Chap. 86.—An ACT to provide that the University of Virginia, the College of
William and Mary, the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and
Polytechnic Institute, the Virginia Normal and Industrial Institute, and the
several State normal schools for women shall be placed on the year-round
basis of instruction as soon as their financial resources will warrant 1

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Approved February 25, 1920.

Whereas, it is desirable to make it possible for young men and
women to secure the training offered in institutions of higher learning
ina briefer time and thus permit them at an earlier age to assume
the responsibilities of citizenship; and,
Whereas, it is especially necessary to furnish added facilities for
the preparation of teachers in the public school system, the training
of teachers in the profession being a most important factor in teacher-
training ; therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the
University of Virginia, the College of William and Mary, the Virginia
Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute, the
Virginia Normal and Industrial Institute, and the several State normal
schools for women, be placed on the year-round basis of instruction
as soon as their financial resources will warrant, and that the summer
term be organized on the basis of a quarter of the year’s work of
equal grade and degree credit with the work of any other quarter.