Minutes of a Meeting of the New York State Examinations Board, Issues 1-10The Board, 1907 |
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algebra ANSWER PAPERS WRITTEN Assistant Commissioner Assistant Commissioner Downing Biology Boynton Brooklyn Brooklyn Principal Buffalo CENT OF PAPERS chairman Charles F Chemistry City Superintendent Colgate University college entrance diploma Columbia University Commercial subjects Commissioner of Education composition Educa elem elementary Emerson English Erasmus Hall High Examinations Division Finley following committee following resolution German Goodwin Graduate grammar Greek Gunnison Hall High School Hamilton College Harvard Inspector of Schools Ithaca High School Latin LL.D Mathematics meeting ment Modern Languages motion of Superintendent Nicholas Murray Butler Normal College Normal School NUMBER OF ANSWER PAPERS WRIT PAPERS WRITTEN ACCEPTED Ph.B Ph.D Potsdam President Rush Rhees Principal Frank Principal of High Principal Walter Professor pupils recommend Regents examinations Resolved revision Rush Rhees Science Second Assistant Commissioner Stuyvesant High School Superintendent Henry Superintendent Maxwell Superintendent William Syracuse University teachers Third Assistant Commissioner tion Department University of Rochester Wheelock York City York State Examinations
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Page 28 - Pope : The Rape of the Lock. A collection of English and Scottish Ballads, as, for example, some Robin Hood ballads, The Battle of Otterburn, King Estmere, Young Beichan, Bewick and Grahame, Sir Patrick Spens, and a selection from later ballads.
Page 29 - The Coming of Arthur, The Holy Grail, and The Passing of Arthur; The selections from Wordsworth, Keats, and Shelley in Book IV of Palgrave's Golden Treasury (First Series). GROUP...
Page 2 - THE UNIVERSITY OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK Regents of the University (with years when terms expire) 1984 JOSEPH W. McGovERN, AB, LL.B., LHD, LL.D., DCL, Chancellor New York 1985 EVERETT J. PENNY, BCS, DCS, Vice Chancellor White Plains 1978 ALEXANDER J. ALLAN, JR., LL.D., Litt.D.
Page 25 - ... literature. Finally, special instruction in language and composition should be accompanied by concerted effort of teachers in all branches to cultivate in the student the habit of using good English in his recitations and various exercises, whether oral or written. LITERATURE The second object is sought by means of two lists of books, headed respectively reading and study, from which may be framed a progressive course in literature covering four years.
Page 26 - Morte d'Arthur (about 100 pages) ; Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress, Part I ; Swift, Gulliver's Travels (voyages to Lilliput and to Brobdingnag) ; Defoe, Robinson Crusoe, Part I; Goldsmith, Vicar of Wakefield; Frances Burney, Evelina; Scott's Novels, any one; Jane Austen's Novels, any one; Maria Edgeworth, Castle Rackrent, or The Absentee; Dickens' Novels, any one; Thackeray's Novels, any one; George Eliot's Novels, any one; Mrs.
Page 27 - Spectator (about 200 pages) ; Boswell, selections from the Life of Johnson (about 200 pages) ; Franklin, Autobiography; Irving, selections from the Sketch Book (about 200 pages) or Life of Goldsmith; Southey, Life of Nelson; Lamb, selections from the Essays of Elia...
Page 28 - Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix, Home Thoughts from Abroad, Home Thoughts from the Sea, Incident of the French Camp, Herve Riel, Pheidippides, My Last Duchess, Up at a Villa — Down in the City, The Italian in England, The Patriot, The Pied Piper, "De Gustibus...
Page 29 - In grammer and composition, the candidate may be asked specific questions upon the practical essentials of these studies, such as the relation of the various parts of a sentence to one another, the construction of individual words in a sentence of reasonable difficulty, and those good usages of modern English, which one should know in distinction from current errors.
Page 27 - Holmes, The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table; Stevenson An Inland Voyage and Travels with a Donkey; Huxley, Autobiography and selections from Lay Sermons, including the addresses on Improving Natural Knowledge, A Liberal Education, and A Piece of Chalk; a collection of Essays by Bacon, Lamb, DeQuincey, Hazlitt, Emerson, and later writers ; a collection of Letters by various standard writers. Group V. Poetry. — Palgrave's Golden Treasury (First Series), Books II and III, with special attention to...
Page 25 - I CLASSICS IN TRANSLATION The Old Testament, comprising at least the chief narrative episodes in Genesis, Exodus, Joshua, Judges, Samuel, Kings, and Daniel, together with the books of Ruth and Esther.