Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1876 — Indiana's School Exhibit. [ARTICLE]

Indiana's School Exhibit.

Thi Indiana Mia* aikmal exhibit In tho •oath gallery of the Main Building i« a lborough and well* arranged display of the work of the common schoolr of this State. It la not a mere collection of apparatus purchased or contributed fur the oaoaatoa, nor is it simply a conglomeration of examination papers taken flora the children of the schools. It ie designed to show—frsr, the origin of the school system ; second, the progress . made during the laet twenty years; third, the system a* it now stands, including statistics, pnblie and private institutions, school officers, school architecture, school and general literature, and a great variety of school work from the hands of sot less than 15,000 of her chUdron and youth. The de«iga was not only to exhibit to the inqoirei a complete showing of the ►ohool system and its products, bat also to present them io such an attractive and graceful manner as woald not fail to win the attention of the casual observer at well as that of the statistical student To this end the high partition in front .of the alcoves of the gallery was taken down, thereby enabling a freer oirealation of air and also a greater apaoe for the exhibition of the great variety of beautiful banners, charts, and oases by which the ayatem is illustrated. In these re«pMla tho Indiana exhibit is unique, different from every other one in the Exposition. Of thcpecuHar methods of showing school work, I notice a volume j>i photographic report of class .work, where questions and answers are shown as they were delivered hy teacher and pnpil in daily recitations; again, tho work of the little ones as showu by photographs and drawings arc ingeniously exhibited upon cylinders covered with glass cases and upon endless chain cases —admirably arranged to be viewed and at the same time to be protected from the dust Another peculiarity of the Indiana exhibit is found in its admirable classification, which is shown by a printed catalogue. The exhibit is made Jby the State Board of Education under the supervision of its President, Jas. 11. Smart—3 r . F. Tri-