Although practically all of the States in this Union exact a fee of applicants taking examinations for teachers' licenses, it is the opinion of the division superintendents of this union that the time has not yet arrived for Virginia to adopt such a course. The question was put to a test at yesterday afternoon's session of division superintendents when a committee reported in favor of such a fee out of seventy-five voting, only eight or ten favored imposing a charge on the applicants.
State Superintendent Starnes presided. The major part of the morning session was devoted to a discussion of Virginia's rapidly increasing rural high schools, or more particularly of the standard four-year high schools in the country. The chair sought a full and free expression of opinion as to the standards which the Department of Public Instruction should adopt in accordance with the established standards. While two or three of the division superintendents intimated that the high schools are now costing too much in proportion to the number of children benefited by them, a majority of them give stirring accounts to the line work being done by these institutions in his effort that he might have the fullest possible light for the future and his efforts.  - j
.-.ociatt:', Mr. Scearnes put to the veto of the superintendents' efforts to improve the schools. The resolutions of these inter-colleges will furnish valuable data in connection with the work of the school board. 