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MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the
question.

Find the derivative.

1) f(x) = 5x2 + 8x + 9, find
f'(x) A) 5x2 + 8
B) 10x + 8
C) 10x2 + 8
D) 5x + 8
Answer: B

2) f(x) = 4x4 + 8x3 + 7, find

f'(x) A) 4x3 + 3x2
B) 16x3 + 24x2 - 7
C) 4x3 + 3x2 - 7
D) 16x3 + 24x 2
Answer: D

3) y = 9x-2 - 9x3 + 10x, find

f'(x) A) -18x-3 - 27x2 + 10
B) -18x-1 - 27x2
C) -18x-3 - 27x2
D) -18x-1 - 27x2 + 10
Answer: A

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4) f(x) = 20x1/2 - x20, find
f'(x)
2
A) 10x-1/2 - 10x10
B) 10x1/2 - 10x19

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 C) 10x-1/2 - 10x19
D) 10x1/2 - 10x10
Answer: C

5) f(x) = 9x7/5 - 5x2 + 104 , find

63 2/5
f'(x) A) x - 10x
5
63 6/5
B) x - 10x + 4000
5
63 6/5
C) x - 10x
5
63 2/5
D) x - 10x + 4000
5
Answer: A

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 6) g(x) = 5x5 + x4 - 4x2 + 6, find g'(-
3) A) 1917
B) -84
C) 2049
D) 1941
Answer: D

6 7 2
7) f(x) = - + , find f'(x)
x x x3
3 7 6
A) - -

x1/2 x2 x4
3 7 6
B) - + -

x3/2 x2 x4
7 -6
C) -3 x +
2
x2 x
3 7 6
D) - - -
x3/2 x2 x2
Answer: B

x+ 5
8) f(x) = , find f'(x)
x
A) x3/2 + 5 x
1 5
B) -
2 x 2x
1 5
C) -
2 x 2 x3/2
1 5
D) +
x x3/2
Answer: C

Find the derivative of the given function.

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9) y = (2x2 + 5x)
A) 8x3 + 30x2 + 25x
B) 16x3 + 60x2 + 50x
C) 16x3 + 30x2 + 50x
D) 8x3 + 30x2 + 50x
Answer: B

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10) y = (x2 + 4)
A) 3x5 + 48x3 +
96x B) 6x5 + 48x3 +
96x C) 6x5 + 24x3 +

3
 48x D) 6x5 + 40x3
+ 96x
Answer: B

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Find the slope of the line tangent to the graph of the function at the given value of x.
11) y = x4 + 7x3 - 2x + 2; x = 1
A) 25
B) 22
C) 23
D) 20
Answer: C

12) y = 4x3/2 - 5x1/2; x = 16

91
A)
4
197
B)
8
187
C)
8
101
D)
4
Answer: C

13) y = -8x-1 + 5x-2 ; x = 2

3
A)
4
13
B)
4
3
C) -
4
13
D) -
4
Answer: A

14) y = -x-5 + x-3 ; x = 1

A) -8
B) -2
C) 2
D) 8
Answer: C

15) y = 9x5/2 - 7x3/2; x = 4

A) 96
B) 6
C) 8
D) 159
Answer: D

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16) y = - x; x =
4x
11
A) -
16
3
B)
16
3
C) -
16
11
D)
16
Answer: A

Find an equation for the line tangent to given curve at the given value of x.
x2
17) y = ; x=3
4
A) y = 1.5x + 2.25
B) y = 1.5x - 2.25
C) y = 6x - 2.25
D) y = 1.5x - 4.5
Answer: B

x3
18) y = ; x=6
2
A) y = 54x - 216
B) y = 18x + 216
C) y = 18x - 216
D) y = 216x + 54
Answer: A

19) y = x2 - 4; x = 2
A) y = 4x - 8
B) y = 4x - 16
C) y = 2x - 8
D) y = 4x - 12
Answer: A

20) y = x2 + 2; x = -3
A) y = -6x - 14
B) y = -3x - 7
C) y = -6x - 16
D) y = -6x - 7
Answer: D

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 21) y = x2 - x; x = -3
A) y = -7x + 6
B) y = -7x - 6
C) y = -7x - 9
D) y = -7x + 9
Answer: C

22) y = x - x2 ; x = 4
A) y = 7x + 16
B) y = 9x - 16
C) y = 9x + 16
D) y = -7x + 16
Answer: D

23) y = x3 - 25x + 2; x = 5
A) y = 50x + 2
B) y = 2
C) y = 50x - 248
D) y = 52x - 248
Answer: C

Solve the following.

24) Find all points of the graph of f(x) = 2x2 + 6x whose tangent lines are parallel to the line y - 18x = 0.
A) (3, 36)
B) (6, 108)
C) (5, 80)
D) (4, 56)
Answer: A

25) At what points on the graph of f(x) = 2x3 - 3x2 - 39x is the slope of the tangent line -3?
A) (-3, 36), (-90, -74)
B) (3, -90), (-2, 50)
C) (0, 0), (-2, 50)
D) (3, -90), (1, -
40) Answer: B

Find all values of x (if any) where the tangent line to the graph of the function is horizontal.
26) y = x2 + 2x - 3
A) 0
B) 1
1
C)
2
D) -1
Answer: D

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 27) y = 2 + 8x - x2
A) -4
B) -8
C) 4
D) 8
Answer: C

28) y = x3 - 3x2 + 1
A) 2
B) -2, 0, 2
C) 0
D) 0, 2
Answer: D

29) y = x3 - 12x + 2
A) -2, 0, 2
B) 0, 2
C) 0
D) 2, -2
Answer: D

30) y = x3 + 7x2 - 304x + 38

38
A) , -8
3
38 38
B) - , ,8
3 3
38
C) - ,8
3
D) 8
Answer: C

Give an appropriate
answer.
31) If g′(-4) = 2 and h′(-4) = 3, find f′(-4) for f(x) = 4g(x) - 6h(x) + 3.
A) -10
B) -7
C) 26
D) 29
Answer: A

32) If g′(4) = -4 and h′(4) = -6, find f′(4) for f(x) = -2g(x) + 2h(x) + 2.
A) 20
B) 22
C) -2
D) 0
Answer: D

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Use the differentiation feature on a graphing calculator to find the indicated derivative.
33) f(x) = 0.93x3 - 3.68x2 + 3.20x + 1.5;
f′(3) A) -37.930
B) 6.230
C) 7.730
D) 17.270
Answer: B

Solve the problem.

