Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-14
written by the most eminent scholars and
instructors in the empire.
Some Living Exhibits.

written by the most eminent scholars and
instructors in the empire.
Some Living Exhibits.
In harmony with the spirit of the expo
siticn and in obedience to the desire to
have as many living pictures as possible,
the state institutions for the deaf, dumb
and blind in Kansas, Illinois, Missouri and
Nebraska have sent large squads of their
pupils to ST Louis. who are quartered on
tine exposition grounds, under the care or
their regular teachers, and continue their
regular study day after day in the educa-
tional building, in order that those VINO
are interested may see the progress" of
educating defective human beings. The pu-
pills have become so accustomed TO CROWDS
of spectators, and have entered so heartily
into the motive and spirit of the work. that
the value Of the exhibit is quite practi-
cal as 1t would be in private.
On the hill near the administration build
ing. is an Indian school under DR.. MCGOWAN
of Illinois, which continues its regular daily
exercises in book learning and domestic
science from day to day, regardless of
spectators. The girls do their own work,
cook their own dinners, and entertain
number OF visitors every day. The boys
have a brass band a printing Office. shoe
shop, harness factory and other mechani-
cal departments.
College Architecture.
While we may not yet equal the univer-
sites of Europe in our methods of educa-
tion We at least, generally speaking. sur
pass them in the beauty and expensiveness
of our college architecture This is appar-
ent to anyone who compares the pictures
that hang upon the walls of the education
building. We have nothing so beautiful as
MaEdelen College at oxford, and there are
buildings at Cambridge and in the univer-
sity towns of Germany, France and Italy
That are superior in design to any we have
in the United States, but a rule the DOR
mitories. lecture halls and libraries that
have been erected Harvard, Yale, Prince
ton, Cornell. Columbia Bryn Mawr, Univer-
sity of Virginia. University of California,
the Leland Stanford, the Washington Uni
vcfsity at st. Louis and at Chicago, and at
other institutions surpass all modern edu-
cational architecture in the rest of the
world, and when they have acquired equal
age will be as impressive as the ancient
buildings.
1t is true also that while Germany is far
ahead of us in university education, and
particularly in technical schools, we are
picking up rapidly. We have made extra
ordinary progress during the last ten years,
and can promise to approach much nearer
to the German ideal when the next interna-
tional exposition is held. France and Eng
land are already behind us: I'dly is devoting
herself almost entirely to industrial art;
Japan makes fine education exhibit and
ideas is extraordinary. The Argentine Re-
public, Brazil and Mexico show remarkable
educational progress, and if any country
is going forward faster than the United
States 1t is Cuba. .s.,.. r.-......-.
Daily Work and Lectures.
In addition to the living pictures I have
already mentioned, we have in actual opera
ton kindergartens in the educational build
ing, cooking schools, manual training exer-
cises and extended and thorough labora tory
work conducted by the Agricultural Depart
ment at Washington, for which Congress
made an appropriation of 500 Goo. Secretary
Wilson has placed here perhaps the most
elaborate plant that was ever erected for
testing milk water soils and for doing
chemical work generally. He has a large
staff of scientific men here and they are al
work from o'clock in the morning until
sunset.
Free lectures are delivered on educational
and economic subjects in different parts of
the building every day, and since the con-
gress of arts and sciences they have as
sumed especial Importance.
The College at Beirut.
One of the most notable of the individual
exhibits is relief map showing the build
ings and grounds of the Presbyterian Col
lege at Beirut Syria, where TOO young men,
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Cretians, Albanians, Armeniaas and repre-
sentatives of other nations of the east are
receiving modern education at the hands
of American instructors, and from which
they are going out in battalions of a hun
dred or hundred and fifty every year to do
the work of civilization. No one who has
not been in Syria realizes the extent and
Importance of this institution, but a fair
loea Is conveyed by the map that lies near
one OF the principal entrances
large part of the educational building
Is occupied by sociological and economic ex-
mIpits, winch are exceedingly interesting
ihat which relates to charities and correc-
lions Is notable for the progress it shows in
organization, economy and effectiveness
and in the adoption of practical methods of
Investigation and the distribution of relief.
rms advancement has been extremely
marked during the last few years The
various charities in nearly every city of the
United States have organized to cooperate
with each other in systematic work The
pest organizations seem to be in New York,
boston, Chicago and Denver.
The same idea Of organization and co.
operation has extended to the police sys-
tens of the various cities of the country
ana recently the principal countries of Eu-
rope have Joined. The effects are illus
trated in the exhibit of the International
Associations Of Chiefs of Police.
Advance in Sanitary Science.
In the hygiene exhibit similar progress
may be seen. There Is a map showing
where the sanitary organizations of the
United States are located, and by compar-
Ing 1t with similar map exhibited at Paris
you can observe the growth of the last four
years, particularly in the organization of
village and town boards of health. There
has been noticeable Improvement also in
the relieving officials, who are intrusted
with the protection of the public health
from political influences, and the employ
ment of sanitary inspectors for professional
rather than political reasons. Sanitation
has become science; sanitary officers have
become scientists, and state and municipal
officials are beginning to learn the import
ance of securing experienced and competent
men.
There is a model laboratory in the build
Ing, one that can be put up in any small
town at a small cost, so that municipal Of
ficials may see how the detection and pre-
vention of diseases may be promoted.
The pathological exhibit is under the care
of the American Medical Association, and
shows what is being done to prevent and
cure consumption, typhoid fever, smallpox
cancer, yellow fever. cholera and other dis
eases. The medical world is now paying
more attention to tuberculosis than to any
other disease, and the profession In Eng
land to cancer.