 | The University of Virginia record March 15, 1917 |  |
ANNOUNCEMENTS.
The University of Virginia Summer School is conducted for teachers
and students in high schools, academies and colleges and for those
who desire professional training for primary and grammar grade
work. It also offers many courses for college credit, and others to
meet the needs of students preparing for college entrance or who
have conditions to absolve. It takes as its peculiar province, not the
ordinary summer institute, but the solid and substantial training of
high school teachers, college teachers, college students, and teachers
of any grade who wish to procure professional work.
LOCATION
Charlottesville, the seat of the University of Virginia, is in a picturesque
and healthful situation among the foot-hills of the Blue
Ridge Mountains. It is at the junction of two great lines of railway,
the Chesapeake & Ohio and the Southern, and is thus of easy access
from every part of the country. The sanitary arrangements of the
University are excellent. The climate is invigorating, healthful, and
free from malarial conditions, the average elevation of the surrounding
country being about six hundred and fifty feet above sea level;
the water supply is pure, being drawn by gravity from a mountain
reservoir six miles away; the system of drains and sewers is complete.
The average monthly mean temperature from 1901 to 1911,
taken from the records of the weather station at the University Observatory,
was: June, 71.4; July 76.8. Summer rates are given by the
railroads to this point. There are three golf links, a well-conducted
country club and many other attractions for summer visitors.
THE GENERAL LIBRARY
The General Library is open to the corps of instructors and the
students of the Summer School from 9 a. m. to 1:30 p. m., 3 to 5,
and from 7:30 to 10 p. m. The collection contains about seventy
thousand volumes.
All books withdrawn from the library must be charged at the
desk. Usually books are lent for one week but there are exceptions,
and the loan expires on the date stamped in the book. Prompt return
not later than the date on which the loan expires is expected
and borrowers will be fined ten cents for each day delinquent. Students
are expected to give prompt attention to all communications
from the librarian.
REST AND STUDY ROOMS
Madison Hall, the beautiful new building of the Young Men's
Christian Association, and during the summer session headquarters
for the Y. W. C. A., will be open to students of the Summer School
from nine o'clock in the morning until ten at night. Students will
have access to the current periodicals in the reading room. The
other rooms will be used for rest, for study, for recreation, and for
social gatherings. North of the building there are nineteen tennis
courts which will be equipped for the use of the students.
DAILY GENERAL ASSEMBLY
Daily from 11:30 to 12:30 there will be a period in which the students
may have the privilege of attending a gathering of the entire
body. At this time there will be short addresses on interesting topics
by prominent speakers invited for this purpose, or some other interesting
exercise.
SUNDAY VESPER SERVICES
Experience has shown that on Sunday service held here during the
summer has been more attractive or more appreciated than what has
sometimes been called the Sunset Service. Holding this service at
this hour enables all the faculty and the students of the summer
school to unite in one common service without at all interfering with
their attending the churches of their choice in the city. The service,
which will always be kept within one hour, will begin at seven
o'clock. When the weather permits, the service is held out of doors
on the North Rotunda steps. Otherwise in Cabell Hall.
EXCURSIONS
Under the directorship of a competent guide, there will be excursions
to neighboring points of interest such as Monticello, the home
of Thomas Jefferson; the Natural Bridge; Luray Caverns; the Grottoes
of the Shenandoah; the battle fields in Virginia; and any other
points to which a sufficiently large number may care to go. The
proximity to Washington and Richmond and Old Point Comfort
(three hours ride to each) should make a visit to either exceptionally
interesting. Saturday will be reserved for these excursions. On
Monday and Thursday nights, if clear, parties will leave Cabell Hall
at 8 o'clock to visit the McCormick Astronomical Observatory, where
they will be shown the stars through the large telescope in the Observatory.
ORGAN RECITALS, ENTERTAINMENTS, AND LECTURES
The pipe organ in Cabell Hall is one of the best products of one
of the largest organ manufacturers in America. It is an antiphonal
organ with fifteen hundred pipes, and exhibits all the possibilities of
organ manufacture. To bring out these possibilities requires a master
organist, and it is the purpose of the management of the Summer
School to procure distinguished organists for the recitals.
