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DR. A. HOLLIS EDENS president of duke university Some thirty-five years ago, the principal of a Tennessee mountain school wrote a letter to an Emory University official on behalf of one of his students: This is our first commencement, the letter said. In our first class of five there is one boy, the pride of our school. He is a tall fellow, with a brilliant mind, and a very pleasing personality. He wishes to go to college. He will not be able to put out in the money line, for his father is a typical mountain man, serving three or four churches along with his farming. They are splendid people, however, and the boy is bound to make his mark soon. All I want is a chance for him. He is happy to work anywhere ... I feel sure that he could help in office work, mow lawns, fire furnaces — in fact, he is not afraid of hard work. The student was Arthur Hollis Edens. Today, with a long career of scholastic excellence and of distinguished service in the field of education behind him, he still is not afraid of hard work. Ten years have passed since Dr. Edens assumed the Presidency of Duke University. Those years have witnessed tremendous strides in every area of University life — buildings to the value of $18,000,000 have been completed or are now under construction; the total of employees in all capacities has risen 23.5 per cent within the past four years alone; the student body has be- come an increasingly able one; and annual grants for research projects have grown from $70,- 000 to $3,500,000. However, to dwell on the past accomplishments of an individual or of a university is to turn one ' s back on the future. Dr. Edens recognized this when he stated that, on the occasion of his first Founder ' s Day at Duke, he had tried to grasp fully the concept that ' a university is never a completed creation, ' that ' to consider any stage in its development as final is to deny it the contributions and the vigor which each generation brings. ' This philosophy has guided Residential and University policy for the past decade, and in 1 958- 1959, a year of re-examination and of search for new directions, it has become the center of a slowly unfolding concept for the future. All facets of a university — student, faculty, and admin- istrative — contribute to its development, but it is the man at the top whose strength of lead- ership determines along which ideological path the university will progress. With the appoint- ment this year of a Long Range Planning Committee and with the designation of certain long range goals — the raising of the quality rather than the quantity of the student body, provision for increased scholarly research, and the concept of the student as his own teacher — President Edens has proved himself a man of imagination and foresight. He has indeed made his mark.
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