c CSluNe 1910-13 Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2012 with funding from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign http://archive.org/details/questionpap1013corn )3Mi OFFICIAL PUBLICATIONS OF CORNELL UNIVERSITY VOLUME il NUMBER 8 SAMPLES OF ENTRANCE AND SCHOLARSHIP EXAMINATION PAPERS 1910 APRIL 15. 1911 PUBLISHED BY CORNELL UNIVERSITY ITHACA. NEW YORK . : ; : : ENTRANCE EXAMINATION PAPERS ENGLISH A Answer three questions. 1. Give an account of the most important event in the life of any one of the following: Sydney Carton, Eppie, Alice Pyncheon, John Ridd, Quentin Durward, Beatrix Esmond, Bois-Guilbert. 2. Discuss the main idea in any essay of Irving, Lamb, DeQuincey, Carlyle, Emerson, or Ruskin. 3. Give your reasons for liking the work of the poet you have found the most interesting. 4. Write a letter as to a friend either telling your most interesting ex- perience of the past summer, or giving your reasons for your choice of col- lege in this university. ENGLISH B 1 Explain the following passage This supernatural soliciting Cannot be ill, cannot be good; if ill, Why hath it given me earnest of success, Commencing in a truth? I am Thane of Cawdor If good, why do I yield to that suggestion Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair And make my seated heart knock at my ribs, Against the use of nature ? Present fears Are less than horrible imaginings My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical, Shakes so my single state of man that function Is smother'd in surmise, and nothing is But what is not. 2. How were the witches' prophecies in Macbeth fulfilled? 3. What became of Fleance, Malcolm, Banquo, Lady Macbeth, Lady Macduff? 4. Explain the italicised words in the following passage Methought it was the sound Of riot and ill-managed merriment, Such as the jociind flute or gamesome pipe Stirs up among the loose unlettered hinds, When, for their teeming flocks and granges full, In wanton dance they praise the bounteous Pan, And thank the gods amiss, I should be loth To meet the rudeness smd swilled insolence ! else Of such late wassailers ; yet oh where Shall I inform my unacquainted feet In the blind mazes of this tangled wood ? I oft have heard My mother Circe with the Sirens three. : : ; 4 CORNELL UNIVERSITY Amidst the bowery -kiriled Naiades, Culling their potent herbs and baleful drugs: Who as they sung would take the prisoned soul And lap it in Elysium: Scylla wept, And chid her barking waves into attention, And fell Charyhdis murmured soft applause. 5. Explain the following passage Alas ! what boots it with uncessant care To tend the homely, slighted, Shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless Muse ? Were it not better done, as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights and live laborious days But the fair guerdon when we hope to find. And think to burst out into sudden blaze. Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. 'But not the praise,' Phoebus replied, and touched my trembling ears. 6. Comment on the style of Macaulay or of Carlyle. 7 (Answer a or 6) a. What were the main objections that Burke was trying to meet in his Speech on Conciliation? b. What are the chief principles laid down by Washington in the Farewell Address ? GREEK A. Xenophon I. Translate into clear, idiomatic English 'E7(i, (5 Avdpes "EWrjves, yeirup oIkQ rrj 'EXXdSt, /cat iirel vf^ds eiSov eh TToXXA Kal dfj.i^x^^^ TrewTWKdTas, €{jpr}ixa i-n-oirja-dixrjv et ttojs dvval/xrjv irapa /SatriX^wj alr-fjcracdaL Souvai i/xol dToaCxrat. v/jlcLs els rrjv 'EXXd.5o. ol/xai yap cLp oiK Axapio-Tws jxoL ^x^'-^ ^^''''^ irpbs rijs irdcnjs 'EXXdSos. ravra S^ yvoi>s r(roij/j.r}v 5 j8a<riX^a, X^yuv aiircf 6ti 5i/ca/ws &v /xoi x^P^^^'-'^^i ^'''^ a^rif Kvp6v re iTriffTpa- TiiovTa irpdros rjyyeCKa. Kal ^oijdeLav ex^v dfia t-q dyyeKlq, dcpiKSfxrjv, Kal jxbvos rCiv K-xrd Tovs"E\\7)vas Terayfi^voju ovk ecpvyov, dXXd di'/jXacra Kal avv^jxi^a ^aa-iXec iv T(p v/j.€Tipip arparoTr^dtf /cat irepl ixkv to^tuiv vtr^crx^Td fxoL ^ovKevaeaBai- ipeadai 84 jxe vpds iK^Xevcv iXdSvra rlvos ^ve/cev iarpaTerjo-aTe eir 10 airdp. Kal av/x^ovXeio} vaiv /xerpicvs diroKplvaadaL, Xva fxoi evirpaKrbTepov rj edv ri di/vwp-ai dyadhv vpuv irap avrov dLairpd^aadaL. B. Grammar 1. Give the principal parts of: TreirTWKdras (1. 2), tct ayp^evuv (1. 7), and iXdbvra (1. 9); tell the tense of d<piK6/xr)v (1. 6) and ^77eiXa (1. 6), and state the grounds for your decision. 