A Musical Festival and other entertainments will be announced during
the session of the Summer School. The Clifford B. Devereux
Company will give five plays, Mabel Garrison, a Musical Recital, and
the University Dramatic Club, two plays. The whole course includes
about twenty numbers and the price of a season ticket is $2.50, making
the cost about the same as moving pictures.
REDUCED RAILWAY RATES
All students coming to the Summer School from points within the
territory covered by the Southeastern Passenger Association, i. e.,
the territory lying south of the Potomac and east of Mississippi,
should apply some time in advance to the local agent for reduced
rates which have been granted by the Southern Passenger Association
on a basis of approximately three cents a mile plus 25 cents for
24, 25, with privilege of extension of final limit to September 30. In
case the agent has received no instructions to sell reduced rate
tickets to Charlottesville, purchase a straight fare ticket and take
the agent's receipt. The matter can be adjusted in procuring return
ticket. In Virginia reduced rate tickets will be on sale at all railroad
stations.
A committee will meet all incoming trains night and day, from
June 17th to June 25th, to assist teachers in finding boarding places,
to attend to baggage and to render any other service needed. On
arriving teachers should inquire at the station for members of the
committee who will wear suitable badges. A committee of ladies
from the Y. W. C. A. will assist in welcoming teachers attending for
the first time.
Teachers arriving at Charlottesville from points on the C. and O.
should have their baggage checked to Union Station, Charlottesville.
Baggage checks should be given to the committee. If handed to
others, a receipt should be taken.
Teachers arriving before 6 a. m. and later than 10:30 p. m. will be
met, provided they notify Mr. F. M. Alexander.
YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION CLUB
Open to every woman in the Summer School, this club is organized
for the purpose of promoting a pleasant social atmosphere,
giving an opportunity for social service and religious development,
and for the study of methods in club work and church work. The
activities include "stunt parties," camp breakfast, Camp Fire Girls
demonstrations, weekly meetings on religious and social questions
and special lectures on rural life questions. A secretary devotes her
entire time to the work and has charge of the club headquarters at
Madison Hall. Her office hours are from 9 to 11 a. m. and from 2
to 3 p. m.
THE SUMMER SCHOOL NEWS
The News is a college newspaper, edited and managed by students
of the Summer School. It contains all official and student organization
announcements, campus news and notes, editorial comment, etc.
Its object is to acquaint individuals with the life of the whole student
body, and to unify the interests of all. Four monthly issues,
beginning with February, will be printed and circulated in addition
to the twelve regular numbers. The subscription price for the whole
sixteen issues is the moderate sum of twenty-five cents. Subscriptions
should be sent to the Business Manager, Summer School News,
University, Virginia.
RURAL LIFE WEEK
The time between July 9 and 12 will be devoted to the study of
rural life problems in general, and to rural sociology in particular.
A special effort will be made to secure a large attendance of country
ministers and laymen, and distinguished speakers from all sections
of the United States will participate in the Conferences.
FOURTH OF JULY PAGEANT
Each year an elaborate pageant is given in connection with the
Fourth of July Celebration. An extensive celebration will be a feature
this year.
BOARD AND ROOMS
Board and room may be had at prices ranging from $4.50 per week,
where several stay in the same room, upward, according to accommodation
and proximity to the University, the average being $4.50
to $5.50 per week. Most of the boarding houses immediately adjoin
the University grounds.
One hundred single furnished rooms and one hundred and twenty-five
furnished double rooms in the University dormitories will be reserved
in the order of application. The price will be $5.00 for the full
term of six weeks for a single room, and $8.00 for a double room.
Every double room must be occupied by two persons. No reduction
will be made for parts of a term. Applications for rooms must be
accompanied with the full amount of the fee, which will be returned
for good reason and room released if application is made before June
10th. No rooms will be rented to any person who does not register
and pay the fee in the Summer School. Rooms that are reserved will
not be held later than July 1st. No room will be open for occupancy
before June 18th. Roomers must provide themselves with necessary
bed clothes, towels, etc. Rooms will be in charge of Mrs. M. P. Harris,
an experienced matron and chaperone. Some members of the
faculty will be located in each set of dormitories. No cooking allowed
in rooms. The rooms on Dawson's Row will be reserved for
men. The location of these dormitories in the University grounds
and the social advantages resulting from bringing so many teachers
close together make this arrangement a very desirable one and the
rooms are eagerly sought.
