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Edward Kidder Graham

Graham entered the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1894, returned as librarian in 1899, and in 1909 became head of the English department and dean of the College of Liberal Arts. He was acting president in 1913 and president from 1914 until his death in October 1918.

Source: NCpedia: Graham, Edward Kidder

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StorylineUniversity enrollment climbs toward a thousand, 1905–19141905–1914 · 5 events · University enrollment climbed from 512 in 1900 toward 1,000 by December 1914, when Edward Kidder Graham told the trustees it would pass that mark, and the campus grew from ten buildings to two dozen. In October 1905 a freshman class of 200 was reported as the largest in the University's history, and the spring term of 1908 enrolled 770, a record by the News's account. In January 1909 President Francis P. Venable reported nearly 800 students to the trustees, about 92 percent from North Carolina, and an increase in the annual appropriation was asked. By September 1912 nearly 800 had enrolled, and more than 100 applicants had been turned away as not prepared to enter. StorylineBattle Park and the Battle Park Association, 1914–19331914–1933 · 6 events · Kemp Battle's paths through Battle Park were restored from 1931 by volunteers who were then put in charge of the land around University Lake as well. Students cleaned the park's trails during Community Service Week in 1914, and by 1917 an open-air theatre stood on a hillside there. In 1931 a meeting at Colonel Joseph Hyde Pratt's home launched the Battle Park Association, and citizens working without pay under Pratt cleared paths and built bridges, opening about three miles of trail that year. In 1933 the association was incorporated, and the University trustees put it in charge of both Battle Park and the land around the new University Lake, where it ran motorboat rides to pay for more improvements. StorylineWomen students at the University, 1914–19211914–1921 · 8 events · Women were registered in every department and professional school of the University by the fall of 1916, and by 1921 they had two houses of their own. Cora Zeta Corpening enrolled in 1914 as what Covington's history calls the first woman candidate for a medical degree, and Margaret Berry of Hillsborough graduated from the law school in 1915, the first woman to do so according to the guide to her papers. In 1916 the News called the women's registration in all departments a first, and they organized a co-ed club. In 1921, after years of pleas from adviser Inez Stacy, the university gave women two houses, room for about forty-five of the sixty-five enrolled. StorylinePlanning the University’s growth and the south quadrangle, 1917–19221917–1922 · 9 events · Planning for a larger University after 1916 turned its new building south of South Building, onto what became Polk Place. After the trustees endorsed a full campus plan, President Edward K. Graham brought in the national planner John Nolen, whose plan of February 1919 laid out fourteen new buildings and recommended building out the land south of South Building. In June 1919, planning for 1,500 students, the trustees chose to build toward the south end rather than add four dormitories at the north end. On University Day 1921 the Masons laid the cornerstone of a new dormitory. Steele Dormitory was the first building on what became Polk Place, and Mangum Dormitory opened in 1922. StorylineThe Graham Memorial, 1918–19321918–1932 · 16 events · President Edward Kidder Graham's death of influenza and pneumonia in October 1918 led to a campaign for the student activities building he had hoped for, which took years to finish. In December trustees and faculty agreed to raise $150,000 privately, with Albert Coates running the drive. Students, faculty and a town canvass pledged in 1919, and the drive reached $120,000 by the end of that year. Arthur C. Nash's building stood finished outside in March 1925, but the money had run out and its interior was bare concrete and steel. A gift from an anonymous alumnus, which the Weekly put at $80,000, paid to finish it, and it was dedicated on January 29, 1932.

