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REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT

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resources at hand and the needs of thousands of teachers and
students, to budget the summer sessions on an inferior plane is
to misuse great investments, is unfair to the teachers and students
who devote, at much sacrifice, their valuable summer period to
higher training to meet the needs of the children and people of
North Carolina.

THE EXTENSION DIVISIONS

The extension divisions, despite their democratic educational
objectives of making "the campus coextensive with the boun-
daries of the commonwealth,' were forced by the heavy de-
pression cuts to contract the boundaries of their wide services to
the people. The nature of the times and the needs of the people
call ior a reinvigoration of the extension services. The unemploy-
ment situation with its problems of human morale and its oppor-
tunities of retraining and higher training, the responsibilities of
the new leisure for better educational and recreational use of
lime, and the existing statewide plans for the education of adults
for self development toward a more intelligent understanding and
social mastery of our complex society, make imperative a more
adequate extension of the university among the people.

THE LIBRARIES

Basic to the work of the classrooms and laboratories, the
departments, the professional schools, the graduate school, the
summei schools, and the extension division, are the libraries
around which turn today the significance and quality of the work
and life of students and teachers, scholarship and research, the
colleges and the university. We must more than restore, we must
advance the support; and add to the high potential of our libraries
ao the lea! intellectual and spiritual dynamoes of both the modern
university and modern society.

RESEARCH

Where there is a great library and modern laboratories there
is great research. We will not now analyze the structure, the allo-
cation, and the coordination of research in our three institutions.
As the center of the graduate school, the major concentration of
research in the humanities, the biological sciences, the physical
and mathematical sciences, and the social sciences, both by the