Longwood College - Virginian Yearbook (Farmville, VA)

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State Female Normal School FARMVILLE, VIRGINIA ETOUNDED by the Legislature for the purpose of training teachers for the public schools. Strong Faculty of over thirty members, representing the leading Universities. Liberal courses in Language, Literature, History, Sciences, Manual Arts and Domestic Science. Four-year Academic Course, Two-year Professional Courses, Kindergarten Training Course. A graded training school where students are given experience before entermg upon their work as teachers. .:. .:. .;. .:. .:. .:. .:. .:. For catalogue and information concern- ing State Scholarships, address J. L. JARMAN, President Twenty-sixlh Session begins September 8th, 1909 I 4.

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1909 Personalities Aunt Lou I ' m good for twenty-five years more; If then the Class of Nineteen-nine Comes back an ' peeps in through the door, The same old Philip they will find. My, but I ' s glad to see you. You sure is lookin ' fine — Hey? — You bet the parlor ' s ready For the Class o ' Naughty-Nine. It ' s Robert, take this box upstairs. And then go git the mail - I ' m always openin ' boxes An ' all I git ' s — the nails! Thanks to M. Susie Shelton, ' 09. Philip Uncle Robert

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Causes Of Failure m Knowing things, but not being able to tell them. Eccessive fondness for novel reading. Sometimes natural-born laziness, but never, never, lack of sense! Scientific study of the genus homo, to the exclusion of all else. Taking the rest cure in the infirmary too often and too long The spitefulness of teachers who just wouldn ' t pass you, anyhow, even if you did good work. An ordinary girl ' s trying to do as much as two extraordinary girls should undertake. Inability of the teachers to understand your thoughts. Being so terribly afraid of a teacher that it scares you to death to recite. Studying certain teachers more than the subjects taught. Spending too much time before the mirror preparing for the parlor branches of study. The singular forgetfulness of teachers who think that you have nobody else ' s work to do but theirs. Spooning with our cases The injustice of the faculty in not being disposed to excuse you when you wish to gaze out of the window and think the long, long, thoughts of youth, rather than those of geometry, composition, or physics. The deplorable failure of the faculty to appreciate the real value of the promenade course in geology, which takes intense interest in the paving stones of Farmville.