34) The total cost to produce x handcrafted wagons is C(x) = 70 + 8x - x2 + 4x3 . Find the marginal cost when x
= 2.
A) 122
B) 52
C) 44
D) 114
Answer: B

35) The profit in dollars from the sale of x thousand compact disc players is P(x) = x3 - 2x2 + 8x + 7.
Find the marginal profit when the value of x is 6.
A) $92
B) $198
C) $205
D) $99
Answer: A

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36) If the price of a product is given by P(x) = + 1000, where x represents the demand for the product,
find the x
rate of change of price when the demand is 32.
A) -1
B) -32
C) 32
D) 1
Answer: A

37) For a motorcycle traveling at speed v (in mph) when the brakes are applied, the distance d (in feet)
required to stop the motorcycle may be approximated by the formula d = 0.05 v2 + v. Find the
instantaneous rate of change of distance with respect to velocity when the speed is 40 mph.
A) 41 mph
B) 10 mph
C) 4 mph
D) 5 mph
Answer: D

38) The power P (in W) generated by a particular windmill is given by P = 0.015 V3 where V is the velocity of
the wind (in mph). Find the instantaneous rate of change of power with respect to velocity when the
velocity is 9.0 mph. Round your answer to the nearest tenth.
A) 3.6 W/mph
B) 8.1 W/mph
C) 0.4 W/mph
D) 21.9 W/mph

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Answer: A

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39) The energy loss E (in joules/kilogram) due to friction when water flows through a pipe is given by
E = 0.020(L/D)v2 . In the formula, L is the pipe length (in m), D is the pipe diameter (in m), and v is the
water velocity (in m/s). Find a formula for the instantaneous rate of change of energy with respect to
velocity.
A) dE/dv =
0.04(L/D)v2
B) dE/dv =
0.02(L/D)v
C) dE/dv =
0.04(L/D)v
D) dE/dv =
(L/D)v
Answer: C

40) The velocity of water in ft/s at the point of discharge is given by v = 11.21 P, where P is the pressure in
lb/in.2 of the water at the point of discharge. Find the rate of change of the velocity with respect to
pressure if the pressure is 30.00 lb/in.2 .
A) .1868 ft/s per lb/in.2
B) 1.0233 ft/s per lb/in.2
C) 30.70 ft/s per lb/in.2
D) 2.05 ft/s per lb/in.2
Answer: B

41) A balloon used in surgical procedures is cylindrical in shape. As it expands outward, assume that the
length remains a constant 60.0 mm. Find the rate of change of surface area with respect to radius when
the radius is 0
.030 mm. The surface area is given by the formula S(x) = 2πrl + 2πr2 , where l is the length and r is the
radius. (Answer can be left in terms of π).
A) 60.06π mm2 /mm
B) 120.0π mm2 /mm
C) 60.12π mm2 /mm
D) 120.12π
mm2 /mm
Answer: D

42) A ball is thrown vertically upward from the ground at a velocity of 108 feet per second. Its distance from
the ground after t seconds is given by s(t) = -16t2 + 108t. How fast is the ball moving 2 seconds after being
thrown?
A) 38 ft per sec
B) 76 ft per sec
C) 44 ft per sec
D) 152 ft per sec
Answer: C

43) Exposure to ionizing radiation is known to increase the incidence of cancer. One thousand laboratory
rats are exposed to identical doses of ionizing radiation, and the incidence of cancer is recorded during
subsequent days. The researchers find that the total number of rats that have developed cancer t months
after the initial exposure is modeled by N(t) = 1.01t2.1 for 0 ≤ t ≤ 10 months. Find the rate of growth of the
number of cancer cases at the 7th month. Round your answer to the nearest tenth, if necessary.
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 A) 22
cases/month
B) 18
cases/month
C) 126.3
cases/month
D) 13
cases/month
Answer: B

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44) The body-mass index (BMI) is calculated using the equation BMI = , where w is in pounds and h
is in h 2
inches. Find the rate of change of BMI with respect to weight for Sally, who is 61" tall and weighs 120 lbs. If
both
Sally and her brother Jesse gain the same small amount of weight, who will see the largest increase in BMI?
Jesse is 71" tall and weighs 190 lbs.
A) 22.671,
Jesse B) 0.189,
Jesse C) 22.671,
Sally D) 0.189,
Sally
Answer: D

45) A(x) = -0.015x 3 + 1.05x gives the alcohol level in an average person's bloodstream x hours after drinking 8
oz of
100-proof whiskey. If the level exceeds 1.5 units, a person is legally drunk. Find the rate of change of
alcohol level with respect to time.
dA
A) = -0.045x 2 +
1.05x dx
dA
B) = - 0.045x 3 + 1.05
dx
dA
C) = -0.045x 2 +
1.05 dx
dA
D) = -0.015x2 +
1.05 dx
Answer: C

46) A(x) = -0.015x 3 + 1.05x gives the alcohol level in an average person's bloodstream x hours after drinking 8
oz of
100-proof whisky. If the level exceeds 1.5 units, a person is legally drunk. Find the rate of change of alcohol
level with respect to time when x = 2 hours.
A) 0.99 units/hr
B) 1.92 units/hr
C) 0.87 units/hr
D) 1.23 units/hr
Answer: C

47) The median weight, w, of a girl between the ages of 0 and 36 months can be approximated by the
function w(t) = 0.0006t3 - 0.0484t2 + 1.61t + 7.60,
where t is measured in months and w is measured in pounds.
For a girl of median weight, find the rate of change of weight with respect to time at age 20 months.
A) 0.882
lb/mo B) 0.086
lb/mo C) 1.362
lb/mo D)
0.394 lb/mo
Answer: D

