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Harry Woodburn Chase

Chase joined the University of North Carolina faculty at Chapel Hill in September 1910, taught education and then psychology, and was elected president in June 1919. In eleven years as president he reorganized the university's administration, added twenty-one buildings, raised the faculty from 78 to 115 members, and defended the teaching of evolution.

Source: NCpedia: Chase, Harry Woodburn

1883–1955 · Dates from the Library of Congress · On the Friends’ Local Authors roster → · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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Harry Woodburn Chase, 1921
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StorylineChapel Hill's volunteer fire company, 1898–19311898–1931 · 22 events · From about 1898 a volunteer company fought Chapel Hill's fires, at first with two hand reels and hose lent by the University, and more than once a building burned where no hydrant was near. In 1921 the town built a brick municipal building and fire house and received an American La France motor truck. In June 1922, with the nearest hydrant almost half a mile away, fire destroyed the Orange County Training School, the county's school for Black students. In 1923 the company hosted the state's firemen at a barbecue, and the state association elected Chief John L. Foister its president. After officers missed an alarm, the aldermen put a full-time fireman on duty in 1928. In 1931 the bricklayer John Johnson became, by the Weekly's account, the only Black member of a white fire company in North Carolina. StorylineThe University Summer School grows, 1921–19281921–1928 · 4 events · Between 1921 and 1928 the University's summer school grew into a twelve-week term with record enrollments. In 1921 it enrolled 1,090 students, slightly fewer than the summer before. In June 1923 President H. W. Chase opened the first summer school run as a twelve-week term in two six-week sessions, which he said meant the University would be in session almost the whole year. The first term of 1928 enrolled 1,752, the largest summer body yet, and Orange sent more than any other county; the second term also set a record. That June the men students voted to set up student government for the summer session, which the Weekly said had been under faculty control. StorylineScouting in Chapel Hill and Carrboro, 1925–19351925–1935 · 4 events · Chapel Hill hosted what the Weekly called the national council's first patrol leaders' training camp in 1925, when about 125 picked North Carolina Scouts camped on Emerson Field. By 1932 thirty-six men had set up a Chapel Hill district committee under Joseph Hyde Pratt to equip and house the troops of Chapel Hill and Carrboro. In 1933 it reported that the Carrboro troop had grown and had a three-room house, that the Chapel Hill troop had 47 members, and that plans were under way for a troop for Black boys. In December 1935 a new district council sought student leaders for the Carrboro troop and heard a report on the Black troop. StorylineThe new University library, 1926–19291926–1929 · 4 events · In September 1926 the University trustees' executive committee asked the legislature for $861,000 for a new library, the largest item in its building request, and the Weekly called the library the University's first need. After Harry Woodburn Chase's pleading, the 1927 General Assembly provided $625,000, and Robert B. House kept the project on schedule with the Advisory Budget Commission while Chase was abroad. Construction began by March 1928 on the south edge of the campus, and estimates came within the appropriation. Students began using the building in the fall of 1929, and it was dedicated on October 19. Named for librarian Louis Round Wilson in 1956, it later became the home of UNC's special collections. StorylineOld Memorial Hall condemned and replaced, 1929–19311929–1931 · 9 events · In 1929 University architect Thomas C. Atwood found the bases of Memorial Hall's wooden roof arches rotted to powder and warned that the building could fall at any minute. President Harry Woodburn Chase had closed it that fall over a bulge in its slate roof. In January 1930 the trustees voted to replace it on the same site, and the old hall was torn down in February. The new Colonial Revival hall stood by early 1931. Chase had found the money within University accounts, helped by a gift from John Sprunt Hill, but none was left to furnish it, and guests at the October 1931 dedication sat on scarred benches saved from the old hall. StorylineThe University’s hard year and the choice of Frank Graham, 19301930 · 6 events · In 1930 the University lost its president and two faculty members and had its budget cut 20 percent before the trustees chose Frank Porter Graham to lead it. Harry Woodburn Chase left for the University of Illinois, and Dean Addison Hibbard left for Northwestern, a loss the Weekly put down to larger salaries and pensions elsewhere, and Howard Mumford Jones left for Michigan. The trustees named a committee to gather facts and lay names before the board, not to nominate one man. On June 9 they voted without nominations. R. D. W. Connor led the first ballot, but Graham took a majority on the fourth. Brought in from a walk, Graham asked that Connor be chosen instead, then accepted.
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StorylineThe Morehead-Patterson bell tower, 1930–19311930–1931 · 4 events · John Motley Morehead III had proposed a tower to President Harry Woodburn Chase in the 1920s and been turned down on three sites before the Morehead-Patterson tower rose in 1931. By December 1930 Morehead had arranged for a chime of twelve bells modeled on the one at West Point, and McKim, Mead and White were drawing the plans. In September 1931 the bell founder Chester Meneely adjusted the chime while the village listened, and the clock began striking the hours day and night; the Weekly reported that some residents wanted the night strokes stopped. The tower, given by Morehead and Rufus Lenoir Patterson II, was dedicated on Thanksgiving Day 1931.