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  1. The Alpha Theta Phi honor society enrolls the best scholars Dr. Tolman, who taught at the University in 1893-94, introduced Alpha Theta Phi, a society open only to the best scholars; by spring 1895 nine members of the class of 1896 belonged. In 1898 Archibald Henderson was its president and E. K. Graham its secretary, and a few years later it merged into Phi Beta Kappa. People: Archibald Henderson, Edward Kidder Graham Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: H. C. TolmanSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. II (1912), p. 783 · Also: The Hellenian 1895, p. 23
  2. Six students found the Order of the Gorgon's Head Edward Kidder Graham, then a junior, was one of six founders of the Gorgon's Head, a secret society of upperclassmen and professional students meant to promote fellowship across the fraternity divide. People: Edward Kidder Graham 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. 33
  3. Edward Kidder Graham wins the Mangum Medal Added to the commencement orators after Horace Williams showed Alderman one of his papers, Graham won the top senior speaking prize with an address on "the economic man" that foresaw business coming to rule Southern life. He reworked the theme over the next decade into his argument for the university's service to the state. People: Edwin Anderson Alderman, Henry Horace Williams 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), p. 39
  4. Edward Kidder Graham returns to Chapel Hill to manage the library After a year teaching at a Charlotte private school, Graham came back at Alderman's request to run the university library, and before the year was out Alderman made him an instructor in English at $700 a year. People: Edwin Anderson Alderman 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. 40
  5. Edward Kidder Graham organizes the Odd Number Club for student writers Members met monthly to hear poems, sketches and prose by one another, kept ties with like clubs at Tennessee, Georgia, Virginia, Texas and Vanderbilt, and worked to build up campus journalism. 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. 48
  6. A house is built on Battle Lane for English professor Edward Kidder Graham and his wife Susan English professor Edward Kidder Graham, later president of the university, and his wife Susan Williams Moses Graham build a shingled two-story house at 115 Battle Lane that mixes Colonial Revival and Craftsman details. Place: 115 Battle Lane, Chapel Hill · Also named: Susan Williams Moses GrahamSearch the index · National Register: Chapel Hill Historic District Boundary Increase and Additional Documentation (OR1750, 2015), section 7 · Also: Chapel Hill Historic Sites Survey
  7. Edward Kidder Graham marries Susan Williams Moses at the Chapel of the Cross Moses, a daughter of school reformer Edward Pearson Moses, had studied at the university from 1898 to 1901 and headed Latin and Greek at Sweet Briar College; the reception was on the porch of Eben Alexander's house next door. The couple lived at Bulrushes, a shingled house at the east edge of the campus that Graham and Louis Graves had built on a lot they bought. People: Louis Graves Place: Chapel of the Cross, Chapel Hill · Also named: Susan Williams MosesSearch 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. 55
  8. Gerrard Hall is refitted and daily chapel resumes for every undergraduate With money Venable got from the legislature, Gerrard Hall's interior was renovated so that all undergraduates fit, and Dean Graham set a half-hour program before noon with ministers, faculty, trustees and other guest speakers. Upperclassmen had been excused from chapel for want of seats. People: Edward Kidder Graham, Francis Preston Venable Place: Gerrard 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), p. 59
  9. Venable names Edward Kidder Graham dean of the College of Liberal Arts At 32 the youngest of the senior faculty, Graham took over the English department and replaced Eben Alexander, who was given a year's leave, as dean, with first responsibility for student discipline. People: Francis Preston Venable, Eben Alexander 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. 59
  10. The Student Council resigns after the faculty reinstates a student it expelled The council quit when a faculty committee put back a student it had dismissed for stealing; Dean Graham negotiated a settlement that affirmed the council's authority but let its decisions be appealed to the faculty. People: Edward Kidder Graham 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. 61
  11. Graham proposes a faculty committee on university extension The committee formed at Graham's urging started a high school debating contest and a statewide high school track meet that drew hundreds of students to Chapel Hill by 1913. President Venable gave it little support, seeing extension as a drain on teaching at home. People: Francis Preston Venable 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. 75
  12. The university grants diplomas to students who left for the Confederate army The faculty and trustees voted to give A.B. diplomas to surviving students who had left their classes to join the Confederate army, and the war classes of 1861 to 1868 were called at the 1911 commencement. People: Edward K. Graham, Julian S. Carr, Walter Clark, Francis D. Winston, Edward Kidder Graham Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. II (1912), p. 717
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  1. Alumni begin publishing the Alumni Review The alumni launched the Alumni Review, issued monthly during the college year, with Dean Edward Kidder Graham as an associate editor; his piece in the first issue memorialized his teacher Thomas Hume. People: Edward Kidder Graham, Thomas Hume 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. 11
  2. Graham joins the student county clubs into a civic association Dean Graham revived the clubs of students from the same county, which nearly half the student body joined after Rand's death, and federated more than a dozen of them as the North Carolina Civic Association of the University, urging members to study conditions at home. 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. 11