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 48) The polynomial C(x) = -0.006x4 + 0.140x3 - 0.53x2 + 1.79x measures the concentration of a dye in
the bloodstream x seconds after it is injected. Find the rate of change of concentration with respect
to time.
dC
A) = -0.006x3 + 0.140x2 - 0.53x +
1.79 dt
dC
B) = -0.024x4 + 0.420x3 - 1.06x2 +
1.79x dt
dC
C) = -0.018x 3 + 0.280x2 - 0.53x +
1.79 dt
dC
D) = -0.024x3 + 0.420x2 - 1.06x +
1.79 dt
Answer: D

Use the product rule to find the

derivative.
49) f(x) = (3x - 3)(3x +
1) A) f'(x) = 18x -
12
B) f'(x) = 18x - 3
C) f'(x) = 9x - 6
D) f'(x) = 18x - 6
Answer: D

50) f(x) = (3x - 4)(2x3 - x2 +

1)
A) f'(x) = 24x3 - 11x2 + 33x + 3
B) f'(x) = 6x3 + 11x2 - 33x + 3
C) f'(x) = 24x3 - 33x2 + 8x + 3
D) f'(x) = 18x3 + 33x2 - 11x + 3
Answer: C

51) f(x) = (x2 - 4x + 2)(2x3 - x2 + 5)

A) f'(x) = 2x4 - 36x3 + 24x2 + 6x - 20
B) f'(x) = 10x4 - 32x3 + 24x2 + 6x - 20
C) f'(x) = 2x4 - 32x3 + 24x2 + 6x - 20
D) f'(x) = 10x4 - 36x3 + 24x2 + 6x - 20
Answer: D

52) f(x) = (5x + 4)2

A) f'(x) = 25x + 16
B) f'(x) = 10x + 8
C) f'(x) = 50x + 40
D) f'(x) = 25x + 20
Answer: C

53) f(x) = (5x - 5)( x + 5)

A) f'(x) = 3.33x1/2 - 2.5x-1/2 + 25
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 B) f'(x) = 3.33x1/2 - 5x-1/2 + 25
C) f'(x) = 7.5x1/2 - 2.5x-1/2 + 25
D) f'(x) = 7.5x1/2 - 5x-1/2 + 25
Answer: C

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 If there were no grievous interruptions of school work, decisive
action should have been deferred until profitable conversations had
given Mr. Wingate an opportunity of developing definitely some
sentiment upon the obnoxious habit. This could be begun the very
same day on which he encountered the row of candy on Emma’s
desk, but owing to the desire of high school girls very generally to
make a good appearance in public, Mr. Wingate might readily
attempt to cure the ills of his own school by a series of definite
lessons on good manners.
Link this up with instruction in domestic science, so as to give it
due emphasis and dignity. Make it evident that eating is to take place
only at the table or under circumstances where the entire group
enters without embarrassment into the pleasure of the occasion.

COMMENTS

Mr. Wingate ventured on uncertain ground. He was in a minority

when attacking the custom in so public a manner. He pulled on a
projecting beam and loosened the whole framework of a social
custom without knowing what his next move would be if things came
tumbling down.
What was needed was a larger program of action.
The plan of working out the dilemma from the standpoint of
domestic science gives permanence and dignity to the reforms
proposed. A disciplinarian must never intimate that his
requirements are trivial or personal or disconnected with the general
good of the school. As soon as one or a hundred pupils can feel that
they are out of class by holding to an old custom the reforms
proposed will make rapid headway.

ILLUSTRATION (HIGH SCHOOL)

Mr. Pendleton was principal of the high Marshmallows

school at Downs, Ohio.
Having been fully forewarned by past experience that high school
pupils easily fall into the eating habit in school, he had provided a
place in his course in domestic science for instruction on manners on
the street and in public places with regard to eating.
But, in the first place, he discussed the matter briefly with his
teachers and found that there was a satisfactory state of opinions
there on this as well as on a dozen or twenty other small points which
he decided to deal with early in the school year.
Miss Davis, instructor in domestic science, agreed to make this a
preponderant point in her instruction. Even in class she strictly
prohibited and prevented “lunching and munching,” insisting that
those who received instruction must eat at the table and observe all
the rules of good conduct.
With this example and instruction as a recognized fact, the girls of
the high school were ready to yield very graciously to Mr. Pendleton’s
request that no one bring articles of food to the high school. This
request was made, by the way, only after Eloise Thomas, member of
the first-year class, had walked into the room one morning with a
generous sack of marshmallows in her hand. He made no allusion to
her individually, but spoke as follows:
“I have been very much pleased so far this year to see that the
usual customs of public assemblies have been observed on nearly
every point. Sooner or later it may be that someone may be
attempting to distribute sweetmeats among his friends and so
occasion an interruption in our regular work. Of course such a thing
could hardly be tolerated in a company of well-bred people. The
standards that have been set in our domestic science department are
entirely in accord with requirements of good society, so that I trust
that every member of the school will be governed by them and
cheerfully assist in maintaining the good conduct that has so far been
observed during the school year.”
(7) Smoking on the school grounds. Sometimes it is impracticable
to change the example except by changing the giver of the example. If
a fine boy or girl can be made the leader where a weak or vicious one
has been leader, wonderful changes may take place. Such a change
was effected in the following instance.

