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THE
Regents' Questions
From the First Examination in 1866.
Being the Questions for the Preliminary Examinations
for Admission to the
UNIVERSITY OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK
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REGENTS OF TEE UNIVERSITY,
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Distributing More than a Million of Dollars.
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Assistant Secretary, Regents of the University.
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THE
REGENTS' QUESTIONS.
ARITHMETIC.
Examination I. Jsfov. 8, 1866.
1. Write in figures each of the following numbers,
add them, and express in words (or numerate) their
sum: fifty-six thousand, and fourteen thousandths;
nineteen, and nineteen hundredths; fifty-seven, and
forty-eight ten-thousandths; twenty-three thousand
five, and four tenths ; and fourteen millionths.
2. What is the difference between 3f plus 7f, and
4 plus 2f ?
3. In multiplying by more than one figure, where
is the first figure in each partial product written, and
why is it so written ?
4. If the divisor is 19, the quotient 37, and the re-
mainder 11, what is the dividend ?
5. What is the quotient of 65 bu. 1 pk. 3 qt. di-
vided by 12?
6. Which one of the fundamental operations (or
ground rules) of arithmetic is employed in reduction
descending? Give an example.
7. In exchanging gold dust for cotton, by what
weight would each be weighed?
THE REGENTS QUESTIONS.
8. What is the only even prime number?
9. How many weeks in 8,568,456 minutes?
10. To what term in division does the value of a
common fraction correspond?
11. What is the product of a fraction multiplied
by its denominator? Give an example.
12. What is the rule for the multiplication of deci-
mals?
13. How is a common fraction reduced to a deci-
mal? Give an example.
14. What is ratio and how may it be expressed?
Illustrate by an example.
15. If 27 tons, 3 qr. 15 lb. of coal cost $217.83,
what will 119 tons 1 qr. 10 lb. cost?
16. Find the cost of the several articles, and the
amount of the following bill :
Utica, Oct. 1, 1866.
A. P. Jewett to Samuel Palmer, Dr.
To 16,750 feet of board at $12.50 per M.,
" 1,750 " " 24.00 "
" 3,500 " " 25.00 " ....
Received payment, $
Samuel Palmee.
17. What is the length of the side of a cubical box
which contains 389,017 solid inches?
18. What is the present worth of the following
note discounted at bank, and when will it become
due: —
$100. Albany, October 11, 1866.
Ninety days from date, for value received, 1
promise to pay to the order of John Smith, one hun-
dred dollars, at the Albany City National Bank.
John Brown.
ARITHMETIC.
19. Involve f to the 7th power.
20. What is the square root of .0043046721?
21. Sold 9^ cwt. of sugar at $8i per cwt., and
-thereby lost 12 per cent. : how much was the whole
cost?
22. A person owned f of a mine, and sold £ of his
interest for $1,710: what was the value of the entire
mine?
23. When it is 2 hr. 36' a. m., at the Cape of Good
Hope, in longitude 18 ° 24 ' east, what is the time at
Cape Horn, in longitude 67 ° 21 ' west?
24. What is the cost of 17 tons 18 cwt. 1 qr. 17 lb.
of potash at $53.80 per ton?
Examination II. March i ; i86y.
25. Express in words the number 42567000129301.
26. Multiply five hundred and forty thousand six
hundred and nine, by seventeen hundred and fifty.
27. Give the rule for reduction descending.
28. How many steps of 2£ ft. each would a man
take in walking a mile?
29. How is a whole number reduced to a fraction
of the same value having a given denominator?
30. What is the value of f of f- of % of ^ when re-
duced to a simple fraction of the lowest terms?
31. Give the rule for reducing several fractions to
equivalent fractions having the least common de-
nominator.
32. Add 3f to 4 ft.
6 THE REGENTS' QUESTIONS.
33. Write in figures, two and six hundred-mil-
lionths.
34. Reduce 1375-8836 to a decimal.
35. Multiply seven thousand and five, by three
hundred, and five millionths.
36. Divide 126.45 by 493.256.
37. The ratio of two numbers is 9, and the ante-
cedent 90: what is the consequent?
38. Find the value of the omitted term in the fol-
lowing proportion : —
$4:(?) : :9:16.
39. If 56 R>. of butter cost $15.68, what will .078
of a ton cost?
40. If 96 horses eat 192 tons of hay in one winter,
how many tons will 150 horses eat in 6 winters?
41. In 1 yr. 4 mo., $311.50 amounted to $336.42 at
simple interest : what was the rate percent?
42. What is the interest of $14, 231 . 50 from June 29,
1860, to April 30, 1865, at 8£ per cent?
43. Three notes are payable as follows : — one for
$200, January 1, 1866; another for $350, due Septem-
ber 1, 1868; a third for $500, due April 1, 1867: what
is the average of maturity, or the equated time of
payment?
44. How much will it cost to carpet a parlor 18 ft.
square, with carpeting f yd. wide, at $1.50 per yd. ?
45. The difference in the local time of two places is
2 hr. 18m. : what is the difference in longitude?
46. 33 is 2f per cent, of what number?
47. What is the length of each side of a square
field which contains 5 acres?
48. A note for $470.66 drawn at 60 days, is dis-
ARITHMETIC.
counted at bank at 6 per cent. : what are the pro-
ceeds?
Examination III. June 14, 1867.
49. Express in figures MD^Tv CDLXXXIX.
50. Perform the operations indicated as follows :—
51. Numerate (or express in words) 90067236708.
52. What is the sum of 3912, 361, 40005, 98, 7368-
■63, 8342, 2900687, 9, 4000862, 28 ?
53. If two persons start from the same place, and
travel in the same direction, one 7 and the other 11
miles per hour, at the rate of 9 hours per day, how
far apart will they be at the end of the 17th day?
54. What is the amount due on the following bill
of parcels :
Albany, June 1, 1866.
John Barnes,
Bought of NATHAN HADLEY & Co.,
16 lb. tea, @ 1.05 - $
18 lb. sugar, @.14
25 lb. rice, ® .09
15 yd. linen, @ .66
Cr. $
By balance of account, - - 2.48
Balance due, $
Received payment, N. Hadley, & Co.
55. State the process of reducing inches to leagues.
56. How many bu. will a box 8 ft. long, 4 ft. wide,
and 3 ft. high contain?
8 THE REGENTS' QUESTIONS.
57. Add ||, | and ffc.
58. Reduce 1049-8392 to its lowest terms.
59. Give the rule for reducing fractions having
different denominators to equivalent fractions hav-
ing the least common denominator.
60. Multiply 18f by 7f.
61. Express in figures, forty-seven, and twenty-
one hundred-thousandths.
62. Divide 2019.86928 by 30 *fo.
63. If 9 men cut 150 acres of grass in 18 days, how
many will do the same work in 27 days ?
64. If 500 copies of a book containing 210 pages
require 12 reams of paper, how much will 1,200
copies of a book of 280 pages require ?
65. "What is the value in currency of $865 in gold,
when the latter is selling at 131 per cent?
66. What is the interest on $200 for 3 years and 10
months, at 7 per cent?
67. In what time will a sum of money double it-
self at an annual interest of 5 per cent?
68. What is the face of a note at 30 days, which
yields $500 when discounted at bank, at 7 per cent?
70. Extract the square root of .0043046721.
71. Involve 1.06 to the 4th power.
72. What debt can be discharged in a year by
weekly payments in arithmetical progression, the
first being $24, and the last $1,224?
Examination IV. Nov. 8 ; i86j.
73. Express words in 2584503962047.
74. 2468+ 13579+100+6042-4-187-1-19= ?
ARITHMETIC. 9'
75. What is the difference between 576-208+1645
-321, and 403-256+814-195?
76. Multiply forty-nine millions forty thousand six
hundred and ninety-seven, by nine millions forty
thousand seven hundred and nine.
77. One factor of a certain number is 11, and the
other 3708311605: what is that number?
78. If the remainder is 17, the quotient 610, and
the dividend 45767, what is the divisor?
79. What cost 3 A. 2 R. 20 rd. of land, at $43 per
acre?
80. What is the difference of time between Juty
15, 1857, and April 25, 1862?
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cwt.
qr.
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oz.
dr.
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13
2
15
15
15
13
17
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13
11
13
' 46
16
3
11
13
10
14
15
2
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6
9
11
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81. Add <{
82. Find the greatest common divisor of 492, 744
and 1044.
83. Divide 137 a. 9 oz. 18 pwt. 22 gr. by 23.
84. From f of 137 subtract £ of 317.
85. Write eleven thousand, and eleven hundred-
thousandths, (the whole as a single expression.)
86. Multiply .0097 by .000125.
87. Divide 475 by 128f .
$8. What cost {± of an acre at $1.75 per sq. rod?
89. Divide 9811.0047 by .325947.
90. Reduce 18 s. 3f d. to the decimal of a £,
91. Find the third term of 7 : 8 ::(?): 12.
10 THE REGENTS' QUESTIONS.
92. If 2i yd. of broadcloth cost $18, what will 27
yd. cost?
93. If 8 men spend $64 in 13 weeks, what will 12
men spend in 52 weeks?
94. Find the interest on $35.61 from Nov. 11, 1857
to Dec. 15, 1859, at 6 per cent.
95. What is the bank discount on a note for $350,
payable 3 months after date, at 7 per cent, interest?
96. Find the square root of .876096.
Examination V. Feb. 21, 1868.
97. Add together 15262986957 and 3879, and mul-
tiply the 19th part of the sum by 76.
98. Subtract nine hundred and fourteen thousand
nine hundred and twenty, from four hundred mil-
lions and thirteen thousand.
99. A wheel makes 880 revolutions in passing over
2 mi. 1,430 yd. : what is its circumference?
100. Reduce 49 wk. 6 da. 19 hr. to minutes.
101. Find the greatest common divisor of 4004 and
5772.
102. Find the least common multiple of 25, 36, 33,
12, 45.
103. Divide 52 yd. 1 ft. 10* in. by 3 ^.
104. Reduce 3| of 1^ of 2 ^ to a decimal.
105. Find the value of 169 multiplied by .0000728.
106. Find the value of 25.000315— .0045 plus .2801
minus 18 plus 21.001.
107. Divide the number 54 into 3 parts, propor-
tioned as 2, 3, 4.
ARITHMETIC. ll
108. If for a certain sum 18 sheep may be grazed
20 days, how many days may 30 sheep be grazed for
the same sum?
109. How many acres could 10 men plow in 14
hours, if 5 men plough 6 acres in 10£ hours?
110. Standard silver is composed of 87 parts of
pure silver, and 3 parts of copper : how much per
cent, of the whole is each of the components?
111. If I buy cloth at $1.20 per yard, how must I
sell it so as to gain 25 per cent ?
112. Divide $1,200 between A. and B. so that A's.
share may be to B's. as 2 to 7.
113. Divide 6 s. 6 d. between Jane and Ellen, so
that Jane may receive 3 s. more than Ellen.
114. What is the value of the square root of
42X24X28?
115. How much coffee at 9, 11 and 14 cents a
pound, will form a mixture worth 12 cents a pound?
116. When the extremes and the number of terms
in an arithmetical series are given, how is the sum of
the series ascertained?
117. The surface of a square table is 26 sq. feet, 100
in. : find the length of each side.
118. How many square yards of matting would
cover a floor, the dimensions of which are 20 ft. 10
in., by 15 ft. 5iin.?
119. What sum of money will in 3 years, 10 mo.
and 9 days at 7 per cent, amount to $1,524.10?
120. I have three notes payable as follows : one for
$200, due Jan. 1, 1869; another for $350, due Sept. 1,
1869; and another for $500, due April 1, 1870: what
is the average of maturity?
12 THE REGENTS' QUESTIONS.
Examination VI, June j>, 1868.
121. Express in figures the number represented by-
four units of the tenth order, six of the eighth, four
of the seventh, two of the sixth, one of the third,
and five of the second.
122. Numerate the number represented by four
units of the tenth order, six of the eighth, four of the
seventh, two of the sixth, one of the third, and five of
the second.
123. How may 25,000 be expressed in Roman nu-
merals?
124. How is the local value of a figure determined,
or upon what does it depend ?
125. What is the sum of the composite numbers
from 50 to 80 inclusive?
126. From sixty-five trillions three millions six hun-
dred and twelve, take nine billions one million four
thousand and six.
127. A tax of thirty millions fifty-six thousand four
hundred and sixty-five dollars is assessed equally on
four thousand and ninety-seven towns: what sum
must each town pay?
128. Which of the fundamental rules is employed
in reducing a denominate fraction to integers of low-
er denominations?
129. How many cubic inches does the standard
unit of liquid measure contain?
130. How many cords of wood in a pile 140 ft.
long, 4^ ft. wide, and 6^ ft. high?
131. A stationer bought 1 great gross of slates at 9
ARITHMETIC. 13
pence each; what was the whole cost, in pounds
sterling?
182. Of what factors of two or more numbers does
their greatest common divisor consist?
133. What is the smallest sum of money with which
horses can be bought at $50 each, cows at $30 each, or
sheep at $8 each, using the same amount in each
case?
134. Express in words 0.500072.
135. What number must be multiplied by 15f that
the product may be 56|?
136. How is the value of a fraction affected when
its denominator is divided by a number greater than
unity?
137. How do yon multiply .001 by 100,000?
138. What amount is due on the following items:?
37 chests green tea at $ 23 75 each.
42 " black " "17 50 "
12 crates Liverpool ware " 175 00
19 bbl. Genesee flour " 15 50 "
23 bu. rye " 1 52 "
r
139. When are four quantities said to be in pro-
portion?
140. If | of the distance from A to B is 32 miles,
what is T \- of the same distance?
141. How is the rate per cent, ascertained when
the 'principal, interest, and time are given.
142. If $300 gain $18 in nine months, what is the
per cent?
143. What is the length, in feet and inches, of
14 THE REGENTS' QUESTIONS.
each side of a square carpet, made from 49 £ yd. of
Brussels carpeting, f yd. wide?
144. How is tlie last term of a geometrical series
found, the first term, ratio, and number of terms be-
ing given?
Examination VII. JVov. 13 , 1868.
145. Express in figures six hundred millions sev-
enteen thousand three hundred and eight.
146. What is the sum of 372856, 404932, 2704793.
9078961, 304165, 207708, 41274, 375, 271, 34 and 6 ?
147. From sixty-five billions three millions six hun-
dred and twelve, take nine billions one million four
thousand and six.
148. One factor of a certain number is 11, and the
other 3708311605: what is that number?
149. What are the prime factors of 800?
150. If the quotient is 482, and the divisor 281,
what is the dividend?
151. If I take 13729 from the sum of 8762 and 14-
967, divide the remainder by 50, and multiply the
quotient by 19, what is the product?
152. How many miles in 60,750 links?
153. What is the sum of & of 9f, and ^ of 328|?
154. Reduce f of if of 6^ of 17 to a simple fraction.
155. How many times is f contained in 837?
156. Reduce ^ of an acre to lower denomina-
tions.
157. Find the greatest common divisor of 492, 744,
906.
ARITHMETIC. 15
158. What is the least common multiple (or divi-
dend) of the nine digits?
159. Divide 0.01764144 by 0.0018.
160. Reduce 7 fur. 29 rd. to the decimal of a
mile.
161. What sum, at 7 per cent., will amount to
$221,075 in 3 years 4 months?
162. What is the amount of $1,200 for 2 years at 6
percent, compound interest, payable quarterly?
163. If $100 gain $6 in 1 year, what principal will
gain $12 in 8 months?
164. To what number has -£ the same ratio as ex-
ists between 3 and 21 ?
165. What number of men will be required to per-
form a piece of work in 8 days, that would take 15-
men 24 days?
166. A. and B. enter into partnership. A. furnish-
es $240 for 8 months; and B. $560 for 5 months.
They lost $118. How much did each man lose?
167. What is the square root of 61723020.96?
168. How many cubic quarter-inches are contained
in a cubic inch?
Examination VIII. Feb. ig, i86g.
169. Add the following numbers : One hundred and
eight billions, three hundred and six; twenty-one bil-
lions, twenty thousands, two hundred and ten ; thirty
billions, twenty-nine millions and three.
170. Reduce 2,579,792 drams avoirdupois to high-
er denominations.
171. Reduce 1 mi. 18 rd. 2 yd. 2 ft. to inches.
16 THE REGENTS' QUESTIONS.
172. Multiply * of V" b y 3±-i-16.
173. Divide T \ of if by ?.
174 Find the least common multiple of all the even
cumbers from 1 to 15.
175. From the sum of f and | take f 9 .
176. Add together T Jw* lm d. ana f S iu -
177. Multiply 30.6002 by two and one ten-thous-
andth.
178. Divide 4.08 by .000136.
179. Reduce f || to a decimal.
180. Reduce 8 oz. 5 pwt. 3 gr. to the decimal of
a lb.
181. If 21 men in 12 days can do certain work,
"how many men in 7 days could do | as much?
182. How much will it cost to dig a cellar 40 ft.
long, 32 ft. wide, and 5 ft. deep, at $0.25 a cubic
yard?
183. A. begins business with $500 ; at the end of
2 months B. puts in $300 ; at the end of 1 month
more C. puts in $600; at the end of 5 months more,
the profits amount to $1,056. What was each man's
share?
184. 3 pence is what per cent, of 4 shillings?
185. What sum in 1 year will yield $48.75 at 12*
per cent?
186. What is the bank discount on a note for $600
for 2 months and 9 days, at 10 per cent, per an-
num?
187. I sell goods for $511.29, and gain 9£ per cent. ;
what did the goods cost me?
188. At what rate will $500 yield $34 interest in 1
year 1 month and 18 d lys?
ARITHMETIC. 17
189. What is the compound interest of $200 for
3 years at 7 per cent?
190. How much gold will $100 currency buy, gold
being at 147?
191. What is the square root of 403.6081?
192. What is the cube root of mU^
Examination IX. June n, i86g.
193. The factors of a number are three hundred
ninety-seven thousand five hundred, and nine thou-
sand eight hundred. What is the product expressed
in words?
194. If one man can mow 1.875 acres in a day,
how many acres can 13 men mow in 7.5 days?
195. How many reams of commercial note paper
each 8 in. long, 5 in. wide, and 3.5 in. thick, can be
packed in a box, the inside dimensions of which are 3 \
41f , and T 7 ^ feet respectively?
196. A note given May 10, 1867, was paid
August 10, 1868. How long did the note run?
196<z. How long is a field containing 14 A., if it is
35 rd. wide?
197. If I start from latitude 15 ° 35 ' 40 " north, and
travel due north 2,159 geographic miles, in what lati-
tude shall I then be?
198. How many seconds in the circumference of a
circle?
199. Is 217 a prime or a composite number?
200. The four sides of my garden are 168 ft., 280
ft., 182 ft., and 252 ft. respectively : what is the great-
18 THE REGENTS' QUESTIONS.
est length of boards that I can use in fencing it, with-
out cutting any of them?
201. What is the smallest sum of money for which
a person can purchase oxen at $85 each, or cows at
$35 each?
202. The tide rose f ft. one hour, \ | ft. the next,
and £ ft. the third hour : how much did it rise in the
three hours?
203. How many square rods are there in a lot 15f
rods long, and 12f rods wide?
204. If 8f qt. of strawberries cost $|f , what is the
price per qt. ?
205. The product of three factors is 19£, and two
of them are 1 1 and 2£ : what is the other.
206. Eeduce 4 da. 4 hr. 48 mi. to the decimal of a
week.
207. If 5 tons of coal are equal to 9 cords of wood
for fuel, and a family burns 31.5 cords of wood in a
year, how much will they save by changing from wood
to coal, when wood is worth $4.25 per cord, and
coal $6.80 per ton?
208. When it is 12 o'clock m. at St. Paul, 93° 10'
W. Longitude, what is the time at Richmond, 77° 27'
W. ?
209. Reduce . 06875 to the form of a common frac-
tion and to its lowest terms.
210. 24 is f- per cent, of what number?
211. What will $25,390 amount to in 7 mo., at 10
per cent?
212. When gold is worth 124, what amount of cur-
rency can be bought for $5,400 in gold?
ARITHMETIC. 19
213. A's property is assessed at $6,750, and B's at
$13,575. A's tax is $52.65: bow much is B's?
214. Find the unknown term in the following
proportion :
7i :6£: : : 5
215. Find the unknown term in the following
proportion :
7:21 j .,.„.
4: 8 }' '
216. What is the square root of 1127750724?
Examination X. JVov, n } i86g,
217. Add in figures, LXVI, MDXIX, CCIV,
XVIII.
218. From sixty-eight million nine hundred thou-
sand and six, take seven million two hundred thou-
sand and two.
219. Six hundred and four is one factor, ninety-six
thousand and seventy- three is the other : what is the
product?
220. Which term in division corresponds with the
product in multiplication ?
221. Give the method of proving division.
222. Resolve 7498 into its prime factors.
223. Find the greatest common divisor of 505,
707, and 4343.
224. Of what is the least common multiple of sev-
eral numbers the product ?
225. Find the smallest number that exactly con-
tains 78, 153 and 390.
20 THE REGENTS' QUESTIONS.
226. Express in words t 4 $&Vt-
227. Reduce 387 to eighty-fifths.
228. What is the cost of four fields, containing re-
spectively 4| , 2|, 3£, and l^f acres, at $25 an acre ?
229. What is t) i ite per hour of a boat that
goes 230|-9- miles in 18-f hours?
230. Write as a decimal, t ^oVoo -
231. Required the area in acres, etc., of a piece of
land .5 of a mile long and .3 of a mile broad.
232. From 1 lb. Troy, take 10 oz. 17 pwt. 18 gr.
233. Sold 517 bbl. of flour for $8.10 per bbl., at a
profit of 8 per cent. ; what was the whole cost?
234. lrd. :£ft. : : ? : $0.50.
235. (f)*=?
236. What is the square root of .0011943936?
237. What is the amount of $50, at compound in
terest for 3 years, at 8 per cent. , interest payable half-
yearly?
238. A note for $486, dated September 7, 1863,
was endorsed as follows: Received, March 22, 1864,
$125. Nov. 29, 1864, $150. May 13, 1865, $120.
What was the balance due April 19, 1866, the rate
being 6 per cent?
239. What are the proceeds of a note for $426. 10,
payable in 57 days, with interest at 6 per cent., dis-
counted at bank for 6 per cent?
240. If $400, at 7 per cent., in 9 mo., produce $21
interest, what will be the interest on $360, for 8 mo.,
at 6 percent?
(Solve by proportion.)
ARITHMETIC. 21
Examination XI. Feb. n } 1870.
241. Multiply twenty-nine million two thousand
nine hundred and nine, by four hundred and four
thousand.
242. Divide 47865G785178 by 56789.
243. Prove that the quotient of 478656785178 di-
vided by 5G7S is 8428688fffff.
244. A gem weighing 2 oz. 18 pwt. 12 gr. was sold
for $1.37 per grain: what was the sum paid?
245. Venus is at a certain time 3 S. 18° 45' 15" east
of the sun; Mars, 7 S. 15° 36' 18" east of Venus; Ju-
piter, 5 S. 21° 38' 27" east of Mars: how far is Jupiter
east of the sun?
246. What is the least common multiple (or divi-
dend) of 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8?
247. What is | of ^ of f of f expressed in low-
est terms?
248. Add i of | to I of T V-
249. Divide 81} by 9i.
250. What is the greatest common divisor of f,
5-6, and 1 1-8?
251. Multiply eighty-seven thousandths by fifteen
millionths.
252. What decimal fraction is equivalent to ^?
253. Reduce 6 fur. 8 rd. to the decimal of a mile.
254. What is the value of .815625 of a pound Troy
expressed in oz. pwt. and gr. ?
255. If $800 gain $32 in 8 mo., what is the rate
per cent?
22 THE regents' questions.
256. If a man travels 117 miles in 15 days, employ-
ing only 9 hours a day, how far would he go in 20
days, travelling 12 hours a day?
257. What is the square root of 9754.60423716?
258. If the extremes are 11 and 74, and the com-
mon difference 7, what is the sum of the series?
259. A man having $10,000, lost 15 per cent, of
it ; what sum had he left ?
260. What is the interest of $850 for 1 year 7 mo.
18 days, at 7 per cent?
261. How long must $165 be on interest at 6 per
cent, to gain $14.85?
262. What is the present worth of $477.71, due 4
years hence, discounted at 6 per cent?
263. What is the present worth of a note for $875.-
35, payable in 7 mo. and 15 days, discounted at bank
at 7 per cent?
264. If 29 lb. of butter will purchase 40 R). of
cheese, how many pounds of butter will buy 79 lb.
of cheese?
Examination XII. June g, i8yo.
265. Numerate, read or express in words 8096392-
702.
( TtlCfrtOrHtofflOH
266. Findthesumof ^^gggog^oo
267. 2579584239456—249187654116=?
268. Multiply four hundred and sixty-two thou-
sand six hundred and nine, by itself.
ARITHMETIC. 23
269. Divide 1521808704 by 8503456.
270. If the remainder is 17, the quotient 610, and
the dividend 45767, what is the divisor ?
271. Resolve 7498 into its prime factors.
272. Find the greatest common divisor of 285 and
465.
273. What is the least common multiple, or divi-
dend, of 16, 40, 96, and 105?
274. In 4 da. 4 hr. 45 min., how many seconds?
275. Reduce ■£-, \, \, \, \, j, \, \, to equivalent
fractions having the least common denominator.
276. Reduce 4 oz. 6 pwt. 9f gr. to the fraction of a
pound.
277. How many sq. ft. in the four side walls of a
room 16| ft. long, 15 ft. wide, and 9 ft. high?
278. The product of three numbers f ; two of the
umbers are %\ and |- : what is the third ?
279. Add together 423 ten-millionths, 63 thous-
andths, '25 hundredths, 4 tenths, and 56 ten-thou-
sandths.
280. What cost 5 T. 17 cwt. 20 lb. of hay, at
$30.50 per ton?
281. Reduce 10 oz. 13 pwt. 9 gr. to the decimal of
a pound Troy.
282. Divide 0.01654144 by 0.0018.
283. One acre of corn yields 80 bushels, another
acre 20 per cent, more; how many bushels does the
second acre yield?
284. What is the amount of $794 for 4 years and
4 months, at 7 per cent?
285. What is the bank discount of $600 for 3 mo.
at 6 percent?
24 THE BEGENTS' QUESTIONS.
286. If T % of a ship cost £273 2s. 6d., what will
■£$ cost?
287. If $200 gain $12. in one year, what will $400
gain in 9 months?
288. Find the square root of 4|4?
Examination XIII. JIov. ii } i8jo.
289. Write in figures each of the following num-
bers, add them, and express in words (or numerate)
their sum : fifty-six thousand, and fourteen thou-
sandths; nineteen, and nineteen hundredths; fifty-
seven, and forty-eight ten-thousandths; twenty- three
thousand five, and four-tenths, and fourteenth mil-
lionths.
290. What is the difference between 3f plus 7f
and 4 plus 2f ?
291. In multiplying by more than one figure,
where is the first figure in each partial product writ-
ten, and why is it so written?
292. If the divisor is 19, the quotient 37, and the
remainder 11, what is the dividend?
293. What is the quotient of 65 bu. 1 pk. 3 qt. di-
vided by 12?
294. Which one of the fundamental operations (or
ground rules) of arithmetic is employed in reduction
ascending?
295. In exchanging gold dust for cotton, by what
weight would each be weighed?
296. Which is the largest prime number below
100?
ARITHMETIC. 25
297. How many weeks in 8568456 minutes?
298. To what term in division does the value of a
common fraction correspond ?
299. What is the product of a fraction multi-
plied by its denominator ? Give an example.
800. What is the rule for the multiplication of
decimals ?
301. How is a common fraction reduced to the
decimal form ? Give an example.
302. What is ratio and how may it be expressed?
Illustrate by one or more examples.
303. If 27 T. 3 qr. 15 lb. of coal cost $217.83, what
will 119 T. 1 qr. 10 1b. cost?
304. Find the cost of the several articles, and the
amount of the following bill :
Albany, October 1, 1870.
A. P. Jewett to Samuel Palmer, Dr.
To 16750 feet of boards at $12.50 per M., -
" 1750 " " 24.00
" 3500 " " 25.00
Received payment, $
Samuel Palmer. ,
305. What is the length of the side of a cubical
box which contains 389017 solid inches?
306. What is the present worth of the following
note discounted at bank, and when will it become
due?
$100. Utica, October 11, 1870.
Ninety days from date, for value received, I
promise to pay to the order of John Smith, one hun-
dred dollars, at the Albany City National Bank.
John Brown.
23 THE regents' questions.
307. Involve £ to the 7th power.
308. What is the square root of .0043046721?
309. Sold 9 £ cwt. of sugar at $8£ per cwt., and
thereby lost 12 per cent. : how much was the whole
cost?
310. A person owned f of a mine and sold fof his
interest for $1,710: what was the value of the entire
mine?
311. When it is 2 h. 36.' a. m. at the Cape of Good
Hope, in longitude 18° 24' east, what is the time at
Cape Horn, in latitude 67° 21' west?
312. What is "the cost of 17 T. 18 cwt. 1 qr. 17 lb.
of potash at $53.80 per ton?
Examination XIV. Feb. 23, 1871.
313. Express in words the number 42567000129301.
314. Multiply five hundred and forty thousand six
hundred and nine by seventeen hundred and fifty.
315. Give the rule for reduction descending.
316. How many steps of two and one-half feet
each, would a man take in walking a mile?
317. How is a whole number reduced to a frac-
tion of the same value having a given denomina-
tor ?
31S. What is the value of f of f- of I of \ when
reduced to a simple fraction of the lowest terms ?
319. Give the rule for reducing several fractions
to equivalent fractions having the least common
denominator.
ARITHMETIC. 27
320. Add 3| to 4ft.
321. Write in figures, two and six hundred-mil-
lionths.
322. Reduce ^f- to the equivalent decimal form.
323. Multiply seven thousand and five, by three-
hundred and five millionths.
324. Divide .5 of 1.75 by .25 of m.
325. The ratio of two numbers is 9, and the ante-
cedent 90; what is the consequent?
326. Find the value of the omitted term in the fol-
lowing proportion :
$4:(?) : :9 : 16.
327. If 56 lb. of butter cost $15.68, what will
.078 of a ton cost?
328. If 96 horses eat 192 tons of hay in one winter,
how many tons will 150 horses eat in 6 winters?
329. In 1 yr. 4 mo., $311.50 amounted to |336.42
at simple interest: what was the rate per cent?
330. What is the interest of $14,231.50 from June
15, 1865, to April 30, 1870, at 8 per cent?
331. What is the value of a pile of wood 34 ft.
long, 3 ft. wide and 5-i- ft. high, at $7.88 per cord?
332. How much will it cost to carpet a parlor 18
feet square, with carpeting f yd. wide, at $1.50
per j r ard?
333. The difference in the local time of two places
is 2h. 18m. : what is the difference in longitude?
334. 33 is2f per cent, of what number?
335. What is the length in rods of each side of a
square field which contains 66 A. 1 R. 9 sq. rd. ?
336. A note for $470.66 drawn at 60 days, is dis-
counted at bank at 6 per cent : v^hat are the proceeds?
28 TEE KEGENTS' QUESTIONS.
Examination XV. June 8 } 187 1;
337. Arrange the following numbers as required
for addition, and find their sum; 70100.3042875; 20-
514471; 641077.21875; 2564308.875; 320538.609375;
10257235*; 1282154.4375; 90169.0004; 5128617.75;
160269.3046875.
338. What special name or names are given to
the period ( . ), as an arithmetical sign ; and what is
its use in arithmetic ?
339. What two denominations of currency are sep-
arated and distinguished from each other by the
period used as an arithmetical sign?
340. Mention two or more arithmetical processes
or rules in which ' 'Pointing off into periods" is re-
quired?
341. Point off into periods and numerate 70100.-
3042875.
342. What arithmetical operation would change
the value of 320538.609375 to 32.0538809375?
343. Subtract 70100.3042875 from 10257235£.
344. Multiply 1282154.4375 by 90169.0004.
345. Divide 10257235^ by 641077.21875, and indi-
cate by the use of the proper arithmetical sign,
whether the quotient is an integral, fractional or
mixed number.
346. Change the decimal part of 90169.0004 to the
form of a common (or vulgar) fraction, and then re-
duce it to its lowest terms.
347. Find the prime factors of the integral part of
70100,3042875.
ARITHMETIC. 29
348. Regarding 20514471 as so many square inches,
how many square acres, roods, rods, feet and inches
would be the equivalent of this expression?
349. Regarding the fractional part of 2564308.875
as the decimal of a pound avoirdupois, to how many
ounces would it be equivalent?
350. Represent the first four figures of 160269.-
3046875 by the Roman notation.
351 Copy the following bill of items, find the cost
of each item, insert it in its proper place on the right,
and find the total amount :
Albany, May 30, 1871.
Mr. J. B. Woodworth,
To A. & E. C. Koonz, Dr.
To 75 yds. carpeting, @ $2.50 $
"42 " drugget, @1.87£.
" 6mats, % $3.25
•' 18 rugs, @$22.30
" 81 yds. oilcloth, @$1.10._
%
Received Payment,
A. & E. C. Koonz.
352. Suppose that you buy of D. Appleton & Co.,
of New York, 5 reams of note paper, at $3.25 per
ream, 4, 500 envelopes, at $4. 75 per M. ; 24 boxes of
steel pens, at $1,124- per box; 6 French dictionaries,
at $1.50 each; and 3 photographic albums, at $5.75
each. Make out the bill in regular form.
353. Suppose that the Messrs. Appleton consent to
discount 12 per cent from a bill of $90,875, how
much would the required payment become?
354. Analyze (or explain in words the method of
solving) the following example : If 6 men can do a
•30 THE regents' questions.
piece of work in 10 days, how long will it take 5
men to do it ?
355. Define Ratio.
356. Define Proportion.
357. Define Rule of Three.
358. Solve the following example by the Rule of
Three, (or Proportion:)
If a railroad car goes 17 miles in 45 minutes, how
far will it go in 5 hours at the same rate?
359. J. Ayers had D. Howe's note for $1,728,
dated Dec. 29, 1869; what will be the amount Oct. 9,
1872, at 9 per cent?
360. What principal will gain $5.11, in 3 yr. and
6 mo. at 8 per cent?
Examination XVI. JVov. g, 1871.
361. Express by figures the number : five trillions
•eighty billions nine millions and one.
362. Add the following numbers :
( x Two hundred and ten thousand four hundred ;
( a ) One hundred thousand five hundred and ten;
( 3 ) Ninety thousand six hundred and eleven;
( 4 ) Forty-two hundred and twenty-five;
C 5 ) Eight hundred and ten.
363. Taking two hundred and ten thousand four
hundred as a minuend, and one hundred thousand
five hundred and ten as a remainder, what will the
subtrahend be, expressed in words?
364. What is the product of ninety thousand six
ARITHMETIC. 31
hundred and eleven, and forty two hundred anc5
twenty five?
365. The quotient of one number divided by
another is 37; the divisor, 246; the remainder, 230;
what is the dividend?
366. What is the greatest common divisor of 1649
and 5423 ?
367. What is the least common multiple (or divi-
dend) of 21, 35 and 42?
368. What is the value of 6| divided by 8£ ?
369. How many yards of cloth | of a yard wide
are equivalent to 12 yards £ yards wide ?
370. Change j to an equivalent fraction having 91
for its denominator.
371. The difference between f and £ of a number
is 10 : what is that number ?
372. What is the sum of i, 1&, 10|, and 5?
'373. What will 4868 bricks cost, at $4.75 per M.?
374. An open court contains 40 square yards : how
many stones, nine inches square, will be required to
pave it?
375. Change .0008 to a common fraction.
376. Change ¥ f^ to a decimal.
377. How many cords of wood could be piled in a
shed 50 ft. long, 25 ft, wide and 10 ft. high?
378. How many acres of city land at $2 per square
foot, could be bought for a half million dollars?
379. Change 10 oz. 13 pwt. 9 gr. to the decimal of
a pound Troy.
380. A man owning | of an iron foundry, sold 35-
per cent, of his share: what part did he still own?
32 THE regents' questions.
381. What will be the amount, at simple interest,
of $35.61, from Nov. 11, 1869, to Dec. 15, 1871, at 6
per cent?
382. If the consequent be f , and the ratio f, what
is the antecedent?
383. At the rate of 9 yards for £5 12s. how many
yards of cloth can be bought for £44 16s?
384. What is the square root of 570.02880036?
Examination XVII. Feb. 2J, z8j2.,
385. Add seven hundred and four ; sixty thousand
four hundred; five million eight thousand and sixty;
912875; thirty thousand and forty-nine; seven hun-
dred and seven thousand nine hundred and six.
386. A. had $3,958, B. $1,463; A. lost $1,365, B.
gained $1,165: which then had the most, and how
much?
387. A peddler bought 491 yards of cloth at 81 cts.
a yard ; he used 29 yards, and sold the rest at 95 cts.
-a yard : how much did he gain ?
388. A city had $311,205 at the beginning of the
year; the income of the year was $884,743, and ex-
penses $896,756: what was the balance on hand at
the end of the year ?
389. A man exchanged 159 cords of wood at $5 a
cord, for a horse valued at $144, and the balance in
sheep at $3 apiece : how many sheep did he receive ?
390. How many pieces of muslin, each containing
33 yards, must be sold at 14ct. 5m. a yard to realize
$1,339.80?
ARITHMETIC. 33
391. How many sq. yd. of paving in a street are
there, 2700ft. long and 40ft. wide?
392. At noon on Thursday, a ship was in north
latitude 28° 15' 35" ; it then sailed north till Saturday
afternoon at 3 o'clock, when it was in north latitude
41° 34' 35": what was its average motion per hour, in
geographical miles?
393. i- of fa of H of f of | of 20?-= ?
394. Sold a team for $1834, losing $24£: for how
much should I have sold it to gain $39^ ?
395. A man having 105f A. of land, exchanged ^
of it for wood, at the rate of 10£ C. per A. : how
many C. did he receive ?
396. Multiply the quotient of 14f , divided by 6f,
by the quotient of 5f divided by 7 fa.
397. Reduce 9000000 in. to mi.
398. What is the cost of a field 77 rd. long and 41
rd. wide, at $17.60 an A.?
399. If 4.2 yd. of cloth cost $15, what will 8 yd. 3
qr. cost?
400. If a loaf weighing 124 oz. is worth 2 cts.,
when flour is §4 a bbl., what is the value of a loaf
weighing 10 £- oz., when flour is $6| a bbl. ?
401. A man bought 350 A. of land for $40 an acre,
and sold a part for $2,240, at the same rate: what per
cent, of the land did he sell?
402. At 6 per cent., what is the interest of $720 for
3 yrs. 4 mo. 16 da. ?
403. Sold 50 bbl. of wine, each containing 31 gal.
2qt., at $2.40 a gal., receiving a note at 90 days
without grace : what would be the proceeds of this
note, discounted at 7| per cent?
34 THE regents' questions.
404. A., B. and C. bought a horse for $100 and
sold him for $150, by which A. gained $18 and B.
$19: how much had each paid for the horse ?
405. A man had a yard 38 ft. long and 27 ft. wide :
he reserved two grass plats each 8 ft. square, and
had the rest paved with stone, at 45 cts. a sq. yd. :
what did the paving cost?
406. The product of two equal factors is 34225:
what is each factor?
407. Find the sum of 10 terms of the geometric
series, 3, 6, 12, etc.
408. If January 1st is Sunday, how much can a
man earn in the first three months of a leap year, at
$1.25 per day, not working Sundays?
Examination XVIII. June 6, 18 j2.
409. If the minuend be 69 trillion and the differ-
ence 85 billion, what is the subtrahend?
410. If 892 is one factor, and 28544 the product,
what is the other factor ?
411. Resolve 180 into its prime factors.
412. Find the greatest common divisor of 222 and
564.
413. Reduec8692 to a fraction whose denominator
is 25.
414. What cost 5| cords of wood at $7.56 a cord?
415. f of H divided by & of f of f = ?
ARITHMETIC. 35
416. A body of 4800 troops has ^ as many cavalry
as infantry : what is the number of infantry ?
417. 3fX3fX^ = ?
418. The product of three numbers is 74^ ; two of
them are 81 and 6 T 1 3 - : what is the third ?
419. Reduce 2 m. 5 f . 13 r. 4 yd. 2 ft, to inches.
420. What would be the cost of enough oil cloth
to cover a room 12x16+ feet, at 75 cts. per sq. yd. ?
421. At $198 per lb., what would be the cost of 10
oz. 10 pwt. 10 gr. of gold?
422. What is the difference in time of two places
whose longitudes differ 7 degrees, 8 minutes and 4
seconds?
423. Write in figures (the fractional part as decimal)
the number : seven millions and one ten-millionth.
424. 49.2654756 divided by .0750=?
425. Reduce .8975 of a week, to whole numbers of
lower denominations.
426. What is the amount of $1,000 for 7 yr. 10 mo.
18 da., at 6 per cent., simple interest?
427. What is the present worth of $1,609. 30 for 10
mo. 24 d., discounted at 5 per cent?
428. For what must apples, which cost $1.25, be
sold to gain 20 per cent?
429. If $800 yield $56 interest in a certain time,
what will $390 yield at the same rate?
430. If a 3-cent loaf weigh 2 oz., when flour is
$7.50 per bbl., what should a 12 cent loaf weigh when
flour is $16 per barrel?
431 . What number expresses the difference between
the square and the cube of 24 V
432. What is the square root of 253009?
36 THE regents' questions.
Examination XIX. JVov. 7, 1872.
433. Write in figures: twenty quintillions two
hundred and seven billions six hundred millions six
thousand and fifty-nine.
434. Express in words: 224000000600317010.
435. Add 100375, 406780, 4673005, 4112, 18365791,
2478, and 164357.
436. Find the sum (in Roman notation) of LXYI,
MDXIX, CCIV, XVIII.
437. The factors of a certain number are 53, 7, 5,
and 107: what is that number?
438. 246515999541 divided by 28653=what?
439. What are the prime factors of 6006 ? q.
440. What is the greatest common divisor of 2268
and 344?
441. Find the least common multiple of the 9
digits.
442. Reduce £• , ^, i, and 2J-, to equivalent num-
bers having the least common denominator.
443. What would be the whole cost of four fields,
containing respectively, 4^, 21, 3f, and Iff acres, at
$25 an acre ?
444. Reduce f X£X|X T 4 T XHXfXf, to a single
fraction of the lowest terms.
445. If a man makes $1££ on the sale of one table,
how many tables must he sell to make $27f ?
446. A. Barnes, of Lee, sold B. Brown the follow-
ing articles: April 1, 1872, 24 yd. black silk, at
$2.25 a yd. ; April 3, 2 pieces calico, 40 yds. each, at
30 c. a yd. ; May 2. 4 dress patterns, at $6,75 a pat-
tern; May 9, 22i yd. linen, at $1.12 a yd. Brown
ARITHMETIC. 37
paid $55 on account. Make out his bill in proper
form, showing balance due.
447. At 35 c. per sq. yd., what would it cost to
plaster a wall 15 ft. high and 54 ft. long?
448. How much wood in three piles, the first of
which contains 10 cd. Gcd.ft. 4 cu.ft., the second, 12
cd. 12 cu.ft, ; the third, 17 cd. 1 cd.ft?
449. Divide the sum of five thousand and two
thousandths, by two hundredths.
450. $10 is 12 per cent, of what number?
451. What is the amount of $2,160 from March 10
to Dec. 1, at 5 per cent?
452. How much must be invested at 7 per cent,
simple interest, to yield an annual income of $630?
453. A note for $1,800, payable in 60 days, was
discounted at bank at 6 per cent. : how much did the
holder receive?
454. What cost 9 hats, if 5 hats cost £4, 5s?
455. If the wages of 6 men for 14 days are $126,
what, at the same rate, would be the wages of 9 men
for 16 days?
456. Extract the square root of 6.5536.
Examination XX. Feb. 27, 1873.
457. Write in words the number represented by
the figures: 20463162486135.
458. Express in figures : fifty-seven billions fifty-
nine millions ninety thousand and forty-seven.
38 THE regents' questions.
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460. From 501505010678 take 794090589.
461. Multiply ninety thousand eight hundred and
seven, by nine thousand one hundred and six.
462. 18 A. R. 14 p. equal how many square
feet?
463. 31557600 seconds equal how many days?
464. From 61 S. 15° 36' 15" take 53 S. 18° 50' 18".
465. If 84 loads of hay weigh 201 T. 6 cwt. qr.
12 lb., what will 5 loads weigh?
466. What are the prime factors of 19965 ?
467. Find the least common multiple of 3, 4, 5, 6,
7, 8.
468. Reduce f X T \XtVX8f X^-to a simple frac-
tion of the lowest terms.
469. Reduce f , §-, £, i, £ and ^ to equivalent frac-
tions having the least common denominator.
470. What is the sum of f, f, f , and T V?
471. Divide 116f by 14^. (Give the answer as a
mixed number, with its fraction of the lowest
terms.)
472. Reduce f of a grain to the fraction of a pound
Troy.
473. Paid $4,355.52 for 49f pieces of carpeting:
what would 37f pieces cost, at the same rate?
474. Multiply eighty-seven thousandths by fifteen
millionths.
475. What decimal fraction is equivalent to ^?
476. What is 5 per cent, of $789?
477. What is the interest of $1,165.50, for 5 yr. 3
mo. 9 d. at 7 per cent 9
ARITHMETIC. 39
478. What is the bank discount on $780 for 30
days?
479. If A. travels 117 miles in 15 days, employing
9 hours a day, how far would he travel in 20 days,
travelling 12 hours a day (at the same rate per hour)?
480. What is the square root of 23804641 ?
Examination XXL June $ } 1873.
481. Write 1873 in Roman characters.
482. What is Notation?
483. Write in words: 9008007006
484. To what number must 962 oe added three
times to make 8472?
485. $9,843,621 plus $4,687.32 plus $84,321 plus
$.07 plus $.64 plus $973,241=?
486. Reduce 53684" to numbers of higher denomi-
nations.
487. Reduce .8975 of a week to whole numbers of
lower denominations.
488. What cost 10f tons of coal, at $7f a ton?
489. 108-=4fX T T-£=?
490. Find the least common multiple of 12, 16,
and 28.
491. Reduce \%, £f , and 8f to the least common
denominator.
492. A cubic foot of granite weighs 163 lb. 5 oz. ;
what is the weight of a block 3 ft. 2f in. long, 2 ft.
4 in. wide, and 1 ft. 3 in. thick?
40 THE regents' questions.
493. How many linear yards of carpeting 1\ yd.
wide will cover a floor 18 ft. square?
494. When snow is uniformly 6 inches deep, how
many cubic feet are there on one acre of land?
495. Charles Fuller bought of James Monroe, at
West Troy, N. Y., May 4, 1873, 1 horse for $95, 2
cows at $50 each, 1 wagon for $62, 2 shovels at $1.12
each and 30 bushels of corn at $0. 65 per bushel, pay-
ing cash in full. Make the bill in due form.
496. A cistern-can be emptied by 7 pipes of equal
capacity i n 35 minutes : in what time can it be emp-
tied if only 5 pipes are open?
497. If 12 per cent, of $97.50 be lost, what amount
will remain?
498. What is the simple interest of $200 for 4 yr.
6 mo. 3d., at 7 per cent?
499. Find the bank discount of $1,000 for 3 mo. at
7 per cent.
500. If 9 lb. of lead make 150 bullets, how many
bullets can be made from 105 lb. ?
(Solve by proportion and cancellation.)
501. If the wages of 75 boys for 84 days were
$68.75, how many days could 90 boys be employed at
the same rate, for $41.25?
(Solve by double proportion.)
502. What is the difference between the square
and the cube of 24?
503. What is the square root of 253009?
504. £ of a number exceeds \ of it by 20 : what i»
that number?
ARITHMETIC. 41
Examination XXII. JVov. 6, i8j3-
505. Find the sum f of 9| and f of 28^.
506. Find the difference between 3f-j-7f and 44-2f .
507. The product of three factors is 19£, and two
of them are f and £ : what is the other?
508. Divide .5 of 1.75 by .25 of 17£.
509. What is the value of 6§ divided by 8|, as a
simple fraction?
510. What is the value of .815625 of a pound Troy
expressed in oz. pwt. and gr. ?
511. Eeduce 4 da. 4 hr. 48 mi. to the decimal of a
week.
512. A person owned f of a mine and sold §• of his
interest for $1,710: what was the whole cost?
513. Sold 9f cwt. of sugar at $8 per cwt.. and
thereby lost 20 per cent: what was the whole cost?
514. A man, owning f of a bank, sold 35 per cent,
of his share: what per cent, of the whole was left?
515. A's property is assessed at $6,750, and B.'s at
$13,550. A.'s tax is $55.35: how much is B.'s?
516. How many acres could 10 men plough in 14
hours if 7 men plough 6 acres in 12£ hours?
517. What is the simple interest on $200 for 3 yr.
10 mo. at 7 per cent?
518. In 1 yr. 4 mo., $311.50 amounted to $348.88,
at simple interest; what was the rate per cent?
519. What is the amount of $1,000 for 7 yr. 10 mo.
18 da., at 6 per cent, simple interest?
520. What sum, at 9 percent., simple interest, will
amount to $286.00, in 3 yr. 4 mo. ?
42 TITE regents' questions.
521. A note for $470. 66, drawn at 60 days, is dis-
counted at bank at 6 per cent: what are the proceeds?
522. What is the amount of $50, at compound in-
terest for 3 yr. at 8 per cent,, interest payable half-
yearly?
523. J. Ayres has D. Howe's note for $1,728,
dated Dec. 29, 1869: what was the amount Oct. 9,
1873, at 9 per cent., with interest from date?
524. What is the value in currenc} r of $865 in gold,
when the latter is selling at 107 per cent. ?
525. How much gold will $100 currency buy, gold
being at 111?
526. Suppose that you buy of D. Appleton & Co.
of New York, 5 reams of note paper, at $3.25 per
ream; 4,500 envelopes, at $4.75 per M. ; 24 boxes of
steel pens, at $1.12| per box; 6 French dictionaries,
at $1.50 each; and 3 photographic albums, at $5.75
each. Make a bill for D. Appleton & Co., against
yourself, in regular form.
527. A man had a yard 38 ft. long and 27 ft. wide;
he reserved two grass plats, each 8 ft. square, and
had the rest paved with stone, at 45cts. a sq. yd. :
what did the paving cost?
528. How much will it cost to dig a cellar 40 ft.
long, 32 ft. wide, and 5 ft. deep, at $0.25 a cubic
yard?
Examination XXII 1. Feb. 26 ; 18 j 4.
529. Find the smallest number which will exactly
contain 9, 15, 18, 20.
ARITHMETIC. 43
530. If 5 be added to each term of the fraction f ,
by what number will its value be diminished?
531. If .0001 is the dividend, and 1.25 the divisor,
what is the quotient?
532. What will 28 sq. yd., 129 sq. ft. of land cost
at 12 cts. per sq. ft. ?
533. What is the cost of 4,565 ft. of joist, at $23
per M., and 13,640 ft. of boards at $53.55 per M. ?
534. If 32f sq. yd. of carpeting will cover a floor
14 ft. wide, what is the length of the floor?
535. If a load of wood is 8 ft. long and 3 ft. wide,
how high must it be to contain a cord?
586. What decimal of a short ton is f of an oz. ?
537. 20004-f(20.104x5.07)-(6.44^-.0005)=?
538. What part of 2| is (f of £ of f-g-f)?
539. Reduce .3945 of a day to lower denomina-
tions.
540. An agent received $67. 50 for collecting $4, 500 :
what was the rate per cent, of his commission?
541. How many cubic ft. in a rectangular beam,
24 ft. 6 in. long, 1 ft. 9 in. wide, and 1 ft. 2£ in.
thick?
542. How much shall I gain by borrowing $3,560
or 1 yr. 6 mo. 10 da., at 6 per cent., and lending it
at 7 per cent, for the same length of time?
543. What is the amount of $1,450.40 from April
19, 1872, to August 3, 1873, at 6 per cent?
§44. What is the difference between the greatest
common divisor of 30 and 42, and their least com-
mon multiple?
545. A 63 gal. cask is f full of wine: if 27.625 gal.
44 , THE regents' questions.
should leak out, the wine remaining will be what
decimal part of the full cask?
546. James Riley & Co. bought, July 7, 1873, of
Joseph Herr, Trenton, N. J., 15 tons of coal at $6.50
per ton; 19 tons of coal at $8.25 per ton; and 14£- cords
of wood at $5.20 per cord. Make a bill of the pur-
chase, and receipt it for Joseph Herr.
547. How much must be paid for 41 gal. 2 qt. If pt.
of molasses, at 72 cts. a gal. ?
548. If {% of a ton of hay cost $18.50, how much
will two loads cost, one weighing f of a ton, and
the other |f of a ton?
549. What is the difference between the true and
the bank discount of $300, for 3 months, at 8 per
cent?
550. "What principal on interest at 7 per cent., from
April 9, 1871, to Sept. 5, 1873, will amount to $1,-
477.59?
551. The difference between the interest of $600,
and that of $750, at 5 per cent, for a certain time, is
$18.75. What is the time?
552. If 18 men can dig a trench 30 yd. long in 24
da., by working 8 hr. a day, how many men can dig
a trench 60 yd. long, in 64 da., working 6 hours a
day?
Examination XXI V. June 4, 18 j 4:
553. What is the sum of 3912, 400005, 631$, 736863,
.000803, 60708010, 4^, and 290.68042?
554. Subtract & of 9f, from -fa of 151^.
ARiTmrETic. 45
555. What will 250 miles of telegraph wire cost at
3 cts. per ft. ?
556. When it is noon at the Cape of Good Hope,
in longitude 18 ° 24 ' east, what is the time at Cape
Horn, in longitude 67 ° 21 ' west?
557. How many cords of wood in a pile 140 ft.
long, 4£ ft. wide, and 6| ft. high?
558. Required the area in acres, etc., of a piece of
land .5 of a mile long, and .3 of a mile broad.
559. How much will it cost to dig a cellar 40 ft.
long, 32 ft. wide, and 5 ft. deep, at £0.25 a cubic yd. I
560. i of a qr. is what per cent, of f of a cwt. ?
561. Reduce fib. Troy to units of lower denomin-
ations.
562. How much gold will $100 currency buy, gold
being at 113?
563. In 1 yr. 4 mo., $311.50 amounted to $336.42,
at simple interest: what was the rate per cent?
564. What sum, at 7 per cent, simple interest, will
amount to $221.07, in 3 yr. 4 mo. ?
565. A note for $470.66, drawn at 60 days, is dis-
counted at bank at 6 per cent. : what are the pro-
ceeds?
566. What is the amount of $50, for 2 yr., at 8 per
cent, compound interest, pa} r able half-yearly?
567. The four sides of my garden are 168 ft.,
280 ft., 182 ft., and 252 ft., respectively. What is
the greatest length of boards that I can use in fenc-
ing it, without cutting any of them?
568. A garden has 4 sides, respectively 168, 280,
182, and 252 ft. long. Suppose that each board is 8
in. wide, and that the fence is 5 boards high : how
46 THE regents' questions.
many sq. ft. of boards will it require to fence the
garden?
569. Suppose that you sell to John Clarke, of New
York, for cash, 75 yd. of carpet, $1.55 per yd.; 30
yd. drugget, at $1.30 per yd. ; 5 mats at $3.15 each,
and 35 yd. of oil cloth, at $1.05 per yd. Make a re-
ceipted bill of these articles, in regular form.
570. What is the value of (fX|-f3f)-s-ff ?
571. What is the least number that 8, 12 and 16
will each divide without remainder?
572. What will 11 lb. 4 oz. of tea cost, if 3 lb. 12
oz. cost $3.50?
(Solve by proportion.)
573. If a man travels 107 miles in 15 days, em-
ploying only 9 hours a day, how far would he go in
20 days, travelling 12 hours a day, at the same rate
per hour?
574. What debt can be discharged in a year by
weekly payments in arithmetical progression, the first
being $24, and the last $1,224?
575. What is the length, in feet and inches, of
each side of a square carpet, made from 208£ yds. of
Brussels carpeting, f yd. wide ?
576. What is the length of the side of a cubical
box which contains 389017 solid inches?
Examination XXV. JVov,j? ; 1&74.
577. Find the sum of the following numbers, ar-
ranging them properly for addition: 14.2351; 651.-
012; 2.219; .0374; .00146.
ARITHMETIC. 47
578. Multiply 4.44; 5.555; 6,23; .5.
579. Di-ide 6.435945 by 4027.5.
580. Find the sum of 16i, §i, and fi.
581. Find the product of if, i, and T ? r .
582. If 3f bu. of oats cost $2f, what will 2 bu.
cost? ,
583. Resolve 122, 850 into its prime factors.
584. Find the greatest common divisor of 195,
285, and 315.
585. Find the least common multiple of 49, 14, 84,
168 and 98.
586. Sold 2,462 feet of boards, at $ 7.25 per 1000
600 " scantling, " 11.75 " 1000
" 10,12 " plank, " 1.25 " 100
77 " hewn timber" .15" foot
Write a bill of the same and receipt it. The seller
may be John Smith, and the buyer James Brown.
587. What part of f of a mile is 4f rods, expressed
in decimals?