The University Commons, conducted by Mr. S. I. Carter, will be
open for summer students and will provide table board for three
hundred and fifty persons at the very low price of $4.00 a week, $16.50
a month or $23.00 for the session of forty-six days. A lunch counter
will be run in connection with the Commons, open from 9:30 A. M.
to 11 P. M.
Application for dormitory rooms should be sent promptly with retaining
fee. For list of boarding houses, rates, etc., see page 69,
or write to Mr. F. M. Alexander.
About twenty-five young ladies or men may obtain employment as
waiters in the dining room and receive their board free for their
services.
FEES FOR VIRGINIA TEACHERS
Tuition will be entirely free to all Virginia teachers in all the regular
courses, both elementary and advanced, leading to the professional
and first grade certificates. To meet local expenses the State
Board of Education has fixed a registration fee of $1.00 for a four
weeks' term and $1.50 for a six weeks' term for all of the Summer
Schools of the State, and these fees will be charged here. There are
a few special courses offered to meet certain demands but not necessary
for certificate credit, for which fees will be charged to all
who take them. The fee for each is designated in the catalogue.
Small fees in laboratory courses will also be charged all students who
register in them.
Students from Virginia who are not teachers or preparing to teach
next session will be charged the same tuition as non-Virginia students.
FEES FOR NON-VIRGINIA STUDENTS
A single registration fee of fifteen dollars will be charged each
teacher who registers from outside of Virginia, and any other person
not a Virginia teacher. This fee will entitle the student to enter
any of the courses outlined in the catalogue (except a few special
courses which are so designated). No student, however, will be permitted
to take more than three advanced courses or six elementary
courses without special permisson in writing from the Director.
MEDICAL FEE
A small medical fee of 40 cents will be charged each person who
registers in the Summer School, which will entitle him or her to free
medical attendance by Dr. W. E. Bray, the Summer School Physician,
and application is pending for greatly reduced charges, if it
should be necessary, at the University Hospital, under the following
regulations:
Medical Attendance.—Any student who is temporarily ill from
causes not due to his own misconduct, is entitled, without charge,
to all necessary medical advice from the Summer School Physician;
and, if necessary, to nursing in the University Hospital at a reasonable
charge for the maintenance while there. This exemption from
charge does not apply to cases requiring surgical operation, and for
special treatment of the eye, ear, nose, and throat, or to constitutional
disorders from which the student in question was suffering at
the time of his coming to the University. Nor is the University responsible
for the expense incurred through the employment of private
nurses, necessitated by severe illness of students, or through the
maintenance of quarantine precautions in contagious cases. Any student
sent to the University Hospital by the advice and under the
care of a physician other than the Summer School Physician will be
required to pay the regular hospital charges for private patients.
TEACHERS' POSITIONS
The University Appointment Committee receives demands for
teachers each year. This committee would be glad to have well qualified
teachers who are in attendance upon the Summer School leave
their applications with the Director, who is a member of the committee.
TIME AND PLACE OF RECITATIONS AND LECTURES
Recitations will begin in all courses Wednesday, June 20, at 8:30
a. m. There will be no classes on Saturdays except on Saturday, June
30th, and July 17th, when classes will meet at the usual hours to make up
for registration day and Fourth of July. The length of recitation
periods will be one hour, ten minutes of which will be allowed for
transfer from one room to another. Tuesday, July 31st, Wednesday
and Thursday, August 1st and 2nd, will be used for examinations;
the determination being to provide for six full weeks or thirty recitations
over and above registration and examination days.
REGISTRATION
Tuesday, June 19th, will be devoted to the registration of students.
All students who can possibly do so should register on this day.
classes and register as promptly as possible at other hours.
The Registrar's office, located in Peabody Hall will be open continuously
June 19th, 20th and 21st from 8:30 a. m. to 6:30 p. m. Students
should consult freely with members of the Faculty in case of difficulty
in choosing courses. No certificate will be granted to students
who fail to register before Wednesday, June 27th, except a certificate
of attendance. Students preparing to stand the examination for
teachers' certificates held at this place by the State Department of
Public Instruction, July 18th, 19th and 20th, must enter twenty days
prior to July 18th.
