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William Richardson Davie and the University of the People: Ironies and Paradoxies

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15829
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Abstract:
The University of North Carolina bestowed its first honorary degree to William Richards Davie, recognized \"founder and principal supporter.\" Davie remains a controversial and complex figure who was a \"soldier, statesman, Federalist, slaveholder, convinced elitist, and founder of the University of the People.\" His ideals for the University of the People rested not on a democratic education system but to produce the ruling elite to govern the people.
Source:
Carolina Comments (NoCar F 251 C38), Vol. 55 Issue 2, Apr 2007, p65-73, il