Chronology

About 2,240 university men are in uniform when the war ends

At the armistice about 2,240 university men, counting alumni and faculty, were in service. The Alumni Review's October to December issues listed 33 dead, and the only faculty member killed was Lt. Joseph Henry Johnston of the School of Education.

The Chapel Hill Red Cross moves its workroom to the University Inn

After the armistice of November 11, 1918, the chapter left the Zeta Psi fraternity hall for roomy quarters in the University Inn that the University provided.

Subject: Eagle Hotel (Chapel Hill)

The university Woman's Association holds a Thanksgiving peace festival

To pay for layettes and other war relief, the Woman's Association planned a Thanksgiving Peace Celebration: a Gypsy Festival moved by rain into the Y.M.C.A., ending with a pageant in Gerrard Hall. It raised $350, $150 of it for the United War Fund.

Subject: Gerrard Hall · University YMCA

A memorial service for President Graham fills Gerrard Hall

Every seat in Gerrard Hall was taken for the formal memorial service for Edward Kidder Graham, held after the epidemic had eased. Horace Williams and R. D. W. Connor spoke, and J. G. de Roulhac Hamilton read a tribute from C. Alphonso Smith.

People: R. D. W. Connor · J. G. de Roulhac Hamilton · Henry Horace Williams

Subject: Gerrard Hall

A second influenza wave strikes Cedar Grove, Efland and Hillsborough

After Christmas 1918 a second epidemic spread through the county and was very bad at Cedar Grove, Efland and Hillsborough. This time schools and churches stayed open, and the outbreak slowly died down.

Edwin Greenlaw becomes dean of the Graduate School

Greenlaw became the third dean of UNC's Graduate School and led it until he left for Johns Hopkins in 1925.

Trustees and faculty back a $150,000 student building as Edward Kidder Graham's memorial

A joint committee of trustees and faculty, meeting in the governor's office in mid-December, agreed to raise $150,000 privately for the student activities building Graham had hoped for, to stand where Person Hall was. Albert Coates ran the drive and by the end of January 1919 announced $20,000 pledged by students, $14,500 of it in one night.

People: Louis Round Wilson · Albert Coates

Acting dean of students A. H. Patterson reports on drinking at the spring dances

When complaints about drinking at the revived spring dances reached President Chase, Patterson, whom Chase had made acting dean of students, blamed most of it on visiting alumni and said there was little he could do about the newer dances.

People: Harry Woodburn Chase

Alexander H. Graham becomes chair of the Orange County Democratic Party

After his discharge from the Army as a captain in 1919, Alexander H. "Sandy" Graham of Hillsborough was elected chair of the Orange County Democratic Party.

Alice Noble writes the history of the Chapel Hill Red Cross chapter

As chapter historian, Alice Noble signed the Chapel Hill chapter's account of its war work, from the 1917 first aid class through the 1919 welcome home for soldiers and sailors in Memorial Hall.

Dudley D. Carroll leads UNC's School of Commerce

Carroll came to UNC as professor of economics in 1918 and became dean of the School of Commerce, which he helped plan, holding the post for thirty-one years.

Edgar Wallace Knight joins the UNC faculty

Knight, who had taught education at Trinity College, joined the University of North Carolina faculty in 1919, and Chapel Hill remained his home from then on.

Eugene C. Branson proposes calling the planned social science school the School of Public Welfare

Branson had urged a school of social science on Graham in 1916. In 1919, worried that "social science" sounded like socialism to North Carolinians, he proposed the name School of Public Welfare, which John Sprunt Hill endorsed, and suggested Hill endow it.

People: John Sprunt Hill · Harry Woodburn Chase · Edward Kidder Graham

Frank Porter Graham becomes dean of students

Chase brought Graham back from the Marines over the summer to fill the new post of dean of students, in charge of discipline and of reviving student government after the SATC, while also teaching history. He agreed to try it for a year.

People: Harry Woodburn Chase

Frederick Koch reads A Christmas Carol in Gerrard Hall

Koch brought his annual reading of Dickens's A Christmas Carol to UNC when he arrived in 1918. The Raleigh News and Observer described a 1919 reading in Gerrard Hall, with carols by university singing groups in the two intermissions, and he gave the reading 39 times on the UNC campus.

Subject: Gerrard Hall

Inez Koonce Stacy becomes the University's adviser to women

After Clara Lingle left, the post went to Inez Koonce Stacy, widow of acting president Marvin Stacy. For years she was the only woman on the regular University payroll apart from stenographers and library aides.

People: Harry Woodburn Chase

Lenoir Chambers is hired to teach journalism and run the University news service

Chase recruited Chambers, a newspaperman then still in France, to teach a journalism course and manage the University's news service, arranging the job through his father while Chambers was crossing the Atlantic.

People: Harry Woodburn Chase

Luther Hodges leads the UNC student council and his senior class

Hodges worked his way through the University of North Carolina, where he was president of the student council and of his senior class. He graduated in 1919.

Paul John Weaver is hired as the University's first director of music

Chase completed the hiring, begun by Graham, of Weaver of St. Louis as the first director of music, a full professor at $2,750. Chase asked him to take music education out to the state's schools, as Frederick Koch was doing with drama.

People: Harry Woodburn Chase

Phillips Hall opens, named for three Phillips family teachers

Phillips Hall opened on the Chapel Hill campus in 1919, honoring three members of the Phillips family who taught at the university in the nineteenth century: James Phillips, his son Charles Phillips and his grandson William Battle Phillips.

People: Charles Phillips

Sallie Hemphill, later Sallie Markham Michie, buys the house at 121 South Columbia Street

Sallie Michie bought the two-story house next to what became the Ackland Art Museum in 1919 and kept it for 73 years, refusing for decades to sell it to the University.

The Forest Theatre, an outdoor amphitheatre, is built at the edge of Battle Park

The university's open-air theatre on the western edge of Battle Park dates from 1919. It now carries the name of drama professor Frederick Koch.

Subject: Forest Theatre · Battle Park

The University carries out a building program under President Chase

William M. Kendal of McKim, Mead and White planned an expansion for 3,000 students, proposing twenty-one new buildings. By December 1928 the University had built nine dormitories (eight for men, one for women) and Saunders, Murphey, Manning and Venable halls, with Bingham Hall and the library nearly done, and had remodeled the old campus buildings. Faculty above the rank of instructor grew from 66 to 158 over the decade.

The university hires Aberthaw and McKim, Mead and White for its expansion

For the postwar building program the university engaged the Aberthaw firm in 1919 to survey the campus and rework its plan, and by May 1920 it had retained the New York firm of McKim, Mead and White, led by William Kendall, as consulting architects for red brick Colonial Revival buildings. Local supervision came later, under Thomas C. Atwood from 1921, with H. P. Alan Montgomery and, from 1922, Arthur C. Nash.

