The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-01-09

The bill for the esta blishment OF a
Coordinate College for Women at
charlottesville. affiliated with the Uni
versity Of Virginia will be presented
to the Legislature again this year
The Senate passed such bill March
II, 1914. by 81 majority of 20 to 4. II
was defeated in the House by only
six votes.
The establishment OF such college
AS is proposed VIII result;
L In giving TO the girl graduates of
our public high schools the advantages
now offered by the State TO our boys
at the State University, Virginia
Polytechnic Institute, William and
Mary and the Virginia Military Insti-
tute. In 1915 there were 446 high
schools in Virginia. enrolling $40
boys and 12.724 girls. In the gradual
ing classes of 30 of these same high
schools tthe number reporting on
number Of students) there were /, 0S7
girls and G3S boys.
H. In giving 10 the young women OF
Virginia equal opportunities with those
now offered the Young men. manifest
Justice 10 the taxpayer with daugh-
ters 10 educate
III. In giving adequate opportunity
for the thorough training Of our wo-
mon ms u StIi''l ttdtlitIS. 1tsG W.
men teachers constituting 20 per cent
Of the teaching force in the high
schoolsl train both boys and girls for
the higher Institutions. They also
train the great majority OF the teach
ers In the elementary schools. either
through the normal training classes
connected with these schools. or owing
10 the fact that so many pupils gradu
htIng from the public high schools
enter at once upon the teaching pro-
fession, III tho year ending January
!, 1915. teachers traininV classes we're
found IN twenty-one high schools.
High school training certificates to the
number OF 173 were issued to gradu
ates from these same classes This
same year $50 high school certificates
We're issued TO regular graduates Of
public high schools intending to teach.
These two groups Of teachers teach in
the elementary schools. Thus adequate
" trained high school teachers are
needed to render effcient the increas-
inGly large sums we desire to expend
on the elementary schools
~ In bringing the State University
into closer touch with our public high
schools and enabling il TO render
larger service to the State The uni
versity furnished only thirty teachers
to the public high schools last year
These figures would be different If our
women teachers had access TO the
University OF Virginia. Note the fact
that Randolph Macon Womans Col
flege. with its splendid contribution OF
seventy high school teachers, leads the
list Of institutions which furnished IN
t9t4-'f5 the 5T.3 per cent of the teach
ers in our public high schools having
Two or more years of college training
Last year our high schools had 10.3
per cent more college trained teachers
than in the year pIevIous. but Of the
40 teachers so trained only 2S1. or
SIS per cent. were women, and III.
or 41.6 per cent Of this number wore
trained outside the state Since 10
per cent Of the high school teachers
are women, virginia should utilize her
State University to give them full and
adequate preparation for this work.
thus bringing the university into a
close and vital relation with the public
+ high school and also indirectly benefit
/ ting tho elemc ntarv schools.
/ V. In enabling The university 10
! give fun credit for their work to the
! women high school teachers Of the
state now compelled 70 consume time
! and money Mt the Summer School and
! denied due academic credit therefor
! Many Of our women for this reason at
/ tend Summer schools elsewhere. The
summer OF 1913 found i2f Virginia
women studying in the summer
+ schools OF Columbia, Cornell and Chi
! caeo Universities alone The cost Of
attendance at Northern summer
! school is about $3.50. ana at the uni
yerstty $50. The inability 10 get due
professional credit puts the burden OF
! this extra expense upon our high
school teachers and the money is
spent outside the State.
1 VI. In keeping money in Virginia.
now spent by our girls in Northern
COLLEGES. In t914-15, in seven North
crn colleges there were sixty-six Viz