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  1. Josephus Daniels serves on the University of North Carolina board of trustees Daniels became a member of the university board of trustees in 1901 and remained an active trustee until his death in 1948. During the 1920s he pressed for consolidating the state colleges at Chapel Hill, Raleigh and Greensboro into one university, and in 1930 he championed Frank P. Graham to succeed Harry Woodburn Chase as president. People: Josephus Daniels, Harry Woodburn Chase Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Frank Porter Graham, Frank P. GrahamIn the index: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · NCpedia: Daniels, Josephus (Dictionary of North Carolina Biography)
  2. A YMCA lecture series on Black life in the South is held for students Frank Graham and the campus YMCA organized lectures on 'Negro life in the South.' Professor Harry W. Chase told students that Black citizens were a third of the population but received a sixteenth of school spending, and that what they did not pay in property taxes they made up in fines. A second series was held five years later. People: Frank Porter Graham, Harry Woodburn Chase Place: YMCA, UNC, Chapel Hill · Also named: Frank GrahamSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., Fire and Stone: The Making of the University of North Carolina under Presidents Edward Kidder Graham and Harry Woodburn Chase (2018), p. 360
  3. The trustees make Marvin H. Stacy chairman of the faculty with a president's powers Five days after Graham's death the trustees named his dean, Marvin Hendrix Stacy, chairman of the faculty with the full powers of the presidency. Stacy named Harry W. Chase acting dean of the College of Liberal Arts, and the trustees agreed. People: Harry Woodburn Chase, Marvin Hendrix Stacy Place: UNC, Chapel HillSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., Fire and Stone: The Making of the University of North Carolina under Presidents Edward Kidder Graham and Harry Woodburn Chase (2018), p. 180
  4. Chase takes charge of the college and then the faculty after two deaths Chase was appointed acting dean of the College of Liberal Arts after President Edward Kidder Graham died in October 1918, and chairman of the faculty after Marvin H. Stacy died in January 1919. People: Edward Kidder Graham, Marvin Hendrix Stacy Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · NCpedia: Chase, Harry Woodburn
  5. 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: Andrew Henry Patterson, Harry Woodburn Chase Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., Fire and Stone: The Making of the University of North Carolina under Presidents Edward Kidder Graham and Harry Woodburn Chase (2018), p. 198
  6. Chase keeps E. C. Branson at Chapel Hill with a Kenan professorship When the University of Virginia tried to hire the rural sociologist to rebuild his program in Charlottesville, Chase made Branson a Kenan professor with $1,000 more in pay, and he stayed. People: Harry Woodburn Chase, R. D. W. Connor, Eugene Cunningham Branson Place: UNC, Chapel HillSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., Fire and Stone: The Making of the University of North Carolina under Presidents Edward Kidder Graham and Harry Woodburn Chase (2018), p. 194
  7. 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: Eugene Cunningham Branson, John Sprunt Hill, Harry Woodburn Chase, Edward Kidder Graham Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., Fire and Stone: The Making of the University of North Carolina under Presidents Edward Kidder Graham and Harry Woodburn Chase (2018), p. 215
  8. 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: Frank Porter Graham, Harry Woodburn Chase Place: UNC, Chapel HillSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., Fire and Stone: The Making of the University of North Carolina under Presidents Edward Kidder Graham and Harry Woodburn Chase (2018), pp. 210-211
  9. 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 Place: UNC, Chapel Hill · Also named: Inez Koonce StacySearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., Fire and Stone: The Making of the University of North Carolina under Presidents Edward Kidder Graham and Harry Woodburn Chase (2018), p. 195
  10. 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 Place: UNC, Chapel Hill · Also named: Lenoir ChambersSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., Fire and Stone: The Making of the University of North Carolina under Presidents Edward Kidder Graham and Harry Woodburn Chase (2018), p. 196
  11. 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 Place: UNC, Chapel Hill · Also named: Paul John Weaver, Frederick KochSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., Fire and Stone: The Making of the University of North Carolina under Presidents Edward Kidder Graham and Harry Woodburn Chase (2018), p. 195
  12. 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. Place: Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Bingham HallSearch the index · Internet Archive: The University of North Carolina Record no. 258, Report of the President (December 1928), pp. 8-10 · Also: NCpedia: Chase, Harry Woodburn
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  1. 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: Richard H. Lewis, Harry Woodburn Chase, Edward Kidder Graham, Victor Silas Bryant Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Frank L. McVeySearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr.: Fire and Stone: The Making of the University of North Carolina under Presidents Edward Kidder Graham and Harry Woodburn Chase (2018), pp. 193-194, 199, 202 (pdf 210-211, 216, 219)
  2. UNC faculty make the three-quarter academic year permanent The University had gone over to three quarters for 1918-19 on account of the SATC, the first quarter ending December 20, 1918. Under Chase's guidance the faculty kept the plan in place of the old two-term year at its February 1919 meeting. Students back in January could finish two-thirds of a year's work in six months. People: Harry Woodburn Chase Place: UNC, Chapel HillSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., Fire and Stone: The Making of the University of North Carolina under Presidents Edward Kidder Graham and Harry Woodburn Chase (2018), p. 193 · Also: The News (Chapel Hill), January 2, 1919, p. 3
  3. The State Board of Health proposes a course for health officers and public health nurses at the university After the 1918 influenza epidemic and the poor condition of army recruits, the legislature paid for a campus health officer, and Dr. William deB. MacNider won over Dr. Benjamin E. Washburn of the State Board of Health to a joint training plan. The board's tentative report offered the university a postgraduate course for health officers and public health nurses; President Harry W. Chase welcomed it, but the plan stalled for lack of money and faculty support. People: William de Berniere MacNider, Harry Woodburn Chase Place: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill · Also named: Benjamin E. WashburnSearch the index · Robert Rodgers Korstad, Dreaming of a Time: The School of Public Health, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1939-1989 (1990), scan p. 22
  4. 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 Place: General Assembly, Raleigh (for UNC, Chapel Hill)Search the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., Fire and Stone: The Making of the University of North Carolina under Presidents Edward Kidder Graham and Harry Woodburn Chase (2018), pp. 190-194
  5. Harry W. Chase is elected president of the university The trustees elected Chase president of the University of North Carolina on the second ballot on the evening of Monday, June 16, 1919. He had taught at Chapel Hill since September 1910 and had been chairman of the faculty since that January. Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · NCpedia: Chase, Harry Woodburn · Also: The News (Chapel Hill), June 19, 1919, p. 1
  6. Edward Kidder Graham's Education and Citizenship is published G. P. Putnam's Sons of New York published Education and Citizenship, a 270-page volume of the late president's addresses and papers edited by Louis R. Wilson, H. W. Chase and Edwin Greenlaw, with an introduction by E. A. Alderman of the University of Virginia. People: Edward Kidder Graham, Louis Round Wilson, Harry Woodburn Chase, Edwin Greenlaw Place: UNC, Chapel Hill · Also named: E. A. AldermanSearch the index · The News (Chapel Hill), June 5, 1919, p. 1
  7. UNC trustees turn the campus's growth southward and call for a landscape plan Planning for 1,500 students the next year, the trustees combined their committees on buying land and on buildings, authorized them to hire a landscape engineer to draft a development plan, and decided that new building should move toward the south end of the campus rather than into four dormitories proposed for the north end. They also voted a monument over the graves of President and Mrs. Graham. People: Harry Woodburn Chase, Charles T. Woollen, John Sprunt Hill, J. Bryan (John Bryan) Grimes, James Alexander Gray Place: UNC, Chapel HillSearch the index · The News (Chapel Hill), June 26, 1919, p. 1
  8. 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 Place: Memorial Hall, UNC, Chapel HillSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., Fire and Stone: The Making of the University of North Carolina under Presidents Edward Kidder Graham and Harry Woodburn Chase (2018), pp. 208-213 · Also: The News (Chapel Hill), October 9, 1919, p. 1
  9. President Chase joins the federal vocational board as the University takes in disabled soldiers President H. W. Chase accepted a place on the staff of the Federal Board for Vocational Training, which had been sending disabled soldiers to the University for training at no cost to them. The University arranged to take every disabled man assigned to it who could meet its entrance requirements; those already there were studying law or medicine. People: Harry Woodburn Chase Place: UNC, Chapel HillThe News (Chapel Hill), October 9, 1919, p. 4
  10. 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 Place: UNC, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: YMCASearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., Fire and Stone: The Making of the University of North Carolina under Presidents Edward Kidder Graham and Harry Woodburn Chase (2018), p. 217