People: Arthur Cleveland Nash

Fire destroys three fraternity houses on Fraternity Row and nearly takes the Carnegie Library

Fire broke out about 2 a.m. and destroyed the Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Pi Kappa Phi and Sigma Nu houses at the lower end of Fraternity Row, a private lane behind the Carnegie Library. The library, about thirty feet from the Sigma Nu house, lost only some window panes and had water damage. The university then bought land across South Columbia Street and swapped it with the fraternities for their old lots, which led to the fraternity courts of the 1920s.

Subject: UNC Libraries · Hill Hall

Acting president Marvin Hendrix Stacy dies of influenza

Stacy, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and chairman of the faculty with a president's powers since Graham's death, died on Tuesday morning after several days' serious illness, the second university head lost to the pandemic in three months. The pandemic led the university to appoint its first university physician, Eric Alonzo Abernethy.

People: Marvin Hendrix Stacy

Enrollment drops to 759 for the postwar winter quarter

When the winter quarter opened after the SATC left, 759 students registered, the lowest count in more than a decade. Officials hoped returning soldiers would add about 150 in March.

People: Marvin Hendrix Stacy

Former president Kemp Plummer Battle dies at Senlac

Kemp Plummer Battle, who helped reopen the university in 1875, served as its president from 1876 and wrote its history, died in his sleep at Senlac, his home at the edge of campus. He had turned 87 in December, and his death came two weeks after Stacy's.

Subject: Senlac (Battle house)

Students open the Graham Memorial fund drive in Gerrard Hall

At a student rally led by Albert Coates, with William H. Bobbitt and Luther Hodges also speaking, students and faculty pledged $20,000 toward a building now budgeted at $150,000. The drive reached about $70,000 by its June deadline and $120,000 by the end of 1919.

People: Albert Coates · William H. (William Haywood) Bobbitt · Luther H. Hodges

Subject: Gerrard Hall · Graham Memorial

Planner John Nolen delivers a campus plan for the university

Hired by the university's new buildings committees, John Nolen produced a campus plan in February 1919 that laid out fourteen new buildings, among them classrooms, a gymnasium and three dormitories. The university then engaged McKim, Mead and White and local architects to carry it out.

Richard H. Lewis chairs the trustees' search for a new university president

After Edward Kidder Graham's death, the trustees named a search committee chaired by Dr. Richard H. Lewis of Raleigh, which met students and faculty on the campus in mid-February. In mid-May it put forward Frank L. McVey, Robert J. Aley and Harry W. Chase, with McVey its favorite.

People: Harry Woodburn Chase

UNC faculty adopt a three-quarter academic year

Under Chase's guidance the faculty dropped the old two-term year for three quarters at its February 1919 meeting, keeping a lesson of the wartime SATC schedule. Students back in January could finish two-thirds of a year's work in six months.

People: Harry Woodburn Chase

Gerrard Hall memorial service for Marvin H. Stacy

Students, faculty and friends met in Gerrard Hall to remember Stacy, who had died of influenza on January 21. Former president Francis P. Venable, a childhood friend, and Albert Coates for the students spoke.

People: Francis Preston Venable · Albert Coates

Subject: Gerrard Hall

The General Assembly grants the University's full $215,000 request

The 1919 legislature approved all $215,000 a year that Chase sought, up from $165,000, and added $20,000 toward a deficit of about $47,000. With the raises that took effect in September 1919, University pay stood about a quarter above 1914.

People: Harry Woodburn Chase

Edgar Wallace Knight becomes assistant superintendent of Orange County schools

In April 1919, the year he joined the UNC faculty, Knight was hired as assistant to county superintendent R. H. Claytor; the board agreed to pay him $40 a month, though later biographies describe the post as unpaid. He was still styled assistant superintendent of schools in 1923.

Harry W. Chase is elected president of the university

The trustees elected Chase president of the University of North Carolina in June 1919. He had taught at Chapel Hill since September 1910 and had been chairman of the faculty since that January.

A thunderstorm halts Esther Wake at Cameron Park during the homecoming

University Summer School students staged Adolph Vermont's play Esther Wake, on the early history of Hillsborough and Orange County, at Cameron Park for more than 5,000 people. A heavy thunderstorm stopped it in the second act.

People: Adolph Vermont · Albert Coates · N. W. Walker

Subject: University Summer School

Some 300 county officials meet at the University as the State and County Council

Two weeks before classes, about 300 school board members, county commissioners, superintendents, health and welfare officers and juvenile judges from 76 counties met on campus to compare work under the new state welfare and school laws. Governor Thomas W. Bickett gave the welcome.

People: Thomas W. Bickett

The University opens its first postwar year with a record 1,350 students

On opening day almost 400 freshmen filled Memorial Hall to hear Chase. Enrollment reached 1,350, about 500 more than the spring before; three or four men shared rooms built for two, some 600 boarded in the village, and 80 veterans of the AEF formed a club.

People: Harry Woodburn Chase · Frank Porter Graham

Subject: Memorial Hall

A Red Cross-funded summer institute trains social workers at the University

Before he left Emory, Howard Odum persuaded the American Red Cross to pay the summer faculty of a training institute on campus for social workers, teachers, nurses, ministers, probation officers and Red Cross, YMCA and YWCA staff. Chase let a woman instructor assist but not lead a course.

People: Howard W. Odum · Harry Woodburn Chase

Archibald Henderson heads UNC's mathematics department

Henderson succeeded his uncle, William Cain, as head of the mathematics department in 1920 and led it until he retired in 1948. He built up its graduate program and departmental library.

Biologist Edwin Grant Conklin gives the McNair lectures on evolution

Over three evenings in Memorial Hall, the Princeton biologist dismissed the clay-molding account of creation and said scientific doctrines stood or fell on evidence alone. His lectures were printed as part of the McNair series, and Presbyterians later cited them in charging that the university ignored the terms of John Calvin McNair's bequest.

Subject: Memorial Hall

Delta Tau Delta buys Alice Jones's West Franklin Street property

The Delta Tau Delta fraternity bought the West Franklin Street house and lot of Miss Alice Jones. In 1936, remodeled, the house became Dr. W. Reece Berryhill's home.

Howard W. Odum comes to Chapel Hill to lead UNC's School of Public Welfare and sociology department

Odum, a Georgia-born sociologist who had been dean of liberal arts at Emory, arrived in Chapel Hill in 1920 to direct the School of Public Welfare and the Department of Sociology. He taught at UNC for the rest of his life.

Kennon Cheek joins the janitorial staff of Venable Hall

Cheek began working for the university as a boy, helping his father Rubin Cheek, a stonemason born in slavery in Warren County, lay the stone walls around the campus. Around 1920 he joined the janitorial staff of Venable Hall.

Part of Black workers and campus labor · 31 events

Subject: Venable Hall

The University builds ten faculty houses

In the summer of 1920 the Tar Heel reported ten new faculty houses under construction, with more promised. These were most likely the Park Place houses, of which one survives at 620 Park Place Lane.

