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

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YQRTH - CAROLINA To the Class of 1937: In September, 1933, you entered here when the University, the nation, and your homes had faced dark hours. In the spring of your high school senior year every bank had been closed by order of the President, symbolizing the complete paralysis of the exchange of goods and services which make possible civilization as we know it. Crucial decisions and measures of re-organization have been taken, both here and abroad. Here the major decisions of consolidation have been settled, and restoration of the budget and new departments and activities indicate a new forward movement. In the nation reconstruction and recovery are under way and major lines of direction have appeared. On the campus a major crisis in student responsibility has been met and transcended. The new integration of the Campus Cabinet and a higher tone of confidence in student capacity appear. Your four years here have contained more of crisis, solution, and reconstruction on campus and in state and nation than experienced by any student generation since the Civil War. Surely the product of these four years will not lack maturity, character, capacity for calm thought amid excitement, and constructive loyalty amid confusion. As you go your way our hearts go with you and rejoice that you can face the future with new confidence. Francis F. Bradshaw. ■4 2 1 ) -

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Frank Porter Graham President of the University -4 20 -

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U NIVERSITY DF Robert B. House Dean of Administration The Class of 1937 will remember their college years as a period of major importance, new align- ments and new adjustments within the nation and between the nations of the world. The stress and strain of this period have reflected themselves in the structure of college education itself. This class has achieved its maturity at a time when the University has been working out new policies, new organization, and, it is hoped, a new spirit in its educational work. Faculty and students have agreed and disagreed about the course of study, examinations, required attendance, honors courses, individual programs, but they have stuck together in working out what we hope to be improvements. Never before have students in the University enjoyed a more direct contact with and influence on the very nature of the University itself. They have organized new types of discussion groups, they have used their publications and their committees more directly as sources of advice and guidance to the faculty, and they have participated more thoroughly in faculty deliberations. Major problems of consolidation and adjustment of University education within the framework of the State have concerned the University during this generation of students. A direct challenge to stu- dent honor and student self-government has been met by the students. The right of students and faculty to participate in major political issues of the day and to study freely and to interpret fearlessly various political, social, and economic points of view have been challenged during this generation as never before in the history of the University. The major problem of amateur athletics presented a challenge to the sportsmanship and integrity of the institution. As a result, the University understands itself and its work better, whether looked at from the point of view of faculty and administration, students, alumni, friends, or the general citizenship of the State itself. The University has seemed to attach itself to the manifold life of the State more thoroughly and more variously than ever before. As a result, it is more alive, more courageous, and more abreast of its essential problems than ever before. It has been a hard time in which to study and grow, and yet the Class of 1937 has achieved distinction and comes to graduation bearing the fruit of four years in terms of an enriched, expanded, and vitalized living. $ 22 f -