Longwood College - Virginian Yearbook (Farmville, VA)

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RECENT PROGRESS AT THE NORMAL, No OXE denies that our School occupies an important position in relation to public education, for we often hear that the success of Virginia in the future will be grea tly due to the young women trained here — for the past sixteen j-ears, 1 think, the State officials have realized this fact. Free tuition is now given to all applicants promising to teach two yeai ' S in the Public Schools, the teachers receiving pay for their work. Before Dr. Frazer ' s connection with the School, there were two hundred scholarships offered — one for each county and city, and one for each additional representative. Up to this time there were fifty-one counties and cities without repre- sentation, but the number has been decreased to thirty. This is owing to our President, who has spared nothing in trying to make everv village, town, city and county come in touch with this School, and, through the girls ecpiipped here, recognize the value of its work. The free tuition to all has enaljled many girls to enroll here, and in this way helped the dear old Commonwealth. Though the State organized this institution for her teachers, yet until last year she did not accord recognition to her own work, but required Farmville Normal graduates to be examined to hold schools just as she did pupils from the country public schools. But Dr. Frazer worked hard that this should be otherwise, and his effort plainly .showed the girls that their President is fully alive to their best interests, and that he thinks them competent to teach in the Public Schools. AVe feel proud of bis success. He has also revised the courses of study with reference to a clearer defining of their aims and requirements, and a more exact adaptation to the pi-esent needs of the Public Schools, making the Xormal diploma a three years ' course, and the Scientific and Classic each a four years ' course. By doing this he procured official recognition of the School as related to the public school system of the State ; the diploma of the Normal Course now being the basis of State license for five years, and that of the Full Course, either Classic or Scientific, for seven years. To show further his interest in education, he organized the Virginia Normal League, the plan and object of which are stated elsewhere. Our President continues to work with the friends of this School for its good and advance- ment, for quite recently he succeeded iit having the following bills passed by the Legislature : To ' appropriate a sum for the building- of a Gymnasium with modern equipments. For an Infirmar -, with hot and cold baths ; a Steam Laundry, and a Steam Plant for heating all the buildings. Dr. Frazer is untiring in his efibrts to keep this institution in the ranks of the best Normal schools in the country, and to bring about recog- nition of its value to the State. How we are looking forward to the (iym- nasium ! Though we have had main ' enjoyable exercises in Physical Culture, yet we have been cramped for room and apparatus, and now these inconveniences being removed, we feel sure the exercises will give great pleasure and lasting benefit. The ' Infirmary, with its hot and cold baths, means many comforts unknown to old students, as do the Steam Laundry and Steam Plant. Eebecca Jane Whealtoh.

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DR. FRAZER.

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A A OO A A SESSION 1899-1900 BEGAN Wednet lay, September 20. THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY, Thursday, November 23. CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY— ONE DAY, Monday, December 25. EXAMINATIONS OP FIRST TERM BEGAN Monday, January 22. DELIVERY OF DIPLOMAS, Friday, January 26. CLASS EXERCISES, Friday, January 26. SECOND TERM BEGAN Monday, January 29. SPRING HOLIDAY— ONE DAY. EXAMINATIONS OF SECOND TERM BEGIN Monday, May 28. CLOSING EXERCISES OF SECOND TERM FROM Monday, June 4, to Thursday, June 1 .