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IWsC^VHi ?1. v WJ? BL\Sbm ANDERSON, S.C WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5, 1901. COMPETITIVE EXAMINATIONS. l-rfofWaWn aa? Suggcattony for * ; WSH? wi? Co os pete .' ta the Sc&ctefclpa la thc CoStogM ?I 1 Sauth Caliea , O?fcrieg Sc?wter saJju to te Pin?d by Corapttiti'y? ' Competitive examinations are held in each of the counties of 'f?oulh Carolina lor ?ohoiarships Jlijjft?*; following ?M*it"4!iS? Winthrop, ;CitadeT, South Caw* lina College, and tho College ol Charleston. For the benefit $tm those who will stand these ex aminations this year the ques tions used last year are printed herein as Suggestive of what the applicants ot this year, may ex pect. Prospective applicants would do well to make good use of fchosB questions for while they are not the same as will be given this year they suggest very largely tue nature ol the questions asked from year to year. In preparing for and in stand* ing an examination there are some general points that >he applicant would do well to observe, among which aire tho following: . 35; Begin early. There is nothing that is calculated better io bring on examination leyer the morn of the examination than io Kstpon? ?reparation till too near that day. a examinations' the 'early bird most frequently catches the worm. Study under the guidance of some one. With instructor you can accomplish twice as much, as you can without ono. If you are really bent on winning a scholar ship, it will pay you and pay yon weil to cje? the assistance of a competent instructor, even if you have to ride several miles to reach one. K Beview constantly. It will be ol great assistance to you to re view repeatedly nil that you 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 frequent'r. Tour oral reviews and examina* tiona will not bo sufficient. - Your examination will be written work and you should practice yourself in doing the written work. You may be able to rattle off your knowledgejj eyer, BQ? rapid with . your tongue,;' but you prepare yourself to write it. And be sot . careless in this written work, for it will tell on you on examination day. To st nd a written examin ation at least once a week on the subjects on which you are to be examined will provo of the great est advantage to yop,especially li you will have this ./ritten work examined by a competent porson. _ Begin with only O?? " stsdy. l'ut yourself to it on history of arithmetic ICY several days con secutively'until you have pre pared yourself oa the subject iu question. Then take up another study and oo on\ tiU you: hate covered the field. Study prinn?n?eS? For instance, if your examination is pu ari th ine tic, do not v/orry yourself with trying to work every example in the book, but rather' give yourself to a study of tho principles one ! by one till you can master each one. The probabilities are that you will not get a single one of the ones t?iat you work, but every one given on examination will be an illustration of some one of the principles that you have studied. This same law applies with equal , force to your other studies. Bead some good book? In al most ever/ competitive, examina tion given the?e days there ls a question involving an expression o? opinion from you as to some book you have read. You may be called upon to write upon some character in it ,or you may , .. be asked about something in con nection with its style* It is therefore the greatest importance to you to have? read som? good book in such a way as to show your familiarity with ii. The Sketch Book by Washington Irv ing is often included in the list ofhooks about which questions are asked ahd from which ques tions- on rhetoric and grammar are taken. A paragraph from a book may bej given, you and you may be asked to analyze it fully. Unless you have had rall practica' ia this exercise you would do J well to practice yourself in it bo? loro the day ot examination. Post yourself onourreuioronia, A great many applicants hava failed in tho lasfcfew yo^r? .re count of their inability to answer a question or questions aa to cnnrent ovianta- Th? -ttd??t who is not keeping im touch with the! history of the present day trill ho placed oftentimes at ? &reat disadvantage in the eramiaation rcG2i. Ii is nut probable that the examinations of this summer will como off without soins ?ques tions on the geography ?nd his tory of some ' important incident within the past five years. Study South Carolina. The teaching of home geography sad his tory is o c oupy ing Stich ? large place in. th? schoolroom of late yeaifc that it is not .very, likely that any of the examinations on these subjects will be without eeveral o?ioiitioiis cn the geogra* p^ and"history of Sonth Caro lina. If yon have not in your school course . . studied South Carolina history you should give considerable attention- to it be fore going. into the. examination room; Some question I in regard able to draw a good map of it, even if you can not find anything ?Isa about it. fi I i eS* '. Write * letter. It oftentimes happen* that a large part of the letter the candidate^ ability to spell, write, ' and compose is tested; You may be able to write a good letter but you should that you writ? it ic accordance with the grammatical rules there for. Lookout for catch questions. Especially is this true in history in which there are a number of catch-questions that aro always coming up. EXAMINATION QUESTIONS (The following questions v, ere given on examinations for scholarship*) in the Institutions below last summer.) Winthrop College Questions. % ?ti Desert the general" physi cal features of North America. S. ? Bound1 the Tominion of Canada. b Name and T?cate its seat of j government. ? ? y,\ c What great bodies of water) lie within ita boundaries? 3. What natural advantages have the foUow^plt?^i^ ?HP 3. J3a? J^ajm?BCp?. - : 0 4. Leadville, Colo.? 5; Ck>lombia,i8/0.? rt 4 a Draw a soap, of South Carolina. b, Locate, by a. dotted qutline, your own county, and place and name its cpnrt^use^v ^ c Locate on the map the fol Port Boyal, Savannah Hiver, U?m%mmm?v?Tt' ??kk% Lan caster, Lillie Mountain, the Sand Hills, Cape Romain, Columbia, Spart anbnrg, Camden. 5. Name one country in "West ern Europe, and one in Southern Europe. Give the capitals of both, and the principal industries of those HISTO: 1. (a) Give da*efor .efct?h .of tho foUowin?? ' Battle ol^Cowpens, First ^ Se cession of *3outn Carolina, (b) ?oc?t? the territory included in the Louisiana Purchase; in the Gadsden Purchase 2. What do yon consider the decisive battle of ibo Beeolution 3. Name six prominent leaders on each side in the War Between the States, i 4. What was the policy of the Republican party in 1800? What is the policy oi the itcpubiican | ?1900? 5. State concisely what you know of (a) The Monroe Doctrine ib) EranciB Marion (c) Mt. Vernon < (d) Daniel Webster . if? Bm (g) The. or^?mt A?air" ? (n? Th? 15th A?muuiaoMS ?o the Constitution (i) Tue Presidential Succession Law of 1886. ENGLISH GRAMMAR. 1 [The first three questions refer to the following selection:] '^ioV story was soon tola, for 1 th? -wno!* tiredly J6??> had been with him hut as one night. The neighbors stared when they heard it; some were seen to wink at each other, and put their tongues m their cheek; and th? self-im portant man in the cocked hat. who when the alarm .vas ove?, had returned to the field, c?r?wed down the . cornera: of his mouth, and shook his head-upon which there was a general shaking of the head throughout the assemblage." ? . --?lrving. 1. Select the adjective and the adverb clauses, and tell what each modifies, 2. Select all verbs in the pas ?ixe voie?. . 3. Parse the words printed in italic*. ... 4. Parse the words in italics in. the following sentences: (a) The policeman found the child Ids hat and started him homeward.. (b) The people made Henry (c) Tl M prisoner escaped three times, 5. Decline the following words: Burns; he; city. 7. Toll what tho following words mean: corroborate, vigil, heredi tary, impunity, torpor, doublet, desist, uncouth, flagon, quaff. SPELLING AND COMPOSI TION: SPELLING. [The examiner will please dic tate these words.] Abscess, grammar, admission, nonsense, anoint, fountain, parlia ment, movable, separable, ruffian, gesture, Baleigh, 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. Johnson, stating your rea sons for wishing to attend Win throp College, and telling what work you haye done as student or teacher. Name the text-books you have studied recently, and tell how rmi ch 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, spelling, punctuation, and penmanship will oe ' Considered in grading.] ARITHMETIC AND ALGEBRA. 1. A man bought a block of marble 4 ft. 9 in. long, 2 ft. 7 in. wide, 2 ft. 5jt in. thick. How much did he pay for it at the rate of $16.80 per cubic yard? a r wish to put 116 bu. 1 pk. 4 qt. of grain into bags that shall contain 3 bu. 1 pk. .4 qt. each. How many bags will be required? : 3. When it is ' noon at Green wich it is G hr. 52 min. 40 seo. 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, but ?), by ?pending $65 more each year than O, at the end of six ?ears finds himself $60 in debt, [ow much did each spend yearly? 5. What is the pet amount of a bill of $860, discounts being 12? per cent ?n i 8 per cent?" Find a single discount equivalent to these two successive discounts. 