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8 REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT

have made and are making studies and reports whose vital information
and understanding of the problems contribute, and will contribute, to
the processes of intelligent consolidation.

COÖPERATION OF ALUMNI

The alumni of State College have appointed a special committee
on consolidation whose reports, still in the makings are characterized
by first-hand information and far-sighted interest. The president and
the executive committee of the State College Alumni Association have
shown a fine spirit of coöperation. There are no more hopeful sup-
porters of consolidation than representative alumnae of the Woman's
College, who see in it the assurance of the maintenance and advance-
ment of a distinctly woman's college of the highest quality and widest
value. The alumni of the several institutions have had a joint good
will meeting in Anson County. Last month in Davidson County the
three alumni bodies, while keeping their separate autonomous organi-
zations, organized the first association of consolidated alumni of the
one University. The December assembly of the University alumni
at Chapel Hill voiced in the address of their president a vigorous
faith in the fact and values of a fair and intelligent consolidation, and
a vital interest in the sympathetic but critical and manifold reëxami-
nation of the curriculum and life of the three institutions, now under
way by trustees, alumni, teachers, and students.

PARTICIPATION OF STUDENTS

Representative students in the three institutions are making studies
and recommendations of their own with regard to student life, health,
athletics, publications, examinations, teaching, curriculum, student
honor, and self-government. Requests for separate library reference
shelves on the college curriculum and the contemporary educational
experiments being carried on in American colleges came from several
groups of students at two of the institutions. Honor students in the
School of Agriculture at State College are proceeding to assemble
suggestions from a large number of students and former students for
the improvement of the School of Agriculture and for coöperation in
the development of an agricultural policy for the state. Student
committees in all three institutions are at work separately and jointly
with the deans of students and faculty committees on student life and