CASE 70 (SEVENTH GRADE)

 The practice school of Bodeling College Cigarettes
was so good that large numbers of boys and
girls came out by streetcar from the neighboring large city to attend
it. These boys and girls took the cars at a convenient station near the
campus, where an enterprising business man had built a Station
Store, which furnished textbooks, stationery and refreshments, and
gave shelter in bad weather. This store was a great convenience, but
the college authorities found it also much of a nuisance, for here a
group of “smart” high school and town boys gathered, to loaf and
smoke and set a bad example to the smaller boys in many ways.
The grammar grade teachers found the cigarette evil especially
hard to deal with. The seventh and eighth grade boys, seeing their
elders swaggering about with cigarettes, imitated them freely. There
were a number of fine high school boys who did not smoke, but they
rarely went home as soon as the smokers, and so the smaller boys
saw most of the smoking set.
Miss Steele, the seventh grade teacher, went to Miss Hardy of the
eighth and they had a conference. At its close, Miss Steele announced
her program:
“I’m going to appeal to plain reason; I shall show them so clearly
that they can’t fail to understand how cigarettes hurt them in every
way, and then appeal to their sense of loyalty to themselves and their
future. When they know how cigarettes rob them of health and
ability, their good sense will dictate to them what to do.”
Miss Steele planned her campaign well. She was a large, plain,
wholesome-looking woman, a good thinker and a notable figure in all
movements for public welfare in her community. Her pupils all
respected her, and her school-room management was above
criticism. She planned and delivered now a series of talks on
cigarettes, in which she explained clearly just why they are so
especially harmful to the young and what a losing game the cigarette-
smoker plays. Her pupils all listened closely, the smokers with the
rest.
When she had exhausted the subject, she asked all those who were
resolved never to smoke cigarettes to raise their hands; for she had
had successful experience with the effectiveness of a public pledge.
Every pupil in the room but one raised his hand. This one pupil was
the son of a prominent attorney, a smoker and a leader among the
boys. His father had instilled in him so keen a sense of honor that,
because he did not intend to stop, he refused to make the promise.
But in spite of this well planned campaign the smoking in the
seventh grade continued. Some of the boys, with the low ideals of
honor which characterize youthful cigarette users, had had no
intentions of stopping; others were sincere in their intentions, but
yielded to example or habit when the effects of Miss Steele’s warning
grew cold. As the stories of the failure of her efforts came to the
teacher, she became more than ever convinced that the use of
cigarettes causes unspeakable moral degradation. It did not occur to
her that her method of attacking the evil could have been a mistaken
one.

CONSTRUCTIVE TREATMENT

To combat successfully the smoking habit in the seventh and

eighth grade boys, it is necessary to substitute for the sensory
pleasure of smoking an equally intense or more intense stimulation
of another sort.
Show the pupils that indulgence in habits of this sort will certainly
rob them of keener delights of a more innocent type.
See to it that the innocent pleasures are within reach—not far
distant and hazy in outline.

COMMENTS

Miss Steele failed by placing before her class a motive so remote in

time that it could not be very intense as a stimulus to self-denial.
Thirteen-year-old boys have not done a vast amount of thinking
about the possibilities of the distant future. For them the present and
the immediate future are the all-absorbing topics.
How could the three desirable conditions—nearness in time,
innocent enjoyment, and intensity of stimulation—be combined so as
to supplant the undesirable conditions which had led to the smoking
habit? This was the problem over which Miss Hardy was pondering.
ILLUSTRATION (EIGHTH GRADE)

Meantime Miss Hardy had been studying Athletics versus

her psychology, and between times had Smoking
been talking athletics with her old pupils who had passed on into the
high school. The high school teams were well coached and in football
had made a good record that gave promise of being equaled in basket
ball. The best man on the teams was Raymond Johnston, who was
one of those marvels of all-around excellence who happen once in a
while to rejoice the hearts of teachers. He was a big, handsome boy,
with a bluff charm of manner which won all hearts, and ready
friendliness which made him the idol of the school. He was a star
student, who had made a good record in debating as well as in
athletics.
Raymond Johnston belonged, moreover, to a prominent family in
the nearby city, a family in which high ideals of manners and morals
were so intrinsic a part of living that the children grew up healthy,
unconscious exponents of all that is best in character and living. It
was this fine, talented boy whom Miss Hardy chose to do for her boys
what she knew, able as she was, she could not herself do effectively.
At first Raymond Johnston declined with embarrassed modesty to
give a series of talks on athletics to the eighth grade pupils. But when
Miss Hardy had explained to him clearly the great need, and had
shown him that he alone could do the thing that must be done, he
finally consented. The two planned a campaign as carefully as Miss
Steele had done; and when the plans were complete, Miss Hardy told
her pupils of the treat she had secured for them.
In the first three talks there was no mention of cigarettes at all.
The speaker gave a lively account of the four great ball games, with
blackboard diagrams of positions and plays, and anecdotes from his
own experience which added the personal touch needed. For a boy he
was a ready speaker, and his enthusiasm knew no bounds. When he
had given the three talks, Miss Hardy saw with satisfaction that the
first step was gained; her boys and girls understood the games very
well, and discussed them with the air of conscious experts. All day
they talked of nothing but forward passes, and overhand serves, and
left-twist curves, and the latest “dope” on basket ball prospects. This
was in the winter term, when basket ball held the front of the stage.
She knew they must be talking athletics at home, awake and asleep;
she knew that, vivified by his virile example, Raymond Johnston had
won that room to the athletic ideal of manhood in a healthy and
natural way, and that with an ideal of conduct-controlling vividness
gained, the rest of the campaign could be carried out with good
hopes of success.
Then Raymond gave his fourth talk on “The Making of an Athlete.”
He talked about fresh air, food, sleep, clothing, training and
regularity of habits. He touched on the ethics of sportsmanship, and
every boy in the room resolved to be “square” and conceived a vast
contempt for the “yellow streak” that the high school hero treated
with such scorn. Then Raymond took up the cigarette question, as
the next step in his outline of the athlete-making process.
“Of course a man can’t smoke if he wants to make the team,” he
said. “Some of the high school fellows do smoke, but they aren’t the
ones who make good at athletics or anything else. You’ll see them
hanging around the Station Store afternoons, when the fellows that
make the team are out training. Why don’t you eighth graders come
out and watch us sometimes, by the way, instead of going right home
after school? You’d get lots of pointers that would help you. You have
your own teams, don’t you? If not, why not organize some? You
ought to have three or four in this grade, for you’ll be in the high
school next year and you ought to be in training.
“But remember, you can’t eat piles of doughnuts and you can’t
smoke if you ever want to do anything in athletics. Rich food puts
your digestion out of commission, and smoking goes straight to your
heart—and that’s what you can’t stand when you’re playing. They
make you fall behind in your lessons, too, and then you’re not
allowed to play on a team. I never smoke, and the other fellows that
do anything in athletics or debating don’t either. We can’t; we know
better.
“Now, I hope this spring you fellows will all get out and get some
good training in baseball and track, because when we’re gone we
want to hear that the high school is keeping up her old record; and
it’ll depend on you fellows that are coming on. You can do as well as
we have or better, if you just will.”
Miss Hardy’s plan did work. It worked because she substituted a
good ideal for imitation instead of a poor one. The poor one had been
presented to her boys without her consent; she had to make an
intelligent effort to get the fine one vividly before them. She did not
arouse opposition by making her cause too obvious, by forcing the
didactic tone; it appeared as one part of an attractive program—but it
was made clear that it was an indispensable part. She followed up the
talks with suggestions that fostered the organization of baseball
teams in the spring, the regular coach coöperating with suggestions
and occasional instruction. Her boys seemed to have forgotten that
they ever thought it smart to smoke. When she left at the end of the
year, the coach told her that he was certain that not one of her boys
was a user of cigarettes.

