4. What are (a) the essential parts of a letter? (b) the characteristics of a good business letter? (c) Write a formal note accepting an invitation to dinner.

5. (a) Of what value is theme writing in the outline; (b) Give three essential qualities of the theme and tell how each may be secured.

6. (a) What is the topic sentence of a paragraph; (b) name three ways it may be developed; (c) Write a paragraph by one of these.

7. Give an example of five figures of speech, naming each and underscoring it to indicate all the words belonging to it.

8. (a) What is meant by the point of view in description? (b) Wherein do description and narration differ?

9. Write three arguments for the following proposition, putting the strongest last: Examinations are a true test of schol

arship.

Scan the following and tell the metre:
"Good gentlemen, look fresh and merrily.
Let not our looks put on our purposes;
But bear it as our Roman actors do."

LITERATURE.

1. What are (a) the main points in the life of Shakespeare? (b) His best tragedies? (a) His best comedies?

2. (a) Give the source for the plot of Macbeth. (b) Discuss whether Macbeth had designs on the throne before the play begins.

3. (a) On what is Milton's greatest work founded? (b) On what subject are his prose writings? (c) When were the minor poems written?

4. Give meaning of title and state briefly the theme of (a) L'Allegro, (b) Il Penseroso, (c) Explain the allegory in Comus. 5. When was Burke's speech on Conciliation delivered? (b) Give the immediate excuse for and the most important events leading up to it.

6. What did Burke mean by the assertion (a) that the colo

nies were virtually represented in the British parliament; (b) "Slavery they can have anywhere; freedom from none but you?”

7. Give (a) the occasion and purpose of Washington's Farewell Address; (b) his advice as to foreign policy, (c) as to internal affairs.

8. (a) When and where was Webster's Bunker Hill oration delivered? (b) How does he use the monument as a type of the United States of America?

9. Write (a) briefly of Burns-the century to which he belongs, education and struggle with environment. (b) What government position did he hold?

10. Tell briefly of (a) Johnson's personality and influence; (b) proposed edition of Shakespeare; (c) and why Raselas was written.

ARITHMETIC.

1. (a) Illustrate the difference between the simple value of a figure and a local, or place value. (b) Express in equivalent per cents, .06375, 71.

2. What is the difference in the areas of two circles whose radii are respectively 6 feet 3 inches and 1 foot 3 inches? Separate 707,281 into four equal factors.

3. If stock bought at 85 is sold for 75 what is the per cent of loss on (a) the par value of the stock; (b) the investment?

4. Sold of my interest in a mine for of what my entire interest cost me. What was my loss per cent by the transaction?

5. Exact interest at the rate of 6 per cent per annum, for a certain term, on $511 is $4.62. If the term begun August 9, 1891, when does it end?

6. The longitude of Chicago and Jerusalem are respectively 87° 36′ 42′′ west and 35° 13' 25" east. When it is Sunday noon at Chicago what is the time at Jerusalem?

7. How many feet board measure in a piece of timber 32 feet long, 18 inches wide at one end and 6 inches wide at the other, and 14 inches thick? What will it cost at $7 per 1000 feet?

8. A merchant sent goods to an agent to be sold on commission. The agent sold them and with the money bought 1805 bar

rels of flour at $5 a barrel, deducting 5% for selling and 5% for buying. What was his total commission?

9. If 15% can be saved by employing women, when men are paid $1.60 a day, and if a man does one-third more than a woman in the same time, what are the daily wages paid to women?

10. Find the difference between the annual and the compound interest on $300 for two years at 6 per cent.

ALGEBRA.

1. Algebraic symbols are classed as (a) symbols of quantity, (b) symbols of relation, (c) symbols of operation. Give examples of each.

2. Illustrate the three methods of elimination in common use. What is a quadratic equation?

3. A broker has two kinds of money. It takes n pieces of the first and m pieces of the second to make a dollar. How many pieces of each kind must be taken so that p pieces shall make a dollar?