  3. Students form the Greater Council and open honor code hearings to the public Working with Dean Graham after Rand's death, students set up the Greater Council, with members from every class, to give them more voice on campus questions, and the Student Council began trying honor code charges in public with the accused facing their accusers. People: Edward Kidder Graham 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. 15
  4. A Chapel Hill conference turns football coaching and finances over to an alumni committee Three weeks after a 66-0 Thanksgiving loss to Virginia, students, alumni and faculty agreed that alumni would clear the Athletic Association's debts and hire professional coaches under a new alumni-run General Athletic Committee, while the faculty kept control of eligibility. Weeks later the committee gave Thomas Trenchard a three-year contract. People: Edward Kidder Graham Place: UNC, Chapel Hill · Also named: Thomas Gawthrop TrenchardSearch 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. 66
  5. Edward Kidder Graham serves as acting president while Venable is in Europe Graham, head of the English department and dean of the College of Liberal Arts at Chapel Hill, acted as president in 1913 during President Francis P. Venable's absence in Europe. People: Francis Preston Venable Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · NCpedia: Graham, Edward Kidder
  6. The university calls off its football game with A&M over eligibility Disputes over A&M players who had played for Brown, Holy Cross and Georgetown and over paid assistant coaches on the field led Carolina to cancel the game, a step Graham accepted with reluctance. People: Edward Kidder Graham 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. 73
  7. The university organizes a Bureau of Extension under Louis Round Wilson Set up as Venable left for Europe in mid-1913 and run by university librarian Louis Round Wilson with no budget of its own, the bureau started programs to take the university's work into the state; the trustees endorsed it in January 1914. People: Louis Round Wilson, Edward Kidder Graham 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. 83
  8. Acting president Graham pledges to carry the university to the whole state In his University Day remarks in Memorial Hall, Graham said the new Bureau of Extension would put the university in close touch with every problem of North Carolina life, a break with Venable's narrower view, and he answered charges that students cared mostly for football. Raleigh and Greensboro papers praised the idea the next day. Place: Memorial Hall, UNC, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Bureau of ExtensionSearch 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. 71
  9. Eugene C. Branson shows students how to survey their home counties During a five-day stay as Graham's guest at Bulrushes, the Georgia rural sociologist led classes and seminars and coached the Johnston County club on gathering facts about illiteracy, tenancy, crops and the tax burden, a report meant to serve as the model for the other county clubs. People: Edward Kidder Graham, 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. 77
  10. Graham proposes a statewide civic service week in a Charlotte speech Closing Farm Life Week in Charlotte, the acting president called for a day of community self-study across North Carolina a year later, and Farmers Union president Henry Q. Alexander drafted a resolution asking the governor to back it. The book treats the speech as the moment the university openly took up the cause of farmers and wage earners. Place: Charlotte (University of North Carolina acting president) · Also named: Henry Quincy AlexanderSearch 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. 78
  11. About 250 county citizens meet at the Hillsboro courthouse for Community Service Week As part of the university's Community Service Week, some 250 citizens gathered at the Orange County courthouse in Hillsboro to take up the county's needs and hear President Graham speak on community service. People: Edward Kidder Graham Place: Orange County Courthouse, HillsboroughSearch 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. 103
  12. Edward Kidder Graham is elected president of the university The board of trustees elected Graham president by unanimous vote in 1914, succeeding Francis P. Venable. He had been at Chapel Hill since 1899, first as librarian and then through the English department to the deanship. People: Francis Preston Venable Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · NCpedia: Graham, Edward Kidder
  13. James Finch Royster leaves the university for the University of Texas Royster, who had been teaching the journalism course Edward Kidder Graham created, left Chapel Hill for the University of Texas, one of the faculty Graham could not keep during his year as acting president. People: James Finch Royster, Edward Kidder Graham Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · NCpedia: Royster, James Finch (A. C. Howell, Dictionary of North Carolina Biography)
  14. Marvin H. Stacy becomes permanent dean of the College of Liberal Arts Graham had made Marvin Hendrix Stacy acting dean of the College of Liberal Arts during Venable's absence and made the post permanent at his first faculty meeting as president. Stacy, a civil engineering professor, handled student discipline and worked to replace written rules with reliance on student honor. People: Edward Kidder Graham, Marvin Hendrix Stacy Place: College of Liberal Arts, 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. 96
  15. Students improve Franklin Street and Battle Park during Community Service Week During Graham's first statewide Community Service Week, about a hundred students worked on Chapel Hill: one crew graded Franklin Street under Joseph Hyde Pratt with teams paid for by merchants and bankers, others cleared the grounds around Swain Hall, cleaned the Battle Park trails under the Rev. W. D. Moss and gathered trash from the alleys. People: Edward Kidder Graham, Joseph Hyde Pratt, William Dygnum Moss Place: Franklin Street and Battle Park, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Swain Hall, 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. 102
