Longwood College - Virginian Yearbook (Farmville, VA)

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jfacult of ffnstvuction. ' ROBERT FRAZEK, President. PsycJiologrf. ■ ' VIRGINIA REYNOLDS. Physiology and Geography. MARTHA WILLIS COULLING. Drawing and Form. Librarian. MINNIE VAUGHAN RICE. Laiin. ' ' MARY FREDERIGA STONE. Graynmar and Cotnposition. S. GAY PATTESON. Mathemaiics. FANNIE TALBOT LITTLETON. Physics and Chemistry LELIA JEFFERSON HARYIE. Assixiani in Mathematics. ■■ ' LULA O. ANDREWS. Vocal Music and Physical Culture. ' » SARAH PRITCHETT. Stenography and Typewriting. EDNA VIRGINIA MOFFETT History and English. 1= ESTELLE SMITH French and German. ' ■ ' MRS. SADIE J. HARDY ' . Principal of Practice School.

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nected witli schools, knowing niiieli of life, with a mind well stocked, of earnest purpose and unbending principle, he is well prepared to lead on to yet higher things, the school begun by Dr. Ruffner, put on a firm basis by Dr. Cunning- ham, and every true friend of the institution must feel assured of its success in the future even more, if anything than in the past; especi- ally as Dr. Frazer is ably supported by a faculty well qualified by natural ability and by years of study and experience. These include graduates of Vassar, the Peabody Normal School at Nash- ville, the Oswego Normal School and those who have continued their studies at Harvard Annex, the Woman ' s College, Baltimore, and Cornell University. Such, in brief, is the history of the School, but no mere outline work like this can give an adequate idea of the life of an institution, for it is like the growth of a soul seeking high things and advancing by small degrees through inward struggles and outward contests. Compared with other like institutions in other States our growth has not been rapid, but when we consider that our highest annual appropriation has been fifteen thousand dollars while the lowest to any other State institution has been twenty thousand, and our highest special appropriation has been fifteen thousand and the first appropriation for an outfit to the colored normal school was one hundred thousand dollars: when we consider also the extreme slowness of conservative Virginia to adopt new ideas, especially in woman ' s educa- tion, we have reason to be proud of our advance and feel that our fifteen years of life represent far more than an aggregation of brick and mortar, but the steady growth of more liberal ideas of education in our State, with the promise of much better things hereafter. Our girls go out — twenty, thirty, forty, every year. It is impossible for them not to take with them some of the lessons of earnestness, patience, and truth daily instilled into them here, thus extending inmeasurably the influence of the School, fulfilling to the utmost the hope of its founders and carrying out the purpose of its establishment.

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FACULTY OF INSTRUCTION