(a) The simple pistil,—the names and positions of its parts and how its plan or ideal structure answers to a leaf.

(b) The compound pistil, its plan or ideal structure, how that plan aids in determining the number of its various parts, and how variations from such numbers (as when there is but one cell when the plan suggests five) may be explained.

(c) An inferior ovary and a superior one, with a term descriptive of the calyx in each case.

(d) The fruit, what it is botanically and how it is distinguished from certain so-called fruits, as the strawberry, blackberry, etc.

Examination for Admission to the Mas

sachusetts State Normal Schools,

September 7 and 8, 1897.

V. DRAWING AND MUSIC,

The candidate will take both Drawing and Music. Time for the entire paper, one hour.

DRAWING.

1. In the town square is a watering trough of granite made from a single block, six feet long, two feet three inches wide and one foot seven and one half inches thick. Make three views of this block, drawing to a scale of one inch to the foot. Make the dimensions on the drawing and state properly the scale.

2. Draw from the object a spray of some common plant.

Take either 3 or 4.

3. From an open book, a little below the level of the eye, make a truthful drawing which shall show one set of converging lines.

4. Sketch some object in the room in which you are sitting, as a desk, a chair, a cupboard, a mantel, a ventilator, or a window with plants.

Take either 5 or 6.

5. Draw from memory one of the following conventional ornamental units: an Egyptian lotus, a Greek anthemion, a Gothic fleur-de-lis.

6. Make a surface pattern for a piece of calico, using as a unit a conventional form of one of the leaves previously drawn.

1. Do you read music or sing or play a musical instrument? Give some account of such musical training as you may have received.

2. Deal with as many of these points as you can in connection with the music passage that follows:

(a) The clef, and its meaning.

(b) The key, and why so called.

(c) The significance of the two flats.

(d) The names (letters), in order, of the upper notes.

(e) The measure, and why so called.

(f) The values of the rests in the first measure.