Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-12-28
ton and training that should be given
to the negro race.
MODIFY THE PoLICIEs.

3hODlC
There are important particulars in
winch coming changes will certainly
modify the policies and the work of our
schools of higher rank. In the first
place, those Institutions which aspire
10 be called colleges or universities
must see that vastly more Is lost than
is gained when their rolls are swellea
by the names of immature and aimless
students in preparatory classes, and
when the funds and energies of the tn
Stttution are spent in work that prop
erly belongs to elementary or second
airy schools. In the second place in
stitutions intended to give specially
scientific or technical training will
learn that their best work is not done
when they attempt to be all things to
all men--to work upon material that
should be in the grammar schools as
well as that which is more advanced
to give classical or literary culture as
well as for the management OF indus
trial enterprises. The names college
ana university are a survival from that
past when every aspiring teacher was
expected TO know all learning, and
every ambitious school was expected TO
widen its curriculum over all the fields
of knowledge. The classical colleges
have ever claimed for their domain all
of Science, Literature and the Arts"
The newer technical schools. intended
to give special training. have seemed
to give their plans equally as wide
range.
That development which has forced
q place in schools and college curricula
FOR science, old and new will not cease
until the applications of these sciences
III the arts are fully taught in schools
mat are separately founded. specially
planned amply furnished and properly
administered for this sole purpose
GREATEST NEED.
The greatest educational need of the
South today is at least one institution
eminently fitted by it's material equip
ment, its means of support and it's en-
Vironment to command and hold with
out chalienSe the position of leader in
| technical training among the institu-
| tons about 1t. No one of the State in
| situations can claim that position for
our section. Each is restrained by un-
| avoidable limitations in its material
foundation. its resources, or its envi-
| ronment. The various efforts for the
establishment OF Il National University
| In Washington, even If successful.
| would not create the institution we
| now need for giving tone and power to
technical education in our section.
| Such an institution should exhibit in
ITS buildings the latest and best that
| architecture can accomplish. Its libra
RES should fully tell what the worlds
industries are accomplishing every
| where. It's apparatus should include
not mere diminutivc models, but useful
| machines of life-size and exhibited in
action. The classic Archimedes screw
ana Hiero's fountain should give place
| TO air lifts and Worthington pumps.
| students should learn from seeinl, and
handling things more largely than ever
| before. The whole institution should
be n laboratory and students should
be admitted only when they are pre-
pared for work in such a laboratory"
OTHER ADDRESSES.
President Charles w. Dabncy, of the
University of Tennessee. read a paper
on scientific and Technical Education
| In: the South"
EDUCATION OF WOMEN.
Z. ). Parrish, professor of philosophy
| In the Randolph Macon Woman's Col
lego. of Lynchburg. Va. presented
some interesting facts regarding the
education of women In the South Last
year about l.2OO Southern women he
| Salu, were doing college work in recor-
nized institutions throughout the col
lege Year. Although the results of the
opening OF Southern schools to South
ern women are. under the circum-
stances, as'onishingly large, they had
been Disappointing to many optimistic
people. He continues:
"Of course of poverty, the regency oI
the awakening of women to self-con
seriousness and the conserva tism OF the
| South might be mentioned but the
mAln reason Is probably found i'm the
defects of our secondary schools for
girls. These schools do not prepare
for college and give little or no s,imu-
lus to further work. They have no en-
dowment. are crippled by competition.
| employ poor teachers and overwork
| them To n pitiful extent. They have as
n rule no laboratories. libraries or
gymnasiums. Their work is mechani-
cal or stimulating many sided devel-
| opmcnt, Of creating abiding interest. of
| any gradual adjustment TO the spirit
ual possessions Of the race. of educa-
ton as fitting n study to take possess
sion of the culture we inherit from the
part they have never dreamed.
OUR GREAT NEED.
Our great need now is good secon-
| dairy schools. An important step In
| this direction will be to strengthen the
city high schools, but even when this
| Is done the small cities and large coun
try population of the South Will make
| necessary a number of girls boarding
| schools. If every female college in
the South would make itself the col
| lege 1t claims to be or drop its name
| and DO avowed and honest secondary
| work the problem would be practicailv
solved. That is probably too much to
expect from human nature, hence some
! must be established. These should be
| avowedly secondary; should be eudov-
! ed and should employ as teachers col
| lege men and women who have had
| also thorough professional training"
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