Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 December 1900 — Essay on Pan-American. [ARTICLE]

Essay on Pan-American.

A movement to interest tbe public , school teaebers and public school pupils J in tbe Pan-American Exposition to be held at Buffalo next summer lias beeD started, it originated in some of the public schools of Pennsylvania and is being taken up elsewhere as the wisdom of the plan becomes apparent The idea is to have the teachers In the publie schools write essays for various oc* casUKßNfkpn educational character on tbe objectAgbd alimof the ExposiHdß and the bearing that nidi a dispiflP will have on the of the world. A similar 'plan regarding the Paris Exposition was found quite successful and resulted In the attendance of a large corps of teachers at that fair. The plan contemplates also essays by •pupils. It Is believed that in this way much Information can be spread regarding the benefits to be derived from cultivating closer relations with the different countries of this hemisphere and that it would result In greater Intelligence among the public school teachers an.l pupils on this subject, as well as a larger attendance among this Class of the population at the Exposition. _ Writ indlnna WHS Adept], Louis H. Aytue, United States Cons.it to Guadeloupe, says that in the West Indies tbe Pan-American Exposition Ip, considered much more Important than tbe Centennial Exposition of 1870 and thatitundreds of natives are preparing to come to it