  16. Trustees approve asking the Rockefeller Foundation for a student building After a sharp debate the board agreed to seek $50,000 from the Rockefeller Foundation, to be matched by $25,000 raised at home, for a student center to replace the crowded YMCA quarters. The plan fell through when word reached the foundation that some trustees objected to tainted money. People: Edward Kidder Graham 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. 83
  17. Trustees create a chair of applied economics and rural sociology for Eugene C. Branson Graham won approval to hire Branson at the top faculty salary of $2,500 and promised him a large office in the Peabody Building; Branson said he would come that fall and proposed starting a study of Orange County right away. People: Edward Kidder Graham, Eugene Cunningham Branson Place: UNC, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Peabody 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), p. 83
  18. Trustees put athletic rules in the faculty's hands At their winter meeting the trustees adopted Graham's view that the faculty alone should make and enforce athletic rules, turning aside coach Trenchard's lobbying for the board to overrule faculty eligibility decisions. People: Edward Kidder Graham Place: Board of trustees, Raleigh (UNC) · Also named: Thomas Gawthrop TrenchardSearch 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. 82
  19. The university assigns each freshman a faculty adviser President Graham began a system of faculty advisers to help new students settle into university life, and fall 1914 was its first year. Albert Coates's adviser was Oliver Towles of romance languages. People: Edward Kidder Graham, Albert Coates Place: UNC, Chapel Hill · Also named: Oliver TowlesSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), p. 13
  20. Graham reports enrollment passing 1,000 students Graham told the trustees in December 1914 that enrollment would pass 1,000, against 512 in 1900, and that counting summer students the university taught 1,578. The campus had grown from ten buildings in 1900 to two dozen. 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. 99
  21. Graham launches an Alumni Loyalty Fund After the class of 1905 gave $1,000, Graham asked the trustees to back an alumni loyalty fund and turned the gift into a nationwide appeal for small yearly gifts from the university's roughly six thousand living alumni. It was a new idea to seek private money for a state institution, and the hoped-for sums never came. 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. 113
  22. Some 250 high school debaters come to Chapel Hill for state finals About 250 high school students came to the campus for the final rounds of the university's statewide debating union, one of Graham's means of tying the university to towns across the state. Topics included woman suffrage and public ownership of railroads. People: Edward Kidder Graham, Albert Coates Place: UNC, 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. 20
  23. The 1915 General Assembly raises the university's appropriation Graham's first legislative campaign won $115,000 a year for operations, against $95,000 before and the $125,000 he sought, plus $60,000 over two years for permanent improvements. Much of the building money went to pay for the University Inn property on Franklin Street and the land under Peabody Hall. People: Edward Kidder Graham, R. D. W. Connor Place: General Assembly, Raleigh; UNC, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: University Inn, Peabody Hall, 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. 105
  24. William Howard Taft gives the first Weil lectures on American citizenship Former president William Howard Taft spent three days in Chapel Hill as Graham's guest, giving a series of lectures on politics and the presidency. A photograph caption identifies the visit as the inaugural Weil Lecture on American citizenship. People: Edward Kidder Graham Place: UNC, Chapel Hill · Also named: William Howard TaftSearch 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. 106
  25. Edward Kidder Graham is inaugurated president in Memorial Hall A procession of about 1,400 marched to Memorial Hall, where Chief Justice Walter Clark gave Graham the oath and Governor Locke Craig presided. Graham's address cast the state university as the instrument of democracy. Three former presidents walked with him in the procession. People: Edwin Anderson Alderman, Francis Preston Venable, Kemp Plummer Battle, Locke Craig, Walter Clark 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), p. 89
  26. Thomas J. Campbell arrives as the university's first athletic director After coach T. G. Trenchard's contract ran out with the 1915 season, Graham and a faculty committee ended alumni control of athletics and put a director in charge. Thomas Joseph Campbell, a former Harvard football star, took the post by early March 1916 and coached under a new rule that made athletes wait a year before playing. People: Edward Kidder Graham Place: UNC, Chapel Hill · Also named: Thomas Joseph Campbell, T. G. TrenchardSearch 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. 114
  27. Susan Moses Graham, the president's wife, dies at Chapel Hill Susan Moses Graham, 34, died on the last day of the fall session after six weeks of infection. Remaining classes were called off, and she was buried in the Chapel Hill cemetery on December 23 after a service at the Chapel of the Cross. She had helped found the Chapel Hill Community Club. People: William Dygnum Moss Place: President's House, UNC; Chapel of the Cross, Chapel Hill · Also named: Susan Moses Graham · Also mentions: Chapel of the Cross, Chapel Hill cemeterySearch 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. 109
  28. Capt. J. Stuart Allen organizes the volunteer UNC Reserve Corps Graham brought Captain J. Stuart Allen, a wounded Canadian veteran of Ypres and the Somme, to run military training, paying him $4,000 from the budget. Volunteers bought their own uniforms and earned five credit hours for twelve or more hours a week of drill and trench digging east of the campus. People: Edward Kidder Graham, J. Stuart Allen 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. 140
