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REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT

College to meet a long-felt need. Under her direction is now a counselor
in every dormitory. At State College, beginning with the fall, all fresh-
men are required to live in a dormitory on the campus with student
advisers in every dormitory. A building at the center of the State
College campus has been provided by the dean of administration for
student government, the student leaders, and student activities. In line
with but as a variation from these dormitory policies, the dean of
students at Chapel Hill, in coöperation with student leaders, instituted
experimentally one voluntary freshman dormitory provided with a
number of older students as resident advisers.

One of the most important of the year's recommendations of the
general policies committee, through which cleared all the reports of
the several committees at State College, called for placing the library
administration on a full-time professional basis, the organization of
library departments, and the cataloguing and making available an
unused wealth of periodicals and valuable documentary and source
materials. A full-time and professionally-trained librarian has taken
charge of this library; and the university administration, with, we trust,
your backing, stands committed to the development at State College
of a modern college library responsive to the basic scientific, social-
scientific, cultural, and the fundamental and special agricultural, textile,
and technological needs of the college and the State. The committees,
with all their concern about books and curricula, have not overlooked
the outdoor and play life of students. As the result of a committee
recommendation a more democratically representative athletic council
has been reorganized who propose to develop more adequately at State
College the minor and intramural sports as basic to a wholesome
community life.

Recommendations of imponderable but high value were made by
the general policies committees at both State College and the Woman's
College to the end that the faculty elect their own representatives on
a central faculty committee to discuss with and advise the administra-
tion on the general policies of the college. We now have in each one of
the three institutions such a faculty committee charged with the high
responsibilities of democratic representation, first-hand knowledge, wise
opinion and guidance in the government of the college. The budget of
each college has been made open and available to this faculty com-
mittee in each institution. On the basis of special studies of the budget
and the recommendation of this faculty committee, we have provided