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position at the intersection of the University and JSTew York aisles, the 

 line runs on the west through the universities of the State, colleges for 

 men and women, professional and technical schools, law, medicine, 

 theology, etc., endowed academies, high schools, academic departments 

 of union schools and private schools for boys and girls, ending at the 

 soutli entrance with university extension. On the east the line runs 

 from the State University through Columbia, cotemporary in age, Teach- 

 ers College, which is so closely affiliated with Columbia and is also the 

 connecting link between the normal schools and the higher institutions, 

 then to normal schools, grammar and primary schools under the juris- 

 diction of the Department of Public Instruction, to the kindergarten, 

 which provides for the educational needs of those younger than the 

 ordinary school age, as university extension, across the aisle at the end 

 of the other series, provides foi .those older. 



The divisions were not arbitrarily made and all exhibits of the same 

 grade crowded into the space assigned it, but the partitions were rather 

 placed to accommodate the amount of material exhibited in a depart- 

 ment. To secure uniformity, the partitions on the west of the long 

 aisle were made to correspond closely with those on the east. 



The boundary partitions were ten feet high. A heavy oak floor 

 piece, eight inches high, was the foundation. A pine partition, covered 

 with rich purjjle baize, fitted into this and carried the height to eight 

 feet. Surmounting this to the height of two feet was a handsome 

 frieze and wainscoting of quartered oak. The cross partitions, or thir- 

 teen and one-half foot screens, were eight feet high and similarly made 

 with the exception of the superior frieze. Along the ten-foot aisle on 

 either side was a row of fifty oak showcases three feet high. These, 

 while affording valuable exhibit space, gave the appearance of greater 

 breadth to the aisle and a more' open effect to the whole exhibit. This 

 was further heightened by the use of wing frames as a substitute for 

 wall space. Twenty-two of handsome design were built of oak, and as 

 each standard carried fifty double frames, with a show surface on each 

 frame of twenty-two inches by twenty-eight inches, a total exhibit space 

 of 9,394 square feet was obtained, or enough to display 13,200 eight 

 by ten-inch photographs. Oak cabinets, bookcases, tables and chairs 

 in quantity completed the furnishing. So expensive an installation 

 would not have been made, nor in fact justified, for a mere six months' 

 show ; but as the complete outfit was to become the ultimate property 

 of the State and be located in the Capitol, it was considered a wise 

 economy to have it harmonize with the oak furniture of tlie Capitol. 



As a rule the exhibits presented by the schools and colleges followed 

 the line of suggestions sent out by the bureau, and consisted mainly of 

 photographs of school grounds, buildings, both exterior and interior 

 views, groups and classes at work, specimen written work in all sub- 

 jects, scientific collections,, statistical charts, administrative forms and 

 blanks, work in manual training departments, handbooks, catalogues, 

 circulars, etc. The above exhibits differed from those of other States 

 and countries only in their quantity and superior quality, and the scope 

 of this report does not warrant their detailed enumeration. A com- 

 plete catalogue of the New York educational exhibit is appended. 



