384

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THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA

000 short on such a basis. These hgures computed on this simple
and not all inclusive basis tell their own story and emphasize the
present urgent needs of the three institutions with regard to
faculties, departments, salaries, equipment, upkeep, summer
school, extension, libraries, and research.

THE FACULTIES

We cannot emphasize too often that the faculty is the heart
of the whole university and that the university in all its divisions
goes up or down with the faculty. The several faculties have been
decisively strengthened in a number of departments and need to
be strengthened in more. At Chapel Hill sixteen departments or
divisions of the University have been recently strengthened and
four others are under special consideration now. At the Woman's
College ten departments have been vitally strengthened and five
others need early re-enforcements. At State College nine depart-
ments have been strengthened and six more are under study for
needed strong additions.

To hold the strong and growing young men and women in
the several faculties, to recognize justly the high service of the
able and faithful veterans, and to attract needed professors of
distinguished ability and personality, we need, not high, but de-
cent, salaries to provide the conditions indispensable to their best
work. We also need retirement provisions for teachers in old age
which will provide the basis for security and zestful concentration
during their most creative years on the main work of teaching,
research, and leadership. False economies in the salaries of
teachers and scholarly investigators is at the cost of the training
of youth and the present and future development of the agricul-
tural, industrial, intellectual, and spiritual resources of the com-
monwealth. We must not delay the full restoration of faculty
salaries. Here is a test of our talk about building great institutions
for the youth and people of North Carolina.

THE SUMMER SESSION

We wish also to call especial attention to the need for the
restoration of adequate support of the summer session, the ex-
tension division, the libraries, and research. The summer sessions
make possible the use during a fourth of the year of our admin-
istrative overhead and the state investments in the three plants
of approximately twenty-five million dollars. In view of these