UNC separates the student council presidency from the senior class presidency

Other fraternities, angry that Beta Theta Pi held the top campus offices, won the creation of new posts, among them a student council president separate from the class president.

William C. Coker directs a university bureau for school grounds

Coker set up and ran the UNC Extension Division's Bureau of Design and Improvement of School Grounds, which sent plans and a field assistant to schools around the state; 33 towns were helped in 1920-21. In 1921 the bureau began advising on home and factory grounds as well.

Harry W. Chase is inaugurated as president in Memorial Hall

The new ROTC unit led a procession of students, faculty, alumni and delegates from over a hundred institutions to Memorial Hall, where Chief Justice Walter Clark gave Chase the oath. Chase asked the state to see its University as the university of the South; the day ended with a banquet at Swain Hall and a reception in Bynum Gymnasium.

People: Josephus Daniels · Walter Clark

Subject: Memorial Hall

Horace Williams holds the Kenan professorship of philosophy

Williams was named a Kenan professor at the June 1920 commencement, announced by President Chase together with W. C. Coker and Louis R. Wilson. He held the Kenan chair of philosophy until 1935 and taught as professor emeritus afterwards.

Louis R. Wilson and W. C. Coker are raised to Kenan professorships

At the 1920 commencement meeting the trustees made librarian Louis Round Wilson and botanist William C. Coker Kenan professors, in the same action that recognized Horace Williams.

People: William Chambers Coker

Trustees order a building plan for 3,000 students

At commencement Chase told the trustees the University had hit its limit, with laboratories running three shifts and 500 teachers turned away from summer school, and the visiting committee called the dormitories unsafe and unsanitary. The board told Chase to list what an enrollment of 3,000 would need.

People: Harry Woodburn Chase · Charles T. Woollen

Forty-three alumni meet at the Coop and start the campaign for the state's colleges

Telegrams sent in Chase's name by Frank Porter Graham and alumni secretary Edgar R. Rankin brought 43 alumni to the Coop, an off-campus boardinghouse, where talk of the crowding went on past midnight. The book counts the meeting as the start of the citizens' movement that won the 1921 building appropriation.

People: Frank Porter Graham · Harry Woodburn Chase

The University receives a life-size 1800 portrait of founder William R. Davie

Chase built the 1920 University Day program around the portrait, which had survived the Civil War buried at the Davie estate in South Carolina. He used Davie's example to argue the state should meet the University's needs now.

People: Harry Woodburn Chase

Trustees let Chase ask for a six-year building program

On November 5 Governor Bickett and the trustees' executive committee reversed an earlier two-year limit and let Chase plan every building needed for six years. Near the end of November he gave the State Budget Commission a $5.6 million list: dormitories for about 1,275 men, a law building, classroom buildings, a gymnasium, a women's building and faculty houses.

People: Thomas W. Bickett

The rebuilt Presbyterian church on Franklin Street is dedicated as Sprunt Memorial

The Presbyterian church at 209 East Franklin Street, remodeled in 1919-1920 mostly at the expense of James Sprunt as a memorial to his wife, Luola Murchison Sprunt, was dedicated as the Sprunt Memorial Presbyterian Church. William D. Moss was its pastor.

People: James Sprunt

Subject: University Presbyterian Church

A General Education Board grant pays for 25 percent faculty raises

In late November the University learned it would get up to $50,000 from the Rockefeller-funded General Education Board, one of only two tax-supported schools helped. Chase used it for raises of 25 percent backdated to July 1.

People: Harry Woodburn Chase

A rail spur from Carrboro brings building materials to the campus

With the nearest railhead in Carrboro, convict labor built a $73,000 spur that ran south of Franklin Street, crossed Pittsboro Street and ended near Raleigh Road at the new dormitory sites; it was later moved toward the new mall. Neighbors blamed the Chapel Hill Limited for cracked plaster, cinders and smoke.

Alice Noble joins the UNC School of Pharmacy staff

Alice Noble was hired as assistant secretary of the School of Pharmacy in 1921, the start of a decades-long tenure in which she was later librarian and secretary to Dean Edward Brecht.

Subject: UNC School of Pharmacy

Connor returns to Chapel Hill as Kenan professor of history and government

Connor left his state archival work for the university in 1921 and taught at Chapel Hill until 1934, when he was named the first Archivist of the United States.

James Finch Royster returns as Kenan Professor of English Philology

After seven years in Texas, Royster accepted the Kenan Professorship of English Philology, which he held until his death. Covington says President Chase recruited him back from Austin.

People: Harry Woodburn Chase

Louis Graves becomes the university's first journalism professor

Louis Graves came back to Chapel Hill in 1921 as the University of North Carolina's first professor of journalism. He resigned in 1924 to give his time to his newspaper.

Masons lay the cornerstone of Grimes Dormitory

Masons from Hillsborough's Eagle Lodge and Chapel Hill's University Lodge laid the cornerstone of Grimes Dormitory. Past Grand Master Samuel M. Gattis of Eagle Lodge ran the ceremony and gave the address.

People: Samuel Mallett Gattis

Subject: Eagle Lodge · University Lodge

Memorial Hall is renovated with heat, electric light and sound padding

Builders laid cork on the floors and padded the vaulted ceiling with felt and burlap to fix the acoustics, and added electric lights and heat so the hall could be used year-round. It reopened for the fall 1921 term.

Subject: Memorial Hall

Steele Dormitory, the first building of the new south quadrangle, goes up

Designed by Raleigh architect J. A. Salter and built just south of Smith Hall, Steele was the first building on what became Polk Place and the best-equipped dormitory the campus had yet seen.

The General Assembly grants almost $1.5 million for new university buildings

After a 1920 campaign by the university to expand its crowded plant, where about 1,000 students packed old dormitories and classrooms, the legislature voted close to $1.5 million for buildings in 1921 and 1922.

The campus contractor builds separate quarters for white and Black workers

The trustees made T. C. Thompson and Brothers of Charlotte sole contractor for the $1.1 million building program, a first in the state. Its first job was housing the initial 200 workers, in one dormitory for white men and another for African American men.

The trustees' building committee names Durham engineer Thomas C. Atwood its executive agent

Atwood ran the campus expansion on the ground, hiring engineers, draftsmen, an inspector, the architect H. P. Alan Montgomery and the Charlotte contractor T. C. Thompson. Nash replaced Montgomery the next year.

The university drops its postwar ROTC unit for lack of students

An ROTC program organized at the university after World War I was ended in 1921 because too few students took part. It was 1924 before a visiting general's call for a new unit drew applause in Memorial Hall.

UNC completes a sewage disposal plant in Battle Park for the Park Place faculty houses

Built with convict labor under T. C. Atwood, the plant on Battle Branch treated waste from the new Park Place faculty houses and nearby homes the town mains did not reach. It was reported complete and in service by October 12, 1921.

