* Give three references as to experience, with names and post-office addresses.

Is this your first examination for a State certificate ?.........

If not, when and where were you present at previous examinations ?..............

* Give three references as to moral character, with names and post-office addresses.

If you are not a resident of the State of New York, do you intend to teach in this State?....... I hereby certify that the foregoing statement is correct in every particular.

Signature of candidate..........

(Coples of the above statement will be supplied at the examinations.)

GENERAL REGULATIONS.

1. The printed questions will be sent to the examiners in sealed envelopes, and these will be first opened in the presence of the class at the time indicated in the accompanying program for the examination in each subject.

2. For evidence as to good character and successful experience, reference may be made to school commissioners, city superintendents, principals of academies and high schools.

3. All applicants entering the examination for the first time must be present Monday afternoon, August 26, and must register their names and give such other information as the exam iners may require, before taking a question paper. Candidates who have passed in a part of the subjects at a previous examination, need be present on the half days only on which examinations occur in those subjects which they intend to take at this examination; but they must be present at the beginning of such half-day session, and should bring with them all partial certificates obtained at previous examinations.

4. The examination in each subject is restricted to the half-day designated in the accompanying program.

5. Penmanship will be judged from the papers on geography.

6. In the solution of all problems, process should be indicated. The simple answer, without the process by which it was obtained, will not be accepted.

Candidates will be informed of the results of the examination as early as practicable.

7. Candidates will not be permitted to take to the examination room books or papers of any description.

8. Collusion or communication between candidates during the examinations or willful mis representation in statements furnished will wholly vitiate their examination.

9. All statements and answers must be written with ink.

Legal-cap paper, pens, pencils, and memorandum pads will be supplied by the Department. Candidates should make themselves thoroughly familiar with the above regulations.

PROGRAM OF EXAMINATION, 1895.

Monday, August 26.

2 to 5 P. M. Registering; grammar; civil government and school law.

Tuesday, August 27.

9 A. M. to 12 M. Arithmetic; American history.

2 to 5 P. M. Composition and rhetoric; geology; chemistry.

Wednesday, August 23.

9 A. M. to 12 M. Algebra; general literature.

2 to 5 P. M. Geography; methods and school economy; orthography.

Thursday, August 29.

9 A. M. to 12 M. Geometry; physics.

2 to 5 P. M. Drawing; botany.

Friday, August 30.

9 A. M. to 12 M. Physiology and hygiene; bookkeeping.

2 to 5 P. M. General history; zoology; astronomy; Latin, French or Germin, as a substitute for zoology or astronomy.

J. F. CROOKER,

State Superintendent.

* Candidates entering the examination for the first time may submit letters in reference to experience and moral character, attaching the same to this statement.

EXHIBIT NO. 14.

State Scholarships in Cornell University.

1. DEPARTMENT CIRCULAR TO SCHOOL COMMISSIONERS AND CITY

SUPERINTENdents.

2. QUESTIONS SUBMITTED AT EXAMINATIONS, JUNE 2, 1894.

3. COMPLETE LIST OF STATE SCHOLARS, 1894.

4. TABLE SHOWING NUMBER OF CANDIDATES EXAMINED AND APPOINTED, 1894.

5. LIST OF STATE SCHOLARS OF 1893 WHO ARE NO LONGER STUDENTS IN THE UNIVERSITY.

EXAMINATIONS FOR STATE SCHOLARSHIPS IN

CORNELL UNIVERSITY.

I. THE LAW - REGULATIONS-INSTRUCTIONS TO EXAMINERS.

STATE OF NEW YORK:

[DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION, SUPERINTENDENT'S OFFICE," ALBANY, July 2, 1894.

To School Commissioners and City Superintendents:

The competitive examination of candidates for the State scholarships in Cornell University, provided for by chapter 291 of the Laws of 1887, will be held in each county on Saturday, June 1, 1893, commencing at 9 A. M.

The examinations will be in charge of the city superintendents and the school commissioners in each county, under such regulations as may be agreed upon to secure an examination which shall be fair in all respects. Village superintendents are not authorized to act.

THE LAW.

Following is the law as amended by chapter 291 of the Laws of 1887:

$9. The several departments of study in the said university shall be open to applicants for admission thereto at the lowest rates of expense co sistent with its welfare and efficiency, and without distinction as to rank, class, previous occupation or locality. But, with a view to equalize its advantages to all parts of the State, the institution shall receive students to the number of one each year from each Assembly district in this state, to be selected as hereinafter provided, and shail give them instruction in any or all the prescribed branches of study in any department of said institution, free of any tuition fee or of any incidental charges to be paid to said university, unless such incidental charges shall have been made to compensate for material consumed by said s udents or for damages needlessly or purposely done by them to the property of said university. The said free instruction shall, moreover, be accorded to said students in consideration of their superior ability and as a reward for superior scholarship in the academies and public schools of this Stat-. Said students shall be selected as the Legislature may from time to time direct, and until otherwise ordered, as follows:

1. A competitive examination, under the direction of the Department of Public Instruction, shall be held at the county courthouse in each county of the State, upon the first Saturday of June in each year, by the city superintendents and the school commissioners of the county. 2. None but pupils of at least 16 years of age and of six months' standing in the common schools or academies of the State, during the year immediately preceding the examination, shall be eligible.

3. Such examination shall be upon such subjects as may be designated by the president of the university. Question papers prepared by the Department of Public Instruction shall be used, and the examination papers handed in by the different candidates shall be retained by the examiners and f rwarded to the Department of Public Instruction.

4. The examiners shall, within ten days after such examination, make ard file in the Depart ment of Public Instruction a certificate in which they shall name all the candidates examined and specify the order of their excellence, and such candidates shall, in the order of their excellence, become entitled to the scholarships belonging to their respective counties.

5. In case any candidate who may become enti led to a scholarship shall fail to claim the same or shall fail to pass the entrance examination at such university, or shall die, resign or absent himself without leave, be expelled, or for any other reason shall abandon his right to or vacate such scholarship, either before or after entering thereupon, then the candidate certified to be next entitled in the same county shall become entitled to the same. In case any scholarship belonging to any county shall not be claimed by any candidate resident in that county, the State Superintendent may fill the same by appointing thereto some candidate first entitled to a vacancy in some other county, after notice has been served on the superintendent or commis sioners of schools of sad county. In any such case the president of the university shall at once notify the Superintendent of Public Instruction, and that officer shall immediately notify the candidate next entitled to the vacant scholarship of his right to the same.

6. Any State student who shall make it appear to the satisfaction of the president of the university that he requires leave of absence for the purpose of earning funds with which to defray his living expenses while in attendance, may, in the discretion of the president, be granted such leave of absence, and may be allowed a period not exceeding six years from the commencement thereof for the completion of his course at said university.