Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-09-03
OLD AND NEW M|NCLE
At WILLIAM AND MARY
Ancient College Given Over Mainly
to Training of Young Men
as Teachers.
OPPORTUNITIES ARE GREAT
Work OF Educational Leadership
Rapidly Is Coming Into Promi-
hence as Profession for Red
Blooded Men Possessed Of Brains.

Visitors to William and Mary often
comment upon the attractive harmony
there achieved between the old and
the new Those who know her con
spcuous part in the early history of
the country. and those who come as
antiquarian tourists are absorbed with
the great names on her ancient regis
ters. her intimate touch with the.
memorable events that made the be-
sinnings of the Old Dominion and the
founding of the nation. They are
charmed with the historic portraits
In chapel and library. the quaint
volumes and records and the build
ings of the seventeenth and eighteenth
centuries. They arc impressed with
the Imposing list of the 'priorstics"
o: the college and Of the old town in
which she stands Few escape feel
ing Of awe In the presence of so many
rf American first things
Whenever they look upon the past
they md II interviewed with til. fu-
ture. The Eraferton Building. erected
in 1928 for the training OF young In
dian chiefs IN tho religion of the Eng
lishman. and maintained, through a
legacy Of Robert Roylc the father of
physics, az al Indian school until tho
Revolutionary War-this ancient build
ing they lind equipped with steam heat.
running water. steel lockers and cleo
trio lights in every room. Each OF the
100 dormitory rooms Of the college Is
so provided. and the splAnhid new
dinnk-hall and Kitchen are supplied
with modern facilities of which tho
wildes, dreams OF the fathers of the
old college could have given no hint
REMNA N'rS uE MANY
SPLENDID OLD LIBRARIES
In the library are remnants Of many
Of the splendid classic Libraries OF the
mos. cultured ana wealthy Of Virginia
gentlemen. CLASSIFIED by the most mod
ern and scientihc card catalogue SIS
TEN. The very volumes from which
tine Colonial gentlemen read the
philosophy Of Plato and Noltaire and
the histories Of the wars IN IN. Pelo-
ponnesus arc crowded To make shelf
room for the inroads Of works on prag-
matisnl The philosophy Of Nietschie
Europe Amid the sev"nteenth cen
tury walls are Taught tn. twentieth
century sciences Jus; beyond the lit
tie cemetery whore moss grown tab
lets tell Of the lives OF service cf those
n4n who inspired the students cen
fury ago. is the Cary Athletic Field.
where hard fought battles arc lost and
Won on the sridiron and diamond. The
enthusiasm with which the lions share
Of the championship cups have recent
~ bean taken is IS reminiscent OF the
wild Indian a rs Of the modern student
Mysterious UNDERGROUND passaC
ways recently have been opened in the
course Of laying cranoithic walks and
steam, pipes from the central heating
plant
Training in the most modern peda
Soa!C4l arts rs given ia beautiful
building constructed on the eNsc, site
Of The once brilliant Colonial capitol
This site was purchased hN fund
originally given two centuries 90 for
a free school FOR the needy children
Of eruton Parish and in memory Of
little 'Mattey" Whaley, who lies be-
meath an ancient stone in Bruton
onurchyard hard hy
SO the new and the old comn1ing lie
But the young man whose eyes are
forward turned and who - more con-
ctrned With tomorrow man with yes
ts-day, asks what William ard Mary
is doing now for the making OF men.
He is interested 10 learn that the train
ing given IN science and academic sub
jects are giving William and Mary
students high standing in the most
modern technical institutions OF medi-
cine. theology and Law throughput the
country. and many of her graduates
pass into these honored professions
He finds here literary and classical
courses which carry forward the hes,
traditions OF the old college of liberal
culture which produced Jefferson, Mar
Of the nation. He finds that the State
Of Virginia appropriates literally to
the college that she may give her pri-
mary attention to the training Of men
for leadership in the growing profess
sion Of education.
INDUCEMENTS MADE
TO VIRGINIA RESIDENTS
Accommodations and instruction of
the highest character are afforded the