Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1921-04-28
SHEPHERD COLLEGE NOTES.

The State Board of Education has
recently announced a new schedule OF
tuition fees for Shepherd College and
the other normal schools of West Vir-
gina. For several years past all West
virginia students whether in the sec
ondary or normal department. have
pald ~ year, while students from
Maryland and Virginia have paid sci
a year.
The fees will be considerably higher
under the new schedule, which will
go into effect next September, and the
school year will consist of two Sc.
mesterS of eighteen weeks each in
Stead OF three terms of twelve weeks
each. The semester will close Thurs
day, February I'd, and the second Sc
meSter begin Tuesday. February 7th.
Following brief Easter recess, n
spring term for teachers will open on
tuesday, April 18th. Student fees are
hxed on the basis of the semester and
spring terms.
Students in either of the two years
of the normal course. or in the senior
year of the short course for teachers.
and secondary students twenty-one
years of age, will be required TO paw
$50 a semester or SIS year. This
fee will be paid by the student or pa
rent.
Secondary students under twenty
one years of age will be required to paw
S22. so a semester or S45 year. This
fee will be paid by the student only
in case he leaves his local high schoo
Offering the same year of work for
which he enrolls in Shepherd College
but, if the local high school does not
offer work for which he is prepared
his local board of education will he re,
ouired, under the State school law, to
pav the fee at Shepherd College for
him. In many cases il is thought loca
boards Of education will find it more
economical to paw the tuition fees thar
to establish two. three or four year
high schools in their districts.
The fee for the spring term will b,
SIS, 'anl all students from outside tht
State will be required TO paw. IN add.
ton to the fees above mentioned. S|I
semester or $50 year.
Ii will be interesting to note the ef'
feet of the schedule on next year:
all applicants under eighteen years. Of
enrolment. Last September, wher
the order went into effect requiring
age to have one year of high schoo'
work, it was thought there would b
considerable decrease in the numbe
of students. According to figures re
Gently given out by President White
the number Of resident students for the
regular terms of the pass two year
is practically the same, with the ad.
vantage slightly in favor OF the presen
year.
The list OF new students recently Ell
rolled In, the college includes Grac,
E. Evans. Naomi Miller. Aston Lud
wig, Ira c. Miller and Mervin Ludwi'
of Hardy county, Armetha Haines anc
Hazel Timbrook. OF Hampshire. Car
rie Wolford. of Tucker, and Geneva
Halterman. of Rockingham county
Virginia. Miss Halteman enters the
senior class and will remain for tn,
summer term to complete the shor'
course for teachers.
Mrs. Franceska Kaspar Lawson wa
greeted last Thursday evening by ::
large group of music lovers who great
ly enjoyed her beautiful solos. Though
this was her third appearance in the
college auditorium, her program was
entirely new, with the exception OF "i
Little Bit OF Honey the Bees Haven.
Found"
The Seniors were delightfully."- enter
tained by the Juniors at Harper's Fer
ry last Friday evening. The trip was
made in automobiles provided by thc
Iuniors, and the arrival at Haroer'e
Ferry and departure .therefrom wer,
so timed that the moon might be seen
In full glory. The! young folk an
their chaperons reached home shortl
AFTER eleven, all safe and sound. n,
one showing the slightest evidence q,
being moon struck.
The chapel program LAST Friday con
slted OF readings by William Harris
Catherine Winters and Winters Folk
and piano solo BY Elizabeth Sperow
Rev. John A Grose led the deyotiona'
exercises.
Mr. Iiobe Hill and Miss GLADYS
Wise. who had been holding Sunda,
school rallies for young people in
Berkeley county, earlier in the week
were among the visitors. They both
said GLOW do you do?" very pleasantly
to the student body.
Hon. Harry L. Snyder. in response
to an invitation to make i few re.
marks, very cleverly paid a tribute tc
the educational opportunities .fered
at Shepherd College by relating Irving
Bachelors story Of how Education
Done It."
Baseball manager Ludwig has ar
ranged six games for the second team
two each with Charles Town High
High: The first game was lost tr
Charles Town High School last Frida,
afternoon by the score of @ TO q
Hehebower struck out fourteen oi
the Charles Town BOYS. BUT lost his
game owing to poor support. Ernes
Frye. Daniel Hehebower. Henry Mad
aex, Cornelius Carter, William Harris