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The purpose of this research was to study the Negro principal in the public schools of Florida with respect to his major activities as a principal so as to show what he does and how his work is related to his age, preparation, experience, tenure, salary, and size of school. This was done by obtaining information on (1) the historical and legal background of his office, (2) his age and sex, (3) his academic and professional preparation, (4) number of years of teaching experience, experience as a principal and tenure, (5) salary and relation of some other factors to salary. The study determined (1) the distribution of time of Negro principals, (2) the extent to which the major professional functions of supervision, administration, and clerical duties are performed and finally, (3) related the extent of performance of each major professional function to age, preparation, experience, tenure, salary, and size of school.

The basic purpose of this study is to find out more specifically and objectively than could be ascertained by snap judgment and rationalization drawn from observation of a few isolated cases, something about students from foreign countries who are attending Negro colleges and universities. It is concerned more specifically with: (a) the countries from which these students have come; (b) type of preparatory schools to which they have gone and method of admission to the institutions in this country; (c) means of support, degrees for which they are working, and ultimate goal; (d) their participation in extra-class activities and (e) the outstanding problems that these students are encountering. "Foreign students" in this study refers to students of collegiate rank, born residents outside of Continental United States who are generally termed Negroes according to the American pattern of classification. "Negro Colleges and Universities" refers to those institutions of higher learning so accepted in the United States as primarily concerned with the education of Negroes, and are so classified in the official directory of the Office of Education, United States of America. In order to secure the information for the study, a suitable letter was sent to the registrars of the Negro colleges and universities asking them to do two things, (1) to pass out a one-sheet questionnaire to each foreign student in their institutions and to help in seeing that these are returned and (2) to answer a few questions themselves. The information from the registrars was to serve as a check on certain items of the questionnaire sent to the students.