  11. Committees of the two Methodist conferences agree to build a new church at Chapel Hill Meeting at Chapel Hill with the church board and President Harry W. Chase, committees of the North Carolina and Western North Carolina conferences agreed unanimously that the state's Methodists should build a plant costing about $150,000 for the university town. Chase told them a third of the students were Methodists. People: Harry Woodburn Chase Place: Chapel Hill Methodist Church, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Methodist Church: A Centennial History, 1853-1953 (1954), scan p. 37
  12. 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 Place: Memorial Hall, UNC, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Bynum Gymnasium, Swain HallSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., Fire and Stone: The Making of the University of North Carolina under Presidents Edward Kidder Graham and Harry Woodburn Chase (2018), pp. 205-208 · Also: The News (Chapel Hill), March 11, 1920, p. 1
  13. 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 Place: UNC, Chapel HillSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., Fire and Stone: The Making of the University of North Carolina under Presidents Edward Kidder Graham and Harry Woodburn Chase (2018), pp. 217-218
  14. 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 Place: The Coop boardinghouse, Chapel Hill · Also named: Edgar Ralph RankinSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., Fire and Stone: The Making of the University of North Carolina under Presidents Edward Kidder Graham and Harry Woodburn Chase (2018), pp. 220-222
  15. 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 Place: UNC, Chapel HillSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., Fire and Stone: The Making of the University of North Carolina under Presidents Edward Kidder Graham and Harry Woodburn Chase (2018), pp. 222-223
  16. 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 Place: UNC, Chapel HillSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., Fire and Stone: The Making of the University of North Carolina under Presidents Edward Kidder Graham and Harry Woodburn Chase (2018), p. 227
  17. 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 Place: UNC, Chapel HillSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., Fire and Stone: The Making of the University of North Carolina under Presidents Edward Kidder Graham and Harry Woodburn Chase (2018), p. 229
  18. 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: James Finch Royster, Harry Woodburn Chase Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · NCpedia: Royster, James Finch (A. C. Howell, Dictionary of North Carolina Biography)
  19. 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 Place: General Assembly, Raleigh (for UNC, Chapel Hill)Search the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., Fire and Stone: The Making of the University of North Carolina under Presidents Edward Kidder Graham and Harry Woodburn Chase (2018), p. 239
  20. Charles E. Maddry urges the faculty to add religious instruction At Harry W. Chase's invitation, Maddry, a university graduate just back from an Austin pastorate to lead the Baptist State Convention, met the faculty and described the University of Texas plan, under which denominations paid Bible teachers whose courses earned university credit. No decision was taken; Chase sent the question to the faculty committee on educational policy. People: Charles Edward Maddry, Harry Woodburn Chase Place: UNC, Chapel HillSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., Fire and Stone: The Making of the University of North Carolina under Presidents Edward Kidder Graham and Harry Woodburn Chase (2018), p. 289
  21. 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 Place: UNC, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Morgan's CreekHoward E. Covington Jr., Fire and Stone: The Making of the University of North Carolina under Presidents Edward Kidder Graham and Harry Woodburn Chase (2018), p. 243
  22. Town officials present the new fire truck and fire station to Chapel Hill's volunteer firemen At a banquet at the fire station given by Chief John L. Foister and the firemen for the town officials and University heads, the officials formally presented the new fire truck and new fire station to the fire company. Mayor W. S. Roberson, President H. W. Chase and Louis Graves spoke, and the domestic science department of the Chapel Hill school prepared the dinner. People: W. S. Roberson, Harry Woodburn Chase, Louis Graves, John Lee Foister Place: Fire station, Columbia Street, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Chapel Hill schoolSearch the index · The News (Chapel Hill), December 22, 1921, p. 5
  23. John M. Booker outlines sixteen more buildings for the growing campus With enrollment rising past 1,600, English professor John M. Booker, a member of the faculty building committee, presented a plan with sites for sixteen buildings beyond the seven already funded, which he said would be needed within a few years to serve 3,000 students. He had also urged grouping buildings by purpose in the new campus plan. People: John M. Booker, Harry Woodburn Chase, William Chambers Coker Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., Fire and Stone: The Making of the University of North Carolina under Presidents Edward Kidder Graham and Harry Woodburn Chase (2018), pp. 242, 244
  24. John Sprunt Hill offers the Graves lot and $10,000 for an alumni hotel Hill offered the Graves property across from the west entrance plus $10,000 if 1,000 to 1,500 alumni would each give $100 toward a hotel whose profits would go to the University. The investors did not come, so he built the Carolina Inn himself. People: John Sprunt Hill, Harry Woodburn Chase Place: Graves property, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Carolina InnSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., Fire and Stone: The Making of the University of North Carolina under Presidents Edward Kidder Graham and Harry Woodburn Chase (2018), p. 246
  25. The law school moves to a three-year course with new entrance rules By the end of 1922 the law curriculum had become a three-year course of study with new admission requirements, part of Dean Lucius McGehee's effort to meet American Bar Association standards. People: Harry Woodburn Chase Place: School of Law, UNC, Chapel Hill · Also named: Lucius McGeheeSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., Fire and Stone: The Making of the University of North Carolina under Presidents Edward Kidder Graham and Harry Woodburn Chase (2018), p. 246
  26. Trustees create a School of Engineering The trustees joined the departments of civil and electrical engineering into a school of engineering, one of several steps Chase took in 1922 toward a full university. People: Harry Woodburn Chase Place: UNC, Chapel HillSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., Fire and Stone: The Making of the University of North Carolina under Presidents Edward Kidder Graham and Harry Woodburn Chase (2018), p. 246
  27. 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 Place: Graham Memorial site, UNC, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: University Inn, Franklin StreetSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., Fire and Stone: The Making of the University of North Carolina under Presidents Edward Kidder Graham and Harry Woodburn Chase (2018), p. 245
  28. 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 Place: UNC, Chapel HillSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., Fire and Stone: The Making of the University of North Carolina under Presidents Edward Kidder Graham and Harry Woodburn Chase (2018), p. 247
  29. Trustees vote to ask for a 200-bed teaching hospital in Chapel Hill A June 1 report by Dean Isaac H. Manning, Chase and Dr. Richard H. Lewis found the state 45th in hospital beds and short of doctors. Twelve days later the full board voted to ask the legislature for a 200-bed teaching hospital at Chapel Hill, a memorial to the World War dead, so the two-year medical school could grow to four years. People: Isaac Hall Manning, Harry Woodburn Chase, Richard H. Lewis Place: UNC School of Medicine, Chapel HillSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., Fire and Stone: The Making of the University of North Carolina under Presidents Edward Kidder Graham and Harry Woodburn Chase (2018), p. 249
  30. University enrollment passes 1,800 With registration over, the University's enrollment crossed 1,800, the largest in its history, about eight hundred of them new students. Even with the new dormitories some students had trouble finding rooms, and classes ran larger than the faculty wanted. People: Harry Woodburn Chase Place: UNC, Chapel HillSearch the index · The News (Chapel Hill), October 5, 1922, p. 1
  31. 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: William Few, Harry Woodburn Chase, Isaac Hall Manning, Cameron Morrison Place: Governor's Mansion, Raleigh · Also mentions: Watts HospitalSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., Fire and Stone: The Making of the University of North Carolina under Presidents Edward Kidder Graham and Harry Woodburn Chase (2018), pp. 251-255
  32. 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, Robert W. Madry Place: UNC, Chapel HillSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., Fire and Stone: The Making of the University of North Carolina under Presidents Edward Kidder Graham and Harry Woodburn Chase (2018), p. 270
  33. 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 Place: UNC, Chapel HillSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., Fire and Stone: The Making of the University of North Carolina under Presidents Edward Kidder Graham and Harry Woodburn Chase (2018), p. 293
