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- Revolution and early republic · 1775–1799
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James Mebane serves as the first president of the Dialectic Society
Orange County student James Mebane is the first president of the university's Dialectic Society, one of the two student debating societies formed in the university's first year.
People: James Mebane
- Antebellum and Civil War · 1800–1865
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Trustees offer the university's Chapel Hill lands for sale
Pressed by debt, the trustees named William Polk, James Mebane and James Webb to offer the unimproved university lands around Chapel Hill for sale. Only a small sum came in, from the sale of the Preparatory School acre; that school had been closed for more than ten years.
People: James Webb · William Polk · James Mebane
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Literary societies move into new halls in the enlarged Old East and Old West
The northward extensions of Old East and Old West, designed by A. J. Davis and built by Isaac J. Collier and Kendall B. Waitt for $9,360, were finished in 1848 with debating halls and library alcoves for the two societies. At the Dialectic opening James Mebane, the society's first president in 1795, sat beside the student president, Kemp P. Battle.
People: Samuel (Samuel Field) Phillips · Alexander Jackson Davis · Kemp Plummer Battle · Isaac J. Collier · Samuel Field Phillips · James Mebane · Kendall B. Waitt
Subject: Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies · Old East · Old West
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