University of Virginia Library

'Determine Need'

Last spring the Board of Visitors
adapted a resolution empowering
President Edgar F.
Shannon Jr. "to conduct a study
to determine the need for the
admission of girls to the College
of Arts and Sciences at Charlottesville
If a need were determined,
another committee
was envisioned to study the
"feasibility and means of such
admissions."

Although enthusiastic about
the proposed plan. Dean Whitney
went on to explain that if the
Board of Visitors decided that
admission of women to the college
was feasible and advisable,
there would still be the fundamental
question of financing new
housing.

Mrs. Whitney described the
housing problem as the most
serious drawback to the plan,
simply because there is only
room for about fifty more girls.
To get that many would mean
moving many graduate and even
undergraduates into the town of
Charlottesville, she added.