The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-05-24
NEW ERA DAWN|NG:
WOMEN GET CHANCE
Virginia Polytechnic Institute
Opens Doors to Women Who
Teach Good Things.
NEW SUMMER NORMAL SCHOOL
Women Teachers in Public
Schools Get Opportunity They
Have Been Longing For.
ny MRS. ID. w. READ.


Tho Times Dispatch of last Sunday
published an announcement of sum-
mcr session OF the Virginia Polytechnic
Institute. According to that, seven
teen courses will be given, and TWEEN
ty-iive teachers are engaged TO in
struct In the school. The session will
continue six weeks, and young men.
who take studies during the time. win
be credited for the same during the
regular college session. Such is tho
announcement from NirSinia's great
est Industrial school.
This. OF course. will be OF great
benefit to those who are compelled 10
make up 50 the work: to keep up with
their clasRcs. and for prospective stu
dents who lack the entire number
of units required for entrance 20 the
freshman class. SO much for the
young men OF the state
DAWN OF 4 BRIGHTER
DAI-WOJIEN CAME IN
Following the above announcement
comes another. which in the face OF
our educational needs of to-day strikes
deeper and fuller note for progress.
1t Is this: The agricultural depart
mont Will offer special course or
henett to public school teachers OF tho
State"
This statement of President Eggles-
ton shows he will not. and cannot, for
get the teachers of Virginia, and holds
out his hands to them even unto
this day"
The announcement, however. does
not stipulatc male teachers. SO In
this case 1t Is to lac hope that teacher"
has no gender
The bugle call of new day has
sounded ut the Virginia Polytechnic
institute. all honor to Mr.. Eggleston
and the board of visitors, for did nor
the Virginia Legislature pass this cause
ny unnoticcd last session:
modest sum was asked for as q
help in this worthy cause. but amid
The clamor and inistcncc OF more I'M
portant things" the request was un-
needed.
ALI THE TEACHERS
Ar: TO HAVE 4 SHOW
In spite OF this, the rcveiile has
sounded. which says to old Virginia.
Awaken thou that slcepest" for /,
now day has come.
The teachers OF Virginia can attend
summer school at Virginia Poly
technic Institute. That sounds almost
too good TO be true
The rural teachers OF tile State
mostly women--those who spend their
WORKING hours in the little school
houses along the roadside. and board
our agricultural college. and there. UNI
der the tutelaGc OF special department.
pr"tess9rs. learn the things which will
MAKE them most useful in their work
among rural people And why not?
me NirElni;, I.oiytechnic Institute is
tanned by the State. for the purpose of
teaching the industrial arts Why
shouldn't this school be open To all tho
people the year round? Certainly the
school teachers Of the State should have
every reasonable advantage from It.
IL has been said over and over again
that the welfare OF the nation depends
upon It's farmers
The country boy OF to-day is the
farmer OF tomorrow. and the rural
school teacher is the first person out
side of his family Ia make his nc
quaintance. She is the first TO touch
MS ms ne IN an educational way
TIE IDEA OF TIL. CHILD
r WHEN HE TAKES NOTICE.
!, f.VIry normal child wants to grow;
II IS instinct. lie is also Il born inves,
.gator and creator. He intuitiveIy
sraSps and works with the things near
~ ,i ms rriSn. Kh1wins nothing OF what
pericnce something OF the first Thus
comes comes the teachers opportunity. and
less in the presence OF awakening
minds seeking only to he directed. '
Methods In farming and conditions of
farm life must change IN Virginia to
Join that march OF progress which stems
10 the nnlsins OF labor purchasing
and the fellow VINO opens the gate for.
us to enter IL a freckled faced little
barefoot chap with the brightest eyes
IN all the world. lie is the first man
any one meets when entering farm:
he is alert: he knows Il few things. and
~ waiting around to learn more. Ii Is
mis- fresh. untouched young soul that
the rural teacher falls in with each
year on the first day OF October. and
II she knows the things he knows. and
n great deal more along the same line
she'll be the biggest thing in that
emiEhhorhood in Il day or so.
THE GIRLS AND THE WOMEN,
THEN cur 4 BIt: FIGURE
Then the girls and the farm women
on. how glad am the teachers of VIr-
ginia can study at Virginia Polytechnic
institute. This is only giving them
their dues. mississippi gives her wo-
men teachers q summer course ut her
agricultural and mechanical college
ienhcssec admits them the year round.
Alabama also makes provision for them
and Ii Is useless 10 mention the North,
crli ana Western colleges, for IL is nm
GerStood they withhold no ADVANTAGES
from their teachers
Our summer schools over the State
are doing excellent work and the
teacher standards have been Erealiy
virginia need no words of coinmenda-
non. They stand for themselves IF
appears III these days and times that
women only get what they ask for and
II seems now that the time has come
Tor women 10 ask for a great summer
schooi Tor country life 1T our agricul-
tnrai college. The school this summer
IL only a forecast of what might. he.
there, and OF what President E,gglesron
IL willing TO do IL the people In Vir-
Stnia want IL.