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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1870
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QUESTIONS USED IN THE EXAMINATION OF CANDIDATES FOR ADMISSION TO THE ILLINOIS INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSITY, IN 1868. No examination was deemed satisfactory in which the candidate did not answer correctly 70 per cent, of the questions in each study. ORTHOGRAPHY. 1. What does Orthography include V . 2. How many elementary sounds in the English language V 3. What letters might be spared from our alphabet as expressing no additional sound? 4. Write the plurals of lady, and day, and give the rule. 5. When a word receives a suffix which begins with a vowel, what is the rule in regard to doubling the final consonant V 6. How are derivative words formed ? 7. Give words having the following prefixes and suffixes, and define each word : ad, con, in, sub, ment, ship. READING. 1. What is Emphasis ? 2. How many kinds are there ? 3. What are the different classes of inflection ? 4. Punctuate the following, and mark the emphatic words, the inflections, and the rhetorical pauses : " There is a tide in the affairs of men which taken at the flood leads on to fortune." " Let not your hearts be troubled Ye believe in God believe also in me In my Father's house are many mansions if it were not so I would have told you." i( New occasions bring new duties Time makes ancient good uncouth He must upward still and onward Who would keep abreast with truth,"
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