I would have never got passed 3rd grade :) Holy Moses, I will be testing the college grads I know ! Thanks for the interesting info. Kathy in PA Searching: Dolan/Dulin - Cashman-Jenkins, West Chester, PA Flaherty-Coyle, Meehan-Brennan, Shenandoah, PA > Remember when grandparents and great-grandparents stated that > they only had an 8th grade education? ?? Well, check this out. Could > any of us have passed the 8th grade in 1895? > > This is the eighth-grade final exam from 1895 in Salina, Kansas, > USA. ?? It was taken from the original document on file at the > Smokey Valley Genealogical Society and Library in Salina, KS, > and reprinted by the Salina Journal. > > 8th Grade Final Exam: > Salina, KS , 1895 > > Grammar (Time, one hour) > > 1. Give nine rules for the use of capital letters. > 2. Name the parts of speech and define those that have no > modifications. > 3. Define verse, stanza and paragraph > 4. What are the principal parts of a verb? Give principal parts of "lie," > "play," and "run." > 5. Define case; illustrate each case. > 6. What is punctuation? Give rules for principal marks of punctuation. > 7 - 10. Write a composition of about 150 words and show therein > that you understand the practical use of the rules of grammar. > > Arithmetic (Time, 65 minutes) > > 1. Name and define the Fundamental Rules of Arithmetic. > 2. A wagon box is 2 ft. deep, 10 feet long, and 3 ft. wide. How many > bushels of wheat will it hold? > 3. If a load of wheat weighs 3942 lb., what is it worth at 50cts/bushel, > deducting 1050 lb. for tare? > 4. District No 33 has a valuation of $35,000. What is the necessary > levy to carry on a school seven months at $50 per month, and have > $104 for incidentals? > 5. Find the cost of 6720 lb. coal at $6.00 per ton. > 6. Find the interest of $512.60 for 8 months and 18 days at 7 percent. > 7. What is the cost of 40 boards 12 inches wide and 16 ft. long at $20 > per meter? > 8. Find bank discount on $300 for 90 days (no grace) at 10 percent. > 9. What is the cost of a square farm at $15 per acre, the distance of > which is 640 rods? > 10. Write a Bank Check, a Promissory Note, and a Receipt > > U.S. History (Time, 45 minutes) > > 1. Give the epochs into which U.S. History is divided > 2. Give an account of the discovery of America by Columbus. > 3. Relate the causes and results of the Revolutionary War. > 4. Show the territorial growth of the United States. > 5. Tell what you can of the history of Kansas. > 6. Describe three of the most prominent battles of the Rebellion. > 7. Who were the following: Morse, Whitney, Fulton, Bell, Lincoln, > Penn, and Howe? > 8. Name events connected with the following dates: 1607, 1620, > 1800, 1849, and 1865. > > Orthography (Time, one hour) ?? (Do we even know what this is???) > > 1. What is meant by the following: ?? alphabet, phonetic, > orthography, etymology, and syllabication. > 2. What are elementary sounds? How classified? > 3. What are the following, and give examples of each: trigraph, sub > vocal, diphthong, cognate letters, and lingual. > 4. Give four substitutes for caret 'u.' (HUH?) > 5. Give two rules for spelling words with final 'e.' Name two > exceptions under each rule. > 6. Give two uses of silent letters in spelling. Illustrate each. > 7. Define the following prefixes and use in connection with a word: > bi-, dis-, mis-, pre-, semi-, post-, non-, inter-, mono-, and sup-. > 8. Mark diacritically and divide into syllables the following, and > name the sign that indicates the sound: card, ball, mercy, sir, odd, > cell, rise, blood, fare, last. > 9. Use the following correctly in sentences: cite, site, sight, fane, > fain, feign, vane, vain, vein, raze, raise, rays. > 10. Write 10 words frequently mispronounced and indicate > pronunciation by use of diacritical marks and by syllabication. > > Geography (Time, one hour) > > 1. What is climate? Upon what does climate depend? > 2. How do you account for the extremes of climate in Kansas? > 3. Of what use are rivers? Of what use is the ocean? > 4. Describe the mountains of North America > 5. Name and describe the following: Monrovia, Odessa, Denver, > Manitoba, Hecla, Yukon, St. Helena, Juan Fernandez, Aspinwall > and Orinoco . > 6. Name and locate the principal trade centers of the U.S. > 7. Name all the republics of: ?? Europe and give the capital of each. > 8. Why is the Atlantic Coast colder than the Pacific in the same > latitude? > 9. Describe the process by which the water of the ocean returns to > the sources of rivers. > 10. Describe the movements of the earth. Give the inclination of > the earth. > Notice that the exam took FIVE HOURS to complete. Gives the > saying "he only had an 8th grade education" a whole new meaning, > doesn't it? > > > > > > ************************************** > See AOL's top rated recipes > (http://food.aol.com/top-rated-recipes?NCID=aoltop00030000000004) > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 09:24:02 EST > From: HMWEBBER@aol.com > Subject: [PACHESTE] Sun Ship / DCHS Exhibit / Date Correction > To: PACHESTE-L@rootsweb.com, PADELAWA-L@rootsweb.com, > DENEWCAS-L@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: <c46.25cdbe5b.3497e082@aol.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" > > Looks like it is going to take me a while to get my proof reading down.? > Apologize for putting Jan, 8 for one of the Saturday tours when in fact > it's Jan. 5th.? I have gone over this a number of times and you might > not believe the number of e-mails that have gone out to the news media to > try and cover the event.? Unfortunately, when this happens, it opens the > door to go back into previous e-mails and do a copy/paste? that had the > date error.? It has since been corrected but unfortunately, I picked the > wrong file e-mail to work with on the first 'mass-mailing'.? Once > again, I'm sorry about the error and by next year hopefully, I'll have > my proof reading down (well, maybe not immediately next year since it's > so close). > Talk to you all later, > > Dave Kavanagh > > > ************************************** > See AOL's top rated > recipes (http://food.aol.com/top-rated-recipes?NCID=aoltop00030000000004) > > > ------------------------------ > > To contact the PACHESTE list administrator, send an email to > PACHESTE-admin@rootsweb.com. > > To post a message to the PACHESTE mailing list, send an email to > PACHESTE@rootsweb.com. > > __________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > PACHESTE-request@rootsweb.com > with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body > of the > email with no additional text. > > > End of PACHESTE Digest, Vol 2, Issue 166 > ****************************************