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

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GENERAL COLLEGE The General College has a special interest in the members of the class of 1939 who came to Chapel Hill in the first year of Its work. At the end of this Senior year it is appropriate for the class, the advisers, and the faculty to consider what our present opportunities are and how we may meet them. The student of today lives in and must prepare for a world of economic dislocation, political violence, and emotional strain. How can the University contribute to his achievement of the good life? First, we must be interested in him as an individ ol From parents, former teachers, and his own experience we must obtain more complete information and use it discerningly in helping him to know himself. Second, we must adapt the University ' s resources still more discriminatingly to the student ' s needs. Diagnostic tests, ad- vanced standing, remedial assistance, and individualized cur- ricula will be multiplied. Somewhere between the extremes of CORYDON PERRY SPRUILL DEAN General College Advisors- Ll kighr Perry, Johnson, Edminster, Emory, Armstrong, Hi Huddle, Sanders, Husbands anarchic diversity and rigid uniformity we may find for each person a program which will embody the values of general edu- cation and carry on the wholesome development of individual interests. In order to act upon the familiar fact that students are different it will be necessary to try out more diversified offerings and more varied combinations of subjects. Accepting the necessity of self-education, we shall shift the emphasis from teaching to learning, from instruction of groups to conferences with individuals. Third, the distinctive character of the University must be defended. We shall be hospitable to new personalities and new ideas, tolerant of opposition, eager for improvement, and stead- fast in maintaining our tradition and our freedom. In this endeavor, faculty, students, and graduates join hands and wills for the building of a finer University in a greater State.

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SCHOOL DF ARTS AND SCIENCES In point of time the oldest college of the University, the College of Arts and Sciences is concerned in guiding students, already possessed of the fundamentals of college training, so that they may get the most for their effort out of the last two years of their college work. The system now in force at the university is a gradual development from the older disciplines still used in some American schools, in which the entire course of study for the four years is prescribed. Such a system does not allow for individual differences and is too rigidly narrow for a liberal arts college. It was long ago abandoned here. Histori- cally there followed a period of more or less free choice of courses, with a minimum of fixed requirements; the inevitable result was that the student often chose courses for reasons other than their content or he chose all his work in a single field and thus could hardly be said to have had a liberal education. The College of Arts W. M. DEY HUMANITIES R. E. COKER NATURAL SCIENCES A. R. NEWSOM SOCIAL SCIENCES A. W. HOBBS DEAN and Sciences has attempted a compromise which keeps over- specialization at a minimum and allows as much election as is possible without depriving the curriculum of all s emblance of plan and purpose. In spite of the experimentation now going on in American colleges, nobody is yet sure just what an A.B. degree should be more than a block of courses on a transcript: it should be a discipline and at attitude of mind. We now try to insist that the student who earns a degree in the college must hove a body of organized knowledge about a recognized field of learning, a fund of more generalized information about fields ancillary to his own, and if possible, some knowledge of the world about him which will fit him to live as well as earn a living. At the heart of the college are the libraries and the laboratories. Professors are guides and counsellors: but in the last analysis students educate themselves. With an A.B. degree, the student should have a foundation upon which to build a career and a life.

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SCHDDL DF COMMERCE The School of Commerce is the expression of the University ' s desire to serve the large percentage of young people who will go into some phase of business activity but who cannot spend more than four years in preparation for such a career. Recognizing the need of a general understanding of our complex modern civilization as a basis for a happy and effective life, the first two years of the course of study, given in the General College, emphasize the brood cultural aspects of education. The last two years, given in the School of Commerce, are devoted pri- ' •:; School Faculty — Top Row: Schwenning, Buchanon, Hobbs, Wolf, Zimmerman, Bernstein. Bottom Row: Spruill, Woosley, Carroll, Peacock, Hear manly to the development of an understanding of the principles and procedures of modern business. The teaching policy of the School assumes that training for business should consist not only of a knowledge of the organization and methods of the most important fields of business activity but in addition should develop an understanding of the problems and larger relation- ships of the economic system as a whole. In the attempt to give the student a practical basis for his life, care is taken that he shall not lose sight of his social obligations or his cultural needs. D. D. CARROLL DEAN