  34. Trustees set aside Smith Hall and $25,000 for a Playmakers theatre, and the Carnegie Corporation pays to equip it By June 1923, the Tar Heel reported, the trustees' executive committee had set aside $25,000 to turn Smith Hall, then the law building, into a theatre for the Playmakers. The Weekly said the building was turned over to them in 1923 before any money was at hand, and that the trustees voted $25,000 from the Smith bequest for the remodeling at their June 1924 meeting; Koch remembered the trustees' unanimous vote as coming in 1925. When the remodeling money left the theatre $13,000 short of what it needed for seats, lights and stage equipment, Augustus Thomas took the Playmakers' request to Carnegie, still unanswered in December 1924, and the Carnegie Corporation later sent a check for the balance. People: Frederick H. Koch, Augustus Thomas, Harry Woodburn Chase Place: Smith Hall (Playmakers Theatre), Cameron Avenue, UNC campus, Chapel HillArchibald Henderson (ed.), Pioneering a People's Theatre (1945), scan p. 42 · Also: The Tar Heel, June 14, 1923, p. 5; Chapel Hill Weekly, June 13, 1924, p. 5; Chapel Hill Weekly, August 14, 1924, p. 1; Chapel Hill Weekly, December 23, 1924, p. 2
  35. 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 Place: UNC, Chapel Hill · Also named: Julius I. FoustSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., Fire and Stone: The Making of the University of North Carolina under Presidents Edward Kidder Graham and Harry Woodburn Chase (2018), pp. 269-270
  36. Trustees ask $350,000 to start a four-year medical college, and the legislature ignores it With the joint plan dead, the trustees heard delegations from Raleigh, Charlotte, Greensboro and Durham, chose no site, and voted to ask the General Assembly for $350,000 toward a four-year medical college. The legislature did not act; in June 1923 the trustees voted for a four-year program at Chapel Hill. People: Harry Woodburn Chase, John Sprunt Hill Place: UNC, Chapel HillSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., Fire and Stone: The Making of the University of North Carolina under Presidents Edward Kidder Graham and Harry Woodburn Chase (2018), pp. 256-257
  37. A Tar Heel special edition attacks coeducation While Chase sought $224,000 for a women's dormitory, students voted 937 to 173 against it in a Tar Heel poll, and on March 14 a special edition ran editorials headed "Women Students Not Wanted Here." Chase answered in a long statement read at chapel and printed in the paper. People: Harry Woodburn Chase Place: UNC, Chapel HillSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., Fire and Stone: The Making of the University of North Carolina under Presidents Edward Kidder Graham and Harry Woodburn Chase (2018), pp. 266-268 · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, February 11, 1976, p. 3
  38. 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 Place: General Assembly, Raleigh (for UNC, Chapel Hill)Search the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., Fire and Stone: The Making of the University of North Carolina under Presidents Edward Kidder Graham and Harry Woodburn Chase (2018), p. 258 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, March 8, 1923, p. 1
  39. Elizabeth City's girl debaters win the Aycock Memorial Cup at State High School Week About sixty high schools sent some 240 debaters to the University for State High School Week in April 1923. In the finals in Memorial Hall on Friday night, April 13, Ellen Mellick and Mary Dozier of Elizabeth City, on the negative, defeated the Wilson team and won the Aycock Memorial Cup; President H. W. Chase presided. People: Harry Woodburn Chase Place: Memorial Hall, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill · Also named: Ellen Mellick, Mary DozierSearch the index · The News (Chapel Hill), April 19, 1923, p. 5
  40. Church leaders spend a day with Chase and the faculty on teaching religion at the university Baptist, Presbyterian, Moravian, Episcopal and Methodist leaders met in President Chase's office with the faculty committee on educational policy. All favored nonsectarian Bible courses; after a day of argument over who would choose and pay the teachers, the churchmen agreed on courses taught off campus by teachers the denominations selected, with credit from the university. People: Charles Edward Maddry, Joseph Blount Cheshire Jr. Place: President's office, UNC, Chapel HillSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., Fire and Stone: The Making of the University of North Carolina under Presidents Edward Kidder Graham and Harry Woodburn Chase (2018), pp. 291-293
  41. The University summer school opens its first twelve-week term President H. W. Chase opened the 1923 University summer school in Memorial Hall in June, the first year it ran as a twelve-week term in two six-week sessions. Chase said the change meant the University would be in session almost the whole year. People: Harry Woodburn Chase Place: Memorial Hall, UNC, Chapel HillSearch the index · The News (Chapel Hill), June 28, 1923, p. 1
  42. Chapel Hill's fire company hosts the state's firemen at a barbecue Hundreds of firemen attending the state tournament in Durham came to Chapel Hill for 'Chapel Hill Day', heard welcomes from President H. W. Chase and, for the town, Walter J. Matherly, and ate a Gooch barbecue on the graded school grounds before touring the campus. Chief John L. Foister and his company were hosts. People: John Lee Foister, Harry Woodburn Chase Place: Graded school grounds, Chapel Hill · Also named: Walter J. MatherlySearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, August 9, 1923, p. 1
  43. League of Nations health officials visit the University Nine members of the League of Nations health section, touring North Carolina to study its public health work, visited the University on Sunday afternoon, September 30, 1923. President Chase showed them the campus and received them at his home; they came from Chile, Germany, Mexico, the Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Ukraine and Switzerland, with Dr. G. M. Cooper of the State Board of Health. People: Harry Woodburn Chase Place: UNC campus and President's house, Chapel Hill · Also named: G. M. CooperSearch the index · The News (Chapel Hill), October 4, 1923, p. 1
  44. Governor Morrison offers the law deanship to Justice Walter P. Stacy, who declines At a trustees' executive committee meeting in early November, Morrison bypassed Chase and offered the deanship to Stacy on the spot. Stacy turned it down, and Chase saw the move as an intrusion on the president's role. People: Harry Woodburn Chase, Cameron Morrison Place: UNC, Chapel Hill · Also named: Walter P. StacySearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., Fire and Stone: The Making of the University of North Carolina under Presidents Edward Kidder Graham and Harry Woodburn Chase (2018), pp. 273-274 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, November 8, 1923, p. 2
  45. Trustees adopt higher law school standards over Governor Morrison's objection At a four-hour meeting in the governor's office, attended by about half the trustees, 45 of them lawyers, Morrison argued against stiffer entrance rules, but a voice vote approved Chase's plans. The board put off naming a dean rather than accept Chase's out-of-state choice. People: Harry Woodburn Chase, William H. S. Burgwyn, John Sprunt Hill, Cameron Morrison Place: Governor's office, Raleigh (for UNC, Chapel Hill)Search the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., Fire and Stone: The Making of the University of North Carolina under Presidents Edward Kidder Graham and Harry Woodburn Chase (2018), pp. 275-276
  46. Chase and Coates rally students to revive the Graham Memorial drive President Chase, Albert Coates and student body president Julian Allsbrook held a special meeting of the students in Memorial Hall on Monday morning, February 25, 1924, to restart the stalled fund drive, with plans cut back to a smaller building whose exterior was under way. The Weekly named Chase, Allsbrook and the athletes C. C. Poindexter and Monk MacDonald as the speakers and did not mention Coates. In March Coates set out a University Life Unification Plan centered on the building. People: Albert Coates Place: Memorial Hall, UNC, Chapel Hill · Also named: Julian AllsbrookSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), p. 63 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, February 28, 1924, p. 1
  47. The Carolina Dramatic Association holds its first Dramatic Institute in Chapel Hill Seventy-one people came to the Carolina Dramatic Association's first Dramatic Institute, where the gathering planned yearly statewide play contests, schools and community clubs apart, with the finals in Chapel Hill. President Chase welcomed the visitors, and rain moved the evening plays from the Forest Theatre into Memorial Hall. People: Frederick H. Koch, Harry Woodburn Chase Place: Memorial Hall, UNC, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Forest TheatreThe Chapel Hill Weekly, April 10, 1924, p. 3
  48. About 3,000 people attend the Orange County schools' commencement in Hillsboro About 3,000 school children, parents and friends came to the county school commencement in Hillsboro, where the pupils paraded through the streets to the court house and University President H. W. Chase gave the address. Afternoon contests in singing, spelling, story-telling, declamation and recitation drew winners from St. Mary's, White Cross, Aycock, Orange Grove, Efland, Hillsboro, Chapel Hill and other schools. People: Harry Woodburn Chase Place: Court house and streets, HillsboroughSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, May 1, 1924, p. 1
  49. Trustees elect Merton L. Ferson dean of the law school Ferson, an Iowan who had been dean of the George Washington University law school and had lately taught at the University of Michigan, won with three times the votes of his nearest rival, ending months of resistance from trustees who wanted a North Carolinian. Covington has him as dean at Washington University in St. Louis. People: Harry Woodburn Chase Place: School of Law, UNC, Chapel Hill · Also named: Merton Leroy FersonSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., Fire and Stone: The Making of the University of North Carolina under Presidents Edward Kidder Graham and Harry Woodburn Chase (2018), pp. 277-278 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, June 13, 1924, p. 1; The News (Chapel Hill), September 18, 1924, p. 1
  50. 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 Place: UNC, Chapel HillSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., Fire and Stone: The Making of the University of North Carolina under Presidents Edward Kidder Graham and Harry Woodburn Chase (2018), pp. 261-263 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, June 13, 1924, p. 1
