Longwood College - Virginian Yearbook (Farmville, VA)

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(r = RIENDS, who will this year come to the old jjlaee aji ' ain to meet in reunion, we would fain have yon lie as you were, when you as a class were bound together in thoughts and feelings, in hopes and fears. But the years have brought change to Alma jMater, and the A ' ays you knew and those we know to-day are vastly different. So we have tried from many sources to gather scenes and characteristics typical of the school life then and now, and put them into this tenth volume I if TuK ViKGiNiAx to show our respect and love for the fi ' iends and days of the past. We hope that we may touch some chord in your memory that will make yoii live over the happy years you lingered here, and abo -e all prove to you that though diverse our ways, we nuich together share. For the class of nineteen hundred and nine, we have tried to bring in some of the brightness and spirit of these last schoolgirl days, and we trust that the volume may be a bond between the class and the school, and between classmate and classmate. Lastly, we hope that we have represented the ty]iieal school life, th:- loyalty and the strength of the s tudent body. To do these things, we have asked and received unlimited aid from faculty, trustees, alumna?, graduates and undergraduates — in literary and art departments, as well as in financial affairs — and our final task is to show them our sincere appreciation of it. If these things we have even ]3artially accomplished, we shall gather u]3 our diplomas and go on onr way rejoicing. Into your hands we place The Virginias!

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The Beginning A SYSTEM of public free scliuuls fur ' irgiiiia was established July 11, IsTO, by the first Legislature to assemble after the War between the States. As these schools struggled year after year for a stable footing, it becaiiip more and more evident that they must be supplied with specially trained teachers before they could reach the desired effieienc3 To make pro- ' ision for this jDressing need, the Legislature at its regular session in March, 1S84-, passed the following act estalilishing the jSTormal School: Be it enacted by the General Asseinblj ' of Virginia: 1. That there shall be established, as hereinafter provided, a normal school expressly for the training and education of white female teachers for public schools. 2. The school shall Ije under the supervision, management and government of W. IT. Ruffner, J. L. M. Curry, John B. Minor, R. M. Manly, L. R. Holland, John L. Buchanan, L. A. Michie, F. N. Watkins, S. C. Armstrong, W. B. Taliaferro, George O. Conrad, W. E. Gaines, and W. W. Herbert, as a board of trustees. In case of any vacancy, caused by death, resignation, or otherwise, the successor shall be appointed by the Governor. The Superintendent of Public Instruction shall l e cx-ofpno a member of the board of trustees. ' ? . Said trustees shall, from time to time, make all needful rules and regulations for the good government and management of the school, to, fix the number and compensation of teachers and others to be employed in the school, and to prescribe the preliminary examination and conditions on vhich students shall be received and instructed therein. They may ajipoint an executive committee, of whom the Superintendent shall be one, for the care, management and government of said school, under the rules and regulations prescribed as aforesaid. The trustees shall annually transmit to the Governor a full account of their proceedings under this act, together with a report of the progress, conditions and prospects of the .school. 4. The trustees shall establish said school at Farmville, in the County of Prince Edward: provided said town shall cause to be con-veyed to the State of Virginia, liy jiroper deed, the property in said town known as the Farmville Female College ; and if the said property is not so conveyed, then the said trustees shall establish said school in such other place as shall cr)nvey to the State suitable grounds and Iniildings for the purpose of said school. 5. Each city of five hundred inhabitants, and each county in the State, shall be entitled to one pupil, and one for each additional repre-