Subject: Battle Park

Under rector Alfred Lawrence, the Chapel of the Cross asks Hobart Upjohn to design a new church

The vestry, led by its new rector Alfred Lawrence, asked church architect Hobart B. Upjohn to design a larger building linked to the old chapel by a cloister, after a 1920 diocesan resolution called for enlarging the church to serve the university.

Subject: Chapel of the Cross

Women students at UNC organize a basketball team

Women, then a small group mostly in upper classes and graduate study, formed a basketball team in 1921, and men on campus wondered whether a woman would have to be given a letter.

The legislature abolishes the State Building Commission

The commission whose delays had raised the cost of Steele Dormitory was ended in the closing hours of the 1921 session, leaving Chase answerable only to the trustees' building committee for the new campus.

People: Harry Woodburn Chase

Drought shrinks the University's water supply and delays the fall opening

After four hot, dry months Strowd's Creek, the main water source, had dwindled, and plants in the arboretum died. On local health officials' advice Chase asked students not to arrive before October 4, when a temporary six-inch line to Morgan's Creek was due to be ready.

People: Harry Woodburn Chase

Fire destroys the main building of the old University Inn

Fire on November 30, 1921 destroyed the main building of the old University Inn, the former Eagle Hotel, and left 42 student roomers without quarters; students on the roof with a hose saved the annex Nancy Hilliard had built for President Polk's 1847 visit. The annex stood until it was razed in January 1924 to clear the site for Graham Memorial.

People: Nancy Hilliard

Subject: Eagle Hotel (Chapel Hill)

Arthur Cleveland Nash comes to Chapel Hill as the university's architect

Nash moved to Chapel Hill in 1922 to serve as architect for the University of North Carolina during its major expansion, working with the builder Thomas C. Atwood and the consulting firm McKim, Mead and White of New York.

Atwood and Nash rebuild Old East inside a fireproof concrete frame

After Old East was condemned, the firm of Atwood and Nash put a fireproof concrete frame inside the building, restored its eastern porches and left the outside lines unchanged. It was back in use as a dormitory by 1925.

Subject: Old East

Courts clear the University's claim to $75,000 a year from the Bingham estate

Five years of litigation over Mary Lily Kenan Flagler Bingham's bequest ended in late 1922, confirming the University's right to an annual income of $75,000 from her estate.

Edgar Wallace Knight serves on the Chapel Hill School Board

Knight was a member of the Chapel Hill School Board for thirty years.

Howard W. Odum founds the Journal of Social Forces at UNC

Two years after coming to UNC, Odum founded and edited the Journal of Social Forces, the journal now titled Social Forces.

James Finch Royster becomes dean of the College of Liberal Arts

Royster became dean of the College of Liberal Arts in 1922 and introduced the major-minor system, sectioning of students by ability, and an advisory system that later grew into the General College.

Mangum Dormitory opens, named for three members of the Mangum family

The university opened Mangum Dormitory in 1922, naming it for Senator Willie Person Mangum, his nephew Willie Person Mangum Jr., and Professor Adolphus Williamson Mangum.

People: Willie P. Mangum

Murphey, Saunders and Manning halls are designed in the university's building office

On the east side of the new south quadrangle, H. P. Alan Montgomery, architect in the university's building office under Thomas C. Atwood, laid out a smaller court of classroom buildings, with McKim, Mead and White as consulting architects: Murphey Hall for languages and literature, Saunders Hall (now Carolina Hall) for history and social science, and Manning Hall, with an Ionic portico and cupola, for the law school.

People: Arthur Cleveland Nash

Subject: UNC School of Law

Old East is condemned as unsafe

The university's first building was condemned when some of its walls were found to have bowed as much as three inches.

Subject: Old East

Robert Ervin Coker becomes professor of zoology at UNC

Coker, who had worked for the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries, accepted a professorship of zoology at Chapel Hill.

Trustees put Graham Memorial on the site of the burned University Inn

After other sites were floated, the trustees settled on the University Inn lot, set back from Franklin Street. Alumni pledges then stood near $120,000, only half of it paid.

People: Harry Woodburn Chase

Subject: Eagle Hotel (Chapel Hill) · Graham Memorial

UNC is admitted to the Association of American Universities

Membership put the University beside Yale, Harvard, Columbia and Johns Hopkins. Virginia had been a founder, but Chapel Hill was the first Southern university voted in.

People: Harry Woodburn Chase

University trustees name the new law building for John Manning

At their June 13, 1922 meeting the university trustees approved naming the new law building for John Manning. The School of Law moved into Manning Hall before the fall 1923 semester.

Subject: UNC School of Law

William C. Coker's committee is put in charge of the care of the whole campus

After Coker drew his 'Plan A' for siting dormitories on the campus's east side, the grounds and buildings committee in December 1922 gave him and a subcommittee charge of the care and improvement of the entire campus, with its own budget. The nomination calls him in effect the university's first resident planner.

Trinity's William P. Few proposes a joint medical school with UNC

After the trustees' site committee split on December 16, Few met the committee at the governor's mansion and offered a four-year school with two years at Chapel Hill and two in Durham near Watts Hospital, backed by $1 million from each side and a Trinity endowment. Morrison endorsed it that night, but Baptist protest over church and state killed it within weeks.

People: Harry Woodburn Chase · Isaac Hall Manning · Cameron Morrison

Subject: UNC School of Medicine

Albert Coates joins the law faculty at Chapel Hill

Coates, a university graduate with a Harvard law degree, joined the law faculty in 1923. The schools he ran for police officers and sheriffs grew into the Institute of Government.

Subject: Institute of Government · UNC School of Law

Albert Ray Newsome joins the UNC history faculty

Newsome, a 1915 UNC graduate, returned to Chapel Hill from graduate study at Michigan as an assistant professor of history and stayed until 1926.

Delta Kappa Epsilon completes the first of the large new fraternity houses

In the move off the old campus row, DKE finished the first of the big Colonial Revival chapter houses in 1923; Sigma Alpha Epsilon and Sigma Chi soon followed, and the South Columbia Street court had five houses by 1926.

John Sprunt Hill chairs the trustees' buildings committee

As a university trustee, John Sprunt Hill chaired the committee on university buildings during the campus building program of 1923 to 1931.

Robert W. Madry becomes the University's full-time publicity man

Persuaded by Louis Round Wilson that the University had to tell its story better, Chase hired Madry, an alumnus then writing for the New York Herald, as its first full-time publicity man.

People: Harry Woodburn Chase · Louis Round Wilson

The faculty turns down church-paid Bible teachers at the university

Answering the churches, the faculty committee on educational policy, in a report drafted with Chase, refused to place instructors on campus who owed their posts and pay to a denomination, and warned that such a program would cut into the work of the church colleges. It offered instead Bible courses taught from a literary and historical standpoint by faculty the university chose.

People: Harry Woodburn Chase

Thomas C. Atwood and Arthur C. Nash form the firm Atwood and Nash, Architects and Engineers

The firm served as the university's local architects and engineers through the 1920s building campaign, working under McKim, Mead and White's William Kendall. It kept its office in the Alumni Building and another in Durham.

