University of North Carolina Greensboro - Pine Needles Yearbook (Greensboro, NC)

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The College, 1914-1915 |URING the year of 1914-1915 the College has not entered upon any entirely new line of work, but has splendidly furthered work already begun or projected. In the College itself self-government, which was planned and initiated last year, has been established, and has proved successful. The management is fully as efficient as under the old system; the effect on the girls is incomparably better. Greater poise and self-control have been shown by the students this year than ever before, while greater self-reliance is displayed by all. The standard of the College has been raised in various ways. The number of units required for entrance has been increased to twelve and a half, — soon to be raised to fourteen; the different courses have been re-arranged and greatly strengthened; and finally, the time of each period has been lengthened so that now hour periods are the rule. This year the College has greatly broadened the scope of its extension work. Now it offers assistance to the home in planning all the details of a house; to the school, both as to the building and the curriculum; to the various clubs of the state, particularly women ' s clubs studying Domestic Economy, by advice and assistance as to organization and programs. During the year lectures and talks have been given at several central points in the state by members of the Faculty. Bulletins, which are of great aid to the housekeeper, have been widely distributed, and a loan library has been collected. Miss Womble, our High School visitor, has continued her work, the influence of which is already being felt in the work of the college. The motto of our College is Service. In this extension work direct and immediate service is rendered any and every community of the state. But in the establishment of self-government, in the reorganization of the curriculum, in the raising of the standards for entrance and graduation, the College has rendered even greater service to the state. For these are the means by which the College will every year produce students better equipped to do their work in the world — students with greater knowledge, a wider horizon, deepened perceptions and a surer grasp of their problem of service.