The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-09-12
MISS EDDIE LEE COWARD,
Wndesboro,

sors in college, with better physical
equipment. and thus each student IS
more apt to find the subject that he Is
best fitted for. and Is more likely to
fall under the inspiring influence OF
professor than IL there We're half the
number Of professors.
It Is assumed that each of these pro-
lessons In the increased faculty is the
equal of the men In the smaller faculty
OF twenty-five years ago. If this Is
SO now, how long will 1t continue to
be so If the Shame of the colleges"
continues? II this. Shame Of the col
leges" brings the result that you speak
of-"that mediocre men, time-servers.
are antering the professionalism will
be the losers? Clearly the State, the
Commonwealth, the public; and our
different thing from what 1t has been
in the past, and future editors OF The
Times Dispatch will not be called upon
to write such editorials as the one
that appeared in your same Tuesdays
issue on Professor Alexander Lock-
hart Nelson.
Does any one doubt that the State
would be the loser If the colleges could
not secure the services of such men
as they have secured in the past? II
SO, let him examine the record which
give of the students that have been
turned out by one Of our small de-
! nominational colleEes-Hampden-Sl
| ney.
The college has listed in its whole
history only 1855 students-not SO
| many as this year are found at Har-
ward or the University of Michigan. or
| a dozen other American institutions.
sion has never been over 155. The
record is as follows: 470 ministers.
three of them bishops; 440 lawyers.
361 physicians, one surgeon. general IN
in the Confederate Army 400 teach
ers, IA of them principals of high
schools and academies. 9s professors In
colleges. go presidents of colleges, two
OF a college and one founder of uni
versity, two State Superintendent OF
Public Instruction (the State mas had
only four); 637 soldiers one major
OF the Confederate Army. one brsga-
der Of the United States Army and two
| of the Confederate Army, 10 colonies
of the Confederate Army. 20 majors
of the Confederate States Army, u
captains of the Confederate stats tate,
crate States Army, $40 non-conlmis-
| stoned officers and privatcs OF the Con-
federate States Army---a total enlist
ment of more than all the students
ceding the Civil War (of these, SO
died in service: Of Harvard men. 1856
| died in service}; 20 members Of the
| House of Delegates of the State I4egis-
!
20 members Of constitutional conven-
tions. SO county and circuit judges,
IN Judges Of the State Supreme
Court OF Appeals. % members of the
United States House OF Representa-
tives. members of the Confederate
House of Representatives, 10 members
| of the United States Senate, one mem-
| her of the Confederate Senate. min
listers to foreign countries, cabinet
1 members, 5 Governors of six States.
/ and / President OF the United States.
or the ten most prominent State Off
/ Gals of day, five of them are grad
yates of Han1pden-Sidney.
Does It no. appear that not OF. m ashels
State Of Virginia-our Virginia type
Il Of civilization, in facts tremendously
concerned as to the character of the
men who teach the boys who go TO
Lastly .:.sl who is responsible for this
shame Of the colleges? The trustees
do not make any money by aamim a. .
tering the college. We have seen that
the students DO not pay co one-na tbem O.
Il Clearly, then, the college Is not
!, money liking institution. What money
the trustees have has been given them
!, by public spirited men. II the .ssa ,!.
! tied men to allow the trustees to pay
, salaries that will induce high type
!, Of man to continue "a college profes-
sor not only is the State the loser
but the State is responsible for this
l ''shame OF the colleges" The North
! ern States produce public spirited mer
> who give enough money to colleges e
allow the trustees to pay for q high
r grade of professor If the South does
Inot do so, too. the South will steadily
t decline, as compared with the North
] by not turning out nigh grace OF
: Young men from the colleges.
: The evil OF the colleges turning out
a low type of graduate soon dtffuses
!. itself throughout the body polite II
!, Superintendent Eggleston's Virginia
Q school Report" Parts l., II. and III.
: 1907 1905 and leos-.lsos. page %. y
appears that only 902 teachers have
= Graduated from State institutions
t Whereas 1851 are graduates from
i other Virginia colleges, Thus, II Q
: low type Of man and woman Is turn nee
l.. out from our private colleges, lns
whole body politic suffers. me only
0 wav to prevent this certain deteriora-
= tion is FOR public spirited mon to MAKE
t it possible for trustees OF colleges te
! employ the best type Of our Amer.
t manhood 10 teach our virginia youth
8 n. Il. BI4ACkWE L!4,
: President of Randolph Macon Collese,
Ashland, va. Sept. 10, l9lo'
= Hunter Is Killed.
[Special to The Times Dispatch.l
9 SufY oils, Va, September ll,-Wllii,s
I I Austin, colored, twenty-four years olu