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Charles Wilson Harris joined the new university as professor of mathematics in March 1795, organized the student debating club that became the Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies, and was presiding professor from the summer of 1796 until he resigned that December.
Source: NCpedia: Harris, Charles Wilson
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Charles Wilson Harris, 1771 to 1804, is the figure behind papers dated 1765 to 1924. The headings place him on the faculty at Chapel Hill in the eighteenth century and later in law, and they extend to Charles and Robert…
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