4. A and B can do a piece of work in 12 days, B and C in 16 days, and A and C in 20 days. How long will it take each to do it?

5. A boatman rows 7 miles with the stream in an hour, and returns against the stream in 24 hours. At what rate would he row in still water, and at what rate does the stream flow?

6. A number consists of three digits whose sum is 10. The middle digit is equal to the sum of the other two, and the number will be increased by 99 if the digits be reversed. Find the number.

7.

Extract the square root of a to the six-fifths power plus a to the three-fifths power b to the three-fifths power plus b to the one-fifth power.

8. Solve the following expression: Vx+(x-4)

4

√(x-4)

9. The sum of two fractions is equal to their product, and the difference of their squares is five-sixths of their product. Find the fractions.

10. A farmer having sold, at $75 each, horses which cost him

x dollars apiece, finds that he has realized x per cent profit on his outlay. Find x.

GEOMETRY.

1. What is (a) the path of a moving point? (b) the complement of an angle of n degrees? (c) the converse of a proposition?

2. If the sides of any polygon be successively produced, forming one exterior angle at each vertex, the sum of these angles is equal to two straight angles.

3. An angle formed by two chords intersecting within the circle is measured by half the sum of the intercepted arcs.

4. (a) Construct a triangle when two sides and an angle opposite one of them are given. (b) A triangle may be constructed when what other parts are given?

5. The sides of a triangle are 9, 10, and 17, respectively. Find (a) the altitude to 17. (b) The median to 10.

6. Construct an equilateral triangle equivalent (a) to the sum of two given equilateral triangles; (b) to the difference of two given equilateral triangles.

7. Prove that the area of a circle is equal to one-half the product of its circumference and radius.

8. If a pyramid is cut by a plane parallel to its base: (a) the lateral edges and altitude are divided proportionally; (b) the section is a polygon similar to the base.

9. Find the volume of a cone whose radius is 4 and whose altitude is 3. (b) The lateral surface of a cone if its volume is 314 and its altitude is 2.

10. Prove that the surface of a sphere is equivalent to four times the area of a great circle.

COMMERCIAL LAW.

1. What is a contract? Mention two classes of persons not competent to make a contract. Mention two cases in which it must be in writing to be enforced by law.

2. What is meant by (a) agent; (b) principal? If an agent

exceeds his authority who is responsible? In partnership, what is the liability of each partner?

3. May the endorser be held responsible if the note has not been duly protested? Is the maker of the note released if it has not been protested?

4. Why should a notice of dissolution of partnership be published in the newspapers? Why should a partnership agreement be in writing?

5. Is a common carrier obliged to carry any and all goods offered? Suppose goods were destroyed by fire, would the common carrier be obliged to stand the loss?

COMMERCIAL ARITHMETIC.

1. You bought 25 kitchen tables at $3.25; 25 dining room tables at $8.75; 15 dozen dining room chairs at $12.50; 12 antique rockers at $12.25 and 15 oak bed room sets at $32.50. Discounts: 163 5.

Make bill.

2. A manufacturer sold an article to a jobber at a gain of 25%, the jobber sold it to a wholesaler at a gain of 20%, and the wholesaler sold it to a retailer at a gain of 334. If the retailer paid $28 for the article, what was the cost to manufacture it?

3. What should be the catalogue price of a library table costing $25 in order to insure a gain of 20% and allow the purchaser a discount of 25%?

An agent bought for me a consignment of flour, charging 3% commission. On my order he sold the flour at a gain of 20%, charging 2% commission. If the agent's commission buying amounted to $38.40, what did I gain?

5. On April 15 my broker purchased for me 500 shares Delaware & Hudson at 172} regular. On April 16 he sold the same at 174 cash. What was my gain?

BOOKKEEPING.

1. What is double entry bookkeeping and wherein does it differ from single entry?

2. Give the rule for journalizing (a) property accounts; (b)