Subject: Alumni Building

UNC and the North Carolina College for Women agree to limit women to UNC's upper levels

After a quarrel over Chase's remarks and a meeting with President Julius I. Foust at a Durham hotel, the two schools agreed that women would enter UNC's graduate and professional schools but not its first two years, even if they lived in Chapel Hill, and that transfers from NCCW would need NCCW's consent.

People: Harry Woodburn Chase

William C. Coker gives the Chapel Hill Country Club land for a clubhouse and golf course

By early 1923 Coker had given the new Chapel Hill Country Club its grounds south of the campus. The clubhouse went up that spring and the golf course over the next two years. The land later passed to the university and is used for tennis courts and a greenway park; the Laurel Hill subdivision was laid out along the course.

People: William Chambers Coker

The Chapel Hill Weekly publishes its first issue

Louis Graves published the first issue of his newspaper, the Chapel Hill Weekly, on March 2, 1923. He owned and edited it until 1954.

Subject: The Chapel Hill Weekly

The 1923 legislature gives UNC $1.7 million for buildings

The University got about 15 percent of a $10.7 million bond issue for state institutions, letting the building program go on, but its operating budget was cut 7 percent below the request and it got $667,300 less than the $2.3 million in construction money sought.

People: Harry Woodburn Chase

Chapel Hill aldermen order a cemetery survey, burial permits and a deed from the university

After noting in December 1922 that the cemetery needed more room, the town board on May 10, 1923 told the town manager to survey the grounds, begin burial permits and obtain a deed from the university showing that the town owned the cemetery. Nothing is recorded to have come of it.

Subject: Old Chapel Hill Cemetery

Bayard Wootten photographs the Playmakers' outdoor Taming of the Shrew

Bayard Wootten of New Bern came to Chapel Hill to photograph the Carolina Playmakers' outdoor production of The Taming of the Shrew, the start of years of Playmakers work. That month she also urged the University to have aerial photographs made of the growing campus.

Subject: Carolina Playmakers

Arthur C. Nash renovates Old West

Nash's rebuilding of the 1822 dormitory, done alongside the work on Old East, left the brick walls as about the only original material.

Subject: Old West

Aycock School is built at Cedar Grove and named for the governor

The county built the original eight-room Aycock School at Cedar Grove on land bought from Carl C. McDade and named it for former governor Charles B. Aycock.

Subject: Aycock School

Daniel L. Grant, UNC's first alumni secretary, builds a house on Glandon Drive

Daniel L. Grant, the first secretary of the UNC Alumni Association, builds a two-story Colonial Revival house in the new Gimghoul subdivision, one of the five houses finished there in 1924.

People: Daniel Lindsey Grant

Subject: Gimghoul Castle and neighborhood

Gerald W. Johnson heads the university's newly independent journalism department

After Louis Graves left in 1924, the university expanded journalism into an independent department with Johnson, an editorial writer, at its head. He left for the Baltimore Evening Sun in 1926.

People: Louis Graves

Guy B. Johnson begins work at the Institute for Research in Social Science

Guy B. Johnson and his wife Guion Griffis Johnson began working at UNC's new Institute for Research in Social Science in 1924. He was one of its original research assistants.

People: Guion Griffis Johnson

Hatcher Hughes wins the Pulitzer Prize for Drama

Hatcher Hughes, a UNC graduate and former instructor in English there, won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Hell-Bent fer Heaven, a play about a mountain preacher. He was then teaching at Columbia University in New York.

Kennon Cheek helps negotiate the land swap that brought Hackney's school to Northside

Cheek's daughter Marian Cheek Jackson said he was instrumental in negotiating the 1924 land swap that moved Hackney's Educational and Industrial School from South Merritt Mill Road into the Northside community.

Part of Northside, Pine Knolls, and Tin Top · 43 events

Subject: Orange County Training School / Lincoln High School

UNC and the state welfare board win a Rockefeller grant for Black welfare work

In 1924 the State Board of Charities and Public Welfare and the University of North Carolina received a Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial grant for a demonstration program in Black welfare, which opened on January 1, 1925, as the board's Division of Negro Work under Lawrence A. Oxley. Charlotte Hawkins Brown sat on its advisory commission, and Oxley visited the Efland Home.

People: Charlotte Hawkins Brown

UNC opens a residence hall named for Charles B. Aycock

The university occupied Aycock Residence Hall on the Lower Quad in 1924. The name stood until the trustees removed it in July 2020, citing his racist views and actions.

University architect Thomas C. Atwood builds a duplex on Ridge Lane for his firm's workers

Thomas C. Atwood, supervising architect for the 1920s campus building program, built a one-story frame duplex in the Gimghoul subdivision to house employees of Atwood and Nash. It stayed a duplex until the 1970s, when it became a single-family house.

Subject: Gimghoul Castle and neighborhood

Work begins on Graham Memorial on the site of the burned University Inn

Construction of Graham Memorial started where the University Inn had stood until the 1921 fire. By 1928 only its social room was in use.

Subject: Eagle Hotel (Chapel Hill) · Graham Memorial

Chase and Coates rally students to revive the Graham Memorial drive

President Chase, Albert Coates and student body president Julian Allsbrook held a special chapel meeting in Memorial Hall to restart the stalled fund drive, with plans cut back to a smaller building whose exterior was under way. In March Coates set out a University Life Unification Plan centered on the building.

People: Albert Coates

Subject: Memorial Hall · Graham Memorial

General Albert J. Bowley warns of campus radicals in a Memorial Hall address

Two weeks after he had berated extension director Chester D. Snell at a Raleigh luncheon, the commander of Fort Bragg spoke for nearly an hour in Memorial Hall on the occasion of Washington's birthday before a crowd of about 3,000. He repeated his charges that Soviet-backed agitators were working through colleges and welfare groups, and his closing call for an ROTC unit at the university drew long applause.

Subject: Memorial Hall

Odum's Institute for Research in Social Science is organized at UNC

The Institute for Research in Social Science was organized at Chapel Hill on June 30, 1924, for the cooperative study of social problems arising from state and regional conditions. Odum founded it with help from the Rockefeller Fund, and it is now the Odum Institute.

Trustees overrule the faculty and give a diploma to a senior who took a drink

The faculty, bound by a trustee rule against any drinking, had denied a diploma to a senior who celebrated the end of exams with a drink or two. His class petitioned the trustees, who reversed the faculty, leaving professors feeling their disciplinary role undercut.

People: Harry Woodburn Chase

Chase opens the year with his address on the university's intellectual responsibility

Speaking to more than 2,200 students in Memorial Hall at the start of the fall term, Chase answered the university's critics without naming them: the attack on intellectual freedom fell on biology and the social sciences, and suppressing debate led to sterility. He offered a test for responsible free speech and defended the building program ahead of the legislature. The talk was printed more widely than any of his others.

