 | University of Virginia April, 1906 |  |
SUPPLEMENT
TO THE
CATALOGUE OF 1905-1906
Containing a Series of Representative General
Entrance Examination Papers, Illustrating
the Character and Scope of
these Examinations.
Unless a candidate for admission to the University is permitted to
enter upon a school certificate, a college diploma, or similar credentials,
or under the conditions prescribed in the Catalogue for the admission
of Special Students, he is in every case required to stand the
General Entrance Examination, unless he is prepared to stand Examinations
for Advanced Standing which supersede the general examinations
in the subjects in question.
The nature of the Examinations for Advanced Standing is indicated
in the preceding Catalogue, in each case in connection with the Academic
School involved. Further information desired concerning these examinations
can be obtained by correspondence with the professor at the
head of the School in question.
In order to give a clear idea of the character and scope of the
requirements for admission under the General Entrance Examination,
a series of representative papers is given.
These examinations, like all others connected with the University
of Virginia are held under the honor system. Each student is required
to attach to each paper which he submits his pledge of honor that he
has neither received nor given aid of any sort in its preparation.
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA
General Entrance Examinations
September, 1905.
No paper will be accepted unless accompanied by the candidate's
written pledge in the following form.
I hereby pledge my honor that I have not given assistance
to any person during this examination, and that I have not
received any aid from any source whatever.
Signed.....
1. ELEMENTARY ENGLISH. [Required.]
Candidates are cautioned to take particular pains with the
form of their papers, as no candidate will be accepted in English
whose work is notably defective in spelling, punctuation, grammatical
correctness, or proper division into paragraphs.
1. Give some account of your education up to this time,
naming the schools you have attended and the other educational
advantages you have enjoyed.
2. Give a brief account of your work in Grammar, Composition,
or Rhetoric, and English or American Literature, mentioning
text books, teachers, and whatever else will give a clear idea
of your preparation.
3. Correct the errors in the selection given (A) and explain
each correction,
Or name and explain the parts of speech in Selection B.
4. Tell all you know of the following sentences
Or tell what a paragraph is and what are its chief marks.
5. Discuss some character in some good book recently read,
Or give in a good paragraph the plot of some good book.
6. Tell what you have studied and read of the books designated
for College requirements,
Or tell what you have read from the following authors:
Shakespeare, Milton, Addison, Pope, Burns, Byron, Macaulay,
Carlyle, Tennyson, and Stevenson.
7. Divide American Literature into periods,
Or name two works by each of the following American authors:
Franklin, Irving, Longfellow, Lowell, Hawthorne, Holmes,
Bayard Taylor, Mark Twain, Poe, and Lanier.
8. Write a composition of about 750 words on any of the
following Topics: "An Incident of My Vacation," "My Home
and its Surroundings," "Why I Came to the University of
Virginia."
2A. ELEMENTARY MATHEMATICS. [Required;
Either A or B.]
A. Arithmetic: Algebra Through Quadratics.
[State what text-books you have studied on these subjects,
aud to what extent.]
1. Find the value of [ILLUSTRATION], and express the
result in the form of a decimal.
2. A. put $780 in the bank, which was 15% of all his money.
He afterwards deposited 25% of the remainder of his money.
How much money has he then in the bank; and what per cent is
this of all his money.
3. Divide [ILLUSTRATION] by [ILLUSTRATION].
4. Multiply [ILLUSTRATION] by [ILLUSTRATION].
5. Free the fraction [ILLUSTRATION] from negative exponents.
6. Find x, y and z from a=y+z, b=x+z, c=x+y.
7. Multiply [ILLUSTRATION] by [ILLUSTRATION].
8. Make the denominator of the following fraction rational.
[ILLUSTRATION]9. Solve the equation
[ILLUSTRATION]10. A man bought a certain number of sheep for $300.
He kept 15 sheep and sold the remainder for $270, gaining half
a dollar a head. How many sheep did he buy, and at what
price?
2b. ELEMENTARY MATHEMATICS.
[Required; Either A or B.]
B. Arithmetic: Algebra to Quadratics, and Three Books of
Plane Geometry.
[State what text-books you have studied on these subjects;
and to what extent.]