588. The longitude of New York city is 73° 58'
54.43"W. ; of Buffalo, 78° 53 ' 25 " W. What is the
difference of time?
589. Write the rule for multiplication of decimals.
590. Write the rule for division of decimals.
591. Define ratio, state how it may be expressed,
what each term is called, and give an example.
592. The same of proportion.
593. What is either extreme of a proportion equal
to? What either mean-
594. What is the simple interest on $2, 500 for 1 jr.
8 mo. 12 da., at 7 per cent?
595. A. has a note against B. for $1,728, payable 90
days after date, without interest, which he gets dis-
48 THE regents' questions.
counted at bank at the rate of 7 per cent. : what does
he receive?
596. Extract the square root of 1104601.
597. If a man can do a piece of work in 20 days,
working 10 hours a day, how long will it take him
to do the same if he works 12 hours a day?
(Solve by proportion.)
598. A farmer puts a flock of sheep in three pas-
tures; in the first he puts £ of his flock, in the second
i, and in the third, 32 sheep. How many has he ?
(Solve by analysis.)
599. Find 12 per cent, of $^.
600. A commission merchant sold 500 pieces of
muslin, each piece containing 21 yards, for 23 cents
a yard: what is his commission at 2£ per cent?
Examination XXVI , Feb. 25, 1&75.
601. The population of Me. is 627,413; of N. H.,
301,471; of Vt., 300,187; of Mass., 1,240,499; of
Conn., 410,749; of R. I., 192,815. What is the aggre-
gate population of these States?
602. B. had $12,311; and after paying his debts,
and giving away $2,108, he has $8,199 left. What
was the amount of his debts?
603. How many peaches in an orchard of 14 rows
of trees, each row having 27 trees, and each tree 108
peaches ?
604. How many cheeses of 45 lb. each, atl2cts.
ARITHMETIC. 49
per R)., will pay for 15 bbl. of apples, each contain-
ing 3 bu., at 84 cts per bu. ?
605. Add 8&,ff , and ff-
606. What cost 33£lb of tea, at 93f cts. per lb ?
607. 100f£-5-66£=?
608. Write as a decimal, and in words, r^finr-
609. 6.43875-=-4027.5=?
610. Anna Lee buys of Eva Cole, for cash, 18 yd.
of calico, at 12£ cts. per yd. ; 12 yd. muslin, at 17 cts. ;
2£ yd. linen at 74 cts. ; and 9 spools thread, at 7 cts.
Make a bill in due form.
611. What decimal part of a mile is 74 rd. 5 yd. ?
612. The circumference of 1 carriage wheel is 13
ft. 9 in., and that of another is 16 ft. 6 in. How
many more times will one turn than the other, in go-
ing 30 miles?
613. What cost 8,824 lb. of hay, at $15 per ton?
614. The means and one extreme of a proportion
being given, how may the other extreme be found?
615. The extremes and one mean being given, how
may the other mean be found?
616. Give an example of a proportion in which the
means and one extreme are given, and solve it.
617. Give an example of a proportion in which the
extremes and one mean are given, and solve it.
618. If 20 yd. of cloth f of a yd. wide are re-
quired for a dress, what must be the width of a piece
12 yd. long, to answer the same purpose?
(Solve by proportion.)
619. If a man can walk 250 mi. in 9 da. of 12 hr. each,
how many da. of 10 hr. each would he spend in walk-
ing 400 mi. ? (Solve by double proportion.)
50 THE regents' questions.
620. A boy bought eggs at the rate of 3 for 5 cts.,
and sold them at the rate of 4 for 7 cts., clearing 9
cts. : how many did he buy?
(Solve by analysis.)
621. A commission merchant sold 500 pieces of
cloth for $30 a piece, and paid the owner $14,700:
what was the rate of his commission?
622. A store was insured for $12,000 at the rate of £
per cent., and the goods for $15,000, at 1£ per cent:
what was the entire premium?
623. What will be the proceeds of a note for $1,000,
without interest, payable at bank in 60 days, at 6 per
cent?
624. A man being asked his age, replied, if you
add to its half, its third and three times three, the
sum will be 130: what was his age?
Examination XXV 11. June <$ } 1875.
625. The quotient is 71, the divisor 42, and the re-
mainder 15: what is the dividend ?
626. What will be the cost of 2,760 lb. of hay at
$8.50 per ton?
627. From 17£ take f of 16£, and multiply the re-
mainder by •§• .
628. A lady bought 6 silver spoons, each weigh-
ing 3 oz. 3pwt. 8 gr., at $2.25 an oz., and a gold
chain weighing 14 pwt. at $1.25 a pwt. : what was
the cost of both spoons and chain?
ARITHMETIC. 51
629. From 15 ten- thousandths take 27 miilionths,
and multiply the difference by 20.5.
630. Reduce 6. 25 of a pound Troy to lower inte-
gers.
631 . How many seconds are there in the three sum-
mer months?
632. How many acres are there in a street 4 rods
wide, and 2^ miles long?
633. Reduce 4s. 6d. to the decimal of a £ sterling.
634. A quantity of sugar was bought for $150, and
sold for $167.50: what was the gain per cent?
635. Mrs. C. B. Jones bought of Cole, Steel & Co.,
of Detroit, as follows: Nov. 12, 1874, 23 yd. calico,
@ 16c. ; 45 yd. sheeting, @ 20c. ; Dec. 7, 12 yd. silk,
@, $1.62£-; 8 handkerchiefs, @ 45c; 2 pairs kid
gloves, @, $1.87i. Make bill for Jan. 1, 1875, and
receipt the same, as clerk of the firm.
636. What is the interest of $125.50 for 7 mo. 10
da. at 7 per cent?
637. A note for $500, dated Oct, 8, 1873, and bear-
ing interest at 9 per cent. , is endorsed as follows :
Nov. 4, 1874, $30; Jan. 30, 1875, $250. What will
be due Julyl, 1875?
638. What is the true discount on $236, due in 3
years, at 6 per cent?
639. What is the bank discount on $125 payable
in 90 days, at 8 per cent?
640. Two men divided a lot of wood costing
one taking 5£ cords, and the other the remaining 8
cords: what must each pay? (Solve by analysis.)
641. What is the square root of 416.16?
52 THE regents' questions.
642. How many gallons of water will a cistern hold
which is 7 ft. long, 6 ft. wide, and 11 ft. deep?
643. A. can mow 2 acres in 3 days, and B. 5 acres
in 6 days : in how many days can they together mow
9 acres?
644. A house valued at $3, 240 is insured for £ of its
value, at f per cent. : what is the premium?
645. How many bricks will it require to build a
wall2rd. long, 6 ft. high, and 18 in. thick, each
brick being 8 in. long, 4 in. wide, and 2£ in. thick?
646. If the wages of 24 men for 4 days are $192,
what will be the wages of 36 men for 3 days?
(Solve by double proportion and cancellation.)
647. At what rate per cent, will $311.50 amount
to $337.40 in 1 year. 4 mo.?
648. What will it cost to lay a pavement 36 ft.
long, and 9 ft. 6 in. wide, at 40 cts. a sq. yd. ?
Examination XXVIII. JIov. 4, i8jj.
649. Express in words the number : 42567000129301.
650. ..Multiply five hundred and forty thousand six
hundred and nine, by seventeen hundred and fifty.
651. Give the rule for reduction ascending {i. e.
from lower to higher denominations), and state how
this process chiefly differs from reduction descending.
652. How many steps of two arid one-half feet
each, would a man take in walking five miles?
653. How is a whole number reduced to a fraction
of the panie value, having a given denominator?
ARITHMETIC. 53
654. What is the value of f of f of I of |, when
reduced to a simple fraction of the lowest terms ?
655. Give the rule for reducing several fractions
to equivalent fractions, having the least common de-
nominator.
656. Add 33-, 4§|, and 51.652. (Express the frac-
tional part of the sum as a decimal of three places.)
657. Write in figures : two and six hundred-mil-
lionths.
658. Reduce ^f- F to the equivalent decimal form.
659. Multiply seven thousand and five, by three -
hundred-and-five-millionths.
660. Divide .5 of 1.75 by .25 of 17£.
661. If 27 T. 3 qr. 15 lb. of coal cost $217.83, what
will 119 T.. 1 qr. 10 lb. cost? (First reduce qrs. and
lbs. to the decimal of a ton ; and then solve by pro-
portion.)
662. What is the square root of .0043046721 ?
663. The ratio of two numbers and the consequent
being given, what is the process for finding the
antecedent (considering it as standing in the same re-
lation to the consequent, as a numerator to its de-
nominator?)
664. Find the value of the omitted term in the
following proportion : $4 :(?):•: 9 : 16.
665. A note for $486, dated Sept. 7, 1873, was en-
dorsed as follows : Received. March 22, 1874, $125,
May 13, 1875, $120. What balance remained due at
time of last payment, the rate being 6 per cent ?
666. What is the length of the side of a cubical
box which contains 103823 solid inches?
54 THE REGENTS' questions.
667. What are the proceeds of the following note
discounted at bank, and when will it become due f
$100. Utica, October 11, 1875.
Ninety days from date, for value received, I prom-
ise to pay to the order of John Smith, One Hundred
Dollars, at the Albany City Bank. John Jay.
668. Involve •§■ to the 5th power
669. Sold 9£ cwt. sugar at $8£ per cwt., and
thereby lost 12 per cent: what was the first cost?
670. A person owned f of a mine, and sold f of
his interest for $1710 : what was the value of the
entire mine?
671. When it is 2 h. 36' a. m. at the Cape of Good
Hope, in longitude 18° 24' east, what is the time at
Cape Horn, in longitude 67° 21' west?
672. What is the cost of 17 T. 18 cwt. 1 qr. 17 lb.
of potash, at $53. 80 per ton ? (First reduce the lower
denominations to the decimal of a ton.)
Examination XXIX. Feb. 24, 18 j6.
673. Two men are 450 miles apart ; if they approach
each other, one traveling 30 miles a day and the oth-
er 35 miles a day, how far apart will they be at the
end of 6 days ?
674. A. had $24, B. four times as much as A. less
$16, and C. twice as much as A. and B. together
plus $17 : how much money had C. ?
675. Give all the prime numbers below 20; and all
the composite numbers between 20 and 40 inclusive.
ARITHMETIC. 55
676. What is the greatest common divisor of 144,
216, and 648 ?
677. Reduce to the simplest form, (20f-j-J of f) ■*•
■6MX*.
678. The longitude of New York being 3° E. from
the meridian of Washington, San Francisco 45° 25'
W., what will be the time of day at New York,
when it is noon at San Francisco ?
679. 2 pk. 3 qt. 1.2 pt. is what decimal part of 20
bu.?
680. What will it cost to dig a cellar 40 ft. long,
21 ft. 6 in. wide, and 4 ft. deep, at $1.75 a cubic
yard?
681. From 16 ten thousandths take 27 millionths,
and multiply the difference by 20.5.
682. Henry Smith bought of John Clarke, of Louis-
ville, Ky., as follows: Dec. 10, 1875, 7 pair calf
boots @ $5.75; 6 pair ladies' gaiters @. $3. 25; 10 pair
■children's shoes @ $1.75; Jan. 5, 1876, 12 pair coarse
boots @ $3.12£. Make out and receipt the bill, as
clerk of John Clarke.
683. A clerk receiving a salary of $950, pays $275
a year for board, $180 for clothing, and $150 for
other expenses: what percent, of his salary is left?
684. Carriages costing $165 are sold at 18 per cent,
profit: what is the gain on each carriage?
685. A school house is insured at f per cent.,
and the premium was $93.60: for how much is the
house insured?
686. If a man's pulse beat 300 times in 4
minutes, how many times will it beat in 8 hours?
(Solve by proportion )
56 THE regents' questions.
687. If it cost $84 to carpet a room 36 ft. long and
21 feet wide, what will it cost to carpet a room 33 ft.
long and 27 ft. wide? (State and solve as a compound
proportion.)
688. At what date will a note for $300, given Jan.
10, 1876, amount to $347.25, at 6 per cent, simple
interest?
689. A note for $520, dated April 12, 1874, had the
following endorsement: "Dec. 6, 1874, $120."
"What amount will be due May 1, 1876, at 9 percent,
simple interest?
690. What is the square root of 1040 T V?
691. A flag pole 180 ft. high casts a shadow 135 ft.
in length : what is the distance from the top of the
pole to the end of its shadow ?
692. A block of granite in the form of a cube
contains 41063.625 cubic inches: what is the length
of its edge?
Examination XXX. June 8, 1876.
693. The Erie Railway is 460 miles long, and
cost $65,000 a mile: if $9,645,635 had been paid,
how much would remain unpaid?
694. How many lb. of butter, at 33 cts a lb., can
be bought for 55 lb. of tea, at 78 cts. a lb. ?
695. What is the sum of twenty-nine and three
tenths, four hundred and sixty-five, and two hundred
and twenty-one thousandths? (Give the answer in
figure and also in wards.)
ARITHMETIC. 57
696. If I own I of a farm, and sell £ of my share
for $2,300, what is the value of the whole farm at
the same rate?
697. Find the factors of .035, and multiply .007853
by these factors.
698. Reduce 15 cwt. 3 qr. 2} lb. to the decimal of
a ton.
699. Reduce 347-2560 to a decimal (of 9 places.)
700. The four walls of a room are each 16 ft. in
length and 9 ft. in height, and the ceiling is 16 ft.
square : how much will it cost to plaster it, at 14 cts.
a sq. yd?
701. A merchant, failing in trade, pays 65 cts. on
each dollar owed; he owes A $2,750, and B. #1,975;
how much does he pay each?
702. Paid $41.62| for a pile of wood, at the rate of
$3.37£ a cord: how much was there in The pile?
703. A steamship, in crossing the Atlantic, has
3,500 miles to go: if she sails 211 mi. 4 fur. 32 rd. a
day, what distance, after 15 da., has she still to sail?
704. How many sq. ft. are there in a board 17 ft.
6 in. in length, and 1 ft. 7 in. in width?
705. A pasture of a certain extent supplies 30
horses for 28 days : how long will the pasture supply
21 horses? (Solve hy proportion.)
706. If 4 bbl. of flour cost $341, how much can
be bought for $182? (Solve by analysis.)
707. How much hay will 32 horses eat in 120 days,
if 96 horses eat 3£ T. in 7£ weeks? (Solve by com-
pound proportion.)
708. What is the simple interest of $2,594.20, for
10 mo. 9 da., at 7-J per cent. ?
'"58 THE REGENTS' QUESTIONS.
709. What is the compound interest of $1,250, for
Syr. 3 mo. 24 da., compounded annually, at 6 per
cent?
710. What is the bank discount on a note for
$556.27, payable in 60 days, discounted at 6 per
cent. ?
711. Two merchants entered into partnership.
One puts in $5,000 and the other $2,000. The part-
ner that puts in the less sum is to receive $800 extra
from the proceeds for his superior knowledge of the
business. They gain $4,725: what is the share of
each?
712. What is the 3d power of 8.628?
Examination XXXI. JJov. g ; 1876.
713. How many figures are in each of the periods
into which numbers are divided for reading?
714. Name the first four periods of integers, and
the first three orders (or places) of decimals.
715. Write in figures the number: One million
one thousand one hundred and one.
716. Write in figures the numbers: Forty-seven,
three hundred and fift}^ thousanths, forty-two mil-
lionths, two hundred and twenty-three billionths.
717. Multiply 732.53 by 37.846.
718. Divide 6052.74 by 4.379.
719. Bought a box of soap containing 70 lbs.
Keeping it all summer, it dried away \, when I sold
ARITHMETIC. 59
it at 8f cts. per pound. I gave 7 cts. per pound.
Did I make or lose? How much?
720. If 20 men require 7| bbl. of flour for their
subsistence five months, how much will 30 men re-
quire for a year?
721. What is the value of T \ of T ^ of a vessel, if a
person who owns ^ of it sells £ of i of his share for
$1,750?
722. Write the following numbers in the decimal
form, and then add them: 6£, 12£, 5f, 6|, |, f.
723. Multiply 5 da. 15 hr. 13 m. 20 s. by 341.
724. Allowing a person to perform a certain jour-
ney in 13i days, by travelling 10 hours a day. in
what time ought he to perform the journey if he
travel Hi hours per day?
725. What is the cost of a load of hay weighing
1,875 lb., at $12.50 per ton (2000 lbs.)?
726. What ought eggs to be per pound, when they
are selling at 18f cts. per dozen, if they average 9^
eggs to a pound?
727. How many cords in three piles of four ft.
wood, the first 36 ft. long and 4 ft. high, the second
42 ft. long and 5 ft high, and the third 20 ft. long
and 6ft. high?
728. What would it cost to enclose a square lot
containing 160 acres, with a fence costing at the rate
cf $4 per rod?
729. A note of $65.80, dated Feb. 20, 1868, and
bearing interest at 7 per cent., was paid June 25,
1870: what was the amount paid?
730. What is the amount of $152 at semi-annual
60 THE regents' questions.
compound interest for 2 years, at 6 per cent, per
annum ?
731. What is the annual premium on a policy
which insures a house worth $12,000 for f its value,
at i per cent. ?
732. Amount $102.81, on $74.50, at 10 per cent.
What is the time?
Examination XXXI I. March 1, 1877.
733. Name the first six periods in numeration.
734. Express in figures : one trillion six thousand.
735. 1 million 400 thousand and 50+15 hundred-f-
25 thousand-)-120 thousand 6 hundred and 14= ?
736. The subtrahend is 2603.46, and the remainder
is 72.804: what is the minuend?
737. The factors of a number are 7300.96 and
5.006: what is the number ?
738. The dividend is 39314.76, and the quotient is
7,071: what is the divisor?
739. What operations may be performed on the
terms of a fraction without altering its value?
740. If the numerator be equal to the denominator,
what is the value of the fraction?
741. How does multiplying the numerator affect
the value of a fraction ?
742. How does multiplying the denominator affect
the value of a fraction?
743. Change 12! to an improper fraction.
744. Reduce £ of £ of j? of 1517 to a simple frac-
tion.
ARITHMETIC. 61
745. Multiply 8-15 of 12£ by 1-5 of 7|.
746. Divide £ of 1£ by £ of £.
747. In what terms of multiplication may equal
factors be cancelled ?
748. In what terms in division may equal factors
be cancelled?
740-750. A note for $250, dated June 5, 1874, was
paid Feb. 14, 1875, with simple interest at 8 per cent.
What was the amount? (Two credits.)
751. What is Ratio?
752. How is Ratio expressed?
753. What is Proportion?
754. How is Proportion expressed ?
755. What are the 1st and 3d terms of a Propor
tion called?
756. What are the 2d and 4th terms of a Propor-
tion called?
757. What are the extremes of a Proportion, and
what the means?
758. Given the means and one extreme of a Pro-
portion, how n>ay the other extreme be found?
759. Given the first, second and fourth terms of a
Proportion, how may the third be found?
760. In the question: If 4 tons of coal cost
$24, what will 12 tons cost, what is the given ratio?
761. If 4 tons of coal cost $24, what will 12
tons cost? (Solve by proportion.)
762. Change f =£§ to the form of a proportion.
763—764. Albany is 73° 44' 50" West Longitude:
San Francisco is 122° 26' 45". When it is noon at
Albany, what is the time at San Francisco? (Two
credits.)
'63 THE regents' questions.
765. What will $884. 50 amount to in two years at
8 per cent, compound interest?
766. If 10 tons of hay will support 5 horses 8 mo.,
how many horses will 18 tons support one year?
(Solve by double proportion.)
767. How many men will be required to build 32
rods of 'wall in the same time that 5 men will build
10 rods? (Solve by analysis.)
Examination XXXIII. June 7, i8jj.
768. What are the 3 terms in multiplication called?
769. What are the 3 terms used in division called?
770. What are the first and second terms in multi-
plication taken together called ?
771-772. To what terms in multiplication do the
terms in division correspond?
773. How many partial products will there be, if
the multiplier consists of several figures?
774. Given 73654 a multiplicand, and 4365 a mul-
tiplier, what is each successive multiplier, expressed
in words ?
775. Multiply 73564 by 4365, and express each par-
tial product in words.
776. Multiply 73654 by 4365, giving the entire
work.
777. To what, in division, does the numerator of
a fraction correspond ?
778 To what in division does the denominator of
a fraction correspond?
ARITHMETIC. 63
779. If a cubic foot of limestone weigh 175 lbs.,
"what is the weight of a cubic yard?
780. What part of an acre is f of a square rod?
781. Find the greatest common divisor of 72, 96,
120, 384.
782. Divide 6525 by 4.35.
783. Add ±, h 4-13, 9-17.
784. Find the product of 8-15x12 1-4x1-5x7^.
785. Divide f of 2£ by f of 3.
786. Reduce to an equivalent decimal, 1-320:
787. If 10i cords of wood cost $34.12i, what will
60f cords cost? (Solve by analysis.)
788. How much carpeting £ of a yard wide, is re-
quired for a room 27 ft. 3 in. long and 22 ft. 6 in.
wide?
789. In multiplication of decimals, how is the
place of the decimal point in the product determined?
790. In division, how is the place of the decimal
point in the quotient determined?
791. At $1.20 per gallon, what cost lbbl. 15 gal. 3
bt. of molasses?
792. Reduce 28 rd. 4 yd. 2 ft. 10 in. to inches.
793. What per cent, of $4 are 30 cents?
794. Sold 160 acres of land for $4,563.20, which
was 8 per cent, less than it cost; what did it cost per
acre?
795. What is the simple interest of $137.25 for 2
yr. 7 mo. 14 da. at 7 per cent. ?
796. A note for $250, dated June 5, 1874, was paid
Feb. 14, 1875, with interest at 8 per cent. What was
the amount t
64 THE REGENTS' QUESTIONS.
797. Bought two horses for $420, paying $48 more
for one than the other. Find the price of each.
798-799. Boston is 71° 4' 2" w. longitude, and
Washington 77° 1' 30". When it is noon at Boston,
what is the time at Washington? (Two credits.)
800. If 2375 A. 2 R. 16 rd. of land be laid out in
the form of a square, what will be the length of each
side?
801. A. has $4,000, B. $2,700, C. $2,300 in a house
renting for $720: what is each man's share of rent?
802. What is the present worth of $2,000 due in 3
yr. 6 mo. , with interest at 7 per cent. ?
Examination XXXIV. Nov. 8 f i8y 7.
803. In the decimal notation, why is the nought (0)
used, which of itself has no value?
804. Why does (0) annexed to the decimal not
-change its value ?
805. What is the difference between a common
and decimal fraction?
806. A man gave 503 acres of land to his sons, giv-
ing them 83f acres each; how many sons had he?
807. What is the value of a fraction multiplied by
its denominator?
808. If 14 acres of meadow yield 32j tons of hay,
what will 5| acres produce at the same rate?
809. Change 4, 2.17, .136, and .0408 to equivalent
decimals having a common denominator. (810.)
Find their sum.
ARITHMETIC. 6*
811-12. A farmer sold 300 bu, of oats at $0.45 a
bu. and 16| cords of wood at $3| a cord. He re-
ceived in payment 125 lb. of sugar at $0.12£ a lb., 36
lb. of tea at $| a lb. 6 bbl. of flour at $8.37* a bbl ..
and the rest in cash. How much cash did he re-
ceive?
813. Divide 100 by .001.
814. What is the cost of 536720 bricks, at $8.75 per
M.?
815. How many coats can be made from 32.4 yds.
of cloth, allowing 2.7 yds. for each coat?
816. Find the prime factors of 2205.
817. Divide 375287 by 46.
818. Divide 375287 by 46, and write the several
parts into which the dividend is separated in the
process of division, each exactly containing the
divisor.
819. Divide 375287 by 46, and show that the sum
of the parts into which the divide ad is separated in
the process of division, each exactly containing the
divisor, with the remainder, (if any) equals the
dividend.
820. Divide 375287 by 46, and show that the sum
of the several quotients obtained by dividing by the
divisor each of the parts into which the dividend is
divided in the process of division expresses the
whole quotient.
821. Find the greatest divisor in 72, 126, 216.
822. What is Percentage?
823. How may the percentage of a number be
found?
66 THE REGENTS' QUESTIONS.
824. Mention three arithmetical operations ia
which percentage is used.
825. What is the interest on $4,010 for lyr. 1 mo.
13 da. at 7 per cent, simple interest?
826. What is the commission on the sale of a house
for $9,346.80. at 6J per cent. V
827. If $4.30 is paid for an insurance of $860,
what is the rate ?
828. In a proportion, the two extremes and one
mean being given, how may the other mean be found?
829. In what terms of a proportion may equal
factors be cancelled ?
830. If a man walk 192 mi. in 6 da., walking 8 h. a
day, how far can he walk in 18 days, walking 6 h. a
day? (Solve by compound proportion.)
S31. If 251 A. 65 P. of land are laid out in a form
of a square, what will be the length of each side?
832. How many sheets :f tin each 14 X 22 in., will
it take to cover a roof. 30 ft. X 18 it. 4 in. ?
833-837. At $0,36 per sq. yd., for plastering, and
$0. 75 per roll for paper hanging, how much will it
cost to plaster the walls and ceiling, and paper the
walls of a room 18 X 16 X 9 ft., making allowance,
in papering, for 2 windows, each 3 X 6 ft., and 3
doors, each 3X7 ft, , the paper being 1 ft. 6 in. wide
and 7 yd. in a roll? ( 2 credits for computing plas-
tering surface correctly; 2 for papering; and one for
cost.)
Examination XXXV. Feb. 28 ', 18 j8:
838. How many pounds of tea, at 72 cents a pound,
ARITHMETIC. 67
would pay for 3 hogsheads of sugar, each weighing
1464 pounds, at 15 cents a pound?
839. A teamster agrees to cart 132 bbl. of flour for
a merchant on Monday, 84 on Wednesday, and 108
on Friday; what is the largest number he can carry
at a load, and yet have the same number in each?
840. In f how many ninety-eighths?
841. How many yards in three remnants of cloth
containing respectively 2£ yd., 1 1-9 yd. and2-§ yd?
842. The sum of two numbers is 59f, and the
greater is 30ff: what is the other number?
843. Find the value of (2f -j- 34) X (Sf — 4£).
844. How many cords in a pile of wood 196 ft.
long, 7 ft. 6 in. high, and 8 ft. wide?
845. What will be the cost of removing the earth,
from the cellar of a house 48 ft. 9 in. long, 32 feet
wide, and 9 feet deep, at ,$0.57 per cubic yard? (2
credits : 1 for contents in cu. ft. ; 1 for cu. yds. and
price.)
847. A has 25 per cent, of his property invested in
a house, 10 per cent, in a farm, 5 per cent, in a barn,
and the rest in a grove worth $4,800. What is the
amount of his property?
848. Bought a barrel of syrup for $20; what must
I charge a gallon in order to gain 20 per cent, on the
whole?
849. B. sends $6,897.12 to his agent in New Or-
leans, requesting him to invest in cotton after deduct-
ing his commission at 2 per cent. ; what was the sum
invested?
850. It costs me $72 annually to keep my house in.
sured for $18,000; what is the rate?
08 TILE BEGENTS' QUESTIONS.
m. ii ■■ iii. ii. m .
851. The difference in the time of St. Peter£Mrgh
Washington is 7 hr. 9 min. 19£ sec. What is the dif-
ference in the longitude of the two places?
852. What is Insurance?
853. What is the Policy?
854. What is the Premium?
855. A man bought a farm, giving a note for $3,400,
payable in gold in five years ; at the expiration of the
time gold was 175 per cent. ; what did his farm cost
in currency?
850. Find the simple interest of $-160.90 for 3 yr.
8 mo. 13 da. at 3f per cent.
857. C. bought a house for $3,436, which rents foi
$418.32. What rate per cent, does he make on the-
investment?
858. Find the compound interest of $380.80 folf
one year at 8 per cent, interest payable quarterly, "
859. What is True Discount?
860. What is Bank Discount?
861. What is the difference between the bank and
true discount on $1,000 at 7 per cent., payable in 9$
days?
862. What are the terms of Ratio severally called l'
863. How is the ratio of two given numbers found?
864. Reduce the ratio 65 : 85 to its simplest terms.
865. Of how many ratios, at least, must a propor-
tion consist?
866. The average cost of keeping 25 soldiers one
year is $3,000; what would it cost to keep 139 sol-
diers 7 years? (Solve by proportion.)
867. Find the square root of 466.489.
' 868-69. A pile of cord wood is 256 ft. long, 8 ft.
ARITHMETIC. 69
high, and 16 ft. wide; what would be the length of
each side of a cubical pile containing the same
quantity?
Examination XXXV L June 6 ; 18 j 8.
870. The Atlantic cable costs as follows: 2500
miles at $485 per mi. ; 10 miles deep sea cable, @
$j , 150 per mi. ; 25 miles shore ends @ $1,250 per mi.
"What was the cost?
871. "What is the number which divided by 453
gives the quotient 307, and the remainder 109?
872. Which are the so called "Fundamental
Bules" of Arithmetic? and (873), why are they so
called?
874. What is a prime factor?
875. Find the prime factors of 2366.
876. A man working for $2 a day, and paying $4
a week for board, saved $72 in ten weeks. How
many week-days was he idle ?
877. What is & fractional unit?
878. Reduce &, f x , II and 4£ to the least common
denominator.
879. From 28$& subtract 3 T V
880. Divide & X 18-25 byiXiX X 5 T x U X
51-72.
881. Divide 46.1975 by 54.35.
882. From a hogshead of molasses, 28 gal. 2 qt.
were drawn; what common fraction represents tke
part of a hhd. which remained?
70 THE REGENTS' QUESTIONS.
— i .i.i i ■■ -i —*
883. What decimal part of a fathom is 3| ft?
884. If the consequent he 3£ and the ratio 7, what
is the antecedent?
885. When are three numbers said to he propor-
tional?
886. If a water pipe discharge 24 bbl. in 1 h. 14
m., in what time will it discharge 54 bbl. ? (Solve by
analysis.)
887. What, is the cube root of 19.54, carried to 4
decimal places?
888. If it cost $95. 60 to carpet a room 24x18 ft.
how much will the same kind of a carpet cost for a
room 38x22 ft. ? (Solve by proportion.)
889. What sum of money is that of which, if 80
per cent, be deposited in bank, and 20 per cent, of
this deposit be drawn, there will remain $5,760 in
bank?
890. A lawyer collecting a note at a commission of
8 per cent, thereon, received $6.80. What was the
face of the note?
891. Bought stock at par, and sold it at 3 per cent,
premium, thereby gaining $750; how many shares,
of $100 each, did I buy?
892. What is the amount of $16,941.20, for 1 yr. 7
mo. 28 da. at 4f- per cent, simple interest?
893. An investment of $7,226.28 yields $744.7937,
annually: what is the rate of interest?
894. In what time wilt $273.51 amount to $312,864,
at 7 per cent, simple interest?
895. What is the difference between the interest
and the discount of $576, due 1 yr. 4 mo. hence, at
per cent.?
ARITHMETIC. 71
896. Three men gain $2,640, of which B. is to have
as often as C. $4 and A. $2 ; what is each one's
share ?
897. Find the square root of 10795.21.
898. What is the length of one side of a square
piece of land containing 40 acres?
899. How is the true discount of a note found?
900. How is the bank discount of a note found ?
901. How is the present worth of a note payable at
a future time without interest, found?
Examination XXXVII. JVov. y, 18 j8.
902. Write in figures : two hundred thousand two
hundred.
903. A man owns farms valued at $56,800; city
lots valued at $86,760; a house worth $12,500; and
other property, $6,785; what is the entire value of
his property?
904. Bought 325 loads of wheat, each load con-
taining 50 bu. at $2 a bu. What did the wheat
cost?
905. Find the greatest common divisor of 679 and
1,869.
906. Find the least common multiple of 4, 16, 20,
48, 60, and 72.
907. What is the value of a fraction ?
908. Find the value of 12-1250.
909. If the divisor is less than a unit, how will the
quotient compare with the dividend ?
72 THE regents' questions.
910. Divide 03 by &.
911. Find the difference between the continued
products of 3, i h 4f , and 3£, f . 4, f .
912. If 36.48 yd. of cloth cost $54.72, what will
14.25 yd. cost?
D13. A goldsmith manufactured 1 lb. 1 pwt. 16
gr. of gold into rings, each weighing 4 pwt. 20 gr.
He sold the rings for $1.25 apiece; how much did he
receive for them?
914. How many times will a wheel 16 ft. 6 in. in
circumference turn round in running 42 miles?
915. What is the value of f of a hogshead, in in-
tegers of lower denominations?
916. Washington is 77° 2' 48" west, and St. Peters-
burgh 30° 19' east longitude; what is their difference
of time?
917. What is 9f per cent, of 275 miles?
918. A man sends $3,246.20 to his agent in Boston,
asking him to lay it out in shoes, after deducting his
commission of 2 per cent. Plow much is his com-
mission?
919. A gentleman has a house insured for $8,000,
and the furniture for $4,000, at 2-f per cent. : what
premium must he pay?
920. State the difference between percentage and
interest.
921. What is the interest of $1,500.60 for 2 yr. 4
m \ at 6£ per cent. ?
922. Find the amount of $387.20, from Jan. 1 to
Oct. 20, 1878, at 7 per cent.
923. A man was offered $3,675 in cash for his
house, or $4,235 in three years without interest; he
ARITHMETIC. 73
accepted the latter offer: did he gain or lose, and how
much, money being worth 7 per cent. ?
924. What are the proceeds of a note for $368, a'.
90 days, discounted at bank at 6 per cent. ?
925. If 16 horses consume 128 bushels of oats in
50 days, how many bushels will 5 horses consume in
90 days?
(Solve by Compound Proportion.)
926. Will the cube of £f be greater, or less, than
that fraction, and why?
927. What is the square root of .00008836?
928. The pedestal of a certain monument is a cube,
containing 373,248 solid inches; what is the length of
one of its sides?
929. A. loaned $1,600, at 6 per cent., until it
amounted to $2,000; what was the time?
Examination XXXVIII. Feb. 2j,i8jg.
930-31. Write and define any four (or more) of
the following terms: Notation; Roman Notation;
Arabic Notation; Decimal Scale or System; Duo-
decimals; Numerator; Quotient. (1 credit for 2,
and 2 for 4 or more correct answers. )
932. Write 1879 according to the Roman Notation.
933. Add the numbers: 1, 12, 123, 1234, 12345,
123456, 1234567, 12345678, 123450789.
934. Bought wheat at 94 cts. per bushel, to the
amount of $59.22, and sold for $70.56; what was the
selling price per bushel?
Y4 THE REGENTS 5 QUESTIONS.
935. When are two u ambers prime to each, other?
IJive two such numbers, each greater than fifty.
936-937. Express the following numbers and pro-
cesses, by the proper arithmetical signs, and find the
result: The fraction whose numerator is 19 and de-
nominator 760, being increased by ¥ 3 F , and this sum
multiplied by the square of 2, becomes a fraction,
tfhose square is ^. (One credit for the expression,
ind one for the solution.)
938-40. Reduce ($37f— $1S*) X (fof 8)-s-2£. (One
credit for each of the operations indicated by the
3igns-, X , ■*■ .)
941. If 5 be added to both terms of the fraction f ,
will its value be increased or decreased, and how
much?
942. Express the value of 501-1000000, without
writing the denominator.
943. On a railroad 57 mi. 133 rd. Hi ft. long,
there are 9 stations, including those at the two ends
of the road. What is the average distance between
the stations?
944. If 6 men can build 73 f fc. of wall 4 ft. high in
5 days, how many feet can they build in 33 days?
(Solve by proportion.)
945. A merchant sold 86.55 tons of coal at $5.24
per ton; how much did he receive ($, cts., mills)?
946. In selling 86.55 tons of coal at $5.64 per ton,
a merchant made $100.63; hov much did the coal
cost him, per ton?
947. A merchant sold 86.55 tons of coal at $5.24 9
ton, gaining $100.63, what was his percentage of
profit?
ARITHMETIC. 75
948. Find the difference of longitude between Con-
stantinople, 28° 59' E., and Boston, 71 c 3' 30" W.
949. When it is 12 m. at Constantinople, 28° 59' E.,
what time a. m. or p. m. is it at Boston, 71° 3' 80" W?
950. On what month and day will the following
be due:
Albany, Feb. 13, 1879.
Sixty days after date, for value received, I promise
to pay John Adams, or order, three hundred and
seven y% dollars, at the Albany City National Bank.
$307^. Thomas Jefferson.
951. What would be the rate per cent, of interest
or discount on a note given and payable in this State,-
no rate being expressed?
952. What would be the proceeds of a note at 60
days for $307^%, discounted at bank on the same
day that it was made?
953. Find the present worth of $890. due in 1 yr.
6 mo., without interest, allowing 8 per cent, dis-
count?
954. How would 7x7X7x7x7x7x7x7X7 be
written, according to the notation used in Involution?
955. Perform the operations indicated as follows :
y558009-*-y^=?
956. A certain room is 27 ft. long, 18 ft. wide, and
10 ft. high. How many pieces of paper \ yd. wide
(9 yds. in a piece) will the side walls require, no al-
lowance being made for doors, windows, etc. ?
957. How many yards of carpeting, $ yd. wide,
would be needed for a room 18 X 27 ft?
76 THE REGENTS' QUESTIONS.
Examination XXXIX. June. 5 } 18 jg.
958. In multiplication, which factor must be an
abstract number, or used as such ?
959. How many times is 4 g contained in 6,000?
960. The subtrahend being 14f$, the minuend
15^, find the remainder.
961. How many square feet in a piece of land, 13
rods square?
962. If I buy stocks at 10 per cent, below par and
sell at 10 per cent, premium, what per cent, do I
gain on my first investment?
963. Find the interest on $5,500 for 1 yr. 6 mo. 9
da. at 6 per cent.
964. "When it is noon on the prime meridian, where
will it be 9£ o'clock a. m. ?
965. What will 7,580 bricks cost, at $3.50 per M.?
966. What is the difference between common and
decimal fractions?
967. Divide fifteen thousandths by five ten-mil-
lionths.
968. Find the greatest common divisor of 153 and
187.
969. Find the least common multiple (or dividend)
of the same numbers.
970. A celler is to be dug 30 ft, long and 20 ft. wide :
at what average depth will 50 cubic yards of earth
have been removed ?
971. A. B. and C. trade together. A. puts in $1,000
for 10 months, B. $800 for 12 months, O. $900 for 14
months. They gain $1,200. What is the share of
each?
ARITHMETIC. Ti
972. What is the square root of a number?
973. Find the sum of the composite numbers be-
low 47.
974. Name the 4th decimal order.
975. Change .03125 to a common fraction, in its
lowest terms.
976. If 3£ cords of wood cost $11.37i, what will
12-J cords cost? (Solve by Proportion.)
977. John Brown bought of James Ray, on May
20, 1879, 2* yards broadcloth, at $3.50 a yard" 2 pairs
gloves at $1.87£ a pair, 19 yards silk, at $1.75 a yard,
and 33 yards sheeting, at 9 cents a yard. Make a
bill in proper form and receipt it, as clerk.
978. How many rods of fence will be required to
inclose a square field containing 90 acres?
979. What will be the cost of 4 lb. 5 oz. 6 pwt, of
gold dust, at 75 cts. per pwt. ?
980. Give the rule for extraction of square root.
981. Give the table of linear (or long) measure.
982. A coal dealer bought 300 Ions; tons of coal at
$3.75 a ton, and sold it at $4.60 per short ton. What
was the total profit?
983. What is the rate per cent, of profit in selling
300 long tons of coal, bought at $3.75 a ton, at $4.60
a short ton?
984. What would be the proceeds of the following
note discounted at bank on the day that it was
made :
Buffalo, May 20, 1879.
Thirty days after date, for value received, I prom-
ise to pay to the order of John Young, one hundred
and five T 5 ^y dollars, at the Marine Bank.
$105 T 5 ^. Ichabod Crane.
78 THE REGENTS' questions.
985. On what month and day must a note for 30
days, dated May 20, 1879, be paid, or in default of
payment, be protested?
Examination XL. J\ T ov. 6, i8jg.
9S6. What number divided by 453 gives 307 as a
quotient, and 109 as a remainder?
987. How does a divisor of a number differ from
a multiple of that number?
988. Find the greatest common divisor of 56, 140,
182, and 98.
989. What are the prime factors of 11970 ?
990. Explain the principle (not process) of cancel-
lation, and illustrate by an example.
991. What change do we make in the value of a
fraction if we take the same number of parts but di-
minish their size?
992. 3050-5940=17-33. Why?
993. Prove that .625 =f.
994. A vat 13 ft. square contains 1224 cu. ft. How
deep is it?
995. Change .0000625 mi. to decimal of a foot.
996. (24 X f or 7) X (f of 3 X A) = wliat?
997. The volume of a cube contains 91125 cu. ft.
What is the length of each edge of the cube?
998. How many sq. ft. in the entire surface of a
cube, each edge of which is 75 ft. ?
999. I have an acre of land in shape of a rectangle,
one side of which is 9 rods in length. What is the
length of the other side?
ARITHMETIC. 79
1AAn 4|X51-7X8 , +0
1001. The time at a certain place is 16 h. 10 m.
earlier than at Greenwich. Give the longitude of
the place.
1002. I have a rectangular field which measures
25 rods by 10 rods. At $0.40 per yard, what will be
the cost of boundary fences for the entire field?
1003. "What will be the total cost, at the same rate
as in Q. 1002, of cross fences to divide the same field
into lots 5 rods square? Make a small diagram of
the field and its subdivisions.
1004. In a school of 300 pupils, the boys are to the
girls in the ratio of 13 to 17; required the number
of each.
1005. If I sell goods at one-half their cost, what
per cent do I lose, and if at double their cost, what
per cent do I gain?
1006. If 18 men can dig a trench 30 yd. long in 5
da. of 8 h. each, in how manv days of 10 h. each
can 10 men do the same work?
1007. Show that ^ lb. Troy = ft P^«
1008. From f of a day take £ of an hour, leaving
result in hours, minutes and seconds.
10 9. What will be the amount in three years of
$625, compounded at 7%, annually?
1010. In what time will $240 amount to $720, at
12$ simple interest?
1011. Find the proceeds of a note for $1255.38,
payable in 4 mo. 12 da., discounted at bank, interest
being at 6$.
80 THE regents' questions.
1012. What is the present worth of a note for
$1315.39, due in 2 years and 6 months, at 7#?
1018. Sold a horse for $91, which was £■ of what
he cost rne. How much did I lose?
Examination X.LI } Feb. 26 } 1880.
1014. The quotient of one number divided by an-
other is 37, the divisor 245, and the remainder 230;
what is the dividend?
1015. Two men start from different places, distant
189 miles, and travel toward each other; one goes 4
inilas, and the other 5 miles an hour; in how many
hours will they meet?
1016. A merchant sold 18 barrels of pork, each
weighing 200 pounds, at 12 cts. 5 mills a pound;
what did he receive ?
1017. Suppose a certain township is 6 miles long
and 4£ miles wide, how many lots of land of 90 acres
each does it contain?
1018. What are the prime factors of 1800?
1019. Find the greatest common divisor of 1426,
322, and 598.
1020. What is the least common multiple of 9, 17,
6, and 27?
1021. Add 21f, 32f, and 47^.
1022. •< Reduce to its simplest form.
( 9xi
1023. How many times is .12 of 12 contained in
.24 of 72?
1024. How many pounds of coffee, at 33£ cents
per pound, can be bought for $14.50?
ARITHMETIC. 81
1025. What is the cost of 2684 bricks, at $8. 50 per M?
1026. Required the number of pounds in a hogs-
head of sugar, weighing 18 cwt. 3 qr. 14 lb.
1027. Reduce j% of a ton to integers of lower de-
nominations.
1028. Sold a quantity of merchandise that cost
$1670, at a loss of 3#: for what amount did I sell it?
1029. A house was sold, at an advance of 5$ on
the cost, for $13,000: what was the cost?
1030. What is the interest of $475, for 3 years, at
5% simple interest? •
1031. Required the amount of $1350, from Janu-
ary 12, 1880, to September 19, 1881, at 9% simple in-
terest.
1032. What sum of money at 5% simple interest,
will yield $275.40 in 3 years and 4 months?
1033. In what time will $3750 amount to $4541.25
at Q% per annum?
1034. What is the present worth of a debt of
$1650, due 8 months hence, without interest, money
being worth 6% ?
1035. What is the difference between true and
bank discount on $1000, for 63 days, at 6#?
1036. Sold flour at $10.45 per barrel, and thereby
lost 5% of the cost : what was the cost per barrel?
1037. Suppose a railroad train to run at the rate of
20 miles in 50 minutes, in what time will it run 275
miles?
1038. What will be the wages of 9 men for 11 days,
if the wages of 6 men for 14 daj^s be $84?
1039. Find the square root of 149.4, correct to
three decimal places.
1040 What is cube root?
1041. Required the cube root of 1860867.
82 THE REGENTS' QUEitfJONS.
Examination XL 1 1 (a) ; June 3 , 1880:
1042. What are the fundamental rules of Arith-
metic ?
1043. Why are they so called?
1044. If a scholar's expenses are 90 dollars for
board, 30 dollars for clothes, 12 dollars for tuition,
5 dollars for books and 7 dollars for incidentals, what
would be the expenses of 27 boys at the same rate?
1045. If 256 be multiplied by 25, the product di-
minished by 625, and the remainder divided by 35,
what will be the quotient?
1046. What are the terms of a fraction?
1047. Subtract 120 ¥ 9 T from 450|.
1048. 14f, less f of 8 f , is f- of & of what number?
1049. Reduce .9375 to a common fraction.
1050. How many times will .5 of 1.75 be contained
in .25 of 17£ ?
1051. How much must be paid for lathing and
plastering overhead a room 36 feet long and 20 feet
wide, at 26 cents a square yard ?
1052. Reduce 150 sheets of paper to the decimal of
a ream.
1053. A farmer having 760 sheep, kept 25 per cent
of them, and sold the remainder. How many did
he sell ?
1054. What is Commission ?
1055. What is Brokerage ?
1056. An auctioneer sold a house for $3284, and
ARITHMETIC. 88
the furniture for $2176.50; what did hi3 fees amount
to, at 2£ per cent. ?
1057. A man purchased $6275 stock in Pennsylva-
nia Coal Company, and sold the same at a discount
Of 12 per cent. : what was his loss ?
1058. If 12i hundred weight of sugar cost $140,
how must it he sold to gain 25$ ?
1059. What will it cost to insure a factory valued
at $21,000, at | per cent. ; and the machinery valued
at $15,400, at ■§• per cent, ?
1060. What is the interest on $76.50 for 2 years, %
months, at 5 per cent. ?
1061. Required the amount of $387.20, from Jan.
1 to Oct. 20, 1879, at Q% ?
1062. What will $450 amount to in 1 year, at 6#
compound interest, payable quarterly ?
1063. What is the present worth of $180, payable
in 3 years, 4 months, discounting at 6 per cent. ?
1064. Wishing to borrow $500 at bank, for what
Bum must my note be drawn, at 30 days, to obtain
the required amount, discount being at 6$ ?
1065. At what per cent, must $1,000 be loaned tot
8 years, 3 months, 20 days, to gain $ 183.18?
1066. How long must $204 be on interest at Q% to
amount to $217.09 ?
1067. If a staft 3 ft. 8 m. long cast a shadow 1 ft;
8 in., what is the height of a steeple that casts a shad-
ow 75 ft. at the same time ? (Solve by proportion.)
7056
1068. Extract the square root of-1^
9216
1069. The pedestal of a certain monument is a cube
84 THE REGENTS' questions.
of granite, containing 373243 solid inches : what i3
tiie length of one of its sides ?
Examination XLIII(b), June 17 1880.
1070. Express in words: 5000000750001.
1071. If the product of two numbers is 346712, and
one of the factors is 76, what is the other factor ?
1072. What is Cancellation ?
1073. Find the least common multiple of 4, 14,28,
and 98.
1074. The product of 3 numbers is f : two of the
numbers are 2£ and $■ : what is the third ?
1075. What is the sum of six-millionths, four ten-
thousandths, 19 hundred-thousandths, sixteen-bun-
dredths, and four-tenths ?
1076. Reduce t of 16 - 12a to a decimal fraction.
4|
1077. Make a receipted bill of the following arti-
cles as if sold to John Smith by yourself:
16 lbs. of tea, at $.85 per lb. . • •
28 " " coffee, at $.25^ per lb. . . •
15 Yards of linen, at $.66 per yard. •
i ir -■---■
1078. How many acres are there in 250 city lots,
each of which is 25 feet by 100 ?
1079. Add 96 bu. 3 pk. 2 qt. 1 pt., 46 bu. 3 pk.
1 qt. 1 pt, 2 pk. 1 qt. 1 pt., and 23 bu. 3 pk. 4 qt.
1 pt.
1080. By the chronometer, it is 4 hr. 56 inin. 4^
ARITHMETIC. 85
sec ., p.m., at Greenwich, when it is 12 m. at New
York; what is the longitude of New York ?
1081. i of f is what part of T 9 T ?
1082. How many pounds of thread will it require
to make 60 yd. of 3 qr. wide, if 7 lb. make 14 yd. 6
qr. wide ? (Solve by double rule of three).
1083. What is the difference between 5£ per cent,
of $800, and 6£ per cent, of $1050 ?
1084 If I sell a piano, which cost $275, for $315,
what is the rate per cent, of gain ?
1085. What amount of government stock can I buy
for $15525, when it sells at 3^ per cent, premium ?
1086. What is the simple interest of $3750. 87, for
2 years and 9 months, at 8 per cent. ?
1087. The interest of $3375, for 3 years, is $771.75:
What is the rate ?
1088. What is the amount, at compound interest,
Of $250, for two years, at 8 per cent. ?
1039. What is the bank diseoimt of a note of
$1000, payable in 60 days, at 6 per cent, interest ?
1090. A man who has only $50, owes $75 to A,
$150 to B, and $100 to O: what should he pay to
each ?
1091. Find the 4th power of 16.
1092. What is the square root of 26883881 ?
1093. How many small cubes, of 2 inches on a
Side, can be sawed out of a cube 2 feet on a side, if
nothing is lost in sawing ?
1094. How many bricks, 8 inches long and 4 inches
wide, will pave a yard that is 100 feet by 50 feet ?
1095. There was a company of soldiers, of whom
£ were on guard, ^preparing dinner, and the remain-
86 THE REGENTS' questions.
der, 55 men, were drilling : how many were there in
all?
1096. A wall of 700 yards in length, was to be
built, in 29 days; 12 men were employed on it for 11
days, and only completed 220 yards: how many
men must be added, to complete tne wall in the re-
quired time?
1097. If a house is 50 feet wide; and the post
which supports the ridge-pole is 12 feet high, what
will be the length of the rafters?
Examination XLIV. J^ov. n, i88q.
1098. Copy and add:
£-i-naoT}<coooi>©i>«©aoaocOT-ii©«oa>i~«©io
io co «o cs 1-5 co t-I os r-i *> oh co id •*$ ^ i> co "<# co
<M OS © <M
1099. From—
100200300400500600 take 908070605040302.
1100. Divide 4500700424 by 407.
1101. What is the value of 17 chests of tea, each
containing 59 lbs., at $0.67 per lb.?
1102. For what is Troy weight used?
1103. Give the table of Troy weight.
1104. In 56 m. 7 fur. 37 rd. 12 ft. 9 in. how many
inches?
1105. How many cords in a pile of wood 15 ft.
long, 4 ft. wide and 6£ ft. high?
1106. John Quincy Adams was born July 11,
1767, and died February 23, 1848. To what agedid
he live?
ARITHMETIC. 87
1107. At £280 5s. 9£d. for 97 tons of lead, what is
the cost per ton?
1108. Find, by cancellation, the quotient of —
8X5X3X16X28 divided by 10x4x12x4x7.
1109. Find the least common multiple or dividend
of 9, 8, 12, 18, 24, 36 and 72.
1110. Reduce f, |, f, £ to the least common de-
nominator.
1111. How many cubic feet in 10 boxes, each 7£
ft. long, If ft. wide and 1£ ft. high?
1112. If ^ of a saw-mill are worth $631.89, what
are f\ of it worth?
1113. Multiply eighty-seven thousandths by fifteen
millionths.
1114. What is the value of .965625 of a mile, in
integers of lower denominations ?
1115. What is £ per cent, of $1,728 ?
1116. I have John Smith's note for $144, dated
July 25, 1879, payable on demand; how much will
be due me, at 6 per cent, simple interest, March 9,
1882?
1117. What is the amount of $100 for 3 months,
the interest to be added each month, at 6 % ?
1118. What is the present worth of $477.71, due 4
years hence, discounted at 6 per cent ?
1119. For what sum must a note at bank be made,
payable in 3 months, at 6 per cent, discount, to ob-
tain $300 at the present time ?
1120. If I sell wood at $7.20 per cord, and gain 20
per cent., what did it cost me per cord?
1121. If 5 men can harvest a field in 12 hours,
88 THE regents' questions.
how many hours would it require if 4 more men
were employed ? Solved by Rule of Three (Pro-
portion.)
1122. If 15 oxen and 20 horses eat 6 tons Qi hay in
8 weeks, how much will 12 oxen and 28 horses re-
quire in 21 weeks ? Solved by Double Rule of Three
(Compound Proportion.)
1123. Find the square root of 9754.4376.
1124. What must be the depth of a cubical cistern
that will hold 3048.625 cubic feet of water ?
1125. How many tiles 8 in. square will cover a
floor 18 ft. long and 12 ft. wide ?
Examination XLIV, March S, 1881.
1126. Copy and add: 20570; 6206; 98.007; 63000;
426.000626; 4287; 63.961; 102030; 405.0607; 8090;
543.21; 1028848.414995.
1127. Express by Arabic Notation: MDXCVDCCCLXIV.
1128. Express by Roman Notation: 84796.
1129. Numeration: 20567189.004321098.
1130. Divide 31984875832 by 96813.
1131. Find the value of
(28-7)x6-|-(92-{-7)-T-9-(86+10)-i-12.
1132. Divide, using cancellation :
15X80X27X28 by 7x20x8.
1133. Change ^, £f, -f^, and -} to similar frac-
tions having their least common denominator, and
(1134) reduce their sum to decimal form.
1135. Find the greatest common divisor of 7955,
8769, 6401.
ARITHMETIC. 89
1136. How much must be paid for making 52 rd.
14 ft. 8In. of fence, at $ .75 per foot?
1137. A traveller, on reaching a certain place,
found that his watch, which kept correct time for
the place he left, was 2 hr. 22 m, slower than the
local time. Had he travelled eastward or westward,
and how far, in circular measure, had he come?
1138. What per cent, (expressed in words), of
30000 bushels are 50 bushels?
1139. What number diminished by 36# of itself
=336?
1140. What is the value of a lot 70 rd. long and
20 rd. wide, at $47.25 per acre?
1141. A cistern has 3 pipes: The first will fill it in
12 hours, the second in 16 and the third in 18 hours.
If all run together, in what time will they fill it?
(State this example as a proportion, if you can).
1142. 3. What is the difference between simple in-
terest on $328 for 2 yr. 7 mo. at 7 % and compound
interest on same amount for same time, at 6 %?
1144. Find the balance due (March 4) on a note
dated January 1, 1879, for $580 at 5 %, on which a
payment of $85 has been made every 6 months, —
using the U. S. rule.
1145. How much should be discounted on a bill
of $3725.87, due in 8 mo. 10 da., if paid immediate-
ly, money being worth 5 #?
1146. Bought bonds at 115 and sold at 110, losing
|300. How many bonds of $1000 each did I buy?
1147. If A puts in $4000 canital for 8 months, B
THE REGENTS QUESTIONS.
$6000 for 7 1110. and C $3500 for 1 year, and they
gain $2320, what is each partner's share of the gain?
1148. If 5 horses eat as much as 6 oxen, and 8
horses and 12 cattle eat 12 tons of hay in 40 days,
how much hay will 7 horses and 15 oxen eat in 65
days?
1149. Find the value of J, .000238328.
1150. A steamer goes due north at the rate of 15
miles an hour, and another due west 18 miles an
hour; how far apart will they be in 6 hours?
1151. Find the cost, at 30 cts. per sq. yd., of plas-
tering the bottom and sides of a cubical cistern that
will hold 300 barrels.
1152. What is the area of a circle 5 ft. in diame-
ter?
1153. What is the difference between 5 sq. ft. and
5 ft. square? Illustrate by a diagram.
Special Examination, March 25, 1881.
(Supplementary to No. XLIV, protest having
been made against the length of operations required,
and especially to Question 1151. Schools so desir-
ing were permitted to use this examination instead.)
1154. Write 1881 in characters of the Roman
notation.
1155. Write 73069294780069 in words.
1156. Copy and add:
CO«DOeOlC'-iN?DOSt'CO'*10CO«CO'HJ>«CO
OJL0 03NOOOW £>0<N©WQOOJMX«0«
r-t ^ GO "tf o •<*< oooaoooo^a^oiTj*
i> C\8 GO OS i> OS £>
1157. Define multiplication, multiplicand, multi-
plier and product.
ARITHMETIC. 91
1158. 330445150-*-3145=what number?
1159. How could you obtain the dividend, the di-
visor, quotient and remainder being given?
1160. Find the least common multiple of 15, 18,
24, 35.
