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REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT

The qualified college students should all approach their life and
work from a broad foundation with special provision, if needed, for
special interests and aptitudes in the first years and with special pro-
vision, if needed, for general and allied interests in the upper years of
major concentration. There should be more culture in agriculture and
technology and more social science in engineering and the exact
sciences. The manufacturer, for example, should know sociology along
with machines and markets. The farmer must know economics as well
as plants and soils. The lawyer should know social pathology as well
as criminology. The doctor should be a philosopher and minister of the
spirit as well as the body. What I am trying to suggest, along with a
concern for individual variations, aptitudes, and special interests, is
the general need for the broad approach to the most intense specializa-
tion, the overview of life and of its most special skills and deepest
concentration.

To this end it is not duplication in the threefold University for the
fundamental curriculum to meet the needs of personality and society
whether the student be in Raleigh, Chapel Hill, or Greensboro. Farmers,
lawyers, doctors, manufacturers, homemakers, teachers, engineers,
social workers, pharmacists, foresters, writers, business men, scholars,
and ministers are all human beings. However much they differ and
however technical and separate their work, they are joint heirs of a
great cultural heritage. In personalities, work, citizenship, and life they
all need something of the humanities, the exact sciences, the social
sciences, philosophy, and religion. Resourced in the intellectual and
spiritual treasures of the race they can become better workmen and
nobler human beings. Youth needs the development not only of special
vocational and professional skills but also, in a broad and fundamental
way, of the whole personality through which to work, live and play its
part in the modern world. The colleges and universities need to develop
the best in our youth, and the world needs to develop the best in our
colleges and universites, so that the world will receive the best that
youth has to give. We hope in a time, critical with changes wide and
deep, and here in North Carolina strategic with traditions, resources,
and opportunities, to provide a curriculum, to maintain and select the
indispensable company of scholars and teachers, to coördinate, con-
solidate, and develop the resources of our University, to coöperate with
our schools, colleges and neighbor university, and to develop the
resources and fulfill the hopes of our people for a fair and beautiful