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The University of Virginia Summer School is conducted
for teachers and students in high schools, academies
and colleges and for those who desire professional training
for primary and grammar grade work. It also offers
many courses for college credit, and others to meet the
needs of students preparing for college entrance or who
have conditions to absolve. It takes as its peculiar province,
not the ordinary summer institute, but the solid
and substantial training of high school teachers, college
teachers, college students, and teacher who either have
professional or life certificates or wish to procure them.
Because the courses of instruction in high schools are not
clearly defined but merge into the grammar grades below
and into the lower college classes above, the high
school offers itself as a strategic center around which
to build up instruction, the emphasis of which is upon
subject matter. The justification of such a summer
school for high school teachers is the unusual activity in
the South just now in behalf of secondary education.
The large number of high school and college teachers
attending the Summer School last year is an additional
proof of the need of such a school. In addition to courses
for high school teachers, the demand for courses for primary
and grammar grade teachers is fully met.