Davidson College - Quips and Cranks Yearbook (Davidson, NC)

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Dr. R. a. Dunn President Board of Trustees THE TRUSTEES The Trustees of Davidson College arc the Administrative directors of the school, and in their hands lies the control of the entire college. This group endeavors, not only to solve the problems of the school as a whole, but to provide for the needs of the students themselves. At the Trustees ' semi-annual meetings they receive reports from the President of the college, who summarizes the vari- ous activities and places before the Board the general needs of the school. Mr. F. L. Jackson reports the college ' s financial situation and aids the Finance Committee in its work. The different faculty Committees, which are in close touch with the students, also report at this time, and help in providing for the boys ' needs. Almost every form of college activities falls under the Trustees ' scope, and no important step can be taken without their ratification. The Trustees are elected for terms of four years by the Presbyteries of North Carolina and Florida, and by the Alumni Associa- tion. The Presbytery of Concord is entitled to elect eight: Mecklenburg, five; Orange and Fayetteville, four each: and ' the other five North Carolina Presbyteries, as well as the three in Florida, elect two. The Alumni Association is especially important in that it selects twelve members of the Board of Trustees. At their meeting in February the Trustees took under consideration several new projects. The most important of these was the authorization of the Buildings and Grounds Committee to make plans and specifications for a new library. This was done in order that construction might be started as soon as sufficient funds were in sight. The Committee was also instructed to have general plans drawn for a new science building, although no definite decision has yet been reached about this matter. In the President ' s report the college ' s present need of several new buildings, including a library, science building, church, dormitory, gymnasium, and social center was stressed. The Trustees also discussed at length ways of keeping Davidson abreast with the most modern ideas of education. This prob- lem is not a new one: and. in an effort to solve it. the Trustees sent ten professors last summer to schools where they could do research work in their individual fields. The result was so successful that next summer the same plan will be followed, and six men will be sent by the Board to various graduate institutions. The idea has not yet received the Trustees ' sanction to become an annual affair, but some program of this kind will be followed in the future. In his report Dr. Lingle proposed a plan that has been very favorably received — a sort of Sabbatical year, applicable to the faculty. Every six or seven years each faculty member will be given a year or six months ' leave of absence in which to study the latest developments in his field. The Trustees have already appointed a Committee to make a study of this plan, and it is quite probable that it will be-adopted in the near future. 28 '