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garten. The views were carefully arranged to show the life of the 

 children in their " morning talks," gifts, occupations and games through 

 all the grades. A more graphic representation of kindergarten life 

 has never been made, and it was a revelation to many parents of the 

 true spirit which actuates the kindergarten. The school which was 

 taken as a type was "Washington Grammar School, No. 26, of Roches- 

 ter, Col. S. P. Moulthrop, principal. A series of gift work prepared 

 by the Albany public kindergartens and the Teachers College Kinder- 

 garten, and a series of twenty cards, illustrating color and science teach- 

 ing, from the American Kindergarten of Mrs. E. M. Coe, 70 Fifth 

 avenue, New York, were also features of the alcove. The chief con- 

 tributors to the kindergarten display were the public schools of Albany, 

 Port Chester, Rochester and Lansingburgh, the State Normal College 

 of Albany, Teachers College of New York and the Elmwood School 

 of Buffalo. 



Along both sides of the south gallery aisle additional space was 

 granted for many attractive wall exhibits. Chief among these was a 

 set of library photographs, a large collection of graphic and printed 

 charts prepared by the bureau, showing the status of public school 

 education in the State, the educational map, and the fine exhibit of 

 the Rochester AtheuEeum and Mechanics' Institute in drawing, painting, 

 modeling, etc. 



The exhibit of the New York Trade School was situated on this aisle, 

 163 feet east of the main exhibit, among other trade and mechanical 

 schools. It occupied an alcove of about 700 square feet and was tilled 

 'with specimen work of its students in plumbing, blacksmithing, paint- 

 ing, carpentry, stonecutting, bricklaying, printing and other trades. 

 The work was of the highest character and reflected the greatest credit 

 on the founders and oificers of that institution. 



On the same aisle, seventy-five feet west of the main exhibit, space 

 was assigned the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, of Troy, and Pratt 

 Institute, Brooklyn. It is greatly to be regretted that their space 

 was not contiguous to the main exhibit, but some of the regula- 

 tions of the liberal arts department in reference to collective exhibits 

 rendered it impossible. The displays of both institutions were in the 

 highest degree artistic and creditable, the former for the evident 

 thoroughness and solidity of the work which has made its name famous, 

 the latter for the development of modern and progressive ideas in 

 youth training in all the many departments of the institution. 



Special Featuees. 



As before remarked, New York had all the usual exhibits of an 

 educational nature, but was also particularly rich in its special features 

 and new ideas. Chief among these were the following : 



Exhibit of Appa/ratus : Comprised under three heads : First, 

 minimum set of scientific apparatus which the University of the State 

 of New York requires every school of academic grade to possess before 

 it can be admitted to the University ; second, standard set of academic 

 apparatus, which the University recommends to its schools and requires 

 them to approximate as fast as practicable. Both of these sets were 



