Test 1895 8th grader

I seriously doubt any Politician,Intertainer,Business Person,Teacher ,High School Grad or College Grad could pass this test today.Especially without the internet and a computer.I know I definitely couldn’t do it in Five hours.

Subject: 1895 8TH GRADE FINAL EXAMINATION
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1895 8TH GRADE FINAL EXAM

What it took to get an 8th grade education in 1895...

Remember when grandparents and great-grandparents stated that they only had an 8th grade education?

Well, check this out. Could any of us have passed the 8th grade in 1895?

This is the eighth-grade final exam from 1895 in Salina , Kansas , USA .

It was taken from the original document on file at the Smokey Valley Genealogical Society and Library in Salina , 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 'lie,''play,' and 'run.'
5. Define case; illustrate each case.
6 What is punctuation? Give rules for principal marks of punctuation.
7 - 10. Write a composition of about 150 words and show therein that you understand the practical use of the rules of grammar.

Arithmetic (Time,1 hour 15 minutes)
1. Name and define the Fundamental Rules of Arithmetic.
2. A wagon box is 2 ft. Deep, 10 feet long, and 3 ft. Wide. How many bushels of wheat will it hold?
3. If a load of wheat weighs 3,942 lbs., what is it worth at 50cts/bushel, deducting 1,050 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 the cost of 6,720 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 metre?
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 of 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, 1865.

Orthography (Time, one hour)
[Do we even know what this is??]
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.' (HUH?)
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, sup.
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? Upon what does climate depend?
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 North America
5. Name and describe the following: Monrovia , Odessa , Denver , Manitoba , Hecla , Yukon , St. Helena, Juan Fernandez, Aspinwall and Orinoco
6. Name and locate the principal trade centers of the U.S. Name all the republics of Europe and give the 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 the inclination of the earth.

Notice that the exam took FIVE HOURS to complete.

Gives the saying "he only had an 8th grade education" a whole new meaning, doesn't it?!

Also shows you how poor our education system has become and,

NO, I don't have the answers!

Do You Know?

Those who know, don't say. And those who say, don't know. And those who don't know, don't know they don't know.

What does a Trillion Dollars Looks Like

If you don't know please asked. E-Mail me at lakeashtontalk@yahoo.com and I will show you. $100 dollar leading to a Trillion. Unbelievable This you won't believe

Margot Stevens, CDD Board

Margot seems to think that $71,000 is more than enough to pay for all the repairs on the roads here at Lake Ashton. She says this money is a gift from the developer. Where is she coming from? Like I said, when the Kitchen get hot, leave Margot, get out. I also find it very cheap for Margot to call Jack Van Sickle to call the police on me because she though I had a AK47. Yes, the police came over. I should have told them that Margot has a AK47. She came over my house one day and ask me to call the police if I saw anyone digging up the road. What the hell was she thinking? Keith Stevens wants to fine anyone with grass over so many inches. I can see why everyone on the CDD Board are very upset over Margot. Resign Margot, get out, go back to your knitting and painting.

NEWS WANTED send to lakeashtontalk@yahoo.c

Citizens action group

 
PRESS RELEASE—FOR IMMEDIATE DISTRIBUTION
 
June 4, 2009
“Do the Right Thing”
Health Care Rally-- Wednesday, June 10, 2009 at Noon, City-County Building
Contact: Ron Biendseil, rbiend@charter.net  PH:  608-836-1920
CELL:  608-712-6831

 The citizens’ action group, Dane County Grassroots Network, will conduct a rally in support of single-payer health care on Wednesday, June 10 at noon on the steps of the City-County Building, 210 Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd., in Madison. The group’s primary purpose is to urge the Obama administration and Congress to “do the right thing” by the option of a single payer health care plan.

Speakers will include members of the medical and health care community as well as individuals whose lives are affected by lack of adequate health care. 

The Madison chapter of the international social action group, The Raging Grannies, will perform.
 
The Dane County Grassroots Network believes that health care for all is a right, not a privilege, and should not be a commodity to be purchased only by those who can afford it. The group advocates for a single-payer, government funded health-care system much like the present Medicare system. The single-payer approach is
(1) The only reform proposal to date that would provide truly universal coverage; and
(2) The most efficient and cost-effective means of delivery of health care.
 
Various reputable national polls over the past year have consistently shown that almost 60 percent of the population in the U.S. prefers a single-payer system.  These polls demonstrate that the public both
(1) Understands that that a fundamental injustice inheres in the denial of health-care coverage to 45 million people in a country as wealthy as the U.S.; and
(2) Has lost faith in a system in which big insurance companies profit by denying proper care to the insured.

Health care should be a basic civil right, not a source of profit for insurance companies.
 

Golf Players

You sure did not get to play golf to many times in May and it looks like June will be no different. When you can play they are busy working and making repairs on the golf course. It is a hell of a lot cheaper to play elsewhere and play by the day.

Lake Ashton Residents

The biggest problem is the apathy of the owners who don't want to get involved.
They only wake up when it's too late!

DON’T ASK, DON’T TELL

here is a lot of discussion and angst over the insurance section of the Condo Act passed in 2008. It has been described as draconian and may be abused by boards exercising intimidation.

Please look at what it really says:

718.111(11)(g)(2). The association shall require each owner to provide evidence of a currently effective policy of hazard and liability insurance upon request, but not more than once per year. Upon the failure of an owner to provide a certificate of insurance issued by an insurer approved to write such insurance in this state within 30 days after the date on which a written request is delivered, the association may purchase a policy of insurance on behalf of an owner. The cost of such a policy, together with reconstruction costs undertaken by the association but which are the responsibility of the unit owner, may be collected in the manner provided for the collection of assessments in s. 718.116.

Note: It does not require the association to demand certificates. It also says the association may place insurance, not that it must.

I am not an attorney and this is not a legal opinion. Please consult your own counsel for legal advice.

278,287 homes foreclosed in Florida

Community Director

With the Job Market the way it is, we should easily find a Community Director with a much better education and experience with a reasonable salary. A person that will be more friendly with the residents of Lake Ashton. There is no doubt that we could find a person that would be happy with $75,000 not $135,000 for a do nothing. His salary is way out of line for what he does.

Alligators

All you people that feel killing the alligators because of a complaint, that someone feel they are a threat to the residents of Lake Ashton please call Joe Hunter at 324-5457 or send him a letter or send me your letter and I will personally give it to "do nothing" Joe Hunter along with all the other letters. You can send it to lakeashtontalk@yahoo.com or we can all get together and have a meeting.

All Salaries of Management will be increase 10% as of Oct 1, 2009

10% increase for all Management employees effected Oct 1, 2009 This is the Biggest Rip-off since the tea-pot scandal. This increase will effect the maintenance fees we are now paying and the residents of Lake Ashton say nothing and do nothing.
Joe Hunter salary will then be $137,000
Tricia Adams salary will then be $90,000
Eddie Frye salary will then be $75,000

Big outrages salaries for the do nothings, large repair cost on the bowling alley, roads are in need of costly repair that could exceed millions. I can see more foreclosures in the near future and a long line exiting the main entrance at Lake Ashton and lots of more trouble.

To pay a person to raise his right hand $137,000, shame on you.

Every time the CDD board meet they each get paid $50.00 or $600.00 a year. Somehow I just don't get the picture. Those that do all the work gets paid less and those that do nothing gets paid the most.