Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1903-11-16
DETAIL OF UNIVERSITIES EXHIBI
TON AT ST. LOUIS FAIR.
SUM OF $4,000 TO SPEND
Professor Mack and Committee Push
ing Preparation-Work of the
Various Departments Will be
Shown-compIete Relief of Cam
pus to be Exhibited-other Plans.
Madison, Nov. IL.

Q university dppi opA AoCSu TfsVVV III eAS
exhibit of the university at the
Louisiana purchase exposition. Pro
fessor ]. G. ID. Mack was appointed
by President Van Hise to superin-
tend the preparation of the exhibits.
Since then Professor Mack and his
committee have been pushing the
work with the result that the general
plan of the exhibit has been decided
upon and the preparation is being
pushed with all possible speed.
Educational exhibits will be one Of
the most prominent features at the
/ coming worlds fair. This will be
the first exposition in which build
+ ing has been devoted solely to educa-
tional exhibits. The palace of educa-
ton is a building having five faces,
the largest dimension across the
northern facade being $50 feet, the
southern facade being $50. The two
sides are each 525 feet in length.
The building covers seven acres and
occupies the most prominent position
in the center of the group of large
/ Buildings. AS originally planned it
was to have an open court in the cen
! ter but the demands for space have
been so pressing that this open court
has been rooted over forming addi-
tional exhibit space. According to
the first plans all the Wisconsin edu-
cational exhibits were to be in one
location but this arrangement was
changed by the department and the
state educational exhibit has a space
q feet by 40 feet Immediately to the
left of one of the main entrances.
Nearly all OF the larger universities
are grouped in this portion of the
building which was first arranged for
an open court. In the quarter of this
open space to which the University of
Wisconsin is assigned will be booths
OF the Universities of Michigan, Min
nesota, Illinois, Missouri. st. Louis,
Johns Hopkins, Cornell, Columbia,
Washington, Chicago, Princeton, Yale
and Harvard. The Wisconsin booth
adioins that of the University of st.
Louis and across the aisle are those
of Washington University and the
University of Chicago.
The exhibit which it is proposed to
make for Wisconsin is intended to
show the work of the various depart
ments, the growth during the past
decade. its standing among other uni
versities, something of its unique
features of location and material
equipment. Booths for both the uni
versity and the state educational ex-
hibits will be designed by Ferry and
elias, of Milwaukee. who are the
architects for the Wisconsin state
building. The space assigned to the
University of Wisconsin is % feet by
2S feet and appears to be ample for
/ the proposed exhibit The following
is list of the exhibits which it has
been definitely decided to make.
One Of the most striking will be a
complete relief model of the campus
from the east side OF the gymnasium
to the road just west of the horitcul-
tural building and from University
avenue to the lake This model will
be about feet in length and will be
practically complete in all its details.
On a model of his scale, the library
building will be about inches in
length. There will be a model
of the steam engineering la
boratory on a scale of 1 inch to the
foot, this model being about 20 inches
in length. The majority of the
builders of the machinery which is
installed in this laboratory have been
consulted and have agreed to furnish
the models of their own machines. A
series of enlarged photographs will
be an attractive feature of the ex-
hibit. These photographs will show
something of the university buildings,
students at work in the library and
picturesque bits of scenery along the
drive ways representing some of the
more noticeable views which would
meet the eye of a visitor taking trip
over the university grounds, through
the university buildings and along
the drives. The problem of correctly
presenting the work of the university
offers greater difficulties than show
ing it's unique features of location and
material equipment. A series of charts
will be constructed dealing with the
phases CT university growth. growth of
departments. distribution of expendi-
lures, residence of students and other
matters of statistical interest which
can best be represented by graphical
illustration. The literary and scien-
tific work of members of the faculty.
graduate students ard students dur
ing the past decade will be shown as
far as it can be represented nv a col
lection Ct their published works and
the exhibition of apparatus which has
been designed for research work.
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