University of North Carolina Chapel Hill - Yackety Yack Yearbook (Chapel Hill, NC)

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Rosenthal Building and Anna Howard Shaw Dormitory at Greensboro nation, and even the world. Great statesmen, brilliant scientists, farmers, ministers, talented artists, manufacturers, bankers, merchants, lawyers, skilled surgeons, famous journalists, prominent playwrights, eminent, jurists, well-known novelists proudly claim this division of the University as their alma mater. The branch at Raleigh was founded in IS 87 as the North Carolina State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts. In 1917 the General Assembly changed the name to The Xorth Carolina State College of Agriculture and Engineering, which name it retained until the Consolidation Act in 1931. The college is made up of five schools: the School of Agriculture, the School of Engineering, the School of Education, the School of Science and Business, and the Textile School. The institution has twenty-seven buildings on the cam- pus, exclusive of barns, greenhouses, and poultry plants of the School of Agriculture and has an enrollment of approximately two thousand students. The Woman ' s College in Greensboro celebrated its fortieth birthday in April. Charles Duncan Mclver, a graduate of the University, was the founder and first president of this institution. From the very beginning this college flourished and rapidly climbed to a commanding posi- tion among the woman ' s colleges of the nation. Today it enjoys a most enviable reputation and each year draws more and more students from other states and foreign countries. The enrollment now is well over 4 £f ...,«■ ' 2,500 students, who are registered in the College of Liberal Arts and Science, the School of Education, the School of Music, and the School of Home Economics. More than one hundred acres of improved and wooded land comprise the college ' s holdings, valued with the forty-four buildings at more than $6,000,000. The State of North Carolina has truly fostered three fine institutions of higher education, each of which has risen to great heights. It was found, however, that there was much duplication of instruction, which might be eliminated by consolidation. In the Greater Uni- versity of North Carolina facilities for the various branches of instruction will be able to be concentrated at one of the three divisions instead of being scattered in all three. The State College at Raleigh will now ■m ra p— — ft 1 1 Hill Memorial. Library at Raleigh Twenty-one

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X X of the State of 9 North Carolina Provided for by Enactment and put into Effect During the School Year 1932-33 E pluribus unum — a phrase everywhere identified with our great and prolific nation and characterizing the achievement of a union which has changed the course of world history to an immeasurable extent — is now in its connotation more closely identified in the state of North Carolina with the union of our three institutions of higher learning into the Greater University of North Carolina. As the welding of the thirteen separate sovereignties in 1789 resulted in a nation to which the entire world today looks for leader- ship, so will the consolidation of North Carolina College for Women, North Carolina State College of Agriculture and Engineering, and the University of North Carolina in 1931 result in a university which shall be looked toward as the leader in the world of education. Without doubt the three divisions of the University in their separate capacities have in the past enjoyed wide recognition for their eminence in educational fields. The State College at Raleigh has for a long time been looked upon as one of the very finest technological schools in the South, while the Woman ' s College at Greensboro is recognized throughout Dixie as a most exemplary institution for the education of young women. The division of the University at Chapel Hill has long been spoken of in this country and abroad as the light of liberalism in the South, and in acknowledgment of its high position was in 1925 elected to the select American Association of Universities. Cognizant as they were of the excellence of the three units of collegiate educa- tion as separate entities, our wise legislators yet realized that in unity there is strength, and that consolidation of such three fine institutions could re- sult in nothing less than a truly great university repre- sentative of a truly great state. A brief resume of the illustrious history of the three units of the Greater University will serve to in some slight manner show the course of their steady develop- ment. The branch at Chapel Hill was chartered and founded in Washington ' s first administration, taking its place as the first state university in America. The history of this institution is as illustrious as it is long, replete with episodes of courage, patriotism, and sacri- fice. The roll call of its alumni is a succession of names known and respected throughout the state, the Charles B. Aycock Auditorium at Greensboro Twenty

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X X Physics Building at Raleigh lie able to serve its original purpose and devote itself mainly to a curriculum of a techno- logical and agricultural nature. While the Woman ' s College will direct all of its resources towards the manifold training of young women in the fields administered by a pre- eminent college of arts and sciences. At Chapel Hill will be found the School of Grad- uate Education, courses in liberal arts and pure science, School of Commerce, School of Library Administration, Pharmacy School, School of Law, Medical School, School of Public Administration, and all other instruction not fully taken care of by the other two divisions. Under this plan each division of ' the University will specialize in the fields for which it is best fitted to offer instruction of a superior nature. As a result of its ability to concentrate on agriculture ami applied science, the Raleigh division will attain a posi- tion comparable with that of the country ' s greatest technical schools; the Woman ' s College will devote all of its energies toward the development of its fine and liberal arts curriculum and will take its place among the really great woman ' s colleges of the nation; and the division at Chapel Hill because of the decrease in the number of fields encompassed will be able to offer instruction of a higher quality in pure science, liberal arts, commerce, graduate research, etc. It is indeed true that each of the institutions has accomplished much anil has achieved a fine reputation, but with their facilities combined in a mutually cooperative organization, with each division contributing a superlative grade of instruction in a definite field, it is inconceivable that the Greater University of North Carolina will fail to reach heights comparable with any institution in the world. Otto S. Steinrekh . ' Twenty-two