ILLUSTRATION 2

Miss Hardy was succeeded the next year Remove

by a young man fresh from the training Temptation
department of a great university, who was enthusiastic and keenly
analytical. The non-smoking eighth grade boys had now gone into
the high school, and he was met by the same problem that had
defeated Miss Steele. He realized that while Miss Hardy’s plan had
worked with her boys, still the evil existed in the community as a
constant menace, and he resolved to reach the root of the trouble if
possible.
There seemed to be several roots: the smokers in the high school,
the Station Store where the boys loafed, the indifferent parents, the
shops where the boys were sold, contrary to law, the materials for
their cigarettes. The story of how these elements in the problems
were reached is too long to recount here; but it was done by arousing
the interest of the parents, who were stirred into action by a rather
lurid talk given by the new eighth grade teacher, and who organized
for the definite purpose of removing the temptations to smoke.
The efforts of Miss Hardy and Mr. Sulzer, the eighth grade
teachers, were successful because they attacked the force which set
the example. Imitation grows into habit rapidly, and when both
imitation and habit are allowed to become cumulative, it takes more
than a logical protest to change conduct. In one case, the bad
example was displaced by one which was made more attractive than
the old model; in the other, public conscience was aroused and used
as an agency for the elimination of the bad example. The worst kind
of a bad example is that of older people who connive at an evil.

ILLUSTRATION 3 (HIGH SCHOOL)

The following letter from a correspondent of the I. A. D. Teachers’

