Dedham High School - Reflections Yearbook (Dedham, MA)

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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

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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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INTRODVCTOBY. 7 performed? Rule for placing the numbers to be added or subtracted? Rule for the Product and Quotient in Multiplica- tion and Division? Interest. Explain the terms, p?Hncijjal f interest, rate per cent., amount, legal interest and usury. How find the interest of one dollar for any given time at six per cent? How if it be more than six per cent? How find the interest of any sum of money for any given time at six per cent? How find the inter- est on any sum of money for any given time at any given rate per cent? What is compound interest, and how is the com- pound interest on any sum for any given time at six per cent, found? Reading. Some of the qualities of good reading. Spelling. Correst theas words : Anticquity, extravigant, gramarian, acquiescence, indispensible, conditionaly, imperterpable, physi- ology, escutchon, amazing, waggon, sinopsis, transitary, vertue, opasity, discription, incompleat. Grammar. What is a noun? What a participial noun? What an, asbtract noun? What belongs to nouns? What number is a noun of multitude? What is an adjective? What is an adverb? What is a verb? What belong to verbs? The difference between regular and irregular? What a defective verb ? What an impersonal verb ? What a transitive one ? What is a simple sentence ? O woman! great is thy faith. Give the rule for parsing faith. The rule for woman? A Syro-Phoenician woman. What part of speech is Syro- Phoenician? When is a noun absolute? What is Grammar? Fifty-five candidates presented themselves and spent two days, or more, in writing their answers to these questions. Forty-one were successful. One of the girls answered correctly %