North Carolina State University - Agromeck Yearbook (Raleigh, NC)

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AGROM ECK The Textile School DR. THOMAS NELSON Dean i OR several years the South has led America r-y in textile development and it now supplies more than one-half of the country ' s annual production of cotton goods. This section is fast establishing dyeing and finishing plants and the present rate of expansion indicates that it will be the center of the knitting industry. The South is also developing a great rayon industry and has some of the world ' s largest plants. The Textile School of North Carolina State College has contributed materially to this industrial development. Its object is first, to train intelli- gent leaders for the future expansion of the South- ern Textile Industry by educating men for profes- sional service in Textile Manufacturing and Textile Dyeing; second, to cooperate with the textile mills and of the South in developing, through scientific research and investigation, newer and better pro- cesses of textile manufacturing. During recent years, the South has made great progress in diversifying its textile industry. This progress has created a demand for intelligent young men who have a sound textile education. To supply this demand the Textile School of State College has been enlarged and is amply equipped to give thorough instruction in the science and practice of all processes involved in manufacturing cotton and rayon into fabrics of utility and beauty. The worth of a school may be measured by the accomplishment of those who have come under its influence. Many graduates of the Textile School have, through perseverance and personal efficiency, become mill owners, presidents, managers, superintendents, assistant super- intendents, overseers of carding, spinning, and weaving, textile chemists, designers, salesmen, machinery draftsmen, efficiency engineers. Textile alumni also hold many positions of re- sponsibility in Commission Houses and with Fabric Converters. FACILITIES FOR RESEARCH While textile manufacturing is an industry of long standing, having much knowledge gained from experience and a rich accumulation of scientific facts, there are yet many problems facing the industry which await solution. The aim of the Department of Textile Research is to apply the princip les of scientific investigation and measurement to the solution of these problems. The research laboratory is equipped with the latest types of testing apparatus, so that the properties of textiles may be measured and compared. This apparatus includes microscopes and a micro-photographic outfit for more closely studying the cause and effect in manufacturing and finishing textiles. Tompkins Hall, the home of the Textile School, was enlarged in 1926 and the remodeled structure furnishes space for a separate unit of machinery which is devoted to experimental work. Page Twenty-nine

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AGROM ECK. The School of Science and Business principal task of the School of Science and Business at State Col- lege is to train men for the profes- sional careers in the industrial and com- mercial world. A generation or so ago there were only a few professions which the colleges and universities were preparing their graduates to enter. The law, medi- cine, and the ministry exhausted the list. But now the number of distinct profes- sions, each with a background of training and a technique of its own, runs up into hundreds. Business administration has shown it- self to be susceptible of scientific study and of organization into distinct courses, each with an objective of its own but all cor- related into one unified curriculum em- b odying the whole professional aim. This aim is not to train men only to succeed in business, but also to succeed in the business of living to become something of a force to improve business and make it serve its highest social ends. In addition to training men for the various fields of business such as positions in industry, banking, retailing and wholesaling, marketing, account- ing, journalism, chemistry, etc., the school also lays the foundation for graduate work leading to positions with the government, or of teaching or research in the colleges and universities. Through its Placement Bureau, the school not only endeavors to place its graduates in the best available positions, but it follows them in their- after- college days and aids in their advancement. B. F. BROWN Dean Page Twenty-eight

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AGROM ECK. The Graduate School Graduate School at North Caro- lina State College was organized and is maintained to meet the needs of men who perform functions and tasks which demand something beyond tech- nical trade training. Agriculture, en- gineering, manufacturing and business are no longer mere occupations. They are, jmt in some of their aspects, professions and sciences. In their largest aspects they are Hk world affairs. They, therefore, need the BL jk I most highly trained scientists and states- BL men which colleges can produce in order HL to cope with the technical and world prob- lems which relate themselves to the tech- nical professions. The Graduate School at North Caro- lina State College offers graduate studies and opportunities for research in all the technical professions for which its undergraduate curricula train men, in the sciences which underlie these technical professions, and in the economic and social aspects of the great processes which men trained in these technical professions seek to develop and guide. During the fall term of 1928- ' 29, seventy persons have been registered in the Graduate School. Thirty-five of these men are candidates for graduate degrees in June, 1929. DR. CARL C. TAYLOR Dean Page Thirty