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'EY.WIN NSBORO, S. C., FRIDA Ay 31, 1901. Ifformatn aN NS Those who yg " uestons fpn v9-- v Pe s' o r e Colieges of South cg-A Offering SchdfmL shipsAO'be Filled by Competitive Examinations Competitive examinations are held in each of the counties of South Carolina for scholarships in the following institutions: Winthrop, .Citadel, South Caro lina College, and the College of Charleston. For the benefit of those who will stand these ex aminations this year the ques jj~ used last year are printed Nrein as suggestive of what the applicants of this year may ex pect. Prospective applicants would-do well to make good use of these "uestjigs for while they are not thpame as will be give'n is year they suggest very largely the nature of the questions asked from year to year. In preparing for and in stand ing an examination there are some general points that the applicant would do well to observe, among which are the following: Begin early. There is nothing that is calculated better to bring ; on examination fever 'he morn of i the examination than .o postpone < preparation till too near that day: n examinations the early bird most frequently catches the worm. i Study under the guidance of I some one. With instructor you t can accomplish twice as much as 1 you can without one. If you are s really bent on winning a scholar- t ship, it will pay you and pay you a well to get the assistance of a t o petent instructor, even if you v e to ride several miles to reach f< i oview constantly. It will be E great assistance to you to r. ir .re ly all that ye-,Zgo ci e a rapid rexiWir each e Tytt have already ecial atten examinations fiequently.V Your oral reviews and-examina tions will not be sufficient. Your examination will be written work and you should practice yourself in doing the written work. You c may be able to rattle off your knowledge ever so rapid with y.ur tongue, but you prepare .ourself to write it. And be not . careless in this written work, for it will tell on you on examination i day. To stand a written examin ation at least once a week on the subjects on which you are to be xamined will prove of the great est advantage to you, especially if you will have this written work examined by a competent person. Begin with only one study. Put yourself to it on history or ( arithmetic for several days con * secutively until you have pre- 3 pared yourself on the subject in question. Then take up another study and so on till you have covered the field. Study principles. For instance, 1your examination is on arith-C metic, do not worry yourself with trying to work every example in the book, but rather give yourself to a study of the prin::iples onee by one till you can master each one. The probabilities are thatt you will not get a single one of the ones that you work, but every one given on examination will be an -illustration of some one of the principles that you have studied. f This same law applies with equal I force to your other studies. c Read some' good book. In al- I most every competitive examina- t tion given these days there is a ( question involving an expression of opinion from you as to some c book you have read. You mar a be called upon to write upon some character in it or you may c be asked about something in con- t nection with its style. It is therefore the greatest importance I to you to have read some good i book in such a way as to show } your familiarity with it. The Sketch Book by Washington Irv- 1, ing is often included in the list of books about which questions are asked and from which ques tions on rhetoric and grammar are taken. A paragraph from a book may be given you and you may be asked to analyze it fully. Unless you have had full practice in this exrcise von wouldo (1i /well to practice r - fore IO. et on current events S'eat many applicants hav< failed in the last few years on ac. count of their inalility to answei a -question or qutgtions as tc current events. The student whc is not keeping-4 ouch with the history of the present day will be placed oftentimes at a great .disadvantage in the examination room. It is not probable that the examinations of this summer will come off without some ques tions on the geography and his tory of some important incident within the past five years. Study South Carolina. The teaching of home geography and history is occupying such a large place in the schoolroom of late years that it is not very likely that any of the examinations on these subjects will be without several questions on the geogra phy and history of South Caro lina. If you have not in your school course studied South Carolina history you should give onsiderable attention to it be .ore going into the examination room. Some question in regard :o your own county may be asked ou and you should at least be Lble to draw a good map of it, Iven if you can not find anything lse about it. Write a letter. It oftentimes tappens that a large part of the ,nglish examination is given to he writing of a letter. By this -tter the candidate's ability to pell, write, and compose is ested. You may be able to write good letter but you should see I at you write it in accordance 'ith the grammatical rules there )r. Looktiut for catch questions. specially is this true in history which there are a number of ttch-questions that are always )ming up. EXAMINATION QUESTIONS a cxaminations for scholars ie institutions below last summ Winthrop College Questions. GEOGRAPHY. 