  51. The trustees' building committee keeps the women's building on the lot next to the Episcopal church Meeting in Chapel Hill, the trustees' building committee voted, reportedly unanimously, to put the University's first building for women students on the lot beside the Episcopal church, as the trustees had decided a year earlier, rather than in the grove before the Booker home near the new men's dormitories. The first step was to remove the old house on the lot, home in turn to John de B. Hooper, Eben Alexander, H. V. Wilson, C. W. Bain, J. B. Bullitt and W. E. Caldwell. People: Harry Woodburn Chase, John Sprunt Hill, William Chambers Coker Place: Lot next to the Chapel of the Cross, East Franklin Street, Chapel Hill · Also named: Eben Alexander, J. B. Bullitt, W. E. Caldwell, H. V. WilsonSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, July 10, 1924, p. 1
  52. W. S. Long, founder of the school that became Elon College, dies and is mourned in Chapel Hill Rev. W. S. Long, who after the Civil War started at Graham the school that grew into Elon College and later served as Elon's president and as Alamance County school superintendent, died in Sanford of injuries from an automobile accident, nearly 85. He had retired to Chapel Hill; his funeral was held at his Pittsboro Street home the next day, and the University's chapel exercises that morning became a memorial with an address by M. C. S. Noble. People: M. C. S. Noble, Harry Woodburn Chase Place: Pittsboro Street, Chapel Hill · Also named: W. S. LongSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, August 7, 1924, p. 4
  53. Chapel Hill aldermen order vehicles to stop before entering Franklin Street from the Raleigh road The board of aldermen passed an ordinance requiring all motor and horse-drawn vehicles coming into Franklin Street from the Raleigh road to come to a full stop, with a stop sign at the corner and a $50 fine for each offense, in force from September 1. The corner by the President's House was hidden by stone walls and shrubbery, and President Chase had written asking the board to act. People: Edward M. Knox, Harry Woodburn Chase Place: Raleigh Road at Franklin Street, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: President's House, Franklin StreetSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, August 21, 1924, p. 3
  54. 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 opening exercises of the fall term in September 1924, 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. Place: Memorial Hall, UNC, Chapel HillSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., Fire and Stone: The Making of the University of North Carolina under Presidents Edward Kidder Graham and Harry Woodburn Chase (2018), pp. 299-300 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, September 25, 1924, p. 3; The News (Chapel Hill), September 18, 1924, p. 1
  55. 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: Angus W. McLean, Harry Woodburn Chase Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr.: Fire and Stone: The Making of the University of North Carolina under Presidents Edward Kidder Graham and Harry Woodburn Chase (2018), p. 322 (pdf 339)
  56. 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. Place: House chamber, State Capitol, Raleigh · Also named: Henry Groves Connor Jr., David Scott PooleSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., Fire and Stone: The Making of the University of North Carolina under Presidents Edward Kidder Graham and Harry Woodburn Chase (2018), pp. 303-307
  57. 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 Place: UNC, Chapel Hill · Also named: William Louis PoteatSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., Fire and Stone: The Making of the University of North Carolina under Presidents Edward Kidder Graham and Harry Woodburn Chase (2018), p. 314 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, May 7, 1925, p. 2
  58. Boy Scouts of America holds a patrol leaders' training camp on Emerson Field About 125 picked Boy Scouts from North Carolina camped in tents on Emerson Field for a patrol leaders' training course run by the national council, with Charles F. Smith of Columbia University in charge. The Weekly called it the first such camp the national council had ever held, and President Chase said the University was pleased to be chosen. People: Harry Woodburn Chase Place: Emerson Field, Chapel Hill · Also named: Charles F. SmithSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, June 19, 1925, p. 1
  59. 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. Place: UNC, Chapel HillSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., Fire and Stone: The Making of the University of North Carolina under Presidents Edward Kidder Graham and Harry Woodburn Chase (2018), p. 329
  60. 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 Place: Memorial Hall, UNC, Chapel Hill · Also named: Philander P. Claxton · Also mentions: Alumni BuildingSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., Fire and Stone: The Making of the University of North Carolina under Presidents Edward Kidder Graham and Harry Woodburn Chase (2018), pp. 329-330 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, October 16, 1925, p. 4
  61. 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 Place: UNC, Chapel HillSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., Fire and Stone: The Making of the University of North Carolina under Presidents Edward Kidder Graham and Harry Woodburn Chase (2018), pp. 332-334 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, December 18, 1925, p. 4; Chapel Hill Weekly, December 24, 1925, p. 2
  62. Chase keeps Albert Coates with a raise and tenure After Coates collapsed from exhaustion in June 1926 and sent Chase a private resignation, Chase gave him a pay raise and tenure as professor of law, and Coates was teaching again that fall. People: Albert Coates, Harry Woodburn Chase Place: UNC School of Law, Chapel HillSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), p. 75
  63. 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 Place: University of North Carolina Press, Chapel HillHoward E. Covington Jr., Fire and Stone: The Making of the University of North Carolina under Presidents Edward Kidder Graham and Harry Woodburn Chase (2018), pp. 346-352
  64. 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: Frank Porter Graham, Harry Woodburn Chase Place: UNC, Chapel HillSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., Fire and Stone: The Making of the University of North Carolina under Presidents Edward Kidder Graham and Harry Woodburn Chase (2018), pp. 341-342 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, February 19, 1926, p. 2
  65. 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. Place: UNC, Chapel Hill; trustees meeting in RaleighSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., Fire and Stone: The Making of the University of North Carolina under Presidents Edward Kidder Graham and Harry Woodburn Chase (2018), pp. 343-345 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, March 5, 1926, p. 4
  66. President Chase and Dean Hibbard have the first edition of a student satire paper destroyed In early May 1926 President H. W. Chase and Dean C. A. Hibbard objected to the first printing of The Yellow Journal, a four-page satire on campus organizations, students and professors issued in the name of the Sigma Upsilon society, and the student who had it printed in Chapel Hill agreed to destroy it. A milder edition, printed out of town, was sold at the Carolina-State baseball game, and the student paper, the Tar Heel, both praised and criticized it. Place: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill · Also named: C. A. HibbardSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, May 7, 1926, p. 2
  67. University trustees make James F. Royster and Addison Hibbard permanent deans At their meeting on June 1, 1926, the University trustees dropped the word 'acting' from the titles of James F. Royster, dean of the graduate school, and Addison Hibbard, dean of the college of liberal arts. The trustees also raised President H. W. Chase's salary from $8,500 to $10,000. People: James Finch Royster, Harry Woodburn Chase, Addison Hibbard Place: University of North Carolina, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, June 4, 1926, p. 2
  68. The Student Council removes the Carolina Magazine editors over the story 'Slaves' Just as classes began, the council voted to remove the editor and assistant editor for printing a story with a hint of interracial sex. On appeal, a faculty committee Chase appointed called publication bad taste and poor judgment but not misconduct, and set the council's action aside. Durham textile executive Kemp Lewis protested; Chase defended the committee. People: Harry Woodburn Chase Place: UNC, Chapel HillSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., Fire and Stone: The Making of the University of North Carolina under Presidents Edward Kidder Graham and Harry Woodburn Chase (2018), pp. 361-362 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, October 29, 1926, p. 1
  69. Charles T. McCormick becomes dean of the law school Merton L. Ferson had left in 1926 for the Cincinnati deanship, and the man Chase hired to replace him backed out months before the fall term. Chase then named McCormick, on the faculty only a year. The trustees consented but not unanimously, and James A. Gray Jr. moved that they be consulted before the next dean was chosen. People: Harry Woodburn Chase Place: Law school, UNC, Chapel Hill · Also named: Charles Tilford McCormick, James A. Gray Jr.Search the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., Fire and Stone: The Making of the University of North Carolina under Presidents Edward Kidder Graham and Harry Woodburn Chase (2018), pp. 368-369
  70. Chase has an institute researcher's study of Winston-Salem Black businesses destroyed Robinson E. Newcomb, a Brookings graduate student working with the Institute for Research in Social Science, had pieced together Black wage data from pay stubs outside R. J. Reynolds plants. After trustee James A. Gray Jr., a Reynolds vice president, complained, Chase and Odum gathered every copy, and Chase assured Gray he had seen to the destruction of the draft and notes. One copy survived at Brookings. People: Howard W. Odum Place: Institute for Research in Social Science, UNC, Chapel Hill · Also named: Robinson Eli Newcomb, James A. Gray Jr.Search the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., Fire and Stone: The Making of the University of North Carolina under Presidents Edward Kidder Graham and Harry Woodburn Chase (2018), pp. 367-368
