The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-10-22
OUR SCHOOL EXHIBIT
Preparations Well Advanc-
ed For a Great Dis
play At Chicago.
CITY AND COUNTY SHOW S
Good Work of the Committee in
Charge-Plan of The Work
Laid Ont.
specfal to the Lerseu citu Ne,us .

TRENTON, Oct. %, 1892. The State
Board of Education has issued q circular
to the school officers and teachers of the
State in reference to the exhibit which
the schools of the country will make at
the Chicago Fair.
During the next few months" the cir
cular says, ''no effort will be spared by
school officers and teachers in all parts of
the country to secure creditable exhibits
of their respective State School Systems.
1t therefore behooves us to make no
lesser effort that the School System of
the state of New Jersey may be fairly
represented and not suffer by comparison
with the school systems of other States.
Indeed, if we are to maintain the prestige
co which the acknowledged excellence of
our own State School System entities us,
we must begin at once and from this
time forward push with vigor the labor
of preparation for the School Exhibit"
The Board also urged upon the school
officials the fact that the methods of iu-
strnction have advanced SO since the Cen
tennial that excellent as the exhibit was
then the one to be made next year must
be vastly improved and prepared with
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THE COMMITTEES IN CHARGE.
The committee having charge OF the
exhibit, which consists of William r.
BarrickIo, chairman. Nicholas Murray
Butler and John H. Scudder, have fixed
upon January 10, 1898. as the latest date
at which any material for exhibit can be
received by the State Department..
The committee has also appointed an
executive and several other committees
for the purpose of organizing and sue
cessfuly carrying on the work of prepar-
ing the State school exhibit. Hudson is
represented on the Executive Committee
by Superintendent Henry Snyder of Jer-
ssy City; on the State Grounds and Build
ings Committee, by the Rev. George e.
Houghton of Hoboken and A. D. Joslin
of Jersey City; on the Kindergarten Com
mittee, by Miss Ella j. Richardson of
jersey City; on the Drawing Committee,
by Langdon R. Thomas of Jersey City;
on the Manual Training Committee, by
James P. Bloomer of Hoboken; on the
Natural Sciences Committee by w. S,
Sweeney of Jersey C1tv; on the Mathe-
matics Committee, by Edward Kelly of
Jersey City; on the Languages Commit
tee, by Prof. A. B. Guilford of Jersey
City; on the Committee on Geography
and History. by Prof. Charles T. Haskell
of Jersey City; Oh the Penmsnship Conn
miutee, by A. j. Demarest Of Hphokep;
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j. II. BresSipger of Jersey City.
LOCAL EXHIBITS RECoAdM ENDED
1t is s-recommendedA THAT Asz 5kas 81 nj
soliciting, preparing. collecting. classify
ing and passing upon the work of the
schools tn their several jurisdictions be
left entirely to the regular executive
officers of each county. city and district.
In order, however, to lessen the amount
of labor required. it Is urgently recon-
mended that each County or City Super
intendent associate with him two or
more of the leading principals or teachers
in his Jurisdiction TO be called a County
or City Board of Exhibit.
Such Board of Exhibit will find it help
full and desirable to hold meetings of
sary, to Instruct them in the best means
of preparing their several displays.
1t will doubtless be found helpful also
for the purpose of inspiring an interest in
making the State exhibit SUCCESS, to ar
range for holding city and county ex-
hibirs throughout the State at period
not later than the Christmas holidays.
These local exhibits can be held at very
slight expense and will serve as no other
means can to excite q healthy rivalry
among the different schools of the same
city or county. 1t will, moreover, give
TO many teachers the much needed
opportunity TO become familiar with the
best WOrk OF Otner ScnOOlS ana the mOSt
effective and available means for making
satisfactory display. City and County
Superintendents, therefore, are urgently
recommended to fix upon date at once
and make all the preliminary arrange
ments for such local exhibit in their re-
spective Jurisdictions.
PLAN OF THE EXHIBIT.
The exhibit at Chicago will be under
the control of DR.. SeIim II. Peabody. Di.
rector of the Department of Liberal Arts,
aud will be organized both by Stares aud
grades. Each Stats will occupy a definite
area, which will be assigned with refe9-
ence to the elements which the several
States will have to represent, as nearly as
eau be aScertained. These areas will be
side by side In parallel subdivisions ex-
tending north and south. The arrange
ment of the elements within the several
States will be expected to conform
to general plan. presenting the average
grades in consecutive arrangement extend.
Ing East and West. In this manner the
studious observer can follow the grades
from the most elementary to the mos,
advanced in any State or crossin the
areas he may trace the similarity OIL
variations In any chosen grade.