The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-01-04
COLLEGE MATTER
AGAIN TO FRONT
University of Virginia Board to
Hear From Coordinate Adj
vocates Tomorrow.
BILL ALREADY PREPARED
Provides Exact Method of Pro-
cedure and Fixes First
Year Amount.
BILL ALREADY PREPARED

The board of visitors of the Univer-
sity of Virginia will take action to-
morrow on the proposition to estab-
lish near the university coordinate
college, for women. The question was
presented to the board on December IL
when large number of letters from
influential men, experienced educators
and leaders In many lines were received
In support OF the PLAN including a let
ter from President Woodrow wilson
The movement has been formally in
dorsed by the United Daughters of the
Confederacy, the Virginia Federation
OF Women's Clubs. the Equal Suffrage
League of Virginia. the Virginia State
Teachers Association. tho executive
board Virginia Federation OF Labor,
the Virginia Division. Farmers Edu-
cational and Cooperative Union. and
many other organizations, represent
ing a membership OF 5s.1s9 In this
State.
Letters have been presented to the
board OF visitors favoring the co-ordi-
nate college plan from President VIII
son. Secretary of Agriculture Houston.
/ p. p. Claxton. Commissioner OF Educa-
! ton: *. G.. Babcocke. Specialist In
| Higher Education of the United States
Government. and from representatives
of many English and American uni
versities.
| Legislature to Act.
4 a
large bearing on tho prop ,stion. AZ
IL VIII come before the General AS
I sembly. The rector DR.. Armistead e.
Gordon. Is known to favor the plan. as
does President T.. y. Alderman. There
| is opposition in some quarters from
| certain OF the alumni, who express n
fear that the institution may be
t"feminizcd.'
AS explained before the Senate
Finance Committee recently. the idea
Is distinctly not for co-education. and
! Is in no way allied with any movement
| for woman suffrage. The bill propos-
| ing the establishment OF woman's
college at the University OF Virginia
has been prepared and will be offered
in the State Senate when that body
convenes. with the joint patronage OF
| Senators Early, Rison and Wcnden-
burg.
Its patrons claim that II has been
conservatively drawn, and that in many
! respects IL meets the objection raised
to the EARLY Rison BILL which was be-
fore the session OF 1912. The final
draft Of the bill, as proposed by its
patrons. has been approved by com
mittee consisting OF Wyndham r. Mere
dith. S. Dabney Crenshaw and DIR. j. A.
q. Chandler, of Richmond: William j..
McIlwaine, OF Petersburg. and Mrs. B.
Il. Munford and Miss Virginia McKcn-
ncy. of the Virginia COOPERATIVE Edu-
cation Association.
Rcanona Stated in BiIl.
The preamble sets forth that the peo-
pie of VirginSA are taxed without re-
gard to sex for the maintenance OF tho
State university and for three other
State institutions for the higher educa-
ton of men exclusively: that the WON
en- of Virginia are entitled to be placed
on an equality with It's men in regard
TO adequate college training provided
by the State: that the gradual inS
tn, IN n
two girls to every boy: that the white
teachers OF all grades number 1000. SO
per cent OF whom are women. while
10 per cent OF the teachers In the high
schools women. and that these
teachers should be given the oppor-
tunity OF obtaining. and in the case
of the high school teachers should be
required to have. college training. SO
that i'm return for It's land expendi-
turc on the public free schools the
State may have the benezt of trained
teachers. 1t is stated to be lmprac-
ticable at the present time for the
state to establish separate cduca-
tional plant with equal facilities, equip
/ ment and instructors as those at Its
university, and that n distinct college
for women with separate administra-
ton buildings, campus recitation halls
and dormitories which shall form ar
integral part of it's present university
system, will accomplish fully the de-
sired ends. without any sacrihce OIL
their womanlincss or interference with
the service the university now renders
and that such college will retain In
the Sttac a majority IL not all of the
rapidly increasing number OF women
who now seek these advantages out
side the State.
Must he Hnlf Mile Away.
In view of these and other reasons
set forth in the preamble. tho bill pro-