The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-12-27
OUR SCHOOL SHOW.
Opened This Morning With
Complete Success anda
Good Attendance.
FROM STATES TO PSYCHOLOGY.
How the System Is Shown =
Teachers TO Attend Today, the
Public Tomorrow.

This morning at nine O'Clock the
School Exhibit was opened at the High
School building on Bay street. Admission
today is for teachers only. and tomorrow
morning at the same hour the exhibit
Will be opened to the public, and Pa-
main so all day during the week. As
already described in THE JERSEY CITY
NEWS, the exhibit represents the work
IN every subject of every grade OF
every department. of the city's schools.
There is not a child at the schools who is
not an exhibitor. Best of all, it Is work
such as the children do every day. not
such as they do to order and for exhibi-
ton purposes only. The only study not
represented is reading for obvious rea.
sons. The school system il shown as q
system. The general public, even the
average teacher, does not and cannot
know how the plan in operation in this
city Is the result of long study and prac-
tlcSl experiment on the part of success
sion OF educators recognized for their
ability the country around. Whatever
else Jersey City has TO be proud of, she
can certainly feel "set up'' over the
scheme OF her public schools.
The visitor enters by the right hand
stairway of the High Scnool building.
and passes to the third floor, where the
exhibits are arranged by grades and
suolects. not oy schools. There are
eight tables. four on either side divided
longititudinally bysscardboard partitions
with the best work of the pupils
arranged thereon, thus making room for
the sixteen grades, eight in the grammar,
eignt In the Urinary department.. The
visitor passes around the room from left
to right, going from the eighth or lowest
grade grade grammar, thence to the
BoRrd's room across the hall,
where is the exhibit of the High and Train-
ing Schools. The best work, selected by q
committee OF teachers for each subject.
aud mounted on cardboard, is hung on
the walls ana from cords across the room
The remainder is bound in books, every
subject in separate color, books for that
subject always occupying the same posi-
tion on the tables. The walls to the left
are lined with shelves. containing pupii's
collections, industrial exhibits or other
supplementary work. each in the grace
in which it is used. This methodical ar
rangement is invaluable for purposes OF
reference.
KINDERGARTEN PLAYS.
The nrst exhibit noticed on entering at
the right is the kindergarten work. stick
laying, weaving, pease work, paper
cutting and all the other pretty play
studies that introduce the small learner
TO the school system. The clay modelling
here Is wonderfully clever. especially the
reDroductlonS, OF fruit. The lowest prlS
mary grade follows. On the tables q
arranged books containing work in LAM
guage, number and observation lessons,
the latter meaning the work in
the world of nature that con-
tinues during the whole course. AS other
studies are introduced in the course,
their books are added to the exhibit.
Drawing may always be found on the
right, partly in books, partly on card
boards. The racks containing states,
shown In the eighth primary. show the
most important feature of the grade.
where lead pencils are not so we'll
known. The industrial exhibit
includes full showing of pro-
cesses used in the manufac-
ture of rubber-sent by ex-President
John j. VOORHEES,, a fine set of jars
showing how soap is made. from the
Colgate Mandatory; an exhibit from
the Sugar House. and another from the
Oakum Factory: zinc ores from the Zinc
Works; iron ores and the different forms
of the manufactured product from the
Grithng Works; Bundy's radiatorss
framed photographs of factory interiors
and many other similar collections.
SCHOOLS IL AND IA.
The same arrangement of studies is OBJ
served in the grammar exhibit, which
includes language, arithmetic, geography,
history, physiology, penmanship and
| science lessons. that take the place of
observation" School No. IL has an in
terestipG and unique sewing exhibit, be-
ginning with the first stitches in red
thread on brown linen, in the lowesIf
grammar grade to the finished work iI&
the first. the sixth grade exhibits doH
for which each pupil made some artic}
clothing. There Is a house. mac1
boy not yet thirteen. q pupN
No. 10. which attracts peat attehtiy
The pupils collections begin with the
study of zoology. School No. 14s exhibit
is notices bly, complete throughout illus-I
tratlng the animals studied in each graded
even the choice collection of snakes, apA
| propriately reposiDg in alcohol. The ex-H
hibit of School No. to illustrate th&
study of French, Spanish and ItaliqM
products, is certainly unique in its Wa
In q series of Jars ranged on shelves
all the natural productions Of the y N
| countries, from olives to oakunl, ,colled n
| by the pupils, labelled, and acoompa
| by book to which each pupil hasR yonA
! tributed page. describing the preyhct.
| telling its uses, local distribut. on from
| what ports exported, to what ports sent,
and in what proportion.
| 1t is impossible to do more than give
general description of the exhibit, which
| includes 297 books, leaving especial
notice TO be madeSo of Individuals from day
| TO day.
HIGH scHQG>nND PUPIL TEACHERS.
! The EA3taH N raining Schools haT9
| mac kAag IN remarkably pretty
| tol the walls are draw
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