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done every day in the week, except Saturday. Classes from the various 

 St. Louis schools under the skilled direction of the teacher here presented 

 a true and vivid picture of the efficiency, methods and discipline of their 

 teachers and the splendid results accomplished in their schools. 



STATE UNIVERSITY EXHIBIT. 



"The State University exhibit, constituting the third section of the 

 Missouri Educational Exhibit, adjoined the other two sections on 

 the west and occupied more floor space than any other university. The 

 exhibits shown on this space may be divided into two classes : Those 

 which showed what the University has been and is, and those which 

 showed what the university is doing. The center of the University 

 space was occupied by the original monument from the grave of the 

 immortal Thomas Jefferson, Made in accordance with the written 

 specifications of this great patriot himself, it stood over his last resting 

 place until 1883. Then it came as a gift to the State University of the 

 greatest State carved from the Louisiana Purchase. Since Jefferson 

 was the father of the State University in America, it was deemed most 

 fitting that this monument should form a unique part of the exhibit of 

 the University at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. To show what 

 the University has been and is, a series of six water-color bird's eye 

 views were prepared representing the buildings and grounds at Colum- 

 bia as they appeared in 1843, 1873, 1892, 1895 and 1904. These views 

 were supplemented by a similar bird's eye view of the School of Mines 

 at Rolla as it appeared in 1904. In the first six mentioned the slow 

 progress of the development from 1843 to 1892, and the rapid changes 

 in the years 1892- 1904 were strikingly portrayed, A series of charts 

 showing at these same periods the condition of the University in num- 

 ber of students, number of instructors, in endowment, in value of prop- 

 erty, in annual income, demonstrated that the growth of the University 

 in the last twelve years has been remarkable in every way, A series 

 of fine photographs of exteriors and interiors helped to bring the Uni- 

 versity of to-day before the eyes of the World's Fair visitor. Fore- 

 most among the many fine models shown at the Exposition stood the 

 model of the campus of the University, It was on a scale of i to 100, 

 about 10 by i5 feet in size, and is perhaps the finest piece of work tliat 

 has come from the hands of George Carroll Curtis of Boston, the 

 geographical sculptor who first won fame by constructing the models 

 of Washington now in the National Library. This model, naturalistic,, 

 not conventional, in its treatment, was accurate to the last degree in 

 measurement, in form and in color. Thirty-five departments united in 

 showing what the University is actually doing in their several lines. 



