Dedham High School - Reflections Yearbook (Dedham, MA)

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INTR 01) UCTOB Y. 5 ing? For what Newfoundland best known? What the govern- ment of Canada? Europe. The chief governments? The chief commerce? What the traffic of England ? Of France ? Of Italy ? Of Spain ? Asia. What the general governments of Asia? The pre- vailing religions? The chief ports of commerce? Africa. Civilized or barbarous ? Its resources of wealth? What the more fertile portions? W 7 hat antiquities interest the traveller? What American colony on her coast? South America. The general character of the climate? The prevailing character of the people ? The mineral resources ? The language most common? Oceanica. The principal points of trade? The general moral condition? Arithmetical Questions. What is a unit or what is unity ? How according to present use are numbers expressed in arithmetical operations? How many distinct characters are requisite? How does the cypher differ from a siguificent figure ? What is notation ? W T hat the simple and what the local value of any figure? What is numeration? French and English methods, how different? Which most used 9 When is a figure of the first, second, third, c. order? How many places are there in a million? Write four thousand and four in figures. Write forty-four millions and forty-four. Addition. How is addition performed? Why do you carry one for every ten ? Method of proof? Subtraction. What is subtraction and how is it performed? What names given to the numbers used in the operation? If a figure in the Minuend be smaller than the corresponding one in the Subtra- hend, what is to be done? If you suppose the smaller figure

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4 DEDHAM HIGH SCHOOL. what Vienna? The capital of Norway ? Sweden? Denmark? Turkey? In what country is Edinburgh? Crimea? Galway? Warsaw? Mt. Hecla? Naples? Athens? Asia. What are the principal countries of Asia? The chief islands? In what country is Calcutta? Mecca? Canton? Damascus ? Africa. What are the northern States of Africa? What the western? What rivers? What capes? What sea between Africa and Asia? What channel between the main land and the island of Madagascar? In what part of Africa are Liberia and Sierra Leone ? South America. What the largest country? The most southern? What countries on the western coast? Range of mountains on the western coast? The two largest rivers? How is S. America separated from N. America? Where is Guayaquil? What the eastern cape of S. A. ? The southern? The western ? ThejWorld. What the principal volcanoes in the world? What the principal mountains? The larger islands? The oceans ? Descriptive Geography What the chief products of Mass.? Her chief commercial pursuits? The names of her colleges ? How does she regard education? The products of New England generally? The nature ' of the climate? The principal harbors of N. England? The comparative industry and intelligence of N. England and the southern States? The products of the middle States? The mineral resources? The intellectual character of their citizens? The resources of the western States ? Is their progress great or moderate? What astronomical observatory? Who are some of her great men ? What grades of society in the south- ern States? The general state of education? Their articles of produce? Their commercial condition? The climate? The Oanadas. Climate? Productions? To whom belong-

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6 DEBIT AM HIGH SCHOOL. increased by ten, what corresponding step to be taken, in the progress of the work? Method of proof? Multiplication . What names snven to the numbers used and found? How performed when the multiplier is less than 12? When greater than 12? Is multiplication a concise method of addition? Why then is not addition needless? If the factors contain cyphers how managed? How multiply by a composite number? Method of proof? Division. Terms used to designate numbers given or found? What is short division? How performed? Long division? If the divisor in any case be greater than the part of the dividend used, and for which there must be a place in the quotient, what is to be done ? What of the remainder? Method of proof? May any or all the foregoing operations be represented by signs? How? Denominations of United States currency? What the rate of increase and decrease when expressed in numbers? How are the dollars and cents distinguished in any sum expressed in numbers? Write or express in numbers one thousand dollars. One thousand, sixty dollars and five mills. One dollar and five cents. One dollar, two dimes, six cents, and three mills. Compound Addition, Subtraction, Multipli- cation and Division, how performed? What is Reduction Ascending? Descending? Vulgar Fractions, how expressed ? How does it appear that they originate from division ? What a proper, improper, mixed, simple, compound, complex fraction? When is a fraction at its lowest terms? How reduce a mixed number to an improper fraction? A compound fraction to a simple one? Fractions of different denominations to a common denomination? Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication and Division of Fractions how performed? What is a decimal fraction? How expressed? Why called decimal? How af- fected by prefixing, or annexing cyphers? Addition, Sub- traction, Multiplication and Division of decimals, how