1161 Add 8ft, |, 3| and 4|.
1162. Bought 18 lb. of butter at 2S£ ct. per lb.,
giving in return 22^ lb. of lard at 12 ct. per lb., and
the rest in cash; how much was the cash?
1163. Write with figures: Ninety-three and six
hundred and nine ten-millicnths.
1164. On a railroad 149 mi. 234 rd. 4 yd. 2 ft.
long, there are 18 stations, including one at each end
of the road. What is the average distance between
the stations ?
1165. How many boards 12 ft. long and 4 in. wide
are require to floor a room which is 38 ft. by 27 ft.?
1166. Find the difference in circular measure be-
tween Calcutta, E. Lon. 88° 19' 2"., and Phila-
delphia, W. Lon. 75° 8' 54".
1167. Find the difference in time to correspond
with your answer to Q. 1168.
1168. Reduce 23444 sq. in. to a compound number.
1169. What is the cost of 73590 lb. of coal, at
$6.55 per ton (2000 lb.) ?
1170. 3 lb. 13 oz. are what per cent of 9 lb. ?
1171. Define per cent and percentage, as these terms
are used in Arithmetic.
1172. Find the simple interest on $740 for 1 yr.
5 mo. 21 da., at 4+ per cent.
1173. What principal will amount to $310.60 in
3 yr. 5 mo. 9 da., at 5 per cent simple interest ?
92 THE regents' questions.
1174. What must be the face of a note for 90
days, at 6 per cent, on which I can obtain at bank
$472.86 ?
1175. Two numbers are to each other as 7 to 11,
and the greater is 329 : what is the less ?
1176. Paid $2225 for 180 sheep and sold them for
$2675: what should I gain on 1200 sheep at the
same rate ? (Solve by Proportion.)
1177. If it cost $176 to hire 12 horses for 5 days,
what will it cost to hire 10 horses for 18 days ?
(Solve by Compound Proportion.)
1178. How many miles of fence would be re-
quired to enclose 640 acres laid out as an exact
square 2
1179. What is the cube root of 104329 ?
1180. A person after spending £ and £ of his
money and $20 more, had $80 left. What had he
at first ?
1131. The width of a building being 38 ft., and
the ridge of the roof 5 ft. higher than the eaves,
how many feet of boards would be required to
cover one of the gable ends ?
Examination XLV ', June 26, 1882.
1182. Write in figures and numerate: Nine units
of the 8th order, six of the 7th, three of the 5th,
seven of the 4th, nine of the 1st.
1183. Copy and numerate: 9004082501.
1184. ( (256 X 25) - 625) -*- 35 = ?
1185. Find the prime factors of 2310.
ARITHMETIC. 93
1186. What is the greatest common divisor of
1313 and 4108?
1187. What is the least common multiple of
84, 100, 224 and 600?
1188. If 235£ acres of land cost $4725f, what -will
628 acres cost, at the same rate ?
1189. From four hundred twenty-seven thous-
andths take four hundred twenty-seven millionths.
1190. Divide ,125 by 8000.
1191. Add six hundred and twenty-five thous-
indths; four tenths; seven, and sixty-two ten-
thousandths; three, and fifty-eight millionths;
ninety-two, and seven hundredths.
1192. What is the cost of 18640 ft. of timber, at
$4.50 per 100 ft.?
1193. How many cubic inches does the standard
(wine) gallon contain? 1194. The standard bushel?
1195. Keduce 41780 grains to pounds.
1196. In 10 mi. 7 ch. 4*rd. 20 1., how many links?
1197. Eeduce 3 qt. 1 pt. 1 gi. to the decimal of a
gallon.
1198. How many shingles will it take to cover the
roof of a building 46 feet long, each of the two
sides of the roof being 20 ft. wide, allowing each
shingle to be 4 in. wide, and 5 in. of the length to
be exposed to the weather?
1199. What will it cost to build a wall 240 ft.
long, 6 ft. high, and 3 ft. thick, at $3.25 per 1000
bricks, the size of each brick being 8 in. x 4 in, X
2 in. ?
1200. If a note for $605.70 given June 20, 1878, on
simple interest at 8 per cent., be taken up June
94 THE REGENTS' QUESTIONS.
20, 1881, what amount will then be due, if no inter-
est bas been paid ?
1201. A man invests $2000 in bark stock, and re-
ceives a semi-annual dividend of $75: what is the
rate per cent of income, per annum ?
1202. Give the U. S. rule for partial payments.
1203. What is the present worth of a note for
$1315.389, due in 2 y. 6 mo., at 7 per cent. ?
1204. If 6 men d\g a cellar 22.5 ft. long, 17.3 ft.-
wide, and 10.25 ft. deep, in 2.5 days, of 12.3 ho., in
how many days of 8.2 ho., can 9 men dig one 45 ft,
long, 34.6 ft. wide, and 12.3 ft. deep?
1205. If an army of 55225 be massed in a solid
square, how many men will there be on a side?
1206. A man bought a farm 198 rods long and 150
rods wide, and agreed to give $32 an acre : how
much did the farm cost him ?
1207. What is the length of one edge of a cistern
of cubical form, containing 1331 solid feet ?
1208. How many barrels does such a cistern as the
one described in the preceding question, contain ?
1209. Name and desciibe the standard unit of
weight in the Metric system.
Examination XL VI. Nov. 17, 1881,
(10:00-15:00 A. M.)
1210. Name five fundamental rules or operations
of arithmetic.
1211. What is a composite number?
1212. Find the prime factors of 320.
ARITHMETIC. 95
1213. What factors of two or more numbers must
their greatest common divisor contain?
1214. Find the greatest common divisor of 527
and 1207.
1215. What is the least common multiple of 24,
48, 60 and 100?
1216. What does the numerator of a fraction
show?
1217. What does the denominator show?
1218. From 20i take 13£.
1219. If 5 barrels of flour cost $48f , how many
barrels can be bought for $263£? (Solve by
analysis.)
1220. Divide .00144 by 1.2.
1221. How do you prove an example in division?
1222. London is 77° 1' east of Washington; what
time is it at Washington when it is 12 m. at London?
1223. What will 4 cwt. 3 qr. 15 lb. of sugar cost
at $8.95 a cwt. (= 100 lbs.)?
1224. A pile of wood is 6 ft. high, and 4 ft. wide:
how long must it be to contain 10 cords?
1225. How many acres in a rectangular field that
is 50 chains long and 30 chains wide?
(Nov. 18. 10:00-12:00 A. M.)
1226. What is 150 per cent, of $560.25?
1227. 47 is 20 % of what number?
1228. A wagon was sold for $329, which was
16£ % more than it cost; what did it cost?
1229. If the interest of $36 for 3 yr. 8 mo. 19 da,
is $8,034, what is the rate?
96 THE REGENTS' questions.
1230. What is the bank discount on $120 for 120
days, at 7 %t (Consider 360 da. = 1 yr.)
1231. "What is the true discount on $120 for 120
days, at 7 %1 (Consider 360 da. = 1 yr.)
1232. If f of an acre of land is worth $148, how
much is \% of an acre worth? (Solve by propor-
tion.)
1233. If 15 men in 9 days, by working 9 hours a
day, build 36 rd. of stone-fence, how many rd.
can 25 men build in 15 daj^s, by working 8 hours a
day? (Solve by compound proportion.)
1234. A and B enter into partnership: A fur-
nished $240 for 8 mo., and B $559 for 5 mo. They
lost $118: how much did each man lose?
1235. In 25 kilogrammes how many pounds, Troy
weight? (1 gramme = 15.432 gr.)
1236. "What is the square root of 222784?
1237. Give the method of proof for square root,
and prove answer to Q. 1236.
Examination XL VII. March 2, 1882,
1238. "What is arithmetic ?
1239. What is a concrete or denominate number t
1240. By what must I divide .7847 to get 1.9 ?
1241. What kind of a number must a multi-
plier be ?
1242. What mixed number, multiplied by 25£, will
produce 54 T 5 ¥ ?
1243. What is a decimal fraction ?
ARITHMETIC. 91
1244. By how much does the cube of fifty-three
hundreths exceed one millionth ?
1245. Eeduce 5f , 9£, 4|- to improper fractions, and
then to their least common denominator.
1246. Add the numbers in Q. 1245.
1247. Reduce your answer to Q. 1246. to a whole
number and decimal (carrying the result to five
decimal places).
1248. If it requires 1 bu. 2 pk. of rye to sow an
acre, how many quarts would be required for a rect-
angular field 484 ft. long by 270 ft. wide ?
1249. What is a druggists' profit if he buys 5 lb.
of opium at $12 per lb. avoirdupois, and sells it at
$1 per oz. TrOy ? (7000 gr. = 1 lb. aviordupois).
1250. What would it cost to dig a cellar 30 ft. x
35 ft. x 8 ft., at $.84 per cubic yard ?
1251. The longitude of New York being 74° 0' 3"
W. and that of San Francisco being 122° 23' W.,
what time is it at San Francisco when it is 1. p. m.
at New York ?
1252. Reduce 12 miles to kilometers. (A meter =
89.37 in.).
1253. Into what pairs of factors may 12 be re-
solved ?
1254. What is the cost of 2 T. 15 cwt. (100 lbs.) 3
qr. 15 lb. of hay, at $12.50 per T. ?
1255. Bought a hhd. of sugar for $55. 75, and sold
it 'at a profit of 12£ per cent : what was the total
profit ?
1256. What was the rate per cent, of a tax for
152.88 J on property assessed at $3,525.50 ?
I
98 THE REGENTS' QUESTIONS.
1257. What is the discount, at 8 per cent, on a note
for $750, payable, without interest, in 2 yr. 3 mo.
20 da. ?
1258. Find the proceeds of a note for $1,000, due
in 90 days, discounted at bank at 6 per cent.
. 1259. C owes D $900, of which $200 will be due in
3 mo., $300 in 6 mo. and the balance in 12 mo.
What would be the mean or equated time of pay-
ment ?
1260. In the firm of A. & B., A invested $200 for
7 mo. and B. $300 for 9 mo. They gained $125 :
what was each one's share of the gain.
1261. How many feet long is each side of a square
acre ?
1262. If fifteen men can do a certain piece of work
in 90 days of 10 hours each, in how many days of 12
hours each can 20 men do the same work ?
1263. What is the premium on a building valued
at $3,000, insured for £ of its value, at 2£ per cent?
1264. Find the lacking term in the proportion.
10 gal. 3 qt. : : : 5 : 9.
1265. Find the length of the edge of a cubical
box containing 262144 cu. ft.
Examination XL VIILJune 15, 1882;
(10 tO 12 A. M.)
1266. What do you understand by the prime
factors of a composite number?
1267. Find the greatest common divisor of 360,
§48. 972.
ARITHMETIC.
1268. Find the least common multiple of 14, 16,
21, 24, 112.
1269. Exchanged a carriage worth $140, and five
sets of harness worth $29 each, for 45 cords of wood
and $73.50: what was the wood valued at, per cord?
1270. Express the present year of the Christian
era, bjr Roman notation.
1271. Express in words: 645000021903.
1272. Copy and numerate: 14627.5623.
1273. State the essential difference between com-
mon and decimal fractions.
1274. Write the table of linear (or long) measure.
1275. A owns T 3 T of a farm worth $15422, and
sells |- of his share. Find the value of what he has
left.
1276. f of it -- lH = what?
1277. (12X5X153X35X18X2) divided by (3x14
X9x5Xl7x20x6)=what?
(Use cancellation.)
1278. Divide 87 lb. 8 oz. 19 pwt. 21 gr. by 7, leav-
ing the result in the same denominations.
1279. Reduce .21675 T. to integers of lower de-
nominations.
1280. How many flagstones averaging 2 ft. long
by 1 ft. 3 in. wide will be required for a walk 250
ft. long and 4 ft. 6 in. wide?
1281. Find the side of a square field equivalent to
a rectangular one 2859 yd. long and 714 yd. wide.
JUNE 16, 1882. 10 to 12 A. M.
1282. If a pile of wood 36 ft. long, 4 ft. wide
100 THE REGENTS' QUESTIONS.
and 5 ft. high cost $58.50, what will a pile 60 ft.
long, 4 ft. wide and 6 ft. high cost at the same rate?
(Solve by proportion.)
Suppose that Jonas Smith owes you $343, for
which he gives his promissory note of this date,
payable to your order in 90 days, with legal interest.
(1283) Write a complete copy of the note, and
(1284) compute the amount payable when due, in-
cluding three days grace.
1285. How much can I realize on a note for
$2144.50 due in 3 mo., 10 da., discounted at bank
at 8 per cent. ?
'l286. Bought 150 bbls. of flour at $6.75 per bbl.,
and sold it at 12£ per cent, advance: what amount
did it bring?
1287. How long must $240 *be on interest at 8£
per cent, to amount to $266.40?
1288. A vessel and cargo are valued at $297000.
The premium paid for insurance on f- of their value
was $2475. What was the rate of insurance?
1289. What sum of money will amount to $228.60
in 2 yr. 4 mo. 18 da., at 6 per cent.
1290. How many gallons in 24£ hektoliters of
wine? (A liter = 1.0567 qt.)
1291. Explain the difference between specific and
ad valorem duties.
. 1292. Extract the cube root of 50653.
1293. The time at a certain place is 3 h. 15 min.
earlier than at Washington. In what longitude,
reckoned from Washington, is that place?
THE
REGENTS' QUESTIONS,
1866-1876.
GEOGRAPHY.
Examination I. Wop. 7> 7866.
(9:00-10:30 A. M.)
1. Mention the grand divisions of the earth, and state
within which hemispheres (northern or southern, and
eastern or western) each is principally included.
2. Give a similar statement in relation to the several
oceans,
3. Describe the equator, the tropics, and the polar cir-
cles.
4. Define latitude and longitude.
5. Name the several zones, and state within or between
what circles each is included.
6. Illustrate the relative positions of the equator, trop-
ics, polar circles, and zones, by a 6mall circular diagram
similar to an outline map of a hemisphere.
7. Mention the three lacgest islands of the globe, (ex-
THE REGENTS' QUESTIONS.
cepting the so-called continents, ) in the order of theb
size.
8. What bay and strait separate British America from
Greenland ?
9. What parallel of latitude forms the northern boun-
dary of the United States from the Lake of the Woods to
the Gulf of Georgia ?
10. What is the capital of Canada, and how is it sit-
uated ?
11. What strait connects Lake Huron and Lake Michi-
gan?
12. What is the capital of California ?
13. What river forms part of the boundary between
New York and Pennsylvania ?
14. Name and describe the largest river within the state
of Virginia.
15. Which are the three largest of the West India
Islands ?
16. Where and what is Terra del Fuego ?
17. Mention the countries comprised in the British
Isles.
18. What strait separates Spain from Africa ?
19. What mountains between Norway and Sweden ?
20. What large river of Russia empties into the Black
Sea?
21. What mountains form the boundary line between
China and Hindoostan ?
22. Where is the empire of Japan, and of what does it
consist ?
23. Is the greater part of Africa north or south of the
equator ? Represent the 6hape of Africa by a small out-
line map, and draw a line across it to correspond to the
position of the equator.
24. Where is the island of St. Helena ? (Nearest which
grand division, in what ocean, and hemispheres, and In
about what latitude and longitude ?)
GEOGRAPHY.
Examination II. Feb. 28, 7867*
(9:00-10:30 A. M.)
25. Define Circles of Longitude ?
26. What countries of the globe are crossed by the
Arctic Circle?
27. What is the longitude of N, Y. City, reckoning
from Greenwich ? (The minutes and seconds are not re-
quired.)
28. Which of the United States have no sea coast ?
29. Through what state does the Mississippi flow?
30. On what waters may one sail from New York to
Philadelphia ?
31. What river connects Lake Superior with Lake
Huron ?
32. What river rises in the western part of North Caro-
ina and flows into the Ohio ?
33. In what direction is the Isthmus of Darien from
the mouth of the Orinoco ?
34. What countries of South America are crossed by
the Equator ?
35. Name the three largest rivers of South America.
36. What countries of Europe border on the Mediter-
ranean Sea ?
37. Describe the river Rhine.
38. What is the capital of Prussia ?
89. What range of mountains in Austria ?
40. Describe the river Rhone.
41. Where is Calcutta situated ?
42. Where is Mt. Sinai ?
43. What strait at the eastern extremity of Siberia ?
44. What is the capital of Japan ?
45. Describe the river Niger ?
46. In what direction do the Mountains of the Moon
extend?
47. What is the largest island of Oceanica ?
THE REGENTS' QUESTIONS.
48. In what Zone is the Cape of Good Hope ?
Any pupil who has the requisite time, may show by *
small diagram, the relative position of lines of latitude
and longitude on a map of the northern hemisphere.
Examination III, June 73, 1867*
(9:00-10:30 A. M.)
49. In what part of the world is the point of no latitude
and no longitude, (reckoning longitude from Greenwich ?)
50. What is the width, in degrees, of each temperate
zone?
51. How can we determine, by a map, the line or ridge
of high land, called a watershed, which divides a coun-
try into opposite slopes ?
52. What are the two principal water- sheds of the
United States ?
53. What three large cities of North America are loca-
ted near the 20th, 30th and 40th degrees of north lati-
tude, respectively ?
54. On what parallel of latitude is the boundary of New
York, from Lake Champlain to the river St. Lawrence ?
55. What parallel of latitude forms the boundary be-
tween Virginia and North Carolina ?
56. What parallel forms the northern boundary of
Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi ?
57. What four states border on Lake Michigan ?
58. How is Alabama bounded ?
59. What river flows into the northern extremity of the
gulf of California ?
60. What country occupies the north-western extrem-
ity of South America ?
61. What country of South America has no sea coast ?
62. What three great rivers of Europe rise in the Alps*
and where do each of them empty ?
GEOGRAPHY.
63. What mountain range passes tl rough the whole
«ength of Italy ?
64. Into what sea does the river Elbe empty ?
65. What countries occupy the Scandinavian penin-
sula?
66. What strait separates England from France ?
67. What three peninsulas on the southern border of
Europe ?
68. What other continent has also three large penin-
sulas on its southern border, and what are their names t
69. What is the general direction of peninsulas in any
continent ?
70. What large c>'y is situated at the mouth of the
Ganges ?
71. What gulf i» the north-westtrn part of the Red
Sea?
72. What coud 4 y of Africa borders on the strait of
Gibraltar ?
Exami?iciion IT. JVor. 7, 1867.
(9:00-10:30 A. M.)
73. What is t> ?, amount of the greatest longitude ?
74. What ba west of Greenland ?
75. What p rallels of latitude form parts of the north-
ern boundary of the United States ?
76. What river forms part of the northeastern bound-
ary of the United States ?
77. What lake between lake Huron and lake Erie ?
78. What states are separated by the Wabash river ?
79. What is the outlet of Lake Champlaiu ?
80. On what river is Rochester situated?
81. Of what river is the Juniata a branch ?
82. What two ranges of mountains in Virginia ?
83. ^yhat peninsula forms the south part of Greece?
THB REGENTS' QUESTION*.
84. What is the capital of Prussia ?
85. Describe the Rhine.
86. Describe the Danube.
87. On what river is Paris situated ?
88. What large sea north of Prussia?
89. In what zone is the greater part of Asia?
90. What mountains between China and Hindoostan ?
91. Describe the river Ganges.
92. What sea between Arabia and Hindoostan ?
93. What two large islands on the Equator south east
of Asia ?
94. What are the two largest rivers in Africa?
95. What large island east of Africa ?
96. What group of islands west of Morocco ?
Examination Y. Feb. 20, 1868.
(9:30-10:30 A. M.)
97. Which extends further south— the Old World or
the New ?
98. In what Zone are the most highly civilized nations?
99. What connects the Pacific with the Arctic Ocean?
100. What change in temperature occurs in going from
the base of a high mountain towards its summit ?
101. What is the largest river flowing into Hudson's
Bay?
102. What large city on the western coast of the United
States ?
103. Which of the New England States has the highest
mountains ?
104. What lake is crossed by the northern boundary of
Vermont ?
105. What mountains in the northern part of the Stat*
of New York ?
GEOGRAPHY.
106. What city in Delaware at the mouth of the Dela-
ware River ?
107. On which side of the Mississippi is the greater
part of Louisiana *
108. Why has South America no large rivers flowing
westward ?
109. What is the only country lying wholly on the west-
ern slope of the Andes ?
110. What islands east of the southern extremity of
South America?
111. What is the south-western point of England
called ?
112. What two large lakes south-west of the Whit*
Sea?
113. What large river flows through Austria ?
114. What sea east of Italy ?
115. What waters between the Grecian Archipelago
and the Black Sea ?
116. What waters are connected by the strait of Babel-
mandeb ?
117. What peninsula between the Yellow Sea and the
sea of Japan ?
118. What important country of Asia consists of islands
only?
119. What country on the Mediterranean next west of
Egypt?
120. What cape forms the most eastern point of Africa?
Examinatio?i YI. June &, 7868,
(9:00-10:30 A. M.)
121. In what direction does the Gulf Stream flow?
122. What large island east of the Gulf of St. Law-
rence?
123. What island at the mouth of river St. Lawrence t
THE REGENTS QUESTIONS.
134. Which thirteen of the United States border on th«
Atlantic Ocean ?
125. What is the highest peak of the White Mountains ?
126. What island at the mouth of the Hudson, between
New Jersey and Long Island ?
127. What large bay in the State of Maryland?
128. What mountains separate the States of Virginia
and West Virginia ?
129. On what river is the capital of Tennessee situated t
130. What States are separated by the Sabine river ?
131. Which is further west, New Orleans or Lima ?
132. In what latitude is the mouth of the Amazon?
133. What divisions of South America border on the
Pacific ocean ?
134. What are the three great rivers of South America?
135. Which is the further north, Paris or Quebec ?
136. What is the capital of Denmark ?
137. Which is the largest lake in Europe ?
138. What river flows into the Gulf of Lyons ?
139. Through what waters would a vessel pass in goinf
from New Orleans to Smyrna ?
140. In what direction do the trade winds blow ?
141. In what latitude is the Strait of Gibralter ?
142. What is the capital of Persia ?
143. What mountains in the northern part of Africa ?
144. Which is the largest of the Sandwich Islands ?
Examination VII. Nov. 12, 7868.
(9:00-10:30 A. M.)
145. What is meant by small circles of a sphere ?
146. What does the eastern continent comprise ?
147. Which is the smallest of the United States ?
148. What States bound Florida on the north ?
GEOGRAPHY
149. What States bound Wisconsin on the west ?
150. Name three of the western branches ot the Missis-
•ippi river.
151. Between what States does the Connecticut river
flow?
152. In what direction is Montreal from Quebec ?
153. What two large peninsulas- in Mexico ?
154. In what direction is Buenos Ayres from Rio De
Janeiro ?
155. What is the capital of Turkey ?
156. What important seaport in the south of France ?
157. What island south of Hindoostan ?
158. What large desert in the Chinese Empire ?
159. What mountains between Siberia and the Chinese
Empire ?
160. Is Liberia in north or south latitude ?
161. What circle bounds the torrid zone on the north ?
162. Describe the Antarctic circle.
163. Between what grand divisions is the Atlantic
Ocean ?
164. Which is the largest lake of fresh water on the
globe ?
165. Which is the largest island sea ?
166. What is the latitude of Washington city (degrees
only?)
167. What is the longitude of New York city (degree!
only ?)
168. By what waters may a vessel pass from Providence,
R. I., to Nashville, Tenn. ?
Examination Till. J^eb. 78, 7869.
(9:00-10:30 A. M.)
169. How many degrees from the equator is the Arctic
Circle ?
THE REGENTS' QUESTIONS.
170. By what circle is the South Temperate Zone
bounded ?
171. Why do degrees of longitude vary in length at
different places on the earth's surface ?
1*72. In what State is the geographical centre of the
fcJnited States ?
173. Which State extends further north, Main or Min-
nesota ?
174. What State extends further south, Florida or
Texas ?
175. Mention the capitals of the Middle States.
176. Bound the State of Missouri.
177. Trace the water communication between Chicago
and Pittsburgh.
178. To what European government does Cuba belong ?
179. What is the capital of Venezuela ?
180. What large river empties into the Atlantic near
Buenos Ayres ?
181. What waters separate England and Ireland ?
182. By what route could a vessel sail from Marseilles
to St. Petersburgh ?
183. What is the capital of Austria, and where is it
situated ?
184. On what river is the city of Rome located ?
185. In what zone is Iceland ?
186. What large island near the eastern extermity of
the Mediterranean Sea ?
187. In what does the river Indus empty ?
188. What is the general direction of the rivers of
China ?
189. What bodies of water does the isthmus of Sues
gep&rate ?
19C. What countries of Africa border on the Mediter-
ranean Sea ?
191. Describe the Mozambique Channel.
192. In what zone does the highest civilization exist ?
GEOGRAPHY.
Examination IX. June 70, 7869,
(9:00-10:30 A. M.)
193. What two revolutions does the earth perform t
194. What do each of these revolutions produce ?
195. What is meant by the cardinal points ?
196. Which one of the five zones has more land surface
than any other ?
197. In which zone are volcanoes most numerous ?
198. Why are there few lakes in the torrid zone ?
199. Which is the longest mountain system of the
globe ?
200. Which grand division is crossed by both the
tropical circles ?
201. What is the general direction of the longest right
line that can be drawn across the eastern continent ?
202. Which of the grand divisions are peninsulas ?
203. What river has its basin in the southern part of the
great central plain of South America ?
204. What group of islands between North and South
America ?
205. What island north-west of Europe, partly in the
western hemisphere ? •
206. What large river of the United States flows into
the Pacific Ocean ?
207. Which is the largest western branch of the Mis-
sissippi river ?
208. Which is the largest branch of the Ohio river ?
209. Which of the thirty-seven United States extends
farthest north ?
210. Which of the United States are intersected by the
Mississippi river ?
211. What river bounds Iowa on the west ?
212. What city of Wisconsin is situated on Lake Michi-
gan?
213. What island in the Niagara river ?
THE REGENTS' QUESTIONS.
214. What sea between Russia and Sweden?
215. What is the capital of Holland ?
216. Which of the five races of men is the moat
numerous ?
Examination X. JYov. 12, 7868*
(9:00-10:30 A. M.)
217. How must a place be situated to be in north
latitude ?
218. How must a place be situated to be in east longi-
tude?
219. How many seasons has the torrid zone ?
220. Where are the richest silver mines of the globe .'
221. Into what races are mankind divided ?
222. What grand divisions lie wholly north of the
equator ?
223. What two gulfs of North America are crossed by
the Tropic of Cancer ?
224. Where is the Tropic of Cancer most nearly ap-
proached by the United State ?
225. What large river in the western part of the United
States has its source in British America ?
226. In what mountains does the Hudson river rise ?
227. What river forms part of the boundary between
New York and Pennsylvania ?
228. What river empties into the head of Chesapeake
Bay?
229. Through what two States does the Chesapeake
Bay extend ?
239. What two rivers receive the waters of all the
streams of Iowa?
231. Of what division of South America is the Isthmus
of Panama a part ?
232. Alocg what three rivers are the principal lowland
plains of South America ?
GEOGRAPHY.
283. Is the greater part of Brazil in north or in south
latitude ?
234. What range of mountains forms a natural boundary
between France and Spain ?
235. What noted river of Europe empties into the North
Sea?
236. Into what sea do all the rivers of South Russia
empty ?
237. What 6ea is between England and Denmark ?
238. What important group of islands east of the
Chinese Empire ?
239. In what country of Asia is Mt. Ararat?
i4C. In what zones is Africa ?
Examination XI. Feb. 18, 7870.
(9:00-10:30 A. M.)
241. What oceans border on the Eastern Continent?
242. Between what two grand divisions has the Atlantic
Ocean its greatest breadth ?
243. How many English miles from the equator is a
place that is ten degrees north of it ?
244. What grand divisions are crossed by the meridian
of Greenwich ?
245. Is Australia in east or in west longitude, reckon-
ing from Greenwich ?
246. In which zone ie the southern extremity of South
America ?
247. Which one of the United States lying wholly east
of the meridian of Washington has no ocean coast ?
248. What States border on Pennsylvania ?
249. Which one of the United States consists of two
peninsulas ?
259. How is Kansas bounded on the north ?
251. What is the chief town of Nova Scotia ?
252. What two large peninsulas in Mexico ?
THE REGENTS QUESTIONS.
253. In what mountains does the Amazon river rise ?
254. Between what two rivers is Paraguay situated ?
255. What country occupies the southern extremity of
South America?
256. What sea between Russia and SweAen ?
257. What five countries of Europe border on the
Mediterranean Sea ?
258. Which are the five great powers of Europe ?
259. What country bounds Greece on the north ?
260. What is the name of the principal desert of Asia T
261. What is the capital of Persia?
262. What large bay east of Hindoostan ?
263. In what zone or zones is the Sahara desert ?
264. What large gulf on the western coast of Africa
near the equator ?
Examination XII. June 70, 7870,
(9:00-10:30 A. M.)
265. Which extends farther east ; the United States or
Brazil ?
266. Which is the more westerly ; Cape Horn or Cape
St. Lucas?
267. Which ocean has the greater breadth ; the Atlantic
between South America and Africa, or the Indian, be-
tween Afriea and Australia ?
268. In what zones is Australia situated ?
269. What large bay east of Lake Huron and north of
Lake Erie ?
270. What bodies of water are connected by the Wel-
land Canal ?
271. Prove that Lake Superior is (or is not) more
elevated than the Atlantic Ocean ?
272. Mention any sea or lake upon the globe whose
surface is lower than the surface of the ocean.
27S. Mention all the States bordering upon IllinoU.
OEOGRAPHT.
874. In sailing np the Mississippi river from its mouth
to the latitude ol Chicago, what States, or parts of States,
might you see upon the eastern shore ?
275. Which are the so-called " Gulf States ; " or, what
8tates border upon the Gulf of Mexico ?
276. Which is the highest mountain in New England ?
277. What large river east of and nearly parallel to the
Hudson River?
278. Between what two rivers is Philadelphia situated ?
279. Mention one of the three large rivers of Vir-
ginia, south of and nearly parallel to the Potomac, and
emptying into the Chesapeake Bay ?
280. On which coast of Cuba, the northern or the
aouthern, is Havana, the capital, situated ?
281. What large river flows through Venezuela ?
282. What two large rivers unite to form the Rio de la
Plata f
283. What country of Europe partly encompasses the
White Sea?
284. What country of Europe is situated between the
Adriatic and a part of the Me'diterranean Seas ?
285. What range of mountains extends from the Bay of
Biscay to the Mediterranean Sea?
286. In what direction from China is the China Sea ?
287. What is the capital of Japan ?
288. What large lake of Africa, on or near the equator,
at the head of the river Nile ?
Examination XIII. Nov. //, 7870.
(9:00-10:30 A. M.)
289. What part of North America has the greatest
longitude, i. e., extends farthest west ?
290. What zone contains the greatest number of islands ?
291. Which has the greater circumference : the Tropic
of Cancer or the 80° circle of latitude ?
THE KEGENTS' QUESTIONS.
392. In what direction is the Caribbean Sea from the
Gulf of Mexico ?
293. Is the Sea of Kamchatka in the Eastern or in the
Western Hemisphere ?
294. In what latitude is the mouth of the Amazon
rher ?
295. Mention a large gulf, or a bay, in North America,
so nearly surrouDded by land as to be almost a mediter-
ranean or inland sea.
29H. What is the name of the outlet of Lake Huron ?
297. Mention some of the United States territories
which are traversed by the Rocky mountain range.
298. Which of the United States border on the Pacific
Ocean ?
299. "Which extends further north, the Gulf of Mexico
or the Gulf of California ?
300. Mention one of the United States which has more
than one capital city.
301. What State is indented by the Narraganset Bay ?
302. Which two New England States have a joint river
margin or boundary ?
303. To what State do Nantucket and Martha's Vine-
yard belong ?
304. What river is crossed three times by the southern
boundary of the State of New York ?
305. Which one of the Middle States is nearly sur-
rounded by water (sea coast and river) ?
306. Which of the United States border on Lake
Superior ?
807. What large river of Europe empties into the
Caspian Sea ?
308. What large river empties into the Black Sea from
the west?
309. What large river of France empties into the Medi-
terranean Sea ?
810. In what direction is Moscow from St. Peterstrargh I
GEOGRAPHY.
311. What is the capital of China ?
312. What mountain range between China and Siberia?
Examination XIV. Feb. 2&, 187 f.
(9:00-10:30 A. M.)
313. What is the axis of the earth ?
314. Which grand divisions are partly within the South-
ern Hemisphere ?
315. Which two grand divisions are traversed through-
out their entire length by a continuous mountain range ?
316. Which is the highest mountain peak of North
America ?
317. What large islands east of the Gulf of St. Law
rence ?
318. What large river forms the greater part of the
joint boundary of Oregon and Washington territory?
319. Mention eight cities in the State of New York.
320. What lake lies between Lake Champlain and the
head waters of the Hudson river ?
321. What river forms the entire eastern boundary of
Pennsylvania ?
822. What States are bounded on the south by the Ohio
river ?
323. What large lake in Central America ?
324. What four islands form the group known as the
Greater Antilles ?
325. Mention eight of the twelve countries of South
America ?
326. Which one of these countries is traversed by the
Orinoco river ?
327. What country of South America has no sea coast f
328. On what river of France is Paris situated ?
329. What large bay west of France ?
330. What range of mountains extends from the Black
to the Caspian sea ?
THE SEGENT3' QUESTIONS.
331. Mention four seas in and around Russia.
332. To what European power does Australia belong ?
333. In what zone is the greater part of Siberia ?
33!. What inland gulf lies between the Arabian sea and
the eastern end of the Mediterranean ?
335. What strait separates Morocco from Europe ?
336. What large river flows into the gulf of Guinea ?
Examination XT. June 9, 787 '/•
(9:00-10:30 A. M.)
337. Mention the grand divisions of the Earth, and
state within which Hemispheres (northern or southern,
and eastern or western) Asia is principally included.
338. Give a similar statement in relation to the Hemi-
spheres within which the Indian Ocean is included.
839. Describe the equator, the tropics and the polar
circles.
34C. Define latitude and longitude.
341. Name the several zones and state within or be-
tween what circles each is included.
342. Illustrate the relative positions of the equator,
tropics, polar circles, and zones, by a small diagram
similar to an outline map of a Hemisphere, and letter
each of these parts of the diagram.
343. What is the width, in degrees, of each temperate
zone?
344. What bay and strait separate British America
from Greenland ?
345. What parallel of latitude forms the northern
boundary of the United States from the Lake of the
Woods to the gulf of Georgia ?
846. What is the capital of the Dominion of Canada,
and where is it situated ?
GEOGRAPHY.
847. What strait connects Lake Huron with Lake Michi-
gan ?
348. What is the capital of California *
349. What river forms part of the boundary between
Maryland and Virginia ?
350. Mention and describe the largest river within the
United States.
851. Which are the three largest of the West India
Islands ?
852. Where and what is Terra del Fuego ?
353. Mention the countries comprised in the British
Islee ?
354. What separates Spain from Morocco ?
355. What mountains between Norway and Sweden ?
356. What large river empties into the Black Sea from
the west ?
357. What mountains between the Chinese Empire and
Hindoostan ?
858. Where is the empire of Japan, and of what does it
consist ?
369. Is the greater part of Africa north or south of the
equator ? Represent the shape of Africa by a small out-
line map, and draw a line across it to show the position
of the equator.
860. Where is the island of St. Helena ? (Nearest what
grand division, in what ocean and hemispheres) ?
Examination XTI. Nov. 70 y 787/.
(9:00-10:30 A. M.)
861. Bound the South Temperate Zone.
862. What is the latitude of the northern boundary of
Vermont ?
383. Mention all the grand divisions which lie partly is
the North Temperate Zone.
•••HE REGENTS' QUESTIONS.
864. What noted group of islands in the Pacific Ocean
west of Mexico ?
365. What grand division would be reached in sailing
east from Australia ?
366. What gulf on the Pacific coast of the Western
Hemisphere ?
367. What five large lakes are drained by the river St
Lawrence ?
368. Mention three tributaries of the Mississippi river,
from the west.
369. On what river is the city of Hartford situated ?
370. What river rises in western Massachusetts and
flows through Connecticut ?
371. In what mountains does the Hudson river rise ?
372. Which of the United States border on Lake Erie ?
373. Which states bound North Carolina and Tennes-
see on the south ?
374. What is the capital of California?
375. What city and island in the St. Lawrence opposite
the mouth of the Ottawa river ?
376. Into what four provinces is the Dominion of
Canada divided ? (Note : There are now but two.)
377. What country of South America bounds Peru on
the north ?
378. What country of South America is an Empire ?
379. What two large seas lie between the British Isles
and the central part of Russia ?
380. What name is given to the peninsula between the
Mediterranean and the Black Seas ?
381. What two rivers empty into the Persian Gulf ?
382. What mountain range extends southward from
Abyssinia ?
383. Which grand division has the warmest average
climate ?
884. What continent lies wholly in the Southern Hemi-
sphere ?
GEOGRAPHY.
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Examination XTII. Feb. 28, 7872.
(9:00-10:30 A. M.)
385. Which is the larger : Africa or South America ?
386. Which ocean is entirely within the Eastern Hemi-
*phere ?
387. What three oceans are partly within the South
Temperate Zone ?
388. In what direction is Madagascar from Australia ?
389. What two large islands of the Eastern Hemisphere
are crossed by the equator ?
390. What ocean receives the largest amount of water
from the continental nver systems ?
291. In what direction is the mouth of the Amazon from
the mouth of the Mississippi ?
392. What city is located on the Boston and Albany
railroad at its intersection with the Connecticut river ?
393. Mention five lakes lying wholly within the State
->t New York.
394. What city is situated in the south-western part
of Pennsylvania ?
395. Is Philadelphia in east or in west longitude (reck-
oning from Washington) ?
396. What is the capital of Alabama ?
397. What States bound Florida on the north ?
398. What large bay is situated on the western border
of Lake Huron ?
899. What great lake borders on Minnesota ?
400. Which are the two largest rivers that empty into
the Gulf of Mexico ?
401. What is the capital of Brazil ?
402. What country of South America is traversed by
the Orinoco river ?
493. Which extends further south ; Norway or Sweden?
404. Mention four large islands of the Mediterraneai
«ea?
THE REGEKTS' QUESTIONS.
405. Of what country is Vienna the capital?
406. What channel between Ireland and Wales ?
407. Near what river and bay is Calcutta situated.
408. In what direction is New York city from the
North Pole ?
I?xami?iation XYIII. June 7, 1872*
(9:00-10:30 A. M.)
409. How are the Arctic and Pacific Oceans connected ?
410. On which Hemisphere (eastern or western,) is the
meridian 170 Q east longitude from Greenwich ?
411. Is New Zealand in the Eastern or Western Hemi-
sphere ?
412. Mention a river of North America that flows in a
northerly direction.
413. Mention one of the rivers of Maine.
414. How many square miles in the State of New
York (in round numbers) ?
415. Which State has the larger territory : New York
or California?
416. What is the population of the State of New York
(in round numbers) ?
417. How many counties are there in New York State I
418. Which county of New York extends farthest east ?
419. What State bounds Kansas on the east ?
420. What is the capital of Illinois ?
421. What States would be crossed in passing direct
from Indiana to Alabama ?
422. Mention any one of the United States which hat
no sea or lake coast.
423. Mention a tributary of the Missouri river.
424. Mention one of the peninsulas adjacent to the Gulf
of Mexico.
425. Which is nearer the equator : Cuba or Jamaica ?
GEOGRAPHY.
426. What country bounds the Argentine Confedera-
tion on the north ?
427. What large river of Colombia, S. A., empties into
the Caribbean Sea ?
428. What large sea is situated about midway between
the Adriatic and Caspian Sea ?
429. Mention one of the gulfs adjacent to the Baltic
Sea.
430. In what direction is Corsica from Sardinia ?
431. What noted river empties into the Dead Sea ?
432. On which coast of Africa is Senegambia ?
Examination XIX. JVov. 8, 1872.
(9:00-10:30 A. M.)
433. What place upon the earth's surface is south from
every other place ?
434. What zone has no sunlight during our summer ?
435. In sailing due east, which does a ship change : its
latitude or its longitude ?
436. Which is the larger: North America or South
America ?
437. In what ocean are the Japan Islands ?
438. What ocean between Africa and Australia ?
439. What peninsula lies between the Arabian Sea and
the Bay of Bengal ?
440. In what direction is San Francisco from the
Iithmus of Darien ?
441. Does the greater part of the area of the United
8tates (including territories) lie east or west of the Mia-
i isfiippi river ?
442. What territory between Kansas and Utah ?
443. What state between Utah and California?
444. Which has the greater elevation above the ocean j
Lake Erie or Lake Huron !
THE REGENTS' QUESTIONS.
445. What large town ol Massachusetts is situated on the
Boston and Albany railroad, about midway between Bos-
ton and Springfield ?
446. Which is the least populous county of the State of
New Yorkf
447. What river rises in the State of New York and*
empties into the Chesapeake Bay ?
448. What State bounds Tennessee on the east ?
449. What sea lies south of the West Indies ?
450. What is the capital of Brazil ?
451. Of what country is Santiago the capital f
452. Mention one of the countries of South America
wholly in north latitude.
453. What country of South America is between Co-
lombia and Peru ?
454. What range of mountains separates Spain and
Portugal from the rest of Europe ?
455. What river empties into the North Sea at the
Hague ?
455. Mention one of the rivers that empty into the
Caspian Sea.
Examination XX. Feb. 28 \ 187 S.
(9:00-10:30 A. M.)
457. What general name is given to the several parti
into which the whole of the earth's surface is divided by
the tropics and polar circles ?
458. What lines on maps indicate north and south direo.
tions?
459. What large river of North America empties into
the Pacific ocean ?
460. What peninsula south of the Gulf of Mexico ?
461. Mention the largest river that empties into Lotg
Island Sound.
463. What mountain chain traverses Vermont ?
GEOGRAPHY.
463. Mention the largest river within the State of New
Hampshire.
464. What general name is given to the mountains west
of Lake Champlain ?
465. Mention a tributary of the Potomac river.
466. What large city is situated at the junction of the
Allegany and Monongahela rivers ?
467. On what river is the capital of Virginia situated ?
468. What lake lies between Michigan and Wisconsin ?
469. What large city is situated in the south-western
part of Ohio ?
470. Mention a city in the eastern part of Wisconsin.
471. What two rivers having the same name empty
Into the Gulfs of Mexico and California, respectively ?
472. What is the capital of Minnesota ?
473. Mention one of the four provinces of the Dominion
of Canada.
474. What country of South America bounds Colombia
on the east ?
475. In what direction is England from Spain ?
476. What is the capital of Norway ?
477. What large city is situated between the Black Sea
and the Sea of Marmora ?
478. What country bounds the Chinese Empire on the
north ?
479. What mountains are situated in the north-western
part of Africa ?
880. What large river empties into the Gulf of Guinea ?
Examination XXI. June 6, 7873,
(9:00-10:30 A. M.)
481. What part of the earth's surface has no sunlight at
the time of our midsummer ?
482. Mention one of the conditions upon which climat*
depends.
THE REGENTS QUESTION8.
483. Which zone contains most of the coral inlands ?
484. In what general direction does the Gulf Stream
flow off the United States coast ?
485. In what ocean is the geographical centre of the
Eastern Hemisphere ?
486. Which grand division lies partly in the Eastern
and partly in the Western Hemisphere ?
487. What province bounds Maine on the east ?
488. Among what mountains does the Hudson river
rise?
489. What river flows between South Carolina and
Georgia ?
490. On what river is St. Louis situated ?
491. What ocean receives the principal drainage of
South America ?
492. What country lies almost wholly on the western
slopo of the Andes mountains ?
493. What is the name of that arm of the ocean into
which the Parana river empties ?
494. What is the capital of the Argentine Republic?
495. What sea lies west of Denmark ?
496. Of what empire is Vienna the capital ?
497. Through what country does the lower part of "the
Danube flow ?
498. In what country of Asia is the river Ganges ?
499. What sea forms part of the northern boundary of
Persia ?
500. Mention one of the large rivers of the Chinese
Empire.
501. In what ocean i6 Madagascar?
502. Which extends further south : Africa, Australia or
South America ?
503. Mention one of the ranges of mountains between
the Red Sea and the Cape of Good Hope.
504. Towards which pole does the sun cast shadows at
midday, in the south temperate zone ?
GEOGRAPHY.
Examination XXII. A r oy. ?, 7873.
(9:00-10:30 A. M.)
405-609. Mention and bound each of the five zones.
510. Which State of New England has the highest
mountains ?
511-518. What States east of the Mississippi river have
neither sea nor lake coast ?
514-516. What States border on Lake Superior ?
517. What river forms part of the boundary between
New York and Pennsylvania ?
518. Through what States does the Mississippi flow ?
519-520. What parallels of latitude form parts of the
northern boundary of the United States t
521-522. Wbich are tbe two largest of the West India
Islands ?
523-524. Mention two countries of South America that
are crossed by the equator.
525. What country of South America lies wholly upon
the western slope of the Andes Mountains ?
526-528. Mention three peninsular countries in the
south of Europe.
529-532. Mention the four countries comprised in the
British Isles.
533-535. What three noted rivers of Europe rise among
tbe Alps ?
536-538. Into what sea do each of these three riven
(533-535) empty ?
539. What important country of Asia consists of islands
only?
540. What strait at the eastern extermity of Siberia ?
541-542. What are the two largest rivers of Africa ?
548. What sea is connected with the ocean by the Strait
of Bab el Mandeb ?
544. What country of Africa borders on the Strait of
Gibraltar ?
THE REGENTS' QUESTIONS.
Examination XXIII. Feb. 27, 7876.
(1:30-3:00 P. M.)
What great circle separates (545) the Northern from the
Southern Hemisphere ; and what one (546) the Eastern
from the Western ?
547. Does the Northern or the Southern Hemisphere
contain more land surface ; and, in like manner, (54.8) the
Eastern or the Western ?
Mention, as nearly as you can in the order of size,
beginning with the largest, the six grand divisions of
land on the Earth's surface : (549) ; (550) ;
(551) ; (552) ; (553) ; (554) .
Mention in like order as above, the five oceans : (555)
; (556) ; (557) ; (558) ; (559) .
Give the (560) latitude, and the (561) longitude (from
Greenwich) of the central point on the map of the West-
ern Hemisphere.
Mention the largest gulf on the American side of the
(562) Atlantic, and (563) Pacific Oceans, respectively.
Mention five of the lakes drained by the river St. Law-
rence: (564) ; (565)- ; (566) ; (567) ;
(568) .
What two peninsulas and large intervening islands
partially separate the Gulf of Mexico from the Caribbean
Sea? (569) ; (570) ; (571) .
572. What body of water, in size approaching the Gulf
of Mexico, is comprised within the limits of North
America ?
Mention five of the seas into which a vessel might sail
going eastward from the Strait of Gibraltar : (573) ;
(574) ; (575) ; (576) ; (577) .
Mention four bodies of water (seas, gulfs and bays) into
which a vessel may sail from the Indian Ocean : (578)
; (579) ; (580) ; (581) .
Mention three inland Asiatic Seas, each having no out-
let : (582) ; (583) ; (584) .
GEOGRAPHY.
Examination XXIY. June 5, 187&*
(1:30-3:00 P. M.)
685-587. Give three proofs that the earth is spherical.
588. What is the situation of places whose time of day
agrees with oar own ?
589. What is the situation of places which have the
■ame length of day and night that we have ?
590. In what ocean is a ship which is in 10° S. latitude
and 70° E. longitude from Greenwich ?
591. By what two bodies of water are the Arctic and
Pacific Ocean connected ?
592. Draw the outline of a hemispherical map, with the
usual number of great and small circles ; (593) indicate
the point of no latitude and no longitude by a 0; (594)
and mark its number of degrees on each parallel and
meridian represented.
595. To what great river system does Lake Champlaln
belong ?
596. Bound the State of Connecticut.
597-599. What three groups of islands are included in
the West Indies ?
600-601. What peninsula and island are partly in the
Eastern and partly in the Western Hemisphere ?
602. What is the season of the year at Cape Horn in
July?
603. What European sea borders on the Arctic Ocean ?
604-608. Mention five ranges of mountains each either
within or bordering upon Europe.
609-614. Mention six of the islands of the Mediterranean
sea?
615-618. Mention four seas which form parts of tha
western boundary of Asia.
619. On what river is Nankin situated ?
620-622. Of what three divisions does Oceanica consist ?
623-624. What is the largest island adjacent to Africa,
and what body of water separates them ?
THE REGENTS' QUESTIONS.
l£xami?iation XXY. Aor. 6, 787&»
(1:30-3:00 P. M.)
625-626. What parallels of latitude are in the northern
boundary of the United States ?
627. What river rises in Pennsylvania and flows north
through New York into Lake Onta'rio ?
628. Is the southern point of Florida, or the mouth of
the Rio Grande, further south ?
629. What is the distance, in statute miles, from the
most southern limit of the United States, in about 26° N.
latitude, to the northern boundary, on the meridian of
that limit ?
630. What river rises in the United States whose wateri
flow through a lake into Hudson's Bay ?
631. What river is between Lower Canada (or Province
of Quebec) and Upper Canada (or Ontario) ?
632. What two Provinces of British America are wholly
south of the river St. Lawrence ?
633. What is the general direction of peninsulas?
634-635. What is the extent north and south of South
America in degrees and in miles, the latitude of the
Isthmus of Panama being 9° north ?
636-637. What are the two principal water sheds of the
United States ?
638-639. W r hat river of Africa empties into the Mediter-
ranean, and through which part does it flow ?
640. In what zone is the highest civilization ?
641. Where are the Islands of Japan?
642-645. What four seas on the eastern coast of Asia t
646. Of what does the British Empire consist ?
617. What islands in the Mediterranean belong to Great
Britain ?
648-655. Through what bodies of water will a ship past
on the shortest way from London to Calcutta ?
656-659. What countries of Europe touch the Baltic
Bea, and what (660-664) the Mediterranean ?
GEOGRAPHY.
Examination XXYI. feb. 26, 7875,
(1:30-3:00 P. M.)
665. What is Latitude; (666) on what circle is it
measured ; (667) are degrees of Latitude of equal length ?
668. What points on the earth's surface have the great-
est latitude, and what is it ?
669. How many statute miles in a degree of latitude ?
670. The length of a degree of latitude being known,
how can the earth's circumference be found ?
671. What is Longitude ; and (672) from what meridian
or meridians, on your map, is it reckoned ?
673. How many degress of longitude may there be ?
674. Are degrees of longitude of equal length ?
675. Where are degrees of latitude and longitude of
equal length ? (These questions are on the supposition
that the earth is a perfect sphere.)
676. What is the longitude of the Poles ?
677. How is the situation of any place on the earth
determined ?
678. Bound the Atlantic Ocean.
679-682. Mention four Atlantic groups of islands.
683. What large island partly in the Atlantic and
partly in the Arctic Oceans?
684-688. Mention five groups of islands in the Pacific
Ocean, included in Occanica.
689. In what general direction will a ship sail in going
from New York to Liverpool ?
690-694. Which are the five principal bays on the
Atlantic coast of the United States ?
Describe the (695) Hudson and the (696) Connecticut
rivers ; — where each rises, in what direction it flows, and
where it empties.
697. Mention and describe the largest river which flowi
Into Delaware Bay.
698-700. Mention the three largest rivers of South
America which flow into the Atlantic
THE REGENTS' QUESTIONS.
701. Mention five countries of South America which
border on the Atlantic, (702) four on the Pacific, (703) one
wholly inland, and (704) six countries of Asia.
Examination XXYII. Ju?ie &, 1875.
(1:30-3:00 P. M.)
705. In what general direction do the rivers of the
Eastern and Middle States flow, and (706) those of the
Southern States which empty into the Atlantic ?
709-709. Mention three rivers which empty into Long
Island Sound.
What large river empties into (710) New York Bay ?
(711) into Delaware Bay? (712) into Chesapeake Bay?
713. What river forms about half of the southern
boundary of the United States ?
714. Mention the most extensive river basin of the
United States ; (715) where does this basin begin on the
nortb, and (716) where terminate south ?
717. Mention five States on the eastern, and (718) five
on the western slope of this basin.
Mention two rivers in the northern part of the United
States whose sources are near each other ; (719) one of
which empties into the Pacific, and (720) and the other by
the Mississippi into the Gulf of Mexico.
721. Mention the four great lakes between the United
States and Canada; (722) what large lake connected
with these is wholly in the United States ?
723. What extensive mountain chain in the western part
of the United States, and (724) what is its general direc-
tion ? (725) What mountain chain in the eastern part,
and (726) what is its direction ?
What (727) state and what (728) province bound the
Eastern States on the west ?
GEOGRAPHY.
729-733. Tnrough what principal waters may the
products of the western States pass from Chicago to
Montreal ? and (734) through what, by the shortest route,
from Chicago to New York ?
735. Mention the highest mountain of South America ;
(736-738) mention three South American countries
traversed by the Andes mountains.
739. Mention six countries of Europe which border on
the Atlantic or on the seas or bays connected with it, and
(740) five countries in that part of Europe bordering on
the Mediterranean ; (741) bound Europe.
742. What great empire in the eastern part of Europe
and extending into Asia ? (743) Bound Asia.
744. What countries of Africa border on the Mediter-
ranean Sea ?
Examination XXVIII. JYor. 5, 7875.
(1:30-3:00 P. m.)
745. Within which Hemisphere (northern or southern,
md eastern or western) is Australia included ?
746. Give a similar statement in relation to the Hemi-
spheres within which the Caribbean sea is included.
Define the (747) equator, (748) tropics, (749) polar circles,
(750) latitude and (751) longitude.
752-760. Write, in the order of their succession from
north to south, the names of the zones and of the circle*
which separate them.
What is the (761) length and (762) breadth, in degreei,
of the zone crossed by the equator ?
What (763) bay partly separates New Brunswick from
Nova Scotia ; and (764) what strait, Spain from Africa ?
What parallels bound the United States, (765) westward
from the Lake of the Woods, and (766) eastward from
the River St. Lawrence, respectively ?
767. What is the outlet of Lake Huron f
THE REGENT8' QUESTIONS.
768. What is the capital of California, and (769) on wnat
river is it situated f
770. What river forms most of the boundary between
Marvland and Virginia ; and (771) where does it empty ?
772. Mention and describe the largest eastern branch of
the Mississippi river.
773-775. Name the three largest of the West India
Islands.
776. What and where is Terra del Fuego ?
777. W r hat countries constitute Great Britain ?
778. What sea lies between Italy and Turkey ?
779. Wbat mountains on the east of Norway ?
780. What larger river empties into the Black Sea from
the west ?
781. What mountain between the Chinese Empire and
Hjndoostan ?
782. Where is the Empire of Japan, and (783) of what
does it consist ?
784. Where is the Island of St. Helena (nearest which
grand division, and in wbat ocean) ?
Examination XXIX, Feb. 25, 1876.
(1:30-3:00 P. M.)
785. What motion of the earth causes the alternation
of day and night ?
What is the (786) meridian, and what the (787) longitude
of a place f
788. How does the isthmus differ from a strait ?
789. Which has at any time the longer day, Quito or
Moscow ? (790) and why ?
791-793. Of what three departments does the United
States government consist ; and of what does each de-
partment consist ?
GEOGRAPHY.
Mention the (794-795) two principal mountain systems
of the United States, and (796-799) four groups or range*
oelonging to the more easterly system.
800-894. Mention five cities on the Mississippi and Its
tributaries, and the State in which each is located.
805-811. Through what waters would a ship pass In
sailing from St. Louis to Constantinople ?
iHTOnly seven answers are called for, though more
might be given.
813-816. Mention and describe five rivers that empty
into the Atlantic or its adjacent bays, between the Hud-
son and the Savannah.
Mention a country of South America (817) wholly
north of the Equator ; another (818) crossed .by the
Equator ; and a third (819) wholly south of the Equator,
but farther north than Patagonia.
820. What and where is the Crimea ?
821. Mention and describe a river of Africa that empties
into the Mediterranean Sea.
822. What mountain range on the joint border of
France and Spain ; (823) of Norway or Sweden ; (824) of
Russia and Siberia ?
Examination XXX. June 9, 7876,
(1:30-3:00 P. M.)
825. Bound the territory of the United States.
826. Through what large bodies of water does a part of
the northern boundary of the United States run ?
827. Name the New England States.
829-836. Name the other States which border on the
Atlantic.
537. What States border on the Pacific ?
THE REGENTS' QUESTIONS.
838. What mountain system is nearly parallel with the
Atlantic coast ; (839) into what do the rivers on the east-
ern elope flow, and (840) into what those on its western
slope ?
841. What great mountain system of the Western
Hemisphere is nearly parallel with the Pacific, and into
what do the rivers on its (842) eastern slope, and (843)
those on its western, empty ?
844. What range of mountains in Oregon ?
845-846. Mention two ranges in California, and (847)
one group in Arkansas.
848. What four countries of Europe are denominated
empires ?
849. Mention the capital of each of these empires.
850. Which of these empires extend into Asia ?
851. What territory has France in Africa ?
853-856. Starting southerly from the Straits of Gibraltar,
through what bodies of water will a ship sail in passing
around Africa to the place of starting ?
