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The first student to reach the new university at Chapel Hill, Hinton James arrived on 12 February 1795 and was the only student for two weeks. He belonged to the first literary club, the debating society and the Philanthropic Society, and on 4 July 1798 took his degree with the first graduating class of seven.
Source: NCpedia: James, Hinton (Dictionary of North Carolina Biography)
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Exterior of Hinton James, the high-rise dormitory at UNC-Chapel Hill, in a color slide from February 1970. Hugh Morton put it in a slide show he called Superlatives, which came with no notes on what made each subject superlative.
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Extracts from an address President Kemp P. Battle gave on University Day, 12 October 1880, about Hinton James, the first student to enroll at the University of North Carolina. The passage was detached from the University magazine for October 1887. It concerns student biography at Chapel Hill and North Carolina biography more broadly.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: James, Hinton, 1776-1847.
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