. The story of the exposition; being the official history of the international celebration held at San Francisco in 1915 to commemorate the discovery of the Pacific Ocean and the construction of the Panama Canal. gardening, and theChicago Art Institute by paintings and drawings. Some sculptures fromdifferent art schools, with murals from the Chicago Academy of Fine Artsand from the California School of Arts and Crafts, added interest. Theexhibit was collected by Robert Harshe, Assistant Chief of the Departmentof Fine Arts, and Superintendent of Fine, Applied and Manual Art Educa-tion in the Ex
. The story of the exposition; being the official history of the international celebration held at San Francisco in 1915 to commemorate the discovery of the Pacific Ocean and the construction of the Panama Canal. gardening, and theChicago Art Institute by paintings and drawings. Some sculptures fromdifferent art schools, with murals from the Chicago Academy of Fine Artsand from the California School of Arts and Crafts, added interest. Theexhibit was collected by Robert Harshe, Assistant Chief of the Departmentof Fine Arts, and Superintendent of Fine, Applied and Manual Art Educa-tion in the Expositions Department of Education. It was installed byProf. F. H. Meyer, of the California School of Arts and Crafts in Berkeley. Californias educational exhibit was a remarkable demonstration of whatcan be done by the cinema film to depict the development of such a con-stantly growing institution as a great educational system, forofTsLte through it were shown all the late phases of school life, andvisitors were enabled to inspect the whole school system of CaH-fornia from their opera chairs. Some striking features disclosed were thetechnical equipment in high schools, now grown common, whereas ten years. CENTRAL EXHIBIT, PALACE OF LIBERAL ARTS SOME NEW STYLES OF SCHOOL 71 before there was only one polytechnic high school in the State. Otherphases were, modern school buildings in country districts, the consolidationof country districts, playgrounds with apparatus for physical development,and the settlement work through which a knowledge of sanitation, domesticscience, and care of the children were extended to immigrants that in manycases had not yet learned English. There is not space in this book, and there would not be in twenty booksto set forth all the significant features of all the exhibits in the palaces, so wehave selected those that seemed best to indicate the nature and influence ofthe Exposition itself. But besides those mentioned above there were in thePalace of Edu
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