3. Show how to find on a Terrestrial Globe, the day and hour being given, the condition of various regions of the earth with regard to day, night and twilight. 4. State Bode's Law respecting planetary distances. What curious discovery is due to it? 5. Define parallax. Explain why corrections for parallax are performed by astronomers. 6. Explain the phenomenon of the tides. 7. Make a diagram explanatory of the phases of the moon. 8. Describe the appearance of Mars, as seen through a telescope; and state the reasons given by some astronomers for the belief that that planet is inhabited. BOTANY. (For Second Class, Grade B.) Friday, July 6th; 2:45 p.m. to 4:15 p.m. Total marks, 200. 1. Make a list of articles you think necessary for a Botanical student's outfit. 2. How would you proceed to identify an unfamiliar plant by means of a Flora, i. e., a classified list of plants? 3. Explain how terrestrial plant-life may appear on a coral reef remote from land; and how European weeds have been introduced into Canada. 4. Describe the germination of a plant. 5. State the conditions essential to the growth of a plant. 6. Describe the characters of wind-pollinated and of insect-pollinated flowers. Explain, as far as possible, the causes of difference. 7. In what natural families do we find siliques, didynamous stamens, labiate corollas, or pappus-bearing achenes. Describe these structures and illustrate by drawings. 8. Name and describe one member (native of B. C.) of each of the following families :Composita, Cornacea, Orchidacea, Liliacea. NOTE. Any seven of the above questions will constitute a full paper. CHEMISTRY. (For First Class, Grades A and B.) Saturday, July 7th; 3 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Total marks, 200. 1. Discuss the value of Chemistry in relation to (a) Geology, (b) Astronomy, (c) Biology. 2. What is meant by the following terms:-(a) chemical test, (b) analysis, (c) synthesis? Give examples of each. 3. How would you test a sample of river water for the most common impurities? 4. A man inhales 18 cu. ft. of air per hour. What weight of oxygen does he consume in 24 hours? 5. Describe the spectroscope; and explain its value to the chemist. What are the characteristic spectra of Sodium, Potassium, Barium, Strontium, Lithium? 6. Name five Salts of Lime, and state how each is found in nature. What happens when water is poured upon quicklime? What is the resulting compound called? Give equation. 7. Describe Pattison's process for the desilverization of lead; also the subsequent process of cupellation to obtain silver. 8. Give a short account of the chlorination process for the extraction of gold. 9. What is the action of strong sulphuric acid on each of the following bodies:(a) sodium nitrate, (b) lead, (c) zinc, (d) potassium chloride, (e) manganese dioxide? DRAWING. (For Second Class, Grade B.) Friday July 6th; 2:45 p.m. to 4:15 p.m. Total marks, 200. 1. Drawing is divided into (a) Freehand, (b) Model, (c) Geometrical, (d) Architectural, (e) Mechanical. Define each, and make simple drawings in illustration of any three. 2. Describe, and illustrate by drawings, the successive steps you would take in placing a design of a maple leaf on the blackboard for pupils to copy. 3. What is Isometric Drawing? What is its principal use? 4. Copy the accompanying drawing (exact size). 5. What method would you adopt in instructing a class of beginners ? NOTE. in this paper. Credit will be given for the neatness and accuracy of all the illustrations required GEOLOGY. (For First Class, Grades A and B.) Saturday, July 7th; 3 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Total marks, 200. 1. Indicate some of the practical or economic bearings of Geology, and also its bearing as a branch of general education. 2. What do you mean by mechanically-formed rocks, what by chemically formed, and what by organically formed? Give an example of each. 3. State briefly, and in general terms, the views that have been advanced to account for the metamorphism of rock-masses. 