Subject: Memorial Hall

Rameses, the live ram mascot, makes his debut for Carolina

Head cheerleader Vic Huggins won athletic department approval and $25 to buy a ram as a mascot. Rameses first appeared at the football game against the Virginia Military Institute, which Carolina won 3-0.

The Gimghouls sell their old lodge lot on Rosemary Lane

W. S. Roberson bought the Gimghouls' lot at Rosemary Lane and Boundary Street, with the old lodge to stand until the order finished its new building at Piney Prospect. The old lodge had been torn down by July 1926, and John Lasley's family had moved into a new house on the lot by that September.

People: W. S. Roberson

Subject: Gimghoul Castle and neighborhood

A UNC study counts forty-seven rural schools and ninety teachers in Orange County

Nita Andrews's 1925 master's study of the county schools found forty-seven rural schools with ninety teachers, about half of them holding only elementary certificates, and five school trucks that cost $1,680.70 a year to run plus $783 for drivers.

A state pay commission created at Governor McLean's request questions university faculty about their work

At McLean's request the 1925 legislature set up a commission on state pay. Its questionnaires asked faculty to account for their working hours and leave, and the attorney general ruled that its work covered university positions.

People: Harry Woodburn Chase

A. C. Howell serves as the university's first secretary of the faculty

Almonte Charles Howell, an English professor at the University of North Carolina, was the first secretary of the faculty, holding the post for twenty years.

Alfred Lawrence helps found the Chapel Hill School of Religion

Lawrence took part in organizing the Chapel Hill School of Religion in 1925-26; funded by the town's churches, it opened its first non-credit courses in the fall of 1926. His papers hold material on it from 1925 and 1926.

Arthur C. Nash renovates New East and New West

The two 1858-61 buildings were reworked under Nash, part of a series of renovations that left only the brick shells of the early campus buildings.

Dean James F. Royster refuses Shaw University debaters seats in the gallery

When the debate team of Shaw University, a Black college in Raleigh, asked only to sit in the gallery and watch Carolina's debaters meet Washington and Lee, Royster, dean of the College of Liberal Arts, said no, fearing it would reflect poorly on the university.

Nash designs Spencer Hall, the university's first dormitory for women

Spencer Hall, designed by Nash and under construction in 1924, opened in 1925 as the first dormitory for women at the University of North Carolina; the trustees gave it Cornelia Phillips Spencer's name in 1927. It was one of a series of dormitories he designed on the campus through the 1920s.

The Dialectic Society condemns the Glee Club for singing to a mixed audience at Hampton

The Dialectic Literary Society censured the university Glee Club for performing before Black and white listeners together at the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute, a Black college in Virginia.

Subject: Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies

The legislature puts university spending under the governor's budget control

Governor Angus W. McLean's plan, passed by the 1925 General Assembly, made the governor director of the budget and chair of a stronger Advisory Budget Commission. Moving money between accounts in an institution's budget now needed approval in Raleigh, and the university's budget stayed under review through the biennium. As both budget director and chair of the trustees, the governor gained far more say over the university.

People: Angus W. McLean

The new chemistry building, Venable Hall, is dedicated

The university dedicated its new chemistry building in 1925 and named it Venable Hall while Venable was still teaching there.

Subject: Venable Hall

Chase speaks against the Poole antievolution resolution at a legislative hearing

At an evening hearing of the House education committee, moved to the packed House chamber, Chase was the only college president to speak. He argued for freedom of teaching under the state constitution and asked why evolution could be preached on Sunday but not taught on weekdays. The committee split 11 to 11, and chairman Henry G. Connor Jr. broke the tie for an unfavorable report.

The University buys the Chapel Hill Telephone Company

The University bought the Chapel Hill Telephone Company, reportedly for $25,000 to $30,000, to keep it from outside buyers. The exchange stayed for the time being on Henderson Street near the post office, with a later move planned to the old Strowd garage.

The new Chapel of the Cross church is consecrated

The Upjohn building, from then on called the Church, was consecrated during Alfred Lawrence's rectorship. The parish timeline notes that male students in the campus ministry resisted including women students.

Subject: Chapel of the Cross

George Pickard's heirs sell their Columbia Street house and lot to Beta Theta Pi

The fraternity paid $25,000 for the late George Pickard's house and large lot, a private parcel off the university courts that later let it build a bigger house with a deep lawn.

Subject: Beta Theta Pi Fraternity House

Governor McLean cuts the university's appropriation by 5 percent

Facing a projected deficit, McLean as budget director cut all state appropriations for the coming year by 5 percent in mid-May. The cut erased the $25,000 increase the legislature had voted, and for the first time in the century the university faced a smaller state appropriation than the year before.

People: Angus W. McLean

Wake Forest president William Louis Poteat gives the McNair lectures

Poteat lectured on 'Can a Man Be a Christian Today?' and stayed with the Chases in the president's house; Chase introduced him as a defender of the faith. Days before, Chase had sought $6,000 a year for five years from H. Smith Richardson of Vick Chemical to bring Poteat to Chapel Hill as professor of moral philosophy, an offer Poteat declined.

People: Harry Woodburn Chase

Edwin Greenlaw leaves the Graduate School deanship for Johns Hopkins

Greenlaw left after five years as dean, during which graduate enrollment had tripled to 346 students in eighteen departments. The Alumni Review said he was being driven from the state by tight budgets. James F. Royster followed him as dean.

People: James Finch Royster

Trustees raise tuition 20 percent after the governor insists on a balanced budget

At their commencement-week meeting the trustees split over what they read as a legislative order to raise tuition. Governor McLean told them they could keep tuition only by cutting the operating budget, and after three hours they voted 38 to 23 for a 20 percent increase.

People: Angus W. McLean

Beta Theta Pi sells its Fraternity Row house to Delta Sigma Pi and moves into the Pickard house

The chapter sold its old house to Delta Sigma Pi and put twenty members in the Pickard house on Columbia Street while it planned a new building.

Subject: Beta Theta Pi Fraternity House

Chase tries a week of orientation for entering freshmen

At Chase's initiative, new students came to campus early for a full week of physical and academic testing, campus tours and preparation for the year. The book calls it an experiment that went well.

The university paves Cameron Avenue through the campus

Ziegler Brothers laid Kentucky asphalt on a six-inch concrete base along Cameron Avenue from the west gate to the east gate and up the Raleigh road to Franklin Street, part of a 1925 paving program with the town and the state highway commission.

University Day marks fifty years since the 1875 reopening

More than ninety representatives of American colleges joined a procession from the Alumni Building to Memorial Hall, where former commissioner of education Philander P. Claxton spoke. In his first address to the university, Governor McLean called it the head of the state's school system and asked it to help smooth religious and social divisions.

People: Harry Woodburn Chase · Edwin Anderson Alderman · Francis Preston Venable · Angus W. McLean

Subject: Memorial Hall

Chase cancels all campus dances after reports of drinking at a Durham dance

After newspapers described liquor and broken fixtures at a German Club dance at Durham's Washington Duke Hotel following the 1925 Thanksgiving game, the club disciplined twenty-five students and alumni, and Chase called off all campus dances until Easter or later. He followed with a chapel talk urging students not to drink.