857. How many times will she cross the equator ?
858-861. What three prominent capes, and what large
island will she pass ?
862. Through what waters will a ship sail in passing
easterly from Gibraltar to Calcutta; (863) what two
prominent capes, and (864) what large island will she
pass during the latter half of the voyage ?
Examination XXXI. Nov. 70, 7876.
(1:30-3:00 P. M.)
865. Which oceans each extend across three zones ; and
(866) what are the names of those zones ?
Mention (867) two grand divisions, and (868) two large
Islands that are crossed by the equator.
869-871. What three large bodies of land are crossed by
Ihe tropic of Capricorn ?
QB0QBJLP1IT.
872 How many degrees from Greenwich is the middle
meridian of the Western Hemisphere ?
873-875. What are the three principal divisions of
North America ?
876. Which is the wider: the Atlantic or the Pacific
side of the United States ?
877-881. Mention five large bays and gulfs along the
Atlantic side of North America.
882. Which ocean is most interspersed with islands ?
883. What recently acquired territory of the United
States extends eastward from Behring's Strait to British
America ?
848-885. Which two of the United States extend farthest
south, and (886) what one farthest north ?
887. What river forms part of the north-east boundary
of the United States ; and (888) what river forms part of
the south-west boundary ?
889. What city on the north shore of Lake Ontario?
890-897. What States are adjacent to Tennessee ?
898-900. What countries (excluding islands) of Europe
are either wholly or partly west of the meridian of
Greenwich ?
901. In what direction is Ceylon from Japan ?
902. What gulf is connected with the Arabian Sea ?
903. Under what government is the country between
the Mediterranean and Black Seas ?
904. What great mountain chain north of India ?
Examination XXXII. March 2, 7877.
(1:30-3:00 p. M.)
905. If a line be drawn on a map of the world, from
Greenland to the Cape of Good Hope, what ocean will it
cross ? (906) From Alaska to Cape Horn ? (907) From
Africa to Australia ?
THE REGENTS' QUESTIONS.
908. How many degrees is the Tropic of Capricorn
from the North Polar circle ?
909. What mountain range is the water-shed between
the western tributaries of the Mississippi and the rivert
which empty into the Pacific ?
910. What city on an island in the St. Lawrence op-
posite the mouth of the Ottawa river ?
911-914. What States are drained in part by the Con-
necticut river ?
915. Near what parallel of latitude is Philadelphia?
916. What parallel forms part of the S. boundary of
New York ?
917-922. Mention six states and territories directly be-
tween St. Louis and San Francisco ?
923. Where is the Sierra Nevada rauge ?
924. What city near the mouth of the Mississippi ?
925-926. What peninsulas indent the Mexican Gulf ?
927. What sea east of Central America?.
928. What isthmus between Mexico and Central
America ?
929-930. Mention two countries of South America that
are crossed by the equator ?
931. What republic has Europe ?
932. What large peninsula between the Baltic sea and
the Atlantic ? (933) Between the North sea and the
Baltic ?
934. What mountain-chain traverses Italy ?
935. On what river of Italy is Rome situated ?
936. What country lies east of the Red sea ?
937. What country north of the Chinese empire ?
93S. In which one of the five zones is most of Asia ?
939. What large gulf indents the west coast of A frica f
940. What large island belongs to Africa ?
941. Id what direction from Persia is Australia ?
942-943. In which two zones is Australia ?
944. To what government does Australia belong f
GEOGRAPHY.
Examination XXXIII. Ju?ie S, 7877*
(1:30-3:00 p. m.)
945. Which one of the Middle States extends farthest
iouth, and (946), (947) which two of the United States
extend farthest west ?
94S-949. Mention the two chief rivers of the state of
Maine.
950. What river, rising in New Hampshire, passes
through the north-eastern part of Massachusetts ?
951. What island forms the south-eastern extremity of
Massachusetts ?
952. In what state, and (953) on the shore of what, is
Chicago situated ?
953-951. Describe, in a similar manner, the location of
Cincinnati, and <955) (956) that of St. Louis.
957-958. Mention two cities of Canada situated on the
St. Lawrence river.
959-961. What waters lie around the group of West
India Islands ?
963-963. Which two of the Greater Antilles are smaller
than the other two ?
964-966. Through what principal bodies of water (i. e.
other than rivers and straits or channels) would a ship
fcail in passing from London to St. Petersburgh ?
967-972. Answer the same question for the route from
Lisbon to the Sea of Azof ?
973. Which extends farthest south, Europe or Asia ?
974-975. What two ranges of mountains are on the
boundary line between Europe and Asia ?
976-977. What large body of water is near each end of
the more southerly of these ranges ?
978. What sea lies between the peninsula of Corea and
China proper ?
979. Where are the Canary Islands ?
THE REGENTS' QUE8TI0NS.
980-981. What countries of Africa, other than Egypt,
border on the Red Sea ?
982. What canal connects the Mediterranean with the
Red Sea ?
983. Which extends farther north, Africa or South
America ?
984. Which country of Africa extends farthest south ?
Examination XXXIV, JYov. 9, 7877.
(1:30—3:00 P. M.)
985. In what ocean is a vessel whose latitude is 40° N^
and longitude 40° W. from Greenwich ?
986-97. Between what circles is the S. T. zone ?
988. What division of water corresponds to an isthmus ?
989. What body of land corresponds to a lake ?
990. What river is the outlet of the great lakes of
North America ?
991. In what state are the White Mountains ?
992. What large island forms part of the State of New
York?
993. What river on the western boundary of New
Jersey ?
994. What river on the southern and western boundary
of Maryland ?
995. On what river is the capital of the U. S. ?
996. By what is Lousiana bounded on the west ?
997-999. Mention the three largest cities of the U. 8.
west of the meridian of Washington, and north of the
parallel of New Orleans.
1000-4. On what lakes does Michigan border ?
1005. What parallel of latitude forms part of the north-
ern boundary of Minnesota ?
1006. What territory bounds Oregon on the North f
THB BEGENTg' QUESTIONS.
1007-8. In what two zones is Mexico?
1009. What large Island does a vessel pass in entering
the Gulf of Mexico from the Atlantic ?
1010. What is the longitude of Greenwich, reckoning
from Washington as prime meridian ?
In what direction from England is (1011) Ireland ? (1012)
Scotland ? (1013) Wales ? (1014) Spain ?
1015. What country occupies the whole of northern
Asia?
1016. What large gulf on the western coast of Africa,
and (1017) what large river flows into it ?
1018. What is the largest city in E^ypt ?
1019. In what ocean is Polynesia?
1020. What is the latitude of the Tropic of Capricorn t
1021-23. Mention three large Islands lying between
Australia and the eastern part of Asia ; and (1024) one
near Hindostan, on the side toward Australia.
Examinatio?* XXXV, March /, 7878.
(1:15—2:45 P. m.)
1025. How long is the day at either Pole ?
1026. When does the day begin and end, at the North
Pole?
1027. Which is farther from Albany, a point 10° north,
or one 10° west of it ; and
1028. Why \
1029-33. Mention five lakes wholly within the State of
New York.
1034. What is the capital of the Dominion of Canada?
1035-38. Mention the provinces of that Dominion.
1039. What lakes does the Welland Canal connect t
1040. What bay on the eav c t of Lake Huron, and
1041. What one on the west ?
THE REGENTS' QUE8TIOH8.
1042. Between what two rivers is Philadelphia ?
1043. What is the capital of Denmark ?
1044. Into what does the Danube empty ?
1045. Which is the largest of the Sandwich Islands?
1046. Mention a river in Africa south of the Equator.
1047. What is the capital of Japan ?
1048. To which ocean doe-* the Gulf of Guinea belong f
1049-50. State two conditions which determine climate.
1051-53. Give three proofs of the form of the earth.
1054. What is a watershed ?
1055. Describe the position of the tropics on the globe.
1056. Glasgow and Edinburgh : — which is on the east
and which on the west 6ide of Scotland ?
1057. The Rivers Rhine and Rhone: — which is the
French and which is the German river; and (1058) which
runs northerly and which southerly ?
1059-64. Name in their order the states and territories
crossed by the direct line from St. Louis to San Fran-
cisco.
Examination XXXY1. June 7, 7878.
(1:15— 2:45 P. M.)
1065-68. Define continent, peninsula, promontory,
plateau.
1069-70. Which continents are crossed by the tropic
of Cancer and which by the tropic of Capricorn ?
1071- 72. Should a traveler go to the point on the earth's
surface directly opposite Greenwich, in which hemis-
pheres (northern or southern, and eastern or western),
and in which great division of land or of water, would
he be?
1073. Which of the six continents has the most irre-
gular outline, in proportion to its size ?
THE REGENTS' QUESTIONS.
1074. Which pole is now in darkness? (1075) When
did it pa6s into darkness, and (1076) when will it again
come into sunlight ?
1077-79. If the inclination of the earth's axis were to
become 30°, what changes would the several zones un-
dergo, as to extent ? Make a diagram or map of the
tones, and insert dotted lines to show their extent on
the supposition made.
1080-82. Name three rivers, each forming part of the
boundary between the United States and some other
division of North America.
1083. Which is the most westerly of the lakes wholly
within the State of New York, and (1084) by what rivers
does it reach the sea ?
1085-88. Name three rivers that empty into Lake On-
tario on the side of New York, and one that empties into
Lake Champlain.
1089-93. What five State capitals east of the Mississippi
river are in about the same latitude as Philadelphia?
Draw a small outline map of these five States, in connec-
tion, and the location of their capitals.
1094-95. To what two river systems do the rivers of
Ohio belong?
1096-98. Which three of the United States border on
Lake Superior ?
1099. What country of South America touches both the
Carribean sea and the Pacific ocean ?
1100. By what seas and (1101) oceans is Africa chiefly
bounded ?
1102. Name one of the large lakes regarded as sourest
of the Nile.
1103-4. Name and describe two rivers of Asia.
THE REGENTS' QUESTIONS.
Examination XXXVII. Nov. 8, 1878.
(1:15— 2:45 p. M.)
1105-6. What is the Gulf Stream? Give its course.
HOT. What influence does it have on the climate of
countries along whose coast it flows ?
1108-12. What races of people are there ?
1113. Which race has the highest civilization ?
1114. What has given to the city of New York its
great commercial superiority ?
1115. Describe the chief river of New York.
1116. To what place is it navigable ?
1117-23. Name the counties in order on its east side,
as far north as Lake Champlaiu.
1124-31. Name those on Lake Ontario and the river
St. Lawrence.
1132. On what lake is. Buffalo? 1133. Piattsburgh ?
1134-35. What city of Connecticut is on Long Island
Sound, and for what is it distinguished?
1136-38. Name three cities of the United States hav-
ing the greatest population, and in their order.
1139. What important commercial city on the Ohio
r River? 1140. On Lake Michigan? 1141. On the Mis-
sissippi, above New Orleans ?
1142. What is the latitude of the extreme northern
cape of Africa (within two degrees) ?
1143. What of the extreme southern cape ?
1144. What is the length of Africa in miles ?
1145. Will it be noon at places east of a given meri-
dian earlier, or later, than on that meridian ?
1146. What is the difference of time for one degree
difference of longitude ?
1147-49. What three rivers in Europe rise near each
other, and flow, one into the North Sea, one into the
Mediterranean, and one into the Black Sea ?
1150. What empire extends from the Black Sea to
the Arctic Ocean ?
GEOGRAPHY.
1151. To what sea does the Austrian Empire extend ?
1152-53. To what two seas, the German Empire ?
1154-56. What bodies of water wash the shores of
France ? 1157-58. Of Spain ?
1159. Where is the Island of Cyprus ?
1160. Under what European power is Hindostan ?
1161-62. What two empires are partly in Europe and
partly in Asia '?
1163-64. Name the capitals of Germany and Austria.
Special Examination.
(Supplementary to No. XXXVII, protest having been
made against Questions 1117-31. Schools so desiring
were permitted to use this examination instead. Time,
one hour and a half. )
1165. Through what strait is the entrance into Baffin's
Bay?
1166. What laud on the east of that bay and strait ?
1167. What strait separates Alaska from Asia ?
1168. What province of British America between
Alaska and the United States ?
1169. What large bay extends south into British
America ?
1170. What is the southern part of that bay called ?
1171-72. What are the two great mountain systems
of North America ?
1173. Which of these systems gives rise to the largest
rivers ?
1174. On which slope do these rivers flow ?
1175. Why are the rivers on the western slope of this
system smaller than those on the eastern slope ?
1176. What city on the Mississippi River a little below
the mouth of the Missouri ?
1177. What city in Ohio on the Ohio River ?
1178. What, in Kentucky ?
THE REGENTS' QUESTIONS.
1179-80. What city at the head of Lake Michigan, and
in what State is it ?
1181. What city at the eastern extremity of the New
York Central Railroad ?
1182. What one at the western extremity ?
1183-85. Name three cities between those at the ex-
tremities of the same road.
1186. In what direction will a ship sail from San Fran-
cisco to Japan ?
1187. What is the great mountain system of South
America ?
1188-90. What are the three great rivers of South
America ?
1191. Why are they great?
1192. What large empire in South America ?
1193. What is the form of government of the other
countries of South America ?
1194. How can a ship pass from the Atlantic to the
Pacific without going around Cape Horn ?
1195. What sea bounds Europe on the south ?
1196. What ocean on the north V
1197-98. Name two seas in the northern part of
Europe.
1199-1200. Name two gulfs in the Baltic Sea.
1201-3. What mountains, river, and sea make the
eastern boundary of Europe ?
1204-5. What two islands between Italy and Spain ?
1206. What ocean bounds Asia on the north ?
1207. What on the east ?
1208. What on the south ?
1209. What country extends across the northern part
of Asia ?
GEOGRAPHY.
Examination XXXVIII. Feb. 28, 1879.
(1:15— 2:45 P. M.)
Draw a circle to represent the ordinary hemispherical
map : then
1210. Locate and name the poles and the equator.
1211-14. Also, the circles which mark the divisions of
the earth's surface into zones, and name these circles.
1215. Mark the latitude of each of these circles.
1216. Write the names of the zones in their proper
places on the map.
1217-19. What countries of the western hemisphere
are wholly or partly in the north temperate zone ?
1220-21. What countries of North America are wholly
or partly in the torrid zone ?
1222-25. Bound the county in which you now are.
1226-32. Describe the northern boundary of the
United States, from the Pacific Ocean to New Hampshire.
1233-34. What States on the Mexican boundary ?
1235-38. Name the four capes on the extreme north,
east, south, and west coasts of South America.
1239-40. By what European nations was South Ame-
rica colonized"? and, 1241. Is any part now subject to
either of those nations?
1242-43. What are the forms of government in South
America ?
1244-46. Name three principal projections of land
(peninsulas) on the western coast of Europe ?
1247-4^. Name two extending into the Mediterranean.
1249. In what zone is the greater part of Europe?
1250-52. What countries of Europe are partly in the
frigid zone ?
1253-54. What channel and strait separate England
from France ?
1255-56. Name the capital of France and the river on
which it is located.
1257. What seaport of France on the Mediterranean ?
TEE REGENTS' QUESTIONS.
1258-61. Name and locate four mountain ranges in
Europe.
1262-63. What country in Asia is under the British
Government, and what is its capital ?
1264-66. What three groups of islands on the north-
west coast of Africa '?
1267-68. Mention two lakes of Africa, under the equa'
tor, sources of the Nile.
1269. What large river of Africa empties into the
Atlantic ?
Examination XXXIX. June 6, 1879.
(1:15—2:45 p. m.)
1270. Which ocean has the least coast line?
1271-72. Give the length and breadth of the torrid
zone, in degrees.
1273. What is the season of the year at the Cape of
Good Hope, in July ?
1274. What noted group of islands in the line of
commerce between North America and China ?
1275. Which ocean receives the greatest amount of
drainage from North and South America ?
1276-77. Which two meridians bound the eastern and
western hemispheres ?
1278. What river separates Oregon from Washington
Territory ? 1279. Texas from Mexico ?
1280. Into about how many States of the size of
New York could Texas be divided ?
1281. What parallel forms part of the northern
boundary of Minnesota ?
1282. In which State are the richest mines of copper ?
1283. In which, of coal?
1284. What is the U. S. form of government ?
1285-87. Of what three departments does it consist ?
1288. Through what do vessels pass from Lake Ontario
to Lake Erie ?
GEOGRAPHY.
1289-90. What rivers drain the lakes of Central
New York?
1291-93. Mention the 3 largest of these lakes.
1294-97. Each of two islands' of New York is a
county (under another name) : give the island name
and the county name of each.
1298-1301. Which is the largest island of New
York, and into what counties is it divided?
1302-4. Bound three countries of South America.
1305. What city of France is the seaport of Paris?
1306. What mountain chain traverses Italy?
1307. What sea between Italy and Turkey?
1308-11 . Mention four great seas on the west of Asia.
1312. What river empties into the Dead Sea?
1313. What is the capital of the Turkish Empire?
1314. Of China?
1315. Of Brazil?
1316. Of Ecuador?
1317. What large island south of Hindoostan?
1318. What tropic crosses Hindoostan and China?
1319. What is the most noted product of China?
1320-23. Mention the four principal bodies of
water on the coast of Africa; and
1324-25. Two islands in S. Latitude, one east and
one west of Africa.
1326. How is the fertility of Egypt annually re-
newed?
1327-29. In what zones is Africa?
Examination XL. Nov. 7, 1879.
(1:15—2:45, P. M.)
1330. Which grand division has the most exten-
sive and elevated plateaus?
:he regents' questions.
1331. What seaport has New Hampshire?
1332-35. Mention two cities on the Connecticut
river, and the state in which each is located.
1336-43. Write in a column the names of the
provinces of the Dominion of Canada, and after
each the name of its chief city (or one of its cities.)
1344-46. What mountains are between Connecti-
cut river and Lake Champlain? Between the Hud-
son and Susquehanna rivers? Between Lake Cham-
plain and the St. Lawrence?
1347-52. Mention 3 lakes and 3 large rivers that
form part of the boundary of N. Y. State.
1353-56. Mention the chief sea port and the chief
lake port of this state, and the waters by which
boats pass (by the shortest route) between them.
•.Mention the cities of this state which answer to
the following descriptions :
1357. Near Onondaga lake.
1358. On the Genesee river near Lake Ontario?
1359. At junction of Chenango and Susquehanna
rivers.
1360-62. Near junction of Mohawk and Hudson
rivers.
1363. Near Penn. line, west of the Susquehanna.
1364. On the St. Lawrence river.
1365-66. Which of the eastern states are crossed
by the parallel of 45° N. latitude?
1367-70. Looking at the map of the U. S., what
great central river may be compared to the trunk of
a tree, which are its 2 chief opposite branches, and
into what large body of water does the trunk river
empty?
GEOGRAPHY.
1371. Show by a small outline map the general
form of S. America, and (1372) the location of its
mountain and river systems.
1373-75. What waters are nearest the Desert of
Sahara on the west, north and east?
1376-80. Mention, in their order, the oceans and
grand divisions that would be crossed in going east-
ward from N. Y. city entirely around the world.
1381-89. Mention, in their order, and give loca-
tion of other natural features, such as large islands,
rivers, seas and mountains, that might be seen on
the same route, within the north temperate zone.
Examination XLL Feb. 27, 1880.
(1:15—2:45 P. M.)
1390-91. What bay and strait seperate British
America from Greenland?
1392-93. What is the capital of Canada, and
where is it situated?
1394. What river of North America flows into
the Arctic Ocean? 1395. Into the Gulf of Mexico
from the west? 1339. Into the Gulf of California?
1397. What chain of islands forms part of the
southern boundary of Behring's or Kamtschatka
sea?
1398. What peninsula in the southern part of the
United States? and (1399-1401) what waters border
upon it? 1402. Name the principal river of Alaska.
1403-4 Name two Gulfs on the west coast of
South America.
1405. In what country of South America do the
Andes attain their highest elevation?
THE REGENTS' QUESTIONS.
1406-9. Name two of the noted volcanic peaks of
the Andes, and the country containing each.
1410. Mention a range of mountains in Brazil.
1411-12. What two rivers form the Rio De La
Plata?
1413-17. Name five seas bordering upon Russia.
1418. What cape at south-west extremity of Eng
land?
1419. What connects the Atlantic Ocean and the
Mediterranean Sea?
1420. Name three large islands in the Medi'er-
ranean Sea, and locate each.
1426. What is the capital of Portugal? 1427. Of
Spain? 1428. Of Denmark?
1429. To what is the name British Empire applied?
1430. About what proportion of the human race
are under British rule?
1431. Name a river of Scotland, and (1432) its
chief city.
1433-34. Name two peninsulas in the south of
Asia.
1435. What country between the Persian Gulf and
the Caspian sea?
1436-37. What countries of Asia border upon the
Red Sea?
1438-40. Name three large islands S. E. of Asia.
1441. What large sea between N. America and
Asia? and (1442) what connects it with the Arctic
Ocean?
1443. Wl at mountains on the N. coast of Africa?
1444. What mountains near the northern coast of
the Gulf of Guinea?
GEOGRAPHY.
1445-46. Through what gulf and strait must a
vessel pass in sailing from the Indian Ocean to the
Red Sea ?
1447-49. Name three countries of Africa border-
ing upon the Mediterranean Sea, west of Egypt.
Examination XL II (a), June J/., 1880,
(1:30-3:00 p.m.)
1450-51. What bay and strait connect the Arctic
and Atlantic oceans ?
1452-53. What sea and strait connect the Arctic
and Pacific oceans ?
1454-55. Bound the Caribbean sea (on two sides
by groups of islands).
1456-57. Between what two localities has North
America its greatest extent ?
1458. What is the direction of a straight line join-
these two localities ?
1459. What parallel of latitude approximately di-
vides North from South America ?
1460-61. What is the general direction of the west-
ern coast of North America ? and of South America ?
1462-63. What line of latitude and meridian cross
each other at the centre of map of western hemi-
sphere ?
1464-65. Considering the western hemisphere as
thus divided into quarters (north-eastern, north-wes-
tern, etc. ) within which quarter does the greatest
part of North America lie ? and of South America ?
1466. Within which quarter are the Sandwich Is-
lands ?
THE REGENTS' QUESTIONS.
1467. Within what body of water is the central
point of the surface of the eastern hemisphere ?
1468-69. What large sea and bay indent Asia on.
the south ? and (1470) what peninsula lies between
them ?
1471-72. Mention two large islands between Aus-
tralia and Eastern Asia, and (1473. ) a peculiar chain
of islands north-east of Asia, stretching towards
North America.
1473-77. What are the several divisons of Great Brit-
ain, and (1478) what is meant by the British Em-
pire ?
1479-^t. Mention eig-ht ssas that either indent or
border upon Europe,
1487-88. What countries border upon the bay of
Biscay ?
1489-98. Name ten countries of continental Europe
(in a column), and the capital of each opposite.
1499-1503. Name five countries of Africa that bor-
der on the Red and Mediteranean seas. (1504) Name
the highest mountain groups or ranges in New York,
(1505) South America, (1506) Europe, and (1507)
Asia.
Examination XLIIib), June 18, 1880.
(1:30-3:00 P.M.)
1508-15. Describe a voyage around the world from
Boston to Lisbon, thence to Calcutta by the shortest
route, thence to Canton, thence to San Francisco,
thence to Boston, naming in order the principal
bodies of water over which you would sail ?
GEOGRAPHY.
1516-20. Locate each of the cities named in the
preceding question.
1521. Of what would the greater part of a cargo
from Canton to San Francisco, probably consist ?
1522-31. Name and locate two mountain groups,
three rivers, three lakes,, and two islands included
within the state of New York.
1532-34. Where are the following articles exten-
sively produced : coffee, cotton, spices ?
1535. What waters does the Erie Canal connect ?
1536-37. Name two extensive desert regions and
the grand divisions in which eaeh is located ?
1538. Which grand division has the greatest extent
of coast line in proportion to its size ?
1539-41. Which grand divisions nearly enclose
the Arctic ocean ?
1542-44. Name three important rivers of the Unit-
ed States which have large cities at or near their
mouths, giving the names of the cities ?
1545-46. Which grand division is called the
" Dark continent, " and why ?
1547-48. Name two peninsulas which extend in a
northerly direction ?
1549-50. Name the largest river of Europe, and
the sea into which it flows ?
1551-52. What are the two principal rivers of
Hmdostan ?
1553. What is the principal mountain system of
Asia ?
1554. What country occupies the Great Plain of
Europe ?
THE REGENTS QUESTIONS.
1555-58. What states and territories border on
Mexico ?
1559. What group of large islands south-east of
Australia ?
1560. In what direction is Raleigh from Chicago ?
1561. What large island in the West Indies belongs
to Great Britain ?
1562-63. Name the largest rivers of British Ameri-
ca.
1564-66. Give the largest lakes wholly within the
United States.
1567. What is the principal tributary of the Miss-
issippi river from the east ?
Examination XLIV, Nov. 12, 1880.
(1:30-3:00 P. M.)
1568. What geographical name is given to those
semi-circumferences of great circles which end at
the poles : and (1569) what, to those circumferences
which cross the first named lines at right angles?
1570, 71. How are each of these two kinds of lines
numbered on maps and artificial globes (i. e. . , where
does the numbering begin and how far does it ex-
tend); and (1572-77) what special names have some
of them?
1578. What great circle divides the northern from
the southern hemisphere; and (1579) what one the
eastern from the western?
GEOGRAPHY.
Bound the south temperate zone, as follows:
1580, 81. First, by the adjacent zones.
1582, 83. Second, by the bounding lines, desig-
nated by their proper names.
1584, 85. Third, by the distance in degrees of
each bounding line from the nearer pole.
1586, 87. Which oceans cross three zones?
1588-90. Which are the three zones thus referred
to; and what is their aggregate width, (1591) in de-
grees, and (1592) in English miles?
1593. Which ocean receives almost the entire
drainage of South America?
Which hemispheres have the greater water sur-
face: (1594) Northern or Southern; (1595) Eastern or
Western?
What are such parts of the earth's surface called
as answer to each of the following descriptions?
1596. The largest bodies of land.
1597. Smaller bodies of land, surrounded by water.
1598. Small projecting parts of large areas of land.
1599. Projecting parts almost enclosed by water.
1600. Narrow necks of land between large areas.
1601. High and steep or sloping masses.
1602. High, broad and nearly level areas.
1603. Low and nearly level areas.
1604. Depressions between ridges of land.
1605. Depressions more nearly circular.
Where is (1606) the greatest elevation, and (1607)
where the greatest depression of land surface, as
compared with the level of the sea?
THE REGENTS' QUESTIONS.
1608-10. Mention the three largest inland seas of
the Eastern continent.
1611-14. Into what four chief political divisions
is North America divided?
1615-18. Mention the four States directly between
the Lake of the Woods and Louisiana?
1619-23. Mention any five continuous border"
counties of the State of New York.
1624. What is the direction of the Gulf of Guinea
from Siberia; and (1625) Australia from England?
1626. The whole surface of the earth contains
about how many millions of square miles; and
(1627) the State of New York, about how many
thousands?
Examination XLIV, March 4, 1881.
(1:30 to 3:00 p. m., only.)
1628-9. Name the two principal motions of the
earth; state how these differ in respect to (1630) thQ
centre of motion, and the (1631) time and (1632)
space in which one motion of each kind is com-
pleted.
1633. Define geography, and (1634-6) three of its
common branches or divisions.
1637. To which of these divisions does the frame-
work of a map belong ?
1638. What is the estimated population of the
globe ?
1639-43. Name the five races of men, and (1644, 5)
the two most numerous ones.
1646, 7. Give, as nearly as you can, the latitude
and longitude of the place where this examination
GEOGRAPHY.
is held; and (1648) the length of a degree of longi-
tude at same place.
1649. "The land surface of the globe consists of
about how many millions of square miles ?
1650, 1 . Give the relative size of North America
and Asia, taking Europe as a unit of measure.
1652, 3, Mention the two great mountain systems
of North America, and (1654-7) two ranges or
groups of each system.
1658-62, Which States are nearly enclosed by the
Mississippi and Ohio rivers and the great lakes ?
What river flows along the west border of (1663)
New Hampshire? (1664) New Jersey? (1665)
Iowa ? (1666) Texas.
1667. How many of the States of the Federal
Union are larger than New York ?
1668, 9. What States, and (1670) what province
opposite to them, are bounded by the parallel of 45"
N. Latitude ?
1671. Which county of this State contains the
highest elevation, and (1672) what other county the
lowest land in greatest extent ?
Which has the more elevated site above the sea-
level: (1673) Buffalo or Oswego ? (1674) Syracuse or
Ogdensburgh ? (1675) Troy or Newburgh ? (1676)
Binghamton or Brooklyn ?
1677. Prove your answers to questions (1673-6).
1688, 9. 'What countries are directly south of the
Caribbean Sea ?
Which is the most populous city of (1680) South
America ? (1681) Africa ? (1682) Scandinavia ?
THE REGENTS QUESTIONS.
Where are (1683) the Atlas mountains ? (1684)
the Pyrenees ?
1685, 6. Which oceans touch Africa ?
1687. Mention the largest island of the largest ia-
and sea of the eastern hemisphere.
Special Examination, March, 1881.
(Supplementary to No. XLIV, protest having been
made against its difficulty. Schools so desiring were
permitted to use this examination instead. Time,
one and one-half hours) :
(1688) What is a meridian? (1689) a prime merid-
ian? and (1690) what is the number of the merid-
ian opposite the prime meridian?
Describe (1691) the equator; (1692, 3) the tropics;
and (1694, 5) the polar circles.
(1696) What name includes all these lines (1688-95)
as belonging to a sphere; and (1697, 8) what special
names distinguish between the first four as a class,
and the second four?
(1699) What is the western boundary of the west-
ern hemisphere?
Bound the north temperate zone, as follows:
(1700, 1) First, by the adjacent zones.
(1702, 3) Second, by the bounding lines, designa-
ted by their proper names.
(1704, 5) Third, by the distance in degrees of each
bounding line from the nearer pole.
(1706-8) Within which zones does North America
lie? and (1709, 10) South America?
GEOGRAPHY.
(1711) Which ocean has the greater length, as
compared with its breadth?
(1712) Where do the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans
unite? and (1713) where else do they most nearly
approach each other?
Which hemispheres have the greater land surface,
(1714) Northern or Southern, (1715) Eastern or
Western ?
(1716) Mention the largest political division of
South America; and (1717-20) four others bordering
on the Pacific Ocean.
(1721-27) Mention portions of the route by which
a vessel, starting eastward from the southern coast
of Portugal, might sail to Behring's Strait.
(1728-30) Mention three large islands of the Medi-
terranean Sea.
(1731) What sea between England and Norway?
and (1732) what one east of Sweden?
(1733-9) Bound Kentucky by the adjacent states.
(1740-42) Mention three of the larger lakes drained
by the Oswego river.
Mention the counties of New York that answer to
the following descriptions: (1743) the most westerly;
(1744) the most northeasterly; (1745) the most east-
erly; (1746) the most populous; and (1747) the least
populous.
Examination XLV, June 17, 1881i
(1:15 to 5:45 P. M.)
Describe the (1748) Equator; (1749) Tropic of
Cancer; (1750) Antarctic Circle; and state (1751-3)
THE REGENTS' QUESTIONS,
how each of these circles is situated with reference
to a zone which contains or borders upon it.
Mention the chief natural divisions of (1754) land,
and of (1755) water.
(1756) What does Oceanica include?
Which is the (1757) longest mountain range; (1758)
largest gulf; and (1759) largest fresh-water lake of
the globe?
Is the earth's surface mainly land, or water, along
the (1760) Equator; (1761) Arctic Circle; (1762)
Tropic of Capricorn?
(1763) Which meridian circle traverses less of land,
and more of water surface, than any other?
(1764-72) Name in their order from east to west
the northern border states of the United States.
Mention the (1773) longest river of the United
States, and (1774-6) three of its tributaries.
(1777-9) What portions of land nearly bound the
Gulf of Mexico on the southeast; and by what
waters is it connected with (1780) the Caribbean
Sea, and (1781) the ocean proper?
What (1782-4) three bays indent Massachusetts,
and (1785) what one Rhode Island?
(1786-8) Mention three large islands near the south
shore of New England; and (1789-91) the three
largest cities of New York, north of latitude 42°.
In what direction is Cincinnati from (1792) Buf-
falo, and from (1793) Chicago?
(1794-8) Mention five capital cities of South
America, and the political division to which each
belongs.
GEOGRAPHY.
(1799, 1800) What countries border on the Bay of
Biscay?
Between what (1801, 2) grand divisions, and
(1803, 4) seas is the strait on which Constantinople
is situated?
What (1805) sea, and (1306) bay north of the
Indian Ocean?
(1807) What mountains north of Hindoostan?
Examination XLVI. Nov. 18, 1881,
(1:15-2:45 P. M.)
(1808) What meridian and (1809) which line of
latitude mark by their intersection the centre of the
western hemisphere?
(1810) Where is the centre of the surface of the
southern hemisphere?
(1811) Which hemispheres are projected upon the
plane of the equator?
(1812-14) Mention three continental masses of
land, and (1815-19) the grand divisions into which
any of these are subdivided,
(1820-22) Mention three important groups of
islands, and (1823-25) their location relative to the
nearest grand division.
What is the general direction of the mountain
THE REGENTS' QUESTIONS.
systems (1826) in the old world, and (1827) in the
new?
(1828-32) Mention an important mountain range
wholly within each of the five grand divisions, and
(1833-37) give its general direction.
(1838-47) Mention ten great arms or projections
(seas, gulfs, bays) of the Atlantic ocean, as usually
shown on an artificial globe or map of the world.
Mention the largest river that empties into each
of the following seas: (1848) Caspian; (1849) Black;
(1850) Mediterranean.
What outlet has (1851) the Black sea; (1852) the
Mediterranean?
(1853) Which ocean receives the greater part of
the drainage of Africa, and chiefly (1854-58) by
what rivers?
Give the (1859) latitude and (1860) longitude of
Greenwich, in England,
(1861) Name the third grand division in the order
of size, and (1862) its extent in millions of square
miles.
(1863) New York State has how many millions of
inhabitants; (1864) how many thousand square
miles; (1865) how many counties; and (1866, 67)
what cities with a population between 75,000 and
100,000?
GEOGRAPHY.
Examination XLVIL March %, 1882*
(1:15 to 2:45 p. m.)
1868-72. What rivers are the final outlets of the
streams and lakes of New York State ?
1873-77. Into what gulf or bay does each of these
rivers empty ?
1878-80. What name is given to the principal cur-
rent of the Atlantic within the North Temperate
zone ; from what is that name derived ; and in what
general direction does that current flow?
Describe the following straits by naming the lands
they separate and the waters they connect :
1881-82. Behring's; (1883-84) Florida; (1885,
86) Dover.
1887-88. Name two tributaries of the Ohio river
from the north, below Pittsburgh.
1889-90. Which are the two principal grains
raised in the United States ?
1891, In which one of the Middle States are both
iron and coal abundant ?
1892. What other important mineral product is
obtained in large quantities from the same State ?
1893-94. How does the climate of the interior of
Mexico differ from that of the coast, and why ?
1895-98. Name and locate four cities of Great
Britain.
1899-1901. Define archipelago, and give two exam-
ples.
1902-3. Define capital and capitol.
1904. What is the capital of Kansas ?
TRE REGENTS QUESTIONS.
1905-6. Name and locate the largest two cities of
the United States, west of the Appalachian system.
1907-10. Name three peninsulas projecting from
the E. half of Asia, and give their general direction.
1911-14. What are the four leading industrial
pursuits of the people of the United States ?
1915-16. What two Empires include the greater
part of Asia ?
1917-48. Name two branches of the river Ama-
zon.
1919-20. Name the chief river and city of Aus
tralia.
1921. For what is Switzerland (apart from its peo-
ple) chiefly noted ?
1923-23. What territories of the United States bor-
der on Mexico ?
1924-25. Mention two seaports of the Gulf states.
1926-27. What and where is New South Wales ?
Examination XL VIII. June 16, 1882.
(1:15 to 2:45 P. M,)
1928. What causes the regular succession of day
and night, and (1929-30) of the seasons?
1931. Are meridian circles great, or small circles,
and (1932) why?
1933. Why are the tropics in latitude 23* degrees
(nearly)?
1934. What is longitude, and (1935) how is it
reckoned ?
1936. Which of the five zones has the greatest
GEOGRAPHY.
land surface, and (1937) which probably has the
least?
1938, 39. Name two peninsulas on the eastern
coast of North America, and (1940, 41) two on the
western.
1942. Name the chief river system of the United
States, and (1943) give a reason, founded in nature,
for its great extent.
1944. In what mountain system do most rivers of
the Atlantic slope rise?
1945-49. Mention five ranges or groups of the
mountain system referred to in question 1944.
1950. Is there a current in Lake Erie, etc., and
(1951) what reason can you give for your answer?
1952-54. On what waters could a cargo be shipped
from St. Louis to Boston?
1955-57. On what lakes would one sail in going
by water from Detroit to Chicago?
Locate (by telling in what county, and on what
waters) the following places: (1958-59) Buffalo;
(1960-61) Oswego; (1962-63) Utica; (1964-65) Ithaca;
(1966—67) Poughkeepsie.
1968. Which is the leading nation of South
America, and (1969) what is its form of government?
What bodies of water are separated, and what
countries or political divisions are connected by —
1970-73. The Isthmus of Panama? and
1974-77. The Isthmus of Suez?
1978. Why is the climate of England warmer than
that of Labrador, in same latitudes?
THE REGENTS QUESTIONS.
1979-80. Name two countries bordering on the
Baltic sea, and (1981-82) the capital of each.
1983-85. What capes form, respectively, the east-
ern, western and southern extremities of Africa?
1986-87. In what zones is Australia?
THE
, REGENT'S QUESTIONS,
1866-1876.
GRAMMAR.
Examination I. JYoy, 7, 7866.
(1:30-3:00 P. M.)
When are words said to be "derivative" and when
"compound ? " Give examples of each.
S. What classes of words are compared ? Give ex-
amples of the regular comparison of words both by pre-
fixes and suffixes : also, of irregular comparison, and of
words of the same classes which do not admit of com-
parison.
3. What are the names of the different classes of
pronouns ?
4. What particular pronouns are varied in form to
denote gender ?
5. Write sentences in which the relatives toko, which,
what and that are properly used.
6. What is meant by case in nouns and pronouns ?
THE REGENTS' QUESTIONS.
7. What properties (or modifications, attributes, Ac,)
have verbs ?
8. What is mood ? tense ?
9. What moods cannot be used in interrogative sen-
tences ?
10. What tenses can be formed without auxiliaries ?
11. Give the second person singular of the verb be in
the several moods and tenses.
12. What class of verbs admit of the passive form, and
of which principal part and which auxiliary verb is this
form constructed ? Give the first person singular passive
of the verb see, in each of the moods and tenses.
18. What are the principal parts of the following verbs :
lay, lie, lead, make, ride, see, svrim, write?
14. Of what does syntax treat ?
(3:30-4:30 P. M.)
Answer each of the questions annexed to the following
sentence : —
"Of the committee who, in June, 1776, had been ap-
pointed to prepare the plan, Samuel Adams alone re-
mained a member ; and even he was absent when * *
'articles of confederation and perpetual union' were
adopted, to be submitted for approbation to the severa :
States."— Bancroft's U. S. History, Vol. IX, page 436.
15. Of how many propositions (or principal clauses}
does the above sentence consist, and with what word doei
each proposition end ?
16. Give the leading subject and predicate of each pro-
position ?
17. Designate the subordinate (or auxiliary) clauses (o»
sentences'), and the subject and predicate of each.
18. Point out the several phrases, and the words whict
they respectively modify.
19. Mention all the connectives, and the words, phrases,
Ac., which they severally unite.
20. What words, phrases, &c, perform an adjective and
what an adverbial office ?
GRAMMAR,
21. What kind of a noun is "committee?" "June?*
"approbation?"
22. Are the following words respectively primitive or
derivative: "appointed," "prepare" "absent," "fif-
teenth," "articles," "were," "States?"
23. Parse, "who," "1776," "member," "even," "toert
adopted," and " to be submitted."
24. Give the voice (or form), mood, tense, person and
number of " had been appointed" and "remained."
Examination II Feb, 28, 7867 >
(1:30-3:00 P. M.)
" The best authors should be read by the student, that
he may thus insensibly acquire a grace and refinement of
expression which no arbitrary rules can give."
25. Parse "best" in the above sentence. [In parsing
any word, be careful to give a full statement of its pro-
perties and relations, i. e., its etymology and syntax.]
26. Give the voice (or form), mood, tense, person and
number of " should be read."
27. Decline "student."
28. Parse "that."
29. What auxiliary verbs are used in the above sen-
tence?
80. In what mood is " acquired."
81. In what case is "refinement."
82. Parse "which."
83. Transpose each transitive (or active) clause into its
equivalent passive form and vice versa, and write out the
full sentence in this changed form,
84. Into what simple sentences (or clauses) can the above
sentence be separated ?
85. Give the subject and predicate of each simple sen-
tence.
THX RBGBKT8' QUE8TIOX8.
8& Parse "thus."
87. What parts of speech (or classes of words) are not
eontained in this sentence ?
38. Parse "tio."
Pnpils who have sufficient time may add a formal an-
alysis of the above sentence, adopting any system with
which they are familiar.
(3:30-4:30 P. M.)
89. Write the plural of wharf, axis, focus, chemby
phenomenon.
40. What is the difference between an adjective and an
adverb ?
41. Write a sentence having for its predicate the passive
potential present, third, plural form of the verb see.
42. Give a list of ten words commonly used as prepoat*
tions.
43. What is the difference in the proper use of the rela-
tives who. which and that ?
44. Analyze the following sentence, according to any
familiar system : —
"The use of a good dictionary should be insisted npon
in the preparation of such lessons as are learned from
books."
45. How may a declarative sentence be made interrog-
ative ?
46. In the sentence, "Our fathers, where are they?*
parse "fathers."
47. Why is the sentence "John ought to have went*
incorrect ?
48- In what respect is the sentence,
" Whom do men say that I am,"
grammatically incorrect ?
Pupils who have time, will please illustrate the answers
to the second, fifth, sixth and seventh question* by appro*
priate examples.
GRAMMAR.
Examination III. June 73, 7867*
(1:30-3:00 P. m.)
(») "God made the country and man made the town.
(») What wonder then that health and virtue, gifts
(») That can alone make sweet the bitter draught
(<) That life holds out to all, should most abound
( s ) And least be threatened in the fields and groves?
(•) Possess ye, therefore, ye who, borne about
( 7 ) In chariots and sedans, know no fatigue
( 8 ) But that of idleness, and taste no scenes
(») But such as art contrives, possess ye still
( I0 ) Tour element ; there only can ye shine."
—Cowper's Task.
49. How many letters in the first line of the above ex-
ercise are liquids?
50. Write the words in the first five lines which contain
diphthongs, enclosing each diphthong in a parenthesis.
51. Which words in the sixth line are dissyllables ?
52. Write the words in the exercise which are trisyUaf
bles, and mark the accented syllable in each.
53. Which line contains no noun?
54. What part or parts of speech (or classes of words)
are not contained in the above exercise ?
55. What irregular verbs occur in the exercise ?
56. What passive participle (used only as such) ?
57. What verbs in the exercise are in the indicatfm
mood?
58. Wtat verbs in the potential mood?
59. Wfiat verbs in the imperative mood ?
60. What adjectives occur in the exercise ?
61. What personal pronouns ?
62. What relative pronouns ?
Pupils who have sufficient time, are requested to ar-
range all other words in the above exercise into columns,
according tc the parts of speech (or classes of words) to
which they belong ; also to state how many, and what
firind or kinds of feet are used in each line
THB REGENTS' QUESTIONS.
Accuracy in either of these items may be counted as one
correct answer.
(3:30-4:30 p. m.)
63. In the sentence,
" God made the country and man made the town,"
what words, phrases or clauses does "and" connect?
64. What is the leading subject of the following sen-
tence : —
(!) "What wonder then that health and virtue, gifts
( 2 ) That can alone make sweet the bitter draught
( 8 ) That life holds out to all, should most abound
( 4 ) And least be threatened in the fields and groves ? "
65. What is the predicate of the same sentence ?
66. Parse " that " in the first line.
67. Parse "that" in the second line.
68. Parse " thai " in the third line.
69. Parse "health" and "virtue" and the verbs of
which they are the joint subject.
70. Parse " wonder " in the first line.
71. Parse "gifts" in the first line.
72. Parse " sweet" in the second line.
Pupils who have time, will please give an analysis of
the above sentence, " What wonder then," <fcc, according
to any familiar system ; with one credit for accuracy is
this particular.
Examination IT, JVbv. 7, 7867*
(1:30-3:30 P. M.)
73. What is a suffix ?
74. What is the primitive of indescribable ?
75. How are adjectives regularly compared?
76 Compare the adjective whose superlative is lasif
77. What is the difference between an adjective and at
adverb ?
GRAMMAR.
78. What are the different offices of that t
79. In the sentence, "And is a conjunction," what part
of speech is "and ? "
80. Change the sentence, "Latin is taught by Professor
Smith," into the corresponding active form.
81. Make the same sentence both active and interroga-
tive.
82. What part or parts of speech do not occur in the
following sentence : —
"Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth unseen,
Both when we wake and when we sleep."
83. Parse "both" in the above couplet.
84. Correct "I done as well as I could," and give the
reason for the correction.
85. Correct "set down and rest," and give the reason
for the correction.
86. Why is the sentence, "John ought to have went,**
incorrect ?
(3:30-4:30 P. M.)
"How gloriously, and yet how differently, has the Au-
thor of Nature lighted up the day by the resplendent sun.
and the night by the moon and the starry host."
87. What is the grammatical subject of the above sen
tence ?
88. What is the grammatical predicate ?
89. Parse the gram, subject.
90. Parse the gram, predicate.
91. What is the modified or logical predicate of the above
sentence ?
92. Parse "differently."
Correct each of the following sentences, and give the
reason for the correction : —
93. "Either ability or inclination were wanting."
94. " If I was a teacher I should give shorter lessons."
95. " We hoped to have heard from you before this.*'
96. "He has waxen all the threads."
THE HE9ENTS' QUESTIONS.
Examination T, Feb. 20, 7868,
(1:30-5:00 P. M.)
97. Give the classifications of words according to their
rarious offices in sentences.
98. Write a sentence containing a compound word.
99. Decline "ox" in both numbers.
100. Give a numeral adjective of the ordinal kind.
101. Write a sentence containing a collective noun and a
transitive verb.
102. Parse "to be" in the sentence, "To be, contenU
his natural desire.'"
103. What tenses are used in the potential mood ?
104. Give the synopsis of the verb "be" in the secoaA
person singular in all the tenses of the finite moods.
Parse "what" in each of the following sentences :—
105. What .' art thou still unsatisfied ?
106. What art thou doing ?
107. What we possessed was taken.
Correct the following sentences, and give the reason for
each correction :—
108. " Trust not him whom you know is dishonest"
109. " What signifies good opinions when our practices
is bad ? "
110. "If we study we will learn."
(3:30-4:30 P. M.)
"When Boulton, the associate of the great Watt, showed
his iron manufactory, he said, ' I sell here what all men
are anxious to buy, Power.' "
Parse each of the following words, giving for nouns,
the class or kind, gender, person, number, case, agreement
or government, and rule of syntax ; for vei'bs, the prin-
eipal parts, voice or form, mood, tense, person, number,
agreement, and rule of syntax : —
111 "Boulton;" (112) "showed;" (113) "said;" (114)
«seU;" (115) "buy;" (116) "Power."
&BAMMJLB.
117. What parts of speech, or classes of words, (if any,)
are not found in the above exercise ?
118. Separate the above exercise into the several simpk
sentences which it contains.
119. Change "sell" to the passive form, and recon-
struct the part of the exercise which follows "said," to
correspond in signification with this change of form.
120. Analyze the whole exercise, according to any ap-
proved system with which you are familiar.
Examination VT. June &, 7868,
(1:30-3:00 P. M.)
(*) "It is enacted in the laws of Venice, —
( a ) If it be proved against an alien,
( s ) That by direct or indirect attempts
(*) He seeks the life of any citizen,
( 6 J The party 'gainst the which he doth contrive,
( e ) Shall seize one-half his goods ; the other half
( T ) Comes to the privy coffer of the state ;
( 8 ) And the offender's* life lies in the mercy
( 9 ) Of the duke only, 'gainst all other voice.
( 10 ) In which predicament I say thou stand'at :
(") For it appears by manifest proceeding,
( ia ) That indirectly, and directly too —
(") Thou hast contrived against the very life
(") Of the defendant ; and thou hast incurred
(") The danger formerly by me rehearsed.
(") Down, therefore, and beg mercy of the duke.
— Merchant of Venice, Act IV, Scene 1.
121. What parts of speech (or classes of words) art
contained in the above exercise ?
122. Are there any proper, collective, abstract or verbal
nouns in the exercise ? If so, make a list of them.
123. What word3 in the possessive caae ?
124. Which line contains no noun ?
125. Which lines no pronoun, (expressed or wadar-
■tood?)
THE REGENTS' QUESTIONS.
126. Which line contains but two different parts oi
speech ; and what are those parts of speech ?
127. Compare an adjective in the exercise that admito
of comparison.
128. Which lines of the exercise contain no finite verb?
129. Which lines have finite passive verbs ; and what
are those verbs ?
130. Make a list of the different prepositions in th«
exercise.
131. Make a list of the adverbs, and the conjunction*,
separately.
132. What following parts of the exercise does "ft" is
the first line stand for, or represent ?
133. What does "it" in the second line represent ?
134. What participle (used as such) in this exercise?
(3:30-4:30 P. M.)
135. In the clause, u If it be proved against an alien,"
Ac, in what mood is the verb, and why ?
136. Parse "only" in the phrase, " Of the duke only."
137. What is the principal or leading clause in the sen-
tence, "In which predicament I say thou stand' st."
138. Parse "which" in the same sentence.
189. Give the principal parts of "say" and "stantfsL*
140. Parse the verb in "Thou hast incurred the danger,"
giving the voice (or form) mood, tense, person, numbei
subject, and rule of syntax.
141. Change the quotation in question number 140 to
the passive form.
142. Parse "down" in the sentence, "Down, therefor*,
and beg mercy of the duke," giving particulars required in
question number 140.
143. In what case is " mercy" and why ?
144. Parse "therefore."
GRAMMAR.
Examination Til. JYov. 12, 1868,
(1:30-3:00 P. M.)
145. What are the plurals of radius, parenthesis, phe-
nomenon, brofker-in-law ?
146. Compare bad, beautiful, heavy, many,
147. What classes of words (or parts of speech) are used
to modify or limit other words in sentences ?
148. Write a sentence containing which in the plural
number, nominative case.
149. Write sentences in which the relatives who, which
what and that are properly used.
150. Parse "what" in the sentence, This is precisely
what was necessary.
151. Give a list of all the moods and tenses used in con-
jugating verbs.
152. Give the second person, singular, passive of the
verb teach, in each tense of the indicative mood.
153. What tenses, of what moods, can be formed with-
out auxiliaries ?
154. What are the principal parts of the verbs make,
ride, sit, write?
Correct the following sentences : —
155. I expected to have found him at home.
156. The letter from which the extract is taken, and cams
by mail, is lost.
157. Give examples of adverbs of time, place, negation
aDd interrogation.
158. Give four words commonly used as interjections.
(3:30-4:30 P. M.)
159. Write a sentence to illustrate the following rule of
syntax: —
Two or more singular subjects taken separately require
the verb to be singular.
160. What is the rule of syntax for the italicised word
In the sentence, Did you see him strike the boy ?
THE REGENT8 QUESTIONS.
161. Correct the four following sentences : —
Lei each love others better than themselves.
It was not me who took it.
Wisdom aud not wealth procure esteem.
A nail well drove will support a great weight,
1 'To him who curbs desire within the bounds of 'fcha
enough,'
The wildest blasts that heave the sea awake no fear of
wreck."
In the foregoing sentence parse — '
162. The subject of the principal clause ;
163. The predicate of the same clause ;
164. The first word, "To;"
165. The last word of first line, " enough."
166. Change ' ' The wildest blasts that heave the sea awake
no fear of wreck" to the equivalent passive form.
167. Which words of the sentence are relatives ?
168. Analyze the sentence according to any system with*
which you are familiar.
Examination Till. Feb. /8, ?869.
(1:30-3:00 P. M.)
169. Write a t "oper noun ; a common noun ; a collective
noun ; and an abstract noun.
170. Give the possessive plural form of motto, lady, (hou
and man.
171. Write a sentence containing an active transitive
verb, and change the same into the corresponding passive
form.
172. Give a synapsis of the verb teach in the first per-
ton, singular, active and passive.
173. How do you distinguish adjectives from adverbs f
174. Write an ordinal adverb ; an adverb of manner ;
an adverb of degree ; and a copulative conjunction.
GRAMMAR.
175. Give the correlatives of lad, empress, czar and
Francis. [A masculine noun and its corresponding
feminine are called correlative nouns.]
176. Correct the following in regard to capitals and
punctuation : — *
mister smith, will you please Excuse my son John nest
friday at 10 o'clock "T Jenkins
177. Write four sentences : the first to contain who, in
the second person, plural number; the second, which,
singular number, objective case ; the third, whom, mas-
culine gender ; the fourth, that, second person, singular
number.
178. Correct the following sentences : —
He hadn't ought to have done it.
I do not know who she went with.
No country will allow of such a practice.
It was not me who took it.
179. Define the grammatical terms, subject, predicate,
mood, syntax.
180. Compare all the words in the following couplet
which admit of comparison : —
How far that little candle throws his beams!
So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
181. What classes of verbs take the same case after as
before them ?
182. Give an example to illustrate the last preceding
question.
(3:30-4:30 P. M.)
('} So live, that when thy summons comes to join
( 9 ) The innumerable caravan, that moves
(*) To that mysterious realm, where each shall take
\*) His chamber in the silent halls of death,
(•) Thou go not like the quarry-slave at night,
(•) Scourged to his dungeon ; but, sustainedTand soothed
( 7 ) By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave,
(•) Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch
(•) About him, and lies down to pleasant dream*.
183. Parse the predicate of the principal or leading
clause.
THE REGENTS' QUESTIONS.
184. Upon what does the infinitive "to join" depend;
or, if you regard "to" as a preposition, what does it
connect ?
x85. Give the voice (or form), mood, tense and sulyect of
each verb in the second, third, fifth and seventh lines.
186. What conjunctions occur in the exercise, and what
do they respectively connect ?
187. Parse "that" wherever it occurs in the exercise.
188. Parse "quarry-slave,'''' "sustained," "one," and
"to" (in the last line.)
189. What are the principal parts of "take,'" "go"
"soothed" and "lies?"
190. Make a list of all the nouns in the exercise.
191. What is the primitive of "unfaltering?"
192. Analyze the clause from "but" to "dreams," in
elusive.
Examination IX. June. 70, 7869,
(1:30-3:00 p. M.)
" If we compare our English literature to a beautiful
{garden, where Milton lifts his head to heaven in the spot-
ess chalice of the tall white lily, and Shakspeare scatters
his dramas around him in beds of fragrant roses, blushing
with a thousand various shades. — some stained to the core
as if with blood, others unfolding their fair pink petals
with a lovely smile to the summer sun, — what shall we
find in shrub or flower so like the timid, shrinking spirit
of William Cowper as that delicate sensitive-plant, whose
leaves, folding up at the slightest touch, cannot bear even
the brighter rays of the cherishing sun ? "
193. Might the former and latter parts of the above ex-
ercise be mutually transposed without materially affect-
ing the sense ? and if so, 6tate with what word such latter
part begins.
191. Make a list of all the verbs in the exercise, includ-
ing participles.
GRAMMAR.
195. Which of these is the leading or principal verb ?
196. Give the principal parts of this leading or prin-
cipal verb.
197. Make a list of all the participles, (not including
those used as parts of the finite verbs referred to in ques-
tion 194.)
198. Make a list of the several verbs from which these
participles are derived.
199. Which of these participles are active and which are
passive ?
200. Mention all the proper nouns in the exercise.
201. Mention any compound nouns which occur therein.
202. In what mood is "compare?"
(3:30-4:30 P. M.)
203. Make a list of such words in the above exerciM
as are used adjectively.
204. Which of the words included in the answer t«
question 203 are participial adjectives ?
205. What part of speech (or kind of word) is "what t "
206. In what case is the same "what,''' and why ?
207. In what case is "spirit" (eighth line?)
208. What part of speech (or kind of word) is " up ? *
209. In what mood is the last verb of the exercise ?
210. In what mood and tense is tbe first verb ?
211. In what case is "sensitive-plant?'"
212. Select from the exercise three adjectives represent-
ing each of the different degrees of comparison.
213. Parse "whose."
214. Parse the leading or principal subject of the
exercise, according to any method with which you arc
familiar.
215. Give an analysis or diagram.
216. Does the clause (beginning with "If" and ending
with "sun") make complete sense taken by itself ?
THE EBGENTS' QUESTIONS.
JSxamination X. Nov. 77, 7869.
(1:30-3:00 P. M.)
217. What parts of speech (or classes of words) have
cases ?
218. What parts of speech (or classes of words) admit
of comparison?