  29. Clara S. Lingle becomes the university's first advisor to women Graham hired Clara S. Lingle as advisor to women, the first woman given administrative duties at the university. Formally on the extension staff working with women's clubs, she was meant to speak for the two dozen women students within the administration. People: Edward Kidder Graham Place: Bureau of Extension, UNC, Chapel Hill · Also named: Clara S. LingleSearch 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. 142
  30. President Edward K. Graham engages planner John Nolen to study the campus Urged by a faculty grounds committee of W. C. Coker, George Howe and Collier Cobb, formed in 1913, and after the trustees endorsed a full campus plan in spring 1916, Graham brought in the national planner John Nolen. Between 1917 and 1919 Nolen studied the campus and recommended building out the land south of South Building, the direction the 1920s expansion took. People: Collier Cobb, William Chambers Coker, George Howe Place: UNC campus, Chapel Hill · Also named: John NolenSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: M. Ruth Little, The Town and Gown Architecture of Chapel Hill, 1795-1975 (2004), p. 50 · Also: The Tar Heel, March 24, 1917, p. 1
  31. Students form volunteer companies and drill on Emerson Field Before the university had a Reserve Officers' Training Corps unit, about five hundred students formed volunteer companies and drilled on Emerson Field with old Civil War rifles, some 250 of them lent by Julius Cone of Greensboro. In January Graham told the secretary of war that four hundred men were asking for a unit. People: Edward Kidder Graham Place: Emerson Field, UNC, Chapel Hill · Also named: Julius ConeSearch 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. 131
  32. The extension bureau offers war courses and Greenlaw starts the Lafayette Association University extension centers offered free month-long courses on the war and on European history, taught by faculty without extra pay, and mailed pamphlets explaining why the country was at war. Edwin Greenlaw's Lafayette Association sought to rally high schools around patriotic essays and pageants; Winston-Salem's center took its name. People: Edwin Greenlaw, Edward Kidder Graham Place: Bureau of Extension, 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. 148
  33. Students petition President Graham for military training In January 1917, 344 of the 1,137 students registered that fall signed a petition asking that a military training course be set up on the campus. The Tar Heel under editor William Polk backed the drive. Place: UNC, Chapel Hill · Also named: William T. PolkSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), p. 25
  34. The faculty approves summer banking jobs for credit with National City Bank The faculty approved a plan Graham arranged with New York's National City Bank to hire rising juniors for summer jobs that taught banking, with university credit for the work. Graham meant it as a first step toward a school of commerce and began recruiting Dudley DeWitt Carroll at about the same time. People: Edward Kidder Graham, Dudley Dewitt Carroll 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. 164
  35. The legislature passes a $3 million bond issue that funds university buildings In the last hours of the 1917 session the house passed a $3 million bond issue, with only 14 of 120 votes against, for state institutions and public schools, giving the university $100,000 a year for five years for new buildings and repairs. Baptist leaders denounced the haste and the aid to state colleges. People: Edward Kidder Graham, Thomas W. Bickett Place: General Assembly, Raleigh; 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. 129
  36. Graham tells a Memorial Hall gathering how the university will serve in the war Two weeks after the United States entered the war, more than a thousand people heard Graham in Memorial Hall urge students to stay in school until called. He promised military training on campus and a faculty program of instruction to aid the war effort. 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), p. 137
  37. Horace Williams's war remarks bring a trustee inquiry that clears the faculty After the Charlotte Observer quoted philosophy professor Horace Williams in May 1917 calling the war a clash of national interests, critics questioned his loyalty, and trustee John Sprunt Hill pressed the matter. The trustees' visiting committee investigated and in June 1918 cleared Williams and the faculty of disloyalty. People: Henry Horace Williams, John Sprunt Hill, Edward Kidder Graham 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. 155
  38. Secretary of War Newton D. Baker gives the wartime commencement address Baker spoke to an overflowing Memorial Hall hung with flags, the day after draft registration, warning that the war would be long and urging those who stayed to keep learning. Of the 161 graduates in the class of 1917, 65 were already in training camps, and all dances were canceled. People: Josephus Daniels, Edward Kidder Graham Place: Memorial Hall, UNC, Chapel Hill · Also named: Newton D. BakerSearch 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. 135
  39. Mary Lily Kenan Flagler Bingham dies, leaving the university a fund for professors Mary Lily Kenan Flagler Bingham, the South's richest widow, died at Louisville, and her will gave the university an endowment expected to pay $75,000 a year to be known as the Kenan Professors Fund. Litigation over her estate delayed the money for years. People: Edward Kidder Graham Place: UNC, Chapel Hill · Also named: Mary Lily Kenan Flagler BinghamSearch 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. 140
  40. Wartime enrollment reaches 1,034 Graham had expected fewer than 800 students, but by October 1, 1917, 1,034 had registered, more than five hundred of them in the military courses. Entering freshmen averaged seventeen, two years younger than in 1915, and about two hundred students left during the term. People: Edward Kidder Graham 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. 142
