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ACCREDITED SCHOOLS.

Conditions for the Accrediting of Private Secondary Schools.—A school
desiring to be placed on the accredited list of the University should apply to
the Chairman of the Committee on Accredited Schools. In response to the
application, a blank form inquiring into the course of study, faculty, etc., of
the school will be sent to the principal. Upon the return of this blank,
properly filled out, a representative of the University will be sent to inspect
the school, and to report on such matters as the quality of instruction,
the general intellectual and moral tone of the school, and the efficiency
of the equipment, especially library and laboratory facilities. If
his report is favorable and the Committee concurs, the school will be accepted
and the principal duly notified. The name of the school will be
entered upon the list of accredited schools and published in the catalogue
of the University.

Each school must meet the following requirements:

(1) A course of study covering not less than four years of high-school
work, based on at least seven years of competent elementary instruction,
and embracing at least sixteen units. These sixteen units must include
English A, B, C, Mathematics A1, A2, B, and one unit of History. Those
schools that wish to prepare students for the study of Latin in the University
must offer instruction in this subject to the extent of four units.

(2) A teaching force of not less than three teachers, each of whom
devotes his entire time to high-school instruction, and conducts not more
than six recitation periods a day. The University will scrutinize with
extreme care any school in which any instructor teaches more than six
periods a day. All teachers should possess college training, and preference
will be given to those schools in which the teachers are college graduates.

Accrediting of Public High Schools.—The University accredits all four
year public high schools which are fully accredited by the State Board of
Education of Virginia.

List of Accredited Private Secondary Schools.—The following is a list
of the private secondary schools within the State of Virginia at present
accredited by the University. This list is revised annually by the Committee,
and any school which fails to report to the Committee when requested to
do so, or which fails to maintain the standard above specified, may be removed
therefrom:

• Augusta Military Academy (Fort
  Defiance).

• Benedictine College (Richmond).

• Blackstone Military Academy.

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• Chatham Training School.

• Danville Military Institute.

• Episcopal High School (Alexandria).

• Fishburne Military Academy (Waynesboro).

• Fork Union Academy.

• McGuire's University School (Richmond).

• Massanutten Academy (Woodstock).

• Miller Manual Training School
  (Miller School).

• Randolph-Macon Academy (Bedford
  City).

• Randolph-Macon Academy (Front
  Royal).

• Shenandoah Valley Academy (Winchester).

• Staunton Military Academy.

• St. Christopher's School (Richmond).

• Virginia Episcopal School (Lynchburg).

• Woodberry Forest School.

Partial Accrediting of Schools.—Schools which cannot fulfill all the requirements
for a fully accredited school, but which offer four years of work,
covering at least thirteen units, may be partially accredited, upon those subjects
which have been approved by the Committee. Graduates of such
schools will be credited with the thirteen approved units and will be given
examinations upon the other two units required for entrance.