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Greensboro are on separate campuses, twenty-nine, fifty-one, and
eighty miles apart, representing investments of $9,702,356, $5,322,247,
and $6,772,669; traditions reaching back a century and a half, forty-
nine, and forty-one years; living alumni numbering 17,332, 10,500,
and 14,332; and student bodies of 2,413, 1,488, and 1,241. We do
not stop there, however. We start there. The three institutions, with
all their differences, represent present functions of one university
of the whole people. They have a common basis of democratic sup-
port—a common background of state history. They came from the
womb of the same mother commonwealth. They have a common pur-
pose in the training of youth and the building of a better state and
a nobler society. They should not weaken each other in undue dupli-
cation or destructive antagonisms, but should reënforce and magnify
each other by differentiation, coordination, and consolidation.

The University at Chapel Hill, the first state university to open
its doors, with its college and schools crowned by a graduate school,
is today a member of the Association of American Universities com-
posed of the twenty-nine English-speaking North American univer-
sities most distinguished for scholarship, research, and graduate work
in many fields. The State College of Agriculture and Engineering,
with its treasure house of history and opportunity, represents and
meets in a vital way three of the most basic needs of our people in
their agricultural, textile, and engineering life and enterprises. With
wide-open opportunities and capacities for restoring and advancing
the dignity and greatness of agriculture, and for the intelligent devel-
opment of manifold industries; with scientific, technological, social-
scientific, and cultural resources for a wiser social usefulness to the
people in a region built on farms and factories, what magnificent
vistas open up before the State College of Agriculture and Engi-
neering!

The Woman's College, the lengthened shadow of one of the state's
greatest sons, is North Carolina's proud answer to the need of a
distinctly woman's college in the state plan of higher education. In
America, according to the genius of our people, there is a clearly
developed need for both the co-educational institution and the dis-
tinctly woman's college. In response to the two needs, North Carolina
has made provision for both. The Woman's College, on the basis of
past achievements and present hopes, and through the loyalty, dreams,
and plans of the leaders, faculty, and alumnae of the College and the