Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1911-08-10
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA
Miss Drury Supervisor OF County
Schools Writer OF Its Many
Advantages.
A SUPERIOR FACULTY.
Aside From Classical And Scientific
Courses There Is Practical Com
mon Sense.

Inc University of Virginia, given
TO the State by Thomas jefferson as a
seat of learning in 1919, is one of, if
not the most beautiful places on this
continent. Situated in the foothills
of the Blue Ridge Mountains, with
the picturesque wooded hills of old
Virginia on all sides, this is an excel
lent place in which to spend sum-
mer and then to receive in such de-
lightful surroundings instruction in
the subjects we find dicffiult to teach,
makes this the ideal summer school
for any and all teachers.
SO we'll are these facts realized
that thirteen hundred teachers gath
cred there this summer from all over
our country to receive it's advantages.
There are ten acres of campus, Cabell
Hall at one end and the Rotunda at
the other are connected on either side
by colonnades. The architecture is
taken from Athens at her best. The
pillar of these beautiful buildings
are Doric, Ionic and Corinthian. The
whole University and its many build
ings was planned by jefferson; hence
the perfect unity of architecture.
On the campus is statue of Homer.
Here in the evenings some learned
professor tells the stories of Homer
to the assembled teachers. Here,
also, are the. plays of Shakespeare
shown just as he played them. Every
building, including the library of fifty
thousand volumes, is turned over to
the use of the Summer School stud
ents. Nearly every night some bene-
fetal and uplifting entertainment is
given the teachers, all free of charge.
Organ recitals by noted musicins,
lectures and lighter entertainments.
DR.. FitZhugb gave stereopticon views
of the growth of art from the dawn
of history down to the modern era.
Nowhere else was there such a fac
ulty for any Summer School in our
country, as the professors of the Uni
versitY remained to teach their special
subjects. Such men as DIR. Kent, in
English, DR.. Fitshugh, in Latin; Mr..
Echolls, in Mathematics, and Dr.
Mimms, in Southern Literature and
many others who are distinguished
both in America and Europe. Some
are authors of text books and have
spent years abroad. All this and the
association with such men, the ennobl-
ing and cultural uplift the teachers get
for the tuition fee of Sc. The State
of Virginia appropriates thousands of
dollars yearly to conduct this school
and to help educate her teachers who
could not secure normal school edu-
cation.
Persons who have attended Colum-
bia, say that the course of study is
equal to and the surroundings superior
in every way to Columbia, New York.
Another, who has travelled all over
America and has lived eight years in
England and on the continent, says
that for unity of architecture, beauty
of surroundings, cultural atmosphere
and general classical bearing there
was nothing superior to in on either
side of the water. There is an inde-
scribable something about the whole
place that makes every one love it
from the first day and it stays with
one on through life. Talk with any
of its graduates and you find this true.
Aside from all this greatness in the
classics and sciences, they have a very
practical, common sense course for
grammar schools reading, arithmetic,
grammar and all allied branches are
taught by experienced and in many
cases celebrated instructors. 1t is
possible to go to this University and
take such courses as will fit for High
School positions, or to take primary
work only. In many cases, even re-
mote from Virginia, send their teach
ers and increase their salaries for at
tending, realizing that it is the only
way that those in the profession have
of knowing what the newly graduated
normal teachers are doing and of i'm
proving a sometimes unfinished edu-
cation.
Returning from the University of
Virginia, teachers feel that they have
drunk from the fountain head and can
take some of its helpful, cultural
spirit into their work for years to
come.
ELEANOR A. DRURY,
Supervisor of Anne Arundel County.
Schools.