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o Departments n Top Rating Ve-vv Orleans — The .University /xo-th Carolina at Chapel Hill ,;d second to Johns Hopkins in e number of its liberal, art de-■ artmenfs adjudged to be “among best departments in the coun - according to a rating survey 3de Dv the 49.colleges and uni ersities composing the Southern [diversity Conference (not to be onfused with the Southern Con prence in athletics!) Results of the survey, which did ot include professional ortech ological departments, were an onneed here by Dean Logan Wil 0n Gf Tulan? University, chair man c,f a special Conference com n>-:- which made the survey, 'ha'riiedor Harvie Branscom’o cf ran:leibilt University is president lf tbe Conference this year. T ,e survey covered6the acade mic year 1949-50 and the rating vas based on graduate work (re earch and creative activity) in 3 liberal arts fields. A total of 532 departments were itudied in the 49 colleges and. [Diversities, which range from Maryland through Texas and in lude the state universities of fjrginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Ala larna, Tennessee, Kentucky, Lou siana, Mississippi and Texas. Thirty-three of the 532 depart tients studded in the 49 institu ions were rated “among the best n Che country.” Thirteen of those 13 were at Johns Hopkins, 10 were * Chapel. Hill, five at Duke, two it Virginia, and one each at Emo ■y, Tennessee, and Texas. An .U’oihiosnaire” on which the ;urvey was based was( sent to 144 educational leaders asking hem to rate the 532 departments n liberal arts according to five ■lassiftcations: 1. “among 'the best lepartments anywhere in the ountry,” 2. “among the best de triments anywhere in the S.outh,'’' I. “a good department,” 4. "an idequate department,” and 5. ‘have no knowledge of the de triment," or ‘do not wish to com nent.” Of the 631 usable replies abulsted. 361 were from heads of iepartments in memiber institut ions. 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