The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-02-22


Legislature of 1910, because
/. The passage of this bill VIII In
sure the preparation by the board OF
visitors Of the University of definite
plans for a woman's college ana put
the matter in shape for serious and
detailed consideration at the hands OF
the Legislature of 1912.
2. The passage of this bill commit
ting the State of Virginia TO the
founding of a woman's college, when
funds shall be .'available," will put
the proposition In a position to at
tract endowment thereto and enable
the authorities of the University ana
friends of the measure to work for
the securing of such endowment.
Barnard College, the woman's coll
lege an connection with Columbia
University, New York City. began
twenty years ago with an annual In
come of five thousand dollars, and
has now an endowment Of between
three and four million.
The University of Virginia has at
tracted in the last four years an en-
dowment of one million. two hundred
thousand.
Need for Such "a College.
/. Virginia Is graduating two CD
girls to every one "a boy from the
353 high schools now in this state.
These girls are offered no further
opportunity for advanced training by
the State of Virginia.
2. The cost of attendance upon the
private and denominational schools OF
higher grade for girls is prohioitive'
ranging from $500 10 $500.
g. The Woman's College at Lynch
burg, the only college for women of
first grade In the State, is filled to its
capacity.
4. The State normals, while as yet
doing no work beyond the high school
grades. are overrun with students.
Harrisonburg turned away this, Its
first year, 100 students.
s. The women of the State OF Vtr-
ginia set the standard of its civil
cation. train its citizens during the
formative years, and are teachers OF
its schools In the proportion of four
women to one man--ergo, they should
themselves be adequately trained,
Justice OF the Measure.
l. Every State In the Union, the
Territories of Arizona and New Mex
leo included, save five, namely, Vir-
ginta. Georgia, Delaware. New Jer-
sey and Maryland, offer their women
, instruction Of college grade at the
expense of the State.
2. Last year Virginia furnished
training for 1911 men at its four In
of s33I250. 1t did not provide such
stitutions of higher learning. Ht cost
an education for q single girl. The
4 normal schools eest only $l34.15os--~
g. Virginia is spending at the rate
! of Ave million dollars annually for
! education, not one cent of which goes
! for the higher training of its women.
/ Are not the women and the parents
4 of girls entitled to more generous
I provision?
/ Plan In Successful Operation.
The plan for q coordinate instr
I tuition for women in connection with
/ the university for men is in success
full operation at Radcliffe College, in
connection with Harvard University;
Barnard College, in connection with
/ Columbia University; the Woman r
/ College, in connection with Brown
University: the Woman's College, in
connection with Northwestern Univer-
sity; Sophie Newcomb College. In con-
nection with Tulane University, and
in a modified way at the universities
at Oxford and Cambridge. where the
two women's colleges of the former
and Neunham and Gerton College OF
the latter largely depend upon the
university professors for their instruc-
ton.
Economy of the Plan.
!. The woman's college utilizes the
library, the laboratories and largely
! the teaching staff of the mems uni
versity, requiring only the additional
construction of a dormitory. gymna-
stun and recitation hall.
2. Dean Ida Shaw King. of the
woman's college In Brown Univer-
slty, states that last year they met
every expense of teaching. admins
tration. servants hire. etc, from the
tuition fees of 1876 students-approxi-
mate amount s24 .00O-and the in
come on a total endowment of $780,
900, say $4,000. Total cost, $27 900,
The dormitory was self-sustaining
and can always be operated much
more cheaply than a similar plan for
men, by reason of the colleges ability
to largely control the way OF living of
its women students. This college has
never had a debt or deficit.
Sound business principles suggest
that the plant at the University OF
Virginia. valued at some $4,000. 600
be rendered doubly efficient by the
expenditure of small additional sum
Expense and Boss to the State of Wo.
men Study In Northern Colleges.
The Richmond branch of the South
ern Association of College Women has
in the last two weeks carried on in
vestigations. covering six Northern
colleges and universities, namely, Vas
sar. WELLESLEY. Radcliffe. Columbia
Woman's College of Baltimore and
Johns Hopkins, with the following re-
suits:
Number of women in these six
f6) colleges in 1906-1907. .... 10
Number of women in these six
go colleges In 1909-1910. 80. 81
Rate of increase. 500 per cent
Number will be largely increased. and
with great rapidity, with the better
working of our new high school sys-
TEN and the accrediting of our stu
dents by our various public and pri.
vate schools
In the last four years IT students
have entered these six colleges. Rat
ing each student as two years in resi-
dence at an average cost of $3.50 (tht
average charge in these colleges) we
have expended beyond our borders
amidst influences not of our choosing
In these few years the large sum OF
$115.500.
These girls and this money should
have been kept in Virginia.
A FRIEND OF OUR GIRLS.