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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 as the Library of Congress records it · On the Friends’ Local Authors roster → · Library of Congress authority record ↗
15 indexed works are connected with this person, and the index includes 4 works by Harry Woodburn Chase.
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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.
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.
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.
NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.
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.
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.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the NC Digital Collections record: Chase, Harry Woodburn, 1883-1955.
Reviewed in The Journal of Southern History (2020).
NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.
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.
Why this is here: 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).
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.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Chase, Harry Woodburn, 1883-1955.
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.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Chase, Harry Woodburn, 1883-1955.
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.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the Durham record: Chase, Harry Woodburn, 1883-1955.
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.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Chase, Harry Woodburn, 1883-1955.
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.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Chase, Harry Woodburn, 1883-1955.
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.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Chase, Harry Woodburn, 1883-1955.
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.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the Durham record: Chase, Harry Woodburn, 1883-1955.
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.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Chase, Harry Woodburn, 1883-1955.
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.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the DPLA record: Chase, Harry Woodburn, 1883-1955.
Dated events connected with this person: sixteen of 76, the highlights and a sample of the rest spread across the years, in date order. See all 76 dated events in the chronology →
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: Harry Woodburn Chase
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
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
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.
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 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
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
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 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
Ferson, an Iowan who had been law dean at Washington University in St. Louis, won with three times the votes of his nearest rival, ending months of resistance from trustees who wanted a North Carolinian.
People: Harry Woodburn Chase
Subject: UNC School of Law
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
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
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
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
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
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: Harry Woodburn Chase · O. Max Gardner
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