  41. Governor Bickett gives a wartime University Day address A month after the term opened, Governor Thomas W. Bickett spoke at University Day in a chilly Memorial Hall, denouncing slackers. Marshals led the academic procession through ranks of uniformed men. People: Edward Kidder Graham, J. Stuart Allen, Thomas W. Bickett 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), p. 146
  42. John Nolen recommends a site for the engineering building As plans took shape for the School of Applied Science building paid for by the 1917 bonds, planner John Nolen advised placing it between Memorial Hall and the Peabody Building and chose a spot for a flagpole. He promised broader campus plans by the June 1918 commencement. People: Edward Kidder Graham Place: UNC, Chapel Hill · Also named: John Nolen · Also mentions: Memorial Hall, Peabody 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), p. 161
  43. Trustees name the first five Kenan professors The trustees adopted President Edward Kidder Graham's recommendations for the new Kenan professorships, funded under the will of Mary Lily Kenan Flagler Bingham. Venable was named Kenan Professor of Chemistry, with H. V. Wilson, Edwin Greenlaw, William MacNider and William Cain. People: Francis Preston Venable, Edward Kidder Graham, H. V. Wilson, Robert Worth Bingham, Edwin Greenlaw, William de Berniere MacNider Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: William MacNider, William Cain, Mary Lily Kenan Flagler BinghamSearch the index · UNC Libraries, History on the Hill: Chronological List of Events
  44. The trustees give the faculty a second $250 raise Following a $250 raise in September 1917, the trustees added another $250 in January 1918, bringing a full professor's top pay to $3,000. Graham turned down the increase in his own salary, from $4,000 to $6,000, that the board had voted at the 1917 commencement. People: Edward Kidder Graham 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. 159
  45. Frederick H. Koch is hired as professor of dramatic literature Recruited by Edwin Greenlaw from the University of North Dakota, where he had founded the Dakota Playmakers, Frederick Henry Koch signed in late May 1918 at $2,500 a year to teach dramatic literature, a title he chose. He arrived that summer meaning to build a folk drama program in North Carolina. People: Frederick H. Koch, Edwin Greenlaw, Edward Kidder Graham Place: UNC, 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), p. 164
  46. The Students' Army Training Corps takes over the campus Registration, put off to September 24 and 25, opened a year run by the army: dormitories became Barracks 1 through 8, Swain Hall the Mess Hall, and the year was cut into twelve-week quarters with classes grouped by age. About seven hundred enrolled, nearly all of them required to take a course on the issues of the war, and the commander worked from the Sigma Chi house. People: Edward Kidder Graham, Charles T. Woollen Place: UNC, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: 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), p. 170
  47. 750 University students are inducted into the Students' Army Training Corps At noon on October 1, 1918, about 750 University students took the oath at the campus flag pole from Lt. Col. Stevens, the commandant, and became members of the Students' Army Training Corps, at the same moment as students at about 500 colleges across the country. President Edward Kidder Graham gave the address, and the corps was reviewed from the steps of the Alumni Building. People: Edward Kidder Graham Place: Flag pole, UNC campus, Chapel Hill · Also named: G. W. S. Stevens · Also mentions: Alumni BuildingSearch the index · The Tar Heel, October 2, 1918, p. 1 · Also: State Archives of North Carolina, Military Collection, WWI Papers, Box 2, Folder 37: Orange County Red Cross History
  48. President Edward Kidder Graham dies of influenza and pneumonia at his home in Chapel Hill Graham, 42, president since 1914 and regional director of the Student Army Training Corps for the South Atlantic states, died on Saturday night after five days' illness. The SATC battalion escorted the funeral, conducted at the grave by W. D. Moss of the Presbyterian church; Josephus Daniels and Newton D. Baker sent tributes. People: Edward Kidder Graham, William Dygnum Moss, Josephus Daniels Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Newton D. BakerThe Tar Heel, October 30, 1918, p. 1
  49. 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: Harry Woodburn Chase, Edward Kidder Graham, Marvin Hendrix Stacy Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · NCpedia: Chase, Harry Woodburn
  50. Influenza epidemic strikes Chapel Hill Spanish influenza swept the University in early October 1918, putting the campus and its student soldiers under a three-week quarantine. By October 23 about 300 students had been ill and three had died, and President Edward Kidder Graham died of influenza and pneumonia on October 26. People: Edward Kidder Graham Place: CarrboroThe Tar Heel, October 23, 1918, p. 1
  51. A memorial service for President Graham fills Gerrard Hall Every seat in Gerrard Hall was taken for the formal memorial service for Edward Kidder Graham, held after the epidemic had eased. Horace Williams and R. D. W. Connor spoke, and J. G. de Roulhac Hamilton read a tribute from C. Alphonso Smith. People: R. D. W. Connor, J. G. de Roulhac Hamilton, Henry Horace Williams, Charles Alphonso Smith, Edward Kidder Graham Place: Gerrard 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), p. 177
  52. Trustees and faculty back a $150,000 student building as Edward Kidder Graham's memorial A joint committee of trustees and faculty, meeting in the governor's office in mid-December, agreed to raise $150,000 privately for the student activities building Graham had hoped for, to stand where Person Hall was. Albert Coates ran the drive and by the end of January 1919 announced $20,000 pledged by students, $14,500 of it in one night. People: Louis Round Wilson, Albert Coates, Edward Kidder Graham Place: Governor's office, Raleigh (for UNC, Chapel Hill) · Also mentions: Person 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. 192