219. How do adjectives of more than two syllables gen-
erally form their comparative and superlative degrees ?
220. Correct, " The pleasures of the mind are more
preferable than those of the body.
221. What is the subjunctive mood used to express?
222. Why is it called the "subjunctive'''' mood ?
223. What, tense would be used in speaking of an event
which occurred during the past year, and without refer-
ence to any other date or event ?
224. What class of verbs has no passive voice (or form) ?
225. Construct a sentence having a verb in the potential
mood.
226. Correct, "I will be drowned; nobody shallhelp me!"
227. Complete this sentence by supplying verbs in the
infinitive mood, " Grammar professes us
correctly."
228. What rule of 6yntax is disregarded in the follow-
ing sentence: —
" The account or journal, which was written by Ma»
gellan, and which seems to have been in existence as late
as 1783, are tost."
229. Conjugate the verb "learn" in the active, indica-
tive, pluperfect (or prior past).
230. Conjugate the verb "seek" in the passive, sub-
junctive, present.
(3:30-4:30 P. M.)
(*) Sir Isaac Newton drew close to the grate in which;
a fire had just been kindled.
(*) By and by it grew very hot.
GRAMMA K.
(*) He rang the bell.
(«) The servant came.
(»)"Take away the grate," said the philosopher, "be-
fore I ana burned to death."
(•) ' ' Had you not better draw back your chair, sir ? **
said John, waggishly.
C) "Upon my word," said Sir Isaac, laughing, "I had
not thought of that."
231. Which sentence (if any) of the foregoing exercise
contains no noun ?
232. What sentences (or classes of sentences) in the
exercise are not declarative ?
233. If not declarative, what are they respectively ?
234. What is the subject of the principal clause of the
fifth sentence ?
235. What are the subjects of the other clauses of the
fifth sentence ?
236. Give the principal parts of "drew" "kindled,*
"grew," "rang."
237. What four other irregular verbs in the exercise ?
238. Which verbs of the exercise are in the passive voice
(or form) ?
239. Give the voice (or form), mood, tense, person,
number and subject of the last verb of the exercise.
240. Parse one at least of the four following italicised
words, taking your choice : "had" and "draw," (sixth
eentence;) "upon," giving antecedent terms of relation,
and "that," (seventh sentence.)
Examination XI. Feb. 77, 7870.
(1:30-3:00 P. M.)
<*) K. Henry. "Therefore, my lords, omit no happy how
(*) That may give furtherance to our expedition :
(») For we have now no thought in us but France,
(*) Save those to God, that run before our business.
( 6 ) Therefore, let our proportions for these wars
(•) Be soon collected ; and all things thought upon
THE REGENTS' QUESTIONS.
(*} That may, with reasonable swiftness, add
(•) More feathers to our wings ; for, God before
(») We'll chide this dauphin at his father's door.
( 10 ) Therefore, let every man now task his thought,
(") That this fair action may on foot be brought."
— ghakspear's King Henry F., end of Act 1.
241. Make a list of all the parts of speech (or classes of
iDords) represented in the above exercise.
242. Make a list of all the parts of speech (if any) not
bo represented
Give the part of speech of each of the following
words: —
243. ' 'But, " (third line; ) " save, " (fourth line;) " thought, *
(third line;) "thought" (sixth line.)
244. " That," (second, fourth, seventh and eleventh
lines, respectively.)
245. Make a list of all the moods represented in the
exercise.
246. Give an example, from the exercise, of a verb in
each mood so represented.
247. Parse "things," (sixth line.)
248. Parse "before," (fourth line.)
249. Parse " before, " (eighth line.)
250. Parse "chide" (ninth line,) giving principal parts,
voice (or form,) mood, tense, person, number, subject and
rule of syntax.
251. In what case is each proper noun in the exercise ?
252. To what does "those" (fourth line) refer?
253. Parse "furtherance," (second line.)
254. Parse "brought," (eleventh line,) as required la
question 250.
(8:30-4:30 P. M.)
255. What is a sentence*
256. What are the essential parts (or elements) of sea-
fences ?
257. How are sentences classified in regard to fbmt?
GRAMMAR.
358. Give an example of a sentence in each of the
varieties of form referred to in question 257.
259. Decline each of the personal pronouns.
260. Conjugate the verb "be," in all the tenses, persons
and numbers of the indicative mood.
261. Conjugate the verb "know," in all the tenses,
persons and numbers of the potential mood.
262. "What is syntax ?
268. Change the following sentence into the equivalent
passive form : —
"Them that honor me, I will honor."
264. Change into the equivalent active form : —
" He was admitted into this institution by some gentle-
men who had been his father's friends."
Examination XII. June 9, /S?0,
(1:30-3:00 P. M.)
l ) 1. "The common belief that the scales of the crocodile
') will 6top a bullet is very erroneous. 2. If a rifle is
") loaded with the moderate charge of two and a half
4 ) drachms, it will throw an ounce ball through the
6 ) scales of the hardest portion of the back ; but were
•) the scales struck obliquely, the bullet might possibly
7 ) glance from the surface, as in like manner it would
8 ) ricochet (rebound) from the surface of the water. 3.
9 ) The crocodile is so difficult to kill outright, that peo-
°) pie are apt to imas^ne that the scales have resisted
J ) their bullets. 4. The only shots that will produce
a ) instant death are those that strike the brain or spine
3 ) through the neck. " — Baker's Nile Sources of Abyssinia.
265. What is the grammatical subject of the first sen-
tence of the exercise ?
266. What is the logical subject (grammatical subject
and its modifiers) of the same sentence ?
267. What is the logical predicate of the first sentence *
268. Parse the grammatical subject, (question 265.)
269. Parse "iriU stop," (second line.)
THE REGENTS' QUESTIONS.
*70. Parse "that," (first line.)
271. Parse the first verb of the second sentence.
272. Parse "it," (fourth line.)
273. Parse "through" (fourth line.)
274. Parse the verb of the clause, "but were (he soalee
struck obliquely," (fifth and sixth lines.)
275. Is the first sentence of the exercise simple, com-
pound or complex, in its construction ?
276. Find an infinitive verb in the exercise, and parse it.
277. Find a relative pronoun, and parse it.
278. What are the principal parts of "throw" (fourth
line.)
(3:30-4:30 P. M.)
279. Parse "difficult," (ninth line.)
280. Parse "outright," (ninth line.)
281. What part of speech (or class of words) is "apt,"
(tenth line.)
282. What part of speech is "that " in each of the four
instances where it occurs in the ninth, tenth and eleventh
and twelfth lines?
283. Change "the scales have resisted their bullets" into
the corresponding passive form, using the same words
and only such additional ones as may be necessary.
284. Conjugate "strike" in all the tenses, persons and
numbers of the potential mood passive voice (or form).
285. Chan ere the latter sentence of the above exercise
into the corresponding interrogative form, using precisely
the same words, with only such change of arrangement
as may be necessary.
286. What is the primitive of "imagine"
287. What noun in common use is derived from the
same root as " imagine f
288. What word may be used instead of "(hat" in the
last sentence, without changing the sense or construe*
Hon?
GRAMMAR.
JExami?iation XIII. JVov. 10, 7870.
(1:30-3:00 P. M.)
) 1. "It was, as I have said, a fine autumnal day, the
*) sky was clear and serene, and nature wore that rich
*) and golden livery which we always associate with the
*) idea of abundance. 2. The forests had put on their
6 ) sober brown and yellow, while some trees of the ten-
•) derer kind had been nipped by the frosts into brilliant
7 ) dyes of orange, purple and scarlet. 3. Streaming
8 ) files of wild ducks began to make their appearance
9 ) high in the air; the bark of the squirrel might be
(") heard from the groves of beech and hickory nuts, and
( u ) the pensive whistle of the quail at intervals from the
( ia ) neighboring stubble-field. — Irving' 's Legend of Sleepy
(") Hollow.
289. Select from the exercise one example each of
primitive, derivative, simple and compound words.
290. Select also a word containing three different
liquids.
291. Give a specimen word in each of the degree* of
comparison represented in the exercise.
292. Is the first sentence (or period) simple or com-
pound; and declarative, imperative, interrogative or ex-
clamatory ?
293. Write the several independent propositions In-
volved in the first sentence, placing each in a line bj
Itself.
294. Which words of the third sentence (or period) are
used as grammatical (or simple) subjects ?
295. Which words of the same sentence are used m
grammatical (or simple) predicates ?
296. Parse the last grammatical subject of the exercise*
297. Parse the last grammatical predicate of the ex-
ercise.
298. What passive verbs occur in the exercise ?
299. Select from the exercise a verb in the lnflaitiTe
mood, and parse it.
THE REGENTS' QUESTIONS.
800. What is the part of speech (or class of words) of
each of the following : "As," (first line;) "on" (fourth
line;) "yellow," (fifth line;) " high," (ninth line.)
301. Parse the verb in the ninth line.
803. Parse "at" and "from," (eleventh line.)
(3:30^4:30 P. M.)
Parse each of the following words, with special refer*-
ence to accuracy and completeness : —
303. "Day," (first line.)
304. "Serene," (second line.)
305. "Wore," (second line.)
306. " That," (second line.)
307. "Livery," (third line.)
308. "Which," (third line.)
309. Change " which we alicays associate with the idea
of abundance" to its equivalent as to meaning, but have
the verb in the passive voice (or form.)
310. Change " nature wore that rich and golden livery "
to the corresponding interrogative form (as an independ-
ent sentence.)
311. Which tenses are represented in the several verbs
of the above exercise ?
312. Why is " associate" in a different tense from either
of the other verbs of the sentence? Or, if unable to
answer the last question, you may tell whether "have
$aid" is transitive or intransitive ; and why, giving its
object if it has one.
Examination XIY. Feb. 23, 787 f*
(1:30-3:00 P. M.)
(*) "29. And the time drew nigh that Israel must die ; and
( 9 ) he called his son Joseph, and said unto him, If noir
(*) I have found grace in thy sight, put, I pray thee, thy
GRAMMAR.
(*) hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with
{•) me ; bury me not, I pray thee, in Egypt :
(•) "80. But I will lie with my fathers, and thou shalt
( 7 ) carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in their burying-
( 8 ) place. And he said, I will do as thou hast said.
( 8 ) "And he said, Swear unto me. And he sware unto
( 10 ) him. And Israel bowed himself upon the bed's
(") head." — Genesis xlvii, verses 29-31.
$3tAll the questions refer to the above exercise.
313. What different letters represent voxcel (or vocal)
sounds ?
314. Write four of the words containing diphthongs (or
digraphs.)
315. W T hat words of the *29th verse contain silent doubls-
consonants ?
Write a word (if any) belonging to each of the follow-
ing classes, as indicated by italics, in questions 315 and
820. inclusive: —
816. Nouns:
Common ; proper ; abstract ; compound.
Personal, Pronouns :
817. First Person: Sing, nom.; poss.; obj.; Plural.
318. Secoid Person : " " " " "
819. Third Person : " " " " "
320. Relative Pronouns.
821. Verbs :
Indicative; subjunctive ; potential; imperativ*.
822. An adjective; adverb; preposition ; conjunction.
323. What tenses occur in the 30th verse ?
824. Write the principal parts of four of the irregular
verbs.
825. Write the first person singular of the verb " carry n
In each tense of the indicative mood.
826. What are the differences between "swear" and
"sware" (swore,) (ninth line,) in respect to principal
farts, mood, tense and person 9
TEE REGENTS' QUESTIONS.
(3:30-4:30 P. M.)
327. What words might be used Instead of "fta*,"
(first line?)
Parse the following words : —
328. The last verb in the first line.
329. The last verb in the second line.
330. "jHand," (fourth line.)
331. "With," (fourth line.)
332. " Thee" (fifth line.)
833. "Bury," (fifth line.)
334. "Bed's," (tenth line.)
335. Give the equivalent grammatical expression lot
"the bed's head?"
836. What is the modified (or logical) subject of the sen-
tence, "the time drew nigh thai Israel must die ?"
If any scholars have time to spare, they will please
write out an analysis of the 29th verse, according to any
ay stem with which they are familiar.
Examination XY. Ju?ie. 8, 787 f*
(1:30-5:00 P. M.)
(*) 1. "Oliver Twist's ninth birthday found him a pale,
( a ) thin child, somewhat diminutive in stature, and de-
(») cidedly small in circumference. 2. But nature or
(*) inheritance had implanted a good sturdy spirit in
<•) Oliver's breast. 3. It had had plenty of room to ex-
(•) pand, thanks to the spare diet of the establishment ;
C) and perhaps to this circumstance may be attributed
( 8 ) his having any ninth birthday at all. 4. Be this as it
(*) may, however, it was his ninth birthday ; and he was
( 10 ) keeping it in the coal cellar with a select party of
( J1 ) two other young gentlemen, who, after participating
(») with him in a sound threshing, had been locked up
I 1 *) therein, for atrociously presuming to be hungry I *' —
I 1 *) Dickens' Oliver Twist, Chap. II.
387. Mention all the different parts of speech (or claim*
qf words) included in the first proposition or sentence.
ORAM MAR.
838. Which are the fundamental or essential words of
the first sentence: i. «., the simple (or primary) suf/ject,
predicate and object ?
339. Which words of the first sentence are nouns in the
objective case, and by what other word is each of these
nouns governed ?
340. Which words of the first sentence are adjectives,
and to what substantive word does each of these adjeo-
tives belong ?
341. Which words of the first sentence are adverba, and
what other words does each modify or limit ?
342. Which words of the second sentence are conjunc-
tions, and what particular words (or parts) of the exercise
does each connect ?
343. Give the subject, mood, tense, person and number
of the verb in the second sentence.
844. What does "it" (fifth line) stand for or repre-
sent?
845. Change the second sentence to its full equivalent
as to meaning, but having the verb in the passive voice
(or form.)
846. Change the phrase "in Oliver's breast" to its
equivalent, having the proper name in a different case.
847. What is the difference between the first and the
second "had" in the fifth line of the exercise?
848. Mention the numerical adjectives contained In the
exercise, specifying each as cardinal or ordinal.
849. What part of speech is "perhaps" (seventh line ?)
860. What is the subject of " may be attributed," (seventh
line?)
(3:30-4:30 P. M.)
Parse the following words contained in the above
ercise, beginning with the third sentence, fifth line :—
851. " To," (seventh line.)
853. "Having," (eighth line.)
THE REGENTS' QUESTIONS.
853. The finite verb in the seventh line.
854. "Birthday," (eighth line.)
355. "Birthday," (ninth line.)
356. " Who," (eleventh line.)
357. "After," (eleventh line.)
358. "Presuming," (thirteenth line.)
359. "Hungry," (thirteenth line.)
360. Any one of the verbs in the infinitive mood.
Examination XVI. JYov. 9, 18? f.
(1:30-5:00 P. M.)
1. "Sir, we are not weak, if we make a proper use of
those means which the God of nature hath placed in our
power. 2. Besides, sir, we shall not fight our battle*
alone. 3. There is a just God who will raise up friend*
to fight our battles for us. 4. If we were base enough to
desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest.
4. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery. 5.
Our chains are forged ; their clanking may be heard on
the plains of Boston. 6. Is life so dear, or peace so sweet
as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? 7.
I know not what course others may take ; but as for me,
give me liberty, or give me death ! "
361. Make a list of all the nouns in the first sentence.
862. Make a list of all the words used adjectively in the
first sentence.
363. Give the principal parts of all the verbs in the first
and second sentences.
864. Select from the above exercise a verb to represent
each one of the different moods used in it, mentioning the
mood of each one named.
365. Make a list of the tenses in the indicative mood,
and then draw a line across the names of those not is
this exercise.
366. Make a list of all the passive verbs in the exercise.
867. Decline the personal pronoun of the first persom,
G-RAMMAR.
and the personal pronoun of the third person, neuter
gender ; then draw a line across each word of these list*
that does not occur in the exercise.
868. What part of speech (or kind of word) is "sir" in
the first and second sentences?
369. Compare such adjectives of the first and fourth
sentences as admit of comparison.
370. What is the difference, as to syntax, between the
first and the second "it" in the fourth sentence?
371. What word is the subject of the fifth sentence?
372. What is the predicate (grammatical or unmodified)
of the second sentence ?
373. Give an example, from the exercise! of the follow-
ing kinds of sentences: declarative, interrogative, im-
perative.
374. Change the sixth sentence so that the same thought
may be expressed, but using verbs in the active voice (or
form) only.
The following question may be answered in the place
of any one of the foregoing, if preferred : —
What is the difference, as to syntax, between "me" and
"death" in the seventh sentence?
(3:30-4:30 P. M.)
Parse the following words contained in the above ex*
ercise : —
375. The second verb of the first sentence.
876. "Which," (first sentence.)
377. The third verb of the first sentence.
378. The last verb of the third sentence.
379. "Enough," (fourth sentence.)
380. " Eetreat,^ (Mth sentence.)
381. " Clanking, 1 '' (sixth sentence.)
382. The second verb of the sixth sentence.
883. "What," (seventh sentence.)
884. The last verb of the seventh sentence.
THE REGENTS QUESTIONS.
Examination XYII. J?eb. 27, 7872,
(1:30-3:00 P. M.)
1. "A country schoolmaster had two pupils, to one of
whom he was partial, and to the other severe. 2. One
morning it happened that these two boys were late, and
were called up to account for it. 3. 'You must have
heard the bell, boys ; why did you not come ? ' 4. ' Please,
sir,' said Tom, (the favorite.) 'I was dreaming that I was
going to Margate, and I thought the school-bell was the
6teamboat-bell.' 5. 'Very well/ said the master, glad of
any pretext to excuse his favorite. 6. 'And now, Bill,
turning to the other, ' what have you to say ? ' 7. ' Please,
sir,' said the puzzled boy, 'I— I— I was waiting to see
Tom off.' "
Parse the following words contained in the above ex-
ercise : —
385. The noun used as the subject of the first sentence*
386. "Whom," (first sentence.)
387. The first noun of the second sentence.
388. The third verb of the second sentence.
889. "Account," (second sentence.)
390. The first verb of the third sentence.
891. "Boys," (third sentence.)
392. The second verb of the third sentence.
393. "Steamboat-bell," (fourth sentence.)
894. "Glad," (fifth sentence.)
395. "What," (sixth sentence.)
896. "Have," (sixth sentence.)
897. The last word of the sixth sentence.
89a "Off" (seventh sentence.)
(3:30-4:30 P. M.)
399. Give an example of an adjective derived from %
proper noun.
400. Into what three (or four) classes are word* divided,
as to the number of their syllables ?
401. Give the first person plural of " go " in all the
tenses of the indicative mood.
GRAMMAR.
402. Give the passive, potential, pluperfect, third, sing-
alar of "examine."
403. Give ten words commonly used as prepositions.
404. What is the subject word of the sentence constitut-
ing question 400 above ?
405. Of what does syntax treat ?
406. Write a sentence (or two sentences, if you prefer,)
in which the words "set" and "siV are properly used.
407. Correct, "If John had went to school, he would
not now deserve punishment ; but he done as he pleased
and must take the consequences."
408. Give a reason for each correction of false syntax
made in your answer to question 406.
Scholars who have sufficient time may re-write the fol-
lowing letter, with the needed corrections as to general
arrangement, capitals and punctuation ; and the satisfac-
tory execution of the whole, including penmanship, will
be allowed as two correct answers : —
baltimore feb 10 1872 dear father i have just returned
from Washington where : spent two days very pleasantly
1 visited the capitol and saw mr browns cousin charles
sumner who is you know one of the senators from mas-
sachusetts i also 6aw president grant and many other dis-
tinguished men whom i have not time to mention is mother
well what did John get from santa clause has maria
finished arithmetic this is rough paper bad ink and •
what a pen in haste good bye your affectionate 6on John
kennedy.
Examination XVIII. June 6, 7872.
(3:30-4:30 P. M.)
1. "As a man who was deeply involved in debt was
walking in the street with a very melancholy air, one of
his acquaintances asked him why he was so sorrowful.
2. 'Alas ! * said his friend, ' I am in a state of insolvency.*
8. ' Well,' said his friend, 4 if that is the case, it is not
you, but your creditors, who ought to weai a woefuj
countenance. ' "
THE REGENTS' QUESTIONS.
Write each one of the following words, with its nnmbef
prefixed, and immediately thereafter, the part of speech
(or class of words) to which it belongs : —
First sentence : (409) As ; (410) who ; (411) deeply ; (412)
debt ; (413) in ; (414) air ; (415) one ; (416) acquaintances;
(417) asked ; (418) why; (419) sorrowful.
Second sentence : (420) Alas ; (421) he ; (422) am.
Third sentence : (423) Well; (424) that ; (425) but ; (426)
your ; (427) ought ; (428) wear.
Write each one of the following words with its number
prefixed, and immediately thereafter the word (or words)
to which it is related as a principal element, {subject,
predicate or object,') — if this be the case, — or to which it
belongs as an adjunct, if it have either adjective or ad-
verbial force : —
1 First sentence : (429) man ; (430) who ; (431) very ; (432)
melancholy ; (433) asked ; (484) him ; (435) sorrowful.
Second sentence : (436) he ; (437) state ; (438) insolvency.
Third sentence : (439) said ; (440) his ; (441) that ; (442)
case ; (443) not ; (444) creditors ; (445) ought ; (446) wear ;
(447) woeful ; (448) countenance.
Select from the first sentence a word in the (449) nomir
native case ; one in the (450) possessive case ; and one in
the (451) objective case. [Number answers as before.]
Mention the (452) first verb of the exercise, and give its
(453) voice (or form), (454) mood, (455) tense, and (456)
subject.
Give the (457) first, (458) second, (459) third, and (460)
fourth principal parts of the last verb of the exercise.
Give the third person, singular number, of the first verb
in the second sentence in each of the tenses of the indica-
tive mood : t. e., (461) present ; (462) imperfect (or past),
(463) future ; (464) perfect (or prior present); (465) pluper-
fect (or prior past); (466) future perfect.
Give the (467) comparative, and the (468) superlat&vt
forma of the last adjective of the exercise.
GRAMMAR.
(3:30-4:30 P. m.)
469. What word of the exercise has no syntax, (or
grammatical relation to other words ?)
470. Select from the exercise an example of a simple
sentence (or independent proposition.)
471. Is the first sentence simple or compound, or com-
plex in its construction ?
472. Answer the same question (471) with reference to
the second sentence.
473. What is the grammatical subject of the principal
(or independent) clause of the third sentence ?
474. Change "was walking" to the form of the plu-
perfect (or prior past) tense of the same mood.
475. Change the verb of the expression "was deeply
involved " to the potential mood, perfect (or prior present)
tense of the same voice (or form.)
476. Change " one of his acquaintances asked, him " to
its equivalent, having the verb in the passive form.
477. Change " if that is Vie case " so that the verb shall
be subjunctive in form.
478. In what number is "who" (third sentence ?)
479. In what words was the question referred to in the
llrst sentence put by the asker (or speaker ?)
480. What words does "with " in the first sentence con-
nect or show the relation between ?
481. What interrogative word occurs in the first sen-
tence ?
482. What kind of a conjunction is " but ? "
483. In what case is the word "case," (third sentence ?)
484. In what tense is "ought," (third sentence?)
485. In what case is "countenance ," (third sentence ?)
486. What word (potential mood sign) might be substi-
tuted for "ought to," (third sentence?)
487. Of what words is " woeful " compounded?
488. Which one of the five permanent vc wels does aot
•ccnr in " countenance .'"
THE REGENTS' QUESTIONS.
I$xami?iatio?i XIX. JYov. 7, 7872*
(1:30-3:00 P. M.)
L "Sing tome, dearest nightingale." said a shepherd to
the silent songstress, one beautiful spring evening.
2. "Alas! "said the nightingale, ''the frogs make bo
much noise that I have no inclination to sing. Do you
not hear them ? "
3. "Undoubtedly I hear them," replied the shepherd,
"but it is owine - to your silence."
Write each one of the following words, with its number
prefixed, and immediately thereafter the 'part of speech
(or class of words) to which it belongs : —
First paragraph : (489) Sing; (490) to ; (491) me; (492)
dearest ; (493) nightingale ; (494) spring.
Second paragraph : (495) Alas; (496) so; (497) that;
(496) no.
Third paragraph : (499) Owing.
"Write each of the following words, with its number
prefixed, and immediately thereafter describe it as the
subject, predicate, object, adjective-adjunct (or modifier,)
or adverbial-adjunct, — as the case may be, — of the word
to which it is syntactically related : —
First paragraph : (500) Sing; (501) said; (502) silent;
(503) songstress ; (504) one ; (505) evening.
Second paragraph : (506) Noise ; (507) inclination ; (508)
sing.
Third paragraph : (509) Owing ; (510) silence.
Select from the third paragraph a word in the (511)
nominative, one in the (512) possessive, and one in the
(513) objective case.
Mention the (514) second verb of the second paragraph ;
and give its (515) voice (or form;) (516) mood; (517)
tense; and (518) subject; also the (519) jirst, (520) second,
and (521) Uiird principal parts of the same verb.
Change "frogs make" to each corresponding tense-
form of the indicative and potential moods, viz : (522^
GRAMMAR.
Indicative imperfect (or past;) (523) future; (524) perfect
(or prior present ;) (525) pluperfect (or prior past ;) (526)
future perfect; (527) potential present; (528) imperfect
(or past;) (529) perfect [or prior present ;) (530) pluperfect
{or prior past.)
Give the (531) positive and (532) comparative forms of
the first adjective : also the (533) comparative and (534)
superlative of the last adjective in the first paragraph that
admits of comparison.
Select from the exercise a personal pronoun of each of
the following forms : (535) First person, singular number,
nominative case; (386) first, singular, objective; (537) second
person, singular, nominative ; (538) second person, singu-
lar, possessive ; (589) third person, singular, nominative ;
(540) third person, plural, objective.
Give the word which each prepositional phrase (or ad-
junct modifies : —
First paragraph : (541) ; (542) ; (543)
(preposition understood.)
Second paragraph : (544) (infinitive.)
Third paragraph : (545) .
(3:30-4:30 p. m.)
Mention two of the prepositional phrases that are used
adjectively : (546) ; (547) ; and two used ad-
verbially : (548) ; (549) , in this exercise.
550. Change "shepherd" to the corresponding wonj
denoting the feminine gender.
551. What is the grammatical gender of "nightingale;'
and (552) why ?
553. What word of the exercise has no syntax or gram-
matical relation to other words ?
554. What noun of the first paragraph is independent, a*
to case ?
555. Is the first paragraph a simple, or a compound, on
% complex sentence ?
THE REGENTS' QUESTIONS.
556. Answer the same question for the second para-
graph, first sentence ; and (557) second sentence ; and for
the (558) third paragraph.
559. Change "Do you hear them ? " to the correspond-
ing declarative form.
560. Change "the frogs make so much noise" to the
equivalent expression, having the verb in the passive voice
(or form.)
561. From what primitive word is "owing" derived?
562. Why is not "owing" spelled oweing ?
563. Give the prefix, and each suffix (or affix) (564, 565)
of "undoubtedly."
566. What is the subject of the principal (or independent)
clause of the third paragraph ?
567. What is the subject of each subordinate (or depend'
ent) clause of the third paragraph ?
568. What substantive word, or expression, does the
pronoun "it" stand for in the third paragraph?
Examination XX. JF'eb. 27, 7873.
(1:30-3:00 p. m.)
(*) A wasp met a bee that was just buzzing by,
(*) And he said, "Dear cousin, can you tell me why
(») You are loved 60 much better by people than I ?
(*) Why, my back is as bright and as yellow as gold,
( 8 ) And my shape is most elegant, too, to behold;
(•) Yet nobody likes me for that, I am told ! "
i r ) Says the bee, "My dear cousin, it 's all very true;
( e ) But, then, they would love me no better than you,
(•) If I were but half as much mischief to do ! "
Select from the exercise an example of eaeh of the
following classes of words : —
First line : (569) Noun ; (570) verb, irregular ; (571) verb,
progressive form ; (572) adverb.
GRAMMAR.
8econd line : (573) Pronoun, second person ; (574) pro
noun, objective case; (575) adjective; (576) conjunction,
copulative.
Third line : (577) Verb, passive ; (578) preposition.
Write each one of the following words, and the pan
of speech (or class of words) to which it belongs :-
First line : (579) That ; (580) by.
Second line: (581) Why.
Third line: (582) Better.
Sixth line : (583) Nobody ; (584) that.
Seventh line: (585) A 11.
Eighth line : (586) Than.
Ninth line : (587) But ; (588) half; (589) much.
Give the fonr principal parts: i. e., first, indicative
present ; second, indicative imperfect, past or present ;
third, participle, present or imperfect ; fourth, participle,
perfect or past, of each of the following verbs: —
First line : Met ; (590) ; (591) ; (592)
(593) .
Third line: Js;(594)- ; (595) ; (596)— —
(597) .
Sixth line : Told ; (598) ; (599) ; (600)
(601) .
Write each of the following words, and describe it as
tubject, predicate, object, or modifier, of the word to whicb
It syntactically belongs, giving that word : —
First line : (602) Wasp ; (603) bee ; (604) that.
Second line : (605) You ; (606) me.
Third line: (607) Better; (608) I.
Fourth line : (609) Yellow ; (610) gold.
Fifth line: (611) Elegant.
Sixth line: (612) That
Seventh line : (613) Bee.
Ninth line: (614) Mischief
Mention four prepositional (including infinitive) pbraia
THE REGENTB' QUESTION!.
used adverbially in the exercise : (615) ; (616) — —
(617) ; (618) .
Change "A wasp met a bee" to each of the other cor-
responding tense forms of the indicative mood, viz : (619)
Present ; (620) perfect, or prior present ; (621)
pluperfect, or pi-ior past ; (622) future ; (623)
future perfect .
(3:30-4:30 P. M.)
624. Change "was buzzing" to the corresponding sim-
ple form.
625. Change "can you tell me" to the corresponding
declarative form.
626-627. Change the third line to the equivalent expres-
sion, having the verb in the active voice (or form.)
628. What would be the corresponding active form of
*J am told " in the sixth line ?
629. What transtive verb occurs in the ninth line ?
630. What is the corresponding passive form of "to
behold " in the fifth line ?
Select from the exercise a verb belonging to each of the
following classes : (631) Subjunctive mood; (632) potential,
present ; (633) potential, imperfect, or past; (634) infini-
tive.
635. What is the positive form of the word "better" in
the third and eighth lines ?
636. Is the first line, as a sentence, simple or compound,
or complex ?
687. Select from the exercise a simple sentence (or clause)
containing a transitive verb.
638. To what other word is "but" in the ninth line
equivalent ?
639. What other form of expression may be substituted
in the ninth line for "If I were to do?"
Mention the different punctuation marks that occur la
the exercise: (640) ; (641) ; (642) ;
(648) ; (644) .
GRAMMAR.
645. What are the marks " u called, and (646) what do
they denote ?
647. What is the mark in it's called, and (648) what does
■X denote ?
Examination XXI. June* 6, 7873,
(1:30-3:00 r M.)
i 1 ) "Will you give my kite a lift r" said my little nephew
( 9 ) to his sister, after trying in vain to make it fly by
(') dragging it along the ground. Lucy very kindly took
( 4 ) it up and threw it into the air; but her brother,
(•) neglecting to run off at the same moment, the kite
(•) fell down again.
( 7 ) "Ah! now, how awkward you are!" said the little
(•) fellow.
( 9 ) "It was your fault entirely," answered his sister.
( M ) ' ' Try again, children, " said I. ' ' There is an old proverb
i 11 ) which says, 'Perseverance conquers all things.'" —
(«) Charlotte Elizabeth.
Select from the exercise : —
First line : A word used as (649) subject ; (650) object,
direct; (651) verb, principal ; (652) verb, auxiliary.
Second line : (653) A dissyllable ; (654) a derivative word.
Third line : (655) A word containing a diphthong ; an
(656) adverb of manner, and of (657) degree, or quantity.
Write each one of the following words and the part of
speech (or class of words) to which it belongs, as here
used : —
First line: (658) Lift; (659) little.
Second line: (660) After; (661) trying; (662) malm 4
{<m)fly.
Third line: (664) Along.
Fourth line: (665) But.
Fifth line: (666) Off.
Sixth line: (667) Down. '
Seventh line: (668) Ah! (669) awkward.
THB REGENTS QUESTIONS.
Give the four principal parts (including the participle is
fng) of each of the irregular verbs in
Third line: (670) ; (671) ; (673) ; (673) .
Fourth line : (674) ; (675) ; (676) ; (677) .
Seventh line: (678) ; (679) ; (680) ; (681) ;
(682) ; (683) ; (684) ; (685) .
Write each of the following words, and describe it ae
subject, nominative, predicate, object, adjective modifier,
adverbial "modifier, or attribute, of the word (expressed or
understood) to which it is syntactically related, giving
(hat word : —
Eleventh line : (686) Perseverance ; (687) conquers; (688)
all; (689) things.
Tenth and eleventh lines : (690) Proverb; (691) J; (692)
an; (693) which.
Ninth and Tenth lines: (694) Try; (695) fault.
Second line : (696) Trying ; (697) make.
698. Which noun in the exercise has no syntactical re-
lation to other words ?
Change " the kite fell down " to each of the other tense
forms of the indicative mood, prefixing to each form the
name of the tense : (699) ; (700) ; (701) ; (702)
; (703) .
(3:30-4:30 P. M.)
Compare " IMe " in the first line : (704) ; (705). ;
(706) .
What would be the corresponding (707) declarative and
(708) imperative forms of "Will you give my kite a lifl * M
709. What derivative of "vain" might be substituted
for "in vain" in the second line ?
Mention each infinitive verb in the exercise : (710) — — ;
(711) ; (712) .
713. What noun does the first "my" in the first line
represent ?
714. Answer the same question in regard to the second
•my" in the first line.
GRAMMAR.
Give the (715) mood, (716) person, and (717) number ol
" try " m the tenth line.
718. How would "conquers" be written if spelled ac-
cording to its elementary sounds ?
719. What special rule, or remark, of syntax is applica-
ble to "fly " in the second line ?
720. What words after "J" in the tenth line might be
omitted without impairing the sense ?
721. What relation was the writer (Charlotte Elizabeth)
to Lucy and her brother, judging from the above narra-
tive?
722. Why is not the fir*t word in the eleventh line
spelled persevereance ?
723. Change the eleventh line to its equivalent, having
the verb in the passive voice (or form.)
Change the answer to question 723 to express each of
the other tenses of the indicative passive : (724) ;
(725) ; (726) ; (727) ; (728) .
Examination XXII. Nov. 6, 1873.
(1:30-3:00 P. M.)
(») A person who called one day at a house at which his
( a ) visits had been more frequent than welcome, was told
(») by the servant that her master had gone away.
(*) "Oh, well, never mind," said he, "Til speak to youi
( 8 ) mistress."
(•) "She has also gone out, sir," the maid replied.
( 7 ) Not liking to be denied admission, the man said: —
( 8 ) "As it is a cold day, I'll step in and sit by the fire a
(») few moments."
(io) "Ah, sir, but' that is gone out, too," said the girl; by
(») which time the luckless visitor concluded that it was
( w ) best for him to stay out.
Write each one of the following words and its part of
speech (or class of words) as here used : —
First line: (729)TT7io; (730) one; (731) at.
Second line: (732) Visits; (733) more; (734) than.
THE REGEKT8' QUESTIONS.
Third line: (735) That; (736) away.
Fourth line: (737) Never; (738) mind.
Sixth line: (739) Sir.
Seventh line : (740) Liking.
Tenth line : (741) That.
Eleventh line : (742) Concluded.
Twelfth line : (743) Best.
744-746. Select from the exercise and write in a columa
the first ten words which are used ae simple subjects,
numbering them (747-756) inclusive, and opposite each
one of these write the verb agreeing with it.
757-759. Select from the exercise an adjective of each
degree of comparison.
Give the four principal parts (including the participls
in ing) of each of the irregular verbs in
Second line: (760) ; (761) ; (762) ; (763) ;
(764) ; (765) ; (766) ; (767) .
Seventh line : (768) ; (769) ; (770) ; (771) .
Eighth line: (772) ; (773) ; (774) ; (775) .
Write each of the following words and describe it ae
subject, nominative, predicate, object, adjective modifier,
adverbial modifier, or attribute, of the word (expressed or
understood) to which it is syntactically related, giving
(hat word : —
First line: (776) Day; (777) house; (778) his.
Second line : (779) Welcome.
Fourth line : (780) Never ; (781) mind.
Seventh line : (782) Liking ; (783) admission.
Eighth line: (784) Bay; (785) sit.
Eleventh line : (786) Which.
(3:30-4:30 P. M.)
787-788. Mention each infinitive verb in the exercise.
What nouns do the following pronouns stand for :—
First line: (789) His.
Fourth line : (790) Your.
GRAMMAR.
Twelfth line : (WL) Him.
792-793. MentioD each relative pronoun in the exerciae
and its antecedent.
Write the following words and give the gender of each
according to its signification as here used : —
First line : (794) Person ; (795) which.
Third line : (796) Servant.
Eleventh line : (797) Visitor.
798. What word (not included in the exercise) denoting
masculine gender corresponds to maid ?
799. What word denoting feminine gender correspond*
to sir ?
800-801. Mention the passive verbs contained in the
exercise.
802-803. Give the mood and tense of "sit" in the eighth
line.
804. Change "A person teas told by the servant" to the
equivalent expression having the verb active.
805. To which of the following classes of words does
"v>el(l)come" in the second line belong: Primitive,
derivative, simple, or compound ?
806. Why is "liking" in the seventh line spelled with-
out an e ?
807-808. Change "I'll step in" in the eighth line to
each of the other tense forms of the indicative active,
ffiving the tense name of each.
Examination XXIII. I^eb. 26, 787&*
(1:30-3:00 P. M.)
H) A Fir, upon a humble Thorn,
(•) From his high top, looked down with scorn.
M"For loftiest spires we grow," he said ;
(••V'Of us the tallest masts are made,
(^ While thou, poor Bramble, canst produce
t j Nothing of ornament or use."
t "Great tree," the modest Thorn replied,
THE REGENTS' QUESTIONS.
( 8 ) "When the sharp axe shall pierce your side,
( 9 ) In vain yon then may wish to be,
( 10 ) Unsought for and unknown like me."
Write each one of the following words and its part qf
speech (or class of words) as here used : —
First line : (809) Tfpon ; (810) humble.
Second line: (811) Looked; (812) down.
Eighth line; (813) Side.
Ninth line: (814) Then; (815) wish.
Tenth line : (816) Unknown ; (817) like.
Select from the exercise, and write in a column, eighi
words which are used as simple subjects, numbering them
from (818-825) inclusively: and opposite each of these
subjects write the verb (principal and auxiliary, if any,)
agreeing with it.
Give the rule of syntax for (828) subject words, and that
for (829) finite xerbs. \igst- The language of the rule, and
not merely its number, is to be given.]
Write in a column all the finite verbs in the exercise,
(including auxiliaries, if any,) and opposite each verb
give its voice (or form.) mood, tense, person and number,
arranging the work thus : —
71
lie -rr .
, h Voice.
Mood.
Tense.
Pason.
dumber.
-. (830) —
(831)-:
(832) — ;
(833) — ;
(834)—.
(835) —
; (836) —
; (837) —
; (838) —
; (839) — .
(840) —
; (841) —
; (842) —
; (843) —
(844) — .
(845)-
(846) —
(847) —
(84S)-
(849) — .
(850) —
: (851) —
; (852) —
(853) —
; (854)—.
. (855)-;
(856) — ;
(857) — ;
(858;—:
(859) — .
(860) —
(861) —
(862) —
(863) —
(864) — .
. (865) —
(866) —
(867) —
(868) —
(869) ->
(3:3(
)-4:30 P. m.
)
What noum
> do the fol
lowing pro
Douns stan
d for:—
Second line
: (870) His
i
I
lighth line
: (871) You
r
GRAMMAR.
872. What is the grammatical gender of "w* M in the
third line ?
Write in a column all the prepositional phrases con-
tained in the first four lines of the exercise, and before
each phrase write the word to which such phrase syntac-
tically relates : (873) ; (874) ; (875) ,
(876) .
Give the four principal parts (including the participle
ba ing) of the verb in the fourth line : (877) ; (878)
; (879) ; (880) .
Change the fifth and sixth lines to the equivalent ex-
pression, having the verb passive. If correct in all
respects, the answer may count as (881) ; (882)
; (883) .
In what case is (884) "wse" in the sixth line?
What is the syntax of (885) "Bramble" in the fifth line /
886. Change the ninth line to the corresponding form,
having the verb in the indicative mood.
Change the eighth line to the corresponding forms,
having the verb in the (887) perfect, or future perfect tense,
and in the (888) secoixd future, or future perfect tense.
What "figure of speech" is employed in the above ex-
ercise? The correct answer to this question may be
counted as one.
Examination XXI Y. Jiine. A, 787&»
(1:30-3:00 P. M.)
889-896. Make a list of the eight parts of speech (or
classes of words) and define each.
897. Compare an adjective by one of the two regula*
modes of comparison, and an (898) adverb by the other.
Write the plurals of (899) Elegy ; (900) church; and (901)
piece; and state in what way each plural is formed.
According to what rule or principal is ()02) voHteinf
made writing ; and (903) n doubled in beginning?
THE REGENTS' QUESTIONS.
Write in a column the following names, with the pre-
fixed numbers, and annex to each name an example of
the class which it represents : (901) Vowel ; (905) liquid ;
(906) palatal; (907) double consonant ; (908) diphthong ;
(909) word, primitive; (910) derivative; (911) compound;
(912) sentence, simple; (913) compound; (914) adjective^
ordinal.
915-918. What modifications (properties or accidents)
belong to nouns, and what are the several kinds of each ?
Mention two modifications belonging to verbs only, with
their kinds: (919) ; (920) .
Conjugate the verb "see" according to the following
outline : —
921. Principal Parts (including participle in ing,)
writing its name over each part.
Indicative Mood, First Person, Plural.
Name of Tense. Active Form. Passive Form.
933
933
924
935
936
937
Potential, Third, Plural.
928-
929-
930
931-
982
933
964
Subjunctive, Third, Singular.
Imperative, Second, Plural.
GRAMMAR.
Infinitives.
MS--
936 —
Participles.
987
988
(3:30-4:30 P. M.)
(») "Gkay's 'Megy Written in a Country Churchyard 1 is
( 3 ) a masterpiece from beginning to end. The thoughts,
(») indeed, are obvious enough, but the dignity with which
(<) they are expressed, the immense range of allusion and
(») description with which they are illustrated, and the
(•) finished grace of the language and versification^ in
( 7 ) which they are embodied, give to this work something
( 8 ) of that inimitable perfection of design and execution
(•) which we see in an antique statue or a sculptured
(») gem." — Shaw's English Literature.
Analyze the first sentence of the exercise, giving (939)
the simple (or grammatical) subject; (940) the simple pred-
icate; (941) the modified (or logical) subject; and (942) the
modified predicate.
Write in a column all the prepositional phrases in the
first sentence of the exercise, and prefix to each the word
(or words) which it modifies : (943) ; (944) ;
(946) .
Parse (946) written ; (947) country ; (948) masterpiece.
Write each of the following words and describe it as
subject, predicate, object, adjective modifier, adverbial modi-
fier, or attribute, as the case may be, of the word or words
to which it is syntactically related, giving such word or
words : —
Third line: (949) Obvious; (950) enough.
Fourth line : (951) They ; (952) range.
Fifth line: (953) Which.
Sixth and seventh lines: (954) Give; (955) versification,
$956) something.
Ninth line: (957) Which.
/
THE REGENTS' QUESTIONS.
958-965. Write in a column all the personal and relative
pronouns of the exercise in the order in which they occur,
and annex to each ithe noun or nouns (expressed or under*
stood) for which it stands.
If the last word of the second line were made singular,
what other words following in the sentence would also,
on that account, require to be changed as often as each
occurs ? (966) to ; (967) to .
968. Change "which we see" in the ninth line to the
equivalent expression, having the verb passive.
Examination XXV, Nov. 5, f87&'
(1:30-3:30 P. M.)
Define each of the following grammatical terms : (969)
Grammar ; (970) English Grammar ; (971) a letter of the
alphabet; (972) a syllable; (973) a word; (974) a phrase;
(975) a clause ; (976) a sentence.
977-980. Into what four parts is grammar usually
divided ?
981. Which one of those parts is usually studied in the
spelling book ?
982. To which one of those parts does punctuation
belong ?
Mention the several modifications {properties or acci-
dents') of nouns ; the different kinds of each modification ;
and give a specimen noun of each kind, arranging the
whole thus : —
Modifications. Kinds or Each. Specimen Nouns,
987-
983 - 985 i-f 988-
989-
990-
984— < 986 { 991-
993
i
I
GRAMMAK.
( 997-
993 995 J 998-
( 999-
( 1000-
994 996 { 1001-
1002-
1003-1007. Decline each of the personal pronouns,
arranging the work in regular form.
1008. Mention four words commonly used as relative
pronouns.
Give an example of a (1009) regular, and of an irregu1.ar
comparison of adjectives.
1010-1015. Give the passive, first person, plural forms
of the verb "examine" in the several tenses of the indica-
tive mood, prefixing the name of the tense of each form.
1016. Give the active imperative, the (1017) passive in-
finitive, and the (1018) participial forms of same verb
(3:15-4:15 P. M.)
0) "If our overworked professional men and students
( a ) should imitate Sir Henry Holland in taking an annual
( 8 ) two months' vacation, and once a year, like Antaeus,
( 4 ) touch old mother earth among the salmon and trout
( 6 ) streams of the breezy Canadian hills or Adirondacka,
( 8 ) they would return vastly invigorated to battle with the
( 7 ) realities of city life. Let no novice be deterred from a
(*) trial, for he will find it very exhilarating, even if for
< 10 ) a time he take no fish."— The Galaxy, Nov., '74, p. 617.
Write the first verb of the exercise, and give its (1019;
subject; (1020) object; (1021) mood; and (1022) tense.
Write each of the following words and describe it as
subject, predicate, object, adjective modifier, or adverbial
modifier, as the case may be, of the word or words (ex-
pressed or understood) to which it is syntactically related,
giving such word or words : —
First line : (1023) Overworked.
Second line : (1024) Taking.
Third line : (1025) Months'; (1026) vacation ; (1027) year
( 028) Antceus.
THE REGENTS' QUESTIONS.
Fourth line: (1039) Touch; (1030) mother ; (1031) earth ;
(1032) trout
Fifth line: (1033) Streams; (1034) Adirondack*.
Sixth line: (1035) Invigorated; (1036) battle.
Seventh line : (1037) City.
Ninth line: (1038) He; (1039) it; (1040) very; (1041)
exhilarating.
1042. What passive verb occurs in the exercise ?
1043. Change "even if for a time he take no fish" in the
ninth and tenth lines to the equivalent expression, having
the verb passive.
1044. Give the four principal parts of "take" in the
tenth line, (including the participle in ing.)
1045. Parse "If," (first line.)
1046. Parse "In," (second line.)
1047. Parse " Old," (fourth line.)
1048. Parse "No," (seventh line.)
In parsing give the rule of syntax for each of theee
words.
Examination XXYI. Feb. 26, 7876.
(1:30-5:00 P. M.)
1049. Write and define or describe each of the following
grammatical terms : (1050) Pei-son ; (1051) number ; (1052)
case ; (1053) pronoun ; (1054) relative pronoun ; (1055)
tense ; (1056) interjection.
1057. Write a sentence (or sentences) containing eight
different parts of speech (or classes of words,) and (1058-
1065) above one word of each class write the name of the
part of Bpeech to which it belongs.
Write an example of (1066) a noun in the possessive
ease; (1067) a personal pronoun in theirs* person, plural;
(1068) a relative pronoun in the objective form ; and a
(1069) verb in the passive, indicative, present.
GRAMMAR.
Write the different kinds of each modification (property
or aoeident) of verbs as named below, and give an example
of each kind from the verb " see," with a subject prefixed,
arranging the work tbus : —
Modifica-
tions.
Voice,
(or Form.)
Mood.
Tense.
Person.-
Dlumber.-
Kinds or EACH
Modification.
-1070 \
fl071-
1072-
1073-
1074-
1075-
1076-
1077-
1078-
1079-
1080-
1081-
-1082
!
-1083 \
Examples from verb
see, with subjects.
j 1084-
I 1085-
fl086-
1087-
1088-
1089-
1090-
fl091-
1092-
1093-
1094-
1095-
1096-
1097
I
1098
'Answers to the following a.ipplementary questions
may be added, for which due credit will be given : —
1099. What is the name of that part of Grammar which
includes the classification and inflection of words ?
Give a suitable form or model for parsing (1100) a noun;
(1101) an adjective; (1102) a relative pronoun; and (1103)
a preposition.
Mention a numerical adjective of the (1104) cardinal and
ane of the (1105) ordinal kind.
1106 Give the principal parte of the verb "give"
THE REGENTS' QUESTIOH8.
(8:15-4:15 P. M.)
( l ) " Socrates was never in haste that his followers should
(') become skilful in speaking, in action, or in invention ;
< s ) but, previously to such accomplishments, he thought
(*) it proper that a love of self-control should be instilled
(*/ into them ; for he considered that persons who had
i 6 ) acquired those qualifications were, if devoid of self-
( 7 ) control, only better fitted to commit injustice and do
{*) mischief." — Memorabilia, IV., Hi. 1.
Mention the (1107) subject; (1108) the simple (or gram-
matical) predicate ; (1109) the modified (or logical) predi-
cate; aud (1110) the adjuncts (or modifiers) contained in
the proposition, "Socrates was never in haste."
1111. By what is this proposition further modified,
limited or explained in the exercise?
1112. Write the proposition beginning with "his" (first
line,) and give (1113) the simple (or grammatical) subject ;
(1114) the modified (or logical) predicate ; (11 15) the copu-
lative and (1116) the attribute of the predicate; (1117) the
adjunct (or modifier) of the subject ; and (1118) the adjuncts
(or modifiers) of the predicate. (Designate each of these
answers by one of the above names.)
What other words of the
exercise are used as simple
(or grammatical) subjects ?
Write after these subjects,
the verbs (principal and
auxiliary, if any,) agreeing
with them : —
1119 1124
1120 1125
1121 1126
1122 1127 —
1123 1128
Which verbs of the exercise are in the potential mood ?
<1129) ■; (1130) ; and which in the infinitive t
(1131) ; (1132) .
Compare (1133) the adjective in the second line ; and
(1134) "better" in the seventh line.
Fane (1135) "previously" in the third line; and(li»j
the first verb in the sixth line.
GRAMMAR.
Examination XXYII. June S t 1876.
(3:30-4:80 P. M.)
1137- Mention the four general divisions of Grammar.
Under which of these general divisions is each of ths
following subjects included : —
1138. Classification of woi-ds as to use.
1139. Classification of letters.
1140. Rules for agreement and government of words.
1141. Versification {or poetry.')
1143. Rules for spelling.
Give a proper definition of each of the following
terms. §iP Be careful to mention the term defined, in
connection with each definition : (1143) Verb; (1144) pas-
sive verb; (1145) irregular verb; (1146) intransitive verb ;
(1147) mood; (1148) potential mood; (1149) tense; (1150)
future tense; (1151) preposition ; (1152) conjunction.
Write a sentence containing, respectively, an example of
1153. An adjective in the comparative degree.
1154. An adverb of manner.
1155. A disjunctive conjunction.
1156. An infinitive verb urithout "to" prefixed,
1157. A relative pronoun in the objective ease.
1158. Why are certain parts of verbs called principal
parts ?
1159-1161. Which are the three principal parts of verbs,
(other than the present participle ?)
Write (1162) a regular verb, and (1163) an irregular verb,
and place after each its additional principal parts, (in-
cluding the participal in ing.)
1164. Decline the personal pronoun of the third person,
feminine gender.
Give an example of the comparison of adjectives (1165)
fry prefixes, and (1166) by suffixes.
Give the rule of syntax for
1167. A verb agreeing with two or more subjects
aected by "and."
THE REGENTS' QUESTIONS.
1168. A pronoun, as related to its antecedent noun.
1169. For same cases before and after verbs.
1170. For a verb in tbe infinitive mood.
1171-1183. Give the active and passive forms of " strike^
with "J" (or "thou") as the subject of each, in the several
tenses of the finite moods ; also, (1184) the present infini-
tives, and (1185) present participles, active and passive.
(3:15-4:15 P. M.)
( J ) "Our fathers raised their flags against a power to
( 2 ) which, for purposes of foreign conquest and subjuga-
( 8 ) tion, Rome, in the height of her glory, is not to be
( 4 ) compared, — a power which has dotted the surface of
( 6 ) the whole globe with her possessions and military posts,
( e ) whose morning drum- beat, following the sun in his
( 7 ) course and keeping pace with the hours, circles the
( 8 ) earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the
(») martial airs of England." — Webster.
1186. Write the first verb of the exercise and give its
subject and object.
What other (1187) finite verbs, what (1188) infinitive and
(1189) participles occur in the exercise ?
1190. Change "which has dotted the surface of the whole
globe " to the equivalent expression, having the verb in
the passive voice (or form.)
1191-1198. Write in a column (midway between the
right and left sides of your paper) the several prepositions
in the first, second, fourth and eighth lines, and place
before and after each preposition the words between
which it shows relation.
Write each of the following words, giving its part of
speech (or class,~) and describe it as the subject, object,
predicate, adjective modifier, or connective, as the case may
be, of the word or words to which it is syntactically
related, giving such word or words : —
First line : (1199) Their.
Second and third lines: (1200) Subjugation; (1201) Bom*.
Fourth line : (1202) Surface.
GRAMMAR.
Fifth and sixth lines : (1203; Posts; (1204) whose; (1305)
and ; (1206) sun.
Seventh line: (1207) Keeping; (1208) circles.
Eighth line : (1209) Strain.
1210. In what case is "power" in the fourth line?
Parse (1211) the first verb, and (1212) the second verb in
the third line ; (1213) morning, (1214) drum-beat, (1215)
following, in the sixth line.
^°In parsing be careful to give the properties {modifi-
cations or attributes) of nouns and verbs, and the syntax
of each word.
1216. Select a derivative word from the eighth line.
Exami7iatio?i XXVIII. Nov. £, 7875.
(1:30-3:00 p. M.)
1. ''Sing to me, dearest nightingale," said a shepherd to
the silent songstress, one beautiful spring evening.
2. "Alas!" said the nightingale, "the frogs make so
much noise that I have no inclination to sing. Do you
not hear them ? "
3. "Undoubtedly I hear them," replied the shepherd,
"but it is owing to your silence."
Write each one of the following words, with its number
prefixed, and immediately thereafter the part of speech
(or class of words) to which it belongs : —
First paragraph : (1217) Sing; (1218) to; (1219) me;
(1220) dearest; (1221) nightingale; (1222) spring.
Second paragraph: (1223) Alas; (1224) so; (1225) that;
(1226) no.
Third paragraph : (1227) Owing.
Write each one of the following words, with its number
prefixed, and immediately thereafter describe it as the
subject, predicate, object, adjective modifier, or adverbial
modifier, as the case may be, of the word to which it if
t yntactically related :—
THE REGENTS QUESTIONS.
Firat paragraph : (1228) Sing; (1229) said ; (1230) silent ;
(1231) songstress ; (1232) one ; (1233) evening.
Second paragraph: (1234) Noise; (1235) inclination;
(1236) sing.
Third paragraph : (1237) Owing ; (1238) silence.
Select from the third paragraph a word in the (1239)
nominative, one in the (1240) possessive, and one in the
(1241) objective case.
Mention the second verb of the second paragraph, and
give its (1242) voice (or form;) (1243) mood; (1244) tense;
and (1245) subject ; also, the (1246) first, (1247) second, and
'1248) third principal parts of the same verb.
Change "frogs maJce^ to each of the other tense forma
of the indicative and potential moods, giving the names of
Senses, and arranging them as follows : —
Tenses. Indicative Mood. Potential Mood.
Present. Frogs make. (1254)
(1249) (1255)
, (1250) (1256)
(1251) s (1257) —
(1252)
(1253)
Give the (1258) positive and (1259) comparative forms ot
the first adjective ; also, the (1260) comparative and (1261)
superlative of the last adjective in the first paragraph that
admits of comparison.
Select from the exercises a personal pronoun of each of
the following forms : (1262) First person, singular number ,
nominative case ; (1263) first person, singular, objective;
(1264) second person, singular, nominative ; (1265) second
person, singular, possessive ; (1266) third person, singular,
nominative ; (1267) third person, plural, objective.
Give the word which each prepositional phrase (or ad*
fund, modifies: —
First paragraph : (1268) ; (1269) ; (1270)
■■ ■ ■ (preposition understood.)
GRAMMAR.
Second paragraph : (1271) (infinitive.)
Third paragraph : (1272) .
Parse (1273) Undoubtedly; (1274) I; (1275) hear; (1278)
(hem,
(3:15-4:15 P. M.)
1. "As a man, who was deeply involved in debt, wai
walking in the street with a very melancholy air, one of
his acquaintances asked him why he was so sorrowful.
2. 'Alas ! ' said he, ' I am in a state of insolvency.'
