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STUDENT ACTIVITIES
JEFFERSON 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 application 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.
ATHLETICS
Intercollegiate and intramural athletics are under the supervision of the
Director of Athletics and his staff. The University is represented in intercollegiate
competition by both varsity and first-year football, baseball, basketball,
plant is one of the finest in the South. Memorial Gymnasium contains three
basketball courts, a swimming pool, a track, boxing and wrestling rooms, and
adequate locker facilities. Scott Stadium, which seats 22,000 people, is regarded
as one of the most beautiful in the country. Lambeth Field has excellent facilities
for track and baseball. Twenty-two tennis courts and four practice fields
for mass games have been built near the Gymnasium.
STUDENT UNION
The Student Union was organized in 1932. The University has taken
over Madison Hall for use as a center of student activities under the supervision
of the Union of which all students are considered members. The affairs
of the Union are conducted by the Student Senate. Facilities are offered for
meetings of students organizations and groups and a social program is carried
forward throughout the session.
In the reading room are newspapers from many of the cities in the South
and East. Recreation rooms are also provided. Offices of College Topics, the
Magazine, Corks and Curls, the Dulaney Memorial Library and the Student
Self Help Bureau are located in the building.
PUBLICATIONS
College Topics is a bi-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.
The University of Virginia Magazine is a literary journal published seven
times a year by students and is sponsored by the Jefferson Society.
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.
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