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administration. This is not said defiantly but in all friendliness and
simply as a matter of openness and clearness. It is said with no
personal concern, for it is our faith that whatever the administration,
the freedom of the University, gathering momentum across a century,
and the democracy of the people, sometimes sleeping but never dead,
will rise in majesty to reassert the intellectual integrity and the moral
autonomy of the University of North Carolina.

This integrity, democracy, and freedom of the University comes
out of its own nature. The idea and structure of the University
evolve through the centuries under the impact of social needs and
youthful hopes. The college and the campus, the professional schools,
the graduate school, the library and laboratories, playhouse and music
hall, the institute of research and the press, the library school and the
democratic extension of the University's life throughout the common­
wealth, are all gradually and organically being integrated into the
idea and structure of this university of the people. In such a free
university we will learn to see in every significant situation—personal,
local, national, or international—the composing elements, whether
geographic, biological, psychological, historical, economic, social,
political, intellectual, or spiritual, or all. This organic university, with
its humanities, natural sciences, and social sciences, has the rootage
of its growth in the experience of the race, the aspirations of the
human personality, and the needs of a changing age. Out of the very
organic structure and quality of the university issue its democracy
and its freedom.

CONCLUSION

Roll Call of Presidents and Muster of Sons

Out of the past, historic with struggles of freedom and democracy,
come figures, living and dead, to stand by us in this inaugural hour
in the woods where Davie, the founder, in the eighteenth century
stood under the poplar and raised the standard of a people's hope.
The lives of the presidents reassure us all with their spiritual pres-
ence and power: Caldwell, the first president, in whose administration
for the first time in America a modern language was given curricular
equality with an ancient language and the first observatory was
established in an American college, and whose communicated social
passion sent Murphey to lay the foundation of the state's public