Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1873-11-15
Shepherd College and State Normal
School.

School.
There are now one hundred and thlr'
teen in daily attendance upon the School
twenty-five Normal and eighty-elgh'
paying pupils at rates SO moderate tha'
few, if any, are unable to meet them
The punctuality of attendance in SO
large number, together with the en-
thusiasm of teaching and learning is
most encouraging. The cases OF irreg-
ularity in attendance are very few, Par
ents are appealed TO, to cooperate win
the teachers in all respects. This is IN
dispensable to the highest success, The
withdrawal of pupil for day or halt
day, throws him so far behind bis class
and gives extra trouble and ultimately
Encouragement to the teacher. In case
of Normal pupils there is special obi
CATION not to withdraw them upon
slight excuses. The State has made
their education gratuitous. The sup
posed equivalent to lie rendered Is
teaching i'm the Common Schools. 1t
costs the State as much to teach them
half the time as the whole time, and
they are morally bound to make the
best use of their time and opportunities.
The Executive Committee upon OBJ
seryation of the School are highly graf
fled with the teachers employed-as
fully competent to their duties and zeal
ously engaged in discharging them, and
they are themselves cndeavoring to the
best of their abilities to afford every "a
cility for the best conduct OF the school
and so to subscrve the objects which
the State has in view in establishing it.
Such an institution of learning as we
intend this to be must be blessing to
any community and we feel that IN
order 10 secure the continued patronage
of The STATE il must deserve IL.
III this connection the following ac-
count of the great increase Of zeal and
activity for education in the old State
will be read with interest.
Mr.. Edward S. JoyneS, of the Uni
versity of Virginia, has written letter
about education in Virginia, from which
the following is all extract =
In this State, under system OF pub
lie instruction organized during the few
wears since the war, | find from the
School Report of 1872, an aggregate OF
1906 public schools, an increase OF 64S
since the preceding year. with an actual
enrolment of 166,377 pupils, an in
crease eff 5,2S9, and an average full at
tendance of %, 4SS anincrease of 1896
since the preceding year. Besides |
find 2O,497 pupils reported as attending
private schools, number, which, from
want of full information, is doubtless
far below the actual fact In the same
Report. | find in Virginia 1877 private
high schools or academies, with I7Ol
pupils, "a large portion of whom will
shortly enter college" In collegiate
education, fo- herself and sister States
of the South, Virginia is scarcely sec
ond to any State in the Union. In her
colleges and universities, l find 1873
students, and in her technical, profess
ioual, and normal schools, 753-a total
of 1866 in attendance upon different
schools Of the highest grade. Such are
some of the statistics to be found in the
admirable Report of Superintendent
Ruffner; and if other endorsement Is
needed, let me refer You to the Reports
of Gen Eaton, L. S. Commissioner OF
Education, and Of Rev. Barnard Sears,
ID. d., Commissioner Of the Peabody
Fund, both of whom refer to the school
work in Virginia in terms OF highest
praise.
ga" Stunt & IIAwKs.-Whlle at
Charlestown last week, we called in up