The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-01-30

a bill introduced in tho General As
scmbly OF Virginia by Senator Aubrey
STROBE. of Amherst, with q view to-
ward establishing u State college for
women az an annex toethc University
of Virginia is a matter OF interest
hero and all over the state.
Heretofore women, desiring special
opportunities to lit them for special
work, have gone TO the Chicago Uni
versity to Columbia College. New
York; to the Harvard annex, or to
other educational centres of equal
grade. When the state of Virginia
provides for It's women advantages
commensurate to those which 1t has
always bestowed upon It's men. the
former Will not have TO go outside
OF State limits in search of what they
should be able to get at Home.
1t IL rather difficult matter TO get
at the point OF view that could Justify
different advantages III education as
between men and women, especially in
Virginia. where. IL anywhere IN the
world. and more than anywhere else.
men have been considered, and justly
80. most generous and chiyairous to
the weaker sex. That women are
capable OF approaching and benefting
by everything and anything they can
get educationallw, which Is calculated
usefulness. has been 80 clearly proven
already that tho point is beyond dis
cussion. But that women refuse
longer to be fed with tho scraps OF
knowledge falling from table where
mon are Toasted TO repetition. 10 also
equally opYious.
1t has been said often, but women
have failed 20 realize 1t. that when
ever cause Is taken up by united
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Virginia women Give their united sup
port and effort to the projected state
college its projection VIII speedily
grow Into naturalization.
The fact that broad minded and In
tell!gent men are at the head Of tho
movement favoring the opening OF thu
State University in q certain aerse
to women should recommend 1t to that
class of the feminine sex who can sec
nothing good in q purely woman'i
cause. suspecting the bugaboo OF equai
rights behind H.
Tho University OF Virginia has al
was stood FOR education of the right
sort from tho day OF It's founding by
Thomas Jefferson. Its standards have
been everywhere recognized as high
Its students and graduates fill posi-
lions OF Importance and trust through
out the United States.
Now, II there is one thiS tiial
women need more than another 1t IL
fust the sort of education which the
University OF this state coufers. the
education which produces independent
workers and thinkers trained ito
habits of industry. to the survival oil
the fttest In scholarship. accustomed
TO an Impartial justice which knows
and considers only tho work. without
regard to the sex of tho worker. cured
thus and forever of the harmful ex-
pectation which starts them In pro-
fession or business career hugsing
the idea that all sorts OF fayors are 70
be granted them because they arc wo-
mon and not men.
THAT State says Ivy. us in free
dom which stands in its own strength
and does not depend on foreign help
Livy might have had the state OF
Virginia and the present movement In
mind when he wrote his maxim. For
tho women of the Old Dominion should
feel and know that their Mother stare
is both free and strong enough 10
exempt them from the necessity OF
being brought up educationaliy under
Foreign influences. and in any other
state institution rather than thai
which they know and delight IN as
their own. = ~ ~