School Days

School House

1915

RULES FOR TEACHERS

1. You will not marry for the term of your contract.

2. You are not to keep company with men.

3. You must be home between the hours of 8 p. m. and 6 a. m.

unless attending a school function.

4. You may not loiter downtown in ice cream stores.

5. You may not travel beyond the city limits unless you have

the permission of the chairman of the board.

6. You may not ride in a carriage or automobile with any man

unless he is your father or brother.

7. You may not smoke cigarettes.

8. You may not dress in bright colors.

9. You may under no circumstances dye your hair.

10. You must ware at least two petticoats.

11. Your dress must not be any shorter than two inches above

your ankle.

12. To keep the school room neat and clean you must: sweep

the floor at least once daily, scrub the floor at least once a

week with hot soapy water, clean the blackboards at least

once a day, and start the fire at 7 a. m. so the room will be

warm by 8 a. m.

The following report was left on a teacher's desk. It was written by a substitute teacher.

SUBSTITUTE REPORT

Date _____________

Dear Mr. / Mrs. ____________________

The behavior of your class made me:

a) wish to return to my old job- wrestling alligators for tips

b) consider taking up Russian roulette for relaxation

c) want to sub for you again

When it came to lesson plans I:

a) used yours with some modifications

b) winged it and used my own

c) buried the kids in dittos

Your T.A. :

a) was helpful

b) needed a whip and chair to control the kids

c) showed me how to use the Vulcan Death Grip on 4th

graders

At 2:20 I had the kids:

a) wash and wax my car

b) clean the room with a toothbrush and tweezers

c) swab the deck and furl the sails

The following students should be:

a) keelhauled at dawn

b) forced to watch the 1953 educational film classic "Fun with

Fractions"

c) commended for their good behavior and hard work

Comments:

Sincerely,

This is the eighth grade final exam from 1895 from Salina, KS. It was taken
from the original document on file at the Smoky 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 do, lie,
lay, and
run.
5. Define Case, Illustrate each Case.
6. What is Punctuation? Give rules for principal marks of Punctuation.
7 - 10. Write a compostion of about 150 words and show therein that you
understand
the practical use of the rules of grammar.

Arithmetic (Time, 1.25 hours)

1. Name and define the Fundamental Rules of Arithmetic.
2. A wagon box is 2 ft. deep, 10 feet long, and 3 feet wide. How many
bushels of
wheat will it hold?
3. If a load of wheat weighs 3942 lbs., what is it worth at 50 cts. per bu.,
deducting
1050 lbs. 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 cost of 6720 lbs. 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 m?
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 around
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)

1. What is meant by the following: Alphabet, phonetic orthography,
etymology,
syllabication?
2. What are elementary sounds? How classified?
3. What are the following, and give examples of each: Trigraph, subvocals,
diphthong, cognate letters, linguals?
4. Give four substitutes for caret 'u'.
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, super.
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?
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 N.A.
5. Name and describe the following: Monrovia, Odessa, Denver, Manitoba,
Hecla, Yukon, St. Helena, Juan Fermandez, Aspinwall and Orinoco.
6. Name and locate the principal trade centers of the U.S.
7. Name all the republics of Europe and give 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 inclination of the earth.

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