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Title: A hand book of Virginia
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Virginia. Dept. of Agriculture and Immigration Koiner, George W. (George Wellington), 1852-1939
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Publisher: Richmond, Everett Waddey Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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gh school in each of theten congressional districts. School Libraries Recent legislation has made liberal provisions for establishingboth permanent and traveling school libraries. The Departmentof Public Instruction estimates that no less than four or five hun-dred new school libraries will be opened in Virginia during thenext twelve months. Institutions of Higher Learning So high a standing have Virginias institutions of learning thather colleges number among their students pupils from almost everyState in the Union. The State has four splendid Normal Schools,maintained by State aid, for the preparation of women for thework of teaching in the public schools, located as follows: FarmvilleHarrisonburg, Fredericksburg and Radford, Virginia. The Virginia Polytechnic Institute at Blacksburg and theUniversity of Virginia at Charlottesville are among the foremostinstitutions of the kind in this country. The Virginia MilitaryInstitute at Lexington, also a State institution, affords excellent
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s a oZ • o 71 instruction in military science, being second only to the UnitedStates Military Academy at West Point. In addition to these State institutions of higher learning, thereare many excellent private and denominational colleges, as well asWashington and Lee University, a private institution of high rank. It will thus be seen that Virginia has a complete system ofpublic instruction, extending from the primary grades to the uni-versity and the technical schools, and many private high schools,academies and colleges. Industrial training has been introduced into the public schoolsof some of the cities and towns, and the State Board of Educationhas made provision for introducing instruction in agricultureinto the rural public schools, as well as in high schools previouslymentioned. The Virginia School for the Deaf and the Blind at Stauntonis one of the most efficient of its kind in the country. Virginia maintains an efficient system of public schools for

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