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I referred earlier to a special faculty committee of the consolidated University which the President convenes from time to time to advise him and which he has kept informed about proposals having immediate significance for inter-institutional relationships. Following the visits to Charlotte and Wilmington, it seemed advisable to have a meeting of our committee with these faculty members to hear directly from them any expressions regarding the establishment of additional campuses or other steps directed toward fulfilling University obligations to the growing State. This meeting was held on September 20. It resulted in an exchange of ideas in an atmosphere of manifest common purpose, not only among faculty members of the separate institutions and separate disciplines, but also between faculty members and trustees.

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"On Sunday, September 23, a subcommittee of our special committee accompanied by Dr. Donald B. Anderson and Mr. Fred H. Weaver departed by airplane for Berkeley, California. The members of this subcommittee were Victor S. Bryant, Mrs. John G. Burgwyn, Percy Ferebee, George Watts Hill and your chairman, Thomas J. Pearsall. As you can see, we got there, and we got back. Now I propose to tell you why we went and something of what we saw and heard.

"California is a long way from North Carolina and in many ways it is very different. But looked at from the standpoint of common experience and similarity of administrative structure their University is not remote from ours. And certainly an institution of such preeminence is not unworthy of emulation. More particularly California, because of its astonishingly rapid growth of population and wealth, has faced certain questions of institutional adaptation somewhat in advance of other states and somewhat more resourcefully. No less an authority than James Bryant Conant, former President of Harvard University, on a recent visit to Chapel Hill stated that no state had done as much as California to meet the problem of necessary expansion while maintaining the excellence of its colleges and university, and that any state looking to the future development of its institutions of higher education might well turn to California for guidance. President Friday has