Blue Books by Virginia Starquist 1941

History

This archive came to me as a group. It includes eleven blue book examinations that date between 1939 and 1941.

The Images

The covers of the books are available here, plus a little bit of a description for each. The questions and topics of the essays are implied by the answers she wrote; the original examination questions are not preserved here.

• Palentology 309 (Nov 7, 1939 - Book I)
  
  • Instructor: Dr. Lochman
    
  • Grade: C+
    
  • First of two notebooks for the examination
    
  • First question: list six important uses which may be made of fossils
    
  • Second essay was a description of Foraminifera
    
  • Third essay: Posifera
    

• Palentology 309 (Nov 7, 1939 - Book II)
  
  • Instructor: Dr. Lochman
    
  • Fourth question: definitions for Neritic, Desmons, Benthos, Proloculum, Orculum, Acanthin
    

• Palentology 309 (Nov 28, 1939)
  
  • Instructor: Dr. Lochman
    
  • Grade: C
    
  • First question: Hydrozoa anatomy
    
  • Second question: Graphtozoa
    
  • Third question: Modern coral reef environment and its paleogeographic significance
    

• Botany 102 (Mar 6, 1940)
  
  • Instructor: Miss Stokey
    
  • Grade: B
    
  • First question: description and economic importance of green algae
    
  • Second question: reproduction in green algae
    
  • Third question: a list of 23 organisms, including vaucheria, oedogonium, and blue-green algae
    

• Palentology 310 (Mar 19, 1940)
  
  • Instructor: Dr. Lochman
    
  • Grade: B-
    
  • First question: description of phylum Bryozoa
    
  • Second question: description of Brachiopods
    
  • Third question: definitions for Palintrope, Ascophota, Diaphragms, Delthyrium, Chilidium, Acanthoposes, Brachiophose, Spondylium, cardinal process, and Anacline
    

• Botany 102 (May 6, 1940)
  
  • Instructor: Miss Stokey
    
  • Grade: A-
    
  • First question: description of pollen grain
    
  • Second question: description of a pine nut
    
  • Third question: three elements necessary for the development of a seed
    
  • Fourth question: characteristics of pine wood
    

• Geography 315 (Oct 17, 1940)
  
  • Instructor: Miss Shipman
    
  • Grade: D
    
  • First question: three factors causing temperature variations in South Hadley
    
  • Second question: the earth is divided into climatic regions on the basis of four factors
    
  • Third question: name a region having predominantly low pressure; two regions having maximum precipitation in winter; three regions having a wide yearly temperature range; four regions having cyclonic winds
    
  • Fourth question: comparative geography; which of two choices has longer summer days, less rainfall, lower winter temperatures, etc
    
  • Fifth question: identification of temperature-precipitation charts
    
  • Sixth question: definition and description of cyclonic storms
    

• Geography 315 (Nov 13, 1940)
  
  • Instructor: Miss Shipman
    
  • Grade: C-
    
  • First question: climate regions of Africa
    
  • Second question: five factors affecting the climate of Africa
    
  • Third question: heaviest rainfall in Africa is where, and why
    
  • Fourth question: products of southwest Africa, and how climate affects some of them
    
  • Fifth question: definition and description of savanna
    
  • Sixth question: effect of Mozambique current on climate
    
  • Seventh question: crops of humid subtropical Africa and Australia
    
  • Eighth question: crops of Cape Town
    
  • Eighth question: crops of an oasis
    
  • Laid in: Geography 115 assignment of Oct 30, 1940: sixty true/false, and an essay on Australian climate; grade C-
    

• Dendrology 103 (Nov 19, 1940)
  
  • Instructor: Miss Stokey
    
  • Grade: D-
    
  • It looks like the students were given 50 tree samples to identify (leaves? photographs? drawings)
    
  • Answers were a Latin name, and its common name
    

• Geography 315 (Dec 9, 1940)
  
  • Instructor: Miss Shipman
    
  • Grade: C+
    
  • First question: compare Africa and South America climatically
    
  • Second question: temperature of South America
    
  • Third question: compare Uruguay and Paraguay climatically
    
  • Fourth question: discuss rain and moisture of Brazil
    
  • Fifth question: define quebracho, gaucho, chaco, roaring forties, pampiro, selvas
    

• Geography 315 (Jan 9, 1941)
  
  • Instructor: Miss Shipman
    
  • Grade: C-
    
  • First question: identification of regions, perhaps from a map
    
  • Second question: cyclonic storms in the US
    
  • Third question: precipitation in the US
    
  • Fourth question: region of marine climate in North America
    
  • Fifth question: length of daylight on Jun 21 in Panama, St Louis, Nome, and Pt Barrow