4. Name some of the industrial products obtained from the Metamorphic rocks. 5. Briefly describe the nature of the Glacial Period, and mention what evidences it has left of its occurrence. (If possible, cite evidences from your own district.) 6. Give reasons for the occurrence of "benches" on the banks of the Fraser and other rivers in this Province. 7. Where in British Columbia are the following metals found: -Silver, Copper, Iron, Quicksilver? Name the ore in the form of which each is found, and state how you would recognise it. 8. Where is "modern chalk" at this moment being formed? Describe its formation. 9. Name and describe some of the most remarkable reptilian and sauroid forms that flourished during the Oolitic period? MUSIC. (For Second Class, Grade B.) Friday, July 6th; 2:45 p.m. to 4:15 p.m. Total marks, 200. 1. Into how many departments are the elements of music divided? 2. Name the clefs in general use. 3. What is harmony? 4. What is syncopation? 5. How are sharps aud flats cancelled? 6. What notes are sharp in the key of F sharp? 7. What is transposition? 8. Transpose example A into the key of C. WRITING. (For all Classes and Grades.) Thursday, July 5th; 11:15 a.m. to 12 m. Total marks, 100. NOTE.-Copies must be made with the same care that the candidate would exhibit when writing on the blackboard for the imitation of pupils. 1. Copy the following extracts : (a.) Austria contains an area of 115,914 sq. miles, and a population of 24,972,056, giving a density of population of 215 to the square mile. There are 17 Provinces, viz. :-Lower Austria, Upper Austria, Saltzburg, Styria or Steiermark, Carinthia or Kärnten, Craniola or Krain, Coast Districts (Görtz, Gradisca-Trieste, and Istria), Tyrol, Vorarlberg, Bohemia, Moravia, Silesia, Galicia, Bakowina, and Dalmatia, each possessing a separate Diet, and also sending representatives to the Reichsrath. (b.) A line drawn over a character or characters increased the value of the latter a thousandfold; for instance, V stood for 5,000; C for 100,000; IX for 9,000; and so forth. It follows then that either XXXXVI or XLVI will represent 46; and that either M. DCCC.LIV, or CIO.IOCCCLIV, or I.DCCCLIIII will repre sent 1854. 2. Perform the following operation of long division as a test of neatness:-56438971÷ 4064. ZOOLOGY. (For Second Class, Grade A.) Saturday, July 7th; 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Total marks, 200. 1. Discuss the value of the study of biology as a branch of education. 2. Distinguish between symbiosis and parasitism, and give an example of each. 3. Describe, with the aid of a drawing or otherwise, a colony of coral-polyps. Explain, as fully as you can, the process by which such a colony spreads. 4. Classify spiders according to the nature of their snares, and give instances of their intelligence. 5. What are the most striking differences between a shark and a salmon? Assign each to its genus, family, order, and class. 6. Describe, with the aid of drawings, the development of a frog from the egg. 7. Classify the carnivora. Name a British Columbian example of each class. 8. Compare the skull, hand and vertebral column of a gorilla with similar parts of a man. FRENCH. (For First Class, Grade A.). Tuesday, July 10th; 3 p.m to 5 p.m. Total marks, 200. 