Excerpt from In Assembly, Vol. 71: February 19, 1879
To the Legislature of the State of New York:
The department of education was honored in the position assigned to it, at the Paris Exposition of 1878.
The foreign educational sections were situated, for the most part, on the "Street of the Nations," in a prominent part of the main building on the Champs de Mars. The French department of public instruction and the other educational exhibits of France were located in a long gallery and series of rooms by themselves on the opposite side of the art buildings, quite removed from the other exhibits of the same class. A considerable portion of the French educational display was also to be found in the large separate building of the Ville de Paris. Whatever unity of arrangement may have been at first intended was also much impaired by allowing other departments of the exhibition to encroach somewhat upon the space originally set apart to the department of Education.
The nations principally represented were France, Austria and Hungary, the United States, Belgium, Switzerland, Canada, England, Italy, Russia, Sweden, Denmark, Holland, and Spain. Of these, after France, which made a large and somewhat brilliant display of educational progress and results, Austria and Hungary, and the United States, made by far the most creditable exhibit. It is to be regretted that Germany did not participate more fully in the exhibition, and give to the world the benefit of her educational organization and advancement. It was also a source of regret that the nations did not contribute more generally and extensively in the way of bound volumes of "Student's Work," which indicate more clearly than anything else that can be exhibited the actual quality and efficiency of the instruction given.
The department of free-hand and industrial drawing was naturally the most fully exhibited, leaving little here to be desired; but in many of the exhibits one sought in vain for information relative to the progress of education in other equally important branches of study.
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