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  1. 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
  2. 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)
  3. 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: 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
  4. Fire guts the upper story of Edward Kidder Graham's former house A 1923 fire burned out the upper floor of the late president's house, then rented to faculty, and destroyed many of Graham's personal papers stored there. The house still stood in the twenty-first century. People: Edward Kidder Graham Place: Edward Kidder Graham's former house, 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. 196 · Also: The News (Chapel Hill), August 16, 1923, p. 1; Chapel Hill Weekly, March 15, 1923, p. 4; Chapel Hill Weekly, November 1, 1923, p. 1
  5. Two alumni establish the Edward Kidder Graham fellowship for Playmakers playwrights Two University alumni, unnamed, established a $500 Edward Kidder Graham fellowship to let promising playwrights do advanced work with the Carolina Playmakers. The first holder was Ernest Thompson of Goldsboro, author of two plays the Playmakers had staged. People: Edward Kidder Graham Place: Carolina Playmakers, UNC, Chapel Hill · Also named: Ernest ThompsonThe Chapel Hill Weekly, September 13, 1923, p. 2
  6. Graham Memorial is completed as the university's student union The building named for Edward Kidder Graham, begun in 1921, was finished by commencement 1931 with a gift from an anonymous alumnus, which the Weekly put at $80,000, and opened in October 1931 as the student union. It held the Horace Williams Library, a barber shop, a bowling alley, a game room and offices for student publications. Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · UNC Names in Brick and Stone: Graham Memorial · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, May 29, 1931, p. 1; Chapel Hill Weekly, October 16, 1931, p. 1; Chapel Hill Weekly, January 15, 1932, p. 3; The Daily Tar Heel, October 12, 1993, p. 5; The Daily Tar Heel, September 9, 1994, p. 3
  7. Albert Coates publishes his last book, on Edward Kidder Graham, Harry Chase and Frank Porter Graham Coates's final book, published in 1988, paid tribute to the three University presidents he credited with shaping his life. People: Albert Coates, Frank Porter Graham, Edward Kidder Graham Place: 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. 279

