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REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT

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BUILDING AND EQUIPMENT

To provide physical facilities for such an endowment of agri-
cultural research, we must, if the federal grant does not come
through, ask the state to complete the proposed new chemistry
building now only half provided for in the state appropriations.
State College needs other new scientific laboratories, farms and
farm equipment for agricultural teaching and research. Pressing
physical needs at State College also include: The long needed new
engineering laboratory and two more floors to the civil engineer-
ing building and additional equipment for all the engineering de-
partments, a woolen wing and a synthetic fibre wing to the tex-
tile building, a more adequate renovation of Patterson Hall than
now provided, an adequate auditorium, and two new dormitories.

The Woman's College needs now a new science building, the
renovation of Mclver Building, and two new dormitories.
The University at Chapel Hill is in need of a wing to the li-
brary, a classroom building, the renovation of the Alumni Build-
ing, Caldwell Hall and the old Bynum Gymnasium, seats in
Memorial Hall, and two new dormitories.

ANNIVERSARIES AND ENDOWMENTS

With provision for these buildings and equipment and with
an annual appropriation of two million dollars and more for the
current maintenance of the three institutions, we would have a
sound and appealing basis for large endowments to re-enforce the
resources and enrich the life of great institutions. The state would
then in clear tones assume its democratic responsibility of basic
support of the university of the people. Private benefactors would
not stand afraid of abdication by the state in the event of an in-
crease of gifts and endowments. On such a basis endowments
would not be substitutes for, but supplements to, state support.
The University, of course, in the sources of its life and the con-
trol of its policies, will always belong to the people.

As we approach in close succession the fiftieth anniversary
of the opening of State College and of the Woman's College, and
the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the opening of the
University, we must celebrate these historic anniversaries with
commemorations of the heroic spirit of the past and with large
endowments for greater service inspired by and beyond the anni-
versary years.

Committees of the board of trustees, the faculties, the alumni,