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FARMERETTES CAPTURE BARRACKSUNIVERSITYVIRGINIA FURWUHAN’S LAND ARMY TRAININGNew' York, April 5.—The “green | farmerette will soon be a thing, of the past. Training farms for her enlightenment in things agricultural have sprung up in several states, and-now comes the announcement that the historic, conservative old University of Virginia at Charlottesville has voted to turn over to the Woman's Land army its ^tudent Army Training corps barracks together with 25 acres of farm land as a training ^chool for 600 girls and women.This is the first university in the country to take such action and it did so only after the university authorities became convinced that the barracks and their expensive equipment would serve the most useful purpose possible when they served that of the Woman's Land army.Three Distinct Courses.The school will open in June and run through September. It will be open to girls and women oil over the United States for* a nominal tuition. Three distinct courses have been outlined to serve different ends—'one, a brief course of two weeks in the art of handling farm .tools, for girls who wish to qualify for immediate farm work; another, a course of four weeks •duration covering such subjects as camp organization and camp management, Land army policies, etc., for women who wish to qualify as supervisors of units of girl workers and a third and more technical though equally brief course in agriculture andftil-eeI,.f•tyenPnttl»fet-eilse11fled3«s1*efarm management for women whohope some day to own their own farms or to become farm managers.►These courses represent the best thought of experts, notably of Miss Edith Diehl, National director of training of the Woman’s Land Army, who last year planned and directed the Wellesley College Training camp, and Charles G. Maphis 9f the University of Vinginia summer school. Professor Edwin H. Scott, professor of agriculture at Georgia normal, will be advisor on, and director of all courses on agriculture.Entrance is Easy.Entrance qualifications are few and mild. Absolute physical fitness and a minimum age limit of 18 are practically the only ones demanded of registrants for the short course; personality and executive ability and a “discreet” age are demanded of those who would be supervisors; while an ambition to own or operate a farm and the demonstrated intelligence to grasp the technicalities of scientific agriculture will admit any girl or woman to the agricultural course.At first thought Virginia may seem a warm climate for such an experiment, but the site of the camp is among the Virginia hills more than 600 feet above sea level and although the days are warm the night breezes are cool and refreshing. The working day will be planned to make allowances for climatic conditions, so that a holiday spent at the camp should be, directors of the work believe, one of pleasure as well as profit.Beautiful Grounds.The university grounds themselves are very beautiful. The university isone of the oldest in the country. The famous quadrangle designed and begun by Thomas Jefferson represents one of the most beautiful groups of classic buildings in the country.It is significant that this conservative old institution should be the first in the country to put its* stamp of approval on the work of the Woman’s Land Army to the extent to which it has. That it ncs done so is a tribute particularly to the work accomplished by the Virginia division of the Land Army which last'year did excellent work in several counties in the state at picking and packing fruit. It has been said that the superior standards of camp management as demonstrated in the Land Army camps there have doomed the old type of insanitary camp and “insanitary” migratory labor.]I]1*****I i-.V4,. * ' U/ : ^ lt;V.♦ jf SL-|T«'
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Logansport Daily Tribune
Logansport, Indiana, US
Sun, Apr 06, 1919
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