Club also has a bearing upon the control of smoking on the school
grounds:
I was principal and high school teacher in Boy Is Caught
a little school down South. One of my most Smoking
interesting pupils was also the most difficult to manage—Herbert, a
bashful, overgrown, intelligent, fourteen-year-old, the ringleader in
all mischief and the idol of the playground.
One of the grade teachers caught one of her boys smoking
cigarettes one day. Upon investigation three other culprits were
discovered among her charges, but it seemed that Herbert was also
guilty. The nature of the case and the custom in that state demanded
that the younger boys be whipped, but I knew that Herbert was more
truly responsible and my heart was heavy, for I had worked hard to
gain his confidence and I was fond of the boy. A mistake on my part
would make him sullen and unmanageable and the smoking would
then go on in spite of me.
After school was out, I dispatched the younger boys as quickly as
possible, asking Herbert to wait in another room for me. He was very
sober when I came in and I was wondering how to begin the difficult
task ahead of me, when a glance from him gave me a clue. It was
defiant, appealing and apologetic, all at the same time. The boy and I
had been somewhat like chums up to this time.
“Herbert, tell me all about it, won’t you?” I began. “I want to hear
just how it happened and how much smoking there has been.”
“There hasn’t been very much,” he said, with his eyes down.
“We’ve smoked dry leaves and corn shucks, but we’ve only smoked
real tobacco twice.”
He was on the defensive at once, I saw, but his confidence was in a
measure restored by my opening—giving him a chance to tell his side
of it. I drew him out, not condemning him, but merely looking very
grave, until I had a full account of just when and where the smoking
had occurred. I did not insult him by doubting him and he gradually
lost his defiant attitude and grew more and more shame-faced.
“Herbert,” I said, when the recital had come to an end, “what
would your father say?”
“He would lick me until I couldn’t stand up.” This was literally
true, for the boy’s father was a hard drinker and subject to violent fits
of anger when his children displeased him.
“I shall not tell him, this time. But if it happens again, I think he
should know about it,” I said. “Herbert, you know you can do what
you please with these grade boys here in this school. They look up to
you and follow your leadership. You can make them do what is right
or you can lead them astray.”
He shook his head violently at this, but was too near to tears to
speak.
“We may think we aren’t our brothers’ keepers, Herbert, but we
are, just as the Bible tells us. It is really you who are responsible for
this affair, because you are older and know better than the others the
evils that come from the use of tobacco.” And I talked to him a little
about the effects of tobacco upon growing boys. I thought he seemed
impressed and penitent.
“I’m going to put you in charge of the whole matter. I want you to
see to it that there is no more smoking after this. You can report to
me once a week what sort of success you have, but we won’t say
anything to the others about the arrangement.”
He protested that he couldn’t do it, but finally blurted out “I’ll try,”
and I shook hands with him on the agreement.
The reports proved the success of my scheme and I found I had
made a warm friend and ally of Herbert.
(8) Manners, good and bad. Nowhere, perhaps, is the influence of
the imitative instinct more potent than in the shaping of one’s
manners. “Manners make the man,” is a legend inscribed over the
door of one of the buildings of Oxford University, and in order that
the pupils shall go out from its doors possessed of the high claims to
the respect of their fellow men which good manners affords,
exquisite care is taken that those adults who are daily associated with
the pupils are themselves possessed of such manners as are worthy
of imitation. All unconsciously to themselves, these manners will
soon be reproduced in the pupils with more or less exactness.
But if good manners are assimilated through association with
those who possess them, bad manners are no less surely learned in
the same way. The teacher who is confronted then with a room full of
rude, noisy, untidy children, should never regard these bad manners
as a personal affront to himself, but rather as a result of social “copy”
unconsciously imitated by his pupils and requiring time and patience
and a substitution of “copy” of the opposite sort before such manners
can be eradicated.
Persons outside of the school quite often Social Imitation
show a lack of respect for those whom they
meet on the public highways or on the streets. This lack of proper
training is not very different from that of pupils who constantly
disregard the rights of other pupils or who persist in mistreating
other pupils whenever they can get a chance. Those pupils who
persistently do these things are simply following “social copy.” The
motive underlying each of these misdemeanors is the same, namely,
selfishness, which is the basis of impoliteness. No polite child will
jeer at strangers or even acquaintances or schoolmates, nor will he
disregard the rights of schoolmates, expecting more for himself than
for those with whom he associates. He will not mistreat his
playmates “just for fun” or for the pleasure of tantalizing them. Much
of such lack of kindness and politeness is due to neglect on the part
of parents. Many parents never take the time to teach their children
to be kind and thoughtful of others. When such pupils enter the first
grade, their conduct can be changed greatly by the teacher who will
make the effort.
It is presupposed that the teacher will himself practice every trait
of politeness and kindness. He will not be guilty of any of the above
misdemeanors. That means much to the pupil who disregards the
rights of his associates. Still the teacher’s conduct along these lines
will not wholly prevent a pupil from practicing one or all of these
misdemeanors. Close supervision of all the school-room and
playground activities will do much to prevent rudeness, but will not
entirely abolish it. Naturally parents and patrons expect the teacher
to be the mediator for better conduct on the part of some pupils.
 Perhaps suggestive control will effect prevention in the first grade
better than any other method. Just before school is dismissed the
teacher may tell a story to all the pupils, the point of which is to teach
kindness towards others. She may then suggest how fine it would be
for all of the pupils to go home on this particular evening and be
courteous to every one whom they meet. She can suggest the little
courtesies of saying “Good evening,” etc. Her entire talk must be
permeated by a spirit of kindness and she must expect that her
pupils will do nothing less than she has told them. The chances are
that they will obey her for the first evening, but on the second
evening they will forget. In a few days she may need to repeat the
talk. Each time she makes the suggestion she should follow it up by
approving the children for good conduct while going home.
If the teacher wishes to deal with a pupil individually she can apply
the same methods as for the pupil that quarrels or fights. (See
treatment of quarreling and fighting.)
Often school children show impoliteness in a marked degree. It
may be a result either of poor home training or because of the
teacher’s bad manners. The teacher who is impolite can not expect
her pupils to be polite.
Some teacher may ask, “Just what constitutes impoliteness on the
part of the teacher?”
That teacher is impolite who meets her pupils outside of the
school-room and does not speak to them; who does not beg pardon
when she accidently bumps against a pupil; who does not say,
“Thank you,” when a pupil bestows a favor; who does not greet her
pupils with a cheery “Good morning” or a pleasant “Good night”;
who is rude and rough; who speaks in a high-pitched tone of voice
instead of a sweet, low, pleasing tone; who says gruffly, “What?”
when she should say, “Repeat it again, please,” and who keeps her
desk in disorder. There are other traits of impoliteness, but the above
will enlighten the teacher who fails to know the marks of ill-breeding.
To prevent impoliteness on the part of pupils, the teacher needs
but to practice the opposite of the above. She may give a few talks on
politeness, but the best way to teach that subject is to be polite. The
little ones are imitators. They like formal politeness and will imitate
the teacher. Extremes of formality must be avoided. Overdoing the
matter has a tendency to repel pupils.
 Every trait of politeness can easily be taught if the teacher will
watch for its occurrence, and then casually remark how she admires
that particular characteristic in her pupils. A certain little boy tipped
his hat to an elderly lady as she passed the school. The teacher saw it.
When school convened she said, “I am proud of my pupils because I
saw one lift his hat to a lady today.” She said no more, but every boy
aspired thereafter to recognize women by lifting the hat. On another
occasion a little girl picked up her glove. Her recognition of the act
was, “Thank you, my dear.” Others heard it. Afterwards they sought
to do the teacher favors. Again, she stood by the window when a
farmer passed the schoolhouse with a large wagon. The wind blew off
his hat. A little boy ran and picked up the hat and returned it to the
farmer. When the bell rang and all were in their seats, the teacher
told the pupils how proud she was of them because they were polite.
She avoided singling the boy out. That would have caused envy in
some of the pupils, but to be proud of all, made all feel that the act
was a possession of the entire school and that which one boy could
do, could be done by any pupil.

CASE 71 (SECOND GRADE)

Miss Wallis, teacher of the primary at the Wendell Phillips School,

was picking her way carefully through the crowd one Monday, when
her eye fell on Walter, one of her own pupils. He, too, was moving as
fast as possible and just before attempting to cross Thirty-ninth
street he overtook a lame man. The crutches sprawled out somewhat
helplessly and annoyed many of the passers.
Walter halted scarcely a second, but as he Street Manners
dived past the unfortunate man, he brushed
hard against another pedestrian and fell toward the man with the
crutches. All in a second the one crutch was knocked out of his hand
and down he fell with a heavy thud to the walk.
Walter did not look back until he was across the street and then he
saw no sign of the lame man.
At school Miss Wallis took a firm hand in the matter, by having
Walter stand before the pupils of his room, tell his story, and let Miss
Wallis rush past him and knock him down. The fall, plus the injury to
his feelings, made him take a good cry on the spot. His teacher
concluded the incident by saying:
“Now, I guess you will not do that again soon, will you?”

