vindicabitis vos, si me potius quam fortunam meam fovebitis.' luravere amici, dextram morientis contingentes, spiritum ante quam ultionem amissuros."

2. [A passage from one of Terence's plays, the subject of which is :) Simo begs Chremes to let the wedding take place.

Si. Ausculta paucis. Ch. Ausculto; loquere quid velis. Si. Per le deos oro et nostram amicitiam, Chremes,

Ευ ούν μοι και τότε έδοξεν εκείνος είπείν, και νυν ουχ ήττον. παντάπασι γαρ των γε τοιούτων εν τη γήρα πολλή ειρήνη γίνεται και ελευθερία, επειδαν αι επιθυμίαι παύσωνται κατατείνουσαι και χαλάσωσι. και εγώ αγασθείς αυτού είπόντος ταύτα βουλόμενος έτι λέγειν αυτόν εκίνουν και είπον, "Ω Κέφαλε, οίμαι σου τους πολλούς, όταν ταύτα λέγης, ουκ αποδέχεσθαι, άλλ' ηγείσθαι σε ραδίως το γήρας φέρειν ου διά τον τρόπον αλλά διά το πολλήν ουσίαν κεκτήσθαι τοις γαρ πλουσίοις πολλά παραμύθια φασιν είναι. 'Αληθή, έφη, λέγεις. ου γαρ αποδέχονται. και λέγουσι μέν τι, ου μέντοι γε όσον οίονται, αλλά το του θεμιστοκλέους εύ έχει, δς το Σεριφίω λοιδορουμένων και λέγοντα, ότι ου δι' αυτόν αλλά δια την πόλιν ευδοκιμοι, απεκρίνατο ότι ούτ' αν αυτός Σερίφιος ών ονομαστός εγένετο ούτ' εκείνος Αθηναίος. και τους δη μη πλουσίους χαλεπώς δε το γήρας φέρουσιν εύ έχει και αυτός λόγος, ότι ουτ' άν ο επιεικής πάνυ τι ραδίως γήρας μετά πενίας ενέγκοι ούθ' ο μη επιεικής πλουτήσας ευκολός ποτ' αν εαυτο γένοιτο.

2. [A passage of verse in the elegiac stanza from Theognis, the subject of which is :) “. In eternal lines to time thou growest.'

'Ακρόπολις και πίργος έων κενεόφρονι δήμω,

Κύρνο, ολίγης τιμής έμμορες εσθλός ανήρ.
σοι μεν έγώ πτέρ' έδωκα σιν οίς επ' άπειρονα πόντον

πωτήση κατά γην πάσαν αειρόμενος
ρηιδίως: Οοίναις δε και είλαπίνησι παρέσση

εν πάσαις πολλών κείμενος έν στόμασι.
και σε συναυλίσκοισι λιγυφθόγγους νέοι άνδρες

ευκόσμως έρατοί καλά τε και λιγέα
άσονται και όταν δνοφέρους υπό κείθμασι γαίης

βης πολυκωκίτους εις Αίδαο ους,
ουδέ ποτ' ουδε θανών απολείς κλέος, ουδέ γε λήσεις

άφθιτον ανθρώποις αιέν έχων όνομα,
Κύρνε, καθ’ Ελλάδα γην στρωφώμενος ήδ' ανά νήσους.

ιχθυόεντα περών πόντον επ' ατρύγετον,
ουχ ίππων νώτοισιν εφήμενος· αλλά σε πέμψει

αγλαά Μουσάων δώρα ιοστεφάνων.

V. For Latin Elegiacs

1. The Toilers of the Sea
No fish astir in our heaving net,
The sky is dark and the night is wet ;
And we must ply the lusty oar,
For the tide is ebbing from the shore,
And sad are they whose faggots burn,
So kindly stored for our return.
Our boat is small and the tempest raves ;
And nought is heard but the lashing waves :
Yet sea and tempest rise in vain,
We'll bless our blazing hearths again.
Push bravely, mates; our guiding star
Now from the turret streameth far:
Before the midnight hour is past,
We'll quaff our bowl and mock the blast.

