Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1903-09-24
Auxiliary Committee on Educational Exhibit
Louisiana Purchase Exhibition.

Louisiana Purchase Exhibition.
Sup't. c. S. Brother, Billings.
Pres. o. J. Craig, University of
Montana.
Sup't. S. D. Largent, Great Falls.
Pres. Jas. Reid, Montana Agricul-
tural College.
Sup't. E. A. Steere, Flathead county
Pres. H. H. Swain, State Normal
College.
Supt. of Public instruction w. W.
WEIGH.
Sup't. r. G. Young, Butte.
Helena. September, 1908.
To the Teachers of Montana.
The persons named above have been
appointed by the Montana Worlds
Fair Commission to prepare an educa-
tional exhibit to represent Montana at
the Worlds Fair in St. Louis in 1904.
In order to make this exhibit something
worthy of the state the cooperation of
every teacher in Montana is desired.
The exhibit will be placed in the
Educational Building, and will thus
come directly into comparison with the
educational exhibits of other states.
Education is given the place of honor
in the classification of exhibits, as, in
accordance with the theory upon which
the classification is based, to educa-
ton is ascribed the source of all pro-
gress
Department "A,' Education, pro-
vides for exhibits under the following
heads:
(a) Literature-Schooll laws and re-
ports, history and present condition of
school systems and of individual insti-
tutlons; textbooks and original con-
tributions made by teachers or pupils
to each department of humane knowl-
edge; monographs on special topics;
programs, rules and regulations and
other printed matter.
(b) Statistical Charts, Diagrams and
Tables-No part of the exhibit will
be of more interest and value to visitors
than the graphic charts. Through
graphcs the important facts in regard
to popula tion, the number and age of
pupils, the cost of instruction, and
many other educational conditions may
be presented in way SO clear and
striking that visitors can understand
them at glance.
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models will be very effective in show
ing the material equipment of educa-
tlonal institutions, i. e., building with
their furniture and fittings; play
grounds, apparatus used for instruct
ion; and also results of original investi-
cation along various lines.
(d) Apparatus and Appliances for
lnstruction-All apparatus which IL
illustrates a new method or shows the
latest development or new application
of an important educational principle,
and was invested at or is peculiar to
an institution, should be exhibited.
(e) Photographs-P no tographs
should constitute a very important part
of the educational exhibit. In an adj
dress which Commissioner w. r.
Harris delivered on his subject, he
said
1.-The photograph has come more and
more into requsition. 1t may show
the school architecture at a glance.
and also the personnel of teachers and
pupils. Photographs of interiors NAV
show the future and apparatus. An
exhibition of photographs, showing
every school building in the state,
with its pupils and teachers in front of
the buildings, would be the most unique
attraction ever presented at an inter
national exposition for it would show
the countenance, stature and costume
OF pupils and teachers. and the degree
OF Importance which the community
placed upon the school by its costliness
and improvements y
l0 Pupils Work-Literary scienti.
nc, mechanical and artistic. An ex-
hlbit OF pupils work may be made to
represent the work of a school with con-
siderable clearness and fidelity; but in
order to do this il must be honestly
prepared and intelligently labeled.
Very often exhibits of the written work
OF pupils are almost worthless as a |
representation OF the methods used,
and the results obtained because they
show nothing OF what has been done to
prepare the pupil to produce the writ