The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-08-11
AIMS OF FOUNDERS
OF F1AMPDEN-SIDNEY


days with the present. have been OF,
SraHual-to the eyes OF many--of tardy
development and a teacher in whose
! retrospect lies Held OF nearly nifty
ears, sees the lines of tradition yield
ing slowly step by step to the advance
! mere. the attack there. OF new adeas;
! In methods and In subjects, in theory
! and IN practice, till names that once
meant so much to tho school hoy and
| undergraduate. like grammar school
aud the green ticket" have become
mere memories.
No doubt, What they stood for COM
pretended things still moro or less
in demand and therefore taught sim.
| but how narrow the place assigned
| them and what q diversity of subjects
deemed of the greatest Importance
divide ana too often dilute the learn
ers' power Of ecquistion and digestion!
/ The many ramlhcatlons of science eN-
| plored and formed into as many sep
! arate professions. tax the alphabet 10
the utmost for their brief connota-
, t'on although one order. believe, ia
| not academically conferred which all
/ degrees should imply-the o NJ that
| Is attached to the name of Thoniaa
Hardy.
Verify. the schoolmastar is abroad in
! the land. not armed with his primer
| merely as Lord Brougham conceived
/ MIN POSSIBLY also with 4 birch sNitrn
Mandy, but furnished with all tina
I paraphernalia of a perfect art. not Sc
| dentary as of old and confined to the
/ classroom, but often peripatetic car
rying his apparatus with him; gre
/ sarious also. as our summer Institutes
4 TESTIFY. making the OLD new again ana
learning still from the Greeks the les
! son of their great rallying days. wncn
the MUSES. met no less than the
, Dioskouri
J However. education to-day means
more and less than 1t once metna and
iair-eyed Science has unsettled many be-
lefs that an older generation held IN
questioned. Indeed. so altered is the
| point OF view to-day that tho fact is
/ explained. as was that momentous
change known as the Renaissance by
a Wide spread unrest and a CORES
bonding spirit OF inquiry into both
me adequacy and the correctness OF
what our fathers had told US about
education as about other things Then
the outlook is so much broader; the
common kinship OF the nations and
/ their interdcpendence are receiving
more and more recognition and modi-
Tying our idas in many directions
Fortunately for us. as part of our
great country. We have shared 10 a
certain degree in her prosperity with
- SS+Atra tN'pstSl 10 lDr pefllS OF UNI
desirable immigration and OF an opu-
lence that breeds all manner OF dis
lelnpers AS prov;ncials, We are pre-
JUDGED; being the unmixed descendants
or those who have lived and governed
mere from colonial days we are con-
sentative By our very nature there
fore and by our good fortune sudden
ana radical innovation was impossible
Many changes have come. but much
OF the old remains. Girls schools In
winch the social graces are taught ana
science tother than domestio) makes
no great display in the curriculum;
are sim TO be found. again while Nor
wood and Bellevue and Kenmore arc
institutions Of the past university
schools still have their clientele. ana
IN country quarters too. as OF yorc.
lney had their origin In the demand
ri our virginia university for fitting
schools TO the academic couhscs offered
there. but were otherwise the outcome OF
private enterprise and. having no en-
dowment like Harrow and Rugby.
foundations due to the public spirit
OF MddleseN yeoman and q London
snopkeeper. their maintenance con-
tinued for hardly a generation. al
though they had for patrons the same
wealthy planters and professional men
who sent their sons from all rarts OF
the South to what was our chief seat
OF learning in their eyes the modern
Athens. Mother of Arts and Flo
qmence.' Hence the home OF these
schools was. in tho main. among the
Virginia mountains. with setting
like that of the university itself: with
beauy OF scenery. bracing climate
accessibility to both the State and the
Federal capital. and withal the atmos-
phero OF an old civilization. settled
and approved.
These are potent and permanent at
fractions. and we may add another.
although that is some times questioned
the advantage OF site removed
though not remote. from large cities
Even our non-pr professional colleges are
Tor the most part so situated. No doubt
much may be. indeed has been. said
on both sides, but the fact remains
that studious walks arc more consis-
tent with sequestered shades than with
noisy thoroughfares. and oxford is sim
our academic ideal. AS switzerland
has been called the playground OF
Europe for tourists and mountain
climbers, So Virginia too has In many
respects been fashioned by nature TO
make her the favorite home Of cduca-
| tional foundations
In regard to the university schools
one reason for their diminished number
is the growing adjustment between orr
] 't4itSfS Alli tIle NIllNeISllNi anu tic
wider range there OF postgraduate
work. With the perfccting OF a sim
liar division OF labors and harmony OF
aim between the secondary schools ami
! colleges would be secured the much
| desired economy of time and effort. and
vitalizing results in preparation for
all vocations That there are fewer
private schools among US than formerly
the public system OF instruction eA-
! plains that the strictly classical schools
are fewer still cannot be SO accounted
! for, but is due TO the declining in
| terest In Latin and the sheer neglect
! OF Greek: for. although the past Is
| our heritage. We are now-a -days at
once too practical and too progressive
TO regard much 81 IT as other than We