Who has done this? I, replied the child. (9) Has your brother come? (h) The letters you sent me (envoyer) were badly written. (i) I have written eleven letters to-day.) It is of consequence (importe) that you should go. DICTATION AND PENMANSHIP. TWENTY MINUTES allowed for these exercises. Candidates are not to paint their letters in the copy-setting exercise, but to take care that the copy is clean and without erasures. Omissions and erasures in the dictation exercises will be counted as mistakes. The words must not be divided between two lines; there is plenty of room for the passage to be written. Write in large hand, as a specimen of penmanship, the word, Perpendicular. Write in small hand, as a specimen of penmanship, the sentence "A child's eye is quick to observe, and learns something every moment." DICTATION. Write the passage dictated to you by the Examiner and punctuate it correctly. (For the Examiner.) The passages A1, A2 are to be given alternately if the number of Candidates is large and there is danger of copying. If one is enough, give the first (A1). The passages should be read once distinctly, and then dictated once in portions as marked. If the room is large and there is danger of your not being heard at its extremity, you may permit one of the officers of the college to stand half-way down the room, and repeat the words after you, exactly as you give them out." It is essential that there be no complaint on the part of the Candidates that they could not hear or understand: you can only prevent this by clearness, accuracy, and audibility. Ar The Emperor's retreat | lay in a wild romantic country, | embosomed among hills that stretch along the northern boundary of one of the most mountainous provinces of Spain. | The building, which was of great antiquity, had been surrounded by its inmates | with cultivated gardens and with groves of lemon and myrtle, whose fragrance was tempered by the refreshing coolness of the waters that streamed from the precipitous cliffs. It was a delicious retreat, and by its calm seclusion and the character of its scenery was well suited to withdraw the mind | from the tur moil of the world and dispose it to serious meditation. A,. The interest of his hearers | grew more intense with every word, till the whole multitude | broke into a universal cheer, and then rushed in all directions | to carry the welcome tidings home. | It was like the burst of all nature, when the frost suddenly breaks up| and the ground resumes its natural colouring. | The Roman people seemed to breathe and move at liberty; confidence revived | and the ordinary business of life regained its activity; money, which had been hoarded, came into circulation; | in the confidence of the moment men almost forgot that their great enemy | with his unbroken forces | was still in their country. GRAMMAR. TWO HOURS AND A HALF allowed for this paper. No abbreviations of less than three letters to be used in parsing or analysis. SECTION I. Parse the words in italics in the following passage: Then raising her voice to a strain The sweetest that ear ever heard, 'Twas liberty only to hear. When we heard the horse stop, "Come in, Doctor," said he, "If you have a few minutes to spare; you were never more welcome." "I hope nothing ails either Deborah or yourself," replied the Doctor. SECTION II. Write in simple prose one of the following passages: (a) I love the season well When forest glades are teeming with bright forms, The coming-on of storms. The softly warbled song Comes from the pleasant woods, and coloured wings Or (b) At length the freshening western blast And first the ridge of mingled spears And plumèd crests of chieftains brave, SECTION III. Analyse the following passage:Cæsar, who is commonly esteemed to have been the founder of the Roman Empire, possessed very eminently all the qualities, both native and acquired, that enter into the composition of a hero, but failed of the honour, because he overthrew the laws of his own country, and raised his greatness by the conquest of his fellow-citizens more than of their enemies. SECTION IV. Write out the plurals of cow, cloth, deer, datum, quarto, factory, species, and the past tenses of the verbs strike, swing, sing, tear, split. Give words (not more than six) derived from the Latin duco, I lead; fundo, I pour; with their meanings. Write out the classes of pronouns with two examples of each. (These form one question.) SECTION V. Give the force of the prefixes in the words printed in italics in the following passages: Scenes so singularly opposed are peculiar to beds of slate, which are both vast in elevation and easy of destruction. The comparative durableness of the rock forbids vegetation, but the exposed summits are not subject to laws of rapid destruction. The imprudent zeal with which the nobles had supported the royal prerogative in opposition to the Commons in the commotions of the previous year, enabled Charles to depress one of the orders and to destroy the balance to which the Constitution owed its security. SECTION VI. Write full notes of a lesson on one of the following subjects: (a) Relative pronouns. (b) Substantive clauses. (c) The channels through which Latin words have been introduced into our language. SECTION VII. Write a letter descriptive of (a) The Arctic Expedition of 1876. Or (b) The rescue of the Welsh miners at Pontypridd. Or (c) A pupil teacher's course of studies. Or (d) The natural beauties of your own neighbourhood. Underline any words you know to have come down to us from other sources than Anglo-Saxon. FEMALE CANDIDATES. ARITHMETIC. THREE HOURS allowed for this paper. Candidates are not permitted to answer more than one question in each section. The solution must in every instance be given at such length as to be intelligible to the Examiner, otherwise the answer will be considered of no value. SECTION I. Add together nine millions nine hundred and nine thousands and ninety-nine; seven hundred and forty thousands and forty-seven; six millions twenty thousands and two hundreds; eight thousands and eighty-eight; thirteen millions one hundred and thirty thousands and four hundreds. From the sum subtract four millions four hundred and six thousands three hundreds and sixty-seven; and divide the remainder by ninety-four. SECTION II. Divide £7,483,192 2s. 7 d. by 803, and prove your sum by multiplication. SECTION III. Work out the following bill of parcels :17 lbs. of candles at 4 d. per lb. 7 lbs. of tea at 2s. 3d. per lb. 220 oranges at 74d. per dozen. SECTION IV. Find, by Practice, the value of 8 trucks of coal, each weighing 9 tons 12 cwt. 21 lbs., at 14s. 7d. per ton. SECTION V. 1. What would be the half-yearly dividend from an investment of £3300 in the 3 per cents., made when the stock was standing at 91 ? 2. What sum of money must be invested in the 51 per cent. stock at 83, to enable the possessor to realise an income of £64 3s. 4d. per calendar month? SECTION VI. 1. What would be the expense of painting (at 3s. 2d. a yard) the walls of a room 27 feet long, 17 feet broad, and 11 feet high, the dimensions of four windows being 7 feet by 4 feet each ? 2. What length of carpet, of a yard wide, would be required to cover the above room? And what would be the cost at 58. 3d. per yard? SECTION VII. 1. Divide £10 10s. between A and B, so that of A's portion shall equal of B's. 2. If 33 of a yard of French merino cost £1 148. 4 d., what would of of a yard cost? SECTION VIII. 1. Prove the rule for the multiplication and division of decimals. 2. Find the value of 7.92384 and 1003 53 +1250 and of 8 x ⚫016 x .0032. SECTION IX. 1. What is the percentage gained by the nowspaper boys who buy the daily papers at 9d. per dozen, and sell them at a 1d. each. Explain your answer. 2. Describe ratio, and illustrate your definition by an example. 3. If 25 men could set up a mile of telegraph wire in 24 days of 8 hours' work, what length of wire would 20 set up, working 10 hours a day for 20 days? |