1. Describe the general physi al features of North America. 2. a Bound the Dominion of anada. b Name and locate its seat of overnment. c What great bodies of water e within its boundaries? 3. What natural advantages ave the following places: 1. New Yor City? 2. Seattle, Wash.? 3. San Francisco? 4. Leadville, Colo.? 5. Columbia, S. C.? 4. a Draw a map of South larolina. b Locate, by a dotted outline, our own county, and place and ame its court house. c Locate on the map the fob >wmng: Port Royal, Savannah River, sittle Pedee River, Aiken, Lan aster, Little Mountain, the Sand fills, Cape Romain, Columbia, partanburg, Camden. 5. Name one country in West rn Europe, and one in Southern urope. Give the capitals of bo0th, and be princ'ipal industries of those ities. HISToRY. 1. (a) Give date for each of the >llowing: Battle of C2owpens, 'irst Continental Congress, Se ession of South Carolina. (b) locate the territory included in be Louisiana Purchase; in the badsdenI Purchase. 2. What do you consider the ecisive b)attle of the Reeolution rv War? Why? ~3. Name six ~prominent leaders n each side in the War Between be States. 4. What was the policy of the tepublican party 'n 1800? What s the p~olicy' of the Republican arty inl 1900? 5.~State concisely what you now of (a) The Monroe Doctrine (b)l Francis Marion (e ) Mt. Vernon (di) Daniel 'Webster e) Nullification (1882) (f , The Kansas-Nebraska Bill' (g) The "Trent A flair" h) The 15th Amendment to be Constitution (i) The Presidential Succession Law of 1.886. ENGLISH GRAMMAR. [The fiNt three questions refer to ,the following selection:] "Rip's story was soon told, for the -whole twenty years had been with him but as one night. The neighbors stared when they heard it; some were seen to wink at each other, and put their tongues in their cheek; and the self-im portant man in the cocked hat, who when the alarm was over, had returned to the field, scretced down the corners of his mouth,, and shook his head-upon which there was a general shakinq of the head throughout the assemblage." -[Irving. 1. Select the adjective and the adverb clauses, and tell what each modifies. 2. Select all verbs in the pas sive voice. 3. Parse the words printed in itaids. 4. Parse the words in italics in the following sentences: (a) The policeman found the child -his hat and started him homeward. (b) The people made Henry king. (c) The prisoner escaped three 5. Decline the following words: Burns; he; city. 7. Tell what the following words mean: corroborate, vigil, heredi tary, impunity, torpor, doublet, desist, uncouth, flagon, quaff. SPELLING AND COMPOSI TION. SPELLING. [The examiner will please dic ate these words.] Abscess, grammar, admission, tousense, anoint, fountain, parlia nent. movable,-separable, ruffian, esture, Raleigh, referring,village, ndeavor, Massachusetts, absence, ppetite, guard, Mississippi. [The applicant may make sixty n the above spelling, threq for I). . ons it bhrop Col. work you has teacher. Name ne you have studied recenti, ;ell how much of each you have completed. [The spelling and the letter will count as one subject in the examination. The form of the letter, with capitals, spellin, punctuation, and penmanship wil be considered in grading.] ARITHMETIC AND ALGEBRA. 1. A man bought a block of marble 4 f t. 9 in. long, 2 ft. 7 in. wide, 2 ft. 5j in. thick. How much (lid he pay for it at the rate >f $15.80 pe cubic yard? 2. I wish to put 116 bu. 1 pk. 4 qt. of grain into bags that shall cotain 2 bu. 1 pk. 4 qt. each. How many bags will be required? 3. When it is noon at Green ich it is 6 hr. 52 min. 40 sec. A. M. at Harrisburg. What is the longitude of Harrisburg? 4. C and D have the same in come. C saves one-twelfth of his, 1 but D, by spending $65 more each year than C, at the end of six < ears finds himself $60 in debt. How much did each spend yearly? 5. What is the net amount of a ill of $360, discounts being 12}| per cent and 8-per cent? Find a ingle discot..nt equivalent to bhese two successive discounts. 6. A man borrowed $1200 at Sper cent and retained it until it was doubled. How long did he have it? 8. The sum of $76 was raised by A, B and C, together; B con ributed as much as A and $10 more, and C as much as A and B together; how much did each con :ribute? Multiply i x 2 - g and Citadel Quostions. GEoGRAPHY-vALUE 75.| 1) Whlat is longitude; latitude; the equator? 2) Bound Virginia; Germany; Himd~ostan. :3 Locate the following cities: Havre, Callao, Trieste, Melbourne, Hamburg, Chicago. 4) Describe the following rivers: Danune, Ohio, Congo, Rhone. - 5) Describe the following lakef Gt. Salt Lake, Gt. Bear, Titicaca Borgne. 6) Where are the followinj mountaing: Pyrenees, Caucasus Andes, Caskill? 7) On what waters would yoi sail in going from Baltimore t< Pekin? HISTORY-VALUE 75. 1) Name an explorer workinf in interest of English; Dutch Spanish, French. 2) What was the cause of the last French and Indian Warl What battle terminated the war, and who were in command? 3) What Colony was estab lishedb the Roman Catholics; by the Quakers; by the Dutch? 4) Name three important bat tles of the Revolutionary War, the commanders, the results of the battles, and the effects on the struggle. 5) at was the Mississippi Compromise; Nullification; Kan sas-Nebraska Bill? 6) Name four great battles during the War for Southern Ir dependence, the results, the com manders, and the influence of each on the struggle. 7) Name the Presidents that have been elected mainly because of their military records. GRAMMAR-VALUE 100. 1) Decline I, thou, he, she, i.t 2) Write the plural of 7, Ger man, fox, loaf, family. topaz, wagon-load. 3) Compare ugly, near, little, plentiful, round. 4) Give the principal parts of Irive, begin, choose, wind, swear, )ind. 5) State the uses of the fol owing moods: indicative, poten ial, subjuictive. Give 1st per on, singular, present perfect tense >f ring pi'the three moods. 6) orrect and parse the fol ow' The person who you are 1oi;o much for does no.t ap iate your kindness. -VALUE'100. t of the jo -5 miles per~ Vur, an If at rate of 51 miles ow long did it take n left i of his estate to -8 of the remainder to and the rest to his daugh ;er. -.he. wife received $546,75 nore than the daughter, what did mach receive? 5) A garrison of 357 men had !ood for 112 days; but reinforce nents came and the food lasted >nly 98 days. How many men w-ere received as reinforcements? 6) How must a dealer mark an article coating $6.50 so as to sell t 9 per cent below marked price, md still make 12 per cent profit? 7). What principal at 7 per ~ent will amt. to $307.35 in 1 yr. 5m. 18 da.? What is value of ?4 7s. 8d. if 01= $4.80 ? ALGEBRA-VALUE 50. 1) Define coefficient; exponent. 4) In midwinter in St. Peters urg the night is 13 hours longer ;han the day; how many hours of lav, of night? 5) T-wo bodies are 96 yards apart. If they move towards each other they will meet in 8 sees.; but if they move in the same direction the swifter over ;akes the slower in 48 secs. Find -ate of each. m+n 2m Simplify 4 5 {3x Extract square root of 19 x2 + Ox +25 +x4 +30 x Ch arleston College Questions. III. ENGLISH. I. Write out a list of the books you have read under the three hieadings (a) Novels, (b) Poems. znd Dramas, (c) Es.says~ and other Prose JmorAs. Underline once bhe titles of the books you like best; twice, the titles of those you know best. Say how you [ave studied those which you know best. II. Write in a free and natural wvay, but carefully, from 250 to 300 words of any one (choo8e only one) of the following subjects: My reasons for Going to Col y Favorite Study A Day of Country Life A Scene in Charleston An Exciting Part of a Game III. 1. How different to this is the life of Fv'via! 2. She con siders her husband as her stew ard, and looks upon discretion and good housewifery as little domestic virtues unbecoming a woman of quality. 3. She thinks life lost in her own family, and fancies herself out of the world when she is not in the ring, the playhouse, or the drawing-room. 4. She lives in a perpetual motion of body and restlessness of thought, and is never easy in any one place when she thinks there is more company in another. 5. The missing of an opera the first night would be more afflicting to her than the death of a child. 6. She pities all the valuable part of her own sex, and calls every woman of a prudent, modest, retired life, a poor-spirited, un polished creature. 7. What a mortification would it be to Ful via, if she knew that her setting herself to view is but exposing herself, and that she grows con temptible by being conspicuous! In the above passage (a) Name, by number, the sen tences which are (1) simple, (2) compound, (3) complex. (b) What is the full subject of sentence (5)? (c) What are the elauses in sen tence (7)? What part of speech is setting and exposing? (d) Write out and classify, all the praes in sentences 1 and 3. IV. HISTORY. 1. Give a full account of oc-. currences in Boton-on the way to Lexington and Concord, and ] on the return, from April 18th to a April 20th, 1775. 