6. A mani borrowed $1200 at 5? pos1 cent and retained it until it was doubled. How long did he nave it? 8. The sum of $76 was raised bjr A, B and C, together; B con tributed as much as A and $10 more, and O as much -s A and B together; how much did each con tribute? . Multiply J x * - f x - ? and IxM- fx -I Citadel QaoAtioos. GEOGRAPHY-VALUE 75. 1) What is longitude; latitude; the equator? 2) Bound Virginia; Germany; Hindost?n. 3) Locate the following cities: Havre, Callao, Trieste, Melbourne, Hamburg, Chicago. 4) U?scnhe tho following rivera; Danube, Ohio, Congo, Bhone. 5) Describe the following lakaa Gt Bait Lake, Gt. Bear, Titicaca Borgne. 6) Where are the following i&ountaiag; Pyrenees, Canoasus Andes, Catskill? 7} Os ?b&t ????ra woola jot sail in going from Baltimore t< Pekin? JBIBTOB7-V&LUE 75. 1) Name an exoloVar workis*; in interest of English; Dutch Spanish, Freno j u 2) " What was the cause of th? last French and Indian War' What battle terminated the war and who were in command? 3) What Colony was estab lished by the Boman Catholics by the Quakers; by the Dutch? 4) Name three important bat ties of the Revolutionary War the commanders, the results o the battles, and the effects on tin straggle. 5) What was the Mississipp Compromise; Nullification; Kan sas-Nebraska Bill? 6) Nama four great battle! during the War for Southern In dependence, the iamita, the oom menders, and . the influence o each on the struggle. 7) Name the Presidents thai I hare been elected mainly beoausi ? of their military records, GRAMMAR-VALUE 100. 1) Decline I, thou, he, she, h 2) Write the plural of 7, Ger man, fox, Joaf, family, topas wagon-load. 8) Compare ugly, near, little plentiful, round. 4) Give the principal parts o drive, begin, choose, wind, swear bind. 5) State the uses of the fol lowing*moods: indicative, poten tia!, subjunctive. Give 1st per son, singular, prescrit perfect tens) of ring in. the three moods. 6) Correct and parse the fol lowing: The person who you art doing so much for -does not ap prec?ate your kindness. ARITHMETIC-VALUE 100. 2) A man walked (53 miles; h< went, first .half of the journey a rato of 4 1-5 miles per hour, am second half at rate of 5? mile per hour, how long did it tak< 2) A man left A of his estate t< his wife, 5-9 of the remainder t? his SOD, and ?he-rest to his daugh ter. Th? wife received $546,7? more than the daughter, what dh each receive? 5) ? garrison of 867 men ha? food for 112 days; but reinforce ments came and the food laste? only 98 days. How many me were received as reinforcements 6) How must a dealer mark a article costing $6.50 . ? as to se] it 9 per cent below marked prict and still make 12 per cent profit 7) What principal at 7 pe cent will amt to $807.35 in 1 yi 5 m. 18 da.? v + f + *-TV What is value of ?4 7s. 8d. i ?1? 14.80? ALGEBRA-VALUE 50. 1) Define coefficient; exponen : 4) In midwinter in St. Peten burg the night is 13'houTb .ongc than the day; how many hours c day, of night? 5) Two bodies are 93 yard apart. If they "move toward Bach other they' will meet in sacs.; but if they move in tl same direction the swifter ovei takes the slower in 48 secs. Fin rate of each. e. m + n 2 in Simplify i'i-+_?_?i_?i_ ( x x*)x? + x Extract square .root < 19 x? + 6 x? -f* 25 + x* + 80 Charleston Collete Questions. III. KNOLISH. I. Write out a list of the boo] yon have read under the thr headings (a) NovtU, (b) Poer and Dramas, (c) Essays and otk Prosa Works- Underline on the titles of the booka you lil best; twice,-the titles of tho yon know best. Say how y< have studied those which y< Lsow best . IL Write in a free and natux way, but carefully, from 250 ; 800 words of any one {choose only , one) of the following subjects: My reasons for Going to Col . lego , My Favorite Study A Day of Connfcry Life t A Scene in Charleston ? An Exciting Part of a Game III. 1. How different to this is the life of Fulvia! 2. Shecon . aiders bar husband as her siew * ard. and looks upon discretion ! and good- housewifery as little domestic virtue? 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 Slayhouse, or the drawing-room. . She lives in a perpetual motion of body and restlessness of thonght, 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 al) the valuable part of her own sex, and calla ev^ry 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) Nrrae, by number, the sen tences which are (1) simple, (2] compound, (3) complex. (b) What is the full subject ol sentence (5)? (c) What are the clauses in sen tence (7)? What part of speech if setting and exposing? (d) Write out and classify, al! the phrases in sentences 1 and 3 IV. HISTORY. 1. Give a full account of oc< ourrences tn Boston-on th< wai to Lexington' and Concor?, anc on the return, from April 18th t( April 20th, 1775. 