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"U ; 'r.y 4. * ' . ^ - 'r:; ?% VP J" / fe ? v SUPPLEMENT TO I'It OK AND BANNER. 7 " .ABBEVILLE, S. C.. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5, 1901. COMPETITIVE EXAMINATIONS. Information and Suggestions for Those who will Compete in the Competitive Examinations for Scholarships In the Colleges of South Carolina Offering Scholarships to be Filled by Competitive Examinations Competitive examinations are held in each of the counties of South Carolina for scholarships in the following institutions: ~T ? J V o -xv. r\ >V intnrop, .uiiaaei, oouui v/wulina College, and the College of Charleston. For the benefit of those who will stand these examinations this year the questions used last year are printed herein as suggestive of what the applicants of this year may expect. Prospective applicants would do well to make good use of these questions for while they are not the same as will be given this year they suggest very largely the nature of the questions anked from year to year. In preparing for and in standing 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 the morn of the exanination than to postpone preparation till too near that day. In examinations the early bird most frequently catches the worm. Study under the guidance of Bome one. With instructor you can accomplish twice as much as you can without one. If you are i really bent on winning a scholarship, it will pay you and pay you ; well to ctet the assistance of a 1 competent instructor, even if you have to ride several miles to reach 1 Review constantly. It will be ! of great assistance to jou to re- i view repeatedly all that yon go < over. Take a rapid review each < day of what you have already gone over, paying special atten tion to the points you fail on in these reviews. < Stand examinations frequently. ' Your oral reviews and examinations will not be sufficient. Your examination will be written work and you should practice yourself in doing the written work. You 1 nray be able to rattle off your knowledge ever so rapid with 1 our toncue. but vou prepare / ? ? * w mmyourself to write it. And be not I careless in this written work,> for it will tell on you on examination day. To stand a written examination at least once a week on "the subjects on which you a're to be examined will prove of the greatest 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 consecutively until you have pre pared yourself on the subject in question. Then take up auother study and so on till you have covered the field. Study principles. For instance, if your examination is on arithmetic, do not worry yourself with trying to work every example in the book, but rather give yourself to a study of the principles one by one till you can master each one. The probabilities are that you will not get a single one of the ones that you work, but every one givon on examination will be an illustration of some one of the principles that you have studied. This same law applies with equal fnrp* fn vnnr ot.liftl' studies. ? J v liead some good book. In almost everj competitive examination given these days there is a question involving an expression of opinion from yon as to some book you have read. You may be called upon to write uponsome character in it or you may be asked about something in connection with its style. It is therefore the greatest importance to you to have read some good book in such a way as to show your familiarity with it. The Sketch Book by Washington Irving is often included in the list of books about which questions ^ 1 # Li.L Are asked ana irom wmua questions on rhetoric aud 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 exercise you would do well to practice yourself in it before the day of examination. Post yourself on current events, A great many applicants haw failed in the last few years on account of their inability to answei a' question or questions as to current events. The student who is not keeping in touch with the history of tne 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 som? questions on the ceocraohv 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 geography and historv of South Carolina. If you have not in your school course studied South Carolina history you should give considerable attention to it before going into the examination room. Some question in regard 1 ?.i.? AmItA/3 10 your OWI1 CUUiitj maj uo Mk?u you and you should at least be able to draw a good map of it, even if you can not find anything else about it. Write a letter.. It oftentimes happens that a large part of the English examination is given to the writing jf a letter. By this letter the candidate's ability to spell, write, and compose is tested. You may be able to write t good letter but you should see that you write it in accordance with the grammatical rules therefor. Lookout for catch questions. Especially is this true in history in which there are a number of catch-questions that are always coming up. EXAMINATION QUESTIONS (The following-questions were given an examinations for scholarships in the institutions below last summer.) Wlnthrop College Questions. GEOGRAPHY. 