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ADMISSION OF MALE VETERANS:

At a special meeting of the Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia on August 31, 1946, a resolution
was adopted admitting male veterans to Mary Washington College for session 1946-47. As a result, there are

fifty odd male veterans now attending the college. Thus far this policy of admitting men on a temporary basis
seems to have worked out satisfactorily and to the mutual advantage of the veterans and the college. The critical
situation with which the nation is confronted in an effort to take care of the veterans and the normal
college population does not seem to have improved within the last year.

It is, therefore, recommended that the following action be taken:

There was presented to the Board a form of proposed contract between Mary Washington College of the University
of Virginia and Veterans Administration, dated May 27, 1947, by which the College agrees to accept for instruction
during the period from June 16, 1947, to May 31, 1948, inclusive, Veterans who are approved by the Veterans
Administration as entitled to Vocational Rehabilitation Training under Public Law 16 Seventy-eighth Congress,
and to furnish books, tools, equipment, etc., necessary for the satisfactory pursuit of the courses being
given; the terms under which said Veterans are to be accepted by the College being fully set out in said contract.

After consideration of said contract the following resolution was offered and adopted: