. American engineer and railroad journal . r. The questions for the ex-aminations in mathematics held last spring are reproduced cumplete. This course had, up to that time, only been in force forabout two years and for that reason the questions for the ap-prentices in the second, third, fourth and fifth years were thesame. These questions will give a fair idea of the ground cov-ered in two years time by the course in mathematics. Examina-tions are held in mechanical drawing at about the same time, theapprentice being required to make two or three pencil drawingsin two hours time. The examinati


. American engineer and railroad journal . r. The questions for the ex-aminations in mathematics held last spring are reproduced cumplete. This course had, up to that time, only been in force forabout two years and for that reason the questions for the ap-prentices in the second, third, fourth and fifth years were thesame. These questions will give a fair idea of the ground cov-ered in two years time by the course in mathematics. Examina-tions are held in mechanical drawing at about the same time, theapprentice being required to make two or three pencil drawingsin two hours time. The examination questions for the first andfifth year apprentices are reproduced. The examination papers are all numbered and the boys name,with the number of his paper, is placed in a sealed envelope,which is sent with the examination papers to the office of thechief draftsman at Montreal, who examines and marks encourage the boys in their studies prizes are offered to those AMERICAN ENGINEER AXD RAILROAD fOURNAL. 25 I*. —^ I: I- -SK--— _. Show ac-tiooal pUathrough erntrr lio< bert,DnwBslI I 1 DRIVING AXLE BOX (7i$&»nai)FIG. 6.—THIRTY-FOURTH EXERCISE.


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