Information for Exhibitors
A brief Description of the Exposition, Extracts of important Rules and Regulations, and an Analysis of the Plan and Scope of the Exhibit Departments

 INFORMATION (0,915 for EXHIBITORS benefits to the cause of education and advancement of the world in general. Demonstration in an educational exhibit is necessar- ily limited, and must be confined largely to charts, pho- tographs, printed matter, maps, models, apparatus and specimens, including the masterly grouping of facts and their graphic presentation to the public eye. Just as from an educational standpoint an Exposition may be likened to the general practitioner dispensing knowledge on all the various departments into which it is divided, so is the Educational Department the source from which all such general knowledge emanates. It is a consulting authority whose special work it is to bring together the educational systems and methods of all nations for examination, analysis and comparison, in or- der to show the advance the world, has made on these lines during a certain period. As such, it illustrates to a marked degree the necessity for careful selection, however collective in nature; and in order to avoid the duplica- tion of exhibits which, have been made in previous expo- sitions it is intended to confine them to a collection show- ing the development in educational methods since 1905. The twentieth century will be particularly notable for the contest between nations for commercial and indus- trial supremacy,— an era that will follow closely upon the opening of the great Panama Canal. The nation whose system of education gives to its citizens breadth of observation, power of adaptation to emergencies, and the ability to do things, will stand pre-eminent in the educational and commercial world. The earnest striving of each nation to attain this enviable position will en-