3. 'Well,' said his friend, 'if that is the case, it is not
you, but your creditors, who ought to wear a woeful
countenance.' "
1277. What word of the exercise has no syntax?
1278. Select from the exercise an example of a simple
sentence (or independent proposition.)
1279. Is the first sentence simple or compound, or com-
plex?
1280. What is the grammatical subject of the principal
(or independent) clause of the third sentence ?
1281. Change "was walking" to the form of the plu-
perfect (past perfect or prior past) tense of the same
mood.
1282. Change the verb of the expression u was deeply
involved " to the potet.dal mood, perfect (present perfect or
prior present) tense of the same voice (or form.)
1283. Change ' ' one of his acquaintances asked him " to
its equivalent, having the verb in the passive voice.
1284. Change "if that is the case" so that the verb
shall be subjunctive in form, and (1285) parse "case."
1286. In what number is "who" in the third sentence ?
1287. In what words was the question referred to in the
first sentence put by the asker (or speaker ?)
1288. What words does "with" in the first sentence
connect or show the relation between ?
1289. What interrogative word occurs in the first sen*
fence?
1290. What kind of conjunction is "but?"
THE REGENTS' QUESTIONS.
1291. In what case is the word "case" in the third
sentence ?
1292. In what tense is "ought" in the third sentence?
1293. In what case is "countenance '* in the third sen
tence ?
1294. What word (potential mood sign) might be sub-
stituted for "ought to" in the third sentence?
1295. Of what words is "woeful" compounded?
1296. Which one of the five permanent vowels doea not
occnr in " countenance ? "
Examination XXIX. Feb. 21, 7876.
(1:30-3:00 P. M.)
1297-1298. Mention and define the two parts of speech
(or classes of words) most frequently used.
Decline, in full, (1299) we ; (1300) her ; (1301) who.
Give the two positives of (1302-1303) worse, and those
of (1304-1305) most.
Write a sentence (or sentences) in which that is properly
used as (1306) a relative; (1307) an adjective; (1308) a
conjunction.
1309. Correct, "The teacher sent for you and I" and
(3310) give the reason for the correction.
1811. Change the sentence, "Those girls are writing on
their slates," by making the subject singular, and the
words corresponding in sense.
1312. What kind of a sentence, as to form, is that quoted
in question 1311 ; and (1313) what would the sentence be-
come if changed to the interrogative form ?
1314-1315. Change the sentence, "I shall go," and "I
will go," by making each subject of the third person,
singular, and by using the proper auxiliary to expreei
future time simply, in the former sentence, and a purpom
or determination in the latter.
GKAMMAR.
1816-1317. Correct, "Four month's interest are due on
this note," and (1318-1319) give the reasons for eacn
correction.
Define (1320 ) mood; (1321) tense; (1322) person ; (1323)
number ; as applied to verbs.
1324-1328. Write in a column the names of the several
moods of verbs, and after each name give a sentence
containing a verb in that mood.
1329-1335. Write in a column the names of the several
tenses of verbs, and after each name give the correspond-
ing tense-form of some verb in the indicative mood.
Give the principal parts of (1336) rise; (1337) raise;
(1838) sit; (1339) set; and (1340-1342) write sentences
containing an example of the proper use of each of these
verbs.
How is the (1343) passive voice (or form.) of any verb
formed ? and how tbe (1344) progressive form ?
Write two sentences, in one of which (1345) a phrase,
and in the other (1346) a clause (or proposition) is used as
the subject.
Give the principal parts of each of the following verba :
(1847) were; (1348) went; (1349) had fought; (1350) might
have been found ; (1351) may have talked.
Analyze the sentence, (1352) "Let him go;" (1353-1355)
and parse each word.
1356. What particular name is given to that part of a
verb which ends in ing ?
(3:15-4:15 P. M.)
(*) "These things that are not practicable, are not desir-
(*) able. There is nothing in the world really beneficial
(*) that does not lie within the reach of an informed under-
(*) standing and a well-directed pursuit. There is nothing
(*) that God has judged good for us that he has not given
(•) us the means to accomplish, both in the natural and
(*) the moral world. If we cry, like children, for th«
(•) moon, like children we must cry on." — Burke.
THE REGENTS' QUESTIONS.
Write each of the following words, with its number
prefixed, mention its part of speech (or class of words,)
and describe it as the subject, predicate, object, adjective
modifier, adverbial modifier, or connective, as the case may
be, of the word or words to which it is grammatically
related, giving such word or words : —
First line: (1357) That; (1358) the second verb.
Second line : (1359) Nothing; (1360) beneficial
Third line : (1361) The verb in that line.
Fourth line : (1362) Pursuit.
Fifth line: (1363) That.
Sixth line: (1364) Us.
Seventh line : (1365) Like.
Eighth line: (1366) On.
Make a list of the (1367) auxiliary ver*bs in the exercise,
and the (1368) conjunctions.
Parse each of the following as contained in the exercise
^" In parsing, give each modification (property or ac-
cident) and the syntax of each word : —
1369. The proper noun.
1370. The verb in the infinitive mood.
1371. The verb in the potential mood.
1372. The verb in the fifth line.
1373. "Children," (eighth line.)
1374. What is the principal (or leading) clause (or pro-
position) of the last sentence of the exercise ; and (1375)
what the subordinate clause ?
1876. Parse "botii," (sixth line.)
Examination XXX. June, 8, 7876.
(1:30-3:00 P. M.)
1877. Of what does Etymology treat ?
1878. What are the parts of speech or classes into
which words are divided ?
GKAMMAR.
1879. Which of these modify, limit, or qualify th«
meaning of nouns ?
1380. Which of verbs, adjectives and adverbs ?
1381. What is the subject of a sentence ?
1382. What is the predicate ?
"The pleasures of sense resemble a foaming torrent,
which, after a disorderly course, speedily runs out and
leaves an empty and offensive channel."
1383-1387. In the above sentence, name the nouns, and
state of each whether it is subject or object, and of what ?
1388. Name the pronoun, and state the same of it.
1389-1391. Name the adjectives, and the noun each
qualifies.
1392-1393. Name the adverbs, and tbe word each modi-
fies or qualifies.
1394-1395. Name the prepositions, and the words be-
tween which they show the relation.
1396-1397. Name the conjunctions, and the words each
connect.
1398-1401. Name the articles, and the nouns they limit.
Name the plural of the following nouns : (1402) lady ;
(1403) valley; (1404) pailful ; (1405) memorandum; (1406)
analysis.
1407. What modifications or properties have nouns and
pronouns ?
1408. What have verbs ?
1409-1413. Give the modifications of each of the nouni
of the sentence, " The pleasures of sense," etc.
1414-1416. Same of the verbs.
1417-1418. How do you determine the modifications of
pronouns ?
1419. What tenses has the Potential mood ?
1420. Define mood, and (1421) name the several mood*.
1422. Same of tense, and (1423) the several tenses.
1424-1426. Give an example of the moods of the verb
%Drite, in the present tense, with boy as subject, i. «., thoM
moods to which snch a subject is applicable.
THE REGENTS' QUESTIONS.
(3: 15-4:15 P. M.)
1427. How are verbs divided in regard to form t
1428. How in regard to signification ?
1429. What determines the number and person of a
verb ?
1430. Does the object of a verb influence its number and
person ?
1431. In what case is the subject of a verb ?
1432. In what the object ?
1433. Have the nominative and objective cases of nouna
different forms ?
1434. How are these cases determined ?
1435. To what is a noun in the possessive case joined?
1436. What does the noun with which it is joined
denote ?
If the following sentences are ungrammatical, correct
them, and parse the word corrected.
1437-1438. They thought it was me.
1439-1440. I do not know who to send.
1441-1442. The man sets in the chair.
1443-1444. The book lays on the table.
1445-1446. The eldest of the two sons attends school.
1447-1448. The general with his soldiers were taken.
1449-1450. The room is twenty feet long.
1451-1452. To preach and to practise is very different
1453-1454. Write the participles of the verb love in th«
active form, with the name of each.
1455-1456. The same of the passive form.
Examination XXXI. JYor. 9, 7876.
(1:00-3:00 P. M.)
In what classes are simple words divided with refer-
ence to their (1457-1459) number of syllables ; (1160-1461)
formation ; (1462-1469) use in sentences ?
GRAMMAR.
1470. Give the singular of men, teeth, mice.
How are adjectives regularly compared to express
degrees of comparison (1471) below the positive (or of
diminution), and (1472-1473) above the positive (or of in-
crease) ?
1474-1476. Give examples of comparison to illustrate
answers 1471-1473.
1477. What modification have some adverbs ?
1478. From what other class of words are many adverbs
derived ?
1479. Mention four general classes of adverbs.
1480-1482. Mention three kinds of pronouns, and give a
definition of each kind.
1483-1488. Write the objective singular of each simple
pronoun whose form is varied by declension, and after
each of these objectives write a sentence containing
it.
1489-1491. Which of the pronouns indicate, by their
form, the gender of their antecedent nouns ?
1492. To what parts of speech do cases belong ?
1493-1494. What classes of verbs do not admit of a
passive voice (or form) ?
1495. Define the subjunctive mood.
1496-1498. Which moods cannot be used in asking ques-
tions ?
1499-1502. Which tenses employ auxiliaries ?
1503. What tense must be used to denote that a certain
event will precede some other event referred to ?
What parts of speech (or kinds of words) are needed to
complete the two following sentences ?
1504. It must be done to-day to-morrow.
1505. Live peace all men.
1506-1508. What three principal statements are in-
cluded in the exercise of parsing ; or, of what does pars-
ing consist ?
THE REGENTS' QUESTIONS.
(3:15-4:15 P. M.)
Write, and parse in full each italicized word in the fol-
lowing sentence, (including auxiliaries, of course, with
their principal verbs) :
1509-1520. "The best authors should be read by the
student, that he may thus insensibly acquire a grace and
refinement of expression which no arbitrary rules can
give."
Correct the following examples of false syntax, and
give the reason for the correction, and the syntax of the
corrected word in each :
1521-1522. He is to be married to I don't know who.
1523-1524. Generation after generation pass away.
1525-1526. Young's "Night Thoughts" area gloomy
but instructive poem.
1527-1528. On that occasion, neither he nor I were con-
sulted.
1529-1530. Which is the largest number, — the minuend
or the subtrahend ?
1531-1532. Pitt was the pillar who upheld the state.
1533-1534. Our teacher told us that air had weight.
1535-15S6. I intend to have written to him.
Note. — In the plates from which the complete illustrated
volume and the first editions of this pamphlet were print-
ed, the numbers of the questions from Examination XII
were too great by 24, the last queetion in XI being num-
bered 264, and the first in XII 289. In this edition, the
error has been corrected. The corresponding questions
in the other editions may be found by adding 34 to ail
numbers above 364 in this edition.
GRAMMAR.
Examination XXXII. March /, 7877.
(1:30-3:00 p. m.)
« Be thorough in every study. Passing over a field
b of study has been compared to conquering a country.
e If you thoroughly conquer everything you meet, you
d will pass on from victory to victory ; but if you leave
e here and there a port or garrison not subdued, you will
/ soon have an army hanging on your rear, and your
o ground will soon need re-conquering. Never pass over
h a single thing without understanding all that can be
i known about it. Todd's Student's Manual, ch. iii, 4.
Write the following verbs, and the voice (or form, or
kind) ; — mood ; tense ; number, person and subject of each ;
(Count number, person and subject as one ana.)
1637-1540. Be, line a.
1641-1544. Has been compared, line b.
1545-1548. Conquer, line c.
1549-1552. Meet, line c.
1653-1556. Will need, line g.
1657-1560. Can be known, lines h, i.
1661. What is an active verb ? Give an example.
1662. What is a passive verb ? Give an example.
1663. How is a passive verb formed f
1664-1565. In has been compared, what modification
(property or accident) does each auxiliary show?
Write the following words, give the part of speech (or
class of words) of each, state how it is used,— whether ai
subject, predicate, adjunct (or modifier), object, or conned-
fee, — and give the word (or words or clauses) with which
it Is so connected :
Line a. (1566) thorough; (1667) every; (1668) pairing ;
(1669) over.
Line o. (1570) study ; (1571) conquering ;
Lines 6, o. (1672) country ; (1573) everything.
Line d. (1674) on ; (1575) but; (1&76) if.
Lines «, /. (1577) tubdued ; (1678) soon.
THE REGENTS' QUESTIONS,
Line g. (1579) re-conquering ; (1580) over.
Line h. (1581) understanding ; (1582) aU ; (1583) flfca*.
Give the fonr principal parts (including present partici*
pie) of (1584) meet, line c ; (1585) leave, line d ; (1586)
lenovm, line i.
(3:15-4:30 P. M.)
1587-1590. Mention and define each of the four princi-
pal divisions of grammar.
1591. Define the imperative mood.
1592. What is a participle?
1593. What is an adjective, or adjective element ?
1594. What is an adverb, or adverbial element ?
1595. What is a simple or grammatical subject?
1596. What is a logical or modified subject ?
1597. Answer Q. 1595, as applied to sentence 2 of the
Exercise.
1598. Answer Q. 1596, as applied to the same sentence,
1599. Select an adverbial element from the second
sentence.
1600. Which sentence of the exercise is a simple de-
clarative one?
1601. Which sentence is compound ? and,
1602. Of hovr many members does it consist ?
1603. What word connects the principal members ?
1604. In the member ending with the semi-colon, what
is the leading or principal verb ?
1605. The member following the semi-colon has what
two independent (or principal) clauses ? and,
1606. What word connects them ?•
Select from the exercise (1607) a possessive and (1608) an
objective personal pronoun ; (1609) a verbal noun ; and
(1610) an adjective denoting unity.
Correct the following sentences, and give the reason for
the correction.
1611-1612. Me being present, they were embarrassed.
GRAMMAR,
161S-1614. Texas is larger than any state in the Union.
1615-1616. A variety of objects charm the eye.
Examination XXXIII, June 7,7877.
(1:30-3:00 p. m.)
A Highlander, who sold brooms, went into a barber's
shop in Glasgow to be shaved. The barber took one of
his brooms, and after having shaved him, asked the
price of it. " Two pence," said the Highlander. "No,
no," says the shaver, "I'll give you a penny, and if that
/jdoes not satisfy you, take your broom again." The
a Highlander took it and asked what he had to pay. "A
n penny," says the barber. " I'll give you a half -penny,"
i says Duncan, " and if that does not satisfy you, put on
j my beard again."
1617. What modifications (properties or accidents) have
nouns and pronouns ? (1618; Verbs ? (1619) Some adjec-
tives and adverbs ?
Write each of the following words of the above " Ex-
ercise," and name the part of speech (or class of words') to
which it belongs ; give its several modification* ; and ite
grammatical relation as subject, predicate or object, ac the
case may be, to some other word to be named :
1620-1622. Highlander, line a.
1623-1625. Who, line a.
1626-1628. Sold line a.
1629-1631. Brooms, line a,
1632-1034. Shop, line o.
1635-1637. Him, line c.
1638-1610. Asked, line e.
1641-1643. Take, line/.
1644-1646. It, line g.
Write and parse each of the following words, giving iti
part of speech ; modifications ; and syntax.
1647-1649. Barber's line a.
THE REGENTS' QUESTIONS,
1650-1652 The verb in line 5.
1653-1655. The first verb in line/.
1656-1658. The second verb in line/.
1659-1661. You, line i.
1662. What participle occnrs in the Exercise f
1663. What kind of a participle is it ?
1664. As partaking of the nature of an adjective, to
what noun does that participle refer ?
1665. As partaking of the nature of a verb, what office
does it perform in the sentence ?
1666. How is that participle related in construction to
the word before it ? (1667). If that word were omitted,
what would be the syntax of the. participle ?
1668. What is the corresponding passive form at the
same participle ?
(June 8, 3:15-4:30 r. if.)
Decline the following words of the Exercise:
1669. Eis, line e.
1670. Penny, line e.
1671. B, line g.
Give the four principal parts (including present partkfr
pie) of the following verbs :
1672. Sold, line a.
1673. Went, line a.
1674. Took, line b.
1675. Asked, line c.
1676. Give, line e.
1677. Which one of the verbs In question (1871H167S)
to regular, and (1678) why ?
Select from tbe Exercise :
1679. A numeral adjective denoting plurality.
1680. An auxiliary verb, present tense.
1681. An auxiliary verb, future tense.
1682. An interrogative pronoun.
GRAMMAR.
1683. A conditional conjunction.
1684. An adverb of negation ; and (1685) etate what
verb it modifies.
1686. A compound noun.
Parse each the following words:
1687. Pence, line d.
1688. What, line g.
1689. You, line i.
1690. On, line i.
1691. Beard, line/.
1693-1696. Analyze the third sentence.
Examination XXXIY., JYbv. 8, 1877*
(3:15^-4:30 p. m.)
1. Depend upon it, friends, if a straight line of life
will not pay, a crooked one will not. 2. Anything
that is won by fraud is very dangerous gam. 3.
It may give a moment's peace to wear a mask, but
deception will come home to you and bring sorrow
with it. 4. Honesty is the best policy. 5. If the
lion's skin does not do, never try the fox's. 6. Let
your face and hands, like the cburch clock, always
tell how your inner works are going. 7. Better is
it to be laughed at as Tom Tell-truth, than praised
as Crafty Charlie. 8. A,t the last, the upright will
have their reward. — \ John Ploughman's Talk, p. 129.
Write each of the following words of the above " Exer-
cise," and name the part of speech (or class of words,) to
which it belongs; give its several modifications (proper'
ties or accidents); and its grammatical relation as subject,
predicate or object, as the case may be, to some other word
to be named.
1697-1699. It, line a.
1700-1702. Line, line a.
1703-1705. Pay, line 6.
1706-1708. Anything, line b.
a
b
c
d
e
f
I
THE EEGENT8' QUESTION.
1709-1711. Thai, line c.
1712-1714. Gain, line e.
1715-1717. Peace, line d.
1718-1720. Bring, line e.
1721-1723. Skin, line g.
1724-1726. Try, line g.
Write and purse each of the following words, giving Ha
part of speech ; modifications (properties, or accidents);
and syntax:
1727-1729. Depend, line a.
1730-1732. The first verb in line c.
1733-1735. The first verb in line d,
1736-1738. Fox's, line ?.
1739-1741. Tell, line*.
Write and parse the following words :
1742. Friends, line a.
1743. One, line &.
1744. Wear, line d.
1745. J3e«er, line i.
1746. How does the progressive form of conjugation
represent an action or event ?
1747. Which principal part of a verb, and
1748. What auxiliary verb are used in the progrtssiw
form of conjugation ?
(3:15—4:30 P. m.)
Compare the following words of the Exercise:
1749. Straight.
1750. Crooked.
1751. Better.
Give the four principal porta (including prtmnt
tiple) of the following words:
1752. Won, line c
1753. Wear, line d.
1754. Bring, line «.
1755. Do, line g.
GRAMMAR.
1756. What other words does it, line d, stand for ?
1757. Answer the same question for it, linej.
Select from the Exercise :
1758. A word that has no Syntax, i. e. no grammatical
connection with other words of the sentence in which it
occurs.
1759. An adverb of degree.
1760. A disjunctive conjunction.
1761. An adjective in the superlative degree.
1762. A verb in the progressive form,
1763. A principal verb whose auxiliary ia another form
of the same verb.
1764. The last verb in the infinitive mood.
1765. An adjective used as a noun.
1766. A compound subject of a sentence.
1767. A compound predicate.
Parse each of the following words :
1768. Home, line e.
1769. As, line j.
1770. Crafty Charley, line k.
1771. Their, line I.
1773-1776. Analyze, The upright will have (heir rmoartL
a
b
c
d
e
f
I
Examination XXX "V, Feb. 28, 1878.
(1:30—3:00 P. M.)
EXERCISE.
# As I walked through the wilderness of this world, I
lighted on a certain place where was a den, and laid
me down in that place to sleep ; and as I slept, I
dreamed a dream. I dreamed, and, behold, I saw a
man clothed in rags standing in a certain place,
with his face from his own house, a book in hi*
own hand, and a great burden upon his back. I
looked and saw him open the book, and lead there-
OBAMMAB.
in ; and as he read he read, he wept and trembled ;
iand not being able longer to contain, he broke out
with a lamentable cry, saying, What shall I do ?
— | John Buntan's Pilgrim's Progress.
Write each of the following words of the above "Exer-
cise," and name the part of speech (or class of words) to
which it belongs ; give its several modifications (proper-
ties or accidents); and itB grammatical relation as sub~
ject, predicate or object, as the case may be. to some other
word to be named :
1777-79. I, line a. 1780-82. walked, line a.
1783-85. wilderness, line a. 1786-88. was, line b.
1789-91. burden, line g. 1793-94. saw, line h.
1795-97. him, line h. 1798-1800. book, line h.
1801-03. trembled, line i. 1804-06. last verb in Ex.
Write and parse each of the following words, giving
its part of speech; modifications (properties, or acci-
dents) ; and syntax:
1807-09. den, line b.
1810-12. the last verb in line b.
1813-15. the first verb in line c.
1816-18. standing, line e.
1819-21. open, line h.
Write and give the syntax of each of the following
words :
1822. tfirough, line a. 1823. behold, line d.
1824. with, line/. 1825. great, line g.
1826. longer, line j. 1827. saying, line k.
1828. What, line k.
1829. Give the progressive form of shall I do, line k.
1830. What present participle might be substituted for
urtih, line/f
(3:00—4:30 P. M.)
1831. Compare able ; and lamentable; one by suffixes;
tihe other by prefixes.
GRAMMAR.
Give the four principal parts (including present parti-
ciple) of which each of the following words is one part :
1832. laid. 1833. Bleep. 1834. being. 1835. broke.
1836. What prepositional phrase might be substituted
for where, in line b of the Exercise.
1837. What other word might be used in place of as,
lines a and c?
1838. Change What shall I do, to its equivalent having
the verb in the passive voice (or form).
1839. What dependent (or subordinate) clause, intro-
duced by the conjunction that, might take the place of to
sleep, line c ?
1840. In what mood would the verb of that clause be ?
Write, in succession, the several clauses (propositions
or simple sentences) contained in the Exercise, — omitting
words used as merely clause connectives, — and number
the clauses, arranging work thus :
1841. Clause No. 1
1842.
it
Ii
2.
1843.
i<
it
3.
1844.
ii
ii
4.
1845.
i<
II
5.
1846.
it
ii
6.
Write in a column the several words above designated
as clause connectives, and after each give the numbers of
the clauses whicb it connects, thus :
1847. connects Clause No. to No. .
1848. " mm to No. .
1849. — " " " to No.
1850. " " " to No. .
1851. " u " to No. .
1853. Which of these clauses expresses the leading
Utought of the sentence ?
1853-56. Analyze, What shall I do t
GRAMMAR.
Examination XXXVI. June 6, 1878 %
(1.30—3:00 P. M.)
1857. What is a sentence ?
1858. What are its parts ?
1859-60. Define each part.
1861. Write a sentence with one word in each part.
1862. Write one with two words in each part.
1863. What is analysis ?
Analyze the following sentences, using diagram** if
you can :
1864. ''The remedy will soon be in yonr power."
1865. " My uncle Toby has not the heart to retaliate o*
a fly."
1866. What are parts of speech ?
1867. Name and define two principal classes of noun*.
1868. Give three examples for each class.
Name and define the classes of verbs :
1869. As to form. 1870. As to signification.
1871-73. Name and define the modifications of nouns,
1874-77. Name and define the the modification! of
verbs.
1878. By what other kinds of words may a noun be
modified ? 1879. By what, a verb ?
1880. To each of the nouns in the answers to Q. 1868,
as subject, annex a proper predicate.
1881. What modifications does the adjective have ?
1882. How do you determine the number and person of
a verb ?
1883. What person has a verb in the imperative mood?
1884. How does the subjunctive mood differ from the
indicative ?
(In parsing, give the modifications of the word and lie
relation to other words, naming the words.)
GRAMMAR.
1885. Annalyze the following sentence, and parse each
of the words in italics :
1886-90. "They refected the ceremonious homage which
other sects substitute for the pure worship of the soul."
Correct the following and give the reason :
1891-92. Whom they suppose is doomed.
1893-94. Has the articles been sent ?
1895-96. He had not ought to talk in that way ?
1897-98. The horse and carriage was sold.
(3:00—4:30 P. m.)
1899. How is the case of a noun determined ?
1900. When do you say that the noun is in the nomi-
native case ?
1901. When in the objective?
1902. What case of nouns has a different form from tht>
other cases ?
1903-4. To what part of speech is this form joined t
and what does it signify ?
1905. Analyze the following sentence, and parse each of
the words in italics :
1906-10. 'Can the branch improve when taken from the
stock which gave it nourishment?''
1911. What office does a relative pronoun perform
which a personal pronoun does not ?
1912. When a relative pronoun is the object of the verb,
where in a sentence is it placed, with respect to the
verb?
1913. What modifications may some adverbs have ?
1914. What parts of speech have no modifications?
1915. When a noun not in the possessive case modifies
another noun, what relation is it said to have to it?
1916. Give an example.
1917-18. Construct a sentence with the subject modi-
fied by an adjective and the predicate by an adverb.
THE regents' questions.
1919-20. Construct a sentence with the subject modi-
led by the prepositional phrase and the predicate
having a direct object.
Correct the following, and give the reason :
1921-22. The legislature have adjourned.
1923-24. If any one has been slighted, let them make
it known.
1925-26. He did not know who to suspect.
1927-28. Does that boy know who he is speaking to ?
1929-30. He was absent this whole week.
1931-32. After I visited Europe, I returned to America.
1933-34. I respect every man's judgment and follow
my own.
1935-36. Which is the greater of the American rivers ?
Examination XXXVII. Nov. 7, 1878.
(1:30— 3:00 p. m.)
1937-8. Of what do Etymology and Syntax treat ?
1939. Name the principal parts of a sentence.
1940. Which two are necessary to express thought ?
1941. Write a sentence containing these two only.
1942. Write a sentence containing a modified noun as
subject, and a modified verb as predicate.
1943. Write a sentence which shall contain all the
parts of speech except the interjection.
1941. What is the difference between adjectives and
adverbs ?
1945. What is the office of conjunctions ?
1946. What, of prepositions ?
1947. Write the plural of each of the following nouns :
kaife, lady, valley, shelf.
\ "Bear with me ;
"My heart is in the coffin, there, with Casear,
"And I must pause till it come back to me."
1948. What is the subject of the first sentence ?
i$49-51. Parse the verb in the first sentence.
GRAMMAR.
(In parsing, give the modifications of the word and
its relation to other words, naming the words.)
1952. In the second sentence, by what is is modified '?
1953. What kind of noun is heart, and why ?
1954. Same of Ccesar ?
1955. Parse ba> ik.
1956-8. Parse the first verb in the last line.
1959-61. Parse the second verb in the last line.
1962. Parse till.
1963. Give the reason for the mood of must pause.
1964. How is the possessive case expressed in each
number ?
1965. Define the participle.
1966. If it is not considered a distinct part of speech,
with what is it treated ?
1967. What is an abstract noun ?
1968. What is a collective noun ?
1969. What is a participial noun ?
1970. What is a concrete noun ?
1971-74. Mention aud define four kinds of pronouns,
1975. What class of adverbs may be compared ?
1976. Give an example.
(Nov. 8, 3:00—4:30 P. M.)
Correct the four following sentences, aud parse the
corrected word in each :
1977-78. It is me.
1979-80. I have seen my friend last summer.
1981-82. Cany them letters to the post-office.
1983-84. He is like a bird of prey who destroys with-
out mercy.
" O masters ! if I were disposed to stir
Your hearts and minds to mutiny and rage,
I should do Brutus wrong, and Cassius wrong,
Who, you all know, are honorable men :
I will not do them wrong : 1 rather choose
To wrong the dead, to wrong myself and you,
Than I will wrong such honorable men."
THE REGENTS' QUESTIONS.
1985. Analyze (by diagram, if you can) the sentence:
" I should do Brutus wrong, and Cassius wrong."
1986-88. Parse masters.
1989-91. Parse the finite verb in the first line.
1992-94. Parse hearts and minds.
1995-97. Parse should do.
1998-2000. Parse Brutus.
2001-03. Parse wrong.
2004-06. Parse who, and give the reason of its number.
2007-09. Parse all.
2010-12. Parse men.
2013. Parse than.
2014. "What is the object of know?
2015. To what class of adverbs does rather belong ?
2016. Of what degree of comparison is it ?
Examination XXXVIII. Feb. 27,
1S79.
(1:30—3:00 p. m.)
2017-18. Give two rules for formiag the plural of
nouns.
2019-21. Give the plural of oath ; class ; shelf.
2022-23. Give the possessive, sing, and plural, of man.
2024. Define declension of nouns.
2025. To what other part of speech (or class of words)
does declension apply ?
2026. Before nouns of what number is an used ?
2027. What Ques. does a cardinal numeral answer ?
2028-30. Compare ill, old, beautiful.
2031. In what degree of comparison is less wisely?
2032-33. State two points in which the relative who
differs from the relative what.
2034. Give an example of a commonly intransitive
Verb used transitively.
GRAMMAR.
2085. What does the perfect (present perfect or prior
present) tense denote ?
2036-37. Give the mood of each verb in the sentence :
1 bid you speak.
2038-39. Correct the false syntax in the sentence :
It was him ic?io I spoke to.
2040-42. Write a simple, a compound, and a complex
sentence. (If you do not understand the term complex,
write instead a sentence containing a relative.)
2043-45. Write a declarative, an imperative, and an
interrogative sentence.
(a) " He who writes what he should speak, and dares
(b) not speak what he writes, is like either a wolf in
(c) sheep's clothing, or a sheep in a wolf's skin."
2046. Of what two kinds is the foregoing sentence ?
2047-48. What two relations does the first word " He "
bear to other words of the sentence (naming these other
words) ?
2049-50. Give the object of writes, and of speak, line
(«)■
2051. How do the objects of these words in line (b)
differ from those in line (a) ?
2052-53. Give the mood of speak in line (a), and that of
the same word in line (b).
2054-55. Give the subject of dares, and that of is.
2056-57. In what case is wolf, line (b), and why ?
2058. What other word has the same construction ?
2059. What conjunction connects these two words ?
2060-61. In what number is sheep's, line (c), and how
do you determine its number ?
2062-63. Answer the same questions for sheep, line (c).
2064-65. What adverb occurs in line (b), and what
kind of an adverb is it ?
2066. Parse either.
THE REGENTS* QUESTIONS.
BO
a
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x
(i^&. 28, 3:00—4:30 p. m.)
EXERCISE.
1. Murmur not, O man ! at the shortness of time,
if thou hast more than is well employed.
2. Has not human life often been carelessly spent
in doing either nothing at all, or nothing that ought
to have been done ?
3. We sometimes complain because our days are
so few, and yet act as if there would be no end of
{them.
2067-69. Of the above sentences 1, 2, 3, which one is
declarative, and of what kind is each of the other two
(on the same principle of classification) ?
2070. Which words of sentence 1 have no syntax (i e.,
no grammatical relation to other words) ?
2071-74. Write and parse the first verb of sentence 1.
SUSP In parsing a verb, state whether it is active or
passive, (if active) transitive or intransitive, and regu-
lar or irregular ; give its principal parts, including the
present participle ; its modifications (mood, tense, per-
son, and number) ; and its syntax.
2075-78. Write and parse the first verb of sentence 2.
2079-82. Write and parse the last verb of sentence 2.
2083-84. Write the last verb of sentence 3, and give
its mood and tense, and the word with which it agrees
as its subject.
2085-86. Write " Thou hast more than is well employed,"
with the words understood required in parsing and
supplied in their proper places in the sentence.
2087. In what respect does ought differ from all the
other verbs of sentences 1, 2, 3 ?
2088-90. Give the syntax of in, doing, and nothing,
sentence 2.
2091-93. What auxiliary word shows the mood, what
one the tense, and what one the voice (or form) of the
last verb in sentence 2 ?
2094-96. Parse at, sentence 1 ; that, sentence 2 ; them,
sentence 3.
GRAMMAR.
Examination XXXIX. June 5. 1879.
(1:30—3:00 p. m.)
2097-99. Write three short sentences : the subject of
the first being & proper noun ; of the second, a collective
noun; of the third, an abstract noun. (Underscore, i. e. t
draw a line under, each of these nouns.)
2100-2104. Write the plural of the nouns, fly, staff,
money, pailful, and Mussulman.
2105-06. In forming the plural, when, as a general
rule, should s alone be added ; and when es?
2107-11. Write the feminine of nephew, hero, baron,
benefactor, man-servant.
2112-14. Write three short sentences ; the first con-
taining a noun in the nom. case ; the second, a noun ia
the poss. case: the third, anoiminthe obj. case. (Un-
derscore each of these nouns.)
2115-17. Which parts of speech are declined? which,
compared? which, conjugated?
2118-20. Compare three adjectives so as to show three
methods of comparison.
2121-24. Decline 7, thou, who, whoever.
2125-27. To what objects may the relatives, who, which,
and that, be respectively applied ?
2128-33. Give the principal parts (including present
participle) of be, fly, flow, flee, go, undertake.
2134. Why are they called principal parte ?
2135. What is the difference between an active and r
passive verb ?
2136. Name the class of verbs which take both the
active and the passive forms.
2137-42. Write six short sentences, each containing a.
verb in a different tense from the others. (Underscore
these verbs.)
2143-46. Write four short sentences, each containing
a verb in a different mood from the others. (Under-
score these verbs.)
THE REGENTS' QUESTIONS.
{June 6, 3:00—4:30 P. m.)
EXERCISE.
1. We may not be able to accomplish all we de-
sire, but shall we therefore sit still with folded
hands? 2. By no means. 3. It is always brave
and noble to do the best we can, under the cir-
cumstances which surround us. 4. It is only the
weak soul that yields supinely to discouragements.
5. Watch, pray, toil, are good words to remember,
and in this world of care and disappointment
they will carry us through.
In parsing, twite the word, give the part of
speech, its modifications {properties or attributes), and the
word or words to which it is grammatically related.
2147-50. Parse the verbs of sentence 1.
2151. Give the connective of the two clauses.
i 2152-55. Parse not, able, therefore, still, sentence 1.
2156-57. Parse by, in line 3. Give the predicate of
sentence 3.
2158. Brave and noble, lines 3 and 4, modifies what ?
, 2150. We, line 4, is the subject of what verb ?
2160-62. Write each of the following pronouns, and
the antecedent word or words which it represents : it,
line 3 ; that, line 6 ; they, line 9.
2163. What parts of speech are watch, pray, toil, line
7?
2164. Parse words, line 7.
1 " When he had traveled half a day's journey
2 through a country which was continually becom-
ing more attractive, he came to the banks of a
broad lake, in the center of which was a large and
beautiful island."
2165-68. Write the clauses of the above sentence, in
order, designating each as principal or subordinate.
2169-71. Parse each clause connective.
m
S3
24
GRAMMAR.
2172. Give the subject and the simple predicate of
the principal clause.
2173. Select an adjective clause.
2174. Select an adverbial clause.
2175. Give the subject of was, line 4.
2176. What does attractive, line 3, modify?
Examination XL, Nov. 6, 1879.
(1:30—3:00 P. M.)
EXERCISE.
1. We one day descried at sea, some shapeless
object drifting at a distance. 2. It proved to be
the mast of a ship that must have been completely
wrecked. 3. There were the remains of handker-
chiefs by which some of the crew had fastened
themselves to the spar to prevent their being over-
come by the waves. 4. No trace was found by
which the name of the crew could be ascertained.
5. The wreck had evidently drifted for many
months. 6. But where, thought I, are the crew?
Washington Irving.
2177. Explain the difference between common and
proper nouns, giving an example selected from the
exercise to illustrate each.
2178. Give the gender of I (Sentence 6,) and the
reason for your answer.
Write the feminine form of (2179) duke, (2180) Hero ;
the masculine of (2181) landlady, (2182) songstress;
the plural of (2183) father-in-law, (2184) halo.
2185-88. Explain what you understand by the
modifications (properties or accidents) of nouns and
THE REGENTS QUESTIONS.
a:
pronouns — illustrating each modification by an ex-
ample selected from the exercise.
Write each of the following verbs (including its
auxiliaries) and give, of each, its mode, tense, sub-
ject and object. (If any verb has no object, explain
why not.)
1, 1st verb: 2189— ; 2190— ; 2191— ; 2192—.
2, last verb: 2193—; 2194—; 2195—; 2196—.
3, 1st verb: 2197—; 2198—; 2199—; 2200—.
4, last verb: 2201—; 2202—; 2203—; 2204—.
5, 1st verb: 2205—; 2206—; 2207—; 2208—.
6, 1st verb: 2209—; 2210—; 2211—; 2212—.
2213-14. Name two modes not found in exercise.
2215. What auxiliary verb in the exercise is often
used as a principal verb?
Explain, and illustrate each answer by an exam-
ple selected from the exercise, on what principle
you describe or distinguish a verb as being :
2216. Regular; (2217) In active voice (or form.)
2218. Transitive; (2219) In passive voice (or form.)
2220. Rewrite sentence 1, changing it just enough
to make the verb in passive voice and to express pre-
cisely the same thought.
Write each of the following words and after it
give its part of speech (or class of words,) modifica-
tions (properties or accidents,) and syntax:
Day (sentence 1 :) 2221—; 2222—; 2223—.
Their (sentence 3:) 2224— ; 2225—; 2226—.
2227. Parse: An adverb taken from sentence 2.
2228. An interrogative word from the exercise.
2229. The first by in sentence 3.
GRAMMAR.
(Nov. 7, 3:00 to 4:30 P. M.)
EXERCISE.
1. We one day descried, sea, some shapeless ob-
ject drifting at a distance. 2. It proved to be the
mast of a ship that must have been completely
wrecked. 3. There were the remains of handker-
chiefs by which some of the crew had fastened
themselves to the spar to prevent their being over-
come by . the waves. 4. No trace was found by
which the name of the crew could be ascertained.
5. The wreck had evidently drifted for many
months. 6. But where, thought I, are the crew?
Washington Irving.
Select from the exercise :
2230. One phrase introduced by preposition and
used as an adverb of place.
2231. One phrase introduced by preposition and
used as an adverb of time.
2232. What is meant by that (Sentence 2 ?)
2233. What is meant by which (Sentence 4?)
2234. What one rule of Syntax applies alike to
that (Sentence 2) and lohich (Sentence 4?)
2235. Write one sentence illustrating the proper
use of the adjective (or article) "a," and (2236)
another in like manner for "an."
2237. What is a collective noun? Illustrate by an
example selected from the exercise.
2238. Explain fully what kind of a word them-
selves (sentence 3) is, and (2239) give its syntax.
2240. Select from Sentence 1 a derivative word,
and (2241) tell from what it is derived and how.
THE REGENTS' QUESTIONS.
2243. Give the part of sreech and (2243) syntax of
drifting (Sentence 1.) Rewrite Sentence 5, chang-
ing it into (2244) an interrogative sentence, and mak-
ing the verb in (2245) the past (or imperfect) tense.
2246. What use is made of the word there in
Sentence 3?
Explain the difference in syntax (giving the rule
which applies in each case,) between:
2247. Some (Sen. 1) and (2248) Some (Sen. 3.)
2249. Crew (Sen. 4) and (2250) Crew (Sen. 6.)
2251-53. What 3 parts of speech may adverbs
modify? Illustrate each by a short sentence.
2254. Write a short sentence using a part of speech
not found in the exercise. Underscore the word
representing the part of speech intended.
2255. How do you determine whether a given
adjective can be compared or not?
Examination XLL Feb. %6, 1880.
(1:30—3:00 P. m.)
Define (2256) clause, (2257) compound sentence (2258)
polysyllable, (2259) passive voice (or form.)
2260-63. Correct the errors in spelling and in the
use of capitals in the following sentence, and give
the reason for each correction : when i came home
John brown was cuting wood.
2264-65. I have no money and can support you
no longer. What part of speech is each word in
italics?
2266-69. Write an interrogative and an exclama-
tory sentence, placing after each the proper mark of
punctuation.
GRAMMAR.
2270. Correct the sentence, "Goodness brings it's
own reward."
2271. This is the most valuable of the three.
Change three to two and make any other necessary
change in the sentence.
2272-75. Love not sleep lest it bring thee to
poverty. Write the verbs of this sentence and give
the mood of each.
2276-78. Express the indicative-present-first-sin-
gular of the verb hear in three different forms, each
of which shall represent the subject as acting.
2279. For murder, though it have no tongue, will
speak. Parse have.
2280-81. Write the plural of this tooth.
2282-83. Write sentences containing an adjective
modified by an adverb, and a noun modified by an
adjective in the comparative degree. Underscore
the modifying adverb and adjective.
2284. Write the word unit preceded by the proper
indefinite article.
2285. Conjugate the imperfect (or past) tense of
can.
2286-87. Write two sentences, one containing an
object, the other an attribute (predicate noun or
adjective.)
2288-89. Of what classes or kind is each verb in
answers (2286-2287.)
2290-91. The storm having ceased, we departed.
Parse storm. Change the part before the comma to
a dependent or subordinate clause.
THE REGENTS QUESTIONS.
2292-95. Write the possessive case in the plural
number of the words: wolf, child, hero, princess.
2296. What is analysis?
2297. Fill the blank in the following sentence
with the progressive form, present tense, of the verb
go : Neither John nor James to school.
2298. Give both forms of the superlative of late.
(Feb. 27, 3:00-4:30 p. m.)
Write sentences containing the following words
properly used : (2299) the feminine of king; (2300)
the perfect (present-perfect or prior present) of send;
(2301) the plural of mouse; (2302) a noun which has
no plural; (2303) a noun which has the same form in
"both numbers; (2304) an adverb of manner, in the
comparative degree.
EXERCISE.
1. I first saw Venice by moonlight, as we skimmed
2. by the island of St. George in a felucca, and
3. entered the Grand Canal. A thousand lamps
4> glittered from the square of St. Mark, and along
5. the water's edge. Above rose the cloudy shapes
6. of spires, domes and palaces, emerging from the
7. sea; and occasionally the twinkling lamp of a
8. gondola darted across the water like a shooting
O. star, and suddenly disappeared, as if quenched
lO. in the wave.
Write each of the following words, with its num-
bers prefixed, and give its part of speech, modifica-
tions {properties or accidents,) and syntax:
Line 3, (2305-7) entered. Line 5, (2308-10) water's;
2311-13) rose. Line 6, (2314-16) palaces.
GRAMMAR.
Give the syntax of the following:
Line 1, (2317) first. Line 2, (2318) in. Line 5,
(2319) above. Line 6, (2320) emerging. Line 7,
(2321) occasionally. Line 8, (2322) across.
2323-24. Give the conjunctions in the first sen-
tence, and (2325-27) the propositions in the secon<I
sentence.
2828-31. Write the transitive verbs in the exercise,
and their objects.
2332. Form an abstract noun from cloudy, and
tell how it is formed.
2333. From what part of speech Is occasionally
derived? (2334) from what suddenly?
2335. To what parts of speech may first belong?
Examination, XLII, (a) June 3 1880.
(1:30-3 .00 p. M.)
2336-40. Define: adjective, adverb, participle, con-
junction, interjection.
2341-42. In "I, John Doe, give and bequeath," of
which person is "John Doe," and why?
2343-45. Write the plurals of canto, duty, grief.
2346-49. Write the following words in two columns,
placing each feminine opposite its corresponding
masculine: beau, witch, men, queen, wizard, belle,
women, king.
2350-51. Decline: sheep, which.
2352-54. From the sentence "On the ninth of June,
sixty Zulus were killed by red-coated Englishmen/'
select each adjective, and name its class or kind.
THE REGENTS' QUESTIONS.
2355-57. Compare the adjectives in "It is worse to
be dishonestly rich, than to be the least wealthy
citizen," as used in this sentence.
2358-61. In the sentence "I that speak unto thee
am he," name each pronoun, and its class or kind,
number, person and case.
2362. Define the subjunctive mood.
2363. Write a sentence containing a verb in the
subjunctive mood.
2364-65. Define the potential mood, and give an
example.
2366-68. In which voice (or form), mood and tense
does a principal verb undergo the change called in-
flection, to correspond with the person of its subject?
Give the principal parts (including present parti*
ciple), of (2369) walk, (2370) hold, (2371) read.
In the following sentences, which words are pre-
positions, and which are adverbs?
2372. He found a jewel inside.
2373. He walked across the river.
2374. It is above my head.
2375. He ran down and saw the boat.'
Express the sense of the following sentences, using
the passive form of the verb in place of the active:
2376. He refused the money.
2377. He will destroy the town.
2378. That astonished me.
(June 4, 3:00-4,30 P. M.)
Write the following sentences, supply a suitable
word in place of each dash, and name its part of
speech :
GRAMMAR.
2379. Take heed you do not fall.
2380. Do right may be the result.
2381. Write an interrogative sentence, using prop-
er punctuation mark or marks.
2382-83. Write an exclamatory sentence, using aa
interjection in connection with it, and the proper
punctuation marks.
2384-85. Use but in a sentence (or sentences), both
as a preposition and as a conjunction.
2386-87. Of what classes or kinds, as to form and
meaning, is the following sentence, taken as a
whole ?
"Although no man can say that he will always
be happy, or escape suffering, the part of wisdom is
to go steadily forward."
2388-90. Give each of the several clauses or
propositions included in the above sentence.
2391-92. Which word is used to connect the first
and second, and which word the second and third
of these clauses ?
2393-94. Give the subject and the predicate of the
first clause.
2395-98. Parse each noun in the sentence.
2399-2403. Parse each verb in the sentence.
Parse the following words: (2404) no; (2405) happy;
(2406) steadily; (2407) forward.
Correct the following sentences, and give reasons
for corrections;
2408-9. No grove, nor bank, lend their music.
2410-11. Explain either of the three first sentences.
THE REGENTS' QUESTIONS.
2412-13. There is no excuse for him detaining you
so long.
2414-15. Those sort of arguments are not to be
used.
Examination XLII, (b)June 17, 1880,
(1:30-3:00 P. M.)
"Up from the meadows rich with corn,
Clear in the cool September morn,
The cluster'd spires of Frederick stand,
Green-wall'd by the hills of Maryland."
2416. Name five parts of speech (or classes of
Words) contained in the above extract, and (2417-21)
under each name write all the words of the extract
Which belong to that part of speech.
2422. Does the extract consist of one sentence, or
more than one ?
2422. Give the reason for your answer to Question
2422. JSP" In parsing any word in this examina-
tion, (a) write the word, and name the part of speech
(or class of words) to which it belongs ; then give (b)
the modifications (properties or accidents, if any);
and (c) the grammatical connection with some other
word or words, and the rule of syntax for the same,
expresed in word.
Parse: (2424-26,) meadows; (2427-29), rich; (2430-
82), September; (2433-35), stand; (2436-37), by. *
' 2438. Condense the phrase "by the hills of Mary-
land" to three words conveying the same meaning,
and (2439) state what grammatical change or changes
were made in so doing.
GRAMMAR.
2440-42. Mention two common uses of the apo»
trophe, and illustrate one of those uses from the
above extract.
2443-47. Mention in a column the five inflected
(or varied) parts of speech, and after each of these
■write the name of its own kind of inflection.
2448-50. Write a sentence containing a proper
noun, a pronoun in the possessive case, and an objec-
tive element (or complement). Underline the parts
required.
2451-53. Write three short sentences, each con-
taining still used as a part of speech different from
the others.
2454-56. Arrange the following pronouns in three
classes, naming each class : they, who, this, our, which,
ruch, and we.
2457-58. What conjunction follows the compara-
tive degree? Illustrate by a sentence.
2459. With which mood of a verb is the subject
often omitted?
2460-61. Write a sentence containing two clauses,
one of which shall be a conditional one.
2462-63. Correct, "A variety of pleasing objects
charm the eye," and give the reason for the correc-
tion.
2464-65. Write cooperate in each of two ways
showing that the two o'« belong to different syllables.
(June 18, 3:00-4:30 P. M.)
2466. A man deserving blame should be censured.
Change the words in italics to a relative clause.
2467. The boys having recited their lessons were
THE REGENTS' QUESTIONS.
dismissed. Change the words in italics to an adver-
bial clause.
2468. Form a derivative adjective from storm, and
(2469-70) derivative nouns from good and govern.
2471. How do nouns ending mfe form the plural?
2472. Gipsies offered to tell us our fortunes. Re-
write this sentence, making all plural forms sin-
gular, and supplying any needed word.
2473. Give both plurals of penny.
2474. Write a sentence containing the objective
ease of ivho, used interrogatively.
2475-76. In what mood and tense is a verb which
has the auxiliaries might havel
2477. Write two sentences, one containing the verb
lend used transitively; and (2478) the other, the
same verb used intransitively.
2479-80. How is the number of a pronoun which
refers to two or more singular antecedents deter-
mined?
2481. What are the common auxiliaries of the
potential mood, past (or inperfect) tense?
2482. What different office have relative pronouns
from other kinds of pronouns?
2483. Parse but in the sentence, All but him fled.
2484-86. What are the singular objectives corre-
sponding to them ?
2487. He giveth his beloved sleep. Parse beloved
and (2488) sleep.
2489. What is the pluperfect (prior past, or past
perfect) of the verb have ?
2490-95. Write a short letter of three or four sen-
GRAMMAR.
tences describing your school room. One credit will
be allowed for each of the following points: date,
address, subscription, neatness, correct spelling,
grammatical accuracy.
Examination XL II I, Nov. 11, 1880.
(1:30— 3: 00 P. M.)
EXERCISE
1 1. There is a magical power in intelligence
2 even in its lowest degrees, to which I wish to
3 call your attention. 2. Nothing, indeed, that
4 you can learn about any subject will fail to give
5 it new interest in your eyes. 3. If you be able
6 to gather up only what is sometimes lightly
7 spoken of as surface knowledge, you will grad-
8 ually accumulate stores of wisdom.
[Horatio Seymour to Wells College Ladies.
Write in a column, near the left side of the paper,
(2496-2502) the nouns in sentences 1 and 3 ; and
opposite each noun, write its case.
In the' second column, opposite each noun and its
case, give its (2503-9) syntax or grammatical relation
as either subject or object of another word, naming
that word. Number and arrange answers as follows :
nouns, and their cases. syntax.
2396. 2503.
2497. 2504.
2498. 2505.
2499. 2506.
2500. 2507.
2501. 2508.
2502. 2509.
THE REGENTS' QUESTIONS.
In like manner, give (2510-13) each pronoun of
sentence 1, and that for which it stands; also
(2514-17; the etymology (gender, person, number),
and (2518-21) the syntax, of each.
Give, in same general order, (2522, 23) each ad-
jective in sentence 1 ; (2524, 25) the noun to which
it belongs; and (2526, 27) its comparison.
Give (2528-30) each verb in sentence 2 ; (2531-33)
its mood ; and (2534-36) its tense.
What (2537) subjunctive verb, and what (2538) pas*
sive verb, in the exercise?
Parse (or explain the grammatical use of) each of
the following words in the exercise:
(2539) there, line 1 ; (2540) a, line 1 ; (2541) even,
line 2; (2542) to, line 2; (2543) to, line 3; (2544) that,
line 4; (2545) what, line 6.
(Nov. 12, 3:00— 4:30 p. M.)
EXERCISE.
1 The deeper your learning may be, the better
2 it is; but the quality of knowledge is like that
3 of gold, which, although it be reduced to the
4 thinnest leaf, yet makes all things glitter that it
5 touches. [H. S.
2546. Is the above sentence, taken as a whole,
simple, compound, or complex?
2547. Answer Q. 2546 as applied to "The deeper
your learning may be, the better it is;" and (2548)
state what corresponding words serve to connect
these two propositions.
2549-53. What other words of the exercise are
used as clause-connectives?
GRAMMAR.
2554-55. Which words of the exercise are auxili-
ary verbs?
Select from the exercise (2556) a passive verb, and
(2557) an infinitive verb.
Parse: (2558-59) that, line 2; (2560-61) that, line 4.
What are the (2562-64) other tense-forms, in the
same mood, of may be, line 1; and of (2565-69)
makes, line 4, in its own mood, person, and number?
2570. In what mood is the passive verb referred
'to in Q. 2556?
Select from the exercise :
2571. A prepositional phrase used adjectively.
2572. A prepositional phrase used adverbially.
2573-75. Three couplets of monosjUables tbat
might be left out of the exercise, without affecting
the sense.
Examination XLIV, March 3, 1881,
(1.30—3:00 P. M.)
EXERCISE.
1 1. It had long been the fixed principle of
2 Csesar's philosophy, that the only way to enjoy
8 life was to banish the fear of death. 2, On the
4 eve of the fatal day, he was entertained by
5 Lepidus; and when, in the course of conversation,
6 some one started the question, What kind of death
7 is the best? he cut short the discussion abruptly
8 with the reply, That which is least expected.
[Merivale's History of the Romans.
Write in a column, near the left side of the paper,
(2576-82) the nouns in sentence 1 ; and opposite
each noun, write its case.
THE RE&fitfTS' QUESTIONS.
In a second column, opposite each noun and its
case, give its (2583-9) syntax or grammatical rela-
tion, naming the word or words to which it is
related as subjec object, or otherwise. Number
and arrange answers as follows :
nouns, and their cases. syntax.
2576, 2583,
2577, 2584,
2578, 2585,
2579, 2586,
2580, 2587,
2581, 2588,
2582, 2589.
In like manner, give (2590-93) four pronouns of
the Exercise, and that for which each stands; also
(2594-7) the etymology (gender, person, number,)
and (2598-2601) the syntax, of each.
Give, in the same general order, (2602, 3) the last
two adverbs in the Exercise; (2604, 5) the verb to
which each belongs; and (2606, 7) the comparison
of each.
Write each verb in lines 1 and 3 and give (2608-10)
its subject; (36-38) its mood; and (39-41) its tense.
2617. Select from the exercise a passive verb, and
(2618) transpose the clause containing it into its
equivalent having the verb active.
Parse (or explain the grammatical use of) each of
the following wcv Is in the exercise :
2619. the, line 1; (2620) of, line 1; (2621) that, line
2; (2622) that, line 8; (2623) only, line 2; (2624)
when, line 5; (2625) sJiort, line 7.
GRAMMAR.
(March 4, 3:00— 4:30 p. m.)
EXERCISE.
1 On the eve of the fatal day, Caesar was enter-
2 tained by Lepidus; and when in the course of
3 conversation, some one started the question,
4 What kind of death is the best? he cut short the
5 discussion abruptly with the reply, That which is
6 least expected.
2626. Is the above sentence, taken as a whole,
simple, compound, or complex?
Answer Q. 2626 as applied to (2927) that part of
the exercise which precedes the semicolon, and
(2628) that part which follows it.
(2629-30. What words of the exercise are used as
clause connectives; and (2631-3) what are the
clauses which each word connects?
Select from the Exercise (2634) an auxiliary verb,
and (2635) an interrogative word.
Parse the (2636-8) subject-word of the question
asked in the Exercise, and (2539-41) the verb of the
answer given.
What are the (2642-5) corresponding tense-forms,
in the potential mood, of the second verb in line 4?
Parse (2676) best, line 4; (2647) discussion, line 4;
(2648) with, line 5; (2649) which, line 5.
2650-1. What examples of apposition occur in
the Exercise?
Select from the Exercise :
2652. A prepositional phrase used adjectively.
2653. A prepositional phrase used adverbially.
THE REGENTS' QUESTIONS.
2654. Make That which is least expected a complete
sentence, by supplying the necessary words.
2655. Is the sentence so completed simple, com-
pound or complex?
Examination XL V, June 16, 1881.
(1:30 to 3:00 P, M.)
2656-63. Name and define each of the parts of
speech, or classes into which words are separated,
according to their uses in sentences.
2664-70. Write one or more sentences that shall
include all the parts of speech except interjections,
and draw a line under one specimen-word of each
part of speech.
2671-77. Give the syntax (*. e., the grammatical
relation to other words) of each of these specimen
words, as used in the sentence or sentences written.
63^" Be careful to write each word whose syntax
you are about to give.
2678-81. Analyze the sentence:
John studies English grammar.
Parse: 2682-84, John; 2685-87, studies; 2688,
English; 2689-91, grammar.
Expand the sentence, John studies English grain-
mar, by adding to it (2692) a noun in apposition
with the subject; (2693) an adverb of manner, and
(2694) a prepositional phrase denoting place; (using
any other words needed to make complete sense).
Give the principal parts (including present parti-
ciple) of (2695) hear; (2696) sing; (2697) speU; (2698)
write.
GRAMMAR.
2699-2702. Give a synopsis of hear in the passive,
potential, first, plural.
Correct the following sentences, and give the
reasons for the corrections:
2703. Each one of the class spell well.
2704. This is neither George nor Jennie's penciL
2705. At what time will we be dismissed?
1
2
3
4
5
(June 17, 3:00 to 4:30 P. M.)
EXERCISE.
Beyrout is the brightest spot in Syria or Pales-
tine, the only pleasant city that we saw, and
the centre of a moral and intellectual impulse
the importance of which we can not over-
estimate.
Select from the Exercise :
2706. Five common nouns.
2707. Three verbs.
2708. A personal pronoun.
5709. Two relative pronouns.
2710. All the adjectives.
2711. All the adverbs.
2712. All the prepositions.
Write and give the syntax of I
2714. Spot, line 1.
2715. Palestine, line %.
2716. Only, line 2.
2717. That, line 2.
2718. Centre, line 3.
2719. Importance, line 4.
THE REGENTS' QUESTIONS.
