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THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA

than ever before by reason of their functional advancement and
consolidated unity. The State Teachers' Colleges will best serve
the general welfare and the high purposes for which they were
founded, not by making unnecessary attempts to duplicate the
functions of the threefold university, but by fulfilling their own
great functions as Teachers' Colleges.

Within the clearly outlined framework of functional con-
solidation the more vital processes of intellectual and spiritual
consolidation are quietly underway, re-enforcing the autonomous
values of each institution. It would not be un-natural if there
should be some who would continue to fail to see much beyond
their own particular institution or even department. The frag-
mentary, negative, and even deprecatory attitudes toward con-
solidation are in large part giving way to positive appreciation of
its present values and potentialities. The central administrative
council of representatives of the three institutions meet quarterly,
and sometimes much more often according to the need, to advise
the administration on larger policies. Representative faculty com-
mittees in each institution, chosen by the faculties, are function-
ing with solid democratic and educational values for each insti-
tution. Faculty meetings in the three centers have become more
really educational forums of ideas and policies.

STUDENT LIFE

The dormitories, eating facilities, and general campus life
have been improving with lessons from each campus. More
generous, but still inadequate, provision has been made for fac-
ulty and older student participation in scholastic and general
guidance of individual students. With the growth of the freedom
of thought and citizenship comes a rise in the student sense of
intellectual and moral responsibility and the more possible de-
velopment of the character and personality of the individual
student freely grappling with the issues, obligations, and oppor-
tunities of our student democracies. The remarkable work of
the Dean of Women at the Woman's College is a most recent and
encouraging illustration of the values of leadership and guidance
of students for larger freedom, higher responsibilities, and finer
citizenship. The educational assimiliation of intercollegiate ath-
letics as a voluntary student activity is an unsolved problem that
is certainly not to be solved by making intercollegiate athletics
a contest in subsidies rather than a contest in unpurchased rep-