History of the public school system of California.

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3. What kind of composition-exercises would you give to children
in a Primary School, during their third school year?
4. Give the " heads" of a composition about Government.
5. Write the most important rules of punctuation that you would
give a class in composition, as follows: 1, two rules for the comma; 2, two rules for the semicolon; 3, one rule for the dash; 4, two
rules for the exclamation mark; 5, two rules for quotation marks.
14. ALGEBRA.
[50 Credits; 5 Questions, 8 Credits each.]
1. Find the square root of 4a4- 12a3- 25a — 24a + 16.
2. Divide the number 5 into two such parts that twice their product increased by the sum of their squares may be equal to 25.
3. Find the value of x and y:
x" +xy==28
y' + 3xy-45
4. Difference between a pure and an affected quadratic equation?
5. Extract the cube root of a6- 6a5+ 15a4- 20a3+ 15a2- 6a + 1.
[One Question, Ten Credits.]
6. What are logarithms, who invented them, and what are their
uses?
15. PHYSICS.
[50 Credits; 5 Questions, 8 Credits each.]
1. How far will a cannon ball, dropped from a height, fall in 4
seconds?
2. Give four illustrations of the correlation of heat and motion.
3. How is light supposed to be diffused.
4. A body would weigh 4 tons, 8,000 miles above the earth's
surface, find its weight at the surface.
5. On what law of light does the action of the microscope depend?
[One Question Ten Credits.]
6. What are the laws discovered by Kepler f*at govern the
motions and distances of the planets?
I6. PHYSIOLOGY AND HYGIENE.
[50 Credits; 5 Questions, 8 Credits each.]
1. State two differences between the veins and the arteries.
2. State the difference between the functions of the cerebrum
and the cerebellum.
3. Direct a class how to treat headaches; common colds.
4. In case the artery of the wrist or the ankle were cut, direct a
pupil how to stop the bleeding until the arrival of a physician.
5. Give a class five rules for taking care of their eyes.