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- Revolution and early republic · 1775–1799
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A trustee committee under Samuel McCorkle reports the university's first plan of studies
Named at New Bern on December 4, 1792, the committee proposed teaching languages with English first, history, mathematics, natural philosophy, botany, agriculture and architecture, and buying scientific apparatus. A newspaper notice of December 12 inviting teachers for this course drew no applicants.
People: David Stone · Samuel Ashe · Hugh Williamson · Samuel Eusebius McCorkle
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Old East cornerstone is laid
William Richardson Davie and fellow trustees laid Old East’s cornerstone; October 12 is observed as University Day.
Part of The founding of the University and Chapel Hill, 1789–1795 · 37 events
People: William Richardson Davie · Samuel Eusebius McCorkle
Subject: Old East
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Trustees adopt the plan of instruction and set the university's opening for January 15
The board ordered the McCorkle committee's scheme into effect, fixed tuition by subject and created a presiding professor at $300 a year plus fees. It also resolved to build a steward's house before the opening and set a bill of fare for Commons with no drink but water.
People: John Haywood · William Lenoir · Samuel Eusebius McCorkle
Subject: Steward’s Hall
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Trustees adopt the university's first by-laws
Drafted by Samuel McCorkle and amended in committee, the by-laws set four classes, prayers at sunrise and evening, a monitor in each class to report absences and misconduct, and punishments from admonition to expulsion. Students could not keep liquor in their rooms or gamble.
People: Samuel Eusebius McCorkle
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Trustees adopt William R. Davie's plan dividing the university into a preparatory school and professorships
Davie's plan put English at the center, let French stand beside the classics and set up chairs of moral and political philosophy, natural philosophy, mathematics, chemistry with agriculture and the mechanic arts, and languages. The board elected Samuel McCorkle a professor, but he declined when refused extra pay in place of the president's house.
People: David Ker · William Richardson Davie · Samuel Eusebius McCorkle
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