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REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT

and will next year take his oral examination for his doctorate before
the combined departments of botany and the division of science. The
botanical library, built up through the periodical exchanges and
library collections of many decades and the unique Ashe Herbarium
on the George Watts Hill Foundation recently added to the Coker
botanical collection, the greenhouse and experimental station at State
College, together with the laboratory and statf resources of the
departments, give added value and distinction to both departments
and a wider opportunity for botanical and basic agricultural research
in North Carolina and the South. The recognized excellence of depart-
ments and schools, differentiated in functions but consolidated in the
values of one graduate school, will focus and reënforce the vigor and
variety of the intellectual life of each institution and deepen the
content and value of the whole university.

THROUGH COÖPERATION NORTH CAROLINA CAN BECOME ONE OF THE
DISTINGUISHED INTELLECTUAL AND SPIRITUAL CENTERS
OF THE WORLD

The coördination and consolidation of our three state institutions
of higher learning; the coöperation of the State College and the
Woman's College with the colleges in their neighborhoods, and the
coöperation of the University at Chapel Hill with its next door
neighbor, Duke University; and, in general, the coöperation of the
consolidated university with all the schools, colleges, institutions,
departments, agencies, and enterprise of the people, will make possi-
ble the development in North Carolina of one of the great intellectual
and spiritual centers of the world.

Coöperation, not abdication, is the advancing position of the
consolidated University of North Carolina. To this we give our hands
and summon the people to her side for a great American adventure
in creative coöperation. We take our stand with youth as, in the midst
of a shattered world, they look beyond the confusions of the hour and
dream the commonwealth that is to come.