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In the German Department, report of the death of Dr. W. D. Toy. The President desires to go to the limit allowed in payment of salary to Mrs. Toy, which seems to be completion of this month's salsry and payment of an extra month, but he will go farther if allowed.

Certain minor personal items such as part-time instructors, etc., were not reported to the Trustees, being considered more in line with the assistant and teaching fellow grades which are handled directly without the details having to go to the Trustees.

On motion, approval was given to the admission of the following three students under sixteen years of age: Enka Zimmermann, Nelson Hairston and Edwin Kahn.

Prof. T. S. Johnson reported that the new $40,000 stadium at State College was completed. He asked authority for borrowing from the Public Works Administration an additional $10,000 at four percent for twenty-five or thirty years in order to complete an additional eighth section furnishing 900 seats in addition to the 6,700 previously built.

The following resolution was offered:

"Resolved, that the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees of the University of North Carolina hereby approves the action of the athletic stadium committee of N. C. State College in applying for a loan of $10,000 from the public Works Administration under the same terms and conditions and restrictions as applied to the $40,000. loan already made by the Reconstruction Finance Corporation for erection of a stadium at State College."

On motion of Dr. Poe, seconded by Mr. Whedbee, the foregoing resolution was unanimously adopted.

At this point the meeting went into executive session and heard a report from Mr. Dudley W. Bagley, chairman of the sub-committee appointed to make a survey on State College. On motion of Mr. Murphy, the report was received with thanks to the committee for its excellent report.

Dr. Poe for the Committee on Visitation and Assistance made the following recommendations for the committee:

1. That all appointments and removals of faculty members and members of the administrative staff be made only upon recommendation of the President to the Board of Trustees or Executive Committee.

2. That rooms be equipped at the Raleigh and Greensboro units for use by the President as offices when he is at those institutions, to the end that he may use the same while at these institutions for conferences with members of their faculties, administrative staffs and student bodies, and conduct such other business as he shall see fit.

3. That each faculty member of the Consolidated University be notified by the Executive Committee that she or he is employed by the Trustees of the University of North Carolina and is subject to assignment to duty under the directions of the President, and with the approval of the Board of Trustees or Executive Committee, to any one or more of the several units of the University.

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On motion of Mr. Tucker the foregoing recommendations were approved and adopted.

President Graham made his report with special reference to committees set up at the three Units.

President Graham stated that when it was necessary during the past three years to make salary cuts under the State law and failing revenues, the Trustees thought it wise that professors on the Kenan Foundation share alike with their fellow teachers, and take the same percentage reduction in salaries. The amount of the cut on Kenan Professors has been set aside as a reserve fund and with the current year's operation will total $43,000. He asked permission to set up this reserve fund as an Emeritus Kenan Professorship Fund to take over at a salary of $2000 tO $2400 per year members of the staff whose condition is such that they should be put on limited service or relieved of their regular duties. This, in principle, would not be diverting the regular $75,000 annual income for Kenan Professorships - merely using the percentage cuts from Kenan Professor's salaries to establish a pension fund which will not only be a timely help to the University, but may encourage others to extablish similar funds to honor the distinguished service of men no longer able to carry on.

The use of this reserve from the Kenan Professorship Fund would seem to be well within the wording of the provisions covering the Foundation.

Mr. Parker moved that approval be given to the request.

Seconded and carried.

President Graham stated that the Faculty Committee on Grounds, Buildings, Fields, Forests, and Lake Area, in a meeting held September 28, 1933, recommended that the town of Chapel Hill be permitted to use the site below the lake dam overflow, now used temporarily as a public bathing place but which is without any proper facilities for such use, for such time as the Trustees see fit, on condition that the Town of Chapel Hill erect the proper bath houses, toilet facilities, and any other structures that may be deemed necessary for cleanliness and hygiene by this Committee, and by the State Board of Health, and that it be made the duty of this Committee to see that the provisions of this recommendation be properly carried out by the Town of Chapel Hill, and that proper supervision be provided by the town.

On motion, the above request was granted.

Governor Ehringhaus read a telegram from Gen. Hugh Johnson, Administrator of the N.R.A., requesting the release of President Graham to work out an economic education plan for the consuming public. After discussion, in which the sentiment was unanimous that President Graham's services could not be spared at this time without serious detriment to the University , the following resolution was unanimously adopted:

"While appreciating the honor and opportunity of his designation and not desiring to stand in the way of his expressed personal desires to go, yet feeling that his presence in North Carolina is so essential and necessary to the cause of education and the success of the University consolidation now in progress, this Committee does not feel that Dr. Graham can be spared at this time and expresses the wish that he may decide to remain at his present post."