CONSTRUCTIVE TREATMENT

Instead of the negative instruction, i. e., telling what not to do,

teach a positive lesson; let one pupil impersonate a lame man; have
several pupils or all of them rushing past him; let some one or two
offer to pilot him across the “street,” which may be marked off on the
floor. In discussing the matter, if discussion seems needful, assume
that all of the pupils really want to be courteous and kind but forget
it in their haste.

COMMENTS

The attempt to impress the lesson, by dramatic exhibition, may

easily fail because the wrong theme is presented or the realistic
feature is carried too far. Particularly when working with young
children, the negative types of action should not be dwelt upon if it is
avoidable.
Acquirement of polite manners can be attained only by gradual
steps. Assisting a lame man on the street is a matter that every child
in school can comprehend. For young children the lessons in
politeness should bear on the obvious and most necessary points of
contact between persons. Although many impulses to courteous
treatment arise in a child, there is always need to teach him how to
perform the acts which convention has fixed upon as necessary to
good breeding. The greatest advances will be made by helping the
child to take the other person’s point of view. This will be certain to
elicit sympathetic responses.

ILLUSTRATION (THIRD GRADE)

 Verna Gielow was a black-haired eight-year-old, who made
progress in her school work none too easily. She had only brothers at
home with whom she played out-of-doors nearly all of her spare
time.
At school came her first serious lessons in Dramatizing
courtesy. Miss Johnson, the primary Effectively
teacher, had her whole room organized as a family, father and
mother, aunts and uncles and children. It was a birthday celebration
for grandmother, there were songs, a “piece” to speak and a “dinner”
to be eaten. Only thirty minutes were devoted to the whole thing, and
no extra school time preparation was needed. The “dinner” was
made up of dishes produced by the imagination. The necessary
instructions as to good behavior were given as needed.
The event passed off with great satisfaction to pupils and teacher.
All that was needed for Verna was special supervision and
commendation, as she was given the place of mother, which she
represented with hearty eagerness.

CASE 72 (SIXTH GRADE)

North Lord School celebrated the coming Picnic Manners

of summer with a picnic. Miss Bradford
attended carefully to everything except the behavior of her pupils.
Scarcely had the crowd gathered, before she began directing the boys
and girls how to conduct themselves. Calling out from a distance, she
said:
“Shame on you boys for taking the swings first. Let the girls have a
good time, then you can have the swings if you want them.”
Several older girls made a dash for the bridge that led over to the
other side of the railroad tracks. They were out of sight in a moment
with the teacher on a hot chase. When she overtook them there was
another scolding.
“You’re a pretty lot! There’ll be several girls sent home now if there
is any more running off like this.”
On returning to the group of children she heard a confusion about
the lunches:
 “Here, let me. I’m going to get out the lunches.” “No, get out, you
can’t manage this.” Meanwhile some one was ordering them all away
from the lunch baskets.
Thus it continued to the end with noisy, and in large part, fruitless
attempts on the part of Miss Bradford to keep some sort of order and
decorum.

CONSTRUCTIVE TREATMENT

Arrange for details of conduct before the event comes off on

occasions like this. As a basis for good order, organize the school into
committees, assigning specific duties to each and develop a sense of
dignity in each pupil, sufficient to sustain the part appointed to him.
Give explicit instructions on certain urgent matters.
“If the girls gather around the swings, offer them an opportunity to
use them; the chairman of the swing committee will see that this
regulation is carried out.
“Paul will attend to the lunches. Any one may place a lunch in his
care at any time, and receive a check for it. But no one can get his
lunch out until 11:45. Paul will attend to this without fail.”
Do not attempt too many regulations; be content with a few clearly
stated, necessary directions.
This method with slight modifications should be followed with
children of all grades.

COMMENTS

System and reasonably good manners have an appeal for children

because of the desire they have to imitate adults. Appointment to
office gives a child authority and evokes a corresponding respect
from other children. If each child is given a task, he quickly senses
the situation when required to conform to the standards of courtesy
which he wants others to follow in dealing with him.
It is always needful to plant at once, perhaps many times, seeds of
new acts, sometime before the fruitage is expected. A little reflection
will often permit a child to adjust himself, when, if required to act
instantly, he would break out in rebellion.

ILLUSTRATION (SIXTH GRADE)

Superintendent Blair yielded to an urgent demand to hold a

miniature barbecue in celebration of the series of victories in
athletics. The Lecompton High School had not lost a game of basket
ball during the season after meeting eight opposing teams.
Miss McAuley, in charge of the sixth Handling a
grade, was appointed custodian of the water Crowd
supply and as head usher, with instructions to drill the boys and girls
in her room to do the necessary work. She gave instructions and
practiced her pupils on these two matters.
“The ushers will say, ‘Dinner is now served, come this way, please.’
‘Men’s hats may be left here.’—‘May I show you to the drinking
fountain?’—‘This way out, please.’”
At first the novelty of the situation created more or less of a titter,
but in a few days the pupils mastered the set phrases and practiced
on their own number with a real enthusiasm.
Every other room in the school had a small part in bringing the
event off in a satisfactory manner. Of course the general conduct of
the school was thoroughly modified by this intensive method of
instruction.

CASE 73 (EIGHTH GRADE)

“John Mason! I saw you! You go to the Rudeness

office at once!” Miss Maile spoke partly as a
form of apology to a gentleman who was brushing the dust from an
expensive hat. The embarrassed teacher continued:
“I am very sorry that John treated you so rudely. I saw him rush by
you, glance at your hat as it rolled away and dash on to where I
stood. He’ll catch it from the principal.”
 Ere long the principal began his interview. He spoke with voice of
thunder: “Well, what are you in here for? I saw you here last week,
didn’t I? Come, now, tell me your story.”
“I knocked a man’s hat down.”
“Yes, I know you knocked a man’s hat down. But tell me about it.
What did you do it for?”
“I was sailing in the east door and struck his hat—”
“Now, just tell me why you knocked his hat down and why you
went on without picking it up.”
“I just hurried and didn’t see—” John felt very little like doing
anything more about excusing himself, he could not tell why.
“You may go. If I catch you again acting like that I’ll tan you right.”
The boy was dismissed with a shove that showed but the faintest
trace of friendliness.

