Drawing from the cast and the human figure. Representation of flat and relief maps. (Two papers). II. CLAY MODELLING. Common objects. Relief maps. Modelling from the cast. III. COLOR DRAWING. Suggestion of form with brush and ink; representation of common objects. in monochrome tints; primary, secondary, and tertiary colors; proper combination of colors; watercolor and colored crayon drawings of common objects; outdoor sketching; sketching from the school windows. (One paper). IV. INDUSTRIAL DESIGN. In outline and color. Practical geometry as far as necessary for construction of designs; principles of design and anatomy of patterns; units of design adapted from practical and geometrical forms; designs for floorcloths, wall paper, bookcovers, advertisements, etc. (One paper). V. GEOMETRICAL AND MECHANICAL DRAWING. Problems in practical geometry and perspective; orthographic and isometric projection; drawing from specifications; simple machine drawing; simple architectural drawing. (One paper). VI. DRAWING ON THE BLACKBOARD. With white chalk and colored crayons. Common objects; illustration of nature study, geography, etc. VII. HISTORY OF ART. An outline of the origin and development of Architecture, Sculpture and Painting, with some knowledge of the life and works of the great artists of each of the leading periods. (One paper). NOTE. (1) All the examinations for art specialists will be held in July at the Toronto Normal School. (2) The examinations in clay modelling, in sketching and in drawing on the blackboard will be practical. BOOKS OF REFERENCE RECOMMENDED. Light and Shade. Cross. Ginn & Co., Boston. New Drawing Course. Vaughan. Nelson & Son, London, Eng. Dible, London, Eng. Alex. Gordon, Charles & Manual of Clay Modelling. Unwin. Longmans, Green & Co., London and New York. Elementary Brushwork Studies. Yeats. Philip & Son, London, Eng. Brushwork Studies. Yeats. Philip & Son, London, Eng. Design and the Making of Patterns. Hatton. Chapman & Hall, London, Eng. N.Y. Science and Art of Drawing. Spanton. The Macmillan Co. Geometrical and Perspective Drawing. Spanton. The Macmillan Co. Blackboard Drawing. Seaby. Nelson & Son, London, Eng. Blackboard Drawing. Whitney. Davis Press, North Scituate, Mass. Architectural Drawing. Edminster. The Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, Ancient Sculpture. Redford (George). Sampson, Low & Co., London. How to Judge Architecture. Russell Sturgis. Baker & Taylor Co., New York City. How to Study Pictures. Caffin. Century Co., New York City. Masters in Art. Part 69. Bates & Guild Co., Boston. The following numbers. Vol. I. Parts 2, 4, 6, 12; Vol. II. Parts 13, 14, 16, 17, 18, 21, 24; Vol. III. Parts 32, 35; Vol. IV. Part 41; Vol. V. Part 58; Vol. VI. Where possible students should also refer to the following: Plaster Casts and How they are Made. Frank Forrest Frederick. Comstock, New York. Modelling in Clay. A. L. Vago. Comstock, New York. Modelling. A Guide to Teachers and Students. E. Lanteri. Chapman & Hall, London. History of Architecture. September, 1906. Banister Fletcher. Batsford, London. DEPARTMENTAL INSTRUCTIONS. HIGH SCHOOL ENTRANCE EXAMINATION, 1907 1. The High School Entrance examinations for 1907 will begin on Wednesday, the 26th of June, at 8.45 a.m., and will be conducted under the provisions of section 41 of the High Schools Act and sections 23-28 of the Regulations, subject to the instructions herein contained. 2. Candidates who purpose writing at the examination must notify the Public School Inspector before the 1st day of May. 3. A teacher who has pupils writing at the High School Entrance examination shall not be eligible to act as an Examiner or Presiding Officer where such pupils are writing. 4. When the County Council recommends the holding of an examination at any place other than the High School, the Presiding Officer shall be paid the sum of $3 per diem, and travelling expenses for conducting such examination, and the Examiners shall be allowed the sum of $1 per candidate for reading the answer papers. It shall be lawful for the County Treasurer to pay all the expenses of such examination on the certificate of the County Inspector. SELECTIONS FOR MEMORIZATION. Lead, Kindly Light; A Psalm of Life; Flow Gently Sweet Afton; The Heritage; Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard; The Barefoot Boy; Ye Mariners of England. The selections for memorization are common to both the Ontario and Catholic Readers. DUTIES OF INSPECTOR. 5. The Inspector shall notify the Education Department not later than the 3rd day of May in each year of the number of persons desiring to be examined at any High School or other authorized place within his jurisdiction. 6. In any city or town forming a separate inspectoral division, the Inspector or Inspectors of such city or town shall preside at the examinations, and in conjunction with the Board of Examiners for such city or town shall read the papers and report to the Education Department. 7. In counties in which more High Schools than one are situated the Inspector for the county shall elect at which High School he will preside, and shall notify the Education Department of the choice he makes, and in each of the other High Schools the Principal of the High School shall preside. 8. In the case of examinations affiliated with a High School, the Inspector, within whose district such affiliated examinations are held, shall appoint Presiding Officers, who shall be teachers in actual service, notice of which shall be sent to the Education Department; and such Inspector, together with the Examiners of the High School with which the examination is affiliated, shall be the Board of Examiners in all such cases. 9. Where from the number of candidates, or any other cause, additional Presiding Officers are required, the Inspector shall make such appointments as are necessary, preference being given to the other members of the Board of Examiners. 