President Graham then stated that in view of the sentiment above expressed, he would remain at the University.

NOTE

By order of the Board of Trustees of the University of North Carolina, and through the generosity of Mr. John Sprunt Hill, of Durham, the annual report of the President to the Board of Trustees is being distributed among University alumni and friends of education in North Carolina.

The report covers the year 1932-1933 and was made to the trustees at their regular winter meeting, in Raleigh, on January 31, 1934.

Because of its vital relation with the present report and because it is President Graham's outline of a manifold university of the people, his inaugural address, delivered November 11, 1931, is made a part of this pamphlet.

It is Mr. Hill's desire and that of the Board of Trustees that North Carolina citizens should know the underlying objectives of their consolidated University, and how through coördination and consolidation of three great institutions a unique university type is being developed in and for North Carolina.

REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT

To the Board of Trustees,

The University of North Carolina:

I have the honor herewith to submit my report for the current year.

In this period of recovery and reëxamination the colleges and universities should lead, not lag, in the intellectual and spiritual quest for a less haphazard economic order and a fairer way of life for all people. As a part of the plan of reconstruction, let us make fresh adaptations of the opportunities of our consolidated university to meet great human needs in this most hopeful adventure of our generation. While in the mood to look forward on new social frontiers, let us as a resource of recovery look back and remember the rocks out of which our three institutions were hewn, the people of the state who have sustained and given them hope through all the years of their foundation, struggle, and growth, and the unlisted men and women whose lives and spirit will always be deeply interfused in the University of North Carolina.

As eminently representative of that unbroken line, Dr. Julius I. Foust, for more than a score of years President of the Woman's College, is with us this morning bringing to this present hour an indomitable will in his work of high devotion and faithful public service. We also rejoice to say that Dr. Eugene C. Brooks, for a decade President of the State College of Agriculture and Engineering, is happily restored to the College and the University after a gallant fight to carry on his devoted life and distinguished leadership in our state. From that day in the late eighteenth century when the youthful Revolutionary soldier and co-framer of the Federal Constitution, William R. Davie, stood under the poplar in the woods on a hill in Orange and envisaged the first state university to open its doors in America, on through the days of the foundational masonry of Pullen, Polk, Leazer, Primrose, Winslow, Alexander, Bailey, Tucker, Upchurch, Fries, Winston, Williams, Charles W. Dabney, Walter H. Page, and the other pioneer Wataugans, legislators, and citizens west of Raleigh and of Charles D. McIver and his colleagues west of Greensboro, down to this hour of the twentieth century, we

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see in our mind's eyes the long line of those who in this and other centuries laid out the ground on which we stand today.

MEMORIALS OF 1933

We recall this morning the faces and spirit of the members of this body who have died in the brief thirty months of your existence as a consolidated board. Committees of trustees have recorded and will record your memorials of the lives and services of these honored, beloved, and lamented members. No word of mine is needed. I simply pause with you and call their names in recognition of their private virtues and public service, and in commemoration of their pioneer work as members of the first consolidated Board of Trustees of the University of North Carolina: C.W. Gold, B.F. Shelton, C.A. Penn, A.J. Connor, J.D. Murphy, A.A. Shuford, J.M. Horner, J.G. Murphy, E.S. Parker, Jr., and R.N. Page.

In the year since our last January meeting we have lost by death from the several faculties, Dr. Eric A. Abernethy, Professors E.C. Branson, P.W. Price, W.D. Toy, and W.B. Cobb.

Eric A. Abernethy, valiant, generous, lovable, was a physician whose ministry of healing carried him across the blasted fields of France as lieutenant colonel in the United States Army Medical Corps. A battle wound, cumulative suffering, and consequent physical misfortune lay back of his resignation and later tragic and lamented death after thirteen years of unsparing work as community and university physician.

Eugene C. Branson was Kenan Professor of Rural SocialEconomics, director of county surveys in many parts of the United States, founder of Know-Your-Own-County clubs and the North Carolina Club, editor of the University News Letter, with its weekly wideflung package of socially disturbing facts and figures, an eloquent evangel of the live-at-home idea for two decades, and the dynamic center of a constantly radiating wave of light out of Chapel Hill that made a campus minister to a commonwealth. He was nationally distinguished as a rural-social-economic philosopher and locally beloved as neighbor, citizen, teacher, and genial spirit, who will always abide to keep us eager to make our civilization in the pattern of his dreams.