People: Andrew Henry Patterson

Alfred Lawrence publicly opposes fundamentalist attacks on teaching evolution

The Chapel of the Cross rector took a public stand against fundamentalist efforts to bar the teaching of evolution in public schools, introducing a diocesan resolution against limits on freedom of thought, teaching and research.

Subject: Chapel of the Cross

Chase keeps the University Press from publishing Collier Cobb's book on evolution

Geologist Collier Cobb had a manuscript on evolution in hand at the University of North Carolina Press. Chase wrote him that the book was good but that putting it out under the university's imprint would read to enemies as a challenge while the antievolution fight was still on. It was never published by the press.

People: Harry Woodburn Chase · Collier Cobb

Elizabeth Janet Gray joins the UNC library staff

Elizabeth Janet Gray, later Elizabeth Gray Vining, came to Chapel Hill in 1926 as an assistant cataloger at the University library, after library school at Drexel. Friends in town knew her as Betty Gray.

Subject: UNC Libraries

Five fraternity houses by Brodie Thompson form the Big Fraternity Court

Alumni gifts paid for the Big Fraternity Court on the first block of South Columbia Street: five Colonial Revival houses built by Brodie Thompson and set around a shared court, in the manner of the new campus quadrangles. A smaller court stands around the corner on Cameron Avenue.

Kay Kyser takes over the UNC campus band from Hal Kemp

Kay Kyser, a UNC student and cheerleader who could not read music, took over leadership of the campus dance band in 1926 when Hal Kemp graduated. The new band held its first rehearsal in Gerrard Hall.

Subject: Gerrard Hall

Nash builds his own house in Chapel Hill

Nash designed and built a Colonial Revival house in Chapel Hill as his personal residence, at the address now numbered 124 South Boundary Street. The state listed it on the National Register on October 26, 2017 as the property most closely associated with his career.

Nash renovates South Building and adds its portico

Nash carried out the renovation of South Building and added the portico in 1926 and 1927, part of his remodelling of older campus buildings that also took in Old East, Old West and Gerrard Hall.

Subject: South Building · Gerrard Hall · Old East · Old West

Pi Kappa Alpha builds a $35,000 chapter house designed by Atwood and Nash

Pi Kappa Alpha put up a new house in 1926 for about $35,000, one of the fraternity houses drawn by the university's architects Atwood and Nash.

Robert B. House becomes the university's first executive secretary

The trustees created the post of executive secretary to carry part of the president's load, and House, class of 1916, came from the North Carolina Historical Commission to fill it. His first major task was a plan for better teacher training; he ran the office while Chase was abroad in 1927.

Subject: South Building

The Order of Gimghoul completes its castle at Piney Prospect

The Order of Gimghoul completed a gothic castle at Piney Prospect, the spot where legend placed Dromgoole's fatal duel and burial.

Subject: Gimghoul Castle and neighborhood

William R. Kenan Jr. gives $275,000 for a football stadium

Kenan announced a gift of 275,000 dollars to build Kenan Memorial Stadium in honor of his parents, William Rand and Mary Hargrave Kenan. Construction began in November 1926.

Subject: Kenan Stadium

William T. Couch joins the University of North Carolina Press as assistant director

Couch, who had moved to the Chapel Hill area in 1917, began at the press in 1926 as assistant director under Louis Round Wilson and took over as director in 1932.

People: Louis Round Wilson

Frank Graham leads a faculty resolution urging Chase to stay

While Chase was in Oregon being offered that university's presidency, Frank Porter Graham took the floor at a specially called faculty meeting and won adoption, without a word of dissent, of a resolution praising Chase and tying his staying to the cause of freedom and tolerance. It was wired to Chase in Portland.

People: Harry Woodburn Chase

Chase turns down the University of Oregon and stays at Chapel Hill

Oregon's regents had unanimously offered Chase their presidency at $10,000 a year. Back from a three-week trip west, he received a unanimous trustee resolution in Raleigh urging him to stay and said he would remain. He told Oregon that his staying had become tied in the public mind to liberal thought and teaching. In June the trustees raised his pay to $10,000.

Commencement moves from midweek to a weekend

To draw more alumni, the 1926 exercises were shifted to the weekend for the first time, with a president's reception and an alumni ball added. The 366 graduates heard Richmond editor Douglas Southall Freeman, and Governor McLean received an honorary doctor of laws with a faculty citation that gently mocked his economies.

People: Angus W. McLean

Subject: Memorial Hall

Bayard Wootten opens a Chapel Hill studio over Foister's store

Bayard Wootten arranged with R. W. Foister to use the upper floor of his store as a studio, making portraits there every Saturday and taking photographs in homes and outdoors. By 1928 the Wootten-Moulton Studio over Foister's was her Chapel Hill base.

Guy B. Johnson joins the UNC faculty

After earning his doctorate at UNC in 1927, Johnson joined the university faculty, where he taught sociology and anthropology until 1969.

Hamilton announces plans for a manuscript collection at UNC

Hamilton announced plans for what he first called the National Southern Collection of manuscripts at the university. It became the Southern Historical Collection after Sarah Graham Kenan's gift in 1930.

Subject: UNC Libraries

Phi Kappa Sigma builds a $45,000 chapter house

Phi Kappa Sigma spent about $45,000 on a new house in 1927 during the fraternity building boom that also eased campus housing.

Samuel Selden joins the Carolina Playmakers as technical director

After five years in New York theater, including the Provincetown Playhouse, Selden came to the University of North Carolina in 1927 as technical director of the Carolina Playmakers.

Part of The Carolina Playmakers and the founding of UNC Press · 20 events

Subject: Carolina Playmakers

The Carolina Theatre and Jeff's Campus Confectionery open in the new Sorrell building

When W. B. Sorrell's building was finished, its first tenants were his optometry shop on the west, the Carolina Theatre in the middle and Jeff's Campus Confectionery on the east.

Subject: Varsity Theatre (the first Carolina Theatre)

The legislature allows $625,000 for a new university library

Plans had called for a library costing as much as $862,000. After Chase's pleading, the 1927 General Assembly provided $625,000, just over half of all the capital money for the campus. Robert B. House kept the project on schedule with the Advisory Budget Commission while Chase was abroad.

People: Harry Woodburn Chase · R. B. House

Subject: UNC Libraries

Zeta Psi moves into a new brick house on Cameron Avenue

The Zeta Psi chapter left its old hall on Fraternity Row for a new Colonial-style brick house on Cameron Avenue designed by Arthur Nash. Kappa Sigma and Kappa Alpha later built on either side of it to form a court.

Zeta Psi, Kappa Alpha and Kappa Sigma jointly buy the Patterson property on Cameron Avenue

The three fraternities bought the Patterson land together to lay out a second fraternity court; Kenneth Ellington later designed the Kappa Alpha and Kappa Sigma houses there with Arthur Nash's advice so they matched Zeta Psi.