2. State the rule of accent for enclitics, and the general rule of accent for verbs, naming two forms of the verb where exceptions occur. : ; ENTRANCE EXAMINATION PAPERS 5 3. Explain the mood of (a) xaptfoiro (1. 6), accounting ioT&v,and (b) S^vbjfxai (1. 13); explain the syntax of &v {&v . exeti' 1. 4). C. Composition Translate into Greek 1 If they were good men, they would not be doing this. 2 I shall follow you and do whatever may be necessary. 3 Xenophon says that no one was loved by more men than Cyrus. I . Translate at sight : (Generosity of Cyrus to Croesus) iyCj^'^dp <Tov ivvoQp iry]v[ irpbffdev evSai/xoviav oiKTeipca re <re Kal dTro5i8o)fjLi rjSrj yvvaTKO. re exct", Kai toj>s (f>l\ovs Kal roi>s depdyroPTas Kal rpdire^av aijv otqurep e^-^re- fjLdxo-s d^ (Toi Kai iroXifiovs i(paioQ. Ma Ai'a /xt/S^v toLvvp^ €(pr] 6 Kpo?(Xos, ai/ ifiol^rc ^ovXeiJov diroKpipacrdai irepl r^s ifiijs eudaifioplas' iy<h yUp ^Si? crot Xeyut^ ijv ravrd fxoi TTonyo-]?? & X^7ets, 8ti f/p &Wol re fMaKapicoTdrrjp epo/XL^op eJpai Piorrjp Kal eyd) <Tvpeylyp(jo<TKOP avroTs, ratJTrjp Kal iycb pvp ^x^^ did^ct}. Kal 6 Kvpos eltre, Tis 5t] 6 ^X^^ TavrriP T7]p ixaKapiav ^lottjp; 'H efxi] yvpr/, elwep (3 Kvpe. D. Homer Translate (concerning Thetis and Zeus) de^irepy^d'' d/>' urr' dpdepeQpos eXovcra Xi.(r(T0fji4pT] irpoffienre Ala Kpopiupa dpaKra' "ZeO irdrep, et irore d-^g-e fxer' ddapdroiaip 6prj(xa 7J cTrei ij e/)7<f), r65e fiot Kp-qrjpop eiXbuip' 5 Tifx,r](T6p^/jL0L v16p, 6s djKVfiopibTaTos dXXojp •^TrXer'" drdp fxip pvp ye &va^ dpdpQv ' A.yafx^jxptap ^Tiixrj<T€P- iXCjp ydp exet y^pas,avTbs diro^pas- dXXd <ri> ir^p /jllp T'iaop,\''OXiixirLe /xrjTieTa Zev, Tb(f)pa d'ewl Tpibeaai rWeL Kpdros, o(pp' dp 'Axatoi 10 vlbp ifxbp riauaiP, dcp^XXuaip ri e Tifiri.^' &s <j>dTO' T7]p 5' o\j TL irpoae^T] petpeXrjyepera ZeiJs, dXX'dK^uip fjCTTo. Qeris d' ws rj-iparo yoivwv, (as ex€T' ifjt,Tre<pvvia, Kal etpero devrepop adns. "vJ7/xe/)T^s fi^p drj fioi vrrdcrx^o Kal Kardpevcrop, 15 rj diroenr', iirel oij tol eiri bios, 6(pp' ei> eldCo, dacrop iyd) fxerd irdcrip drL/xoTdTT] debs eifit.. 1. Explain the case of de^ireprj (1. i), dXXup (1. 5), and yovpwv (1. 12). 2. What forms would be expected in Attic prose instead of iiXdup (1, 4) (l)dTo (1. 11), and 6W0J' (1. 16). 3. What are the forms: tio-op (1. 8), efxire(f)vvia (1. 13), and eldCo (1. 15). 4. Write lines 15-16 and mark scansion. LATIN (a) How much have you read of Caesar ? Of Cicero ? Of Virgil ? (b) How much work have you done in prose composition ? (c) Have you previously passed any part of the entrance examination in Latin ? . : . 6 CORNELL UNIVERSITY I Latin Grammar 1 Give the rules for the accent of Latin words, 2. Explain the difference of meaning between the expressions "long vowel" and "long syllable." 3. Decline: pater familias, filius, deus, princeps, lapis, miles, nomen, mos, dos, nox, sus, vis, Jupiter, tener, vetus, vos, se. 4. Give the comparative and superlative degrees of the following adjectives and adverbs : acer,facilis, maledicens, male, parum. 5. Give the principal parts of: adjuvo, pareo, pario, paro, parco, placeo, placo, sedeo, vivo, vinco, video, venio. 6. Write out the second person singular and plural of the perfect indicative and of the imperfect subjunctive (in both voices, if both exist) of pono, possum, gero. 7. Mention and illustrate eight different uses of the ablative case; six of the accusative ; six of the genitive. 8. Mention the various demonstrative pronouns and distinguish each from the others in meaning. 9. Give an illustration in Latin of each of the following types of the sub- junctive mood: hortatory, jussive, prohibitive, deliberative, concessive, optative. 10. When is the subjunctive required in clauses introduced by: (a) qui, (b) antequam, (c) quod in the sense of "because" ? 1 1 Name and illustrate the various types of conditional sentences. , II Caesar Translate Tum demum Liscus oratione Caesaris adductus, quod antea tacuerat, proponit: Esse nonnullos, quorum auctoritas apud plebem plurimum valeat, qui privatim plus possint quam ipsi magistratus. Hos seditiosa atque improba oratione multitudinem deterrere, ne frumentum conferant, quod debeant: praestare, si iam principatum Galliae obtinere non possint, Gallorum quam Romanorum imperia perferre; neque dubitare, quin, si Helvetios superaverint Romani, una cum reliqua Gallia Haeduis libertatem sint erepturi. Ab isdem nostra consilia, quaeque in castris gerantur, hostibus enuntiari : hos a se coerceri non posse. Write (in Latin) the direct discourse for this passage, beginning with esse nonnullos.