Un homme qui travaillait tout près, remarqua la bonté et l'intelligence d'Antoine et, le soir, raconta l'histoire à la mère de la petite Mariette. GERMAN. Time: one hour and a-half. 1. Translate into English: a. Jeder Tag hat seine Plag'. b. Müssiggang ist aller Laster Anfang. c. Böses Gewissen, böser Gast - weder Ruhe noch Rast. d. Ich weiss ein kleines weisses Haus, Hat nichts von Fenstern, Thüren, Thoren, Und will sein kleiner Wirt heraus, So muss er erst die Wand durchbohren. 2. Translate into German : a. What sort of day will this be? b. I have been at home with my sister. c. We begin the year on the first day of January. d. What art thou doing there? I am learning my lesson. e. I am not so rich as he. He can hold out longest. f. When the need is greatest, God's help is nearest. 3. Decline, in the singular and plural, the German equivalents of this strong horse, my dear son, thy hat and mine. 4. Give the genitive singular and dative plural of: der Wurm, der Zahn, der Wagen, der Baum, die Maus, die Mutter, die Uhr, die Kammer, das Ei, das Kloster, das Uebel, das Kleid. 5. Put the definite article before: Citrone, Dienstag, Eiche, Frau, Fräulein, Frühling, Hinderniss, Kind, Schweiz, Süden, Türkei, Weibchen. Also add the meaning of each word. 6. Give the past participle of: sein, haben, abreisen, verreisen, anfangen, aufstehen, hinausgehen, antworten, bringen, auswandern, eilen. 7. Apply the impersonal use of German verbs—after the pattern of "es dürstet mich" or "mich dürstet" (I am thirsty)-to the translation of the following phrases: I wonder; Thou feel'st chilly; He is vexed; We shudder; You are anxious; They relish it. 3. If the quantities s, u, t, and ƒ are connected by the formula s = ut ft2, and if it is given that s=96 when t=4 and u = 30, find what the value of s must be when u is 20 and t is 2. The value of ƒ is the same in both cases. 4. A had a certain number of horses. He gave seven-eighths of them to B, and B lost five. B then had as many as if A had given him nine-tenths and he had lost eight. How many horses did A possess? 6. At what times between the hours of four and five do the hands of a watch lie in the same straight line? GEOMETRY. Time two hours. 1. The hour hand of a clock is three inches long and the minute hand three and a half inches. Find the distance between the ends of the two hands at half-past 10.. The protractor is not to be used, and the details of construction must be shown. 2. A tower has an elevation of 61 degrees from a point A, and from a point B, which is 32 feet further away, the elevation is 28 degrees. Draw a diagram on the scale of 10 feet to the inch, and find the height of the tower. 3. Show that the angles at the base of an isosceles triangle are equal, and, if the equal sides are produced, the angles at the other side of the base are equal. 4. Draw two straight lines, PQ, RS (not parallel) and mark a point A (not on either of the straight lines). Then draw through the point A a straight line which makes with one straight line the same angle as that which it makes with the other. Show the details of your construction, and prove that it is correct. You may produce the lines, if necessary. 5. If from the ends of a side of a triangle two straight lines are drawn to a point within the triangle, then these straight lines are together less than the other two sides of the triangle. 6. Show that if a straight line falls on two parallel straight lines, it makes (1) the alternate angles equal, (2) the exterior angle equal to the interior opposite angle on the same side of the line, and (3) two interior angles on the same side together equal to two right angles. = 7. Draw a triangle ABC in which AB 7.1 cm., BC = 4.3 cm., and CA 6.6 cm. Produce BC to D. Draw CE bisecting the angle ACB and CG bisecting the angle ACD. Let CE meet AB in E. Through E draw EFG parallel to BC, meeting AC in F and CG in G. Measure and state the lengths of EF and FG, and prove that they ought to be equal. Details of construction must be shown. JUNIOR EXAMINATION PAPERS, 1904. ENGLISH LITERATURE. Time two hours. 1. "The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind." Which is the principal clause? How are the other two related to it? the words in italics. Parse 2. "I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit has been received." What is meant by cynical asperity? Give a careful grammatical analysis of the clause in italics. 3. What is alliteration? Why is it used in poetry? Quote examples that you think good. Is it always good? 4. Explain a. He let not out his benefice for hire. b. Motley's the only wear. c. Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care. d. And e'en his failings leaned to virtue's side. e. A cry that shiver'd to the tingling stars. J. Wholesale men from London chapmen from all parts chiefly in bills. meeting their receive money g. Now have we among us Sir Galahad, the good knight that shall bring worship to us all, and upon pain of my life he shall achieve the Sancgreal. 5. Give the exact meaning of the adjectives in these expressions: ineffable good-nature, a careless laugh, an ominous smile, dire necessity, plaintive numbers. Shakespeare we can fancy as radiant aloft over all the nations of Englishmen a thousand years hence. 6. Put this passage in your own words to show how fully you understand it: Therefore, on every morrow, are we wreathing 7. Quote six lines, beginning: a. Say not "a small event." ENGLISH HISTORY. Time two hours. 1. By what methods did the Anglo-Saxons decide whether an accused person was guilty or not? 2. Trace the history of the Puritan opposition to (a) Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford, (6) William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury. 3. Write down what you know of the struggle between England and France in (a) India, (b) America, during the administration of William Pitt (the elder). 4. What advantages were secured by the poorer classes of people in England during the 19th century? GEOGRAPHY. Time: two hours. 1. Name the principal lakes included in the Alpine System, and state by what rivers they respectively find their outlet. 2. Contrast the western and eastern sides of South America with respect to their physical features, climates, and products. |