2. Trace the movements o Cornwallis from the moment h< crossed into North Carolina ii pursuit of Greene up to the sur rendejrof Yorktown. - 8. w hen was the Treaty o Peace between Great Britain am the United States dofinitel; signed? When was the Constitutioi adopted? What State was th last to sign? On what day i what year was Washington mau gnrated? . 4. Name' the Presidents in or de giving the term of office of eao -from Washington to Polk. . 5. Explain the state of feelin in tba country which made th act of Genet possible, and tel what he attempted to do. 6. Name three very importai occurrences during Jefferson's ad ministration and describe eao full. V. GEOGRAPHY. lc Draw a map of North Ame] ica-marking on its coast, a nearly as possible, the space covered by its several politic! divisions.' 2. Name the 8 largest citic strung along the great Lakes (i the IL S.) fromOswego to Dulnt --neither of these included 3. Name the countries of Sont America in order beginning at tl Isthmus of Panama-going ea and by way of south back to sa Isthmus. 4. Name all the countries Europe, telling which are peni sular and which insular. 5. Name the capitals of Spa -Portugal-Austria-Sweden. . 0. Beginning at the Bed S and going east-tell all the cou tries of Asia one would pass sailing to the Yellow Sea. II. GEOMETRY. NOTE.-Applioani? for admi sion who nave never stud! Geometry may omit the questio on this subject, and if they me the requirements in the ot! subjects, they will be admitt oil condition.. Opportunity to i move this condition will be giv during the College session. (Answer any four questions) 1. At any point on alineen a perpendicular to the lime. 2. What ; is the loons of ; points equi-distant from t' given intersecting lines? Sb and prove. 8. From a point without a o els draw a tangent to the eire .. 4. Show how to circumscribe a circle about a triangle. 5. The squar? on the hypo ten- A use of a right .angled triangle ia 3 equal to the sum of the square? ou the two other sides. ALGEBRA. 1. Factor x* - y8; x9 4- y4; . M X4 rr y* B j 2. Factor x* - x - 30; x* + 7 x K 12 I 3. Solve ax + by = c ) p x -f q y <= r J 4. Solve x' - 3 x + T?J ? 0 6. Solve x , 7 -x South Carolina College Questions. ENGLISH. 1. Denne 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 Bend, 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, which art in Heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in Hea ven." Parse italicised words. 4. Write a paragraph bf 150 words on My Favorite Author, or on Country Life Compared with Town Lim, or on Modes of Traveling. GEOGRAPHY ANO HISTORY. / South Carolina. 1. Locate Dorchester County. Conway. Tyger River.. Seaboard Air Line Railway. Bound your County. 2. Describe the destruction of Ribault's Colony. The Cs-npaign against the Cherokees, 176?. 3. Effect of Braddock's .defeat on the settlement of South Caro lina. Cause and progress of Regulator troubles, about 1768. 4. Identify C. C. jfiuoknoy. George MoDuffie. James Iv Orr. I Wm. Gilmore Simms. United States. ; ' . 5. Name rivers flowing from the. East into the Mississippi. Locate Adirondacks. Pike's Peak. Mt. iSt. Elias. 6. Name the waters traversed > by a steamer from New York ' through the Suez Canal to Manila, c 7. John Tyler's administration; ? issues, parties and leaders. . 8. Territory acquired by the Mexican War. ? 9. Lee.a Campaign in Mary- 1 land, 1863. 10. IssueB, parties and leaders in the Campaign of 1896. LATIN. 1. Translate: Horum adventu tanta rerum ccmmntatio est facta, ut no o tri, e ti am qui vulneribus : confecti procubuiBsent, sentie in nixi proelium redintegrarent; tum colones . pert orr i too nbstes. con? Bpicati etiam inermes armatis oocurrerunt, ?quit?s vero,, ut turpitudinem fugae virtute d?l? rent, omnibus in locis pugnarunt, quo se legionariis militib?ia prae ferrent. 11. 1. Decline Horum; qui; vul- ' acribus; hontes; militions. 2. ' Tell where found and give-prin cipal parts of confecti; procutrais Bent; occurrerunt; delerent; pra?~ ferrent. III. Write in Latin: 1. The ar rival of these made a great change. 2. They leaned on their skeilds ' in order to renew the battle. 3. " ; They fought so that the baseness of flight was wiped out. 4. We : must frighten the enemy. MATHEMATICS. 1. Add together three thous- . md, four hundredths, eight benths, forty, three-fourths, one half, and two and two-tenths. Divide .00042 by 200. and explain your method. 3. Find what per cent, of # is How many bonds bought at 98 percent, must I sell at 112 per ;ent. to make $24,000 profit? 7. A crew which can pull; at she rate of 12 miles an hour down :he stream, finds thai it takes iwice as long to come tip the river aa to go down. At What .ato does the stream flow? >.