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Seconded by Mr. Haywood Parker. Mr. Cates offered an amendment that it was a matter that the Executive Committee should make recommendation on. Judge Winston said (no motion) that a meeting should be called before the first of January and let this matter be referred to that meeting. Mr. Hicks said that better work would be done by having another committee to do this instead of retelling it to the Executive Committee. Mr. Woodard said he thought Greensboro and Raleigh Vice-Presidents should be settled. Mr. Kemp Battle offered an amendment that the committee report back to a special meeting or the January meeting, as the Governor might determine, in order to allow a little extra time if the committee found it necessary in that connection. Judge Parker said that he agreed with Mr. Battle. There is a good deal of feeling on the part of some of the people connected wirh State College that it is being swallowed up by the University. He moved as a substitute that we proceed to the election of vice-presidents at Raleigh and Greensboro and appoint a committee of five to recommend a vice-president for Chapel Hill. Mr. Daniels thought that a committee of the Board should be appointed to consider all three vice-presidents, that the matter should be ended as long as possible before the meeting of the General Assembly and ought not to wait for the January meeting, and that when the vice-presidents were elected they ought to have the opportunity of the committee's aid. He thought that it would be a great mistake to elect without consultation and help of a committee. He moved that it is the sense of this Board that the School of Engineering at State College be strengthened and also the textile Department and that nothing be done to hurt the strength of State College. Mr. Tillett said he was in agreement with Mr. Daniels. Dr. Poe said that he thought it would be dangerous to leave the decision of the two vice-presidents in the air until January. He said that the best interest would be served by going into the selection of vice-presidents for Greensboro and Raleigh.

The Governor stated that the motion before the Board was that the substitute offered by Judge Parker that the Board proceed with tie election of vice-presidents for Greensboro and State College and defer action until some time before January as to the vice-presi-