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and other actual oral school work, taken on numerous records in the 

 best schools of the State, and the display was highly appreciated and 

 generously applauded by a continuous audience of visitors. The seven 

 biogems presented at all hours of the day daylight moving pictures of 

 physical training exercises and games as are taught in the best schools 

 of the State. These pictures were taken mostly in the public schools of 

 Kansas City, but some were taken in the public schools of St. Joseph, 

 in the State Normal School at Kirksville and in the Missouri Valley 

 College at Marshall. These pictures were taken at large cost by an 

 expert from New York City, and were pronounced by the Amierican 

 Mutoscope and Biograph Company of New York City to be the best 

 of the kind ever made and ones that would without doubt cause a sen- 

 sation among the educators of the country. 



With all these diverse, attractive, entertaining and superior educa- 

 tional exhibits shown in a beautiful and artistically illuminated facade 

 that seemed a realization of Fairy Land, it is not strange that this won- 

 derful educational exhibit of the school resources of Missouri set a new- 

 standard for the standard of education. Passing by the conventional 

 educational exhibits of the other states, the great throng of teachers and 

 other World's Fair visitors fairly sw^armed into the Missouri exhibit 

 space until it was usual to have ten thousand visitors in a single day. 



ST. LOUIS EXHIBIT. 



"The special exhibit of the public schools of the city of St. Louis 

 was made under the direction of its superintendent of city schools, 

 F. Louis Soldan, with the assistance of Assistant Superintendent Carl 

 Rathman, and other teachers. The expense was borne by the city of 

 St. Louis. 



This exhibit occupied a space of twenty-seven feet wide by one 

 hundred and forty feet long, and adjoining the general State educational 

 exhibit. It was installed with a facade of the same architecture and 

 character as the State exhibit above described, and the tw^o exhibits 

 separated by a twelve-foot aisle. The sixteen columns of the facade 

 contained panels showing sixteen transparent paintings, representing 

 a history of the development of education. There were transparent 

 photographs of school children, buildings and class exercises; wall 

 cabinets containing a great variety of selected specimens of pupils' 

 school work; manual training work, collections of mounted birds, o:' 

 minerals, of fossils, of butterflies, etc., and many other interesting ex- 

 hibits of school work. These exhibits were full and complete as to all 

 the grades, including the high school. The popular feature of this ex- 

 liibit was a model school room in which actual school room work was 



