5. Teachers in training shall submit to such rules and regulations respecting attendance, classification, conduct and examination as may be prescribed by the Commissioner of Education, and shall lodge and board only at such houses as are approved by the principal.

6. The principal of the Normal School shall be responsible for its organisation, discipline and management, and subject to the approval of the commissioner shall prescribe the duties of the staff.

1. (a) Give a short account of the habits of the cuckoo as revealed

in this poem.

(b) Explain clearly the meaning of: blithe (1. 1); babbling (1. 9); unsubstantial (1. 31); faery (1. 31).

(c) Show wherein the following words are suitable: wandering (1. 4); two-fold (1. 6); shout (1. 6); mystery (1. 16).

(d) What did the author mean by "visionary hours" and "golden time"?

(e) Show that this poem is typical of Wordsworth in language, thought and theme.

Who is he that cometh like an honoured guest,

With banner and with music, with soldier and with priest,
With a nation weeping, and breaking on my rest,

Mighty Seaman, this is he

Was great by land as thou by sea.

Thine island loves thee well, thou famous man,

The greatest sailor since our world began.

Now to the roll of muffled drums

To thee the greatest soldier comes;
For this is he

Was great by land as thou by sea;
His foes were thine; he kept us free;
O give him welcome, this is he
Worthy of our gorgeous rites
And worthy to be laid by thee;
For this is England's greatest son
He that gained a hundred fights
Nor ever lost an English gun.

2. (a) Describe the picture revealed here.

(b) Give in your own words briefly the poet's estimate of the two men referrred to.

(c) What devices has the poet used to make the poem appeal to the nation?

3. (a) Give a short description of the village inn and its company. —(Goldsmith's).

(b) Explain fully the following lines:

'Twas certain he could write and cipher, too,
Lands he could measure, terms and tides presage,
And even the story ran that he could guage.

4. "Authority forgets a dying king,

Laid widow'd of the power in his eye

That bow'd the will."

(a) Who is the speaker?

(b) Describe his physical condition at the time of speaking. (c) What were the circumstances that led him to speak thus?

(d) What figure of speech is used in the first line? Show its force.

5. There was as usual, a crowd of folks about the door but none that Rip recollected. The very character of the people seemed changed. There was a busy bustling disputatious tone about it, instead of the accustomed phlegm and drowsy tranquillity. He looked in vain for the sage Nicholas Vedder, with his broad face, double chin, and long pipe, uttering clouds of tobacco smoke instead of idle speeches; or Van Bummel, the school master, doling forth the contents of an ancient newspaper. In the place of these, a lean bilious-looking fellow, with his pockets full of hand bills was haranguing vehemently about the rights of citizens-elections-members of congress-liberty-Bunker's Hill -heroes of seventy-six-and other words which were a perfect Babylonish jargon to the bewildered Van Winkle.

(a) Indicate the connection in the story of the above paragraph. (b) What are the parts played by the following characters in the story: Nicholas Vedder and Van Bummel.

(c) Account for the great change in the village as revealed in the above paragraph.

(d) Explain the reference in Bunker's Hill, and Babylonish jargon.

6. Quote any one of the following:

(a) Ten lines of Arthur's farewell to Sir Bedivere.

(b) Ten lines of "The Lotos-Eaters."

(c) Three stanzas of Shelley's "To a Skylark."

Time One hour.

Orthoepy and Spelling.

1. Write the passage dictated by the presiding examiner: (New Canadian Reader, Book V, page 373: "Let us remember... kept down by force.")

NOTE-This it not to be seen by the candidates. It is to be read to them three times the first time to enable them to gather the meaning; the second time to enable them to write the words: the third time for review. Candidates are not permitted to re-write the passage.

2. Divide into syllables and mark the accent of the following words: deficit, photographer, infinite, horizon, mischievous, disciplinary, assets, municipal.

3. Write sentences illustrating the difference in meaning between: accept, except; assent, ascent; dessert, desert; emigrate, immigrate.

4. Make a list of words using each of the following as a prefix or suffix and show the force of each in the word made: sub, extra, less, mis, ful, able.

5. Give in full the following abbreviations and contractions and state in what connection each is used: Messrs., Fahr. (or F.), Hon., O.H.M.S., lat., inst., Ltd., P.S., B.C.

6 Distinguish clearly the following synonyms by using them in sentences: vacant, empty; reply, answer, respond; acknowledge, confess, admit.

Time-Two hours.

Composition.

NOTE-The marks for penmanship are awarded on this paper.

1. "There was once an old fisherman who was very poor. He could hardly keep himself, his wife, and his three children from starving. Every morning he went out early to fish, but he had made it a rule never to cast his net more than four times a day. One day he went to the seashore before it was light. He cast his net, and then, when he thought it was time, he drew it in to the shore. It was very heavy, and he was sure he had a good draught of fishes. But no! he pulled hard and when he had his net on the beach he found he had dragged in a dead ass. He cast it a second time, and again he waited. Then he slowly drew it in, for it was very heavy. This time his hopes rose; but when the net came ashore he found it held only an old basket filled with sand and mud. Once more he threw his net. The third time never fails, he thought. Again his net came slowly ashore. But when he opened it, there was nothing but stones, shells and sea-weed. The poor man was sore distressed. It looked as if he should have nothing to take home to his wife and children. It was now dawn, and he stopped to say his prayers, for in the East pious men say their prayers five times a day. And after he had said his prayers, he cast his net for the fourth and last time. When he had waited long enough he drew the net in and saw that it was very heavy."

(a) State the essentials of a good paragraph.

(b) Indicate the paragraphs in the above selection, and give the topic of each paragraph.

(c) Construct a short additional paragraph continuing the story according to your imagination, and describing the contents of the net at the fourth and last drawing.

2. Give (a) an abstract and (b) a paraphrase of the following selection:

"And what is so rare as a day in June?

Then, if ever, come perfect days.

Then Heaven tries the earth if it be in tune,

And over it softly her warm ear lays:

Whether we look, or whether we listen,

We hear life murmur or see it glisten;

Every clod feels a stir of might,

An instinct within it that reaches and towers,