The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-07-30

BOARDING SCHOOL
HAS WIDE MISSION
1t Is Not, as Many Believe, a
Rival of the Public
Institutions.
BROAD CULTURE ITS AIM
The Hannah More Academy
Example Of Best of This
Class.
BY ANNA l.. LAWRENCE,
PriuCipul.


Tho private boarding school Is Of
ten times thought of as rival OF
tho public school. but that is a mis-
take 1t has a mission and a field all
its own.
In cases wher family lives
in place remote from the day
school, or for any reason tho
family life is broken up or the
mother perhaps is obliged to
neek employment. the private board
ing school Is refuge and solution
OF real problem. Then. too. In cases
of "the only child" or where need
is felt for developing along lines that
are more dimoult to do at home. the
school ia again q help.
The value of tho school depends up
on tho conditions existing in it, and
The line along which 1t is working.
Now Under Fire.
Modern education is now under fire.
and rightly. The product of the last
twenty-five years of experiment in
methods and fads does not justify the
continuance OF these ideas. We need
more simple schools for girls. less
athletics and more physical culture in
It's broadcast sense, not interior III inc
limo of work. but less display.
The late Bishop OF London once said:
81 have no doubt as to what is the
greatest danger OF this century-it
is the absence OF high aspirations" 1t
IS the business OF any true educator
TO instil high aspirations, to set
sane pace in outdoor exercise. in
studies and TO develop it's pupils along
the lines of true womanliness and
Christian culture"
No education deserves the name
which does not take into considera-
tion the three parts of human nature
body mind and soul. No harmonious
work can be accomplished without
each receiving It's due and proportion
alto attention.
In the physical sphere, there is too
much imitation of mems colleges IN
girls schools. Why should q girl try
to be and act as much like her brother
in college as possible: Do traits.
teams" and 'yells." and even bac-
calaureate sermons belong to a girls
school? Do we wish our girls TO train
in teams professionals? Does all
this appeal to the sensible and refined I?
We do wish our girls to be healthy.
We do not wish at oil the inert and
lily type, but can they not enjoy to
the full, out of door exercise play and
tho best advantage, learn self-control
and good temper under defeat and yet
not sacrifice the behavior that is char
Rcteristic of gentlewoman?
Physical culture should include, too,
instruction on the care of the body
and its dignity.
Tho rising generation has been
criticized for its bad manners. 1t is
not generally rising generation. It
sits as many an elderly person can
testify. Aside from protesting against
the rowdyism IN circles calling them.
selves refined. the educator should in
clude Instruction in courtesy of man
ner to elders to fellow travellers. in
trolleys in stores and general con-
sideration of others
Need of Protest.
There is need OF a protest against
extrava gance. and a call for teaching
that happiness does not depend upon
what one has. and that 1t Is better To
live within ones income than to own
an automobile; need of protest against
following extremes of fashion set by
silly and sometimes indecent women.
and to teach that the truly refined is
that which does not cause a stare
In the matter OF studies. those pre
pairing for college are bound to a GER
tain line, and at present. no matter how
absurd tho requirements which the
colleges mako of the SECONDARY schoo,