The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1907-02-18
AN INTERNAL
IOMAL SCHOOL
THE EDUCATIONAL FEATURE or
THE JAMESTOWN TER.cENTEN.
NAL EXPOSITION WILL MAKE
IT A SCHOOL PAR EXCELLENCE
FOR OLD AND YOUNG.

Nottf0LfS, Q Feb. lS.-The edu.
cationai feature ofsthe jamestown Ter
Centennial Exposition is so broad and
30 important that one can scarcely
grasp It's magnitude or import without
careful consideration and, In as much
as education. art and science are SO
closely allied, II Is almost impossible
to draw q dividing line OF cite a dis.
finguishing feature In one that does
not comprehend all. whether the II.
Illuminating ray eminates from autho-
graphic webster, philosophical Frank
lin or wizard Edison.
All expeditions are educational, but
1t is doubtful whether in the history
OF the world there has been an expo
sition 80 broad and comprehensive as
that which viii be held on the waters
n shores OF Hampton Roads near
the cities OF Norfolk, Newport News,
Hampton and Portsmouth, Virginia,
Communicating the 26th day OF April
next n closing the Both day OF next
November. One of its distinguishing
features Is that It covers a definite per-
iod of time and one in which most
giant strides in all that make for the
best Of mankind have been made, and
9 epoch, every step in every epoch
has been definitely marked and re-
corded TO be read and known of all
men. All the achievements in educa-
tion. In art and in science will at this
exposition, be laid before the eyes of
a wondering, but Justly proud and
happy people.
All the progress made and every
method employed in educating the ma
tion and the nations youth during the
last three hundred years will be ampli.
ned and demonstrated to the visitor in
a manne that will be proof positive
of superiority; every step in the de-
yelopment of art by which men seek
TO embcllish the work OF nature or to
initiate IT, and of which, however puny
the effort or how small the degree OF
success, he is Justly proud, will be
shown. And, there will not appear
alone the results of primitive effort
nor effect sustained by experience and
modern methods. but every interven.
ing step between the extremes. In
science, too. viii be shown and dem.
onstrated the conclusions ana results
OF primatfve knowledge and effort,
and the present day knowledge and
extremes of achievement whether in
ART, or fcience. or manufacture OF, com.
merce. the fact Will he recognized that
an is based upon the broad Foundation
OF q liberal educator. In fact the
Jamestown Exposition will be a high
schoci--an alma mater to all who at.
tend II andtthe knowledge gained by or
through its curriculum WIN be "a valu.
able asset MI through life.
Side By side there will appear Nc.
Guffy's spelfer in which we were
taught the t'a, b, c." that after all did
not mean anything as "a" in cat,
about the first word we were taught
70 spell. was mot ga" at an, and the
completed form Of phonetic spelling;
there VIII appear side By side the
crude biographies of the olden days
when they knew nothing of about
half OF the earth's surface and Wiz
tuaily nothing at all of its interior,
our perfected ALIASES with all the
modern methods of projection and ele-
walton end geological research that
makes US as familiar. with the center
OF the earth as we are with the cir.
cumference. or the surface; there is
the dear old primer in which we first
spelled out the words and finally learn.
ed TO read, by the side of the pres.
reader in which the present gener.
alton is taught in one tenth the time
TO read by the word method and SO
OF I'D finem.
The raft and Indian canoe will light.
" and iazify rise and fan upon the
mighty wells of the passing merchant.
man or man-of-war; the arrow and
tomahawls and the old b~lunderbus and
horse.pistoa will rspose beside the Colts
ma Smith and Wesson and the
sharps and Martins; the slow sailing
vessel Of the type that brought over
the colonists to jamestown in 1867.
or the Pilgrims to Plymouth in 1920,
VIII peacefully lie upon the placid
waters of Hampton Roads beside the
ocean ~erey:hounds Of to-day; the pack
panle with his burden will look strange
beside the Mogul engine with its mile
Of loaded freight cars; the old stage
coach beside the lightning express
wiz make a historic picture, ons at
the besinning AMI the other at the
end OF a stretch of three hundred
years; an odd and progressive lesson
in illumination will be the pine knot,
the lard lamp. the tallow dip, the
kerosene lamp and the electric light,
arrayed for inspection; the mounted
messenger under a net work of tele-
prant, pvirea nr ~fondtng ha,;d. a ,vt,o