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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: Graham, Edward Kidder, 1876-1918.

Reviewed in The Journal of Southern History (2020).

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NC Digital Collections record courtesy of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.

From inaugural address of Edward Kidder Graham : as president of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N.C., April, 1915

1915

Broadside printing an extract from Edward Kidder Graham's inaugural address as president of the University of North Carolina, delivered in Chapel Hill in April 1915. Printed in red and black, with 'Compliments of Chester DeForest Snell' at the foot of the sheet.

Included because: Its title names this person.

UNC

New history of the inauguration of President Graham

1915

An account of the 1915 inauguration of Edward Kidder Graham as president of the University of North Carolina, published that year. Graham lived from 1876 to 1918.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Graham, Edward Kidder, 1876-1918.

UNC

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: Graham, Edward Kidder, 1876-1918.

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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: Graham, Edward Kidder, 1876-1918.

UNC

L.R. Wilson presents student center as most fitting monument to Graham

Wilson, Louis Round, 1876-1979 · 1932 · General Alumni Association of the University of North Carolina

Remarks by Louis Round Wilson at the dedication of Graham Memorial, the student center built at the University of North Carolina in memory of Edward Kidder Graham, printed in the February 1932 Alumni Review at Chapel Hill by the General Alumni Association. Topics include student unions in Chapel Hill, the buildings of the university and monuments to Graham.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Graham, Edward Kidder, 1876-1918.

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Presentation Graham Memorial

Wilson, Louis Round, 1876-1979 · 1932

Louis Round Wilson's typescript of remarks presenting Graham Memorial, the student union at Chapel Hill named for Edward Kidder Graham, 1876 to 1918. A manuscript hand supplies the caption title and the date January 29, 1932. Topics include college buildings, monuments and student unions at the University of North Carolina. In the North Carolina Collection at UNC.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Graham, Edward Kidder, 1876-1918.

UNC

Edward Kidder Graham: Teacher and Interpreter of Modern Citizenship

Louis Round Wilson · 1920

Louis Round Wilson's memorial essay on Edward Kidder Graham, UNC president, from the University of North Carolina Magazine of February 1920.

Included because: Catalog heading in the OpenAlex record: Graham, Edward Kidder, 1876-1918.

OpenAlex

The University of North Carolina Record. Edward Kidder Graham. [1919]

University of North Carolina (1793-1962) · 1919 · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Speeches on Edward Kidder Graham, published by the University of North Carolina in January 1919 as bulletin number 162. Graham, president of the University from 1914, died in October 1918 during the influenza epidemic.

Included because: Its title names this person.

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Old South Building and Well, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

1917

Postcard of Old South Building and the Old Well in Chapel Hill, about 1917 to 1918. The back carries a printed wartime greeting from university president Edward Kidder Graham to Carolina men serving in France, sending the university's pride and affection and hoping for their safe return.

Included because: Catalog heading in the DPLA record: Graham, Edward Kidder, 1876-1918.

DPLA

Inauguration of Edward Kidder Graham, president of the University of North Carolina, Wednesday, April the twenty-first, MCMXV : programme and order of academic procession

University of North Carolina (1793-1962) · 1915 · University of North Carolina

The printed programme and order of academic procession for the inauguration of Edward Kidder Graham as president of the University of North Carolina on Wednesday, 21 April 1915, published by the university at Chapel Hill. It gives the order of the ceremony and the ranks of the procession.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Graham, Edward Kidder, 1876-1918.

UNC

Venable, Alderman, Graham, Battle at Graham's Inauguration

1915

Four University of North Carolina presidents, Francis P. Venable, Edwin A. Alderman, Edward Kidder Graham and Kemp Plummer Battle, pose together at Graham's inauguration in this real photo postcard of 1915. Mailed to R. H. Lewis in Raleigh, it bears a short greeting from K.P.B. and an April 1915 postmark.

Included because: Catalog heading in the DPLA record: Graham, Edward Kidder, 1876-1918.

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