The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1933-01-27
JOBLESS PROFESSORS
TO INSTRUCT NEEDY
Offer College Course TO the
Youths Out Of Work.

Port Royal, Va.-Twenty-flve stu
dents and six professors gathered
in a high-ceiled room under the
slated sloping roof of an old build
ing here have brought into exist
ence DIR. A. c. Hills depression
days college for financially har-
assed young men.
The purpose of Port Royal col
lege, Doctor Hill explained. is to
bring together college teachers who
are without appointments because
of the depression and students who.
owing to financial stringency. are
unable to continue in existing in
situations.
Instruction will be available in
the classics. modern languages,
English literature. art. philosophy,
history, government, economics and
sociology.
No degrees will be given, but
Doctor Hill believes that when the
personnel of his faculty becomes
known and the methods of the col
lege explained, other institutions
will accept its credits. He plans to
have one full-time professor to
every six students.
No time will be devoted to ath-
letics and no money spent in this
direction. There will, in fact, be no
athletics ether than such as the
students improvise for themselves.
Cost About $3.50 a Year.
The total cost to each student
will be $3.50 annually. which will
cover tuition. board, lodging and
laundry. Students will not be
permitted 90 work for wages when
not engaged in classroom or study,
which appears to be an unnec-
essary rule, il the appearance
of Port Royal is any indication of
the oppOft unity to work. but they
must care for their own rooms and
take turns in waiting on tables and
washing dishes.
Professors in the college, Doctor
Hill went on to explain. will get
nothing in return for their services
except their board, which the $3.50
paid by each student will care for.
ClassrOoms and dormitories will be
in old houses and halls in Port
Royal, long out of use, which have
been leased by their owners at fees
that are SAID to be below the dead
line of moderation.
Just how Doctor Hill was led
to select Port Royal has not been
revealed, but "the eternal fitness of
things" may have been factor.
The depression hit the town long
before the depression college was
thought of.
Once Important Port.
Nesting close to the turbid wa
ters of the l,appahannock in set
ting of ancient. spreading trees.
Port Royal still retains something
of the grace and elegance. and all
of the leisurely atmosphere of early
Colonial days, when it was a place
of Importance and busy port.
Just across the Rappahannock
and within sight is crumbling
pile, overgrown with rambling
vines, all that is left of the house
in which President James Monroe
was born. aid but little way
farther is the site of Washington's
birthplace.
According to tradition, Port Royal
was once thought of as the perma-
nent site Of tie capital of the Unit
ed States and came within two
votes of being selected
But as the years went by things
happened to Port Royal. Railroads
took away its river trade and pres
emily modern highway, cut
through a mile to the west, left it
In virtual isolation.
The president of the new institu-
tion doctor Hill calls it Port
Royal college, but the natives speak
of it as Depression or Hard Times
college) is a graduate of Dartmouth
and formerly was instructor of eco
Monies at Springfield college. He
is staff member of the Brookings
institute.