  71. 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 Place: University Library (later Wilson Library), UNC, Chapel HillSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., Fire and Stone: The Making of the University of North Carolina under Presidents Edward Kidder Graham and Harry Woodburn Chase (2018), p. 371 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, March 11, 1927, p. 1; Chapel Hill Weekly, April 22, 1927, p. 4; Chapel Hill Weekly, August 19, 1927, p. 1; Chapel Hill Weekly, February 17, 1928, p. 1
  72. President Chase's report counts 2,505 resident students at the University President Chase's annual report to the trustees put resident enrollment at 2,505, up from 1,975 four years earlier, and total enrollment for 1925-26 with summer school and extension at 6,507. It valued the plant at $6,492,000, set last year's income at $1,079,000, and counted 162,429 volumes in the library on November 1, 1926. Place: University of North Carolina, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, February 4, 1927, p. 4
  73. University trustees open the school of education faculty to women Meeting in Raleigh, the trustees' executive committee adopted President Chase's proposal that the school of education might employ women to teach advanced and graduate courses for elementary teachers and supervisors. The Weekly said the move met no opposition and was not expected to spread to other branches of the University. People: Harry Woodburn Chase Place: School of education, UNC, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, April 15, 1927, p. 1
  74. 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 Place: University of North Carolina Press, Chapel HillHoward E. Covington Jr., Fire and Stone: The Making of the University of North Carolina under Presidents Edward Kidder Graham and Harry Woodburn Chase (2018), pp. 366-367
  75. President Chase reports 2,631 resident students at the University President Chase's annual report to the trustees counted 2,631 resident students in the fall of 1927, 314 more than a year before. Orange County sent 129, second only to Guilford, and the University's property was valued at $7,033,446. Place: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (report given at the trustees' meeting in Raleigh)Search the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, January 27, 1928, p. 1
  76. 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 Place: UNC, Chapel Hill · Also named: David Clark, Frank GrahamSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., Fire and Stone: The Making of the University of North Carolina under Presidents Edward Kidder Graham and Harry Woodburn Chase (2018), pp. 381-383
  77. The Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education meets in Chapel Hill More than 300 engineering educators from across the country met in Chapel Hill June 26-29, 1928, for the 36th annual meeting of the Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education, hosted by the University's engineering school. The Weekly called it perhaps the largest convention ever held in the village; guests overflowed the Carolina Inn into private homes, the Kenan Stadium field house and Durham. People: Harry Woodburn Chase, Gustave M. Braune, Peter L. Burch Place: Gerrard Hall and the Carolina Inn, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Kenan StadiumSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, June 29, 1928, p. 1
  78. Meeting in the unfinished Graham Memorial, trustees add courses in religion Chase seated the trustees on folding chairs in the empty lounge of Graham Memorial to shame alumni over the unfinished building. There they adopted the faculty's proposal for courses in the history and literature of religion with one dissenting vote, ending nearly ten years of debate. People: Harry Woodburn Chase Place: Graham Memorial, UNC, Chapel HillSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., Fire and Stone: The Making of the University of North Carolina under Presidents Edward Kidder Graham and Harry Woodburn Chase (2018), pp. 387-388
  79. President Chase denies that professors were dismissed for labor organizing In a statement in the state papers on July 18, 1928, President H. W. Chase denied a charge by alumnus Malcolm D. Young to the U.S. Commissioner of Education that five men had been dismissed from the University for helping organize Winston-Salem tobacco workers. Chase said no professor had been dismissed: two had resigned for other posts, one was returning at a raise, one was unknown to the University, and a research assistant's one-year appointment had simply ended. Place: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill · Also named: Malcolm D. YoungSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, July 20, 1928, p. 1
  80. Construction begins on a classroom building south of Murphey Hall By July 20, 1928, excavation was nearly finished and concrete foundations were being laid for a $160,000 University classroom building just south of Murphey Hall, matching Steele dormitory across the lower campus. The trustees' building committee had approved the plans on May 14, paying for it from the building funds voted by the 1927 legislature. People: John Sprunt Hill, Harry Woodburn Chase Place: South of Murphey Hall, UNC campus, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, July 20, 1928, p. 1
  81. University trustees make R. M. Grumman director of extension Meeting in Chapel Hill, the executive committee of the trustees approved the summer's faculty changes, making R. M. Grumman, acting director for two years, director of the extension division and promoting W. E. Caldwell to full professor, along with a list of new appointments. People: Russell M. (Russell Marvin) Grumman, Harry Woodburn Chase Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: W. E. CaldwellSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, September 21, 1928, p. 3
  82. Chapel Hill citizens agree to underwrite the teachers' back pay Meeting with the school board, a group of citizens resolved to have the bank lend about $7,500 on notes they would endorse, each endorser liable for no more than $100, so the teachers could be paid at once. The loan was to be repaid from a $16,500 school bond issue, which needed a special act of the legislature and a vote, and the University's business office was to keep the school's accounts. People: Dudley Dewitt Carroll, Harry Woodburn Chase, N. W. Walker, L. B. Rogerson, Gustave M. Braune Place: Chapel Hill school, West Franklin Street, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, September 28, 1928, p. 1
  83. 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 Place: UNC, Chapel HillSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., Fire and Stone: The Making of the University of North Carolina under Presidents Edward Kidder Graham and Harry Woodburn Chase (2018), p. 393 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, November 16, 1928, p. 1
  84. University closes early for Christmas as influenza spreads With influenza cases rising among students, the University closed late on December 12, 1928, and set its reopening for January 2, and the Chapel Hill public school sent pupils home the next morning until after New Year's. Concerts, the Country Club cabaret and club meetings were put off, and the Weekly estimated the lost student trade at $25,000 or more. People: Harry Woodburn Chase Place: University of North Carolina and Chapel Hill school, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Country Club, Chapel Hill public schoolSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, December 14, 1928, p. 1
  85. Chase's annual report tallies a decade of growth at the university Chase's annual report, which Covington dates to December 1928 and the Weekly reported submitted to the trustees in the week of January 21, 1929, reviewed the decade since the war. More than $5 million in state money had built nine dormitories, five classroom buildings and laboratories. State operating funds had risen from $217,000 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. Place: UNC, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Graduate SchoolSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., Fire and Stone: The Making of the University of North Carolina under Presidents Edward Kidder Graham and Harry Woodburn Chase (2018), pp. 391-392 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, January 25, 1929, p. 1; Chapel Hill Weekly, February 1, 1929, p. 1
  86. 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: Harriet L. Herring, Harry Woodburn Chase Place: University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Institute for Research in Social ScienceSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., Fire and Stone: The Making of the University of North Carolina under Presidents Edward Kidder Graham and Harry Woodburn Chase (2018), pp. 396-397
  87. President Chase declines the Social Science Research Council post and stays at UNC UNC president Harry W. Chase let it be known that he had turned down an offer to direct the Social Science Research Council in New York and would remain at the University. The Weekly reported wide relief across the state at his decision. Place: University of North Carolina, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, March 29, 1929, p. 1
  88. UNC trustees order the space between South Building and the new library graded and planted The trustees' building committee and then the executive committee decided to spend $50,000 of the legislature's $264,000 for permanent improvements on mains, grading, walks and planting between South Building and the new library and along the South road. By late May laborers were tearing out the railway spur laid eight years before for building materials and spreading topsoil for W. C. Coker's planting. People: Harry Woodburn Chase, William Chambers Coker Place: Space between South Building and the new library, UNC campus, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, April 19, 1929, p. 1