1. Describe the general physical features of North America. 2. a Bound the Dominion of Canada. b Name and locate its seat of government. c What great bodies of water lie within its boundaries? 3. What natural advantages have 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 Carolina. b Locate, by a dotted outline, your own county, and place and name its court house. c Locate on the map the folowing: Port Royal, Savannah River, Little Pedee River, Aiken, Lan caster, Little Mountain, the Sand Hills, Cape Komain, Columbia, Spartanburg, Camden. 5. Name one country in Western Europe, and one in Southern Europe. flivo f.ViA rA.rtiffl.1fi nf both, and the principal industries of those cities. HI8T0RY. 1. (a) Give date for each of tho following: Battle of Cowpens, First Continental Congress, Secession of South Carolina, (b) Locate the territory included in the Louisiana Purchase; in the Gadsden Purchase. 2. What do you consider the decisive battle of the Keeolutionary War? Why? 3. Name six prominent leaders on each side in the War Between the States. 4. What was the policy of the Republican party in 1800? What is the policy of the Republican party in 1900? 5. State concisely what you know of (a) The Monroe Doctrine (b) Francis Marion (c) Mt. Vernon (d) Daniel Webster (e) Nullification (1832) (f) The Kansas-Nebraska Bill te) The "Trent Aftair" (Fi) The 15th Amendment tc [the Constitution (i) The Presidential Succession Law of 1886. ENGLISH GRAMMAR. 1 [The first three questions refer to the following selection:] "Rm's story was soon told, for ?r ? y 1 the whole twenty years had been 1 with him but as one night. The 1 neighbors stared when they heard | it; some were seen to wink at ' each other, an^ put their tongnes 1 in their cheek; and the self-im| portant man in the cocked hat, who when the alarm was over, had returned to thS field, screwed down the corners of his mouth, and ' shook his head?upon which there was a general shaJcing of the head ! throughout the assemblage ?[Irving. 1 1. Select the adjective and the | adverb clauses, and tell what each modifies. 2. Select all verbs in the pas1 sive voice. 3. Parse the words printed in italics. 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 threa times. 5. Decline the following words: Burns; he; city. 7. Tell what the following words mean: corroborate, vigil, hereditary, impunity, torpor, doublet, desist, uncouth, flagon, quaff. SPELLING AND COMPOSI' TION. SPELLING. [The examiner will please dictate thfiRA tfords.1 Abscess, grammar, admission, nonsense, anoint, fountain, parliament. movable, separable, ruffian, gesture, Raleigh, referring,village, endeavor, Massachusetts, absence, appetite, guard, Mississippi. [The applicant may make sixty on the above spelling, three for each word.] COMPOSITION. Write a letter to President D. B. JohnsoD, stating your reasons for wishing to attend Winthrop College, and telling what work you have done as student or teacher. Name the text-books you have studied recently, and tell how much of each you have completed. ?The spelling and the letter will coupt as one subject in the examination. The form of the letter, with capitals, spelling, punctuation, and penmanship will De considered in grading.] ARITHMETIC AND ALGEBRA. 1. A man bought a block of marbled ft. 9 in. long, 2 ft. 7 in. wide, 2 ft. 5} in. thick. How much did he pay for it at the rate of $15.80 per cubic yard? 2. I wish to pgt 116 bu. 1 pk. 4 qt. of grain into bags that shall contain 2 bu. 1 pk. 4 qt. each. How many bags will be required? 3. When it is noon at Greenwich 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 income. C saves one-twelfth of his, but D, by spending $65 more each year than C, at the end of six years finds himself $60 in debt. How much did each spend yearly? 5. What is the net amount of a bill of $360, discounts beinj* 12? J per cent and 8 per cent? Find a single discount equivalent to these two successive discounts. 6. A man borrowed $1200 at 5? per cent and retained it until it was doubled. How long did he hav6 it? 8. The sum of $76 was raised by A, B and C, together; B contributed as much as A and $10 more, and C as much as A and B together; how much did each con tribute? Multiply ? x 3 ? ? x ? J and i \ x * + ? x - | Citadel Quottlons. GEOGRAPHY?VALUE 75. 