APPENDIX. BURSARY COMPETITION AND ENGLISH-FIRST PAPER. FRIDAY, 27TH SEPTEMBER 1901, 9 TO 11 A.M. (Five, and not more than five, questions are to be answered. Questions 1, 2, and 6 must be answered by all.) 1. Write an essay, of from two to three pages long, on one of the following subjects : (1) The arguments for and against Free University Education. (2) The character of Pitt as a statesman. (3) The respective advantages of seaside and country as places of holiday sojourn. 2. Paraphrase: Hymn to Adversity. Daughter of Jove, relentless power, The bad affright, afflict the best! Bound in thy adamantine chain, And purple tyrants vainly groan With pangs unfelt before, unpitied and alone. When first thy Sire to send on earth, And from her own she learn'd to melt at others' woe. 3. Give the derivation of eight of the following words: Island, farrier, drown, sluice, ancestor, ballast, liquorice, tadpole, 'savage, canter, whist, gas, caprice, strange. 4. What is meant by inflexion? Account for the lack of it in Modern English, and explain, with illustrations, what takes its place in nouns and in verbs. 5. Re-write, so as to correct or improve, the following sentences, giving reasons for any changes you may make : (a) Although delighted that Mr Clark has been promoted by his directors, general regret is expressed at his departure, and no part of the community will miss him and his accomplished lady more than the musical association in which both took a leading part, especially Mrs Clark, who was the leading spirit, and always acted as accompanist. (b) I quote this, because the Liberté' is one of those amphibious journals that, waiting to see which way the wind blows, sometimes unexpectedly turns the scale. (c) The water-supply and sewerage is excellent and ample. (d) Mrs Coleridge not having the same relish for long walks or rural scenery, and their residence being at this time in a very sequestered village, was condemned to a daily renewal of this trial. 6. Give a general analysis of this passage, and parse the words in italics : Before the starry threshold of Jove's court My mansion is, where those immortal shapes In regions mild of calm and serene air, Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot, Which men call Earth, and, with low-thoughted care, |