Give, by reference to the Exercise, an example of J
2720. A simple sentence.
2721. A complex predicate.
2722. A compound predicate.
Select from the Exercise :
2723. An auxiliary verb.
2724. An adverb of negation.
2725. An adversative or disjunctive conjunction.
Parse :
2726-28. The principal subject word of the Exer-
cise.
2729-31. The last verb of the Exercise.
2732-35. Illustrate the gramatical structure of the
Exercise by a diagram, or give a verbal analysis of it
Examination XL VI. Nov. 17, 1881.
(1:30-3:00 P. M.)
Define the following terms: after each definition
write a short sentence that shall contain an example
of the term defined ; underscore the example (i. e.,
draw a line under it) :
2736, 7. Collective noun; (2738, 9) abstract noun;
(2740, 1) relative jyronoun; (3742, 3) numeral adjec-
tive; (3744, 5) transitive verb,
2746, 7. Give the general rules for the formation
of the possessive singular and plural of nouns.
2748. Write the posessive plural of child; (2749)
the possessive singular of conscience.
2750, 1. Write the plurals of court-martial and
handful.
GRAMMAR.
2752, 3. State the general rules for the compari-
son of adjectives.
2754, 5. Compare far and ill.
2756, 7. Write and decline the personal pronoun
of the third person feminine.
2758, 9. Write and decline the relative pronoun
which is used exclusively to represent persons, in
distinction from things and brutes.
2760. Define tense. Write the names of the tenses
belonging to each of the following modes (or
moods): (2761) Indicative; (2762) potential; (2763)
subjunctive; (2764) imperative.
Write the present, first, singular, subjuntive of
(2765) be, and potential of (2766) Mm.
Give the principal parts, including the present
participle, of each of the following verbs: (2767)
be; (2768) lie; (2769) lay; (2770) sit; (2771) set.
2772-4. Name three classes of adverbs, and after
each write a sentence containing an example of that
class. Underscore the examples.
In the sentence, "John, the §un having risen, we
will pursue our way five miles farther," state the
case of each of the following nouns and the 'reasons
for it: (2775, 6) John; (2777, 8) sun; (2779, 80) way;
(2781, 2) miles.
2783. Name the parts of speech or classes of words
which are not declined, conjugated or compared.
2784. Write a sentence in which that is used as a
relative ; and (2785) one in which that is used as a
conjunction.
THE BEGENTS' QUESTIONS
(Nov. 18. 3:00-4:30 p, M.)
EXERCISE.
1. And I must lie here like a bed- ridden monk,
exclaimed Ivanhoe, while the game that gives me
freedom or death is played out by the hand of
others! 2. Look from the window once again, kind
maiden, but beware that you are not marked by the
archers beneath. 3. Look out once more, and tell
me if they yet advance to the storm. — Scott's Ivan-
hoe.
2786. State whether the first sentence of the exer-
cise is simple, complex or compound.
2787. Same for the second sentence.
2788-01. Write the verbs of the first sentence, and
place before each its subject; underscore the sub-
ject.
Write the following verbs and place after each its
object (if it has one; if not, say so): underscore the
object: (2792) exclaimed; (2793) gives; (2794) beware;
(2795) tell.
Select from the exercise (2796) a verb in the po-
tential; (2797) a verb- in the imperative; (2798) a rel-
ative pronoun ; and (2799) an adverb of place.
2800. Give the syntax (i. e., use in the sentence)
of and (first line); (2801) monk; (2802) while; (2803)
out (after played); (2804) again; (2805) maiden;
(2806) beneath.
2807. State the tense or tenses in which the verb
beware may be used.
2808. What other word might have been used in
the exercise in place of iff
GRAMMAR.
2809-13. Change is played into each of the re-
maining tenses of the indicative.
2814. Select from the exercise a proposition (or
sentence) whose verb is in the passive voice (or
form), and (2815) change it into its equivalent with
the verb in the active voice.
Examination XLVII. March 3,1882-
(1:30 to 3:00 P. M.)
Write sentences containing :
2816. A relative clause.
2817. A dependent clause expressing time.
2818. A word containing a diphthong.
2819. A noun used independently or absolutely.
2820. A pronoun of the third person, possessive
case.
2821. A verb in the potential mood, pluperfect
(past perfect or prior past) tense.
2822. A phrase used adjectively.
2823. A simple subject and compound predicate.
2824. A compound subject and simple predicate.
2825. An adjective of irregular comparison, in the
superlative degree.
&§p Underscore (*. e. draw a line under) the words,
phrases and clauses intended.
Supply the proper pronouns in :
282G. Everyone should think for .
2827. The bat is nocturnal in— — habits.
Write (2828) an adverb ; (2829) an adjective ; (2830)
THE REGENTS' QUESTIONS,
a verb ; and (2831) a noun ; then (2832) write a
sentence containing the same four words, properly
used.
2833. Name the part of speech (or class of words)
to which true belongs.
2834, 35. Form form true a derivative word by
means of a prefix, and another by a suffix or affix, and
(2836, 37) name the part of speech of each word so
formed.
2838, 39. Give the two plurals of index; and (2840,
41) brother.
2842-45. Mention four different offices or uses
which nouns may fulfil in sentences.
2846. What class of words has no grammatical re-
lation to other words ?
The boy was called. He came at once.
Form from these two sentences, by substituting or
inserting a single word in each instance :
2847. A. complex sentence ; (2848) a compound
sentence.
2849. Give the part of speech of each inserted
word.
2850. From the same two sentences, form a sim-
ple sentence, by changing the last verb to a partici-
ple, and omitting any word that thus becomes unnec-
essary.
Correct any error in the arrangement of :
5851. That small man is speaking with red whisk-
ers.
Define (2852) conjugation ; (2853) perfect (present
perfect or prior present) tense ; (2854) vowel.
GRAMMAR,
2855. How may a declarative sentence be made
interrogative ? (2856) Give an example.
2857, 58. Write two words containing, one the
vowel w, the other the consonant w.
2859. Conjugate think, in the imperative mood.
Write and parse the following words in italics :
2860. What man is happy,
2861. We eat that we may live.
2862. We march rather slowly.
2863. 64. Up soars the lark, the poet of the sky.
2865. He went on his way rejoicing.
EXERCISE.
a
b
c
d
e
f
Great truths are portions of the soul of man ;
Great souls are portions of eternity :
Each drop of blood that e'er through true heart
Ran with lofty message, ran for thee and me ;
For God's law, since the starry song began,
Hath been, and still forever more must be.
2866. How many clauses has the above Exercise.
2867, 68. Account for the capital letters used in the
Exercise.
2869, 70. Mention two uses of the apostrophe, and
illustrate by examples from the Exercise.
2871, 72. Give the nominative singular of thee and
me, and decline the same.
Select from the Exercise :
2873, 74. Two irregular verbs (other than be), and
give their principal parts.
2875-77. A relative pronoun, and give its anteced-
ent and syntax.
2878. From the primitive of starry form a com-
pound with some other suitable word.
TH?; REGENTS' QUESTIONS.
2879. What moods are represented in the exer-
cise ?
2880. What tenses?
Write and give the syntax of:
2881. portions, line a; 2882 drop, line c; 2883 for,
line e.
2884. Parse, in full, must be.
2885. 86. Select a phrase used adjectively, and one
used adverbially. 2887 Parse e'er.
2888. Classify the sentence composed of lines c d,
with reference to form, and structure (or use).
2889-92. Analyze line b, by diagram or otherwise.
2893-95. Make and name the punctuation marks
which may be used at the ends of complete sen-
tences.
Examination XL VIII, June 15, 1882.
(1:30 to 3:00 P. M.)
2896-2903. Name the several parts of speech (or
classes of words), and state the chief office which
each usually fulfils in a sentence.
2904, 5. To which two parts of speech do the
majority of words belong?
2906. Name the principal (and the only necessary)
parts or elements of a proposition or simple sentence.
2907. Write a sentence containing these necessary
parts only, and draw an upright line between the
parts.
^° The words for such specimen sentence, and for other
examples called for below, may be selected from the follow-
ing paragraph :
GRAMMAR.
H One day I heard a boy say to his younger brother, who
was crying lustily, " Now, Tom, I certainly know you do
not want anything, but what do you think you want?" That
boy was a philosopher, and went to the root of the mat-
ter.— What we think we want, not what we really want,
frets us most.— Fanny Fern.
2908-10. Name three secondary or subordinate
kinds of elements of sentences.
2911-13. Write three sentences to illustrate these
kinds of elements, in the order named in answers
2908-10. §W Underscore (i. e., draw a line under)
the word or words forming such element in each
sentence.
Define each of the following terms as used in
grammar, and after each definition give an exam-
ple: (2914) a letter; (2915) a word; (2916, 17) a
phrase; (2918, 19) a compound sentence; (2920, 21) a
complex sentence ; (2922, 23) a clause.
2624-31. "Write in a column the names of eight
punctuation marks or characters, and opposite each
make the mark or character named. (Enough such
marks occur on this question paper.)
2932-35. Analyze the preceding sentence "2924-
81," Write in a column, etc., by diagram or other-
wise.
Of what kind is the sentence so analyzed as to
(2936) form (or structure) and (2937) meaning (mode
or use)?
Select from the above paragraph marked H":
2938. A simple sentence (as a whole) with a com*
pound subject, and another with (2939) a compound
predicate.
THE REGENTS QUESTIONS.
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
2940. A clause used adjectively, and another used
(2941) as an object (or object complement).
june 16, 1882. 3:00 to 4:30 P. m.
1. One day I heard a boy say to his younger
brother, who was crying lustily, "Now, Tom,
I certainly know you do not want anything,
but what do you think you want ? "
2. That boy was a philosopher and went to
the root of the matter.
3. What we think we want, not what we
really want, frets us most. — Fanny Fern.
Parse, as fully as they admit of parsing: (2942)
Tom; (2943) Fanny Fern.
What is the leading (2944) subject, and (2945) verb
of sentence 1 ?
2946. What words in sentence 1 are used adjec-
tively, and (2947-50) to what is each of these added?
2951. What words in sentence 1 are used adverb-
ially, and (2952-56) what does each modify ?
2957. What words of sentence 1 are auxiliary
verbs?
Write each of the following words, name the
part of speech to which it belongs, and give its
syntax, i. e., its grammatical relation to some other
word or words:
2958. lieard, line 1.
2959. say, line 1.
2960. brother, line 2
2961. /, line 3.
2962. anything, lin? 3
2963. what, line 4.
2964. That, line 5.
GRAMMAR.
2965. philosopher, line 5.
2966. went, line 5.
2967. frets, line 8.
Compare (2968) younger, line 1 ; (2969) lustily, line
2; (2970) most, line 8.
Give the principal parts (including participle in
ing) of (2971) think; (2972) frets.
2973. What kind of an element is] the quotation
in sentence 1, and (2974) what is its syntax ?
2975. How many (not how few) clauses does sen-
tence 1 contain ?
THE
REGENTS' QUESTIONS,
1866-1880.
SPELLING.
Bxamt?iation I, JYor. 7, 7866.
(11:00 A. M.— 12:00 M.)
1. The (1) lesson will (2) begin at the (3) beginning of
the (4) treatise.
2. (5) Sets of (6) apparatus are (7) necessary for the (8)
■illustration of the (9) physical (10) sciences.
3. On the (11) eighth of (12) February a (13) Connectiwxt
(14) peddler (15) wearing a (16) suii of ^17) gray (IS) cZotfi-
£n<7, (19) displayed his (20) wares in an (21) avenue of (22)
Cincinnati.
4. The (23) ptane of the (24) horizon is (25) horizon.
iaU
5. (26) Joseph's (27) brethren sold him to the C#) iffr
maeliiex
THE REGENTS' QUESTIONS.
6. The (29) oak is a (30) symbol of strength : th8 vine
Of (31) dependence: the (32) cypress, of (33) sorrow: the
elm of (34) elegance : the (35) fir, of (36) symmetry ; and,
as an evergreen, of (37) immortality.
7. (38) lur is warm but costly (39) apparel.
8. The (40) Missouri river empties into the (41) Missis-
sippi.
9. Strike the loud (42) cymbal.
10. The (43) Judge of the Supreme Court (44) affirmed
the (45) judgment of the lower ( »6) tribunal.
11. (47) Ladies and (48) gentlemen, the (49) programme
will open with a (50) quartette and (51) chorus.
12. A (52) council of war was called, and the general
(63) counseled with the (54) colonels and (55) civilians
present.
13. "He looked and saw a (56) spacious (57) plain,
whereon
Were tents of various (58) hue ; by some were (59>
herds.
Of (60) catite (61) grazing; others whence the
sound
Of (62) instruments that made (63) melodious (64)
chime."
14. Hiram had (65) hewers of wood.
15. None are (66) too young to (67) try.
16. (67) Matthew (68) fr-fes to learn.
17. The (69) czar (70) supported his (71) pretensions.
18. (72) Scholar, (73) soZdter, (74) surgeon, (75) sergeant,
(76) sfteritf' and (77) sovereign, all begin with s.
19. (78) Binghamion is in (79) Broome county; (80)
Syracuse is in (81) Onondaga,
20. (82) Reading, (83) Spelling, (84) TTritfng, (85) ^Irifli-
m«sto, $8) Grammar, and (87) Geography, are very im-
portant branches of (88) education.
SPELLING.
21. James and (89) two other boys were (90) there.
22. The (91) schooner was lost at (92) sea, (93) of Cape
(M) St. Roque.
23. (95) Tlceir eyes (96 see clearly.
24. "From (97) scenes like these old Scotia's (98)
grandeur springs."
25. (99) " Vanity of (100) vanities saith the Preacher.*'
Examination II. Feb. 28, 7867-
(11:00 A. m— 12:00 m.)
1. The (1) principal of the (2) teachers' (3) institute (4)
lectured on (5) physiology and (6) astronomy.
2. The (7) legislature is in (8) session at the (9) capital
io the (10) c% of (11) Albany.
3. (12) Scholars should become (13) versed in the (14)
principles of (15) science, and should (16) practice those
of (17) morality.
4. A (18) geometrical (19) series (20) progresses by a (21)
common (22) multiplier.
5. (23) Raleigh is the (24) capita* of (25) JVbrtfi Oar-
oZiwa ; (26) Nashville of (2?) Tennessee; (28) Baton Rouge
of (29) Louisiana ; and (30) Ottawa of (31) Canada.
6. In 1785, (32) Massachusetts (33) through her (34) deto-
nates in (35) Congress (36) executed a deed of (37) cession
to the general (38) government and (39) relinquished her
claim to western (40) territory.
7. The (41) gladiators (42) entered the (43) arena of the
(44) amphitheatre.
8. White (45; oears (46) inTia&ft (47) arciic (48) region*.
9. "How can ye (49) believe which (50) receive (51)
honor one of (52) another?
10. (53) Mathematical (54) treatises are much used in
(55) engineering. •
THB BEGENT8' QUESTIOHft.
11. (56) Bread is (57) raised with (58) yeast
12. The (59) soldier (60) bared his breast to the (fil)fo+
man's (62) view.
13. A (63) youth (64) bred in (65) idleness may well bt
(66) pfl&d.
14. " But (67) pleasures are like (68) poppies spread ;
You (69) seize the (70) flower, its (71) bloom ia
shed."
15. Carthage was (73) razed to its (74) /oundaftons.
16. Large (75) quantities of (76) flour are (77) shipped
at (78) Chicago.
17. WoZues (80) pm/ upon (81) weaker (82) animate.
18. (83) Lewis's face was (84) pitted with (85) scars.
19. (86) Ccesar (87) reigned as (88) emperor.
20. iE is a (89) diphthong ; eau a (90) triphthong.
21. (91) .EK/a/i (92) prayed that it might not (93) rain,,
and there was neither rain nor (94) dew.
22. The (95) messenger bears (96) dispatches.
23. A (97) suitable (98) site was selected.
24. The Jewish (99) rites and ceremonies were (100)
manifold.
Examination III. June 73, ?86'7*
(11:00 A. m.— 12.00 m.)
I he (1) saddler (2) plies his (3) awl (4) rapidly and with
(5) pecuniary (6) profit.
(7) Samson carried away the gates of Gaza by (8) niqht.
(9) Cain (10) sZeio Abel.
Noah's (11) ark and its contents were the (12) sole relief
of the (13) antediluvian world.
The (14) valiant (15) knight (16) ate a portion of the (17)
prtiy, and ere the hour of (18) eight (19) blew the (20)
bugle for his (21) martial band.
SPELLING.
The (22) yeoman (23) assented after much (24) solici-
tation.
The (25) beau (26) knew the (27) telle would gladly (28)
receive so (29) brilliant a (30) bouquet.
(31) Pigeons rarely (32) sow, but sometimes reap what
has been (33) already sown.
(34) Cromwell (35) prorogued the long (36) parliament.
The (37) horse chestnut tree has (38) peculiar (39) foliage
and (40) bears (41) very (42) beautiful clustere? of (44)
/?ow?ers.
Human pride is a (46) useless, rank, (47) repulsive (43)
thistle in (4j) society.
The (50) constitution contains a (51) guaranty that no
State shall be deprived of a republican form of (52) gov*
ernment.
(53) Where may the (54) wearied (55) eye (56) repose.
When (57) gazing on the (58) great ;
Where (59) neither (60) guilty glory (61) pfota*
Nor (62) despicable state ?
The (63) Cincinnatus of the West,
(64) Whom envy dared not hate,
(65) Bequeathed the name of (66) Washington,
To make man (67) blush there was but (68) one.
The (69) marshal left his (70) carie at the (71) depot In
(72) Keene, (73) iTeto Hampshire.
Before (74) toee rose, and with thee (75) grew,
A (76) rainbow of the (77) loveliest (78) 7iw«,
Of three (79) bright (80) cofors, each divine,
And fit for that (81) celestial (82) sign :
One that was of (83) the (84) sunbeam's (85) dye* /
One, the pure (86) depth of Seraph's eyes.
The (87) three-ply carpet has a (88) blue (89) figure, and
the (90) seams are well (91) sewed.
Only (92) todies (93) die ; our (94) soufe fore7er lire.
THE REGENTS' QUESTIONS.
(95) All (96) arcs of circles are less than (97) eircum-
ferences ; all (98) sines, than diameters.
The pillar (99) seems to have been (100) hewn out of a
single block.
Examination IT. JYor. 7, 7867,
(11:00 A. M.— 12:00 M.)
A (1) cord of (2) beech (3) wood (4) outweighs a (5) bale
of (6) cotton.
I (7) would (8) tmiie the (9) knot if I could.
(10) Tears (11) steaZ from the (12) eye when the (13)
heart (14) beats in (15) sympathy with another's (16)
grief.
The (17) auctioneer (18) seZte a (19) pair of (20) urns, a
a (21) pail, a (22) mahogany (23) bureau, a (24) guitar, a
(25) piece of (26) steeZ, and a (27) bass-viol to the (28)
chorister.
(29) Beets are (30) soicn in (31) tiers or rows.
The (32) defendant (33) owned two (34) guineas.
A (35) column of (36) artillery and a (37) battalion oi
(38) cavalry (39) encamped near the (40) oeacft. of the (4^
*ea.
The (42) advent of the (43) Messiah (44) occurred at a
(45) period of (46) unparalleled (47) tranquillity.
(48) Sfeafc and other (49) 7neais are (50) eaten with (51)
&read and (52) vegetables.
Be thou like a (53) roe or a young (54) TiarJ.
That (55) vial of (56) aZ&aZi belongs to the (57) labor'
atory.
The (58) accused man gave (59) bail to keep the (60)
peace.
(61) Idle and (62) vain are the (63) ways of the (64)
counterfeiters.
SPELLING.
There are (65) pears and (66) plums in the (67) orchard.
The (68) ode was (69) written by a (70) pale-faced (71)
poet.
(72) Stakes are set for (73) metes and (74) bounds.
The (75) needle (76) points (77) northward; the (78)
teeather-vane (79) ofr<?2/s the (80) ./ic&Ze wind ; the (81)
plumb-line (82) gravitates ; the (83) pendulum (84) tn-
brates in a (85) perpendicular (86) plane.
The (87) committee (88) meeZ the (89) comptroller to
make (90) arrangements for (91) procuring (92) sta-
tionery.
The (93) earnings of the (94) road in (95) February
last were (96) enon/ious.
(97) Seize the (98) oars, and let the (99) boa* be (100)
rowed ashore.
Ezai?ii?iation V. Feb, 20, 7868.
(11:00 a. m.— 12 m.)
I. The (1) squadron (2) bound for (3) Marseilles (4) tm~
furled its (5) canvass to the (6) propitious (7) zephyrs.
II. (8) Patiently (9) wa# for (10) precious (II) fruit.
LTI. The (12) new (13) council- chamber was (14) ete«
gantly {15) finished with (16) wood of the (17) fur-tree, and
the (18) ceiling was (19; beautifully (20) frescoed.
TV. (21) Jane is (22) another name for (23) temple.
V. (24) Parliament (25) negotiated a (26) ?oan for the
(27) perilous (28) enterprise.
VI. The (29) ordnance stores were (30) carried to (31)
Lisbon, under the (32) guidance of a (33) cavalier.
VII. The (34) principal (35) J?ue of the (36) chimney
extended from the (37) ceZZar.
VLTI. A (38) s/ifp's (39) buoyancy (40) adapte it to (41)
nutain a (42) caroo of great (43) we#W.
THE REGENTS' QUESTIONS,
IX. The (44) prisoner (45) writhed in his (46) dungeon*
X. The (47) attorney was (48) too much (49) fatigued to
(50) attend the (51) law suit.
XI. The (52) celerity of (53) lightning is (54) almost
equal to that of light.
XII. (55) Buy (56) knowledge and (57) seZZ it (5') not.
XIII. The (59) ^txesi's were (60) entertained in a (61)
separate (62) swife of (63) rooms.
XIV. (64) Secession (65) ordinances were (66) passed by
(67) ever?/ (68) gruZ/ State.
XV. Let the (89) dead (703 bury (71) tfieir dead.
XVI. (72) Rensselaer (73) county (74) touches (75) Ifoa-
*ac7iuseWs.
XVII. (76) Orthography and (77) etymology are (78)
$ub-divisions of (79) grammar.
[ XVIII. (80) Rhetoric is included in (81) belleslettres.
XIX. The (82) canvass resulted in his election by the
(83) unanimous (84) suffrages of his (85) fellow citizens.
XX. (86) Sealing-wax is red.
XXI. A (87) berry is a (88) species of (89) fruit.
XXII. (90) Pigeons (91) flew over the aoyss.
XXIII. A (93) banquet of (94) venison and other (95)
luxuries was (96) prepared for the (97) garrison.
XIV. Few are the (98) privileges and many the (99)
grievances of (100) penury.
Examination VI. J~ime A, 7868,
(11:00 a. m.— 12:00 M.)
What (1) various (2) attitudes and (3) ways
And (4) tricks, we (5) authors have in (6) writ-
ing !
While (7) some (8) write (9) sitting, some like Bayes,
(10) Usually stand, while (11) JfayVe (12) inditing.
SPELLING.
18) Poets (14) there are, who (15) wear the (l&) floor
out,
(17) Measuring a (18) line at (19) every stride ;
While some, like Henry Stephens, (20) pour out
(21) Rhymes by the (22) dozen, while they ride.
— Thomas Moore.
II. Take the (23) sum of the (24) prey that was (25)
caught.
III. In the (26) fourteenth day of this (27) month, at (28)
even, ye shall (29) keep it in his (30) appointed (31) season
(32) according to all the (33) rites of it, and according to
all the (34) ceremonies thereof.
IV. (35) Hour after hour he loved to (36) pore
On (37) Shakespeare's rich and (38) varied (39)
lore,
But (40) turned from (41) martial (42) scenes and
(43) light,
From (44) Falstaf's (45) feast and (46) Percy's
(±7) flight,
To (48) ponder Jaques's (49) moral (50) strain,
And (51) ?nwse with (52) Hamlet, (53) uu'se in (54)
vain,
And (55) weep himself to soft (56) repose,
O'er (57) gentle (58) Desdemona's (59) tooes.
— Sir "Walter Scott.
V. It is the (60) peculiar (61) province of a grand (62)
fury to (63) indict, as it is of a house of (64) representative*
to (65) impeach.
VI. (66) Speak the (67) speech, I (68) pray you, as I
(69) command you.
VII. It was the (70) roar of a (71) whole (72) herd of
(73) lions.
Vm. Is there a (74) balance (75) tore to (76) weigh thi,
(77) /usf (78) amount ?
THE REGENTS' QUESTIONS.
IS. Ere life's (79) meridian, thus that (80) ohief had
(81) reached.
The (82) utmost (83) pinnacle of (84) savage (85)
grandeur.
All that he saw, (86) heard, felt, or (87) could (88)
conceive,
Opened (89; new (90) scenes of (91) mewtaZ (93)
enterprise,
(93) Imposed new (94) tasks for (95) arduous (96)
contemplation.
— James Montgomery.
X. The (97) veins of his (98) forehead were (99) swollen
through (100) excess of rage.
Examination YJI. JYor. 72, 7868.
(11:00 a.m.— 12:00 m.)
"It is (1) some (2) consolation (3) amidst the (4) violence
of (5) ambition and the (6) criminal (7) tfwrsi of (8) power,
of (9) le/iic/i so (10) mora/ (11) instances (12) occwr around
us, to find a (13) character (14) tc/unn it is (15) honorable
to (16) admire and (17) virtuous to (18) imitate. A (19)
conqueror for the (20) freedom of his (21) counh-y! a (22)
legislator for its (23) security ! a (24) magistrate for its
(25) happiness I His (26) glories were (27) 7iecer (28)
stated by those (29) excesses into which the (30) highest
(31) qualities are apt to (32) degenerate. With the (33)
greatest (34) virtues, he was (35) exempt from the (36) oor-
responding (37) m'ces. He was a man in whom the (38)
elements were so (39) mixed, that (40) ' Nature (41) m^/i<
have stood up to all the (42) worZd and (43) owned him as
her (44) work: His fame, (45) bounded (46) by (47) no (48)
country, will (49) be (50) confined to no age. The charac
SPELLING.
ter of (51) General (52) Washington, which his (53) con-
temporaries (54) reverence and (55) admire, will be (56)
transmitted to (57) posterity ! and the (58) memory of his
(59) merits and (60) achievements, while (81) patriotism
and virtue are held (62) sacred among men, will (63) re-
main (64) undiminished."
The (65) sum total of the (66) column is (67) efyMy.
(68) Bees are (69) ous?/ (70) creatures, and (71) ton/ up
(72) honey in (73) cefts.
(74) Merchants (75) 6w/ and (76) sell (77) san'ous (78)
articles by (79) weight.
(80) Scholars (81) sfcouZd (82) fewow) (83) w/iere (84) tfieir
(85) lessons are, and (86) sfttdt/ them (87) faithfully.
(88) There is no time to (89) wait for (90) carriages.
(91) Medals are (92) oftener (93) icon by (91) industrious
than by (95) zdTe (96) people.
The (97) ra^ra of (98) Absalom was (99) uen/ (100) short.
Examination Till. Feb. 78 y 7869.
(11:00 a. m.— 12.00 m.)
What he been the (1) nation's art ; (2) wherein has its
(3) thought been (4) realizx.d in (5) some form of (6) beauty
or (7) sublimity ; how (8) spread upon (9) canvass, how
(10) chiseled in (11) marble, how (12) designed in (13)
architecture ; how has it melted in (14) music, (15) glowed
in (16) poetry, (17) fascinated in (18) eloquence; how has
it (19) mimicked life upon the stage and (20) marshaled
(21) armies upon the (22) battle-field ; how, in fine, has it
(23) developed itself in that (24) infinitude of (25) artistic
creations that tend to (26) assimilate man to God, and
(27) eartfj, to (28) paradise.
Write the derivatives obtained by adding in<7 to the
following words: (29) censure, (30) unpin, (31) confer, (32ii
THE REGENTS' QUESTIONS.
play, (33) dye fto color], (34) die [to expire], (35) tolerate^
(36) control.
It is the (37) triumph of the (38) genius of man to have
(39) succeeded, by (40) means of (41) economical (42) ap-
pliances, in (43) realizing this (44) phenomenon, in (45)
appearance (46) paradoxical, (47) dearness of the raw
(48) material, and (49) cheapness of the (50) manu-
factured (51) products.
The (52) mountains of (53) Europe form (54) several (55)
distinct (56) groups or (57) systems of (58; wry (59) di/-
f event (60) geological dates.
On this (61) si*5/ec« the (62) court (63) says : It is (64)
admitted that the (65) defendant has (66) publislied (67)
portions of the (68) opera (69) containing the (70) melodi-
ous parts of it; and that in (71) one of his (72) waltzes
he has introduced (73) seventeen bars in (74) succession,
containing the (75) wftofe of the (76) original (77) air,
(78) although he (79) adds fifteen others.
The year has (80) oeen one of (81) varied (82) success
with the farmer, and will be long (83) remembered for
the (84) almost (85) unparalleled (86) series of dry and
warm (87) weather in (88) our (89) unusually (90) tem-
pevate climate.
Write the derivatives obtained by adding ed to the fol-
lowing words : (91) tervify, (92) mat, (93) journey, (94)
de/er, (95) /re«, (96) whiz.
Spell the following proper names : (97) Connecticut,^)
Cincinnati, (99) Pavaguay (100) Mediterranean.
Examination IX, June /4, 7868.
(11:00 A. M.— 12:00 M.)
Twas in June's (1) bright and (2) glowing (3) prfm«,
The (4) loveliest of the (5) summer time.
SPELLING.
The (6) laurels were (7) one splendid (8) sheet
Of (9) crowded (10) blossoms (11) everywliere ;
The (12) locust's (13) clustered (14) pearl was (15) sweet,
And the (16) tall (17) whitewood made the (18) air
(19) Delicious with the (20) fragrance (21) shed
From golden (22) flowers (23) aM (24) o'er it (25) spread.
Alfrd B. Street.
(26) Several (27) ceru (28) exciting (29) skirmishes were
in (30) progress, when a (31) Zoud (32) *7iou< (33) attracted
the (34) attention even of the (35) belligerents, and then (36)
tftere (37) poured on (38) to the(89) .ptort/orm from a (40) door
at the side, a long line of (41) gentlemen with (42) their hats
(43) off, (44) aM (45) looking behind them, and (46) uttering
(47) vociferous (48) cheers ; the (49) cause (50) whereof
was (51) sufficiently (52) explained when Sir (53) Matthew
Pnpker and the (54) two (55) otfier (56) reaZ (57) members
of (58) parliament came to the (59) /ronZ, (60) amidst (61)
deafening (62) shouts, and (63) testified to (64) each, other
in (65) dumb (66) motions that (67) tfieu had (68) never (69)
seen 6uch a (70) glorious (71) swTd as that, in the (72) whole
(73) course of their (74) jwbZic (75) career.
Charles Dickens.
And (76) would the (77) noble (78) dutchess (79) dd^n
To (80) listen to an old man's (81) strain?
Sir Walter Scott.
Asia Minor, in its (82j great (83) physical (84) features.
is a (85) miniature (86) representation of (87) Asia. Lake
the continent, its (88) interior is an elevated (89) plateau,
(90) surrounded by (91) mountain ranges of great, though
of (83) varying (93) fa%7t/.
Amos Dean.
Three (94) poets in three distant ages born,
(95) Greece, (96) Italy and England did (97) adorn ;
THE REGENTS' QUESTIONS.
The first in loftiness of (98) thought (99) surpassed,
The next in (100) majesty, in both the last.
John Drtden.
JExamifiation X. Nov. f2, 7869.
(11:00 a. m.— 12 m.)
The next (1) day, in a (2) pouring (3) rain, they went (4)
trough Lake (5) Erie to (6) Cleveland, (7) reaching (8)
there in the afternoon, and (9) staying (10) KB late at (11)
night ; and (12) here Harry (13) wrote and (14) mailed a
(15) little (16) tetter home.
Before the French (17) conquest, the (18) governor of
(19) .AZgriers was (20) called the (21) " Dey of Algiers."
(22) Coarse (23) pieces of (24) coaZ burn well in a (25)
grate.
A (26) sc7ioZar was (27) poring orer his (28) lesson, (29)
endeavoring to (30) team by it (31) rote.
(32) Several (33) commoners were (34) promoted to the
(35) peerage (36) during the (37) reign of the last (38)
sovereign.
A (39) <reafy of (40) peace was (41) ratified after the (42)
cessation of (43) hostilities.
(44) C-reai (45) /eate were (46) exhibited by the (47) com-
pears for (48) prizes in the (49) celebrated games of (50)
ancient (51) Greece.
A (52) pair of (53) reins is a (54) necessary part of a (55)
harness.
We (56) Tiear that the (57) steamboat (58) fare has beeD
(59) increased, and the (60) proposed (61) pier will not be
(62) built this (63) season.
O (64) dear / what a (65) crowd of (66) peopte I have (67)
•een at the (68) fair.
3PELLrN0.
The (60) stars in (70) their (71) courses (72) fought (73)
aqainst Sisera.
A (74) deer's (75) meat is called (76) venison.
(77) Pear (78) trees do not (79) jtourisft, in (80) some (81)
A (82) beautiful (83) scene was (84) sketched upon (85)
canvass not less than (86) eleven (87) /ee£ in (88) height.
It was (89) mee£ that we (90) should make (91) merry.
(92) Leaven is (93) another name for (94) yeask
There are (95) gui'te (96) too (97) many poor (98) readers
and (99) spellers in our (100) schools.
12xami?iation XI. Feb. 77, 7870.
(11:00 A. M.— 12:00 M.)
"The (1) value of (2) written (3) exercises in (4) master-
ing the (5) orthography of the (6) language is (7) uni-
tter sally (8) conceded. (9) TTiey are of no less (10) im-
portance, (11) considered as a (12) means of (13) making
the pupil (14) familiar by (15) practice with the forms of
language, and (16) giving him (17) facility in the (18) me-
ehanical part of (19) composition as well as (20) affording
the (21) very best (22) tfn'ZZ in (23) punctuation, the (24],
use of (25) capitals, etc.
The five (26) senses are (27) hearing, (28) seeing. (29)
smelling, (30) tasting, and (31 ) feeling.
Then shall the lame man (32) leap as a (33) /iari, and
the (34) tongue of the (35) iwmo shall sing.
"A (36) mighty (37) reaZm is the land of (38) dreams,
With (39) steeps that hang in the (40) twilight sky,
And (41) weltering (42) oceans and (43) trailing
streams.
That (44) gleam (45) wTiere the (46) dusky (47) «a*
toys (48) lie.
TEE REGENTS' QUESTIONS.
(49) Sulphur is a (50) mineral, but not a (51) metal
A (52) solemn (53) group of (54) doomed (55) criminal*
(56) emerged from the (57) gloomy (58) dungeon.
(59) #ie thee, (60) gues*, to the (61) flowery (62) mead
whither the (63) busy (64) tees in (65) swarms (66) resort
(67) Scholars who (68) frn% (69) deserve (70) generally
(71) receive the (72) weed of (73) praise.
(74) Dun is the name (75) applied to a (76) certain (77)
sombre (78) ootor.
Mr. (79) Matthews, the (80) delegate from (81) Louis-
iana, being (82) thoroughly (S3) wearied by the (84)
fruitless (85) discussion, (86) properly moved the (87) pre-
nows (88) question.
(89) Character should be more (90) 7iisr7iiy esteemed
than (91) wealth.
"May (92) each morn, that in (93) succession
(94) ^4dds new (95) mercies ever (96) growing,
(97) Zeare a strong and deep (98) impression
Of my (99) de^, forever (100) growing.'''
Examination XII. June W, 7870.
(11:00 A. M.— 12:00 m.)
"It was a (1) descent of (2) more than (3) four (4)
thousand (5) /ee£ from the (6) summit of (7) tfiose (8)
movniains which (9) witnessed the (10) vision of (11)
Balaam and (12) Hoses, to the .(13) plains of Moab, the
(14) Scripture (15) name for the (16) eastern side of the
(17) Jordan (18) FaZfey at (19) Jericho. From the (20)
ordinary (21) ZeteZ of that (22) table-land was a descent of
(23) aoouZ (24) too thousand feet. The (25) course of the
(26) Israelites may be (27) traced with (28) apparent (29)
certainly (30) dowm a (31) ravine which (32) descends from
SPELLING.
Heshbon to the Jordan, and which (33) still (34) retain*
the name of the (35) ancient (36) city which (37) lay at its
(38) head.
The (39) difference (40) between the (41) upper and (42)
lower (43) grounds in (44) respect to (45) soiZ and (46)
climate is as (47) great as can be (48) imagined. In (49)
aspect, (50) temperature, and (51) products, the valley is
(52) tropical in (53) character, so that the (54) Hebrews (55)
passed as if into (56) another (57) Zone. In its (58; south-
ern (59) extremity (60) i/;7ie?-e it (61) o/)e?i.s on the (62)
gloomy (63) mist-covered (64) waters of the (65) asphaltie
(66) tate, it is not (67) Zess than (68) ftreZte (69) mites in
(70) wuZiWi. (71) There, open and level on (72) all (73)
sides, it (74) forms a (75) space on which (76) many (77)
armies (78) might be (79) encamped. The (80) general
(81) direction of the valley (82) iteeZ/ for the (83) sixfr/
miles between lake Tiberias and the (84) Z>ead (85) Sea is
(86) tolerably (87) straight ; but (88) deep in its (89) ve?^
(90) bottom, the river (91) winds — it has (92) been (93) said
that it (94) wriggles— (95) atongr like a (96) gigantic (97)
serpent, so that the (98) ?en</Z7i of the valley is not sixty,
but two hundred miles. The (99) square (100) monoton-
ous range of hills that support the eastern highlands rises
tip on that side for nearly a hundred miles," (Gage's
Studies in Bible Lands.)
Examination XIII, JYov. //, 7870.
(11:00 A. m.— 12:00 m.)
"The State of New York, (1) one of the (2) thirteen
(8) original (4) states of the (5) American (6) Union, is (7)
bounded on the north by (8) Canada, fron which it is (9)
teparated by Lake (10) Ontario and the (11) St. Lawnnct
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river ; east by (12) Vermont, (13) Massachusetts, and (14)
Connecticut, from the (15) former of which it is separated
by Lake (16) Champlain ; south by (17) New Jersey and
(18) Pennsylvania ; and west by New Jersey, a part of
Pennsylvania and Lake (19) Erie— that lake and the (20)
Niagara river (21) separating it from Canada on the (22)
western (23 J side.
"From the (24; northern to the (25) southern (26) ex-
tremity of the state, its (27) length is 311 miles (28) between
the (29) fortieth and forty-fifth (30; degrees of north (31)
latitude, and from east to west, between the seventy-first
and seventy-ninth degrees of (32; longitude, it (33) extends
'12 miles, (34) comprising an (35) area of 50,519 (36)
square miles, or 32,332,160 (37) acres, of which (38) some-
what (39) more than one- (40; half is under (41) cultivation
for (42) agricultural (43; purposes.
"Its (44) present (45) population is (46) about (47) four
(48) millions, of whom one-fourth are of (49) foreign (50)
birtii, (51) chiefly from (52) Ireland, (53) Germany, and
(54) England.
"It is (55) divided into sixty (56) counties, and about
nine (57) hundred and fifty (58) fowms and (59) cities. Its
(60) principal cities, in the (61; order of (62) their popula-
tion (63) respectively, are (64) New York, (65) Brooklyn,
(66) Buffalo, (67) Albany, (68) Rochester, (69) Troy, (70)
Syracuse, (71) Eftica, (72) Oswego, (73) Poughkeepsie, (74)
Au&urn, (75) Schenectady, (76) Hudson, and (77) J5m£r-
hamton. The (78) capital is Albany, on the west (79)
&anfc of the Hudson.
"The chief (80) risers of the state are the Hudson, (81)
Mohawk, (82) Delaware, (83) Genesee, Oswego, and (84)
Susquehanna, with the St. Lawrence on the north and the
Niagara on the west. It (85) possesses a (86) sea-coasi
fro-aa the (87) Atlantic on its (88) south-easterly (89) bordet
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(90) along' Staten and (91) Long Island of 246 miles, a
lake-coast of 353 miles, and 282 miles of (92) navigdbh
rivers.
Its principal lakes, (93) exclusive of Lakes Erie, Ontario
and Champlain, are Lakes (94) George on the east ; (95)
Cayuga, (96) Seneca, (97) Canandaigua, (98) Crooked and
(99) Chautauqua on the west ; and Skaneateles, (100)
Oneida and Otsego in the center and south." (Introduc-
tion to 8. S. Randall's [School] History of the State oj
New York.
Examination XIY. Feb. 2£, ?87f.
(11:00 a. m.— 12:00 m.)
(1) Leaving (2) Boston on the (3) afternoon of (4; Sat-
urday, the (5) fifth of (6) February, (7) we (8) proceeded
(9) by (10) another (11) railroad (12) to (13) Worcester, a
(14) pretty (15) New England (16) town, (17) where we had
(18) arranged to (19) remain (20) under the (21) hospitable
roof of the (22) Governor of the State, (23) until (24) Mon-
day (25) morning.
(26) These towns and (27) cities of New England, (28)
many of (29) which (30) wouZd (31) be (32) villages in (33)
OZd England, (34) are as (35) favorable (36) specimens of
(37) rwraZ America as (38) their (39) peopZe are of rural
(40) Americans. The (41) xcell-trimmed (42) Zatons and
(43) green (44) meadows of home are not (45) there ; and
the (46) grass, (47) compared with (48) our (49) orna-
mental (50) pZoZs and (51) pastures, is (52) ranfc and (53)
rough and (54) wild; (55) bit* (56) delicate (57) sZopes of
land, (58) gently (59) swelling (60) Tiitfs, (61) xoooded (62)
valleys, and (63) slender (64) streams (65) abound ; (66)
eoerv (67) ftftfe (68) coZony of (69) houses (70) has its (71)
«fturch and (72) schooUhouse (73) peeping from (74) among
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the (75) white (76) roofs and (77) shady (78) trees; every
nou6e is the (79; whitest of the white ; every (80) Venetian
(81) blind the (82) greenest of the green; every (83) fine
(84) day's (85) sfey the (86) 6Z tesZ of the (87) blue. (88) AU
the (89) buildings (90) footed as if (91) tfiey had (92) been
(93) buift and (94) painted that (95) morning, and (96)
cowZd be (97) taken down on Monday with (98) very (99)
Kttie (100) trouble. Dickens' American Notes, Chap. V.
Examination XT. June 9, 781 '/.
(11:00 a. m.— 12 m.)
(1) Olney, (2) England,
(3) November 3, 1873.
" Rev. John (4) Newton,
(5) Dear (6) Friend :
My time is short, and my (7) opportunity not the most
(8) favorable. My (9) letter will (10) consequently be short
(11) likewise, and perhaps not (12) ren/ (13) intelligible.
I find it no very (14) easy (15) matter to bring my mind
into that (16) degree of (17) composure which is (18)
necessary to the (19) arrangement of (20) either (21) words
or matter. You will (22) naturally (23) expect to (24)
receive (25) some (26) account of the (27) confusion that I
(28) describe. * * * On (29) &iiur-
day (30) r%7tf, at (31) eZei-en (32) o'cZocfc, * *
I was (33) alarmed by a (34) cry of fire, (35) announced
by two or three (36) shrill (37) screams upon our (38)
staircase. Our (39) servants * * saw it
from their (40) windows; and, in (41) appearance, so (42)
near, that they (43) thought our house in (44) danger. I
(45) immediately (46) rose, and (47) putting by the (48) cur-
tain, saw (49) sheets of fire (50) rising above the (51) ridge of
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Mr. (52) Palmer's house, (53) opposite to (54) ours. The
(55) deception was such that I had no (56) doubt it had begun
with him, but, (57) soon found that it was rather farther
(58) off. Having broken out in three (59) diferent parts,
it is (60) supposed to have been (61) maliciously (62) kin-
dled. A (63) tar-barrel and a (64) quantity of (65) tallow
made a most (66) tremendous (67) blaze; and the (68)
buildings it had (69) seized upon being all (70) thatched, the
(71) appearance became every (72) moment more (73)
formidable. (74) Providentially, the night was (75) per-
fectly (76) calm, so calm that (77) candles, (78) without
{79) lanterns, of which there were (80) multitudes in the
(81) street, burned as (82) steadily as in the house. *
* Every man who supposed his (83) dwelling
in (84) jeopardy, (85) emptied it as fast as he could, and
(86) conveyed his (87) movables to the house of some (88)
neighbor, supposed to be more (89) secure. * *
(90) George is the (91) principal (92) suf-
ferer. He gave (93) eighteen (94) guineas, or (95) nearly
that sum, to a woman, whom in his (96) hurry, he (97)
mistook for his wife ; but the supposed wife (98) walked
off with the (99) money, and he will probably never (100)
recover it." * *
Your3, my dear friend,
William Cowpeb.
Exami?iati07i XVI. JVov. W, 1871.
(11:00 a. m— 12.00 m.)
Value of the Federal Union. — Webster.
I (1) profess, (2) sir, in in my (3) career, (4) hitherto, to
(5) have (6) kept in (7) view the (8) prosperity and (9J
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honor of the (10) whole (11) country, and the (12) preser-
vation of (13) our (14) Federal (15) Union. It is to thai
Union we (16) owe our (17) safety at (18) home, and our
(19) consideration and (20) dignity (21) abroad ; to that
Union we are (22) chiefly (23) indebted for (24) whatever
(25) makes us (26) proud of our country. That Union we
(27) reached (28) onZy by the (29) discipline of our (30)
virtues in the (31) severe (32) school of (33) adversity. It""
has had its (34) origin in the (35) necessities of (36) dis-
ordered (37) finance, (38) prostrate (39) commerce, and (40)
ritinea* (41) credit. Under its (42) benign (43) influence
(44) £7iese (45) #?'ea£ (46) interests (47) immediately (48)
awoke, as from the (49) cfeati, and (50) sprang (51) /ortfi
with (52) newness of life. (53) Every (54) year of its (55)
duration has (56) teemed with (57) /res7i (58) proofs of its
(59) utility and its (60) blessings ; and (61) although our (62)
territory has (63) stretched (64) ou£ (65) mder and wider, and
our (66) population (67) spread (68) farther and farther, (69)
fhey have not (70) outrun its (71) protection or its (72) bene-
)&$. It has (73) been to us (74) aZZ a (75) copious (7 &) fountain
of (77) national, (78) social, (79) personal (80) happiness.
* * I have not (81) accustomed (82) myself to
(83) 7ian# over the (84) precipice of disunion, to (85) sea
(86) whether, with my short (87) sig7i*, I can (88) fathom
the (89) deptfi of the (90) abyss (91) beZou> ; nor (92)%ould
I regard him as a safe (93) counselor in the (94) affairs of his
(95) government, whose (96) thoughts should be (97) mainly
bent on (98) considering, not how the Union should be best
(99) preserved but how tolerable might be the condition of
the people when it shall be broken up and (100) destroyed,
Examination XYJI. Feb. 28, /872.
(11:00 A. m.— 12:00 M.)
The (1) great (2) object of all (3) knowledge is to enlarge
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and purify the (4) sow?, to fill the mind with (5) nobis
contemplations, and to furnish a refined (6) pleasure. (7)
Considering this as the ultimate end of (8) science, no
branch of it can surely (9) claim (10) precedence of (11)
astronomy. * * *
Much, however, as we are (12) indebted to our (13) ob-
servations for (14) elevating our (15) conceptions of the
(16) heavenly (17) bodies, they present even to the (18) un-
aided (19) sight (20) scenes of glory, which words are (21)
too (22) feeble to (23) describe. I had (24) occasion, a few
weeks since, to take the (25) early (26) train from (27)
Providence to (28) Boston ; and for this (29) purpose rose
at (30) two o'clock in the morning. * * It
was a mild, (31) serene, midsummer's (32) night,— the sky
was without a (33) cloud — the winds were (34) whist. The
moon, then in the last (35) quarter, had just (36) risen,
and the stars shone with a spectral (37) lustre, but (38)
little (39) affected by her (40) presence. (41) Jupiter, two
(42) hours high, was the herald of the day ; the Pleiades
just above the (43) horizon shed (4 ) their sweet (45) in-
fluence in the east; Lyra (46) sparkled (47) near the
Zenith ; Andromeda (48) veiled her newly (49) discovered
(50) glories * * in the (51) south; the (52) steady
(53) pointers far beneath the pole looked meekly up from
the (54) depths of the north to their (55) sovereign.
Such was the glorious (56) spectacle as I entered the
train. As we (57) proceeded, the timid (58) approach of
(59) twilight became more (60) perceptible ; the (61) intense
(62) blue of the sky began to (63) soften ; the (64) smaller
stars, like little (65) children, went first to rest, the sister-
beams of the (66) Pleiades soon melted together ; but the
(67) bright (68) constellations of the west and north (69)
remained unchanged. Steadily the (70) wondrous trans-
figuration went on. * * The blue sky now
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turned more softly (71) gray; the great watch stars shut
up their holy eyes ; the east began to (72) kindte. Faint
(73) streaks of (74) purple soon blushed along the sky ; the
(75) whole (76) celestial (77) concave was filled with the
inflowing tides of tbe morniDg light, which came (78)
pouring down from above in one great (79) ocean of (80)
radiance. * * In a few (81) seconds, the
everlasting gates of the morning were (82) thrown wide
open, and the Lord of day, (83) arrayed in glories too
(84) severe for the gaze of man, began his state.
I do not (85) wonder at the (86) superstition of the (87)
ancient Magians, who in the morning of the world went
up to the hill tops of Central (88) Asia, and, ignorant of
the (89) true God, adored the most glorious work of his
hand ; but I am filled with (90) amazement, when I am
told that in this (91) enlightened age, and in the (92) heart
of the (93) Christian world, (94) there are (95) persons
who can (96) witness this (97) daily (98) manifestation of
the (99) power and wisdom of the (100) Creator, and yet
gay in their hearts, "There is no God."
Edward Everett,
Examination XrZIZ. June 7, 7872.
(11:00 A. M.— 12:00 m.)
PATIENCE— Spurgeon.
(1) Patience is (2) better than wisdom ; an (3) ounce of
patience is worth a pound ot (4) brains. All men (5J
praise patience, but few (6) enough can practice it ; it ia
a (7) medicine which is good for all (8) diseases, and
therefore every old woman (9) recommends it ; but it is
not every garden that grows the (10) herbs to make it with.
When one's flesh and bones are full of (11) aches and (12)
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pains, it is as (13) natural for us to (14) murmur as for a
horse to shake his head when the (15) flies (16) tease him,
or a wheel to (17) rattle when the spoke is loose ; but
nature should not be the rule with (18) Christians, or
what is their (19) religion worth 1 If a (20) soldier fights
no better than a ploughboy, (21) off with his red (22) coat.
We (23) expect more (24) fruit from an (25) apple-tree,
than from a (26) thorn, and we have a (27) right to do so.
The (28) disciples of a patient (39) Saviour (30) should be
patient (31) themselves. Grin and (32) bear it, is the (33)
old-fashioned (34) advice, but sing and bear it is a (35)
great (36) deal better. After all, we get (37) very few cuts
of the (38) whip (39) considering what bad (40) cattle we
are, and when we do smart a little, it is (41) soon over.
Pain past is (42) pleasure, and (43) experience comes by it.
We (44) ought not to be (45) afraid of going down into (46)
Egypt when we know we shall come out of it with (47)
jewels of silver and gold.
Impatient (48) people water their (49) miseries, and (50)
hoe up their (51) comforts ; (52) sorrows are (53) visitors
that come without (54) invitation, but (55) complaining
minds send a (56) wagon to bring (57) troubles home in.
(58) Many people are born (59) crying, live complaining
and (60) die (61) disappointed ; they (62) chew the (63)
bitter pill which they (64) would not even know to be bit-
ter if they had the (65) sense to (66) swallow it (67) whole
in a cup of patience and water. They think every other
man's (68) burden to be (69) light, and their own (70)
feathers to be (71) heavy as (72) lead ; they are hardly
done by in their own (73) opinion ; no one's (74) toes are so
often (75) iroddj&n on as (76) theirs ; the snow falls (77)
thickest round their (78) door, and the hail (79) rattle*
hardest on their (80) windows; and yet if the truth were
(81) known, it is their (82) fancy rather than their fate
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which makes things go so hard with them. A little sprig
of the herb called (83) content put into the (84) poorest (85)
soup will make it taste as rich as the Lord Mayor's (86)
turtle. John (87) Ploughman (88) grows the plant in his
garden, but the late hard winter (89) nipped it (90) ter-
rdbly, so that he cannot (91) aford to give his (92)
neighbors a slip of it ; they had better (93) follow (94)
Matthew, xxv, 9, and go to those who sell and (95) buy
for themselves. (96) Grace is a good (97) soil to grow it
in, but it wants (98) watering from the (99) fountain of
(100) mercy.
Bxami?iation XIX. JYov. 70, 7877*
(11:00 A. m.— 12.00 M.)
EXERCISE.
We, the (1) People of the (2) State of (3) New York, (4)
grateful to (5) Almighty God for (6) our (7) freedom, in
(8) order to (9) secure its (10) blessings, do (11) establish
this (12) constitution.
(13) Article I.
(14) Sec. 1. (15) No (16) member of this state (17) shall
be (18) disfranchised or (19) deprived of (20) any of the
(21) rights or (22) privileges secured to any (23) citizen
(24) thereof (25) unless by the (26) law of the land, or the
(pi) judgment of his (28) peers.
Sec. 2. (29) Trial by (30) jury in (31) all (32) cases in
(33) w/ucTi it (34) has (35) teen (36) heretofore (37) used
Ehall (38) remain (89) inviolate (40) forever, but a jury
trial may be (41) waived by the (42) parties in all (43)
CM>tf cases, in the (44) manner (45) prescribed by law.
8ec. 3. The (46) free (47) exercise and (48) enjoyment
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of (49) religious (50) profession and (51) worship, (52)
without (53) discrimination or (54) preference, shall for-
ever be (55) allowed in this state to all (56) mankind ;
and no (57) person shall be (58) rendered (59) incompetent
to be a (60) witness on (61) account of his (62) opinions on
(63) matters of religious (64) 5efte/; but the (65) ftberfy of
(66) conscience (67) hereby secured shall not be so (68) con-
strued as to (69) excuse (70) acts of (71) licentiousness, or
(72) justify (73) practices (74) inconsistent with the (75)
.peace or (76) safety of this State.
Sec. 4. The privilege of the (77) w# of (78) habeas
(79) corpus shall not be suspended unless (80) when in
cases of (81) rebellion or (82) invasion, the (83) publio
safety may (84) require its (85) suspension.
Sec. 5. (86) Excessive (87) baiZ shall not be required,
nor excessive (S8) fines (89) imposed, nor shall (90) crwei
and (91) unusual (92) punishment be (93) inflicted, nor
ehall "witnesses be (94) unreasonably (95) detained.
Sec. 6. No person shall be held to (96) answer for a
(97) capital or (98) otherwise (99) infamous (100) crime.
* * * unless on presentment or in-
dictment of a grand jury. * * *
Bxaminatio?i XX. Feb. 28, 7873.
(11:00 A. m.— 12:00 m.)
EXERCISE.
(1) Once upon a (2) midnight (3) dreai-y, (4) while I (5)
pondered, (6) icea& and (7) weary,
Over (8) mam/ a (9) quaint and (10) curious (11) voZum*
of (12) forgotten (13) tore,—
While I (14) nodded, (15) nearly (16) napping, (17) skoU
den7y (18) there came a (19; tapping,
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As of some (20) one (21) gently (22) rapping, rapping at
my (23) chamber (24) door;
" Tis some (25) visitor," I (26) muttered, "tapping at my
chamber door, —
Only this, and (27) nothing more."
Ah ! (28) distinctly I (29) remember, it was in the (30) bleak
(31) December,
And (32) each (33) separate (34) dying (35) ember (36)
wrought its (37) ghost upon the (38) floor.
(39) Eagerly I (40) wished the (41) morrow; (42) vainly I
had (43) sought to (44) borrow,
From my (45) books, surcease of (46) sorrow, — sorrow for
the (47) tosi Lenore, —
For the (48) rare and (49) radiant (50) maiden (51) whom
the (52) angels name Lenore, —
(53) Nameless (54) here (55) forevermore.
(56) itacA; into the chamber (57) turning, (58) aZZ my (59)
sowZ within me (60) burning,
(61 ) Soon (62) agrain I (63) heard a tapping, (64) something
(65) louder than (66) before;
(67) "Surely" (68) said I,— "surely that is something at
my (69) window (70) lattice;
Let me (71) see then, (72) what thereat is, and this (73)
mystery (74) explore, —
Let my (75) heart be (76) still o, (77) moment^ and this
mystery explore ; —
'Tis the (78) wind, and nothing more.'
Open here I (79) flung the (80) shutter, (81) when, with
many a (82) flirt and (83) flutter,
In there (84) stepped a (85) stately (86) raven of the (87)
saintly (88) days of (89) 2/ore.
