Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-11-10
EDUCATIONAL PROGRESS.
The Educational Interests OfTennesseC
TO be Represented nt the Centennial
in IS56-PrcIiminary Measures.
Views of School BuiIdings-COpies of
Reports and Maps by Pupils
Wanted.

At a meeting Of the principsl edu.
Gators of the State in Nashville Thursday
evening, Superintendent Trous.
dale presiding, the following, looking to
| necessary arrangements for securing q
proper representation of educational
products, etc, at the Centennial, was
adopted:
WHEREAS, from a variety of causes q
general system OF public instruction has
not been in operation continuously in
| this State for q sufficient length Of time
| to justify any attempt to collect from all
the counties educational material for ex-
/ hibtiOn at the Centennial exposition at
! Philadelphia; and, whereas, it is most
| desirable that the progress made in some
| OF the cities and counties should be
shown as an indication of the possibili-
ties of cur State system and of the re-
suits hoped for when it shall become
generally operative; therefore be it
ResOtUed, That county and city
superint endents, school directors and
teachers, and the faculties constitutions
Of learning geRerslly, be earnestly Ie.
quested to prepare educational material
for exhibition st the National Centennial
exposiio in accordance with the rules
and directions hereinafter given, and
State superintendent at this place, to be
sent by him to the said exposition.
Resolved, That said school officers
and teachers shall proceed, by collecting
five cents from each pupil and twenty
five cents from each teacher, or by such
other plan as may be thought most
judiciOus in theirrespective localities, to
raise the necessary funds for paying
freight and other expenses on such ship.
ments to this point, and from here to
their final destination.
ReSOLUed, That the differeD school pro-
ducts to be exhibited shall consist Of
drawings, and views OF buildings and
school grounds, school reports and blanks
and the work of pupils, which shall be
prepared under the following rules:
First-Plans and views OF school build.
iGgs aud grounds snail be prepared in
portfolios, leit9red with the designation
Of the State, county, city or town, and
the name Of school or Institution, and
scc00ranied with the description of
peculiar features, cost of erection,
material, srchitect. capacity, etc.
Second-FTOm fifty II one hundred
copies OF local school reports should be
forwarded, with copies OF other educa-
tional documents, school blanks, etc.
The State superintendent OF public in-
stEuctOu is hereby requested 10 embody |
in his annual report, all matters OF in |
teres5 in the historical and statistical |
status of institutions Of learning in the |
State, both public and private; and, |
with view to his doing this effectually, |
the directors and managers of said in |
sutulOns are urged t. communicate to |
him all such facts without delay.
ird Jr-i4
be held in the schools in the month OF |
January, five questions shall be present.
ed il each of the branches of study pur-
sued, which shall be reproduced, with
answers, in good style by the pupils, on
paper of the ordinary letter size, and
five Of the best papers prepared in each
branch by the different classes shall be
selected and clasped together without
folding, the papers on each branch to be
together in the same parcel,
and all Of the clasps thus formed in each
school snail be bound together in such
style as may make them convenient for
reference and examination.
FOurth-DnriDg the same month
specimens of map drawing and free
hand drawing shall be prepared by the
pupils on sheets of paper as nearly %
practicable ten by twelve inches, from
which the best five shall be chosen and
disposed Of in the same manner as those
above.
Fifth-Any paintings (unframed) or
other ornamental work, banners, etc.,
uitable for shipping conveniently, may
De prepared at same time by the pupils,
md banners showing briefly educational
tatus of schools, may be prepared by
he different localities, district, town,
,ity, county or State.
Sixth-Such products shall be plainly
marked so as to easily determine the
chOol, and locality from which they
Ome, and shall be securely packed in a
leat box, and forwarded prepaid to
Trousdale here, at
urthest by the fifteenth day Of next
February, with an approximate amount
o pay freight on them to Philadelphis.
Your committee respectfully present
he foregoing Gs their report upon the
matters referred to them. Respectfully,
s. Y. CALDW
LEON IROUSDALE,
JOHN r. DEAN,
X. W. WEAKLEY,