School Superintendent States Need for Junior College, Oct. 8, 1925

Superintendent In Favor of Junior College. . . Need Is Urgent. . . Regular Colleges in State and Middle West Crowded. . . Idea Successful Elsewhere. . . E.D. Broadhurst Sees Need for Institution—W.A. Newell of Winston-Salem Also Favors the Plan

“The erection of a Junior College in each city to take care of the first two years of college is the only way I see to relieve our colleges of congestion,” stated Superintendent Archer in an interview September 28, 1925. “In the first two years of college the basic principles of one’s college life are founded. If they can be brought under home control, so much the better for the individual and the less expensive for his parents.

“The colleges in the middle west and in our own state are filled to capacity. Thousands of students are turned away each year for lack of room. A Junior College would take care of the Freshman and Sophomore years, and then in the Junior and Senior years the student would go off to college.”

Mr. Archer thinks that many students who quit at the end of High School would take advantage of two more years of school if it were available in their home town where they could board at home.

“If we should secure the Junior College,” continued the superintendent, “courses in liberal arts which we have never offered before could be given.

“There is little literature available on this institution as it is still somewhat in the making; yet it has proved successful in other cities and can be made successful here. As to when and where Greensboro will have a junior college is still a matter of speculation; but we could use it next year,” concluded Mr. Archer.

Several other men have expressed their believe in the need of this institution; namely, Mr. E.D. Broadhurst, chairman of the Board of Education of this city, and Rev. W.A. Newell of Winston-Salem.

Mr. Broadhurst says that colleges all over the country are turning away Freshmen and even Sophomores. He thinks the time has come when pupils should receive their first two years of their college training in the home town where they belong. He sees need for the Junior College.

Mr. Newell told the Civitans that if Greensboro would start this enterprise, then other cities would follow. He believes North Carolina’s true wealth lies on intellectual lines, as she has no great natural resources. Such an institution, he argues, would take care of the tremendous number of Freshmen and Sophomores and thus leave the colleges for Juniors and Seniors and post graduate work.

From the front page of High Life, Greensboro High School, Oct. 9, 1925

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