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Identifier: bookofroyalblue07balt (find matches)
Title: Book of the Royal blue
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Baltimore and Ohio railroad company. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Middle Atlantic States -- Description and travel
Publisher: Baltimore
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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..t Isn,. ^,\urh l,-(l to theintroduction of manual tr.uinn- in tlir )>ublicschools of this couutiN, tin- iiiliniiii.lion of shopwork as a part of the- . luticulun) in Ic-linicalschools, and the bcuinninir ■ it th.- Iimuuh;; whichhas rendered possihl.- tin- nipiil adx.uir. of this(•(Mintry in arts anil ca-afls; Hie i-r, irva ni/ation of 1S7S; thr i-ai.id ;;-np\vtli of manual tranun^- andindustrial art instruction as a nsnit ..I Hi.- impetusgiven by the Chicafto E\pcisili.>n ..f \-^i:i; theaction of the French Govenun.nl )n arrani^ing tosend_students annually to this country for thestudy and investigation of our industrial andcommercial methods as a result of the UnitedStates educational exhibit at the Paris Expositionof 1900. St. Louis is the first Exposition to assigna separate building to education. The Palaceof Education covers an area 525 by 750 feet,or a fraction over nine acres. It is locatedin the verv center of the Expositionactivities, facing upon the great central
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EDUCATION AT THE WORLDS FAIR. picture of the Festival Hall and Cascades,l)()rdering upon the Grand Basin ; is designedin modern classic style, and in the opinionof cxixrts is one of the most beautiful of theExposition buildings. Its cost is $350,000,and is desioned and built bv St. Louisarchitects, who consider it a mastci-pi.-cc oftheir art. There are available r..r educa-tional exhibits 1.5(1,(iTO s(;uarc feet of space,4.3 i)er cent of which is devoted to foreignexhibits. England, France, Germany, Russia,Sweden, Belgium, Austria, Italy, Japan,China, (e.\ Ion, Mexico, Cuba, Brazil,Argentina and Chile have applied for spaceand are preparing exhibits for the Palaceof Education, which will doubtless be ofgreat interist. In regard tn (li>niestie parlieipation, thefollowing classi(ieatinii has I.e.n adopted:KIcnieiitaiN I.lu.atl,,,,. mdi,d Ml Colleges and I.x p.-riinenl Stations ,,f theInile.l States, which is bemii pnpan-d bvthe (M.x.-rninent umhr a sp,-eial apj.ropri-ation of §100,0

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