The record-union., 1893-05-25
A GERMAN EXHIBIT.
Germany's Display of Educational
Exhibits.

The educational exhibit Of the German
| Government at the Worlds Fair is ar
! rayed III the German section of the gall
! lery of Machinery Hall. The object is to
! produce Il complete survey of the life,
work, administration and history of Ger
man schools, from the village school to
| the universities.
! DIR. Bosse, Prussian Minister of Educa-
ton. is the direct exhibitor The follow
! ing commission represent him: Presi-
/ dent, stephan WaetZoldt, Professor Of the
! University of Berlin; DR.. Dittmar Fink
Ter, Professor at the L niversity at Bonn.
| The former is also director of the Royal
| Elizabeth School in Berlin, and has
gained a reputation by his literary, his
! torical and pedagogical works, while Pro-
| fessOr tinkler is known as a practical
! physician and bacteriologist. These sci
entists are assisted by Dr. Lichtenteld Of
Berlin; DIR. kallen, Royal School In
spector, and Government Architect Jatfe,
the latter being i'll charge of construction.
There is a number of renowned peda-
| gogues and scientists coming during the
summer with directions to assist the
! Commissioner, and the following named
gentlemen have arrived already: Dr.
! Koblank, First Assistant of the Gynaco-
! logical Clinic; Professor Hans Virchow,
son of the celebrated scientist, Rudolph
! Nirchow; DR.. Juergens, first assistant of
| Virchow.
The display covers an area of 1900
square feet and comprises three divi-
sions, as follows: l. Public schools, edu-
cation of teachers, normal schools, high
| schools for girls, and asylums for the
| blind, deaf mutes, and idiots. 2. High
| schools and colleges, of which their are
several grades in Germany. 3. Universi-
ties, Libraries, etc.
All of these branches of education are
! illustrated by pamphlets, giving extra
data and statistics.
Portraits of scientists and pedagogues
adorn the walls of the section. Among
these are the life-SiZe portrait of Alexan-
der Won Humboldt, and four celebrated
original paintings by knille, represent
ing the four faculties, loaned from the
National Gallery at Berlin. Large oil
paintings illustrating the modes OF physi-
cal culture, fencing, etc.
In the high school department of the
exhibit synopsis is given of the latest
means of tuition in that branch of educa-
ton. Manual training is represented by
exhibits from several schools. There is
| also rich collection Of means of tuition
used in German high schools for natural
! philosophy, zoology, botany, etc.
| All great inventions and discoveries by
! German professors form a part Of the eX-
| hiblt, such as the first 0pthalmascopic
| mirror, made by HelmholtZ. the first an
| paratus with which kirchoff produced
/ the analysis of the spectrum, thus max
| ing known to US the substances of the
| sun and stars. This section also contains
/ the first telegraph ever constructed, and
( used by Professors Gauss and Weber in
] GCettingen and Guerickes' original air
! pump. Portraits and busts of these men,
loaned from the National Museum, deco
rate the locality. The libraries have
I opened their doors, and from their arch
/ ives precious samples of historic relics
were sent to the fair, among which things
are letters of German Imperors, from
/ Karl j., and from Emperor Wilhelm [. to
! Bismarck, letters from Humboldt,
| Goethe, Kant and Luther.
The visitor sees in the exhibit repro
duction of the laboratory of the cele-
brated bacteriologist, Robert Koch, and
the cultivation OF bacciI. The patho-
logic anatomical auditorium of Professor
! Rudolph Vircbow, the psyche physical
apparatus used by Wurdt and lIbbing-
| haus, and Professor Bergman's means of
surgery are also displayed. Mathematics,
natural philosophy and astronomy help
to complete this showing made by the
| German scholars.