P.W. Price, an alumnus of the Lowell Textile School, became assistant in the Textile School at State College in 1918, and in 1925,

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because of his versatile musical abilities, was appointed by President Brooks to be director of music. He was past president of the North Carolina and Southern Glee Club associations. As director of the State College band, he won the praise of John Philip Sousa. A fine moral influence, the dean of students and the president of the College leaned upon him as he lived his friendly life close to the center of the musical, athletic, and campus life of State College students who loved him and will always remember him as "Daddy Price."

Walter Dallam Toy, eminent linguist in a family of notable linguists, was for forty-eight years head of the German Department and forty-three years secretary of the faculty of the University at Chapel Hill; scholar, teacher, gentleman, of quietly humorous and penetrating insight, ever a courtly presence, reminiscent of the best of the old South, graciously softening the strident noises of the new. In his declining years he asked no quarter of his high conception of his duty. Against the solicitude of his family, he went to the opening faculty meeting this past fall as a stricken soldier going back into the line to make his last stand. The faculty, seeing him rise to make a motion, broke into affectionate applause whose sweet remembrance he cherished in those last days when he quietly slipped away to join the deathless fellowship of teachers and students. He teaches on as we remember him.

William Battle Cobb was Professor of Agronomy at the State College and a recognized authority on soils. This shy scholar in these years of deep salary cuts, heavy drainage upon body and mind, of frustrations of plans and hopes, went on quietly pounding away at the fundamentals of the state's life. Though a sick man, he would go to the soils convention in Chicago to give of himself and bring back to his college and state the fruits of the latest researches. The manuscript on soils which he had just completed is a monument to his scientific scholarship and a useful legacy to State College and the University in any plan for the reconstruction of the state by a people whom he would have master their soils on the way to a mastery of their destiny. By name and inheritance William Battle Cobb was suggestive of the best of the old University, and by cultural and scientific insight he was at the center of the purpose and potentialities of State College in the manifold University of all the people.

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dent of the University and President of the old A. and M. College, and Edwin Anderson Alderman, Professor in the old State Normal College and President of the University, brilliant, valorous, and eloquent interpreters of the democratic faith whether at work in West Greensboro or Chapel Hill or West Raleigh. We know now that they made bricks without straw and are part of the common heritage in the intellectual and spiritual consolidation of the University of North Carolina.

SUMMARY FIGURES AND SIGNIFICANCE

The present three-fold structure of the University is outlined in the figures which are summarized in a folder placed in your hands for further study. The capital investment in the three plants totals $21,797,272. The current maintenance and operation costs of the three plants amount to $2,678,440. The total living alumni of the three institutions number 42,164, and the students in residence this fall number 5,142. The state appropriations to the institutions have dropped from the maximum figures of $894,000 for the University at Chapel Hill to $426,000, from $451,036 for State College to $205,250, and from $465,000 for the Woman's College to $200,420 for the current year. The total appropriation has dropped from a maximum of $1,810,036 to the present total of $831,670. The cut in appropriations is fifty-four per cent since 1929.

We cannot too frequently emphasize the meaning of these figures. They are not cold figures on a page. They are warm with the struggles of a state, its people, and their institutions to carry on; courageous with the sacrifice of parents and the pluck of students. These figures are vivid with the high will of teachers to teach their best against the heavy odds of worry about unpaid grocery bills, lapsed insurance policies, arrears on house payments, misgivings about their provision for their children. Scholars and teachers of incalculable value to the state and of national and international distinction have resisted many calls. They are here holding the line for North Carolina.

THE RESPONSIBILITY OF TRUSTEESHIP

It is especially the responsibility of the trustees to restore for them the facilities and opportunities, the unworried freedom of mind and spirit to do their best work in North Carolina and the South which deeply need the best that our schools, colleges, and universities

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can give. The trustees of the University in accepting their trusteeship assumed a sacred responsibility. They hold in their keeping a public trust greater than any private interest whatsoever. It is our faith that you will not for any consideration hold the garments or speak the cause of those who would hurl the stones of death.

It is our trust and our strength that in the dark watches of the depression you will not deny your trusteeship in the face of any who would mistakenly betray great institutions and agencies of the people's life to serve a passing hour. One of the things we live by is a faith in our schools and institutions, become flesh and blood in many men and women present here this morning. The public schools, state departments, humanitarian institutions, colleges and University have stood with and for the state to the limit of their slashed resources and beyond. We appreciate the fact that in a dark time of closed banks and wide despair the Governor, with your backing, stood valiantly against social and intellectual destruction and laid the basis, we trust, for general recovery and reconstruction. This reconstruction must be intellectual and spiritual or our economic recovery will but set in motion again unmastered forces that will bring on a more gigantic economic breakdown and a more terrible social chaos.