1) What is longitude; latitude; the equator? 2) Bound Virginia; Germany; TT lnrlnaf on 3) Locate the following cities: i Havre, Callao, Trieste, Melbourne, Hamburg, Chicago. ? 4) Describe the following rivers: Danube, Ohio, Congo, Rhone. 5) Describe the following lakes: Gt. Salt Lake, Gt. Bear, Titicaca, Borgne. 6) Where are the following mountaing: Pyrenees, Caucasus, Andes, Catskijl? 7) On what waters would you sail in going from Baltimore to Pekin? HISTORY?VALUE 75. 1) Name an explorer working in interest of English; Dutch, Spanish, French. 2) What was the cause of the last French and Indian War? What battle terminated the war, and who were in command? 3) What Colony was established by the Roman Catholics; by the Quakers; by the Dutch? 4) Name three important battles of the K evolutionary War, the commanders, the results of the battles, and the effects on the struggle. 5) What was the Mississippi Compromise; Nullification; Kansas-Nebraska Bill? 6) Name four great battles during the War for Southern Independence, the leiults, the commanders, and the influence of each on the struggle. 7) Name the Presidents that haYe been elected mainly because of their military records. GRAMMAR?VALUE 100. 4) Decline I, thou, he, she, i.t ' 2) Write the plural of 7, German, fox, loaf, family, topaz, wagon-load. 3) Compare ugly, near, little, plentiful, round. / 4) Give the principal parts of drive, begin, choose, wind, swear, bind. 5) State the uses of the following moods: indicative, potential, subjunctive. Give 1st person, singular, present perfect tense of ring in the three moods. 3) Correct and parse the following: The person who you are doing so much for does not appreciate jour kindness. ' ARITHMETIC?VALUE 100. 2) A man walked 63 miles; he went first half of the journey at rate of 4 1-5 miles per hour, and second half at fate of 5? miles per hour, how long did it take him? 2) A man left 1 of his estate to his wife, 5-8 of the remainder to his sod, and the rest to his daughter. The wife received $546,75 more than the daughter, what did each receive? 5) A garrison of 357 men had food for 112 days; but reinforcements came and the food lasted only 98 days. How many men were received as reinforcements? 6) How must a dealer mark an article costing $6.50 so as to sell " i t i l j ; n v per cent Deiow inurKeu price, and still make 12 per cent profit? 7) What principal at 7 per cent will amt. to $307.35 in 1 yr. 5 ra. 18 da.? i + 2 + i ? tV~ What is value of .?4 7s. 8d. if ?1 = $4.80? ALGEBRA?VALUE 50. 1) Define coefficient; exponent. 4) In midwinter in St. Petersburg the night is 13 hours longer than the day; how many hours of day, of night? 5) Two 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 takes the slower in 48 sees. Find rate of each. _. ... m + n 2 m S,mpllfy(iT^ " Simplify h + i-Al 3x ( x x9 jxa -f x ? 2 Extract square root of 19 x8 + 6 xa + 25 + x4 + 30 x Charleston College Questions. III. ENGLI8EL I. Write out a list of the books you have read under the three headings (a) Novels, (b) Poems and Dramas, (c) Essays and other Prose Works. Underline once the titles of the books vou like best; twice, the titles of those you know best. Say how you have studied those which you know best. II. Write in a free and natural way, but carefully, from 2/>0 to 300 words of any one (choose only one) of the following subjects: My reasons for Going to College My J? avorite Study 1 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 Fulvia! 2. She con- : aiders her husband as her steward, . 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 fhe 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. 1 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 Fnl- j via, if she knew that her setting ^ herself to view is but exposing herself* and that she grows con- ? temptible by being conspicuous! r In the above passage? l (a) Name, by ntfmber, the sentences which are (1) simple, (2) compound, (3) complex. (b) What is the full subject of c sentence' (5)? - *] (c) What are the clauses in sen- <] tence (7)? What part of speech is setting and exposing') .(d) Write out and classify, all the phrases in sentences 1 and 3. IV. HISTORY. ( 1. Give a full account of oc- 1 currences in Boston?on the way < to Lexington and Concord, and on the return, from April 18th to 1 April 20th, 1775. a 2. Trace the movements of Cornwallis from the moment he c crossed into North Carolina in 1 pursuit of Greene up to the sur- 1 render of Yorktown. 