isua-isnscatalog-1891-1892-081

Description:	80 ANNUAL CATALOGUE.3. What are the fundamental distinctions between literaryand didactic discourse? What bearing has this distinction onthe problem of teaching ?4. What are the fundamental points to be emphasized instudying the style of a literary discourse ?5. What are figures of language ? Name and illustrate theleading classes. What is gained by requiring the pupil to interpret a figure of thought ?6. Name the authors, and the selections from those authors,with whom a pupil graduating from the common school shouldbe familiar.7. How would you seek to form correct habits of oral expression ?8. Decribe the mental process the pupil must go through inreading a selection.9. Write a list of directions and questions you would give tocause a pupil to prepare a series of lessons on Maud Muller.10. Discuss the educational value of reading.GEOGRAPHY.1. Define the terms vertical, perpendicular and horizontal, asapplied to lines.2. How does the apparent differ from the rational horizon ofa place?3. If I desired to .reach a place 90° south, and 26° west fromhere, which would be farther in miles—to go first south and thenwest, or first west and then south ? Explain fully.4. How is it known that the earth has a forward motionaround the sun? State fully.5. Why do the solar days vary in length?6. The extremes of our summer temperature are greater thanthose on the equator how is this possible ?7. Why is there but one season near the equator, and twonear the poles?8. State as nearly as you can the average altitude of the following areas: The delta of the Nile river the land around
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