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SOCIOLOGY DEPARTMENT RENAMED

Letters from Professor Floyd N. House and Dean George O. Ferguson recommending the
inclusion of "anthropology" as part of the name of the Sociology Department, in which the
subject is now taught, having been laid before the Board by the President, the Board adopted the
following resolution

RESOLVED by the Board of Visitors of The Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia
that the name of the Department of Sociology in the College of Arts and Sciences be and it is
hereby changed to the Department of Sociology and Anthropology