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Mr. Victor Bryant
the College and the State in the way of equipment, maintenance and the added experience of operating on the graduate level.
Persons enrolled in the summer school composed two major groups:
(1) the in-service teachers who desire credits for raising or renweing their present cerificates or creditrs leading to the Master Of Science degree, and
(2) those regular college students who desire to shorten their time for graduation by summer school attendance.
During the war, many students took advantage of Summer School courses in order to accelerate their program and gain as much college credit as possible before being called into the service, and after the war, many veterans attenedd summer school as as to shorten their overall time in colege andd thus make up for some of hte time that was spent in the service.
When all high schools in the State are requiring most of their teachers and all principals to have at least a Master's Degree, the State should provide an institution in the State where this kind of training may be secured.

A. and T. College is the second largest institution of higher education for Negroes in the United States. It has an annual enrollment of more than 3,000 students. At the present time, its enrollment is 2600.
The college campus is composed of 110 acres on which there are 35 buildings. Since hte college was established in 1891, more than 51,000 students have been in attendance, and more than 10,00 have recieved diplomas or certifi-cates. The college has 600 acres of farmland on McConnel road, two miles southeast of the campus. Part of this land is used as a labratory for teaching boys and girls modern methods of farming, and the other is used for raising food for the college and feed for the livestock.