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THE NEW PLAN OF OPERATION council grappled with the central question of allocation of func­ tions. , This is the question I submitted for the consideration of the executive committee more than six months ago. In our analysis we started with the fact that there was to be a distinctly woman's college of four years of arts and sciences. We made an outline analysis on the blackboard of two years of basic courses (with variations based on the aptitudes and choices of individual stu­ dents) running through the whole University with no duplication in schools or curricula in the upper and graduate years. I simply submitted that as one way of consolidation and asked for consid­ eration and criticisms. In the annual report to the full board last January the same question was raised, and the point was made that since graduate work was most highly specialized and costly it should be most highly concentrated. We have thus had the question of the functions of the several divisions of the University raised in the deliberations of three dif­ ferent groups with special regard to engineering: the interinstitutional and state-wide committee of engineers on engineer­ ing education, the trustees' committee on consolidation, and the administrative council. The memoranda prepared by the deans, the engineers, and the faculty members of the administrative council were sent to all members of the board. In one of the most thoughtful papers presented to the com­ mittee on engineering education and made available to the trus­ tees' committee, the administrative council, and to all members of the board, it was proposed that, along with the textile school, a school for specific industries be established at State College, and that the professional school of engineering be established at Chapel Hill. In this school of industries students would be trained for specific work in industries as skilled technicians, operators, and more practical engineers. In the study made for the Society for the Promotion of Engi­ neering Education there is clearly pointed out the need in America for technical schools giving a more intensive training and more practical training for supervising and technical positions in par­ ticular industries and for engineering work of a less highly scien­ tific character. American industries could absorb annually forty to fifty thousand men thus trained. The engineering schools of college grade are not, according to the studies of the society, best suited to meet this wide need. These needs, it is suggested in the studies for the society, can better be met not by colleges or