Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-02-05
TWENTY PATRONS FAVOR
NEW UNIVERSITY BILL
Provides Credit to Women for Work
Done During Summer
Schools.
OPENS ACADEMIC RISES
Details as to Cocducation or Co.Or-
dinatlon, Living Conditions and
CLASSROOM Instruction Are Left
Entirely to the Board OF Visitors.

NhoeAOhS p"O
CLASSROOM Instruction Are Left
Entirely to the Board OF Visitors.
A bNl with twenty patrons has been
introduced in the House to give women
credit at the University OF Virginia
for work done thero during the sum-
mer school and TO provide admittance
OF women to the academic courses lead
ing to tho degrees Of bachelor CT arts
and bachelor OF science under such
conditions as the board OF visitors OF
the institution may deem wise.
Three bills have appeared in the Cen
eral Assembly during the present sos
sion in reference to admittance of won-
en- to the courses Of the University OF
Virginia, an affiliated college, or IN n
direct coeducationnl manner. The bill
offered In tho House by Delegate r.
A. Anderson. OF Smyth. proposes the
admittancc OF women on coeduca-
tional basis. The bill offered In the
Senate by Senator Aubrey e. Strodc
and in the House by Delegate Firginius
Shnckclford would admit women to the
graduate and professional schools only
OF the University of Virginia, allowing
them to tnkc their academic degrees Al
William and Mary or other colleges.
The bill requiring tho ndmittance Of
women to the L. y. and Il. S. courses
at the university and the acknowledge
mont OF credit for work done In the
RUNNER schools. as Is the case win
men, and with women in virtually all
other institutions. is the bill proposed
by Speaker Houston. Floor Leader VIII
lis. Delegates Lindsay Gordon. Garland
McNutt and sixteen other patrons as
ISOLATED with them. This bill makes
II mandatory on the assembly only to
provide for the educctio of women in
4, 10.
University of Virginia II does for
men, and leaves il absolutely dlscre-
tionary with the board o; visitors 20
determine according TO their wisdom
~ II shall bc cocducaiior o. cu-"rdi-
nation TO some degree. or my other.
form dcvisabic. when II comes to a
matter of living conditions and class
room instruction.
PARTS OF BUILDINGS
ARE NOW UNUSED
The bill to extend the usefulness OF
the University OF Virginia ard 10 give
credit towards degrees to women for
work done in the summer school is 5
follows:
Whereas. by reason OF the percent
war. tho attendance OF students upon
the University of Virginia has been re-
duccd by more than 30 per cent ave-
IL likely to b. further reduced. loav-
ing unoccupicd and unused n large por,
Of the buildings and equipment Of N.
university and decreasing the tasks
and duties OF the faculty: and
Whereas. war conditions. with tho
consequent extraordinary drain upon
the supply OF trained men IN the conn
iry. have called into industry and into
the useful arts and sciences many wom-
en-: and
Whereas. ihc suppIy o, properly
trained women IS far below the dcmane
therefor. and II Is the patriotic and
imperative duty Of the State TO devote
all OF It's available facilities aud re-
sources to meet the needs Of the coun-
try in the present great crisis; and
Whereas. provision has been
made for the training of women NJ tn.
University of Virginia. the highcs. %
the States public free schools. save and
except In the summer SESSION there.
which has demonstrated the entire fca-
sibility OF using the faculty and equip
ment OF the university for The train
ing OF women rs well as Of men, which
facilities & is desirable - extend
throughout the year, ana To- the md
also that women Students succsss<ui-
~ pursuing the standard college
courses OF the said summer session r,ay
receive credit therefor toward the At
tainmcnt of degrees at the university
now denied them. though such cr.Gi.
and degrees are given men students
similarly situated:
''Be 1t enacted Ivy the General AS
sembly Of Virginia:
H. Beginning with the summer ces-
sion in the wear 1913 Of the University
OF Virginia and continuing through the
regular session and terms. fall. winter
and spring, of the University OF Vir-
Eini3. until otherwise provided by law
the rector and visitors of tha Univcr-
Sity OF Virginia shall admit properly
prepared women to all the courses
f,f f,.f iA,, ..fFA
ncr session and IN thu academic AMI
scientific schools and the school of cd
ucation of TIE said university. and upor
The satisfactory completion of the pre-
scribed courses shall award them the
degrees OF =. 4. and =. S., allowing
credit thereon TO men and women alike
for work done IN the said summer
session.
2 To carry out the purposes Of this
act. the said rector and visitors arc
hereby authorized and empowered to
provide suitable Accommodations for
SAID women students and US. the fac
uity buildings. laboratories library,
observatory. museums and other facili-
ties and resources of the university
or parts OF each or all of them 10 pro-
vice the required instruction and train
ing Tor both men and women, either
IN separate or the same class-roors.
or with Joint classes for some courses
ana separate classes for other courses
as the said rector and visitors NAV. In
the,r discretion, prescribe and direct.
IT being intended that the said rector
and visitors shall have full authority
and power, subject to the requirements
or this act to prescribe and promuI-
gate all reasonable and nroper regu-
iations, not otherwise provided by law.
necessary to the carrying out cf this
act"
Patrons-Messrs. Williams, Willis.
Houston. McNutt. Pitts. Chase. Wright.
Fuller, thurman. Gordon, Boscher'
Meetze. Taylor. Burke, Omrs, Jones.
Cook Hunter. Fitznugh and Pence.
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