The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-03-19

Female Institute. IN negro education we
NAV mention Booker i. washington Of
BT;iskeegec.
yirsinians occupy the chair OF English
in columbia (rrenU, Tulane Sharp, Uni
yersity OF North Carolina GHuirel. Mis-
souri, Ailen) South Carolina College
(Wnuchopc). Virginia tKent. Wake For.
est. ts,ledtl), William and Mary d1all),
Charleston College (lIartls). and many
others. IN mathematics may be noted
University Of Virginia tPage). University
OF Cincinnati u1ancock), University OF
Tennessee (shutD, Cooper institute
(l1olliday), William jewell Clark. v. Nj.
/. (Nichols), washington and Lee (Nel-
sony Rnndoipli- Mncon tsmithey).
Other Educators.
Prominent In various lines are Profess
sor roy, Of Harvard, the grehtest Anieri.
can Oricntalist; Woodrow Wilson. one OF
the greatest OF American historians;
Professor Trent. OF Columbia; Professor
cameron. OF 81 Princeton: Professor
FHu,nphreys' or the University Of Virginia;
( Professor Dayton, OF Queens College on
tario. Professor Foster, OF the University
OF Chicago Professor Gore Cinnthematics'.
Columbia !. G. w. Pritchett organizer OF
thu pritchett Institute; Professor Sterrett
(c,reek), Cornell; the English scholar,
Garnctt; billiard, OF Tulane; w. n II
K Coleman, the great Orientalist; X. d
Fulton, one OF the founders OF the Natloi'.
al Eocutionist Assoca ton ana Dean y
the School OF Oratory, Wesleyan, OF ONO.
There Is hardly a college in the South
that does not number q Virginian IN us
faculty and the Northern colleges also
have n considerable number. The educA-
tIonal standards Of virginia institutions
have had q far-reaching and profound
Influence. ~,
III may be mentioned here that the Dill
to found the University Of Texas was was IN. IN
troduccd by a Virginian, Fiucheson.
in the literature of tho day virginia
has :. n most creditable representation II
Esuffices to mention, III fiction. Thomas
Nelson Page, Frances Courtney Baylor,
Marion IIarland (Nfrs. Terhune) Mary
Johnston, Molly Elliott Sewcll. Ellen
sG1a sEow, Amelie Rives princess Trou-
1tetskoy). Julia Magruder, Mrs. Burton
Harrison. In various departments, Father
Tabb, the poet-priest; Kate Mason ROW W
land Moncure Conway Conway WOODROW W -,
Trent, and many others. "A school OF
ger novelists promises to keep Vir-
fgina well to the front. ECU,
CHANGING at the World Almanac Review
of the books Of the past year. we I 1 III e.
that two Of the eight best selling novels
of2the year were by Virginia women ana
Gaichmonders. In the department OF biog- z
$raphy Virginia was well ahead, with
&A1oncure Conway Auto Biography Mrs.
fPryor's ,,.Reminiscences' and Rccol-
Elections and Letters OF Lee, = by his son.
In political and social science sVirginians
showed noteworthy work with Willough-.
Sby's american nsttutional Systems
and his l..Poli teal Theories of the Ancient
World 4, Thomas Nelson Pages Negro
and the Negroes,pn.sand Booker Nv aslhhiing-
TONS Working With the Hands n ana
%..Tuskegee and Its SPeop 6, s4
i# In the ditorial world We find suchSHVtair--.
cinians as Davis, OF the New Orleans
Plcayune. \ Grasty,s OF the Baltimore News;
VIII, OF the Baltimore Sun, and Edmonds,
Of the Manufacturers Record. Grasty
is one OF the executive committee OF four
of the Associated Press.
Virginians in Art and Science.
The sculpt ors, Sir Moses Ezekiel, OIDon-
8ovan, Valentine. L,lkeman and Couper.
Couper IS one Of the seventeen members
+ OF the National Sculpture Society. The
pain tiers and illustrators, Dodge Il Cline
dinst (wlnner OF the Evans prize In water
COLOR, earle Joan Blenner, Kollock, Dain-
gerfield Elliott. In the Ma tional Acad-
envy Of Desig n are are three WirgiInians-
iClinedinst, O'Donoyan and Elliott. Wire
ginia has furnished a number OF distin-
guished architects;s among whom may be
mentioned Glenn Brown, secr1e tary Of the
National Society *, ,s5s q
Probably the greatest ship builder in
the world, IS a Virginfan Louis Nixon.s
On the stage Virginia Is represented
by two actors OF prominencer--Lackeyc
and Bangs, while the rest OF the South
can boast OF but five.
Inventors like Laws inventor of the
Houston,s inventor Of the Thorn
son-Houston electric arc-lighting; Gem
eral Buffing tom inventor Of improve
lnents In firearms. VI sg s5
under miscellaneous scientific may be
noted FL H. Gardener Mrs. Day, writer
on heredity. only world representative OF
the League OF American Penwomen; r. II.
Garner, authority on monkeys; r. 5s l',s
Goode, noted geograp her; Walter Hough,
ethnologst of theE$ United States Mu-
scum; w. L. r. Phillips, nledi cal china
tologist, United States Weather Bureau;
II. H: Lewis. archaeolo glst OF ST q Paul. AL
Virginians in Politics and Public
Life.
1T Is said that atsthe beginning Of the
Civil War one-third sof the members Of
/ Congress were either Virginians or sons
Of VirgInians, or grandsons of Virglnians.
mSthc last Congress there were twenty
two natives of Virginia congressman and
four Senator's. Senator Daniel keeps up
tho traditions of the State in. oratory,
Among men prominent in public life
may be noted Mccormick. one OF the
four ambassadors extraordinary and plen-
I5ipotentiary.t Cridler. special commission
OF the United States to the Paris Ex-
position: VIM. Dinwiddie. Governor of
Lepanto- Bontoo Province. Philippines; J.
| II. Lewis, who introduced the bill into
Congress recognizing tho independence
| OF Cuba; Fitzhugh Lee. foremost dlplo-
matte figure in the Spanish American
embroGllo; Southall, candidate for Vice
President OF the National Party; Comp
troller Tracewell, OF the United States
Treasury: Chairman Sumerville, Of the
National BOARD OF Appraisers; j. r. Car
rison. Chief OF Customs Division, United
States Treasury and many others. It is
remarkable how many Ylrginians hold
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