Calendar of Queen's College and University, Kingston, Canada for the Year ...The University, 1906 |
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Page 40 - ... qualities of manhood, truth, courage, devotion to duty, sympathy for and protection of the weak, kindliness, unselfishness and fellowship; and (4) his exhibition during school days of moral force of character and of instincts to lead and to take an interest in his schoolmates...
Page 39 - My desire being that the students who shall be elected to the Scholarships shall not be merely bookworms, I direct that in the election of a student to a Scholarship regard shall be had to — 1. His literary and scholastic attainments, 2. His fondness for and success in manly outdoor sports such as cricket, football, and the like, 3.
Page 27 - An essay, to which special importance will be attached, on one of several themes set by the examiners. In order to pass in this subject, legible writing, correct spelling and punctuation, and proper construction of sentences are indispensable. The candidate should also give attention to the structure of the whole essay, the effective ordering of the thought, and the accurate employment of a good English vocabulary. About two pages of foolscap is suggested as the proper length for the essay ; but...
Page 34 - The practical study of the following elements with their most characteristic compounds, having regard to Mendelejeff's classification of the elements, and some of the most important economic and industrial applications: hydrogen, sodium, potassium, magnesium, zinc, calcium, strontium, barium, boron, aluminium, carbon, silicon, tin lead, nitrogen, phosphorus, arsenic, antimony, bismuth, oxygen, sulphur, fluorine, chlorine, bromine, iodine, manganese, iron, copper, nickel.
Page 28 - Two papers will be set: (1) Prescribed texts and translation at sight; questions on grammar; (2) the translation of English into French.
Page 34 - Measurement of velocity ; uniformly accelerated rectilineal motion; metric units of force, work, energy and power : equilibrium of forces acting at a point ; triangle, parallelogram, and polygon of forces ; parallel forces ; principle of moments ; centre of gravity ; laws of friction ; numerical examples. HYDROSTATICS: Fluid pressure at...
Page 28 - Elementary rules; highest common measure; lowest common multiple ; fractions ; square root ; simple equations of one, two and three unknown quantities ; indices ; surds, quadratics of one and two unknown quantities.
Page 32 - The candidate will be expected to have memorized some of the finest passages. Besides questions to test the candidate's familiarity with, and comprehension of, the following selections, questions may also be set to determine within reasonable limits his power of appreciating literary art.
Page 32 - The Day is Done," The Old Clock on the Stairs, The Fire of Driftwood, Resignation, The Warden of the Cinque Ports, Excelsior, The Bridge, A Gleam of Sunshine. Wordsworth — (1'algrave's Golden Treasury of Songs and Lyrics) The Education of Nature, ("Three Years She Grew,") " She was a Phantom of delight...
Page 27 - Longfellow, Evangeline, The Day is Done, The Old Clock on the Stairs, The Fire of Driftwood, Resignation, The Warden of the Cinque Ports, The Bridge, a Gleam of Sunshine. Wordsworth, "Three years she grew in sun and shade," "She was a Phantom of delight," "There is a Flower, the lesser Celandine," To a Skylark, (Ethereal minstrel!