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reservation and educational development. Whatever be the set-
backs and frustrations, we must never give up the struggle. All
three institutions have responsibilities that are insistently re-
newed with the perennial stream of youth who in large part come
to college for personal development, social insight, and spiritual
resources to play a more understanding, and sometimes a more
venturesome, part in remaking a broken world in need of the
best that youth has to give. Let us not slam doors on youthful
hopes. Let us always seek to keep open the windows of the mind.
Without the free struggles of student democracies with all the
risks and failures, there can develop little real freedom. Without
the freedom of the colleges and universities democracy will perish
in the land of its birth.

NEED FOR INCREASED APPROPRIATIONS

A part of this democratic struggle for a wider human free-
dom is the struggle for appropriations more adequate for realizing
the responsibilities and opportunities of our whole university.
Even at the point of the highest per capita state support our in-
stitutions have been on a basis of low salary scales and inadequate
general support as compared with the salary scales and general
support of the privately endowed and state universities in the
Association of American Universities. We will not unduly em-
phasize that point here but will confine ourselves simply to the
figures of our three institutions as follows:

1928-1929
Average enrollment
in regular session

University ................................. 2877
N.C. State................................... 1562
Woman's College ....................... 1778

State
Appropriation

$894,000
451,036
465,000

The present appropriations are respectively $746,000, $363,-
000, and $343,000. On the basis of the 1928-29 per capita costs,
based on the average attendance in the regular session, and the
present likely average attendance in the regular session, respect-
ively placed at 2950, 1850, and 1750, the appropriation figures
should be approximately: $1,100,000, $540,000, and $460,000. The
combined appropriations, if based on the former per capita costs
and the present average attendance, would be nearly $650,000
over the present appropriations. If for the next biennium we
increased the appropriations by $850,000, we would still be $300,-