Longwood College - Virginian Yearbook (Farmville, VA)

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without a murmur. If it hurt them they endured it in silence. But who could with- stand such tender, earnest entreaty — the pleading face of a Normal School girl . ' Some of our difficulties were of a rather peculiar nature. Several of the finest jokes and some excruciatingly funny grinds had to be omitted because they hit some member of the Staff a little too hard. Other witticisms had to be omitted because sfmie of the members of the Editorial Staff were so very tender-hearted ; so afraid of hurting their friends or their room-mates ' friends. So girls, if any of you get more than your sharenf the grinds, remember it was because you had no influ- ential friends, or friend ' s friend, un the Staff And then those pictures! We were told that it woulil be useless tn attempt get- ting uj) the AN ' UAL unless we were going to have ever girl ' s picture in it. Our pocir Editor-in-Chief was so harassed with the subject that she dreamed one night that every family represented at the Normal School wanted a picture of every one of its members to appear in the Annual. It seemed as if the fate c f The Virginian depended upon those pictures. One young lady when asked the object of the Annual, actually said it was to get the girls ' pictures in bo(jk form. Again, we were hampered in our work by our ignorance, inexperience and lack of credit. From what has been said above one might suppose that these sad conditions were found uid - among the subscribers. This was evidently nut the case, for in a let- ter received frcim a publishing company we read with humiliation, If you have any more tpiestions, do hesitate to ask them. And oh, how we liung our heads, when a member o f the Faculty actually asked for a recei|)t lor the pa)nient of his subscrip- tion. ( )ur impaired credit ma - l;e ilue to the fact that we have generally considered the subject (jf finances as beneath our notice. One day a ]»jor ignorant member of the Student body stopped one of our editors and asked in the most matter-of-fact way, Miss W , what are you going to do with the surplus fund.? Oh, the editor answered, in the same tone, we are going to have an ice cream festival and perhaps start a bank. These are only a few of our many experiences, but are they not sufficient to con- ince any one that it is delightful to be an editor. ' THE EDITORS.

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How Delightful to be an Editor. ilOR those who have had experience in editing an Annual, no additional infor- mation on this subject is needed, we are sure, but for the many who have been denied this exquisite pleasure, and have displayed their ignorance in more ways than one, we feel it our duty to venture a few words of enlightenment. Of course, there is no trouble connected with it ; you simply press a buttun and the Annual forthwith appears, ready for the subscribers. At least, this is the opinion of most people. But let us tell you a few of our experiences and then you mayjudge for yourself about pressing the button. We will not stop to tell you of the ' many discussions had before it was tinally decided that The Virginian should be published this year. All were agreed, how- ever — be it said to our deep humiliation — that there was but one young lady in the school capable of filling the exalted position of Editor-in-Chief. Imagine our horror when she was pronounced by the Faculty both mentally and physically unable to undertake duties so arduous. Soon, however, we became reconciled to our loss, for one who was able to do the work was shortly found. We were now ready to receive the subscriptions with which we expected to be overwhelmed. But alas ! this world is full of illusions. Time after time, when our very business-like Business Manager entered a girl ' s room and said in a sweet, persuasive voice, Of course you want an Annual. ' she was met with Is it going to have my picture in it. ' Naturally, we were much encouraged by such manifestations of interest. One of the girls, who was evidently shrewd in bargaining, said : Not if I know myself! I paid one dollar for one last year, and in less than a week I was trying to get twenty-five cents for it. But even this encouragement w-as surpassed by what was next heard. O, I wouldn ' t have one if you were to give it to me. Wasn ' t she independent. ' Another, who has a real silk dress, said in the most heart-rending accents, No, I can ' t afford one ; wish I could. Poor thing ! How that reply touched our hearts ! But the tears came into our eyes when we heard from our Business Manager the distressing tales of poverty which she had heard from the very lips of those poor mer- chants down town. One gentleman, who has supplied the Normal School girls with perfect hosts of pills, smiled benignly, rubbed his hands together, and said in a tone of supreme condescension, I ' ll give you a dollar and a half Another, with whom we would all divide our last penny, actually tried to get a reduction on his advertise- ment. Is it necessary to say anything further to show the pecuniary embarrassment of some of Farmville ' s citizens . ' But they were not all so ; some gave what we asked

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FACULTY. ROBERT FRAZER, LL. D., Pn-suh;il awl Professor of Civics and Elhics. University of Vil ' gillia, 1SG4 ; I ' TOfcssor of Latin and Froncli, Florida Military Institute, Ism : Principal Fauquierlnstitute. Va.. 1871-1882; President Judson Institnte, Ala., l,S.v:-lsS7 ; President of Mi-ssissipiii Indus- rial Institute and College, 1891-1898. LINUS WARD KLINE, B. S., Ph. D., Psvclwloi v and Pedagogy, and Dircc or of Ka urc Studies. L. I., Peabody Normal College, Nashyille, Tenn., 1SR9 ; Principal Hamilton Grammar .■School, Houston, Tex., 1891-1803 ; B. S., Harvard University, ISflG ; Scholar, Clark University, 1896-1.S97 : Fellow, Clark Univer- sity, 1S97-1S98: Ph. D., Clark University, 1S ' I9: I ' rofessor of Psychology and Pedagogy in State Normal School of Minnesota, 1899-1900. B. W. ARNOLD, A. M., Ph. D., English and History. A. M., Eandolph-Macon College, 1893 : Ph. D., Johns Hopkins University, 1897 ; Post Graduate Student. .Johns Hopkins University in History and Sociology, l.sns ; Professor in Emory College. Ga., 1.S ' .I9-1900 VIRGINIA REYNOLDS, Geogra iv and P miotogy. Graduate of Normal Scliool, Indiana, Pa., Is81 : Graduate of Oswego Normal School, lSfi7. S. GAY PATTESON, Mathematics. Graduate of Richmond Female Seminary, 1877 : Student, Kadclilfe College, 1-S.S7-1S.S9 ; Instructor in Mathematics in Mt. Holyoke College, 1.SS9-1S93. MINNIE ' . RICE, Latin. Graduate of Farmville College, LSs;; ; Teaclier in Farmvillc High School, 1885-1891. FANNIE TALBOT LITTLETON, B. S., Chemistrv and Physia. Graduate of State Normal School, FarniviUc. Va., ls.s;i ; li. s. of (Jornell University, 1900; Studied under Dr. Mallet at University of Virginia. ESTELLE SMITHEY, French and German. Graduate in Modern Languages and Mathematics, Randolph-Macon College, l.S9, ' i ; Teacher in Wesleyau Female Institute, Staunton, Va.; Diploma of L ' Alliance Francaise, Paris, 1S99. TULA OCILLEE ANDREWS, Sight-Singing and Assistant in Englisl,. Graduate of Lafayette College, Ala., isiii): L. I. of Peabody Normal Colle.s e. Na ' hvilld. ls ' ,i2 ; Teaclier in Lafayette College, 1892-1894 : Teacher in F ' uabody Normal College. 1SW-1S9H.