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REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT

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Mr. Chairman and Members of the Board of Trustees:

We shall presently ask the three deans of administration to sum-
marize their able reports. The controller will then make a summary
analysis of the present and requested budgets. To the new deans of
administration, Dr. W. C. Jackson, Mr. R. B. House, and Colonel J. W.
Harrelson, I wish to express our deep appreciation of their coöperation
and leadership, ability and understanding, alertness and wisdom in the
complex responsibilities of institutional administration, and their fair-
ness and patience in the difficult but sure processes of consolidation;
and to the controller for his wide knowledge, manifold ability, and his
unceasing work in behalf of a balanced budget which takes of his
devoted life ever resilient with youthful spirit and completely given to
his university and his state.

I am glad to report that Dr. Julius I. Foust, President Emeritus
of the Woman's College, and President Eugene C. Brooks, President
Emeritus of the North Carolina State College, are gathering material
for the writing of the history of their respective colleges in their work
as university research professors of education, in addition to their work
as educational advisers based on their long and distinguished service
to public education and the State. We would not now anticipate with
eulogy this deeply needed and highly valuable fulfillment of their
manifold public services and this ripening of their historic values to
our generation and the generations to come. They are still building
the monuments which will ever be "the witnesses of their immortality."

In the last annual report we discussed the steps, processes, and
achievements in consolidation and the internal reëxamination of the
institutions by committees of the trustees, the faculty, the alumni, and
the students. As a result of these studies, changes in the curriculum
have already been made at State College and at the University in
Chapel Hill. At Chapel Hill foundations have been laid for a lower
college of two years, with provisions made, subject to the budget, for
general courses in the social and biological sciences. Curricular revisions
are now under consideration at the Woman's College.

One of the chief results of the studies have been some changes in
student and dormitory life at the Woman's College and at State Col-
lege. The deanship of women has been established at the Woman's