A history of Virginia for boys and girls . centeducational progress is seen in the better provisionthat the state is constantly making for trainingand for paying teachers. Another great featureis the growing number of women teachers in ourpublic schools. For some years past they haveoutnumbered the men teachers by four or five toone. In view of these facts we are not surprisedthat our state, between the years 1909 and 1912,opened three new normal schools for women:one at Harrisonburg (1909), another at EastRadford (1911), and a third at Fredericksburg(1912). In 1905, the University of Virginia
A history of Virginia for boys and girls . centeducational progress is seen in the better provisionthat the state is constantly making for trainingand for paying teachers. Another great featureis the growing number of women teachers in ourpublic schools. For some years past they haveoutnumbered the men teachers by four or five toone. In view of these facts we are not surprisedthat our state, between the years 1909 and 1912,opened three new normal schools for women:one at Harrisonburg (1909), another at EastRadford (1911), and a third at Fredericksburg(1912). In 1905, the University of Virginia receivedspecial gifts of ^150,000 to be used in founding anew department for teachers. This new depart- 340 A HISTORY OF VIRGINIA ment was fitly named the Curry MemorialSchool of Education. Dr. Curry has been justlytermed the Horace Mann of the South, andthis school that bears his name is adding unto hishonor. In 1906 William and Mary became astate college, and in 1918, as related in ChapterX, it began to admit women as students. Early. SCHOOL BUILDING AT RUSTBURG, CAMPBELL COUNTY. VIRGINIA ISBUILDING MORE RURAL SCHOOLS LIKE THIS ONE in 1920 the University of Virginia opened certainof its departments to advanced women students. The year 1905 was also marked by the famousMay Campaign, in which the school leaders ofVirginia joined together in showing the people thevalue of better schools. In thirty days one hun-dred speakers, including the governor, deliveredthree hundred addresses in ninety-four differentcounties of the state. At the same time thou- JEFFERSONS DREAM 341 sands of pages of reading matter on education were, sent out through the newspapers and otherwise. And soon the resuhs began to show, especiallyin more and better high schools. In 1906 therewere only 75 high schools in the state. Onlyten of these were free and gave a four-year 1910 the number of high schools was 360;and by 1916 there were more than four hundred. One of the most notable events in the re
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