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Chapel January 7, 1930

President Wright

Scripture reading from the eleventh chapter of the Bookof Ecclesiastes.

(President Wright urged the young women of the school to join the Y. W. C. A. Pointed out the very large returns from the small investment in the Y. W.--only a dollar. Quoted a successful banker who said that it cost $30, 000 a year to operate a certain bank in his town, and $20,000 to operate a certain Church. The banker said the Church was of infinitely more service than the bank, although the bank was the largest in the town.)

"North Carolina today is in the midst of one of the meanest psychological depressions the state has ever been in--certainly in my day--and people are beginning to question their ability to do things. He that observeth. the wind will not sow; and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap.'

North Carolina thirty years ago spent about one million dollars annually on its public schools. North Carolina last year spent over thirty million dollars on its public schools. Thirty years ago the income of the people of North Carolina was about eighty million dollars. Last year it was over three hundred million. in fact, the income of the state last year was almost the equivalent of the total wealth of the state thirty years ago.

We are poor primarily in our thinking. We can do what we want to do. The question is, do we want to do it? We are confronted with a school situation that is at the present moment a little bit critical, but by no means hopeless; because the people of North

Carolina are determined that they are going to give their,- children an. education.

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That means they are going to call for better trained teachers,, and better trained superintendents. I was talking with a Superintendent who has been getting people from out of the state. I asked him about this and he said it was because he wanted people who had Master's degrees. He prsferred employing North Carolina people, but it was a question of getting those who were best prepared. Our college is to offer graduate work that leads to a Master of Arts degree. It has been submitted to the Board, and passed by the :Board of Trustees, and in a very short time we hope to give out information concerning this work in detailed form. Some of the young folks finishing a college course ought to begin right now to work for a Master's degree. There is no extra charge for this over the regular charge of attending college here. The state is constantly calling for a higher grade of teachers. The low-grade teachers are not going to get as big a show when it comes to employing teachers as those of a higher order. I am asking Mr. M. L. Wright to talk to you about what he has observed in this connection.

This college has worked out its course of study so as to enable you to get a greater amount of training in the shortest possible length of time. A girl can come three calendar years, and if she does her work successfully get her A. B. degree The University of North Carolina is doing this. Economy of time.:is the same as economy of money. It will pay you folks to go to school in the summer time. 'Oh, I just can't stand it:' As a rule, that let-up in the summertime does more harm than good. Dr. Laughinghouse said when the girls left school that he was sending away a ton' more flesh than he got in the fall. This intellectual work doesn't keep you from growing. If you 'just can't stand it' you