The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1901-05-01
THE LIBERAL ARTS.
NOTABLE EXHIBIT TO BE MADE AT
THE PAN-AMERlCAN.

Vast Field Covered by the Exhibit
and the Methods to He Followed In
It's Illustration at tho Exposition at
Buffalo Next summer.
The building which is to house the
exhibit in manufactures and liberal
arts at the Pan-American Exposition
at Buffalo will be one of the most i'm
posing in the splendid group surround
ing the Court OF Fountains. This build
ing is 900 by $50 feet, with n central
court and having a dome 40 feet in d.
amGter over the entrance OH the south.
Manufactured products and those IL
Illustrating the liberal arts are so closely
allied that they naturally are classified
In the same general group, and at the
great expeditions OF recent years they
have been housed under the same roof.
Under the general classification of lib
eral arts are included such subjects as
those of education and social economy,
books, periodicals, acientlhc apparatus,
hygiene and sanitation, musical instru-
ments, public works. civil engineering,
constructive architecture. photographs
and Photographic supplies, medical,
dental and surgical apparatus and 9TH
er branches of intellectual activity. In
BILE of the tendencies and achievements
of this age of enlightenment and civili-
zRtion which are represented in the ex-
hibits OF this division of great expo
sitIon.
The work OF collecting and classify
ing the Liberal Arts exhibit for the
Pan-Amerlcan Exposition is now well
under way and is In charge OF DR.. Sc
linn II. Peabody, whose successful ham
ding of the same division at the great
Columbian Exposition OF 1893 marks
him as the best qualified man on the
American continent for the discharge
of such n task.
The exhibits Of the Liberal Arts diYi-
eIon as we'll as those OF other depart
ments will be concentrated and repre-
sentative rather than vast In extent
and exhaustive in scope. Most crafty
ing progress has been made since the
Worlds Fair Mt Chicago In methods Of
education in the public schools, uniYer-
stiles and colleges of the United States
and other Pan-American countries. The
educational exhibit will give special
attention to exemplifyinH this great
progress and showing the present state
of our educational institutions. It Is
the intention to have models prepared
representing the equipments of schools,
colleges ana unlVeF0ltle8. Inc eXnlDlC
made by the United States In the Paris
exposition will be removed to Buffalo
for the Pan-American and will be sup
plemented with additional exhibits.
Closely related to the educational ex-
hlblt will be those in social economy
and In hygiene and sanitation. Under
the head of social economy will be in
cluded such subjects as charities and
correction, cooperative associations
and trades unions, apprenticeship and
child labor. protection of workinEmen
in factories and mines. workingmen's
dwellings. etc.
The division of sanitation and hygi-
enc is one OF great practical impor-
tance. and great progress has been
made within decade along this line.
Indeed 1t may perhaps be said that the
subject has become almost a science in
itself, and certainly in It's relations to
the daily life of the people its impor-
tance cannot be too much emphasized.
The exhibit at the Pan-American Ex-
position, which is Under the immediate
supervision of DR.. Jacob s, Otto. an au-
thority In this branch of science, will
comprise such subjects as physical cul-
ture. and the apparatus used in various
institutions for this purpose-hospitals
and dlspensaries, boards of health-and
their functions, foods. their chemistry.
preservation and Rdulteration; mechan.