The times demand it. There is no excuse to-day for illiteracy. The strenth of our State is determined by the education of its citizens, and we are glad that our school officials are making efforts to place Virginia in the column where she has a right to stand. We prepare boys and girls for teaching. It is not enough for our teachers to be masters of the texts they teach, but a knowledge of the higher work gives them a reserve fund and an inexhaustible supply of force and facts needed every day of their lives.
Music is a science and the study of it trains the mind just as the study of any other science does.
Its influence on the social life is too great to allow it to be neglected. It adds greatly to the pleasures of life, and refines every faculty of the human being. The teacher of this course is well prepared for her work. If possible, boys need elocutionary training more than girls, as their business seems to demand expression of thought more often. No pupil can appreciate an eduction until he has been trained in expression.