2. Trace the movements of < Cornwallis fpom the moment he I rend r ZWhen was thereo Peace between Great Britain and the United States definitely signed? When was the Constitution adopted? What State was the last to sign? On what day in what year was Washington inau gurated? 4. Name the Presidents in order giving the term of office of each -from Washingten to Polk. 5. Explain the state of feeling in the country which made the act of Genet possible, and tell what he attempted to do. 6. Name three very important occurrences dvring Jefferson's ad ministration and describe each full. V. GEOGRA PHY. 1. Draw a map of North Amer ica-marking on its coast, as nearly as possible, the spaces covered by its several political divisions. 2. Name the 8 largest cities strung along the great Lakes (in the U. S.) from Oswego to Duluth -neither of these included. 3. Name the countries of South America in order beginning at the Isthmus of Panama-going east and by way of south back to said Isthmus. 4. Name all the countries of Europe, telling which are penin sular and which insular. 5. Name the capitals of Spain -Portugal-Austria-Sweden. 6. Beginning at the Red Sea and goiang east-tell all the coun tries of Asia one would pass if sailing to the Yellow Sea. II. GEOMETRY. NoTE.-Applicants for admis sion who have never studied Geometry may omit the questions on this subject, and if they meet the requirements in the other subjects, they will be admitted on condition. Opportunity to re move this condition will be given during the College session. (Answer any four questions) 1. At any point on a line erect a perpendicular to the line. 2. What is the locus of all points equi-distant from two given intersecting lines? State and prove. 3. From a point without a cir ele draw a tangent to the circle. 4.- Show how to circumscribe a circle about a triangle. 5. The square on the hypoten ise of a right -angled triangle is equal to the sum of the squares on the two other sides. ALGEBRA. 1. Factor x1 - y'"; xG + yc; x4 - y4 2. Factor x2 - x - 30; x! + 7 x + 12 3. Solve a x + b y = c px+qy- r 4. Solve x2-i x + =0 5. Solve x+ 7-x = x TV South Carolina College Questions. ENGUSH. 1. Define gender, number and case. Form possessive case sing ular and plural of lady, child, mouse, valley, editor-in-chief. Decline she, they, who. 2. Name the moods and define tense. Conjugate present tense of send, will, and give principal parts of call, be, give, seek, put. Explain the infinitives in "He will go to see the house to let." 3. Analyze: "Our Father, wkich art in Heaven, hallowed be thy name. thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in Hea vlen." Parse itzlicised words. 4. Write a paragraph of 150 words on My Favorite Author, or >n Country Life Compared with rown Life, or on Modes of Fraveling. GEOGRAPHY AND HISTORY. South Carolina. 1. Locate Dorchester County. Jonway. Tyger River. Seaboard tir Line Railway. Bound your Jounty. 2. Describe the destruction of libault's Colony. The Campaign ,gainst the Cherokees, 1761. 3. Effect of Braddock's defeat >n the settlement of South Caro ina. Cause and progresa of ator troubles, about 1768. C g.Pin e m. m ore Simms. United States. 5. Name rivers flowing from ;he East into the Mississippi. Locate Adirondacks. Pike's Peak. Sit. St. Elias. 6. Name the waters traversed y a steamer from New York ;hrough the Suez Canal to Manila 7. John Tyler's administration; ssues, parties and leaders. 8. Territory acquired by the Iexican War. 9. Lee~s Campaign in Mary and, 1863. 10. Issues, parties and leaders n the Campaign of 1896. LATIN. 1. Translate: Horum adventn banta rerum commutatio est facta, it nostri, etiam qui vulneribus 3onfecti procubuissent, scutis in aiixi proelium redintegrarent; tum solones perterritos hostes con spicati etiam inermes armatis ccurrerunt, equites vero, ut burpitudinem fugae virtute dele eent, omnibus in locis pugnarunt, iuo so legionariis militibuis prae Eerrent. II. 1. Decline Horum; qui;.vul 'teribus; hostes; militibus.. 2. Uell where found and give prin ~ipal parts of confecti; procubuis sent; occurrerunt; delerent; prae ~errent. -. - - III. Write in Latin: 1. The.ar eival of these made ag"reat change. 2. They leaned on thieir sheilds in order to renew the biftle. 3. rhey fought so that the baseness >f flight was wiped out. 4. We nust frighten the enemy. MATHEMATIC3.. 1. Add together three thous mnd, four hundredths, eight benths, forty, three-fourths, one ialf, and two and two-tenths. Divide .00042 by 200. and explaini rour method. 3. Find what per cent. of *i~ is. ERow many bonds bought at~ 9.8 per cent. must I sell at 112 per rent. to make $24,000 profit? ~ 7. A crew which can 'pilll ad he rate of 12 miles an hour do*p he stream, finds that it takes wice as long to come up~ tiIe river as to go down.. At -ksa rate does the stream flow? (Continued onl fourth page.) e