The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-05-06

plans Tor the s,i,ntrer Institutes to DC
ha,d II various sections Of the slate are
rapidly maturing.
For years the only Summer sci1ool a oi's ~
10 Inc teachers was held ut Chnrlottes
vile III the buildings Of the UnlVers,tS
~ Virginia. This school, which was IN
a,,p,,rntcd and continued under the man
ngon1cnt OF superintendent p. G. CLASS.
ri 1,ynchhurg and Willis ~ jenkins, OF
Nnwnort News, has from year TO year
hnd an attendance varying from Wy ~
1,2OO. A few years ago o demand rom
Southwest Virginia resulted N q summer
school at Emory, In the buildings %
Emory and Henry College. m dthe school
has been signally successful, aolns Inue't
GOOD to the teachers OF that section OF
Virginia. Last spring Norfolk put IN al,
nnplication. received 800 from the State
and held m excellent school The totaI
cost was 1890 and the attendance was
moro than 200 teachers.
There has been n growing bcllef
throughout the State that, owing TO the
small salaries paid the teachers OF tne
country and village schools summer
schools should be established at conve-
nient points, In order to enable the vast
mn 1orIty OF the teachers to attend tncfn
at reasonable cost. 1t can rcad,'y DC
seen, for example, how closely tencher
of county in a remote part OF INC
state would have to figure IN ordcr 70
attend the school at Charlottesville, When
she had received during the session the
mn,nificent salary OF s25 or $40 for five
months, from which sum she had to
nav her board clothe herself and IN
many Instances helpxsupport her iamiIS'
Ireretofore the General Assembly has
given $4,000 year for summer schooie,
$4,000 Of which went last rs: summer mem, 20 ~. 1r
school of methods Mt Charlottesv'lle. N
addition to this tho Peabody fund mas
han,,- Giving 81, 500 a year to the same
srhool The General Education Board
has also given some. MD. This year
nothing willFbe received from these TWO
The7 General Assembly. however, In
screased the appropriation from s2tD 70
s. 600, but added a proyiso That the y,
should be at least eight summer lnsti-
tutcs for white teachers In the STATE.
There has for years ben one Tor me
colored at Petersburg. This school, now
ever, will not he held this summer be-
cause Of repairs to be made tc the
colored normal. ne
state superintendent Eggleston, In whose
ghands the. summer schools largely rest
has benScpnfrontcd with this proposition:
sGiven Is 100; how to hold eight summer
schools for white teachers. and one for
colored, when the average cost Of one
summer school vii be sl,aoo, and the one
at Charlottesville cost last summer be-
tween $500 and 5000. Add It up: Seven
white schools at 1900, total $500: one in
stitute for ecolored teachers. $500; one
school OF Methods, $500; total. s17.soo. And
the State superintendent has been sit
ting up nights with the problem. After
extensive correspondence and consuta-
tion he has definitely decided to estab-
llsh summer schools for the white teach
ers at Norfolk, Farmville. Emory, Biz
Stone Gap. Covington, Winchester, Char
lottesville, Fredericksburg. Martinsvile.
and county Institutes will be held at Front
Royal and standnrdsville and probably
at Grundy In Buchanan county. For the
colored teachers there Will be summer
schools at Danville and some point west
of Roanoke. and ms usual, at Hampton