Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-02-18
NORMAL HEAD PLEADS
FOR HOMEMAK|NC ART
DIR. j. u. Mcconnell Secs Need for
College Courses in Cooking
= and Dr,SSmnking.
PLANS .ur TO-DAY.
at Annual Conference
l. Best in NcarS-ASSoCiation OF
. Virginia Colleges Begins Scs-
sions Today ut jefferson Hotel.

!. Tha; ;ho Ar; Of homemaklns IS
being sadly neglected and should
--S,avc greater attention IN the schools
- No colleges : ;he belief ~ pr j.
81, M>C,nReli president OF the Eas;
slESdsord STATE Normal school. who
.N"aS ;he speaker yNSterias afternoon
.Ss:occ ,he Ni-E.ria Association of
tNomeDS Ce.tgEgs and ,S,heois. IN
Z We a-e NOW attempting 70 do
= IA 10 other nation has ever aC-
q .lpAShe4. isa; $ letting Neoi." ~
sne >"-atry know 9t ;0e many at
u factions OF ctty l,tC. and ~ the Same
- x Syeg.uS them from Gc-0s 10 The
80 J..eSS women are taught the
GO a;N.-'GE, sn3 honor Of beng
&; 8; aoci.- loaN.-s and ;he oppor-
Iua.ty and dignity Of thv cyuWtTy,
!. Cam, Find suitable wives.
y Dr Mcdonnell, said he had ccue
-sUfp cuTtGc; Wif't many young :-i.u
sMh0 aro NOT seeking wives because
sinaae q homo. ANA they could not Al
SOrd 70 live n boarding house
E.'Tr my mind. no better training Tor
.rf school teaching he also urged
.7norc courses ia cooking. dressU,ak
r3ug and other d'mestte pursuits
ENNdcrS-.l. Professor {. Is. CROOKS. OF
ItauGulph- Macon Moments College.
,2nadr report OH standards. \ as
HuSSiun followed ON credits 10 he al
kiha normal schools.
:. At tn" evening session. which was
s}lrih IN ;h- palm room, Or j J.. Jar
tsnan. president cf the Farmvil!e state
Normal School stated that tho teacher
rshrrtaSo both as To quality ANA num-
thtrs Was serious menace 10 cGlucn-
sHion. He pointed out TINT Al pres
Cent 500 SchooiruomS are vacant in
.SNirE MIA alone through lack Of teach
ss'rN while i'm ,hc country at large 30
ss)ri cent az the teachers are actually
'fIot qualified Ia toach. The schools
t.Hd colleges could h.ip. he said. by
Segommyndi teaching as y profes-
MI i"mson. t"liins COLLEGE; nr.
lliinilic W. McNca. president Of Sweet
r,ti'tr college, and Stanwood Cobb.
Ssarretary ui ;hc progressive Ednca-
Merger = Douh.ful.
= IN" question 80 merger with IN"
rhtsovatlon Of N.rriUia colleges viii
3uaruiug. wgirn VIII begin Al $50
- 'clocS on the sixth floor "f the Jet
'ierson:. instead Of in The palm gar
tttn. The attendance H. IA" hest the
"a ISOLATION has had IN years. twenty
Nwo schools and colleges being rep
,SseSehtrd. In view Of the keen de
J y.iE of The body. There We're many
&Ier Win the larger body. !; was
az. nl'd ont 10y president ~. g fom-
Sl.f.Gr f. ~ !rE ln.a !El"rmuut college,
Hhai although the membership of the
= ae,attens overlapped. q merger
.Ycu,d eliminate representatives. of
,Epur oC no schools and thus tho
,slNl, between schools ana colleges
IN thc state would hc broken
4 Members Are Nclron,r.
~ ~ tho morning session Dean May
- Keller, e. Westhamgtou College,
.nu"ft am address OF welcome which
tTvas responded 10 hy pr. J. 4 g.
- aaudigs, ~ dent 90 william and
sEt&ry college, Thtso wcr. followed
YlH' ~. J. iiuifsinrer. Of Virginia In
Gecmont College president of the as
- r'ililpn. Speakers on the program
Iigr the morning also Included Harris
Sl!Hrt state Superintendent of Public
s!HStruciipu; pr T. ". Eoatw-i.ht.
.GreS dent cf tia, UniVcrlNy Of Rich-
9nond, and pr. Oric Latham Hatcher.
~ rector OF the bUrcau of vocutious.
,,es.;!,hr ann"al Conference Of the AS
S''f'atou OF Virginia Colleges ,yil
hegp nj ! o'clock Today in the palm
Gepm Of TIN" Jefferson At o'clock
az me evening. ;her, Viii he Il ioi;i
meeting with tho Association Of
y" lnen,s Colleges ana schools. at
witch J. l.. CIaxton viii speak on
-ducation for CI'5zen"hip"