Registration at Midway School will be on Monday, June 18th and
classes will begin Tuesday, June 19th.
No student will be admitted to any course without a registration
card naming the course in question and properly signed by the Registrar
and the Bursar.
IMPORTANT NOTE
Every teacher who is applying for a Virginia State Teachers' Summer
School Professional Certificate of any kind should bring with
her and before registering have whatever certificate she holds and
which she desires to use as a basis of entrance on such professional
work, approved by a representative of the Department of Public Instruction
who will be present for that purpose.
NON-VIRGINIA TEACHERS
The regulation in regard to teachers' certificates and the requirements
for entrance to certain courses in the Summer School do not
apply to teachers from other states than Virginia unless they desire
to apply for a Virginia teachers' certificate.
STUDENTS' MAIL
In order to insure safe and prompt delivery of mail, every student
should have all mail directed to University, Virginia, giving always
the street and number of his boarding place or the number and location
of his room in the University. As soon as located the local
address should be filed at the postoffice.
REGULATIONS CONCERNING CREDIT
The instructor giving each course will keep the class grades, and
attendance, hold the examination, and average the class grade with
the examination grade, returning to the Director the general average
grade of each student in each course. Absences or delayed entrance
will be counted against the student. All examinations must be held
under the Honor System. A certificate for each course completed
with an average grade of 75 per cent will be signed by the instructor
and the Director of the Summer School, and mailed to the student.
Credit Allowed by Other States than Virginia.—Application has
been made to other Southern States for credit equal to that accorded
by the Virginia Department of Public Instructions. Credits are now
allowed toward the extension of the certificates by certain other
States. All persons wishing to arrange for credits with their respective
school authorities should correspond with the Director of
the Summer School.
University of Virginia College Credit.—Below are stated the conditions
upon which credit in the University of Virginia may be granted
for work done in the Summer School.
(a) The student must satisfy the entrance requirements of the University
of Virginia and matriculate before he can receive credit in
the College for any work done in the University of Virginia Summer
School.
(b) The Dean of the College will accept the completion of the
courses in the Summer School in lieu of the entrance examinations
in the same subject, provided that in his judgment the courses are
equivalent to those required for entrance to the University of Virginia,
and provided, that the certificates of courses completed be approved
by the University of Virginia professor concerned.
(c) The Dean of the College will accept certificates of completion
of summer courses in the University of Virginia, provided that such
summer courses be approved by the University of Virginia professor
concerned as the full equivalent in character and scope of the corresponding
courses in the University.
All courses numbered from 1 to 100 in this catalogue have been
approved by the professors concerned and will be accepted by the
Dean for such credit as is indicated in the description of each course.
(d) Students who satisfy entrance requirements will not only receive
credit at the University of Virginia for college courses taken in
the Summer School, but the summer school work is recognized by
standard colleges every where, so that students have no difficulty in
securing transfer of credits.
Honor System.—All examinations are held under the honor system
and the honor pledge required.
VIRGINIA STATE CERTIFICATES
Note.—Teachers outside of Virginia are not limited in the choice
of their courses to the conditions under which Virginia certificates
are issued, unless they desire to teach in Virginia and apply for a
license issued in this State. In this case only state certificates from
other states issued by a State Superintendent or a State Board of
Examiners, and approved in advance by the Department of Public
Instruction of Virginia, will be recognized as a proper basis for professional
work.
Teachers from other States will receive credit for all work done at
the University Summer School in accordance with the certificate regulations
of those States from which they come.
The Virginia certificates with which the courses of study at the
University Summer School are imediately concerned are the following:
The Summer School Professional Certificate—Primary Grade.
The Summer School Professional Certificate—Grammar Grade.
The Summer School Professional Certificate—Advanced Grade.
The Summer School Professional Certificate—For High School Teachers.
Courses will be offered to meet the requirements of the Department
of Public Instruction for High School graduates who wish to obtain
certificates.
Full information in regard to these certificates is contained in
Form E—19, issued by the Department of Public Instruction, Richmond.