1. Find the value of [ILLUSTRATION] and express the
result in the form of a decimal.
2. A put $780 in the bank, which was 15% of all his money.
He afterwards deposited 25% of the remainder of his money.
How much money has he then in the bank; and what per cent.
is this of all his money?
3. Factor the following expressions: [ILLUSTRATION].
4. Simplify [ILLUSTRATION]
5. Find x from the equation [ILLUSTRATION].
6. A can do a piece of work in 10 days; A and B together
can do it in 7 days. In how many days can B do it alone.
7. Divide [ILLUSTRATION] by [ILLUSTRATION].
8. Give the construction for drawing a triangle when the
three sides are given. When will it be scalene? when isosceles?
What relation exists between the sides when the triangle is right
angled?
9. The three bisectors of the three angles of a triangle meet
in the same point.
10. A angle formed by two secants intersecting without a
circumference is measured by one-half of the difference of the
intercepted arcs.
3 LATIN. [Elective.]
I. Translate Cæsar, DeBello Gallico, III., 10:
Erant hae difficultates belli gerendi, quas supra ostendimus, sed
multa Cæsarem tamen ad id bellum incitabant: iniuriae retentorum
equitum Romanorum, rebellio facta post deditionem; defectio datis
obsidibus, tot civitatum coniuratio, imprimis, ne hac parte neglecta
reliquae nationes sibi idem licere arbitrarentur. Itaque cum intellegeret
omnes fere Gallos novis rebus studere et ad bellum mobiliter celeriterque
excitari, omnes autem homines natura libertati studere et condicionem
servitutis odisse priusquam plures civitates conspirarent,
partiendum sibi ac latius distribuendum exercitum putavit.
(a) Explain mood of arbitrarentur, intellegeret, conspirarent.
(b) Explain case of belli, obsidibus, sibi (line 5), natura.
(c) Give principal parts of gerendi, retentorum, arbitrarentur,
intellegeret, odisse.
II. Translate Cicero, in Catilinam, I., 12:
His ego sanctissimis rei publicae vocibus et eorum hominum, qui
hoc idem sentiunt, mentibus pauca respondebo: ego, si hoc optimum
factu iudicarem, patres conscripti, Catilinam morte multari, unius
usuram horae gladiatori isti ad vivendum non dedissem; etenim si
summi et clarissimi viri Saturnini et Graccorum et Flacci et superiorum
complurium sanguine non modo se non contaminarunt, sed etiam honestarunt,
certe verendum mihi non erat ne quid hoc parricida civium
interfecto invidiae mihi in posteritatem redundaret; quod si ea mihi
maxime impenderet, tamen hoc amino semper fui, ut invidiam virtute
partam gloriam, non invidiam putarem.
(a) Decline vocibus, unius, morte, invidiae, mihi.
(b) Give the degrees of comparison of summi and clarissimi.
(c) Give a synopsis, in the second person singular passive,
of putare.
(d) Give the imperative forms, active and passive, of interficere.
III. Put into Latin:
While these things were going on, it was announced to Cæsar that
the horsemen of Ariovistus were approaching the camp, and were
attacking the Roman army, hurling stones and darts against the soldiers.
—Cæsar at once brought the deliberations to an end (=made an end of
deliberating), and ordered his men not to throw back (reicere) any
weapon against the enemy.—For although he saw that the fight would
be without danger, yet he thought that a battle ought not to be commenced
(committere), because he wished to conquer the enemy more
by argument (verba) than by force of arms. But when the soldiers had
heard how arrogantly Ariovistus had spoken, and what a fierce attack
he had made, their anger was aroused (incitare), and the greater
became their desire (studium) for battle (pugnare).
4. GREEK. [Elective.]
I. 1. Decline, through all the genders and numbers σοψός, λυθείς,
and οὑ̑τος.
2. Give the principal parts of λαμβάνω, φέρω, φαίνω, ἴστημι.
3. Give synopsis of active voice of τιμω̑, and reflect the Pres.
Indic., Pres. Subj. and Impf. Indic. Act of τιμω̑.
