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moved that it be adopted. The tribute was unanimously adopted by standing
vote. It is as follows:

"Among the responsibilities of the Board of Trustees, probably
none is more important than seeing to it that the University has always
capable leadership. If this is wisely performed, other results are
assured: the upbuilding of faculties, the obtaining of funds, the orderly
progress of the institution. We believe that the University of North
Carolina has prospered because the privilege of serving in its cause has
always appealed to educators of outstanding intellect and character;
and successive leaders and successive boards of trustees have wisely
protected and preserved this tradition.

"On February 25, 1957, the Board of Trustees approved the recom-
mendation of President Friday for a new Chancellor at Chapel Hill. In
seeking a successor at that time to Chancellor Robert B. House, the Com-
mittee surveyed the whole nation and then came home to find its choice.
William Aycock had been an undergraduate at North Carolina State. He
had been a teacher in the public schools of Greensboro, a brilliant
student of law at Chapel Hill, then a professor of law of respected and
growing reputation. He was also a Tar Heel; so he combined affection
with knowledge. He had commanded men and fought bravely in the
fiercest battles of World War II. So he had demonstrated courage.

"We all know and we regret that Chancellor Aycock is about to
relinquish the post for which he is so well qualified. It is not our pur-
pose at this time to prove how in the seven years since he took office he has
justified the promise of his appointment. That is the work of history.
But already it is becoming clear that the measure of his contribution will
continue to grow larger and larger with the passage of time.

"To the guardianship of our State's original seat of learning
Chancellor Aycock brought an acute, a trained, and a disciplined mind.
He shaped its educational policy not by evolving abstract theories but
by delineating a consistent pattern of decision in the forthright confronta-
tion of events.

"To the administrative task he brought an almost religious belief
in work, an exacting thoroughness, and an astute forehandedness. We
have seen the skill with which he analyzed, explained, and solved,
difficult problems. But only those who have worked with him closely
know how often problems were averted, how often a crisis simply did
not happen, because events were influenced by his almost uncanny fore-
sight.

"To our collective institutional leadership he brought understanding
of the nature and aims of universities and their significance in the life
and affairs of the people. This understanding and his manly integrity
were his guides to his action. He is an uncompromising defender of the
essential rights and safeguards of the academic university in the political
State. But in adapting education to the changing requirements of the times,
he subordinated purely institutional matters to the interest of the whole.
Under his influence the University has been strengthened in its human
and material resources, rededicated to sound scholarship, and reassured
in its belief in freedom as the indispensable condition of learning.

"Mr. Chairman, we have been fortunate to have in an administrative
office of critical importance seven years of the whole life and time and
mind of William Aycock. We are grateful to him, and to his wife, and
to their children for that, and for his fine example in an institution that
exists to train our youth. He has earned the right to follow his bent.
Much as we shall miss him from his office in Old South we cannot but
observe that the University makes no higher call than to teach, and has
none better equipped to respond than William Brandley Aycock. "

Report of Committee on Health Affairs

Mr. George Watts Hill, Chairman of the Committee on Health Affairs,
referred to the Revised Code of the University which now provides that all
standing committees of the Board shall make written reports at least once
annually, and on behalf of his Committee he made the following report