Any teacher not acquainted with them should write for a
copy.
Important Caution.—All Virginia teachers who desire to enter
the professional course must present at the time of registration either
one of the following:—(1) A full First Grade Certificate (provisional
certificates or those of any lower grade cannot be accepted) issued
for satisfactory grades made on State Examination; or (2) A High
School Certificate issued by the State Department of Public Instruction
(High School diplomas cannot be accepted) and also a letter
from the principal or division superintendent, under whose direction
the applicant has taught, stating that the applicant has had at least
five months of satisfactory teaching experience. These credentials
must be brought by the student in order to avoid delay in registering.
The school cannot be responsible for credits for work on this course
unless the credentials are found correct when the student registers.
A high school graduate who has not obtained a State High School
Certificate should write for it to the State Superintendent of Public
Instruction, Richmond, Virginia, and secure it before coming to the
school. Second Grade High School Certificates cannot be accepted
for entrance to the professional course. Training Class Certificates
given for less than four years of combined high school and normal
training work cannot be accepted for entrance to the professional
course. Those who have started work on this course at some other
summer school will please bring with them their reports for the
work already completed. If the course was started at this school
in a previous summer, it is not necessary to bring credentials, as our
office records are all that is necessary.
The first year of the Old Professional Courses, requiring twelve
weeks for completion, will not be given after January 1, 1917. However,
those who have completed a part of either of the Old Professional
Courses, will be allowed to finish under the rules and regulations
of the year 1915. Accordingly only the second year's work of
the old course will be offered this year as follows:
FOR GRAMMAR GRADES
Second Year Course (Old Course).
1. Grammar Grade Methods, including Arithmetic and Observation
Work—Education 17, or 138.
2. Methods of Teaching Civics and History—Education 136, or History.
3. Methods of Teaching Geography—Geography.
4. Reading and Literature—English 148, or 149 and 150, or 151.
5. Drawing—Drawing or Writing.
FOR PRIMARY GRADES
Second Year Course (Old Course).
1. Principles of Teaching—Education 131, or 132.
2. Primary Methods in Reading—Education 132, or 134.
3. Physical Nature Study and Home Geography—Geography, Agriculture
106, 107, or 108.
4. Music and Games—Music 1A, 1B, 1C, 1D, 1E; Physical Education.
5. Special Primary Methods, including Observation—Education
133a, 133b.
The new courses leading to the Summer School Professional Certificate
herein outlined shall be offered under the same conditions
courses, except that the work must be completed within a period of
five years from the date of beginning and shall cover at least three
terms of six weeks each, occupying a minimum of 500 recitation periods
of at least 40 minutes each. These courses shall be taken as
indicated in the following outline.
REGULATIONS DEPARTMENT PUBLIC INSTRUCTION
Outline for Primary Grades (New Course).
| Principles of Elementary Education—Education 129a | 30 periods |
| (Suggested text—Thorndike's Education—Macmillan.) | |
| Methods in Reading I—Education 132 | 30 periods |
| Songs and Games—Physical Education 193 | 30 periods |
| Arithmetic I—Education 139 | 30 periods |
| Writing 113a; 113b; 113c; 113d | 30 periods |
| Methods in Language I—Education 142 | 30 periods |
| Principles of Teaching and Studying—Education 131 | 30 periods |
| (Suggested text—Kirkpatrick's Fundamentals of Child Study.) |
|
| Methods in Reading II—Education 133a; 133b | 30 periods |
| Methods in Language and Spelling—Education 134 | 30 periods |
| Publc School Music | 30 periods |
| Hygiene and Sanitation—Education 135 | 30 periods |
| Methods and Management | 30 periods |
| (Suggested text—The Teaching Process, by Strayer; and School Management, by Salisbury.) |
|
| Drawing | 30 periods |
| Nature Study and Home Geography | 30 periods |
| Primary Industrial Work | 30 periods |
| Child Literature and Home Stories | 30 periods |
| Observation | 20 periods |
Outline for Gramar Grades (sic) (New Course).
