Excerpt from The Advanced Question Book: Including in One Volume the Dime Question Books on General Literature, General History, Astronomy, Mythology, Rhetoric, Botany, Zoology, Chemistry, Geology, and Physics
Since 1866 the Regents of the State of New York have held examinations three times a year in all the Academics and Academic Departments of the Union Schools, granting certifi cates to such pupils as pass satisfactorily, and apportioning upon these certificates a large sum of money among the schools of the State. As pupils begin the study of the higher branches after passing this examination, the questions are made to em brace all that is practical ln the above branches. In all these questions not a single unimportant or catch question can be found. They are now used as text-books in many of the leading schools of the country. Cornell University, and most other colleges, recognizing their practical character, now admit, without any further examination upon these subjects. Pupils who have passed an examination upon these questions.
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