CONSTRUCTIVE TREATMENT

Miss Maile can easily keep this matter out of the superintendent’s
hands by inviting the gentleman into her room, appointing a
committee to apologize for the room, since one of its members has
committed a breach of good manners. The words can be very few.
“We are sorry to have been rude. Please excuse us.”
We would suggest also in a school where there is a strong tendency
toward bad manners, that you apply the principles of suggestion and
approval. Some morning when the pupils are in a good mood, say:
“I want to tell you how proud I am this morning.” (Smile at this
point, allowing your pupils to wonder what you are going to say
next.) Then, after waiting four or five seconds, continue: “I have been
watching pupils in my classes lately, both here in the school and
outside, and I have noticed many pupils who are very polite. It looks
fine to see a pupil pick up something another has dropped. I
remember a boy—a fine looking fellow—everyone liked him, and I
used to wonder why it was that everybody spoke to him and why
everybody liked him so well. I noticed that whenever he saw a chance
to do a kind act for anybody he always did it. If he happened to
annoy anybody, he always stopped and told the person he was sorry;
whenever he walked in front of anybody he always said, ‘Excuse me,’
and he always made everyone feel happy because he was so kind.
That is the kind of a person I like, and I believe that is the reason he
was liked so well. I visited a school once in which all the pupils were
just as polite as could be, and the teacher seemed to be proud
because the pupils showed such good manners. I tell you, I am going
to watch from now on to see how many boys and girls in my room are
polite. It is certainly fine to do a kindness for someone. I like the boy
or girl who does it.”
The next day, smile again and say, “I’m even prouder than I was
yesterday morning. I saw several kind acts yesterday by my pupils. I
tell you, I appreciate it very much.”

COMMENTS

If acts of courtesy can be made a social affair, a powerful impetus

will be exerted toward reform. So long as a boy thinks he acts
exceptionally well if he is polite, and so stands in a class by himself,
he will give only grudging attention to matters of etiquette. Just as
largely as possible we should use the group to teach the individual.
In the case cited, the superintendent and teacher taught more ill-
manners by their example than they did good manners by precept.
They were brusque, rude, unsympathetic, tactless, and ineffective.
Strict conformity to rule can be as clearly required and uniformly
enforced by methods that are not dictatorial and terrorizing. The
latter may secure a few immediate formal results; the more cultured
methods will draw out a pupil’s interest and hearty response.

ILLUSTRATION (SEVENTH GRADE)

Robert and Josiah Nash are thirteen- Accidental Injury

year-old twins. Their present sport is kite
flying. Yesterday they were intently gazing skyward and backed up
into Mrs. Scudder’s star flower-bed on the north side of her house.
The quickest way out was to continue their backward course. They
left a path of destruction as they emerged on the opposite side.
 Mrs. Scudder saw them as they left the premises, and was
thoroughly angered with them as she rushed to view the remains of
her precious flowers.
The boys were too much concerned with their fun to attend to the
damage they had done, but just before supper time, the two appeared
at Mrs. Scudder’s front door. Her face fell into a troubled appearance
at once, but the boys got in the first words:
“We came to settle for the damage we did this afternoon,” was
their first sentence. “How much do we owe you?”
“Now, would you think it damage! I should say there is damage! I
saw you boys go on and I thought that was the last I’d see of you.
Come out here and I’ll show you.”
All of their courage fled for a moment at these words. But they
obediently followed her, not knowing what next to expect. The three
stood about the beautiful flower-bed, as Mrs. Scudder resumed.
“Now you boys have done the manly thing and I am going to meet
you more than half way. Let us all quickly straighten up these poor
trampled things and water them. If you’ll help me do that, I shall
thank you very much, and we’ll consider everything square.”
The task was soon accomplished. On the way home the boys vowed
that they did not wish to be so careless again since Mrs. Scudder had,
after all, shown such a good spirit toward them.
In a system of schools organized with any approach to
thoroughness the most serious problems of politeness have been
solved long before the grades are completed. Repeated associations
and the formation of friendships with persons of dignity, refinement
and culture, no doubt will necessitate more adjustments as time goes
by. How to acquire the manners of a new environment, and the
necessity for so doing are fully worked out in the grades. But too
often, something remains for the high school to do in the direction of
training in good manners.

CASE 74 (HIGH SCHOOL)

Mr. Robertson found enough trouble on Reforming

his hands when he took the Allentown High Manners
School without giving any special attention to such matters as
politeness and good manners, generally.
His first assistant, Miss Sibley, finally overcome with disgust, fairly
demanded of him that he do something to improve conditions.
“These people are perfect boors. They have no more caution about
the commonest courtesies than street Arabs.” In fact many of them
did roam the streets with no home restraint.
Aroused from apathy, Mr. Robertson set his machinery into action.
The next morning he gave a long talk in the assembly period,
mentioning about twenty forms of courtesy which he insisted they
must adopt.
“You must be careful to tip your hats, boys, when you meet ladies.
Don’t talk loud on the street. Don’t shove people about when you
hasten through a door,” etc.
Several whispered remarks showed how the talk was taken.
“What’s this he’s stuffing down us?” “Something’s come over him.
He’ll get better!” “We can’t take on all that gaff.” “I get all of that at
home that I want; shut him up!” Finally some one turned the laugh
on the affair, after getting permission to speak.
“People around here wouldn’t understand us if we tried to go
through all those motions. Can’t you tell us something easier?” Mr.
Robertson dropped the matter and began to watch for results
thereafter. He saw none except some crude mockeries of courteous
behavior.

CONSTRUCTIVE TREATMENT

Correct the blunders of this man, by thinking out a plan of action

with some care. If it seems best to make a public speech on
politeness first, point out instances where the school has shown
excellent breeding. Cite cases of ill-breeding with pupils in another
school as the subjects. Point out prominent persons of the
community who have shown you marked courtesies. Take up but
four or five points at a time, briefly, and with dignity so as to compel
respect. A little raillery need not be taken seriously, as it may easily
conceal genuine respect for what you propose.