  89. American Association for Adult Education holds its annual meeting at Chapel Hill About 150 educators came to Chapel Hill for the fourth annual meeting of the American Association for Adult Education, with the Carolina Inn as headquarters. Speakers included Frederick P. Keppel of the Carnegie Corporation, U. S. Commissioner of Education William J. Cooper, Everett Dean Martin and President Chase. People: Harry Woodburn Chase, Russell M. (Russell Marvin) Grumman Place: Carolina Inn and UNC campus, Chapel Hill · Also named: Frederick P. Keppel, William J. Cooper, Everett Dean MartinSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, May 24, 1929, p. 1
  90. Trustees approve a library school paid for by a $100,000 Carnegie grant At commencement Chase won the trustees' permission to set up a school to train librarians in the new library, with its first five years funded by a $100,000 grant from the Carnegie Corporation. People: Harry Woodburn Chase Place: University Library, UNC, Chapel HillSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., Fire and Stone: The Making of the University of North Carolina under Presidents Edward Kidder Graham and Harry Woodburn Chase (2018), p. 398 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, October 18, 1929, p. 3
  91. An anonymous alumnus gives $40,000 for a music auditorium and organ at the old library President Harry W. Chase told the trustees' executive committee in Raleigh that an alumnus who asked not to be named had given $40,000 for an auditorium and pipe organ, to be built as an annex to the former library, which was to become the music building. The donor had earlier offered $30,000 for an organ, and architect A. C. Nash drew tentative plans for a hall of about 800 seats. People: Harry Woodburn Chase, Arthur Cleveland Nash Place: former University library (Carnegie library), UNC, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, September 27, 1929, p. 1
  92. Chase asks alumni to build a private endowment for the university With state money in doubt, Chase broke with the unwritten rule that state schools left private gifts to the church colleges and asked alumni to build an endowment alongside tax support. The Durham Herald endorsed the appeal, but four weeks later the stock market crashed and little came of it. Place: UNC, Chapel HillSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., Fire and Stone: The Making of the University of North Carolina under Presidents Edward Kidder Graham and Harry Woodburn Chase (2018), pp. 400-401 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, October 4, 1929, p. 1
  93. Chase refuses a mill official's demand that Frank Graham be fired After the Southern Textile Bulletin wrongly placed Graham at a Communist Labor Day rally, an official of the company that owned Gastonia's Loray Mill asked Governor Gardner to have him dismissed. In the reply Gardner passed along, Chase said Graham had been in New York and that faculty had the same right as other citizens to form and voice opinions, and he would resist any censorship of those seeking change by lawful means. People: Frank Porter Graham, O. Max Gardner Place: UNC, Chapel HillSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., Fire and Stone: The Making of the University of North Carolina under Presidents Edward Kidder Graham and Harry Woodburn Chase (2018), pp. 406-407
  94. Chase seeks money for a school of public affairs to train state and local officials Chase asked Governor Gardner to help find about $30,000 a year in private money for a school to train city and county officials, public health and public safety officers and others, saying none existed in the South. Albert Coates's Institute of Government soon took up the same mission. People: O. Max Gardner, Albert Coates Place: UNC, Chapel HillSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., Fire and Stone: The Making of the University of North Carolina under Presidents Edward Kidder Graham and Harry Woodburn Chase (2018), p. 400
  95. Thomas C. Atwood reports that Memorial Hall could collapse After President Chase closed Memorial Hall over a bulge in its slate roof, university architect Thomas C. Atwood found the bases of the wooden roof arches rotted to powder. In a late November report to the building committee he warned that the building could fall at any minute and endanger passersby. People: Thomas C. Atwood, Harry Woodburn Chase Place: Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Memorial HallSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., Fire and Stone: The Making of the University of North Carolina under Presidents Edward Kidder Graham and Harry Woodburn Chase (2018), p. 401 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, November 8, 1929, p. 1; Chapel Hill Weekly, December 13, 1929, p. 1; Chapel Hill Weekly, December 20, 1929, p. 1
  96. Chase resigns to become president of the University of Illinois The evening before, a full-dress reception at the Carolina Inn marked ten years since Chase's inauguration, with Governor Gardner already holding his resignation. When the Illinois trustees elected Chase the next day, Gardner announced it from Raleigh. The Illinois post reportedly paid $20,000, twice his salary. People: R. B. House, O. Max Gardner Place: UNC, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Carolina InnSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., Fire and Stone: The Making of the University of North Carolina under Presidents Edward Kidder Graham and Harry Woodburn Chase (2018), pp. 402-404 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, February 21, 1930, p. 1; Chapel Hill Weekly, February 28, 1930, p. 1
  97. UNC trustees' building committee approves the recital hall for the new music building Meeting in President Chase's office, the trustees' building committee approved final plans for the recital hall to be built onto the music building made from the old library. By April 11 the main building was in use, excavation for the roughly 900-seat auditorium had begun with completion promised by September, and its organ was under construction. People: Harry Woodburn Chase, John Sprunt Hill Place: Music building (former Carnegie library), UNC campus, Chapel HillThe Chapel Hill Weekly, March 7, 1930, p. 5
  98. The university loses 20 percent of its next year's state budget A month after Chase warned Governor Gardner that the university was at a crisis, $175,000 was cut from its budget for the coming year, a 20 percent reduction deeper than any Chase had seen as president. People: Harry Woodburn Chase, O. Max Gardner Place: UNC, Chapel HillSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., Fire and Stone: The Making of the University of North Carolina under Presidents Edward Kidder Graham and Harry Woodburn Chase (2018), p. 411 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, May 9, 1930, p. 1
  99. Commencement is held outdoors at the Davie Poplar, and Chase receives an honorary degree With Memorial Hall torn down, the 339 graduates received diplomas at a stage by the Davie Poplar, seated on the old hall's benches as loudspeakers in the trees carried John H. Finley's address. Honorary degrees went to Ellen Glasgow, Martha Berry, Francis P. Venable and Governor Gardner, and Gardner conferred one on Chase that the trustees had voted without consulting the faculty. People: Ellen Glasgow, Francis Preston Venable, O. Max Gardner Place: Davie Poplar, McCorkle Place, UNC, Chapel Hill · Also named: John Huston Finley, Martha McChesney Berry, Martha Berry · Also mentions: Memorial HallSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., Fire and Stone: The Making of the University of North Carolina under Presidents Edward Kidder Graham and Harry Woodburn Chase (2018), pp. 412-415 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, June 13, 1930, p. 1
  100. Faculty present Francis P. Venable a loving cup for fifty years of service At the University's commencement, held outdoors near the Davie Poplar, the faculty presented a loving cup to Francis P. Venable, the chemist and former president, for fifty years with the University. Honorary degrees went to Governor O. Max Gardner, President Harry W. Chase, Venable, the novelist Ellen Glasgow and the educator Martha Berry. People: Francis Preston Venable, O. Max Gardner, Harry Woodburn Chase, Ellen Glasgow Place: Central lawn near the Davie Poplar, UNC, Chapel Hill · Also named: Martha BerrySearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, June 13, 1930, p. 1
  101. University summer school opens with a record 1,365 students The University summer school held its opening ceremonies on the central lawn of the campus with about 1,500 people present, as registration reached a record 1,365, 215 more than the year before. Retiring President Harry W. Chase gave a farewell talk and President-elect Frank Graham spoke on the work of teachers. People: Harry Woodburn Chase, Frank Porter Graham, N. W. Walker Place: Central lawn, UNC, Chapel Hill · Also named: Frank GrahamSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, June 20, 1930, p. 1
  102. The Morehead-Patterson Bell Tower is dedicated at UNC The bell tower given by John Motley Morehead III and Rufus Lenoir Patterson II was dedicated to the university on Thanksgiving Day, November 26, 1931, with Governor O. Max Gardner giving the dedication address. Morehead had proposed a tower to President Harry Woodburn Chase in the 1920s and been turned down on three sites. People: John Motley Morehead III, Harry Woodburn Chase, O. Max Gardner Place: Chapel Hill, Morehead-Patterson Bell Tower · Also named: Rufus Lenoir Patterson IISearch the index · Documenting the American South, Commemorative Landscapes of North Carolina: Morehead-Patterson Bell Tower, UNC (Chapel Hill) · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, November 27, 1931, p. 1; The Daily Tar Heel, November 19, 1985, p. 1
  103. University holds a graduation for students finishing in the winter quarter The University held special graduation exercises in Hill Music Hall for about 125 men who finished their degree work at the end of the winter quarter, breaking long precedent to speed students into service. Former president Harry Woodburn Chase gave the address and Governor Broughton was to award the degrees. People: Harry Woodburn Chase, J. Melville Broughton, R. B. House Place: Hill Music Hall, UNC campus, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, March 12, 1943, p. 1 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, March 19, 1943, p. 5