4. Enumerate the uses of the Dative case.
5. Classification and construction of normal conditional sentences.
6. The expressions of purpose.
II. Put into Greek: When he perceived that the barbarians were
fleeing, he ordered the soldiers to pursue. If they had done this they
would have destroyed the enemy. Since, however, they were not willing
to pursue, he said: Since you are afraid to fight, we must remain
here until the others come to help us.
III. 1. Translate Xen. Anab. I. 1, 6.
[OMITTED]
2.Translate Xen. Anab. II. 2, 4 and 5.
[OMITTED]
3. Translate Xen. Anab. III. 4, 1 and 2.
IV. [OMITTED]
5. FRENCH. [Elective.]
a. Pronunciation:
1. Express with English letters the French sounds represented
by o, ô, e, è.
2. How is s pronounced in French?
3. What difference, if any, is there between the pronunciation
of bon and bonne?
b. Grammar:
1. Conjugate in full the preterit of changer, the present
indicative of finir, and the imperfect of rendre.
2. Conjugate in full the present indicative of pouvoir,
of vouloir.
3. Give the French numbers from ten to thirty (10-30).
c. Composition:
1. He went home this morning.
2. Have you any sugar in your cup?
3. His mother bought her horse.
4. I wonder what time it is!
5. When it strikes ten, I'll tell you.
6. Come in, have a seat! My uncle will be down in a
moment.
d. Translation:
"M. Bergeret était à table et prenait son repas modique du soir;
Riquet était couché à ses pieds sur un coussin de tapisserie. Riquet
avait l'âme religieuse et rendait à l'homme des honneurs divins. Il tenait
son maître pour très bon et très grand. Mais c'est principalement
quand il le voyait à table qu'il concevait la grandeur et la bonté souveraines
de M. Bergeret. Si toutes les choses de la nourriture lui etaient
sensibles et précieuses, les choses de la nourriture humaine lui étaient
augustes. Il vénérait la salle à manger comme un temple, la table
comme un autel. Durant le repas, il gardait sa place aux pieds du
maître, dans le silence et l'immobilité."
6. GERMAN. [Elective.]
State how long and where you have studied German, and
mention, if possible, all the text-books you have studied in
German.
(a) Translate into good idiomatic English:
Das Dorf Treppi sah nicht lebendiger aus als gewöhnlich. Nur
einige Kindergesichter fuhren neugierig an die offnen Fenster, und
einige Weiber traten unter die Thüren, als Fenice mit ibrer Begleitung
Nachbarn ihren Gruss mit kurzem Händewinken erwidernd, ihrem
Hause. Hier stand eine Gruppe von Männern im Gespräch vor der
Thür, Knechte waren mit bepackten Pferden beschäftigt und Contrabandieri
gingen ab und zu. Als man die Fremden kommen sah,
wurde es still unter den Leuten. Sie traten beiseit und liessen die
Gesellschaft vorüber. Fenice wechselte einige Worte mit Nina in dem
grossen Gemach und öffnete dann die Thür ibrer Kammer.
(b) Give complete answers in German to the following
questions:
1. Wie sah das Dorf Treppi aus?
2. Wer stand unter den Thüren als Fenice vorüber ging?
3. Wie erwiderte Fenice den Nachbarn ibren Gruss?
4. Womit waren die Knechte beschäftigt?
5. Was that Fenice in dem grossen Gemach?
1. Decline: Dorf; Fenster; Nachbar; Wort; Thür.
2. What is the case of: Fenster; Begleitung; Hause; Fremden;
Gemach, and why?
3. Decline with meaning of each case: einige Kindergesichter;
bepacktes Pferd; das grosse Gemach.
4. Conjugate the Past Subjunctive of: sprach; waren; wurde.
5. Conjugate the Present Indicative of: sah—aus; traten;
stand; liessen.
6. Mention and explain all cases of the Inverted Order and
the Transposed Order in the above selection.
7. What cases are governed by: an, unter, mit, in, vor.
8. Decline the personal pronoun er, sie, es.
7. SPANISH. [Elective.]
a. Pronunciation.
1. How are c, z, g, and j pronounced in Spanish?
2. When is the accent written over a Spanish word?
b. Grammar.
1. Give general rules for the use of ser and estar.
2. Conjugate in full: the preterit of hablar, the imperfect
indicative of aprender, the future indicative of escribir.
c. Composition.