| Principles of Elementary Education—Education 129b | 30 periods |
| (Suggested text—Thorndike's Education—Macmillan.) | |
| Methods in Language and Spelling—English 149 and 150 or 148 |
30 periods |
| Methods in Civics and History—Education 136 | 30 periods |
| Methods in Writing 113a; 113b; 113c; 113d | 30 periods |
| Arithmetic I—Education 137 | 30 periods |
| Songs and Games—Physical Education 192 | 30 periods |
| Principles of Teaching and Studying—Education 17 | 30 periods |
| (Suggested text—Human Behavior—Colvin and Bagley). | |
| Methods in Language and Grammar—English 151 | 30 periods |
| Methods in Arithmetic II—Education 138 | 30 periods |
| Public School Music | 30 periods |
| Agriculture 106 or 107 | 30 periods |
| Methods and Management | 30 periods |
| (Suggested text—The Teaching Process, by Strayer; and Management, by Salisbury.) |
|
| Methods in Literature and Reading | 30 periods |
| Methods in Geography | 30 periods |
| Drawing or Industrial Work or Home Economics | 60 periods |
| Observation | 20 periods |
If drawing or industrial work is taken in the third year an elective
will also be required.
(c) The course for the Summer School Professional Certificate.—
Advanced Grade, must embrace the following courses of college
grade: Two required courses—English and education—four elective
courses—to be chosen from any of the following branches: Agriculture,
biology, field botany, chemistry, domestic economy, drawing,
French, geography, German, history, hygiene and sanitation, Latin,
literature, library methods, manual training, mathematics, music,
philosophy, physics, and psychology.
This certificate entitles the holder to teach only in the elementary
schools.
(d) Summer School Professional Certificate—For High School
Grades—Minimum Entrance Requirement.—The holder of a Virginia
First Grade High School Certificate or the holder of a Virginia
First Grade Certificate who presents satisfactory evidence of
having completed the equivalent of a standard four-year high school
course, shall be granted a Summer School Professional Certificate
—For High School Grades, under the terms and conditions hereinafter
stated.
The certificate and other credentials which entitle the applicant
to enter upon and pursue the course of study herein outlined must
be presented to and approved by the conductor of the summer
school before the applicant can be registered and admitted to
classes.
The Summer School Professional Certificate.—For High School
Grades entitles the holder to teach only the high school branches
named in the certificate.
General Requirements.—The courses prescribed in any of the
branches hereinafter stated for the Summer School Professional
Certificate—For High School Grades, must embrace no work unless
it be of College Grade, requiring minimum hours or recitation periods
of sixty minutes each. These courses must be taken in a summer
school at a registered college or university and must be completed
within a period of three years from the date of beginning.
In all cases a statement of each professor under whom the course is
pursued, to the effect that the applicant is highly proficient in his
branch, must accompany the final report.
The following "Content Table" gives the number of hours or
recitation periods required in each branch, and in addition thereto
the applicant must complete a course of thirty hours in educational
psychology and the principles of teaching. Any of the following
courses in Education have been approved by the Department of Public
Instruction as satisfying this condition: Education 10, 11, 12, 13,
14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21.
CONTENT TABLE
Agriculture, 90 hours.
Botany, 60 hours.
Chemistry, 150 hours, of which 60 hours must be laboratory work.
Drawing, 90 hours.
English, 120 hours, including 30 hours in English Grammar, 30
hours in Rhetoric and Composition, and 60 hours in English and
American Literature.
Domestic Science, 90 hours.
French, 90 hours.
German, 90 hours.
History, 120 hours, including 60 hours in General History, 30 hours
in English History, and 30 hours in American History and Civics.
Latin, 90 hours, including a review of Cæsar, Cicero and Virgil.
Manual Training, 90 hours.
Mathematics, 120 hours, including Algebra, Plane and Solid Geometry,
and Plane Trigonometry.
Music, 90 hours.
Physics, 150 hours, of which 60 shall be laboratory work.
Physical Geography, 60 hours.
Spanish, 90 hours.
Zoology, 60 hours.
This certificate shall continue in force for seven years, and may be
renewed for a similar period from time to time, as provided in section
38 of this circular.
N. B.—This course must not be given at any school in Virginia
unless it is specially mentioned and advertised in its literature; no
supposedly equal course at any other than a designated summer
school will be recognized or accepted by the Department of Public
Instruction.