1. Translate into English: (1.) Chaque gentilhomme a le droit de donner sa voix dans l'élection d'un roi, et de pouvoir l'étre lui-même. Ce plus beau des droits est joint au plus grand des abus: le trône est presque toujours à l'enchère; et comme un Polonais est rarement assez riche pour l'acheter, il a été vendu souvent aux étrangers. La noblesse et le clergé défendent leur liberté contre leur roi, et l'ôtent au reste de la nation. Tout le peuple y est esclave; tant la destinée des hommes est que le plus grand nombre soit partout, de façon ou d'autre, subjugué par le plus petit! (2.) (3.) Le mélancolique animal En rêvant à cette matière Entend un leger bruit: ce lui fut un signal Pour s'enfuir devers sa tanière. Il s'en alla passer sur le bord d'un étang. Grenouilles aussitôt de sauter dans les ondes; Qu'on m'en fait faire! Ma présence Effraie aussi les gens ! je met l'alarme au camp! Comment des animaux qui tremblent devant moi ! Il n'est, je le vois bien, si poltron sur la terre, 2. (1.) Give the first persons singular, future indicative, and the principal parts of the verbs in italics. (2.) Write notes on- (a.) l' in l'etre lui-même. (b.) tant in tant la destinée, &c. (c.) de sauter in Grenouilles de sauter. (d.) en in j'en fais faire. (e.) le in je le vois bien. (3.) Distinguish between dans and en, and give rules for the employment of each. 3. Write rules for the employment of the pronoun lui, both as subject and object, and illustrate by examples. 4 Translate into French : (a.) You are late. I have been waiting for you an hour. (b.) It is absolutely necessary that I see him before his departure. (c.) You are lucky. (d.) It would appear that this is not the first time that a similar accident has happened at this place. (e.) I have an appointment with Mr. Smith at the Custom-House to-morrow morning, at 20 minutes to 9 o'clock. 5. Write the following sentences in the plural :— L'oeil est un miroir. Le cheval est le serviteur et l'ami de l'Arabe. Le chien est le compagnon de l'homme. Le coucou est un oiseau. Ce local est un bijou. Le chameau est le vaisseau du désert. Le travail est un épouvantail pour les paresseux. 6. Replace the nouns in italics in the following sentences by corresponding pronouns :— Les hommes louent la vertu mais les hommes ne pratiquent pas la vertu. L'éléphant est si pesant que l'éléphunt écrase plus de plantes que l'éléphant ne mange de plantes. L'homme oublie plus de choses que l'homme ne retient de choses. Le Rhône traverse le lac Léman; le Rhône entre dans le lac Léman près de Bouveret et le Rhône sort du lac Léman à Genève. Tous les hommes regrettent la vie lorsque la vie échappe aux hommes. Le café est amer; pour adoucir le café on met du sucre dans le café. J' aime le son de la harpe, et je regrette de ne pas savoir jouer de la harpe. 7. Write, in French, an invitation to a friend to spend a few days with you after the examination, and a reply thereto. GREEK. (For First Class, Grade Α.) Tuesday, July 10th ; 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. Total marks, 200. [NOTE. The translation from Greek should be into idiomatic English.] A. (a.) Translate-- Ἐχόμενοι δὲ τούτων γερροφόροι, ἐχόμενοι δὲ ὁπλῖται σὺν ποδήρεσι ξυλίναις ἀσπίσιν, Αἰγύπτιοι δ' οὗτοι ἐλέγοντο εἶναι· ἄλλοι δ' ἱππεῖς, ἄλλοι τοξόται. πάντες δ ̓ οὗτοι κατὰ ἔθνη ἐν πλαισίῳ πλήρει ἀνθρώπων ἕκαστον τὸ ἔθνος ἐπορεύετο· πρὸ δὲ αὐτῶν ἅρματα δια-λείποντα συχνὸν ἀπ' ἀλλήλων τὰ δή δρεπανηφόρα καλούμενα· εἶχον δὲ τὰ δρέπανα ἐκ τῶν ἀξόνων εἰς πλάγιον ἀποτεταμένα καὶ ὑπὸ τοῖς δίφροις εἰς γῆν βλέποντα, ὡς δια-κόπτειν ὅτῳ ἐν-τυγχάνοιεν. ἡ δὲ γνώμη ἦν ὡς εἰς τὰς τάξεις τῶν Ἑλλήνων ἐλῶντα καὶ διακόψοντα. 1. Decline ἱππεῖς, τοξόται, ὅτῳ. 2. ἐχόμενοι δὲ τούτων. What verbs govern the genitive in Greek ? 3. ἐπορεύετο . . . εἶχον. 4. ἐλῶντα καὶ διακόψοντα. (b.) Translate Discuss the concord of these words with their subjects. Πρὸς ταῦτα μεταστάντες οἱ Ἕλληνες ἐβουλεύοντο· καὶ ἀπεκρίναντο, Κλέαρχος δ' ἔλεγεν· Ἡμεῖς οὔτε συνήλθομεν ὡς βασιλεῖ πολεμήσοντες οὔτε ἐπορευόμεθα ἐπὶ βασιλέα, ἀλλὰ πολλὰς προφάσεις Κῦρος εὕρισκεν, ὡς καὶ σὺ εἶ οἶσθα, ἵνα ὑμᾶς τε ἀπαρασκεύους λάβοι καὶ ἡμᾶς ἐνθάδε ἀγάγοι. ἐπεὶ μέντοι ἤδη αὐτὸν ἑωρῶμεν ἐν δεινῷ ὄντα, ᾐσχύνθημεν καὶ θεοὺς καὶ ἀνθρώπους προδοῦναι αὐτόν, ἐν τῷ πρόσθεν χρόνῳ παρέχοντες ἡμᾶς αὐτοὺς εἶ ποιεῖν. ἐπεὶ δὲ Κῦρος τέθνηκεν, οὔτε βασιλεῖ ἀντι-ποιούμεθα τῆς ἀρχῆς οὔτ ̓ ἔστιν ὅτου ἕνεκα βουλοίμεθα ἂν τὴν βασιλέως χώραν κακῶς ποιεῖν. |