Part 12 (1/2)

_e._ What was the debt of the United States at the close of the Revolution?

2.--Spell the following words and give the definition of them (being prepared to write both the spelling and definition as they are announced by the teacher):

Clarify, Pyrenees, judgment, leguminous, critique, pistachio, deceit, scissors, superficies, idiom, anodyne, filigree, monody, cartouch, committee, tobacco.

3.--Work out and hand in on paper solutions of the following problems:

_a._ What number is that from which if you take 8/14, the remainder will be 1/3?

_b._ What number is that to which if you add 4/9 of 11, the sum will be 44-3/5?

_c._ What number multiplied by 11 will give 44-3/5 for a product?

_d._ What number divided by 4-2/7 will give 243/324 for a quotient?

_e._ What divisor will give 4-2/7 for a quotient, 66 being the dividend?

_f._ What number is that 8/14 of which exceeds 1/2 by 4-2/7?

_g._ What number is that to which if 8/14 of itself be added, the sum will be 66?

_h._ What number is that from which if 1/3 of itself be subtracted, the remainder will be 11?

I call attention: 1st, to the amount of labor and time it will require simply to do the work of the above lesson, even supposing that a cla.s.s of children from eleven to thirteen years of age have the ability, and after five hours in the school-room during the day; and 2d, to the character of some of the requirements.

[5] Before this patient left the Retreat she gave me the following schedule of her daily duties and mode of life while in school:--

”Breakfast at 7 A.M. From 7-1/2 to 8-1/2, did work. Studied from 8.30 to 8.55. From 9 till 1-1/2 o'clock P.M., studied and recited. Dined at 2, and after dinner worked until 3. Then 1/2 hour for recreation. From 3-1/2 till 5-1/2 o'clock, study hours. From 5-1/2 to 6, turns were taken by the pupils in preparing supper. Supper at 6. From 6-1/2 to 7, recreations.

From 7-1/4 to 9, Latin recitations and study.”

Other pupils need not have studied so much by 1-1/2 hours.

Comment on the above is unnecessary.

[6] D. H. Tuke: ”Insanity and its Prevention.”