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REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT

creative intellectual and spiritual power. All gone the training, the
potential discoveries, inventions, literature, ideas, and dreams of
youth done to death. Disillusionment to those who killed them! With
all the heroism and idealism of the war, came also the moral and
spiritual damages suffered far from the battlefront by millions caught
in the awful backwash of the war and the wreckage of the values of
human life and personality. Upon the backs of those who fought
the war and whose work sustains a broken and bewildered world are
now loaded the crushing costs of the war to he paid by them, their
children, and their children's children.

Today as the sun makes its way across the world to the armistice
hour, the peoples of Europe and America become still and silent as
they remember their dead and the peace that came. It ties us to all
mankind as we listen to the deep stillness of the millions in their
silent commemorative aspiration for peace. Here in this beautiful
Kenan Memorial Stadium we were silent and joined in the stillness
of the peoples in a spiritual fellowship of the hope for peace on earth
and goodwill toward men. We would be untrue to the spirit of this
University, which has ever given and will ever give her life and her
youth to every call that comes to the idealism and heroism of youth,
if we did not link the purpose of this day to the purpose of this
University and schools everywhere.

The colleges and universities, by virtue of their humane purpose
and the very nature of their social being, have the responsibility of
helping to build a world in which the call to the idealism and heroism
of youth should never again be a call to war. It is their function to
make realistically intelligent and morally heroic the aspirations and
work of mankind toward a warless world, vivid with the unfolding
possibilities of coöperative work and play, valorous with the adven-
tures of physical and social mastery, and beautiful with the creations
of the human spirit.

THE COLLEGE

To these high ends stands the University. At the center of the
University is the college of liberal arts. In these recent decades the
college of liberal arts, as a result of its own incoherence, the advance
of the junior college, and the encroachments of the professional and
vocational schools, has been subjected to a severe defensive reëxami-
nation as to its place in the scheme of higher education. Several funda-