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tial principals have been those who were trained at this college. The
emphasis of the Department of Education has been upon the admini-
strative and other broad phases of educational work, leaving the
emphasis on details of elementary method as the peculiar field of
the State normal schools. With the rapid growth of high schools in
the State and the admission of women to the College by legislative
action in 1918, William and Mary becomes the State College for
the training of high school teachers and educational administrators.
The William and Mary ideal for this professional training may
be summarized thus: (i) sound scholarship over as broad a field
as is practicable in a four-year collegiate course; (2) sufficient specialization
to insure a thorough teaching knowledge in at least one
department, such as English, Classics, one modern language, mathe-
matics one of the sciences, history, and social sciences, economics
and commercial branches, physical education, manual arts, home
economics, etc. ; (3) a practical familiarity with the problems and
best plans of class-room management and school organization ; (4)
training in pedagogical and psychological analysis of child activity,
subject matter and teaching methods; (5) critical observation of
some of the best and some typical high and elementary schools of
Eastern Virginia, with more frequent and intensified observations
in the training school ; (6) carefully supervised practice in the
teaching of at least one subject in which are applied systematically
the theory, analytic approach and observation previously acquired.
STATE SCHOLARSHIPS
The college oflfers one hundred and thirty-two State scholar-
ships to young men and women who intend to teach in the public
schools of the State. These entitle the holders to exemption from
most of the colleges fees. (See page 30.) The holders of these
scholarships are required to sign a pledge to teach at least two
years in the public schools of Virginia, and are also required to
pursue a prescribed course of training for teaching as indicated
below.
Every division superintendent of schools in the State is empowered
by law to nominate, for appointment to State scholar-
ships, as many students as his county or city has representatives in
the House of Delegates, provided that every county and city shall be