3. When was the Treaty of ( Peace between Great Britain and ^ the United States definitely signed? When was the Constitution adopted? What State was the t * I i ft /\ 1l 1 T last to signr un wnat aay in j. what year was Washington inau- I gurated? ' 4. Name the Presidents in order I giving the term of office of each t ?from Washington to Polk. ? 5. Explain the state of feeling ii in the country which made the act of Genet possible, and tell I what he attempted to do. 6. Name three very important L occurrences during Jefferson's administration and describe each i full. V. GEOGRAPHY. 1. Draw a map of North America?marking " on its coast, as nearly as possible, the spaces 13 covered by its several political c divisions. 11 2. Name the 8 largest cities c strung along the. great Lakes (in 8 the U. S.) from Oswego to Duluth ? ?neither of these included. 3. Name the countries of South r 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 , - - - .1/1 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 going east?tell all the ooun- . tries of Asia one would pass if sailing to the Yellow Sea. 1 ii. geometry. n Note.?Applicants for admission who nave never studied Geometry may omit the questions on this subject, and if they meet a the requirements in the other to Bubjects, they will be admitted h on condition. Opportunity to re- I move this condition will b? given y during the College session. (Answer any four questions) I 1. At any point on a line erect p a perpendicular to the line. c 2. What is the locus of all points equi-distant from two t] given intersecting lines? State tl and prove. t1 3. From a point without a cir- r cle draw a tangent to the circle, ri 4. Show how to circumscribe a circle about a triangle. 5. The square on the hypotenuse of a right angled triangle is equal to the sum of. the squares on the two other sides. algi!btia. ~ 1 L ..a ..a. ..A I ..it. 1. r-aciui x ? y , x* t y , x4 ? y4 2. Factor x? - x ?. 3Q; x2 -H 7 x +12 ; 3. Solve a x -f b y = c ^ P x + q y=7* r J 4. Solve x|j-ifx + 4= 0 5. Solve _x_ , 7?x _ 7?x .x; u South Carolina College Questions. ENGLISH. ; 1. Define gender, number and jase. Form possessive casesingllar and plural of lady, child, nouse, valley, editor-in-chief. Decline she, they, who. : 2. Name the moods and define -ense. Conjugate^present tense )f send, will, and "give principal >arts of call, be, give, seek, put. Explain the infinitives in "He dQ go to see the house to let." 3. Analyze: "Our Father, which irt in Heaven, hallowed be thy lame. thy kingdom come, thy will >e done on earth as it is in Hearen." Parse italicised \frords. 4. Write a paragraph - of 150 vords on My Favorite Author, or >n Country Life Compared with rown Life, or on Modes of traveling. GEOQRATHY AND HI8T0?Y. South Carolina. 1. Locate Dorchester County. Conway. Tyger River. Seaboard lir Line Railway. Bound your bounty. 2. Describe the destruction of iibault's Colony. The Campaign igainst the Cherokees, 1761. 3. Effect of Braddock's defeat >n the settlement of South Caroina. Cause and progress of Regulator troubles, abouf; 1768. 4 Identify C., C. Pinckney. Jeorge McDuffie. James.L. Orr. IVm. Gilmore Simms. .. . United States. * 5. Name rivers flowing from he East into the Mississippi, jocate Adirond^cks.. Pike's Peak. ?t. St. Elias. 6. Name the waters traversed >y a steamer from New York hroucrh the Suez Canal to Manila. 7. John Tyler's administration; Bsues, parties and leaders. 8. Territory acquired by the Mexican War.. rt9. Lee4s Campaign in ?Maryand, 1863. .. . , . 10. Issues, parties and leaders q the Campaign of 1896. r LATIN. 4 1. Translate: Horum adventu anta rerum commntatio est facta, it nostri, etiam qni vtilneribus onfecti procubuissent, scntis intixi proelium redintegrarent; turn olones perterritos hostes conpicati etiam inermes armatis >ccurrerunt, equites vero, ut urpitudinem fugae yirtute deleent, omnibus in locis pugnarunt, [uo se legionariis militibus praeerrent. II. 1. Decline Horum; qui; yulleribus; hostes; militibtls. 2. ["ell where found and give -prinipal parts of confecti; procubuisent; occurrerunt; delerent* praeerrent. III. "Write in Latin: 1. The arival of these made a great change. !. They leaned on their sheilds n order to renew the battle. 3. ?hey fought so that the baseness f flight was wiped out. 4. We aust frighten the enemy. * MATHEMATICS. 1. Add together three thous- % lid, four hundredths, eightenths, forty, three-fourths,2 onealf, and two and two-tenths. )ivide .00042 by 200. and explain our method. 3. Find what per cent, of f is low many bonds bought at 98 er cent. must I sell at 1}2 per ent. to make $24,000 profit? 7. A crew which can pull at be rate of 12 miles an hour down be stream, finds that it takes svice as long to come tip the iyer as to go down." At what tte does the stream flow? i 4 * .