Excerpt from Catalogue of the Public School Exhibit of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts: At the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis 1904 This exhibit serves all these purposes, but its emphasis is laid upon school organization, courses of study, and means and methods Of instruction. It is not primarily an exhibit of fine penmanship, though penmanship is treated as an important school exercise. It is not specifically an exhibit of drawing, though drawing is represented as holding a high position among the several studies taught in the schools of Massachusetts. It is not an exhibit of manual training, though several excellent courses of study in this department are shown. It is not a collection of pretty exercises made by pupils and teachers for exhibition at the World's Fair; happily their day has passed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.