5.  Explain the reasons for studying some subject.

6.  An ideal school.

7.  Foreign language study.

8.  Forming habits.

9.  Sailing against the wind.

10.  How to play some game.  Give merely the rules or imagine the game being played.

11.  Difference between football in America and in England.

12.  Exercise or athletics?

13.  Results of military training.

14.  The gambling instinct.

15.  Parliamentary practice.

16.  How to increase one’s vocabulary.

17.  Is the story of The Vicar of Wakefield too good to be true?

18.  The defects of some book.

19.  Reading fiction.

20.  Magazines in America.

21.  Explain fully what a novel is, or a farce, or an allegory, or a satire.

22.  Why slang is sometimes justifiable.

23.  A modern newspaper.

24.  Select two foreign magazines.  Compare and contrast them.

25.  Essential features of a good short story.

26.  Why evening papers offer so many editions.

27.  How to find a book in a public library.

28.  The difference between public speaking and oratory.

29.  Public speaking for the lawyer, the clergyman, the business man.

30.  Qualities of a book worth reading.

31.  Some queer uses of English.

32.  History in the plays of Shakespeare.

33.  How to read a play.

34.  Mistakes in books or plays.

35.  Defects of translations.

36.  “One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.”

37.  “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.”

38.  “You never miss the water till the well runs dry.”

39.  “Penny wise, pound foolish.”

40.  Select any proverb.  Explain it.

41.  Choose a short quotation from some poem.  Explain it.

42.  Explain some technical operation.

43.  Explain some mechanical process.

44.  A range factory.

45.  Making electric bulbs.

46.  How moving pictures are made and reproduced.

47.  Explain some simple machine.

48.  A new application of electricity.

49.  Weather forecasting.

50.  Scientific or practical value of polar expeditions.

51.  Changes of the tide.

52.  An eclipse.

53.  The principle of some such appliance as the thermometer, the barometer, the microscope, the air-brake, the block signal.

54.  Developing a negative.

55.  How the player piano is operated.

56.  How the cash register prevents dishonesty.

57.  How a new fruit is produced—­as seedless orange.

58.  Mimeographing.

59.  The value of Latin for scientific terms.

60.  The value of certain birds, worms, insects.