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

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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

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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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SCHDDL DF LIBRARY SCIENCE Looking backward over the seven years since the School was opened in September 1931, many specific evidences of healthy growth may be seen. Today there are 201 alumni scattered in libraries from North Carolina to California and from northern Wisconsin to Louisiana, though the concentration is naturally in the Southeast. A search of printed indexes to periodical litera- ture shows a few names of alumni, a 1938 book of library plays lists one by a member of the class of 1938. The Summer Session now finds the School sending classes to borrowed lecture rooms in a nearby building, having six faculty members instead of the usual three, and a student body three times as large as that during the regular session. The administration of the School is looking forward to the day when there will be a larger staff in order to provide more satisfactorily for the growing body of alumni and students. There IS need for a faculty member, expert in school library work, who MISS SUSAN AKERS DEA[J School of Library Science — Dr. Akers, Dr. White, Miss Kelling, Miss Le Fevre would: direct the practice work of those students interested in school libraries; give special courses in school library organiza- tion and administration; and have charge of the courses for teacher-librarians. There should also be a librarian to take care of the School ' s special book collection and give expert service to the faculty and students, and a reviser to assist the instructors in revising the many and varied problems involving written work. Tentative plans have been drawn for expanded quarters in the hoped-for new wing of the library. These include a seminar room for courses in book discussion, an additional combination study and library room, and additional faculty offices. Indexes are being compiled which will make it possible to assemble quickly information about the alumni from various points of view. Thus, regardless of the nature of the employer ' s request, the informa- tion could be readily assembled.