PREPARATION FOR STATE EXAMINATIONS FOR FIRST
AND SECOND GRADE CERTIFICATES
The State Examinations will be held at the Summer School July
18, 19 and 20, 1917. Heretofore these courses have been offered at
the University, but last year a much better arrangement was made
with Supt. Johnson and the Charlottesville School Board, whereby
the classes were held in Midway School building. The advantages
of this plan are:
1. The work is given in one building, the classes are divided into
sections small enough for drill, the periods are forty-five minutes
each, and the Topical Outlines furnished by the Department are
strictly followed and thus a thorough review guaranteed.
2. A vacation school will be in daily session in the building affording
an excellent opportunity for observation work in all the
grades, and special demonstration work in primary grades will be
given by Miss Harrie Bronson, of Lynchburg Schools.
3. The afternoons and evenings will be open for extra work in
special subjects and for the general lectures and entertainments which
are such attractive and valuable features of the University Summer
School.
4. Excellent boarding accommodations at very reasonable rates
may be obtained in the vicinity of Midway School building, thus relieving
cost of living. All teachers desiring to secure accommodations in
Charlottesville should apply to Dr. J. G. Johnson, Charlottesville, Va.
5. Those registering for this course will be entitled to all the privileges
of the Summer School without additional cost. The Registration
fee for Virginia teachers is $1.00 for the term of four weeks.
The Third Grade Certificate is no longer issued by the State Board
of Education.
The following extracts from Form E—No. 19 of the Department
of Public Instruction give the requirements for these certificates:
(Sec. 31) "First Grade Certificate.—To obtain a First Grade Certificate
the applicant must be at least nineteen years old, must have
had nine months successful experience in teaching, must make an
average of 85 per cent. on the following subjects: Spelling, writing,
reading, arithmetic, grammar (including composition), geography,
history of the United States, history of Virginia, civil government
(including the government of Virginia), drawing, theory and practice
of teaching, physiology and hygiene, physical geography, elementary
agriculture, and English history, and must not fall below 70 per cent.
on any subject.
"An applicant who makes the first grade average on the required
subjects, but who has not had the requisite experience, will be issued
a Second Grade Certificate, which may be changed to a First Grade
Certificate after nine months of successful teaching.
34. "Second Grade Certificate.—To obtain a Second Grade Certificate
the applicant must not be less than eighteen years old, and
must make an average of 75 per cent. on the following subjects:
Spelling, reading, writing, arithmetic (including business forms),
grammar (including composition), geography, history of the United
States, history of Virginia, civil government (including the government
of Virginia), drawing, theory and practice of teaching, physiology
and hygiene, and must not fall below 60 per cent. on any subject.
"This certificate shall continue in force for a period of two years
and may be renewed for a similar period as provided in section 38
(of Form E—19)."
| Hours | Subject | Teachers |
| 8:30 | Arithmetic | Mr. A. C. Kimler |
| General Geography | Mr. F. M. Lemon | |
| Civics | Mr. F. M. Somerville | |
| 9:15 | Arithmetic | Mr. A. C. Kimler |
| Physical Geography | Mr. F. M. Lemon | |
| Hygiene | Mr. F. M. Somerville | |
| 10:00 | Arithmetic | Mr. A. C. Kimler |
| Grammar | Miss Willie London | |
| General Geography | Mr. F. M. Lemon | |
| Civics | Mr. F. M. Somerville | |
| 10:45 | Grammar | Miss Willie London |
| U. S. History | Mr. Walter Huffington | |
| Hygiene | Mr. F. M. Somerville | |
| English History | Miss May Dabney | |
| General Geography | Mr. F. M. Lemon | |
| 12:15 | U. S. History | Mr. Walter Huffington |
| Virginia History | Miss May Dabney | |
| Physical Geography | Mr. A. C. Kimler | |
| 1:00 | Theory and Practice | Mr. H. M. McManaway |
Note.—Observation Periods and Special Methods in Reading have been
arranged, and other sections will be formed if necessary. Supt. J. G.
Johnson will have immediate direction of the work at Midway.
Those who wish to take drawing, writing or agriculture, can do so
in special classes arranged in the afternoon at the University.
| The University of Virginia record March 15, 1917 | |