Richmond, Va. - Miss Alice Carlotta Jackson, daughter of a druggist in this city, has received a notice from Dean J. C. Metcalf of the department of graduate studies at the University of Virginia that her application for admission to the graduate school has been referred to the board of visitors, the governing body of the university, for final decision.

Miss Jackson is a graduate of Virginia Union University and has studied at Smith College in Northampton, Mass. She wishes to pursue advanced studies in French. No provision is made by the State of Virginia for graduate work in any subject for colored s tudents.

Daily papers in Virginia, almost without exception, have called the Jackson case at the University of Virginia a "blow at amicable race relations."

They do not deny that the colored student is entitled legally to have the State provide professional and graduate training, but they claim the colored student ought not to "force" the State by bringing embarrassing legal suits.