teacher, and visits were made to the school divisions near Manila.  Supplies of school materials, uniform paper for written work, etc., were sent by the bureau of education, which gave every assistance possible to schools that requested such material.  Letters were written to a number of educators in America requesting personal expressions as to what they would find most interesting in a Philippine educational exhibit.  In response many helpful suggestions were received.

The educational exhibit known as “Department A,” of the Philippine exposition board, contained collections sent by 438 exhibitors and consisted of 8,542 exhibits.

Labels of various sizes were freely used to give visitors information regarding collections and conditions of school work in the Philippines, particularly where these conditions differed from those of the United States.

Written work was displayed in flat-top wall cases arranged according to school divisions, some of the typical work being shown open under glass.  These cases were arranged so that they might have been opened without disturbing the displayed work to give access to other written work of the division.

The industrial exhibits and photographs filled 30 glazed show cases and the wall space around these cases and were arranged by school divisions.  These show cases varied in size from one-half to 7 cubic meters.  The list of awards contained eight grand prizes, as follows: 

The secretary of public instruction and the general superintendent of education, on the exhibit as a whole; the Philippine Model School; Laguna High School; Liceo de Manila Secondary School; the Philippine Nautical School; the Philippine Normal School, and the University of Santo Tomas.

Thirty gold medals, 71 silver medals, 110 bronze medals, and 323 honorable mentions were also awarded.

The Model School was in a typical nipa and bamboo schoolhouse especially arranged for exhibition purposes.  It was in charge of Miss Pilar Zamora, a Tagalog, who is a teacher, in the Philippine Normal School.  Two sessions were held daily, to which visitors were admitted.

The exhibits in the agricultural building represented agriculture, horticulture, and land transportation.  The material on exhibition consisted of all raw and manufactured products of the soil, together with crude native instruments and implements employed in the cultivation of the land, as well as native machinery for the preparation of such products for the market, illustrating in as complete a manner as possible the old process of raising the various crops of the island.

Among the cereals were large and interesting collections of rice, both hulled and in the hull, representing hundreds of varieties and subvarieties grown in the different islands of the archipelago.  These varieties were divided into two groups, namely, “palay de secano” or mountain rice, which is cultivated without irrigation, and “palay de regadio” or valley rice, which is cultivated in rice paddies and by irrigation.  There were also samples of wheat grown at some of the experimental stations established by the insular bureau of agriculture.  Samples of corn or maize, millet, sorghum, pease, beans, and lentils were also exhibited.