Not the (90) least (91) obeisance made he; not a (92)
minute (93) stopped or (94) staid he ;
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But with (95) mien of (96) lord or (97) lady, (98) perched
above my chamber door ; —
Perched upon a (99) bust of Pallae, (100) just above my
chamber door, —
Perched and sat, and nothing more.
Examination XXI. June 6, 7873.
(11:00 a. m.— 12 m.)
EXERCISE.
(1) Wft£n, in the (2) course of (3) human (4) events, it
(5) becomes (6) necessary for (7) one (8) people to (9) dis-
solve the (10) political (11) bands which have (12) connected
them with (13) another, and to (14) assume, (15) among
the (16) powers of the (17) earth, the (18) separate and (19)
egua?(20) station to -which the (21) Za?x-s of (22) nature
and of nature's God (23) entitle them, a (24) decent (25)
respect to the (26) opinions of mankind (27) requires that
they (28) should (29) declare the causes which (30) impel
them to the (81) separation.
We hold (32) tfiese (33) frutfis to be (34) self-evident, that
all men are (35) created equal ; that they are (36) endowed
by (37) their (38) Creator with (39) certain (40) unalienable
(41) rights; that (42) among these are life, liberty and the
(43) pursuit of (44) happiness. That to (45) secure these
rights, (46) governments are (47) instituted among men,
(48) deriving their just (49) powers from the (50) consent
of the (51) governed; that whetever any form of govern-
ment becomes (52) destructive of these ends, it is the right
of the people to (53) alter or to (54) abolish it, and to in-
stitute a (55) new government, (56) laying its {57) founda-
tion on such (58) principles, and (59) organizing its powers
In such form, as to them shall (60) seem most (61) likely to
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(63) effect their (63) safety and happiness. (64) Prudence^
(65) indeed, will (66) dictate that governments long estab-
lished, (67) should not be (68) changed for (69) light and
(70) transient causes ; and (71) accordingly, all (72) experi-
ence hath (73) shown, that mankind are more (74) disposed
to suffer, while (75) evils are (76) sufferable, than to right
(77) themselves by (78) abolishing the forms to which
they are (79) accustomed. But when a long (SO) train
of (81) abuses and (82) usurpations, (83) pursuing (84) in-
variably the same (85) object, (86) euinces a (87) design to
(88) reduce them under (89) absolute (90) despotism, it is
their right, it is their duty, to (91) throw (92) o#" such gov-
ernment, and to (93) pj-ovide new (94) guards for their
(95) future (96) security. Such has been the (97) patient
(98) sufferance of these (99) colonies, and such is now the
necessity which (100) constrains them to alter their for-
mer system of government.
Bxami?iation XXII, JVov. 7, ?S7#.
(11:00 A. m.— 12:00 m.)
Exercise — Fable of the Ant and the Grasshopper.
In the (1) winter (2) season, a (3) commonwealth of (4)
Ants was (5) busily (6) employed in the (7) management
and (8) preservation of (9) tfieir (10) corn, which (11) they
(12) exposed to the (13) air in (14) Tieaps (15) about the
(16) avenues of tbeir (17) little (18) country (19) habitation.
A (20) grasshopper who had (21) chanced to (22) ou^iw
the (23) sitmmer, and was (24) ?*eadi/ to starve with cold
and (25) hunger, (26) approached them with (27) great (28)
humility, aud (29) foe^ed that (30) tfiey (31) would (32)
re&eoe his (33) necessity with (34; one (35) grain of (36)
icteaf or (37) rye. One of the Ants (38) asked him, how
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>M^ .11 | ■ ■ ■ I. ■ ■ ■ ■ II ■ i . M I _ ■ ,i I M
ne had (39) disposed of his time in summer, that he had
not taken (40) pains and (41) laid in a (42) stock as they
had (43) done. (44) u Alas, (45) gentlemen," (46) sat^s he,
"I (47) passed away the time (48) merrily and (49)pteas-
anlly in (50) drinking, (51) singing, (52) dancing, ana (53)
neuer (54) once (55) thought of winter." "If that be the
ease," (56) replied the ant, (57) laughing, (58) "di I have
to say, is, that they who drink, sing and dance in summer,
must starve in winter."
MORAL.
As summer is the season of the (59) year in which the
(60) husbandman (61) gathers such (62) fruits as may (63)
supply his (64) necessities in winter, so (65) youth and (66)
mantoood (67) should be (68) chiefly (69) occupied in (70)
providing such (71) necessaries as may (72) suffice for the
(73) craving (74) demands of (75) helpless old age. Yet
(76) ma?i?/ of (77) tfiose (78) t«?iom we call (79) rational (80)
creatures live in (81) guite the (82) opposite (83) root/, (84)
making it their (85) business to (86) squander whatever
they may have (87) acquired ; as if the (88) feebleness of
age would (89) need no (90) supplies to (91) support it ; or,
at (92) least, would have them (93) furnished in (94) some
(95) miraculous (96) manner.
From this fable we (97) learn this (98) lesson, never to
lose any (99) opportunity of providing against the future
evils and (100) accidents of life.
Examinatio?i XXIII. Feb. 27, 7876.
(3:15 A. M.— 4:15 M.)
EXERCISE.
(1) Daniel (2) Webster was (3) grea. in all the (4)
dements of his (5) character : great in (6) original (7)
THE REGENTS' QUESTIONS.
mental (8) strength ; great in (9) varied and vast (10>
acquirements; great in (11) quick and (12) keen
(13) perception; great in (14) subtle, (15) logical (16) dis-
Crimination; great in (17) /orce of (18) thought; great in
(19) power of (20) intense and (21) r?'gfici (22) analysis:
great in rare and (23) beautiful (24) combination of (25)
talents ; great in (26) ability to (27) command his powers ;
great in (28) ran</e and (29) acuteness of (30) vision, for
he (31) comW (32) see like a i33) prophet. (34) iZence hia
(35) decision of character ; his bold. (36) manly, (37) inde-
pendent though ; his (38) whole (39) sovereign ty of mind.
No man (40) probably ever lived, who could (41) caleu- ■
late, with such (42) mathematical (43) certainty, the (44)
separate (45) ejfecZ of (46) human (47) actions, or the (48)
intricate, (49) combined, and (50) complicated (51) in/?u-
ence of (52) et'en/ (53) movement, (54) social, (55) political or
(56) personal. He could (57) de/ine and (58) determine the
(59) ven/ (60) destiny of influence. This is the (61) &e?/
to the (62) problem of his (63) greatness, an (6i) explana-
tion of the (65) miracle of his power. We are (66) proud
of his greatness, (67) because it is (68) American, (69)
wholly American ! The very (70) impulses of his (71)
Tieari were American.
The (72) spirit of American (73) institutions had (74) in-
/used itself into his life-had (75) become a part of his being.
He was proud of his (76) country; proud of her (77) com-
merce; her art and (78) science ; her (79) wealth, (80)
resources and labor; and all in turn were proud of hirn.
His (81) patriotism was not (82) bounded by the (83) nar-
row (84) limits of (85) sectional (86) interest nor (87)
hemmed in by state lines, nor (88) regulated by local (89)
policy. It was as (90) broad as his country. He (91)
knew a North and a (92) South, an East and a West; but
be knew them only as one — "One and (93) inseparable /'
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Ab a (94) forsenic (95) orator. I know of no age which
can boast his (96) superior. He united the boldness and
energy of the (97) Grecian, and the (98) grandeur and
strength of the Roman, to an original (99) simplicity
which neither Grecian nor Roman (100) possessed.
Examination XXIY, Jmie 5, ?87&.
(3:15— 4:15 P. M.)
EXERCISE.
The (1) lesson win (2) begin at the (3) beginning of the
(4) treatise.-*- (5) Sets of (6) apparatus are (7) necessary
for the (8) illustration of the (9) physical (10) sciences.—
On the (11) eighth of (12) February, a (13) Connecticut (14)
peddler, (15) wearing a (16) stttt of (17) gray (18) clothing,
(19) displayed his (20) tcares in an (21) avenue of (22)
Cincinnati. The (23) plane of the (24) horizon is (25)
horizontal. (26) Josephs (27) brethren sold him to the
(28) Ishmaelites. The (29) oa& is a (30) symbol of
strength: the vine, of (31) dependence: the (32) cypress,
of (33) sorrow: the elm, of (34) elegance: the (35) ^r, of
(36) symmetry ; and. as an evergreen, of (37) immortality.
(38) Fur is warm but costly (39) apparel. The (40)
Missouri river empties into the (41) Mississippi. Strike
the loud (42) cymbal. The (43) judge of the supreme
court (44) affirmed the (45) judgment of the lower (46)
tribunal. (47) Ladies and (48) gentlemen, the (49) pro-
gramme will open with a (50) quartette and (51) choi~us.
A (52) council of war was called, and the general
(53) counseled with the (54) colonels and (55) civilian*
present.
" He looked and saw a (56) spacious (57) plain whereon
"Were tents of various (58) hue ; by some were (59) herd*
THE REGENTS' QUESTIONS.
Of (60) cattle (61) grazing ; others -whence the sound
Of (62) instruments that made (63) melodious (64) chime,
Hiram had (65) hewers of wood. None are too young
to (66) try. (67) Matheio (68) tries to learn. The (69)
Czar (70) supported his (71) pretensions. (72) Scholar,
(73) soldier, (74) st.rgeon, (75) sargeant, (76) sheriff and
(77) sovereign, all begin with s. (78) Bin/jhamion is in
(79) Broome county ; (80) Syracuse in (SI) Onondaqa.
(82) Reading, (83) Spelling, (84) Writing, (85) Arithmetic,
(86) Grammar and (87) Geography are very important
branches of (88) education. James and (89) two other
boys were (90) there. The (91) schooner was lost at (92)
tea, (93) off Cape (94) St. Rogue. (95) Their eyes (96)
see clearly. From (97) scenes like these old Sooiia'a
(98) grandeur springs. (99) " Vanity of (100) vanities,
salth the Preacher."
SPELLING.
Examination XXV. JVor. 6, 187&-*
(3:15-4:15 p. m.)
1 accordance.
34 February.
2 aggregate.
35 feeling.
3 although.
36 following.
4 angle.
37 fragments.
5 appeal.
38 fruits.
6 apples.
39 generals.
7 applicable.
40 grammar.
8 assist.
41 gratitude.
9 attack.
42 handkerchief.
10 average.
43 handsome.
11 belief.
44 happen.
12 betray.
45 happier.
13 building.
46 having.
14 bureau.
47 horizon.
15 business.
48 hundred.
16 collectible.
49 hurrying.
17 committee.
50 immediately.
18 companies.
51 initial.
19 daylight.
52 insurance.
20 department.
53 language.
21 detach.
54 living.
22 doctrine.
55 marble.
23 drilled.
56 militia.
24 during.
57 miracles.
25 eagerness.
58 mischievous.
26 enemy.
59 money.
27 engineering.
60 mystery.
28 enthusiasm.
61 occupation. -
29 envelop.
62 operation.
30 equipage.
63 orchard.
31 estimate.
64 participle.
32 everything.
65 postage.
S3 excellent.
66 practice.
67 practicing.
68 praise.
69 present.
70 pressing.
71 procure.
72 provincial.
73 quantity.
74 quotient.
75 receipt.
76 receive.
77 regiment.
78 resident.
79 Rhode Island.
80 rousing.
81 running,
82 sealed/
83 sensible.
84 services.
85 shaking.
86 spies.
87 stagger.
88 summit.
89 surprise.
90 Switzerland.
91 symmetry.
92 taught.
93 touched.
94 transposed.
95 treasure.
96 trenches.
97 trying.
98 warmth.
99 Wednesday,
100 Yorkville.
THB REGENTS' QUESTIONS.
Examination XXVI. Feb. 26, f876.
(3:15—4:15 P. M.)
1 ability.
2 accent.
3 adjective.
4 affection.
5 ague.
6 alkali.
7 amazement.
8 answer.
9 antique.
10 approved.
11 balloon.
12 banquet.
13 beastly.
14 blackguard.
15 boarder.
16 carcass.
17 cheating.
18 compass.
19 deception.
20 discernment.
21 dollar.
22 dreariness.
23 dungeon.
24 dwelling.
25 eagle.
26 election.
27 embalm.
28 emergency.
29 ensign.
80 Esquimaux.
81 Europe.
82 exchequer.
83 eye-salve.
34 famous.
35 fashion.
36 fruitful.
37 footstool.
38 furrow.
39 gauge.
40 Glasgow.
41 glue.
42 guidance.
43 heathenism.
44 hemisphere.
45 honesty.
46 hyena.
47 Island.
48 Indianapolis.
49 issue.
50 jubilee.
51 knapsack.
52 kitchen.
53 lancet.
54 laughter.
55 Louisiana.
56 malicious.
57 matchless.
5S middle.
59 mixture.
60 Missouri.
61 nuisance.
62 nuptial.
63 oblique.
64 outside.
65 patient.
66 Pennsylvania.
67 pompous.
68 powder.
69 prejudice.
70 priesthood.
71 quarrelsome.
72 quotation.
73 rebellion.
74 recitation.
75 reference
76 rhinocero s
77 roughness.
78 sachel.
79 saddle.
80 seasonable.
81 shawl.
82 sincere.
83 sovereign.
84 struggle.
85 subjection.
86 synthesis.
87 talkative.
88 thistle.
89 tongue..
90 tyranny.
91 umbrella.
92 unfairness.
93 utterance.
94 vault.
95 watchman,,
96 wrinkle.
97 wrong.
98 yearly.
99 yielding.
100 zealous.
SPELLING.
Examination XXYII. June &, 1876,
(3:15— 4:15 P. M.)
1 abolish.
2 abridge.
3 account.
4 action.
5 adjourn.
6 advice.
7 agency.
8 alphabet.
9 altar (for sacri-
fice.
10 arouse.
11 auction.
12 ballot.
13 balsam.
14 beauty.
15 bilious.
16 biscuit.
17 blossom.
18 bugle.
19 building.
20 calico.
21 canvas (coarse
cloth.)
22 carriage.
23 coffee.
24 conjugate.
25 cream.
26 currency.
27 defect.
28 discord.
29 dishonesty.
80 edge.
81 equality.
82 essence.
83 excellent.
34 fatigue.
35 feeble.
36 flight.
37 foreign.
38 fruit.
39 gazette.
40 genius.
41 grain.
42 ground.
43 guilt.
44 harpoon.
45 heaven.
46 highness.
47 hymn (song of
praise).
48 idle (doing
nothing).
49 idol (an image)
50 immense.
51 innocent.
52 January
53 journey.
54 juicy.
55 juvenile.
56 kettle.
57 knife.
58 language.
59 learning.
60 luncheon.
61 measure.
62 meeting.
63 merit.
64 Mississippi.
65 monstrous.
66 morocco.
67 motion.
68 neighbor.
69 noble.
70 numeral.
71 officer.
72 orphan.
73 oxygen
74 painting,
75 passion.
76 pigeon.
77 policy.
78 precious.
79 priest.
80 pulley.
81 question.
82 quill.
83 ransom.
84 receipt.
85 rogue.
86 Russia.
87 sailor.
88 science.
89 security.
90 spelling.
91 steam.
92 temple.
93 thought.
94 training.
95 utility.
96 valiant.
97 vowel.
98 weakness.
99 witty.
100 youthful.
THE REGENTS' QUESTIONS.
Examination XXTIII. Nov. 5, 7875. \
(3:15-4:15 P. m.)
1 about.
2 academy.
3 address.
4 advance.
5 afloat.
6 alcohol.
7 amusement.
8 anxious.
9 auger (tool)
10 autumn.
11 babble.
12 beard.
13 beau.
14 bear (animal)
15 bare (not cov-
ered).
16 besiege.
17 bravery.
18 brilliant.
19 bugle.
20 button.
21 calendar, (al-
manac).
22 captive.
28 catalogue.
24 charcoal.
25 colonel (offi-
cer).
26 comply.
27 court.
28 crown.
29 dairy.
80 declension.
81 dialogue.
82 domain.
33 dwarf.
34 eighteen.
35 employ.
36 equit3 T .
37 feeble.
38 flower (blos-
som).
39 frighten.
40 glean.
41 gouge.
42 guess.
43 hammer.
44 health.
45 Hebrew.
46 houses.
47 hyphen.
48 isthmus.
49 joint.
50 judgment.
51 justice.
52 knock.
53 knowledge.
54 languid.
55 league.
56 light.
57 lyceum.
58 mansion.
59 marriage.
60 mercantile.
61 mighty.
62 motion.
63 muslin.
64 neutral.
65 numbness.
66 oyBter.
67 paint.
68 pebble.
69 perceive.
70 pitcher.
71 portrait.
72 prison.
73 Prussia.
74 quinsy.
75 ransack.
76 reindeer.
77 rhetoric.
78 rye (grain).
79 saucer.
80 scholar.
81 season.
82 senior.
83 shears.
84 sleigh (ye-
hide).
85 soldier.
86 spoon.
87 surgeon.
8S telegraph.
89 Tennesee.
90 type.
91 usher.
92 useful.
93 valley.
94 vestige.
95 voyage,
96 warrant.
97 wheel
98 wreck.
99 youth.
100 zephyr.
SPELLING.
Examination XXIX, Feb. 25, 7876.
(3:15—4:15 p. m.)
1 able.
35 entrance.
67 manager.
2 abroad.
36 erring.
68 mechanic.
8 absent-
37 exhibition.
69 Memphis.
4 acid.
38 factory.
70 ministry.
5 acquire.
39 fanatical.
71 needful.
6 adjunct.
40 feature.
72 neither.
7 amusement.
41 fiftieth.
73 neuter.
8 appetite.
42 fountain.
74 quinsy.
9 ascension.
43 genealogy.
75 opposition.
10 avail.
44 genuine.
76 overseer.
11 baggage.
45 glacier.
77 painful.
12 barbarism.
46 goblet.
78 pasturage.
13 bargain.
47 grateful.
79 pearl.
14 between.
48 greasy.
80 pension.
15 bitterness.
49 greatness.
81 physician.
16 bouquet.
50 hailstone.
82 piracy.
17 buckle.
51 harmonize.
83 pleasant.
18 butcbery.
52 haughty.
84 pretension..
19 career.
53 hoarseness.
85 quince.
20 capacity.
54 increase.
86 ratio.
21 chairman.
55 insurrection.
87 reason.
22 choir (singers)
. 56 irregular.
88 ripple.
23 clearness.
57 Jamaica.
89 sagacity.
24 coach.
58 journal.
90 scent, (odor)..
25 cancel.
59 knot (of a tree
, 91 section.
26 country.
or of cords).
92 seraph.
27 deceive.
60 lamb.
93 sheriff.
28 delight.
61 latitude.
94 Scotch (peopled
29 diplomacy.
62 leaven (yeast).
95 6p arrow.
80 distillery.
63 lessen (to make 96 twelfth.
31 druggist.
less).
97 usury.
32 dyspepsia.
64 lighten.
98 vengeance
S3 edition. j
65 lightning.
99 widow.
84 embryo.
66 majesty.
100 wrestling.
THE REGENTS' QUE3TION3.
Examination XXX. June 9, /S7&*
(3:15-4:15 P. M.)
electricity.
engage.
epitaph.
errand.
excursion.
eyebrow.
faintness.
fearful.
fiction.
flattery.
follower.
fourteen.
furnace.
garrison.
gentleman.
gloomy.
gutter.
handsome.
harness.
heathen.
hogshead.
humble.
hypocrite.
illness.
25 counsel (advice)59 impulse.
26 curtain. 60 injury.
27 damsel. 61 irritate.
28 daughter. 62 jack-knife.
29 decease. 63 jewel.
80 discuss. 64 key.
31 door. 65 kneeling.
82 dunce. 66 iance.
83 dutiful. 67 lawyer.
84 echo. 68 letter.
1 absence. 35
2 absolute. 36
3 accuracy. 37
4 acquaint. 38
5 admission. 39
6 alien. 40
7 analysis. 41
8 apostle. 42
9 asvlum. 43
10 awful. 44
11 bachelor. 45
12 banner. 46
13 base(found'tion 47
14 beam. 48
15 beginning. 49
16 boundary. 50
17 breakfast. 51
18 cabbage. 52
19 catarrh. 53
20 centennial. 54
21 chalk. 55
22 choice. 56
23 cloud. 57
24 conceit. 58
69 luxury.
70 machine.
71 marshal.
72 mingle.
73 mother.
74 mutton.
75 naughty.
76 nervous.
77 notch.
78 nutriment.
79 obey.
80 obtain.
81 origin.
82 parable.
83 people.
84 populous.
85 princess.
86 queen.
87 ready.
88 recess,
remainder,
review,
school.
92 secrecy.
93 sieve.
94 solemn.
95 subject.
96 thread.
97 tough.
98 unity.
99 volume.
100 wrist.
89
90
91
SPELLING.
Examination XXXI. Mr. W, 7876.
(3:15 — 4:15 P. M.)
1 abandon.
35 envy.
69 magnify.
2 abolition.
36 equal.
70 meal.
3 abstract.
37 eternity.
71 mouth.
4 ache.
38 examination.
72 multitude.
5 adjourn.
39 exhaust.
73 mutual.
6 anchor.
40 eyelid.
74 nail.
7 apology.
41 fable.
75 needle.
8 arch.'
42 father.
76 night.
9 Atlantic.
43 finish.
77 number.
10 author.
44 flash.
78 occasion.
11 badge.
45 foolish.
79 offense.
12 baptism.
46 fortune.
80 onion.
13 barometer.
47 future.
81 owl.
14 battery.
48 gallon.
82 parliament.
15 bread.
49 giant.
83 parcel.
16 butter.
50 government.
84 pioneer.
17 button.
51 guardian.
85 possible.
18 candle.
52 half.
86 quarrel.
19 careless.
53 hawk.
87 raspberry.
20 celebrate.
54 high.
88 rejoice.
21 cheese.
55 hollow.
89 roast.
22 church.
56 hurricane.
90 ruffian.
23 coach.
57 ice.
91 Sabbath.
24 compact.
58 impiety.
92 scourge.
25 copy.
59 incense.
93 single.
26 crystal.
60 instance.
94 snowball.
27 damage.
61 intrigue.
95 spasm.
28 December.
62 jelly.
96 teachei.
29 degree.
63 judge.
97 traffic.
80 dewdrop.
64 kingdom.
98 ugliness.
31 diphthong.
65 knuckle.
99 velocity,
32 Dutch.
66 lace.
100 youngster.
33 election.
67 liberty.
84 energy.
68 Louisiana.
TEE REGENTS' QUESTIONS.
Examination XXXII, March 2, 7877*
(3:15—4:15 p. m.)
1 abhor.
35 eulogy.
68 monarch.
2 accomplish.
36 excuse.
69 nature.
3 admire.
37 fault.
70 nonsense.
4 agent.
38 figure.
71 nurse.
5 Allegany.
39 fleece.
72 omission.
6 almanac.
40 history.
73 oracle.
7 apparel.
41 fraud.
74 ostrich.
8 attorney.
42 fugitive.
75 owner.
9 bandage.
43 gesture.
76 palmtree.
10 baptize.
44 glass.
77 passenger.
11 beef.
45 granite.
78 persuade.
12 bosom.
46 gulf.
79 philosophy
13 bribe.
47 guinea.
80 politics.
14 bundle.
48 heart.
81 quiet.
15 capable.
49 history.
82 range.
16 catechism.
50 hungry.
83 recollection
17 census.
51 image!
84 repair.
18 chasm.
52 impossible.
85 Russian.
19 climate.
53 influence.
86 Savannah.
20 coat.
54 iron (i'urn).
87 sentence.
21 concert.
55 ivory.
88 should.
22 copper.
56 jealousy.
89 sterling.
23 creature.
57 joyous.
90 sturgeon.
24 death.
58 jury.
91 territory.
25 decimal. x
59 Kentucky.
92 transitive.
26 devil.
60 knitting.
93 usage.
27 dominion.
61 lameness.
94 vehicle.
28 drought.
62 laziness.
95 weather.
29 dynasty.
63 liniment.
96 willing.
30 elbow.
64 lye (made from 97 worshipped
81 elephant.
ashes.)
98 yeoman.
32 empire.
65 majority.
99 zeal.
S3 entice.
66 masculine.
100 zone.
84 equator.
67 mellow.
SPELLING.
Examination XXXIII. June 7, 1877.
(3:15— 4. 15 P. M.)
1 abase.
2 abundance.
3 accommodate
4 adhere.
5 admiral.
6 advise.
7 argue.
8 arrive.
9 arrow.
10 await.
11 balance.
12 bankrupt.
13 battle.
14 beyond.
15 blessing.
16 breast.
17 bulletin.
18 cartridge.
19 caution.
20 chamber.
21 clean.
22 comfort.
23 countenance.
2* crockery.
25 daily.
26 danger.
27 demagogue.
28 direction.
29 doubtful.
30 dullness.
81 elasticity.
82 engross.
88 erection.
84 European.
35 extensive. 68
36 facility. 69
37 faithless. 70
38 fallacy. 71
39 feudalism. 72
40 flail. 73
41 foreigner. 74
42 furthest. 75
43 fusion. 76
44 gallows. 77
45 geese. 78
46 glassy. 79
47 'Grecian. 80
48 grudge. 81
49 gypsum. 82
50 heavy.
51 honey. 83
52 Hungary. S4
53 idiot. 85
54 imagery. 86
55 impression. 87
56 independence. 88
57 Indianapolis. 89
58 jeopardy. 90
59 justify. 91
60 keeper. 92
61 knowing. 93
62 labyrinth. 94
63 latch. 95
64 length. 96
65 lyre (a kind of 97
harp). 98
66 maiden. 99
67 meadow. 100
mineral.
Minnesota.
myriad.
necessary.
Norway.
orthography.
pair (a couple).
pear (kind of
Persia. fruit
play.
potential.
progress.
pudding.
quarry.
rain (drops of
water),
reign (to rule).
routine,
sanction,
scout,
sneezing,
teeth,
toast,
treatise,
true.
Uruguay,
vanity,
victuals,
whale,
which,
woolen.
Yucatan,
zebra.
zinc.
THE REGENTS' QUESTIONS.
Examination XXXir. Nov. 8, 1877.
(3:15—4:15 p. m.)
accident.
acquit.
adieu.
adversary.
Alabama.
6 album.
7 animal.
8 arithmetic.
9 atmosphere.
10 axle.
11 bail (security).
13 bale (bundle).
13 barter.
14 Belgium.
15 birch (kind of
16 bottle. tree).
17 bowl.
18 bubble.
19 cable. <<
20 camphor.
21 century.
22 cherry.
23 Cleveland.
24 conscience.
25 county.
26 debate.
27 debtor.
28 Deity.
29 double.
30 dryness.
31 eloquence.
32 empty.
33 era. *
34 evening.
35 expense. 69
36 failure. 70
37 fetter. 71
38 fleet. 72
39 foot. 73
40 fuel. 74
41 funeral. 75
42 gaiter. 76
43 gallery. 77
44 Georgia. 78
45 glove. 79
46 grandeur. 80
47 guard. 81
48 habit. 82
49 head. 83
50 heal (to cure). 84
51 heel fof foot). 85
52 holiness. 86
53 ignorance. 87
54 inch. 88
55 interest. 89
56 ivy. 90
57 jealousy. 91
58 Jesse (man's 92
59 July. name).93
60 kangaroo. 94
61 kitten. 95
62 ladder. 96
63 lantern. 97
64 leader. 98
65 lecture. 99
66 longitude. 100
67 lumber.
68 magistrate.
mammoth,
mayor.
minute.
multiply.
neatness.
numerous.
object.
ounce.
Oregon.
oxen.
Pacific.
paper.
pardon.
penny.
place.
psalm.
quick.
raisin.
ream.
respect.
scale.
secretary,
sergeant,
snail.
spool.
summer.
throat.
tooth.
use.
value.
window,
wreath.
SPELLING.
Examination XXXV. Thursday,
February 28, 1878.
(3:15—4:15 P. M.)
1 division.
2 impatience.
3 gradual.
4 landscape.
5 pronoun.
6 grief.
7 appendix.
8 ball.
9 hatchet.
10 poison.
11 noose.
12 riddle.
13 worthy.
14 meat (flesh).
15 chain.
16 Australia.
17 example.
18 brush.
19 rays (of light).
20 oration.
21 Baltic (sea).
22 mackerel.
23 forgiveness.
24 Calcutta.
25 scarcity.
26 joy.
27 advantage.
28 parallel.
29 busy.
30 elegance.
31 pyramid.
32 heresy.
33 music.
34 palace.
35 against.
36 Oregon.
37 beggar.
38 legion.
39 pillow.
40 manhood.
41 rudder.
42 Italy.
43 feather.
44 angel.
45 decency.
46 reader.
47 geography.
48 cannon (gun).
49 miser.
50 budget.
51 nominative.
52 settlement.
53 glory.
54 lizard.
55 clock.
56 preacher.
57 malady.
58 comb.
59 extract.
60 quire (of paper)
61 nymph.
62 attention.
63 narrow.
64 peaceable.
65 hallow (to rev-
erence).
66 dozen.
67 hospital.
68 fight.
69 Philadelphia.
70 raise (to lift).
71 equinox.
72 barrel.
73 massacre.
74 diamond.
75 romance.
76 opinion.
77 sausage.
78 Jericho.
79 cousin.
80 axis.
81 endeavor.
82 reed (a plant).
83 guide.
84 lattice.
85 calamity.
86 brain.
87 library.
88 intellect.
89 Delaware.
90 idolatry.
91 publish.
92 tobacco.
93 month.
94 buffalo (ani-
mal).
95 privilege.
96 tissue.
97 kernel.
98 Albany.
99 maintenance.
100 quadruped.
THE REGENTS' QUESTIONS.
Examination XXXVI. Thursday,
June 6, 1878.
(3:15-4:15 P. M.)
1 Aaron.
2 dazzle.
3 garden.
4 umbrella.
5 illustrious.
6 abusive.
7 Babylon.
8 handle.
9 leaf (of a tree).
10 necessity.
11 keel (of a ship).
12 pageant.
13 magazine.
14 calmness.
15 acre (of land).
16 effect.
17 bamboo.
18 palsy.
19 oath.
20 basket.
21 maple-sugar.
22 family.
23 Canaan.
24 quarter.
25 javelin.
26 ragged.
27 pewter.
28 beefsteak.
29 elocution.
30 San Francisco.
31 harmless.
32 martyr.
33 seam (a joint).
34 appearance.
35 observe.
36 beetle.
37 legislature.
38 kindred.
39 Massachusetts.
40 sea (body of
water).
41 importance.
42 fellowship.
43 Austrian.
44 deepest.
45 tailor (maker of
clothes).
46 Genesee.
47 capture.
48 measles.
49 Bengal.
50 noise.
51 vessel.
52 gingerbread.
53 leopard.
54 cashier.
55 weight
(beaviness).
56 memory.
57 cigar.
58 error.
59'threshold.
60 notice.
61 murderer.
62 seem (to appear) 95
63 nursery. 96
64 counterfeit. 97
65 dial. 98
66 see (to look) 99
67 fever. 100
68
69
70
71
72
73
74
75
76
77
78
79
80
81
82
83
84
85
86
87
88
89
90
91
92
93
94
herald.
wait (to tarry).
existence.
bloody.
million.
drain.
scythe.
principle (gen-
eral truth).
oppression.
junior.
chest. '
awkward.
religion.
forgery.
gooseberry.
loaf (of bread)*
circle.
botany.
lunatic.
indolence.
dumbness.
Italian.
recruit.
principal
(chief).
mountain.
brass.
rascal.
pontiff.
closet.
honorary.
growth.
ambuscade.
Dutchess (co.)
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Examination XXXVII. Nov. 7 , 187S.
(3:15— 4: 15 P. M.)
1 courage.
35 board.
69 bier (for carry
2 taste.
36 Tuesday.
ing the dead)
3 infamy.
37 east.
70 space.
4 calf. *
38 leakage.
71 express.
5 occur.
39 petition.
72 stomach.
6 encroach.
40 agreeable.
73 dentist.
7 accept. .
41 Baltimore.
74 won (did win)
8 yellow.
42 flee (to hasten).
75 gender.
76 Lisbon.
9 kennel.
43 quench.
10 devout.
44 current (of a
77 boxes.
11 request.
stream).
78 session.
12 essential.
45 room.
79 lily.
13 Potomac.
4(5 harrow.
80 disguise.
14 banker.
47 Michigan.
81 view.
15 one (number).
48 barge.
83 leek (a plant)-
16 fatality.
49 power.
83 accuse.
17 stall. "
50 glorify.
84 jail.
18 dagger.
51 shower.
85 ridge.
19 warrior.
53 capital (city).
86 flannel.
20 immersion,
53 major.
87 Germany.
21 alum.
54 Siberia.
88 captain.
22 rear.
55 festoon.
89 patent.
23 floor.
56 sample.
90 guest.
24 niece.
57 addition.
91 zodiac.
25 currant (fruit)
58 uuion.
92 bathing.
26 Quebec.
59 mahogany.
93 monkey.
27 prudence.
60 earnest.
94 idea.
28 beer (bever-
age).
61 Chicago.
95 flea (insect)
62 jockey.
96 capitol (edi-
29 pippin.
63 choose.
fice).
30 Greek.
64 organic.
97 Arkansas.
31 dodge.
65 eclipse.
98 darkness.
32 twinkle.
66 matrass.
99 camel.
33 limb.
67 woolly.
100 armies.
34 already.
68 bleach.
THE REGENTS' QUESTIONS.
Examination XXXVIII. Feb. 27, 1879.
1 beginner.
2 hearing.
3 f abric.
4 pail (a vessel).
5 Benjamin.
6 jar.
7 safety.
8 desire.
9 skeptic.
10 abject.
11 trophy.
12 ear.
13 learn.
14 pilot,
15 campaign.
16 odd.
17 dress.
18 size.
19 law.
20 acknowledge.
21 ulcer.
22 invoice.
23 false.
24 water.
25 blow.
26 Spain.
27 gaming.
28 oar (of a boat).
29 lieutenant.
30 active.
31 serpent.
32 hair (of the
head).
33 rosewood.
34 declare.
35 Carolina,
(3:15—4:15 p. m.)
36 sauce.
37 George.
38 varnish.
39 just,
40 affliction.
41 torrent,
42 here (in this
place).
43 float.
44 defeat.
45 border.
46 in (preposition).
47 Mohawk.
48 disobey.
49 party.
50 almost,
51 oil.
52 economy.
53 laundry.
54 primitive.
55 certificate.
56 quorum.
57 gigantic.
58 marine.
59 ramble.
60 anniversary.
61 seen (to be
seen \.
62 excise.
63 fly.
64 whence.
65 broom.
66 mill.
67 porcelain.
68 Iceland.
69 refugee.
70 arctic.
71 scene (a view).
72 Hollander.
73 federal.
74 witness.
75 daisy.
76 pale (color-
less).
77 gracious.
78 sneeze.
79 knight (a ti-
tle).
80 assembly.
81 theme.
82 emancipation.
S3 Ohio.
84 mention.
85 burial.
86 yeast,
87 gross.
88 ore (of a
metal).
89 Joseph.
90 avenue.
'.'1 system.
92 hare (an ani-
mal).
93 reply.
94 deafness.
95 cistern.
96 inn (public
house).
97 shanty.
98 approach.
99 finally.
100 conclusion.
SPELLING.
Examination XXXIX. June 5, 1879.
(3:15—4:15 p. m.)
1 Adam.
2 pencil.
3 cheap.
4 lake.
5 bloom.
6 indulge.
7 damp.
8 Rochester.
9 friction.
10 act.
11 harmony.
12 loom.
13 Capricorn.
14 match.
15 Boston.
16 institute.
17 establish.
18 notion.
19 garment.
20 apprentice.
21 idleness.
22 potato.
23 Chautauqua.
24 judicial.
25 bank.
2(5 opponent.
27' decision.
28 misery.
29 ideology.
30 Africa.
31 husband.
3.3 testament.
33 Christian.
34 keep.
$5 can.
36 pillar.
37 deck.
38 straight (not
crooked).
39 green.
40 alone.
41 restraint.
42 merciful.
43 chemist.
44 justification.
45 bind.
46 philosopher.
47 diagram.
48 virion.
49 fright,
50 abbreviation.
51 Ireland.
52 male (mascu-
line).
53 class.
54 labor.
55 back.
56 imperfect.
57 elsewhere.
58 negative.
59 gain.
60 arm.
61 hoof.
62 uncommon.
63 Chenango.
61 lei ure.
65 canal.
66 reflect.
67 extend.
68 tuition.
69 grove.
70 accer-s.
71 Hamilton.
72 nation.
73 condemn.
71 kill.
75 basis.
76 joke.
77 defraud.
78 welcome.
79 frigid.
80 administration
81 heat.
82 profit.
83 caravan.
84 mail (post).
85 balm.
86 Steuben.
87 deacon.
88 strait (narrow
pass).
b9 ii'ipsy.
90 abode.
'.'1 hatch.
92 passive.
93 certain.
94 Jefferson.
95 bay.
96 invention.
97 dispute.
98 muscle.
99 friend.
100 Asia.
THE REGENTS QUESTIONS.
Examination XL. Nov. 6, 1879.
(3:15-4:15 P. M.)
1. America.
2. worth.
3. bible.
4. vain (fruit-
less.)
5. doctor.
6. payment.
7. neglect.
8. encourage.
9. offer.
10. abrupt.
11. barley.
12. consequence
13. herself.
14. plane(atool.)
15. dry.
16. rational.
17. monarchy.
18 declaim.
19. rebuke.
20. again.
21. seat
22. clause.
23. bayonet.
24. warble.
25. finance.
26. waste (loss.)
27. Charlotte.
28. triangle.
29. no (negative)
30. appoint.
31. look.
32. collar.
83. bill.
84. leather.
85. Julius.
36.* sorry.
37. know(tohave
knowledge.)
38. endurance.
39. rumor.
40. affair.
41. polish.
42. clothing.
43. savage.
44. method.
45. Isaiah.
46. vacation.
47. libel.
48. flood.
49. parish.
50. acclamation.
51. quality.
52. chance.
53. beach (of the
sea.
54. towel.
55. foe (enemy.)
56. gospel.
57. usurp.
58. esteem.
59. painter.
60. ammunition.
61. weary.
62. Harriet.
63. breathe.
64. shoe.
65. doubt.
66. invisible.
67. waist (of the
body.)
68. extreme.
69. mutiny.
70. alive.
71. option.
72. groove.
73. behavior.
74. purple.
75. disgrace.
76. leap.
77. tarry.
78. faithful.
79. saloon.
80. abuse.
81. plague.
82. chief.
83. several.
84. knavery.
85. common.
86. plain (level
land.)
87. antecedent.
88. Emily.
89. pepper.
90. vein (a tube.)
91. temperance.
92. mature.
93. beech (kind
of tree.)
94. Roman.
95. lioness.
96. interfere.
97. quiver.
98. glance.
99. oak.
100. Jerusalem.
SPELLING.
Examination- XLI Feb. 26, 1880.
(3:15-4:15 P. M.)
The (1) only hope of (2) salvation for the (3) Greek
(4) empire and the (5) adjacent (6) kingdoms, (7)
would have (8) been (9) some (10 j more (11) power-
ful (12) weapon, some (13) discovery in the art of (14)
war, that should (15) give them a (16) decisive (17)
superiority (18) over (19) their (20) Turkish (21) foes.
The (22) chemists of (23) China or (24) Europe had
(25) found, by (26) casual or (27) elaborate (28) ex-
periments, that a (29) mixture of (30) saltpetre, (31)
sulphur, and (32) charcoal (33) produces, with a (34)
spark of fire, a (35) tremendous (36) explosion. It was
(37) soon (38) observed, that if the (39) expansive (40)
force were (41) compressed in a (42) strong (43) tube,
a ball of (44) stone or (45) iron (46) might be (47) ex-
pelled with (48) irresistible and (49) destructive (50)
velocity.
The (51) precise (52) era of the (53) invention and
(54) application of (55) gunpowder is (56) involved in
(57) doubtful (58) traditions and (59) equivocal (60)
language; yet we may (61) discern that it was (62)
known (63) before the (64) middle of the (65) four-
teenth (66) century ; and that before the end of the
(67) same, the (68) use of (69) artillery in (70) battles
and (71) sieges, by (72) sea and land, was (73) famil-
iar to the (74) states of (75) Germany, (76) Italy. (77)
Spain, (78) France, and (79) England. The (80)
priority of (81) nations is of (82) small (83) account;
(84) none could (85) derive (86) any (87) exclusive
(88) benefit from their (89) previous or (90) superior
(91) knowledge; and in the (92) common (93) im-
provement, (94) they (95) stood on the same (96) level
of (97) relative (98) power and (99) military (100)
science. Edicard Gibbon.
THE REGENTS' QUESTIONS.
Exam ination XL II (a), June 3, 1880.
(3:15-4:15 P. M.)
On the (1) twelfth of (2) November (3) seventeen (4)
hundred and (5) ninety- two, (6) Christopher (7) Co-
lumbus (8) turned his (9) course to the east (10) south-
east, to (11) follow (12) back the (13) direction of the
(14) coast. This may be (15 considered (16) another
(17) critical (18) change in his (19) voyage, (20) which
had a (21) g eat (22 effect upon his (23) subsequent
(24) discoveries. He had (25) proceeded (26) far (27)
within what is (28) called the (29) old (30) channel,
(31) between (32) Cuba and the (33) Bahamas. (34)
Three or (35) four (36) days (37) later, he (38) would
(39) have (40) discovered his (41) mistake in (42) sup-
posing Cuba a (43) part of terra-firma; an (44) error
in which he (45) continued to the (46) hour of his (47)
death. He (48) might have had (49) intimation (50)
also of the (51) vicinity of the (52) continent, and
have (53) stood for the coast of (54) Florida, or have
(55) been (56) carried (57) thither by the (58) gulf (59)
stream, \or, (60) continuing (61) along Cuba (62)
where it (63) bends to the south-west might have (64)
struck (65) over to the (66) opposite coast of (67) Yu-
catan, and have (68) realized his (69) most (70) san-
guine (71) anticipations in (72) becoming the (73)
discoverer of (74) Mexico. It (75) was (76) sufficient (77)
glory for Columbus, (78) however, to have discovered
a (79) new (80) world. (81) Its (82) more (83) golden
(84) regions (85) were (86) reserved to (87) give (88)
splendor to (89) succeeding (90) enterprises. * * * On
the 5th of (91) December he (92) reached the (93)
SPELLING.
eastern end of Cuba, which he supposed to be the
eastern (94) extremity of (95) Asia: he (96) gave it
(97) therefore, the name of (98) Alpha and (99)
Omega, the (100) begining and the end.
Ir ring's Columbus, Book iv, Chapter t_
Examination XLII (b), June 17, 18 SO.
(3:15-4:15 p. m.)
(1) New York, (2) one of the (3) thirteen (4) original
(5) states of the (6) United States of (7) America, (8)
now the (9) most (10) important in (11) population
and (12) wealth, (13) occupies an (14) irregular (15)
triangular (16) area from the (17) Atlantic (18) Ocean
to the (19) great (20) lakes. The state is (21) four
(22) hundred and (23) twelve (24) miles from (25) east
to west, (26) three hundred and (27) eleven from
north to (28) south, with an (29) area of (30) forty-
seven (31) thousand (32) square miles, or (33) thirty
34) million (35) eight hundred thousand (36) acres;
37) bounded north by Lake (38) Erie, Lake (39)
Ontario, the (40) river (41) St. Lawrence, and (42)
Canada; east by Lake (43) Champlain, the states of
(44) Vermont, (45) Massachusetts, and (46) Connecti-
cut and by the Atlantic Ocean; south by the ocean,
(47) New Jersey and (48) Pennsylvania; west by
Pennsylvania, the (49) Niagara river, and the lakes
(50) which (51) make (52) its irregular (53) north-west-
ern (54) boundary. The state has (55) sixty (56)
counties. Its (57) chief (58) towns (59) are New
York (60) city, (61) Albany, the (62) capital, (63)
THE REGENTS' QTESTIONS.
Buffalo, (64) Rochester, (65) Oswego, (66) Troy, (67)
Hudson, (68) Syracuse, (69) Utica, etc. * * * The
state is (70) traversed by (71) railway (72) lines in (73)
every (74) direction. The (75) centre is (76) beautified
by (77) many (78) picturesque lakes, and (79) some
(80) portions by fine (81) mountain (82) scenery. * * *
The (83) soil, (84) particularly that of the western
and (85) limestone (86) region, is (87) very (88) fertile,
(89) producing the (90) finest (91) wheat, (92) maize, (93)
apples, (94) peaches, etc. , in (95) abundance. * * *
The state (96) constitution was (97) adopted in 1777.
In 1825, the (98) opening of the Erie Canal gave a
great (99) impetus to the (100) prosperity of the state.
Cha rubers! En cyclopaedia.
Examination XLIII, Nov. 11, 1880.
(3:15—4:15.)
A DAY'S JOURNEY THROUGH OUR STA'IE.
To (l)show in (2)another (3)light (4)how ©intelli-
gence will (6)give us (7)pleasure in the (8)ordinary
(9)course of our (10)lives, let us (ll)compare the (12)
experience of (13)difierent (l4)persons (15)traveling
(15, through our (17)own state, from its (18)western
(19)borders to the (20)city of (21)New York. (22)
Starting from the (23)great (24)calaract of (25)Niag-
ara, (26)where (27)even the (28)most (29)ignorant will
(30;feel the (31)grandcur of the (32)scene, the man
with a (33)reasonable (34)knowledge of the state in
(35)which he (36)lives, will (37)see $8)along the (39)
whole (40)course of the (41)journey, (42)objects which
SPELLING.
Will (43)constantly (44)arrest his (45)attentioD, (4G)re-
call (47)facts in (48)history or (49) science, and which
will (50)engage his mind with (51)healthful and (52)
instructive (53)thoughts. He will (54)notice at the
(55)outset, (56)upon the (57)south, the (58)range of
(59)highlands (60)reaching from Lake (61)Erie to the
(62)flanks of the (63)Allegany (64)mountains. Its
(65)elevation is not great, but in (G6)many (67)ways
it is the (G8)most (69)remarkable (70)water-shed upon
the (71)face of our (72)globe. When he (73)crosses
the (74)Genesee (75)river, he sees its (76)current (77)
hurrying to the north to (78)mingle with the (79)cold
(80)water of the (81)Gulf of (82)St. Lawrence, and
the (83)oceans which (84)cover the (85)arctic (86)re-
gions, and he (87)khows that its (88)sources are (89)
interlocked with (90)those of the Allegany, which
find (91)their (92)outlet in the (93)tepid waters of the
Gulf of (94)Mexico. A (95)little (96)farther on, the
(97)springs which feed the branches of the (98jSus-
quehanna run down the southern (99)slopes of the
(lOO)Chesapeake bay.— Horatio Seymour.
Examination XLIV, March 3, 1881.
(3:15 to 4:15 P. m.)
WASHINGTON AS PRESIDENT ELECT.
From the (l)moment it had (2)become (3)certain
that the (4)constitution was to go into (5)effect,
(6) Washington had been (7)very (8)warmly (9)pressed
by (lO)numerous (1 ^correspondents not to (12)de-
eline that* (13)position for which he was so well
(14)qualified by the (lo)choice and (16)confidence of
the (17)whole (18)uation. The (I9)general (20)ex-
THE REGENTS QUESTIONS
pcctation that he (21)would be (22)president had
(23)contributed not a (24)little to (25)calui ^excite-
ment (27)against the new constitution, and to give
its (28)friends a (29)decided (30)predomiaance in the
choice of (31)members of the first (32;Congress.
Washington (33)desired to (34)proceed to New
York (35)privately, but the (36)fiow of (37)venera-
tiou and (3S)gratitude could not be (39)suppressed.
Having been (40)entertained by his (41)ueighbors of
(42)Alexandria, he was (43)welcomed to ^Mary-
land by a (44)crowd of (46)citizens (47)assembled at
(48)Georgetown. At the (49)frontier of (.^Pennsyl-
vania he met by a large (Sl)escort, and a (52)mag-
nificent (53)rcception was given at (54)Philadelphia,
where the State (55)officers, (56)trustees of the
(o7)university, officers of the (5S)Ciucinuati (59)so-
ciety, and the (60)mayor and (61)common (02)council
(63)waited on him with (64)their (65)congratulations.
The next day Washington (OGjcroased into New
(67)Jersey. The (68)pcople of (69)Trenton (70)re-
membered the (71)battles (72)fought in their
(73)vicinity twelve (74)years before, and (75)no-
where was his reception more (76)graceful and
(77)touching. On the (78)bridge (79)across the
(80)stream which (Sl)fiows (82)through the (83)town
into the (84)Delaware, a (85)triumphal (8G) arch had
been (87)erected, (S8)supported on (89)thirtcen
(90)pillars (91)trimmed with (92)evergreens, (93)rlow-
ers and (94)laurel. Here a (95) group of (98)matrons
and young (97)misses (98)dressed in white, 'began, as
he (99)amn-oached, to sing an ode prepared for the
(lOO)occasion.
SPELLING.
Examination XLV, June 16, 1881.
(3:15 to 4:15 P. M.)
The (l)United (2)States are (3)situated in the north
(4)temperate (5)zone, in the (6)central part of North
(7)America, and (8)between the (9)same (lO)parallels
of (ll)latitude as (12)southern (lo)Europe, the
(14)Mediterranean (15)sea, (16)northern (17)Africa,
central (18) Asia, and (19) Japan.
This (20)country (21)possesses (22) nearly (23)evcry
(24)varicty of (25)climate, (26)owing to its (27)great
(28)extent, its (29)position on the (30)globe, and
(31)differences in (32)elevation,
The states (33)remarkable for (34)their (35)agricul-
tural (36)products are (37)those in the (38)eastcrn
(39)half of the (40)Union; (41)grain, (42)fruits, and
(43) vegetables in the north, and (44)cotton, (45tobac-
co, (46)rice, and (47)sugar in the south.
The (48)prairie land of (49)Ohio, (50)Indiana,
(51)Illinios, (52)Michigan, (53)Iowa, (54)Missouri,
(55)Arkansas, (55)Kansas, and (57)Nebraska, is re-
markable for its (58)fertility.
The (59)principal (60)ports of (61)foieign ^com-
merce are New York and (63)Boston in the north,
New (64)Orleans in the south, and San (65)Francisco
in the west; of inland commerce, are St. (66)Louis
(67)Chicago, (68)Cincmnati, (G9)Buffalo, (70)Cleve-
land, (71)Detroit, and (72)Milwaukee.
(73)Florida is remarkable for its (74)low, (75),
marshy (76)surface, and its (77)tropical climate. It
is a (78)celebrated (79)winter (80)resort for (Sl)inva-
lids from the north. Its (82)forests are (83)exteii-
THE REGENTS' QUESTIONS.
sive, and (84)yield live (85)oak (86)timber, which is
87)valuable for ship (88)buildmg. «.
The northern (89)boimdary of New York is
(90)exactly (91)midway between the (92)equator and
the north (93)pole.
(94)Virginia is (95)mountainous in the west; its
surface (96)slopes (97)toward the (98)Chesapeake
W9)bay; its (lOO)valleys are noted for their fertility.
^OFTHf ^
UNIVERSE
SPELLING.
Examination XL V I> Nov-
(3:15 to 4:15 P. M.)
36 divisor.
17, 1881.
l^isdom.
2 excess.
3 generous.
4 Potomac
(river).
37 realm.
38 cane (sugar).
39 verse.
40 Abraham.
5 bait (for trap). 41 sickness.
6 mission. 42 Frances (femi
nine.
43 join.
44 symptom.
45 Hugh (Dame).
46 disagree.
47 sword.
48 chimney.
7 induce.
8 crowd.
9 earth.
10 abyss.
11 muff.
12 foul (un-
clean)
13 cypress (tree). 49 sky
14 sermon. 50 achieve.
15 barren. 51 saint.
16 Damascus. 52 flaw.
17 main (chief). 53 grievous.
18 career. 54 hewing (cut
19 Ithaca. ting).
20 are (from verb55 orange.
be. 56 dear (costly).
21 paragraph. 57- package.
22 explain. 58 Cain (Abel's
23 lie (falsehood) brother.
24 wheat. 59 tunnel.
25 Buffalo (city). 60 air (atmos-
26 dream. phere.
27 worse. 61 name.
28 caste (Hindoo)62 feud (quarrel).
29 equation. 63 Greece (coun-
30 Augustus. try.
bl thimble. 64 homicide.
32 fool. 65 stair.
33 grease (fat). 66 democracy.
34 hue (color). 67 proverb.
35 bulwark. 68 conquer.
69 essay.
70 acquaintance.
71 pauper.
72 Greene (coun-
ty).
73 incur.
74 repose.
75 breeze.
76 triumph.
77 level.
78 castle.
79 waste (loss).
80 abuse (verb).
81 suicide.
82 Francis (mas-
culine).
83 Cyprus (is-
land).
84 town.
85 bee (insect).
86 delicious.
87 mane (of a
horse).
88 comma.
89 rabbit.
90 accurate.
91 prepare.
92 fowl (bird).
93 smooth.
94 banana.
95 beverage.
96 deer (animal^
97 native.
98 cabinet.
99 loyal.
100 village.
THE REGENTS' QUESTIONS.
Examination «
XL VII,
March 2, 1882,
(3:15 to 4:15) I
'. M.
1 exercise.
36
lonely. •
66 knoll (small
2 preface (of
a37 bridle.
hill).
book).
38
sirloin »
(of67 sorrow.
3 command.
beef.
68 gait (in walk-
4 region. «
89
deposit.
ing).
5 burlesque.
40
story.
69 obelisk.
C Nebraska.
41
Albany.
70 agreement.
7 river.
42
renown.
71 ordain.
8 harbor.
43 limit.
72 pilgrim.
9 scissors.
44
sell (buy
and73 Matthew.
10 abstain.
sell).
74 possess.
11 shark.
45
vise (instru-75 diagram.
12 by (preposi-
inent).
. 76 travel.
tion)
46
moss (small77 buy (and sell)
13 noon.
plant).
78 modern.
14 stalk. *
47
sulphur. *
79 still.
15 Binghamton
. 48
disease.
80 program.
16 steeple.
49
road
(forSi sketch.
17 humanity.
travel).
82 mastery.
18 mosque (place50
admittance. 83 dew (mois-
of worship).
51
smoke.
ture).
19 lapse.
52
Morocco
84 lease.
20 reckon.
(country).
85 beaver (ani-
21 arsenic. •
53
instrument. rnal).
22 penalty. .
54
retail.
• 86 sacred.
23 cord (small
55
eminence.
87 metaphor.
rope).
56
treason.
88 chord (in mu-
24 melancholy.
* 57 barrier.
sic).
25 team (of 58 sluice (water- 89 partridge.
horses). way). 90 appear.
26 Harriet. . 59, feign (to j)re 91 Syracuse.
27 quart. tend) 92 usual.
28 fare (railroad). 60 whole (entire).93 peach.
29 timber. 61 Poughkeepsie94 duchess (fern.
30 abstinence. 62 'yea (yea and of duke.
31 watch. nay) 95 result.
82 gateway. 63 fair (exibition)06 bird.
33 vice (depfav-64 would (aux 97 pledge.
ity. verb). 98 escort.
84 cell (prison). "65 canvass (poli-99 manner.
85 due (owed.) tical). 100 dismission.
SPELLING.
Examination XL VI 1 1, June 15, 1882.
(3:15 to 4:15) P. m.
1 gem. 36 injustice. 69 impeach.
2 metal ( go id, etc) 37 catacomb. 70 ^Etna (volcano).
3 easy. 38 leave (pension). 71 partner.
4 Rome (city). 39 helm.
5 bench. 40 artillery.
6 ode (poem). 41 ensue.
7 claim (demand).' 42 Jupiter.
43
8 loss
9 France.
10 abbreviate.
11 lead (metal)
12 decay.
13 feast,
14 Mediterranean 49 Ohio
15 banish. 50 abound.
deceit
44 settle
45 bitter.
46 lame.
47 channel.
48 group.
(craft).
16 excite.
17 oppose.
18 divorce.
19 idiom.
20 apparatus.
21 hazard.
■ 51 harangue.
72 enamel.
73 remorse.
74 blight,
75 egg.
76 led (form of verb)'
77 abide.
78 fasten.
79 loud.
80 session (as of
a court.
81 groan.
82 refuge.
83 beautiful.
52 peace ( quiet- 84 Monroe (Pres-
ness). ident).
53 dipper. 85 gray (color).
54 parade. 86 caprice.
55 badger ( an i ma i 87 mettle (temper).
22 ces:-ion (as by 56 roam ( t0 wander). 88 Denmark.
treaty.
23 Henrietta,
24 piece (a part),
25 become.
26 jacket.
27 pestilence. «
28 challenge.
29 lottery.
30 ambition.
31 rally.
32 earl (a title).
33 spatter.
84 Canada.
35 boat.
57 ebb (of tide). 89 kingly.
58 Manhattan (is 90 advocate.
land.
59 rival.
60
61
62
63
64
65
66
attach.
noxious.
scowl.
duel.
seminary.
beware.
tedious.
91 horror.
92 ounce.
93 diary.
94 monument.
95 Bethlehem.
96 field.
97 grumble.
98 compassion.
99 illumine.
67 eye (organ of 100 good.
sight.
68 convey.
