class I-Euclid. { REV. D. GILLIES, B. A. 1. Show that the greater angle of every triangle is subtended by the greater side, or, has the greater side opposite to it. 2. Show that straight lines which are parallel to the same straight line are parallel to each other. 3. Show that if a straight line be divided into two equal parts, and also into two unequal parts, the rectangle contained by the unequal parts, together with the square on the line between the points of section, is equal to the square on half the line. 4. Show that in every triangle, the square on the side subtending either of the acute angles is less than the squares on the sides containing that angle, by twice the rectangle contained by either of these sides, and the straight line intercepted between the acute angle and the perpendicular let fall upon it from the opposite angle. 5. Find the centre of a given circle. 6. Show that one circle cannot touch another in more points than one, whether it touches it on the inside or outside. 7. In a given circle, inscribe a triangle equiangular to a given triangle. 8. Inscribe a circle in a given square 9. Show that if four magnitudes are proportionals, they are proportionals also when taken inversely, 10. Find a fourth proportional to three given straight lines. Class I.-Literature and "Merchant of Venice," Time, 2 hours. Examiners................. S REV. A. B. BAIRD, M.A., B.D { 1. Indicate in outline the romances which describe the glory and fall of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table. 2. Describe the influence on English Literature of the invention of the art of printing. 3. Sketch the life and the writings of Lord Bacon. 4. Give an estimate of Cowper's style and of his position as a writer. 5. Write an account of the scene in reference to "The caskets" in "The Merchant of Venice." 6. Write explanatory notes on (a) "The weeping philosopher;" (b) "As lying a gossip as ever knapped ginger;" (c) "By this scimitar that slew the Sophy;' (d) "Stood Dido with a willow in her hand." 7. Write grammatical notes on (a) "I had rather be married, etc.;" (b) "Whiles we shut the gate upon one wooer;" (d) All debts are cleared between you and I." 8. Sketch the character of Shylock and gives passages to illustrate (a) his avarice; (b) his hatred; (c) the mixed motives which impel him to bring about the ruin of Antonio. 2. Define (a) force, (b) equlibrium, (c) weight. 3. Name the qualities of a good balance, with short explanations. 4. How would you determine the true weight of a body by a false balance? 5. Describe the common screw and explain its principle. 6. How is the efficiency of a screw affected by increasing (a) the length of the arm. (b) the diameter of the screw. (c) the distance between the threads? |