Haggerty: The Ability to Read 



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scholar; they perfect nature, and are perfected hy experience — for natural abilities 

 are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do 

 give forth directions too much at large, except they he bounded in by experience. 

 5. How many uses may "studies" serve? 



Set IV OR 40 



Read this and then vvTite the answers to questions 1, 2, and 3. All ques- 

 tions must be answered from the paragraph. Read the paragraph as often 

 as you need to. 



In Franklin, attendance upon school is required of every child between the 

 ages of seven and fourteen on every day when school is in session, unless the 

 child is so ill as to be unable to go to school, or some person in his house is ill 

 with a contagious disease, or the roads are impassable. 



1. Name one condition that would justify a teu-j^ear-old girl in remain- 

 ing out of school in Franklin. 



2. Between what years is attendance upon school compulsory in 

 Franklin? 



3. At what age may a boy leave school to go to work in Franklin? 



Read this and then write the answers to questions 4 and 5. All ques- 

 tions must be answered from the paragraph. Read the paragraph as often 

 as you need to. 



Nearly fifteen thousand of the city's workers joined in the parade on Septem- 

 ber seventh, and passed before two hundred thousand cheering spectators. There 

 were workers of both sexes in the parade, though the men far outnumbered the 

 women. 



4. How many persons marched in the parade? 



5. How many people saw the parade? 



SET V OR 50 



Read this and then write the answers to questions 1, 2, and 3. All ques- 

 tions must be answered from the paragraph. Read the paragraph as often 

 as you need to. 



First, let us o^sk, where does book-making begin? With the printer? iVo, 

 for before the printer can even think about printitig, he must have his "'copy'". 

 This ''copy'', as the printer calls it, is furnished by the publisher; and the pub- 

 lisher gets it from the author, who calls it his "manuscript" . The author has 

 spent many days, perhaps months, or evert years, upon it, writing it out with 

 his own hand. With pen and ink he has put his thoughts upon the paper. 



4. What is the general topic of this paragraph? 



5. Where according to this paragraph does book-making begin? 



Set VI OR 60 



Read this and then m-ite answers to questions 1, 2, and 3. All questions 

 must be answered from the paragraph. Read the paragraph as often as 

 you need to . 



If college athletics were endowed, and those precautions taken in reference 