1. Give me some milk.
2. Have you seen your father?
3. There are seven days in the week: Monday, Tuesday,
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.
4. I will give you one hundred dollars for that horse.
d. Translation.
"Allí está enterrado el pobre García. Hoy es para mí su nombre
objeto de culto y veneración. ¡Cuántas veces, cuántas, he pedido locamente
á Dios que le permitiera resucitar, para consolarlo de mis acritudes
y violencias y pagarle con amor su sacrificio! ¡Cuántas le he
pedido perdón con el pensamiento! ¡Y cómo me ha mejorado su
muerte! Desde entonces soy dulce, afable, cariñoso con aquellos de
mis inferiores que se portan bien, y en vez de aspirar á que tiemblen
ante mí y me crean un sér de especie superior á la humana, sólo deseo
ser como un padre de todos ellos."
8. UNITED STATES HISTORY. [Elective.]
I. (a) Name four tribes of American Indians. (b) Where
was Columbus born? To what country did he suppose he was
sailing? What group of islands did he discover? In what
pecuniary circumstances did he die? (c) Brief account of Capt.
John Smith. (d) What was the object of the colonization of
Georgia? Who headed the colony? What eminent English
religious leader subsequently preached in Georgia?
II. (a) State the substance of the Stamp Act, name the
author of the Virginia resolution concerning the same, and give
the substance of the resolution. (b) Sketch the battle of Lexington.
(c) Account of George Rogers Clarke's expedition.
(d) Who were the opposing commanders at the battle of Camden?
Describe the battle.
III. Brief accounts of (a) Shay's Rebellion; (b) the Whisky
Rebellion; (c) the Alien and Sedition Laws; (d) the battle of
Lake Erie.
IV. (a) What were the conditions under which Missouri
was admitted to the Union? What Senator proposed the first,
and what Speaker of the House proposed the second? (b) What
States and Territories are included in the region wrested from
Mexico by the United States? (c) Brief account of the Dred
Scott decision. (d) Brief account of John Brown's Raid in 1859.
V. Brief accounts of (a) battle of Shiloh; (b) battle of
Chickamauga. (c) Give dates of the settlement of Plymouth,
Bacon's Rebellion, the battle of Trenton, battle of Yorktown,
battle of New Orleans, the Monroe doctrine, the annexation of
Texas, and the first election of Cleveland to the presidency.
9. PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY. [Elective.]
1. What are Latitude and Longitude, and what is the cause
of Day and Night?
2. What seasons exist in the Temperate Zone, and how are
they caused.
3. What is Humidity? What are Tornadoes and Anticyclones?
4. What are Floe-ice and Icebergs, and how are they produced?
5. Describe the Gulf Stream, and explain its cause.
6. What are Mountains, Lowlands, and Plateaus? How do
Mountains affect climate?
7. What are Volcanoes, how are they caused and how distributed
on the Earth?
8. What are ordinary Springs, and what are Geysers? How
is each caused?
9. Give the character and mode of formation of Alpine
Glaciers.
10. Give the character of the Races of Mankind with their
geographic distribution.
[Answer any seven questions.]
10. MATHEMATICS. [Elective.]
A. Algebra: Quadratics and Beyond.
State what text-book you have studied on the subject, and
to what extent.
1. Given 12 x2+x-1=0, to find the value of x.
2. Give the roots of (x+17) (x-2) (x2-6x+9)=0.
3. Given [ILLUSTRATION], find the values of x.
4. Find two numbers such that their product, sum, and
the difference of their squares shall be equal to each other.
5. If [ILLUSTRATION], prove by the principles
of proportion that [ILLUSTRATION]
6. Insert three arithmetical means between 9 and 18.
7. Deduce the formula for summing a geometrical series to n
terms. Explain when a geometrical series may be summed to
infinity, and deduce the corresponding formula.
8. A is three times as old as B. Seven years ago A was
four times as old as B. Find their present ages.
9. A train travels 300 miles at a uniform rate; if the rate
had been 5 miles an hour more, the journey would have taken
two hours less. Find the rate of the train.
10. A certain number of two digits is equal to twice the
sum of its digits. The number gotten by interchanging the
digits is equal to the square of the sum of the digits. Find the
number.