10. Where more examinations than one are held in an inspectoral division, the papers will be sent by the Education Department to the Inspector or the Presiding Officer, as the case may be. 11. The parcel containing the examination papers shall not be opened till the morning of the examination day, nor shall any envelope containing the papers in any subject be opened until the time prescribed in the timetable for the examination in such subject. DUTIES OF PRESIDING OFFICERS. 12. To be in attendance at the place appointed for the examination at least fifteen minutes before the time fixed for the first subject, and to see that the candidates are supplied with the necessary stationery and seated so far apart as to afford reasonable security against copying. 13. To open the envelope containing the papers in each subject in full view of the candidates, at the time prescribed, and to place one paper on each candidate's desk. 14. To exercise proper vigilance over the candidates to prevent copying, and to allow no candidate to communicate with another, nor permit any person except another Presiding Officer to enter the room during the examination. 15. To see that the candidates promptly cease writing at the proper time, fold and endorse their papers properly, and in every respect comply with the instructions herein contained. 16. To submit the answers of the candidates to the Examiners, according to the instructions from the Board. DUTIES OF CANDIDATES. 17. Every candidate should be in attendance at least fifteen minutes before the time at which the examination is to begin, and shall occupy the seat allotted by the Presiding Officer. Any candidate desiring to move from his allotted place or to leave the room shall first obtain permission from the Presiding Officer to do so. Any candidate leaving shall not return during the examination in the subject then in hand. 18. Every candidate shall write his answers on one side only of the paper, and number each answer. He shall arrange the sheets numerically, according to the questions, and fold them once crosswise, endorsing them with his name, the name of the subject, and the name of the place at which he is examined. A paper shall not be returned to a candidate after being placed in the hands of the Presiding Officer. 19. Any candidate who is found copying from another or allowing another to copy from him, or who brings into the examination room any book, note or paper having any reference to the subject on which he is writing, shall be required by the Presiding Officer to leave the room, and his paper and the papers of all the guilty parties shall be cancelled. DUTIES OF EXAMINERS. 20. The papers of the different candidates shall be so distributed that the same examiner shall read and value the answers in the same subject throughout. 21. Marks are to be deducted for mis-spelt words and for want of neatness as indicated in Regulation 27. 22. (a) The reports of the Examiners are to be sent (by mail) to the Education Department on or before the 25th day of July by the Public School Inspector. (b) The bag which contains the question papers is to be returned to the Department (charges prepaid) at the same time as the reports are sent. (c) The answer papers of candidates, unless when specially requested, are not to be forwarded to the Department, but are to be retained by the Inspector until the 1st day of October, after which no case is to be reconsidered. (d) The Inspector shall issue a certificate to each candidate who passes the High School Entrance examination. 11.10-12.00....... Writing. P.M. Oral Reading may be taken either Friday afternoon or at such other hours as are convenient. September, 1906. EXAMINATIONS, 1907. PRESCRIBED TEXTS. DISTRICT CERTIFICATE. English Tennyson, Ode to Memory, The Dying Swan, The Lotus Eaters, Ulysses, "You ask me, why," "Of old sat Freedom," "Love Thou Thy Land," "Tears, idle Tears," and the six interlude songs from the Princess, The Brook, Ode on the Duke of Wellington, Charge of the Light Brigade, Enoch Arden. JUNIOR TEACHERS. English: Tennyson, Ode to Memory, The Dying Swan, The Lotus Eaters, Ulysses, "You ask me, why," "Of old sat Freedom, "Of old sat Freedom," "Love Thou Thy Land," "Tears, idle Tears," and the six interlude songs from the Princess, The Brook, Ode on the Duke of Wellington, Charge of the Light Brigade, Enoch Arden; Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Latin Translation at sight of passages of average difficulty from Cæsar, upon which special stress will be laid. Translation from a prescribed portion of Virgil's Eneid, with questions thereon. Questions on Latin accidence. Translation into Latin of English sentences to illustrate the common rules of Latin syntax, upon which special stress will be laid. The vocabulary will be taken from the prescribed portion of Cæsar. Examination upon a short prescribed portion of Cæsar, to test the candidate's knowledge of Latin syntax and his power of idiomatic translation, etc. The following are the texts prescribed: Cæsar, Bellum Gallicum, Book IV., chaps. 20-38, and Book V., chaps. 1-23: Virgil, Eneid, Book II., vv. 1-505. Two papers will be set: (1) Translation at sight, Virgil, and accidence. (2) Translation into Latin, syntax, and idiomatic translation from prescribed Cæsar, etc. SENIOR TEACHERS. Latin: Cæsar, Bellum Gallicum, Book IV., chaps. 20-38, and Book V., chaps. 1-23; Virgil, Æneid, Book II.; Horace, Odes, Books III. and IV.; Cicero, Pro Lege Manilio, Pro Marcello. Greek: Xenophon, Selections in White's First Greek Book; Herodotus, Tales, ed. Farnell I.-XI. incl.; Homer, Odyssey XXI.; Lucian, Timon; Lysias, Pro Mantitheo and de Invalido. English Tennyson, Ode to Memory, The Dying Swan, The Lotus Eaters, Ulysses, “You ask me, why," "Of old sat Freedom," "Love Thou Thy Land," "Tears, idle Tears," and the six interlude songs from the Princess, |