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our scheme at all. In our country they continued their general education. They went ahead with more elementary history or language or some . To get out of this difficulty, we have established all over the country 485 junior colleges which means that taken with the high school, the junior college completes what has been done in the German or French . We are getting out of the inconsistencies we used to be in. That movement is so fundamental that the trustees cannot neglect it if they are to look wisely and discreetly into higher education in this state. The movement has not had much influence in this state and in a number of states. The junior college is a different kind of opportunity, different kind of purpose. I commend to you the study of this trend in which we are making different lines of separation.

The third trend is: This matter of consolidation which has been treated so thoroughly by your survey committee and Consolidation Commission is itself nothing so very new. Your Governor said that it had been in the minds of the people for a number of years.

In 1912 Kansas which had a state university, state agricultural college and three normal schools, wiped out five separate boards and regents and created a single board. It had control of all of the institutions. They did not, however,select a single executive officer like a chancellor. Conditions in Kansas went on from that beginning until in 1923. There was a feeling that what was hoped for was not being accomplished very well. This board of paid members did not seem to be able to comprehend the problems involved and therefore not very much was done. The State changed the law again and put in the place of this board a board of non-paid nine members. This board is still functioning. They have recognized that they likewise find it impossible to do the type of coordination the State should have. They want coordination to the point that we have it here, a single executive.

The State of Oregon has sought to accomplish the same thing. In 1912 they created a board of higher curricula leaving the three boards in control which approved all recommendations in changes of courses to be offered. This it was thought would improve duplication but did not prove to be very satisfactory. In 1929 all boards and regents in the State were abolished and a single board was created. A survey was made as this one and recommended the allocation of functions among institutions and recommended the creation of a single executive officer. The institution received the reports. It, of course, limited some of their functions. They were not altogether satisfied. Finally the board Itself has decided to elect a single chancellor. The experience of the states all over the Nation has been so conclusive on one point that I would like for you to have that experience as a background. A board has been tried and proved ineffective. North Dakota, Iowa, Oregon, Mississippi, Kansas - all want to establish a chancellor over tne different institutions. The one point that is a source of strong is that in all the movements of consolidation, the consolidation in spirit can be achieved only by the uniting by executive control the units of the institution."

Judge Winston offered the following resolution:

"WHEREAS: The consolidation of the University of North Carolina, The North Carolina College of Agriculture and Engineering, and the North Carolina College for Women, as contemplated in and provided for by chapter 202, Public Laws of North Carolina, 1931, in the initial stages, will denmand greater personal supervision, direction and contact with each of said institutions uhan it is possible for this Board to give; and

WHEREAS, The Report of the Commission on University bonsolidation, based upon the Report, Findings of Pact, and Recommendations of the Survey Committee, now before us, point out and clearly show the major lines along which such consolidation must be had gradually and as time and experience will demonstrate;

BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED BY THIS BOARD:

First: That this Board adopt the findings of fact and recommendations of the Commission on the University Consolidation now before us;

Second, That this Board proceed at once to elect from its membership an Executive Committee of eight persons, to compose the said committee as provided for in said report and of which committee the Governor of North Carolina shall be ex-officio chairman;

Third, That this Board hereby delegates to and confers