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

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GENERAL COLLEGE Spruill, Dean 1936-37 is the first year of full responsibility of the General College for all freshmen and sophomores in the University at Chapel Hill, excepting only those in the School of Pharmacy. For these underclassmen, 1264 in number, the faculty and administrative staff of the General College attempt to provide appropriate studies and helpful guidance. The courses of study are intended: (1) to present those basic subjects which are considered to be essential to a liberal education, (2) to provide opportu- nities for the discovery and development of interests and aptitudes, and (3) to contribute to preparation for later specialized training. The administrative staff is concerned with the more effective adaptation of our educational resources to the needs of the individual. A faculty committee of nine advisors works with a group of forty dis- tinguished upperclassmen in welcoming first-year students to Chapel Hill and in introducing them to the activities of the community. From the time of admission until the beginning of the junior year each stu- dent is associated with one of the advisors who tries to help him make here the best use of the several means of physical, intellectual, and spiritual growth. Thus through the advisors the University attempts to maintain with every student a human relationship devoted to the fullest development of his qualities and greatest powers. Ui The Freshman Advisors

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NORTH CAROLINA TRUSTEES Clyde R. Hoey, Governor, President ex-officio of the Board oj Trustees. Clyde Atkinson Erwin, Superintendent of Public Instruction, member ex-officio of the Board of Trustees. Henry Mauger London, ex-officio, Secretary. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE TRUSTEES Clyde R. Hoey, ex-officio Chairman 1936: Josephus Daniels, Clarence Poe, Irving B. Tucker. 1940: John Sprunt Hill, Walter Murphy, John J. Parker. THE BOARD 1939 W. D. Bateman Wilson William Hyslop Sumner Burgwyn Northampton Burton Craige Forsyth Stuart Warren Cramer Mecklenburg John Gilmer Dawson Lenoir Frank Lemuel Dunlap Anson Joseph McDowell Gamewell Davidson Oliver Max Gardner Washington, D. C. Alexander Hawkins Graham Orange Harry Percy Grier, Jr Iredell Luther Thompson Hartsell Cabarrus John Wetmore Hinsdale Wake George Lafayette Lyerly Catawba Isaac Melson Meekins Pasquetank William Daniel Merritt Person Walter Murphy Rowan Haywood Parker Buncombe Mrs. Kate B. Reynolds Forsyth Henry Mooring Robins Randolph William Thomas Shore Mecklenburg Lawrence Sprunt New Hanover Clinton White Toms, Sr. . . ; Durham Charles Whedbee Perquimans William Coleman Woodard Nash William H. Woolard Pitt Henry Mauger London, ex-officio Secretary 1938: Charles Whedbee. S. B. Alexander, Leslie Weil. 1942: Mrs. Laura Weil Cone, Miss Easdale Shaw, Hay- wood Parker. 1941 Sydenham Benoni Alexander Mecklenburg Miss Annie Moore Cherry Halifax Hayden Clement Rowan Josephus Daniels Wake C. C Efird Stanly Reuben Oscar Everett Durham William D. Faucette Norfolk, Va. Richard Tillman Fountain Edgecombe James Alexander Gray Forsyth George Chancellor Green Halifax Junius Daniel Grimes Beaufort William Tucker Hannah Haywood R. L. Harris Person Robert Eugene Little Anson Angus Wilton McLean Robeson Mrs. Lily C. Morehouse Mebane Rockingham Cameron Morrison Mecklenburg Harriss Newman New Hanover Clarence Poe Wake Miss Easdale Shaw Richmond James Franklin Spruill Davidson Mrs. May Lovelace Tomlinson Guilford Irvin Burchard Tucker Columbus John Kenyon Wilson Pasquetank Graham Woodard Wilson The Faculty Advisory Committee Seated left to right: A. W. Hobbs. R. E. Coker, House, Baity. Standing left to right: W. C. Coker, Adams. Dey. Wettach. Henderson. $ 23 j3=

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OR CAROLINA COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES The function of the College of Arts and Sci- ences is the preparation of programs of study leading to the various degrees under its control, the guid- ance of students following such programs, and the awarding of degrees. Its responsibilities are confined largely to the upper two years of the undergraduate life. The work of the students, under the plan known as The Major Scheme , or the Field of Concentra- tion Scheme , falls generally into the three main divisions: the Humanities, the Social Sciences, and the Natural Sciences. The purpose of this plan is to relate Departments with a somewhat similar aim and content, to the end that the education of the student may be built upon as wide a foundation as is reasona- ble without a too great scattering of his efforts. Very little is actually known about the essentials of education. It is almost as variable as are people and attempts to canalize it are rather generally fatal to the thing we are trying to foster. However, in our present state of ignorance, we are fairly well agreed upon some subjects as being of sufficient importance to be required for the degrees; such subjects as Englj sri) some Science, and some History. As a matter of fact, a college course cannot chart the life of a man a n d furnish him a blueprint by which to meet the exi- gencies of life in this world ; all it can do is to furnish certain principles and the will to study. The purpose of the College is to give the opportunity to students to develop their talents in the in- tellectual world, to help them see a larger world, to fit them for the public service. Integrity and knowl- edge are our only hopes if we are to have an enduring civilization. We cannot go on very long unless we are willing to introduce more order into the economy of our country. At present those who try for this kind of order are labeled with all sorts of bad names in the hope that the people may still a little longer be kept in confusion. The only kind of prosperity worth fighting for is a long continued general prosperity, and this is the place for integrity and knowledge. For these purposes we believe in lan- guage, in science, in history, in philosophy, in art, in economics, in government, and we believe that the direction of progress is in learning before action, in experience before revolution; we place study before propaganda, so that in the end we may all be propagandists for the right based upon knowledge plus experience. sl A. W. Hobbs, Dean W. M. Dey, Humanities: A. R. Newsom, Social Sciences; R. E. Coker, Natural Scienc