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1470
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Chapel Hill has been visited by Presidents James K. Polk, James Buchanan, Andrew Johnson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, and Bill Clinton.
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1473
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A long and meandering process resulted in the creation of today's University of North Carolina System, comprised of sixteen degree-granting institutions.
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1474
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Joyce presents the legal history of the desegregation of the University of North Carolina System and the prospects for future change, recognizing that both gradualism and abrupt, court-ordered change are possible.
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3355
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The 1918-1919 influenza epidemic killed millions worldwide, including 13,644 in the state. A large number of Army trainees on the University of North Carolina campus died, as did UNC president Edward Kidder Graham.
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Two prominent families were brought together when Henry Flagler and Mary Kenan wed in 1901. Flagler was one of the founders of the Standard Oil Company and founder of the Florida East Coast Railway System. Kenan also came from a well-known family. Her brother, for example, was famous for discovering carbon gas for home lighting before the electric light was used, and he built the first electric light plant in Chapel Hill. Henry Flagler died in 1918 (sic) and left their $4 million mansion named “Whitehall,†in Palm Beach, Florida, to Mary. She established the Kenan Professorship at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her siblings inherited the estate after her death and began a long tradition of philanthropy in North Carolina, including major funding for the Kenan Stadium and Kenan Memorial Auditorium.
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Former North Carolina Governor David L. Swain, served as University of the North Carolina at Chapel Hill's president during the Civil War. Swain's efforts kept the university open throughout the war. Near the end of the war, Chapel Hill was occupied by Union General Smith B. Atkins. Swain introduced Atkins to his daughter Eleanor. The two quickly fell in love and decided to marry. Their marriage was not well received by Southerners. Reconstruction upheaval and the marriage of the university president's daughter to a northern invader closed the University in 1868.
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Construction on Old East, the first building erected at the University of North Carolina, America's first state university, was begun in 1793. Among the objects sealed inside its cornerstone at the time was a bronze plaque commemorating the laying of the cornerstone on the 12th day of October in the 18th year of American Independence. The plaque was stolen by vandals during the Civil War and, as years turned to decades, campus officials abandoned hope of its recovery. In 1916, Thomas Bledsoe Foust, owner and proprietor of the Clarksville Foundry and Machine Works in Clarksville, TN was given the plaque by his foreman, who had been using it as a molding tool. Foust, a 1903 UNC graduate, recognized the names on the plate and, through a series of communications with other UNC alums, determined it to be the missing cornerstone plaque from Old East. On October 12, 1916, the 123rd anniversary of the laying of Old East's cornerstone, a ceremony was held and the long lost plaque was presented to the university.
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Chapel Hill has been known for its charm and beauty since 1795, when the town was selected as the home of the nation's first public university. Over the past two centuries the town has managed to escape the ravages of urban growth which has changed the look of so many American cities. Lea discusses the town's \"carefully preserved built environment.\"
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In 1793, Reverend David Ker was appointed Professor of Humanity of the University at Chapel Hill. Emigrating from Ireland to Fayetteville in 1789, Ker appears as a member of Orange Presbytery in September of that year, listed as the first Presbyterian minister in that city. His duties as Presiding Professor at the new University included superintendent of all studies, performance of morning and evening prayers, and examination of students each Sunday evening.
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14103
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Here is some information about the trustees, entrance requirements, financial arrangements and other details as reported in the University of North Carolina catalogue published in 1840.
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It was an impressive occasion, back in 1793, when leading citizens of North Carolina gathered at Chapel Hill to formally inaugurate the building program of the University of North Carolina.
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On October 12, 1943, attendees of the University of North Carolina's 150th Anniversary celebration gathered around Old East, the first campus building. Speakers included Princeton President Harold W. Dodds and University of North Carolina President Frank P. Graham who addressed the rivalry between University of North Carolina and University of Georgia. Both schools competed for bragging rights over which was the first state University in America. University of Georgia was chartered in 1785 but did not open until 1801, whereas University of North Carolina began operations in 1793.
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William Richardson Davie, Waightstill Avery, and Samuel Eusebius McCorkle were responsible for man any others for the establishment of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, which celebrates its 150th anniversary next year.
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There were many restrictions placed upon the behavior of students only several generations ago, and strange to say, most of these laws have never been revoked. For example, students were not allowed to partake in games of chance, pass out cigars during student elections, or keep poultry in their dormitories.
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When the corner stone of the nation's oldest state university was laid one hundred and forty-one years ago, an inscribed tablet was enclosed. During the dark days of Reconstruction, 1865-1875, the stone was broken into and its contents spirited away. Marlow recounts how the tablet was found in 1916 and returned to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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