The University, along with the schools, departments, and institutions, has made drastic readjustments. We have cut deep in vital places to the cost of men and women who have given their best against the days of despair and deserve your best in the days of hope. The men and women of the University have not only been engaged in a work of readjustment but also in a work of reëxamination of themselves and their institutions as a basis for the reconstruction of the university and the state.

INWARD REËXAMINATION OF THE INSTITUTIONS BY TRUSTEES, ALUMNI, STUDENTS, AND FACULTIES

In this work of reëxamination, committees of trustees, citizens, alumni, students, and the faculties have severally or jointly been engaged. I wish in your name and in the name of the University to acknowledge gratefully the coöperative spirit and indispensable help of all groups of all three institutions. Committees of the trustees for the respective institutions, as subcommittees of the general committee on consolidation appointed by the Governor under your authority,

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have made and are making studies and reports whose vital information and understanding of the problems contribute, and will contribute, to the processes of intelligent consolidation.

COÖPERATION OF ALUMNI

The alumni of State College have appointed a special committee on consolidation whose reports, still in the makings are characterized by first-hand information and far-sighted interest. The president and the executive committee of the State College Alumni Association have shown a fine spirit of coöperation. There are no more hopeful supporters of consolidation than representative alumnae of the Woman's College, who see in it the assurance of the maintenance and advancement of a distinctly woman's college of the highest quality and widest value. The alumni of the several institutions have had a joint good will meeting in Anson County. Last month in Davidson County the three alumni bodies, while keeping their separate autonomous organizations, organized the first association of consolidated alumni of the one University. The December assembly of the University alumni at Chapel Hill voiced in the address of their president a vigorous faith in the fact and values of a fair and intelligent consolidation, and a vital interest in the sympathetic but critical and manifold reëxamination of the curriculum and life of the three institutions, now under way by trustees, alumni, teachers, and students.

PARTICIPATION OF STUDENTS

Representative students in the three institutions are making studies and recommendations of their own with regard to student life, health, athletics, publications, examinations, teaching, curriculum, student honor, and self-government. Requests for separate library reference shelves on the college curriculum and the contemporary educational experiments being carried on in American colleges came from several groups of students at two of the institutions. Honor students in the School of Agriculture at State College are proceeding to assemble suggestions from a large number of students and former students for the improvement of the School of Agriculture and for coöperation in the development of an agricultural policy for the state. Student committees in all three institutions are at work separately and jointly with the deans of students and faculty committees on student life and

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welfare. The secretaries of the Young Men's Christian Association at State and Carolina, and the secretary of the Young Women's Christian Association at the Woman's College, are making plans for coöperation in the study and reënforcement of the moral and religious life of the students in all three institutions.

THE HONOR PRINCIPLE IN STUDENT LIFE

An illustration of the value of a sense of student responsibility and moral autonomy is found in an increasing number of students at Chapel Hill, who in a resolutely sincere and concerted way are revivifying and advancing the honor principle in student life. A large number of students, in addition to their general sentiment of honor against cheating, have definitely accepted the individual responsibility of reporting to the student council any case of cheating within their knowledge as a matter of their own personally-pledged obligation of honor. All cases of cheating are now a matter of the exclusive jurisdiction of the students. Student leaders of six or seven years' residence on the campus say there are now a larger number of students at Chapel Hill who feel a sense of personal and individual obligation of honor to clean out any forms of dishonor than at any time within their memory. The students are sensing the danger—a danger common to any democracy—of becoming a part of what they tolerate. They are therefore driving out those who betray the public trust and trade in the temple of honor.

We of the faculty feel more keenly that it is our responsibility to keep alive and sensitive this rekindled spirit of honor, freedom, and self-government, not to the end that students will be afraid to be dishonorable but that they will want to be honorable. It is not so much that they will be miserable in dishonor but that they will find inward growth and happiness in the open life of honor. We stand committed to this not only for its own sake of honest scholarship but also as teaching a way of life. Self-development comes most truly and deeply from within. Education comes from within the life of the individual student and within the self-governing democracy of students as they grow not only in knowledge and skill but also in honor and the inner life. During the last four months a score of students were reported by fellow students and suspended from college by the student council for cheating on quizzes and examinations. Within the last nine months a star member of a varsity athletic team in one of