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Harvard Exhibit at St. Louis.

The University's exhibit at the St. Louis Exposition will be in the Educational Building, a structure devoted to showing the progress and achievements of the educational methods of Europe and America, and the first of its kind to be included in an exposition. The building is divided into four quarters by broad corridors, flanked by columns, leading to an inner court. Three of these divisions will be occupied by the exhibits of England. France and Germany, and the fourth by those of America. The University has been allotted the central position in this last division, and will occupy a space approximately sixty feet long by thirty feet wide, bordering on the inner court. Next to Harvard's exhibit will be that of Yale.

The exhibit is intended to be as general as possible. A large number of statistical charts will be hung, showing the educational, financial, and numerical growth of the University and the separate schools and departments, together with photographs of the grounds and buildings. Bookcases will be set up containing the official publications of the University, and the books that have been published by members of the Faculty of Arts, and Sciences and of the Faculty of Law, and by historians and statesmen who were graduates of Harvard, excluding all living graduates. A large plaster model of the Stadium and of the new Medical. School, including the proposed hospitals, will be sent, together with specimens of the Blaschka glass flowers, and photographs and transparencies from the Astronomical Observatory. The Medical School will be represented in part by specimens of the various apparatus used in the school, anatomical models, bacteria enlargements, and paintings of the discuses germs recently discovered by this department.

The exposition will open April 30 and close December 1.

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