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STUDENT ACTIVITIES

JEFFERSON LITERARY SOCIETY

Connected with the University is the Jefferson Society founded in 1825 to
provide for common improvement in debate, to promote general culture among its
members and the student body, and to drill its members in all those exercises
which strengthen for the free duties of citizenship.

All students in regular attendance upon one or more of the schools of the
University of Virginia who are not members of any similar organization in this
institution shall be eligible to regular membership. Such candidates shall make
written applications on forms provided by the Membership Committee. These
forms may be obtained at any of the literary meetings of the Society all of which
are open to the public. They are announced in College Topics.

WOMAN'S SELF-GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION

The Association includes all women students of the University of Virginia,
and exists to bring about a greater unity and mutual helpfulness
among the women of the University, and to promote and maintain the
highest standards of University life.

PUBLICATIONS

College Topics is a tri-weekly newspaper published by the students and
devoted to the interests of the University at large.

Corks and Curls is the University annual, its aim being to present
some record of the scholastic, religious, athletic and social activities of the
college year. Its publication is in the hands of a chartered corporation
formed by the fraternities and literary societies of the University.

SECONDARY EDUCATION IN VIRGINIA

The Department of Education publishes under the editorship of Dr. W.
R. Smithey, Professor of Secondary Education, a high school quarterly called
Secondary Education in Virginia, devoted to the encouragement of research
in Virginia secondary school problems for both public and private schools
and to the reporting of research through its columns. This publication is
the official organ of the Department of Education, and addressed primarily
to the solution of problems of secondary education in Virginia and its columns
are open to all workers in this field. It aims to encourage educational research
in secondary education.