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The university and the state

Chase, Harry Woodburn, 1883-1955; University of North Carolina (1793-1962). Alumni Association · 1925 · Central Alumni Office

Printed at Chapel Hill in 1925 by the Central Alumni Office, two addresses by Harry Woodburn Chase of the University of North Carolina, one titled 'The university and the public' and the other 'The university and religion'. Topics include the addresses of the university and its finances along with religious education in Chapel Hill.

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The university's intellectual responsibility ; The university : an interpretation

Chase, Harry Woodburn, 1883-1955 · 1924 · University of North Carolina Press

Two addresses by Harry Woodburn Chase, president of the University of North Carolina, one delivered at the opening of the university on September 19, 1924 and the other on University Day, October 11 of the same year. The University of North Carolina Press printed them at Chapel Hill. The pamphlet concerns American speeches and addresses in Chapel Hill and the university's history.

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Admission of women to the University

Chase, Harry Woodburn, 1883-1955 · 1923 · University of North Carolina

Paper on admitting women to the University of North Carolina, written in 1923 by Harry Woodburn Chase, the university's president at the time. It concerns coeducation at Chapel Hill. Sixteen images.

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Growing Carolina ... Excerpts from the President's addresses delivered at the begining of the 129th session of the University--the first to the faculty, the second to the students at the formal opening.

Chase, Harry Woodburn · 1922

Excerpts from two addresses by Harry Woodburn Chase, president of the University of North Carolina, given at the opening of the university's 129th session in 1922, the first to the faculty and the second to the students. A small pamphlet with a cover title, issued at Chapel Hill.

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About Harry Woodburn Chase

Fire and Stone: The Making of the University of North Carolina under Presidents Edward Kidder Graham and Harry Woodburn Chase

Covington, Jr., Howard E. · 2018

Howard E. Covington Jr.'s history of how the University of North Carolina took shape under Presidents Edward Kidder Graham (1876 to 1918) and Harry Woodburn Chase (1883 to 1955), published by the University Library in 2018. The 528-page account covers campus history in the early twentieth century and includes portraits.

Included because: Catalog heading in the NC Digital Collections record: Chase, Harry Woodburn, 1883-1955.

Reviewed in The Journal of Southern History (2020).

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Wilson, Louis Round · 1960

Louis Round Wilson's short biography of Harry Woodburn Chase (1883-1955), president of the University of North Carolina from 1919 to 1930 and afterward president of the University of Illinois and chancellor of New York University. Wilson was the university's longtime librarian and knew Chase's Chapel Hill years at first hand. Published by the University of North Carolina Press in 1960, 55 pages.

Included because: Catalog heading in the Library of Congress record: Chase, Harry Woodburn, 1883-1955.

Reviewed in The Library Quarterly (1960), The Journal of Higher Education (1961).

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Everybody read! the fight is on! The issue is clear cut.

Kurfees, John W. · 2002

Pamphlet by John W. Kurfees issued during the 1920s controversy over teaching evolution in North Carolina's state-supported schools, with the University of North Carolina and its president Harry Woodburn Chase (1883-1955) at the center of the dispute. A primary source on the state's anti-evolution campaign as it touched the university. Electronic edition issued 2002 by the Academic Affairs Library for Documenting the American South, in the collection The North Carolina experience, beginnings to 1940.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Chase, Harry Woodburn, 1883-1955.

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One man and a band of scholars : the development of the University of North Carolina during the 1920s

Weatherly, Mary Lindsay · 1999

The 1920s at the University of North Carolina, traced by Mary Lindsay Weatherly, with Harry Woodburn Chase among the named subjects alongside the history of the university faculty. Ninety nine leaves with illustrations and portraits, a bibliography on leaves 97 to 99, dated 1999.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Chase, Harry Woodburn, 1883-1955.

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Edward Kidder Graham, Harry Woodburn Chase, Frank Porter Graham : three men in the transition of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from a small college to a great university

Coates, Albert · 1988

Albert Coates on the three men who led the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill through its change from a small college into a large university: Edward Kidder Graham, Harry Woodburn Chase and Frank Porter Graham, whose terms ran across the early twentieth century. Coates published the book himself in Chapel Hill in 1988, 122 pages with illustrations and portraits.

Included because: Catalog heading in the Durham record: Chase, Harry Woodburn, 1883-1955.

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The University of North Carolina, 1900-1930 : the making of a modern university

Wilson, Louis Round, 1876-1979 · 1957 · University of North Carolina Press

Louis Round Wilson's history of the University of North Carolina between 1900 and 1930, published by the University of North Carolina Press in 1957 with illustrated endpapers. Wilson, long the university librarian, follows the presidencies of Francis Preston Venable, Edward Kidder Graham and Harry Woodburn Chase.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Chase, Harry Woodburn, 1883-1955.

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President University of Illinois : Dr. Harry Woodburn Chase, Delta Beta (Dartmouth) resigns presidency of University of North Carolina to accept Illinois presidency

Henderson, Archibald, 1877-1963 · 1930 · Sigma Nu Fraternity

Archibald Henderson's notice of Harry Woodburn Chase leaving the presidency of the University of North Carolina for the presidency of the University of Illinois in 1930. It appeared in the Sigma Nu Delta, volume 47, number 4, for May 1930, published by the Sigma Nu Fraternity in Indianapolis.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Chase, Harry Woodburn, 1883-1955.

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Inauguration of Harry Woodburn Chase, president of the University of North Carolina, Wednesday, April the twenty-eighth, MCMXX : programme and order of academic procession

University of North Carolina (1793-1962) · 1920 · The University

The programme and order of academic procession for the inauguration of Harry Woodburn Chase as president of the University of North Carolina on Wednesday, April 28, 1920, printed by the university at Chapel Hill. Topics include the inauguration of college presidents in Chapel Hill and the university's presidents. It documents the order of the ceremony itself.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Chase, Harry Woodburn, 1883-1955.

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The State University And The New South: Being The Proceedings Of The Inauguration Of Harry Woodburn Chase As President Of The University Of North Carolina

University of North Carolina (1793-1962) · 1920

Proceedings of Harry Woodburn Chase's 1920 inauguration as president of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The 104 pages include addresses given for the occasion. Chase lived from 1883 to 1955.

Included because: Catalog heading in the Durham record: Chase, Harry Woodburn, 1883-1955.

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R. B. House papers, 1916-1973.

House, R. B. (Robert Burton), 1892-1987 · 1916

R. B. House (1892-1987) was chancellor at Chapel Hill, and his papers, 1916 to 1973, come to 7,500 items in six linear feet in the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 3581. University administration is the main subject, with material on Frank Porter Graham, Harry Woodburn Chase, Josephus and Jonathan Daniels, Gordon Gray, Terry Sanford, O. Max Gardner, the Watauga Club and communism in North Carolina.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Chase, Harry Woodburn, 1883-1955.

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Patterson's General Store Ledger

Store, Patterson's General · 1910

Account ledger of Patterson's General Store in Chapel Hill for 1910 to 1911, recording what customers owed. Accounts run from townspeople and the university Athletic Association to figures such as Kemp Plummer Battle, Edward Kidder Graham, Collier Cobb, Horace Williams and Louis Round Wilson, and firms including the Bank of Chapel Hill, Odell Hardware, Standard Oil and the Southern Railway. Part of North Carolina Memory.

Included because: Catalog heading in the DPLA record: Chase, Harry Woodburn, 1883-1955.

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