Fire destroys the Phi Delta Theta fraternity house

A midnight fire destroyed the Phi Delta Theta house at the northwest corner of the campus, behind the library. Students on the upper floor jumped from windows, and firemen kept the flames from the Kappa Sigma and Sigma Delta Phi houses next door.

Howard Mumford Jones opens the Bull's Head Bookshop in Murphey Hall

English professor Howard Mumford Jones announced the Bull's Head Book Store, a non-profit shop for modern novels and short stories in his office at 214 Murphey Hall. It later moved to the YMCA building, the ground floor of the university library and, in 1968, the Daniels Building.

Subject: UNC Libraries · University YMCA

UNC library worker Elizabeth Janet Gray sells her first book

Gray, a member of the University library staff, signed a contract with Doubleday, Page & Co. for Meredith's Ann, a story for girls set in the New Hampshire mountains. She went on to write several more books while living in Chapel Hill.

Subject: UNC Libraries

Press governors object to Paul Green's introduction to Congaree Sketches

Called before Chase and the press's board, assistant editor William T. Couch heard Royster and the others condemn Green's introduction, which said neither race could leave the ditch until whites gave Blacks a hand. Couch pointed out that some 150 advance copies were already out, and the book went out as printed. Six months later, at Chase's order, unsold copies went to a commercial publisher, which reprinted it without Green's introduction.

People: William T. Couch · Paul Green · Harry Woodburn Chase · James Finch Royster

Trustees appoint Sallie Belle Marks and Cecilia Hatrick Bason, the first women on the faculty

With little discussion, the June trustees made both women assistant professors as part of a push to improve teacher training. Marks became supervising principal of the elementary grades at the university's training school in Chapel Hill; Bason worked for the Extension Division from Asheville. Once women were on the faculty, women graduates could join the American Association of University Women.

People: N. W. Walker

Trustees name the women's dormitory for Cornelia Phillips Spencer

At the same meeting that appointed the first women faculty, the trustees named the campus's one women's dormitory, in use for two years, Spencer Hall.

Rupert B. Vance joins the UNC sociology faculty and the Institute for Research in Social Science

After taking his doctorate at UNC in 1928, Vance was appointed to the staff of Howard W. Odum's Institute for Research in Social Science and the Department of Sociology. He was named Kenan Professor in 1945.

People: Howard W. Odum

The Lower Quad dormitories are finished and named

By September 1928 the four three-story red brick men's dormitories of the Lower Quad stood in Battle Woods, soon to be named Aycock, Graham, Everett and Lewis. The quad had gone up from 1924; Everett was not a later addition.

The fraternity slate wins 28 of 30 elected campus offices

In the fall 1928 elections the fraternity political machine carried twenty-eight of thirty posts, making its hand-picked "frame-up" slates impossible to deny; a backlash followed but the machine survived.

UNC lets fraternities pledge freshmen in their first weeks

Until 1928 students could not join a fraternity before their sophomore year; the new rule let houses pledge freshmen on arrival and strengthened the fraternity grip on campus elections.

Chase's memorandum warns faculty against advocacy that embarrasses the university

Under attack from textile editor David Clark, Chase sent Howard Odum, Dudley D. Carroll and Frank Graham a discussion memo on proper activities for social scientists. Faculty whose causes involved colleagues in general embarrassment should leave, he wrote; in North Carolina such causes included certain taxes, labor organizing, racial equality and socialism.

People: Howard W. Odum · Dudley Dewitt Carroll · Frank Porter Graham

Fire guts the old Zeta Psi house on Fraternity Row

The old Zeta Psi house by the Mary Ann Smith dormitory caught fire from a chimney at about noon on a Sunday. The Phi Delta Thetas, renting it after losing their own house in 1927, were burned out a second time; damage passed $4,000.

The trustees name a Lower Quad dormitory Graham Residence Hall for John W. Graham

Meeting shortly after his death, the university trustees named the dormitory finished in 1924 on the Lower Quad for John Washington Graham, class of 1857 and a trustee since 1876. They praised his service at the 1864 Battle of Plymouth, where Confederate troops massacred Black soldiers and people who had fled slavery.

University trustees give Chapel Hill three more acres for the cemetery

Answering an aldermen's petition of June 11, 1928 about crowding, the trustees granted two acres on the east, laid out as Sections III and IV, and an acre on the south that extended the Black Sections A and B. Lot sales went into a maintenance fund overseen by a joint town and faculty committee.

Subject: Old Chapel Hill Cemetery

A new pipe line to the town plant ends the Battle Park sewage plant

Under an agreement among the university, the town and the Gimghouls, a pipe line to the municipal plant in Strowd's lowgrounds was finished, and the park's disposal plant was abandoned so the woods could be restored.

Subject: Battle Park

The university hosts a national conference on education in the South

More than thirty college and university presidents, a dozen state superintendents, librarians, governors and others met at Chapel Hill. The gathering tied the university to leading educators nationwide and supported its new emphasis on training high school teachers, principals and superintendents.

People: Harry Woodburn Chase

Chase's annual report tallies a decade of growth at the university

More than $5 million in state money had built nine dormitories, five classroom buildings and laboratories. State operating funds had risen from $215,000 to $880,000; faculty above instructor from 66 to 158; the Graduate School from 40 to 205 students; and the library from 88,316 to 193,867 volumes. Enrollment had reached 2,825 and the press had issued fifty titles.

Elizabeth Janet Gray marries Morgan Vining of the University Extension division

Gray married Morgan Fisher Vining, associate director of the University's Extension division, in Chapel Hill. The couple moved to New York in 1932, and he was killed in an automobile accident in 1933.

Kappa Alpha begins a new house on Cameron Avenue

Kappa Alpha, whose old hall stood on Fraternity Row, started a pink granite Colonial house on Cameron Avenue designed by Kenneth Ellington. With Kappa Sigma next door it flanked the Zeta Psi house to form a court.

The University Press publishes Harriet L. Herring's study of mill villages

Herring, a research associate of the Institute for Research in Social Science, had visited 322 of the state's roughly 500 mills after the manufacturers refused formal cooperation. It was the first systematic look at mill communities. Chase mailed copies to leading textile men, including Charles A. Cannon, as a model of social research.

People: Harry Woodburn Chase

The university names Bingham Hall for Robert Bingham

In 1929 the university named Bingham Hall on its Chapel Hill campus for Robert Bingham, class of 1857, an alumnus who often spoke at campus events and helped reopen the university in 1875.

People: Robert Worth Bingham

The university sets aside land on the Pittsboro highway for fraternity houses

The university set aside a strip on the west side of the Pittsboro highway for a new fraternity colony, taking fraternity lots on old Fraternity Row in exchange. Phi Delta Theta and Pi Kappa Phi began building there first and moved into their brick houses that fall.