The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-06-20
OUR SCHOOLS ON TOP
Awards From Chicago for
Jersey City Educational
Exhibits at the Fair.
UNIQUE AND EXCELLENT METHODS
Examiners Say Flattering Things
of the Children's Work-High
School Success.
UNIQUE AND EXCELLENT METHODS

Official communications have been re
ceived from Mr.. John Boyd Thatcher, Chair
man of the Executive Committee on Awards
Of the Worlds Fair, notifying the schoo,
authorities h three awards were given tt
the schools Of this city for their admirable
exhibit. These awards cover all grades OF
school work.
HIGH N TRAINING SCHOOL.
The award to the High and Training
School is exceedingly c~ommendatory and il
based, as stated i'll the notice, IN the follow
ing points of excellence
IT. General excellence of uncorrected, ac-
tual work.
"II. Prevalence of good pedagogical prin-
ciples.
tIII. Especially extensive work pysch-
ology, pedagogies and language, showing
t~horoughness, maturity and good methods
based on sound principles.
AND PRIMARY SCHOOLS.
General merit.
Especial excellence in teaching music to
children; fine illustrations in arithmetic,
language II natural science, illustrated by
specimens gathered and prepared by pupils.
Unique method for the study of geogra
ply, illustrated by products of Spain. Italy
and Greece, carefully prepared and located.
These products and their use ara described in
manuscripts"
[The exhibit to which the last sentence re-
fers was prepared by Principal Guilford OF
No. IL
KINDERGARTEN WORK.
IA large n varied display in several
lines, showing good methods, carefully and
p~hilosophically followed, producing excel
lent results, marked by originality. There
is a good course in sewing for both boys and
girls, with good results
1.-THE sewing was prepared at School No.
IL, Miss Soper, Principal.l
These awards, it will be seen, cover all the
work in all departments of our schools.
v ERSEY CITY'S EXHIBIT.
When it was determined to send exhibits
to the Worlds Fair from the public schools
of this city, only the ordinary, everyday
work was selected. There was no attempt
at a show display. Defective as well as
excellent work was sent, making the exhibit
all the more valuable to teachers and in.
spectors Of the results of the methods en-
ployed. That the examiners in Chicago
found the work excellent is seen by their
awards. 1t should also be remembered that
out of l 600 volumes sent from the State OF
New JERSEY one fifth of that sum were sent
from Jersey City.
THE WAR NOT A
Although the awards are fattering recog-
milton of the work of both teachers and
pupils, for which they lave just reason tc
feel proud, yet they do not come as a sur
prise.
As to the High and Training School ex-
hibit recently shown in this city, it was
unanimously pronounced by competent
judges to be an unusually fine exhibit, and
when it was shipped to Chicago it was ex-
pected that its rating would be high. AT
that same local exhibition the Grammar and
Primary School exhibits were most excel
lent and much was expected from the
Worlds Fair examiners. In the latter case
the expectation has been more than realized,
because the language OF the aware is fatter-
ing in the extreme.
The teachers and pupils, to say nothing of
the principals and superintendent, are to be
congratulated for the result of much patti
ence and hard work.