11 MATHEMATICS. [Elective.]
B. Geometry and Plane Trigonometry.
State what text-books you have studied on these subjects,
and to what extent.
1. Draw a common tangent to two given circles, and prove
your construction.
2. Find a mean proportional to two given straight lines.
3. Define a plane, and show that the intersection of two
planes is a straight line.
4. Straight lines perpendicular to the same plane are parallel
to each other.
5. Draw the circumference of a great circle through any
two given points on the surface of a sphere.
6. Describe the changes which take place in the sine and
cosine of an angle, as the angle varies from 0 to 2π.
7. Show that [ILLUSTRATION], and that
[ILLUSTRATION].
8. Prove that sin (A+B)=sin A cos B+cos A sin B when
A is in the second and B in the third quadrant.
9. Find an expression for all angles which have the same
sine as the acute angle α.
10. Prove the formula, sin [ILLUSTRATION].
12. ASTRONOMY. [Elective.]
1. Define celestial sphere, zenith distance, ecliptic.
2. Explain the cause of the seasons.
3. Our latitude is 38° 2’ north. What must be the declination
of stars we never see.
4. Explain some method of finding the sun's distance.
5. Give a brief discussion of the constitution of the sun.
6. What constitutes the Solar System?
7. What conditions produce eclipses?
8. Tell what you can about comets.
9. What is the milky way?
10. Tell what you can about Sir Isaac Newton.
13. PHYSICS. [Elective.]
1. Calculate the average speed of a horse [ILLUSTRATION] that
trots five miles in half an hour.
2. Gravity-acceleration (g) at this place is [ILLUSTRATION]
What is it in feet/sec2 if one foot = 30.48 cms?
3. A body here falls in vacuo for half a second. How
many cms. does it fall in the last tenth part of the half-second?
4. What work is done in pulling a wagon, weighing a ton,
up an incline a mile long and rising one foot in ten—friction not
being taken into account.
5. Tell all the uses you know of to which a pendulum may
be put.
6. What must be the distance of a wall from you to give
you an echo of your shout in two seconds, supposing the speed
of sound at the time is [ILLUSTRATION].
7. Between one point and another, suppose a ray of light
is reflected one or more times. Show that its path is that which
takes the least time.
8. Find the centigrade value of a Fahrenheit temperature
—200°. Also find what temperature is expressed by the same
number in both scales.
9. Of these things, Gravity, Heat, Light, Electricity, Magnetism,
Elasticity, tell which are forces, which are forms of
energy, and which are neither.
10. Find the "capacity" (electrical) of a hollow spherical
conductor 1 inch thick and 1 foot in outside diameter, away from
all other conductors.
(Answer any six questions.)
14. CHEMISTRY [Elective.]
1. What is meant by chemical substitution? Give an example.
2. From what materials furnished by nature may chlorine
be prepared? What are its chief properties and uses?
3. How may the atomic weight of an element be determined?
4. How much coin silver (900/1000 fine silver) and nitric acid
(of 55 per cent. real acid) are needed to prepare a pound (7000
grains) of silver nitrate? The reaction is Ag3 + 4HNO3 = 3 Ag
NO3 + 2H2O + NO. Use as atomic weights—H=1, Ag=107.1,
N=13.9, O=15.9.
5. How are cane-sugar, ethyl alcohol and acetic acid chemically
related to each other?
6. From what is glycerine made, and how? What are its
chief properties and uses?
15. BOTANY. [Elective.]
1. Describe briefly the structure and life-history of three of
the following freshwater algæ: Oscillaria: Tetraspora: Spirogyra:
Draparnaldia: Vaucheria: Nitella (or any other alga that
you have studied may be substituted).
2. Give an account of the structure and life-history of a
Moss or a Liverwort, beginning with the germinating spore.
3. Describe the structure of the rootstock and of the leaf
(including the spore-bearing organs) of one of the common ferns
(e. g. Bracken, or Christmas fern).
4. Describe the structure of an endogenous and of an exogenous
stem (any plant you have studied.)
5. Describe any choripetalous ("polypetalous") flower that
you have studied.
6. Submit your notebooks and drawings made by yourself
in the Botany class of which you were a member.
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