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DORMITORIES

President Combs stated that Mary Washington College loses 10 or 12 students in the first
two weeks of the first semester, and by the end of the first semester 60 to 100 have resigned. To
insure adequate filling of the dormitories, three students are placed in each room at the start of
the year. Dormitory space is now needed for 700 students, as follows:

       

200	now living in city homes
200	now living in rented buildings
300	in limiting rooms to two occupants
700

This will greatly increase the cost of operation.

Mrs. Wailes stated that the Mary Washington College Committee is making no recommendation
at this time about dormitory construction, but hopes that the next Legislature will appropriate
fifty per cent of the cost of a dormitory for 300. The enrollment of Virginia students is now about
fifty per cent, and the number of Virginians is decreasing each year.

President Combs stated that the last State appropriation for dormitories was in 1914, and
that the students had largely paid for the buildings at Mary Washington College.