Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-03-05
LAST
VIRGINIA COLLEGE HEADS
Open ANNUAL CONVENTION
DR.. Mcconnell Tells Educators
Institutions Are Neglccting
Opportunities.
EMPHASIZE SOCIAL SCIENCES
Graduates Should Know More About
Ordinary Things OF Everyday
Life, Declares DIR. Dice II. Ander-
son.

Ordinary Things OF Everyday
Life, Declares DIR. Dice II. Andcr-
son.
Representatives of Virginia institu-
tons OF learning forming what has
been known for many years as the
Association of Virginia Colleges. were
present at ne olenas dinner last
Jefferson. President Emile Mcvca, OF
Sweet Briar College, presided.
AT the table besides DR.. Mcyea were
and Lee University; Dean ~. w. Nc
President Il. S. Moherman. of Danviiie
the Radford Normal School; President
Dice r.. Anderson, of Randolph Macon
Woman's College. Lynchburg; Profess
sity of firginis; Dean II. Nj: Henry, OF
Emory and Henry College; DR.. George
9. Ferguson Jr, of the University Of
the University of Virginia.; General L.
w. Nichols. Of the Virginia Military In
stitute;, DR.. r: r. Blackwell; of Ran
Paul Bowman. of Bridgewater College;
Mrs. j. r. Mcconnell, Mrs. L. W. Mich
OILS. DR.. Elsie Murray. of Sweet Briar
College. and Miss Nj. T.. J. Czarwomslia,
also of Sweet Briar.
pr J. a. c. Chandler. president of
William and Mary College, was pre-
GUS illness of Mrs. Chandler at John
ston-Willis Sanatorum. Other bust
ness prevented Governor Davis being
present
DIR. Mcconnell First Spen>ct.
DR.. ]. 2. Mcconnell, president Of
Radford Normal Scnool for Women. was
the first speaker on the program last
night, following a brief Introductory
talk by DIR. McVea.
DR.. Mcconnell spoke on TIE Rela-
tion of the College. - the Community"
AZ Dr. McConncils opinion. colleges
in general had surrounding communi-
Honorable endeavor in industrial vo-
cations dill. mol have the proper rec
ognItior, lie declared. and too narrow
n definition had bee given to the CON
i Ception OF Z successful career from
the STANDPOINT Of the college.
AS DIR. Mcconnell sees it, the. duty
of institutions of learning to their i'm.
mediate surroundings is TO lift right
where they stand and to begin at
once to improve the conditions OF the
communities round about. lie was con
WINGED, he said. that the college has
not recognized its opportunity in this
respect, and that generally speaking
the public has profited mighty little by
the presence OF educational lnstitu-
tons in their midst.
He wondered, he ead, how many
college professors could be elected
magistrate or mayor or a member OF
the board of supervisors or overseer
OF the poor by the community IN which
the college was an integral part. and
he pointed out that II was one of the
duties which the college owed to the
community TO be hospitablc and re-
Teacher supply Drying Up.
There was = distinct menace TO col
leses, he said. in the obvious fact,
borne, out by statistics. that not only
was the teacher supply, but the doctor
supply OF Virginia was drying up
There was not any reserve back coun-
try in Virginia" any more on which TO
needless OF the call of the eail and OF
rural life.
DR.. Mcconnell said lie was distress
ed that the public had not more conf
uencc in the qualities of leadership OF
public opinion of the colleges. and the
colleges had to combat The call of
other and more profitable lines OF use
Iulncss for their best professors.
DIR. Mcconnell said he was convinced
that The college should begin right n I
home 10 remedy existing conditions,
and 10 get on a basis OF understanding
and sympathetic CO operation and in
serdepenHence with The surrounding
Latin ana Greek, he declared, ala
n2t prepare = man TO do his duty by
his community, and he urged that
sciences IN the college curriculum
history, political science, economies
and socioiosy-deciaring that he be- !
fieved that the colleges OF Virginia |
owed it TO the state 10 empha size |
more strongly in the future the study |!
of the social sciences.
DR.. Orio.- Latham Hatcher. director
OF the Virginia bureau OF Vacations. !
followed DR.. Mcconnell in a talk on /
the Importance OF preserving college |
standards
Miss. Hatcher declared that she was
one OF the incuTable people. who be- !
cause sucn study contributed 10 the /
enrichment Of lie and Imagination Of !
VIE si, student as background for fu
!, Tn The problem Of the college, Miss
than The immediate community, and |
IL must nave 4 cosmopolitan OutIook
and keep in the current OF big cduca-
tio ma movements NOV and forces
mendous Impetus 10 a more liberal ed
ucation and culture, with the result
that all education VAS becoming more
practlcai, and that courses were being
considered from the vicwuoint If
whether they had definite vocational
value.
DIR. Hatcher expressed her firm co,.
Sicilon that tne broader u girl is etlu
Gated the more useful she viii b.. to
,t colnmunity, ana she made II mai
piea Tor Latin and Greek and kindred
SUBJECTS as means OF foundationai
5tbn anL IN enr!ch.ng ihe girls mental
Ihat the public has got to be con.
WINGED that the college Is "deiiverinr
the goods" was the statement of Dr
IL III -, "a anderson ml, president OF Randolph.
r. a
lessor at Richmond College. WHO foI.
i ioMeu pr Hatcher on the program
TOO Much LecturInr.
we've lectured all the thinkinr out
OF our students" Dr. Andersen dat
cared with conviction and wc..c uot
10 convince the students that are INV
,,na ,a at us behind our backs thar
& we college can deliver the soovs. We've
got 10 convince them thai Tho wer,d
s can De made better that il must be
made better, and that they arc ne
s II peter for the folks that COM. = "IS
]...Coilege students. said DR. Anderson
& must ne taught power and then faith
What Inc speaker called 'iliumina'
Ie einis OF co, siduea'ion. was needed in Viz
know something OF the common o "Iu1d
airy t1inEs that the men on the stre"t
. were taxing about when they came
out OF college. '"'he
How much do our boys know abo,,,
now 70 get good streets in Ricbnonr
Or good roads in Virginia." Dr. 1m.
ederson demanded earnestly. ana ho
points TO to conditions existing at pres
graduates OF Virginia instit,tions o'S
learning knew absolutely nothin~ whnn 1
ff uchn