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2. After Sorrow Cometh Joy
Sweetly gleam the morning flowers

When in tears they waken;
Earth enjoys refreshing showers,

When the boughs are shaken.
Stars shine forth when night her shroud

Draws as daylight fainteth ;
Only on the tearful cloud

God his rainbow painteth.

VI. Mathematical Paper 1. Find the number of acres in a square field whose perimeter is one mile and a half. Also show that the length of its diagonal is between 53 and 54 yards more than half a mile. 2. Find the quotient when

(cy-bz)2 + (az-cx)2 + (bx - ay)? + (ax+by+cz) is divided by x8 +y* +2%.

3. Add together the fractions

а

a+b
ab+c? – ac-bc' ac- -02

b and

bc-C

4. Solve the equations

2

4

3

a

and a be not equal to b, prove that each equation has its two roots equal to one another.

9, If a straight line be divided into any two parts, the squares on the whole line and on one of the parts are equal to twice the rectangle contained by the whole and that part, together with the square on the other part.

10. From a given point o external to a given circle draw a straight line OPQ to cut the circle at two points P and Q, so that OP shall be equal to PQ

11. The opposite angles of any quadrilateral figure inscribed in a circle are together equal to two right angles.

12. If I be the center of the circle inscribed in the triangle ABC, prove that the centers of the three circles which circumscribe the triangles IBC, ICA and IAB, are on the circumference of the circle circumscribing the triangle ABC.

13. If the vertical angle of a triangle be bisected by a straight line which cuts also the base, the segments will have the same ratio as the other sides of the triangle have to one another.

During the reading of the foregoing examination papers, you have doubtless been mentally comparing the character and scope of the preparation for secondary school work which they imply with the character and scope of the preparation made for the corresponding grade of school work in this country, and you have probably been reflecting, too, on the educational ideals which the papers embody and the lessons, perhaps, that we may profitably draw from them. Whatever opinions you may personally entertain on these points, you will, I am sure, be interested to know what cultivated English schoolmasters themselves think of their own educational procedure.

Mr. G. Gidley Robinson, headmaster of a preparatory school, in a paper on “ The preparatory school curriculum,” says: “The clever boy climbs rapidly up the school by the classical ladder. An entrance scholarship is waiting to be won, and he has every temptation to drop, one after the other, all subjects which will not pay in the examination; thus his grounding is apt to be narrow, and his interest in everything except the world of books is stunted and impoverished. At thirteen and a half lie will show a precocious facility in finding his way through an

unseen,' or in writing a piece of Latin prose; but (unless he happens to come from an unusually cultivated home) his knowledge of the world in which he lives, indeed of nearly everything out

effect.

side the classics, will be very small. And he will certainly suffer from the special weakness inherent in an exclusively bookish training, viz., want of originality, want of power to look at things with his own eyes instead of thru the eyes of his `authorities.' He has come to the top, as the clever boy always does, be the curriculum what it may, and he is certainly, in a sense, a success; but what of the great majority, the boys of moderate or less than average ability ?

A representative committee of the Association of Headmasters of Preparatory Schools, in a statement prepared in response to a request addressed to it by a committee of the Public School Headmasters' Conference in 1897, says: The difficulty in covering all the necessary ground has its

upon most masters as well as boys. They not only have a sense of distress caused by the present pressure, but are also led to do a great deal more for their boys than is good for them. In order to save time, they are tempted to feed them with information instead of educating them. And thus, by their very willingness and devotion, they often weaken the spring of the mind, and destroy the power of doing original or unaided work.

“The hardworking boy of fair ability, who perhaps gets a scholarship under the present system, shows the bad effects of his training more clearly than the clever boy. He wins success for the most part by sheer effort of (verbal) memory. The strain of preparation cannot be kept up. The boy's brain revenges itself by lying fallow; and the public school wonders how the examiners could have elected so dull a boy.

“The ordinary dull boy suffers most of all. He has little aptitude for languages. The endless Latin and Greek and French and mathematics are to him intolerably wearisome. Hence he hates schoolwork as drudgery. His curiosity (probably the one link with cultivation that he possesses) is left dormant. There is a divorce between his work and his life. And so, when he reaches the public school, he seems to have learnt very little of anything, and does not know what to do with his leisure. Hence the excessive athleticism we most of us deplore, and the educational failures that are so common."