James Lee Love

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1. June 1882 James Lee Love wins the Phillips Mathematical Prize The sons of Charles Phillips had offered a prize for the best sophomore in mathematics. Love's marks in trigonometry and analytic geometry so far outran the class that Professor Ralph H. Graves dropped the planned examination and gave him the prize on his year's record; it came at commencement as thirty dollars with a letter from William B. Phillips. People: William Battle Phillips, Ralph Henry Graves (1851-1889), Charles Phillips Place: UNC campus, Chapel Hill · Also named: Ralph H. GravesSearch the index · James Lee Love, Recollections (1920-1921), scan p. 189
2. 1883 Francis P. Venable keeps Chapel Hill's weather record for the federal government In 1883 Venable was taking barometer, thermometer and humidity readings three times a day at Chapel Hill, with daily high and low temperatures, rainfall, wind and cloud, and reporting them to Washington. For about six weeks of June and July he had the student James Lee Love live in his house and keep the record for him. People: Francis Preston Venable, James Lee Love Place: former James Phillips house, Chapel HillSearch the index · James Lee Love, Recollections (1920-1921), scan p. 203
3. February 22, 1884 University students mark Washington's Birthday with an oration and field-day contests A large crowd filled the Philanthropic Society hall to hear J. A. Bryan's Washington's Birthday oration, introduced by J. L. Love, and in the afternoon students held jumping, running, walking, three-legged and ball-throwing contests at the base ball ground, ending with a chase for a greased pig won by Patterson's boarding house. People: James Lee Love Place: Philanthropic Society hall and base ball ground, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill · Also named: J. A. BryanSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), March 1, 1884, p. 2
4. June 1884 The class of 1884 holds its Class Day with a song written by Cornelia Phillips Spencer In commencement week the class of 1884, with Love as president and Samuel M. Gattis as secretary, put on one of the university's early Class Day programs. W. G. Randall read a comic prophecy and Gattis a class history, and the class sang a song Spencer had written for it. People: Cornelia Phillips Spencer, James Lee Love, Samuel Mallett Gattis, William George Randall Place: UNC campus, Chapel HillSearch the index · James Lee Love, Recollections (1920-1921), scan p. 213
5. June 1884 The faculty revives the valedictory honor and gives it to James Lee Love At the 1884 commencement the faculty brought back the old custom of naming a valedictorian for the best standing over the whole course and gave the honor to Love, who also won the Mangum Medal for his graduating speech, "The New North State." Memorial Hall was not finished, so his class was the last to graduate in Gerrard Hall. Place: Gerrard Hall, UNC, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Memorial HallSearch the index · James Lee Love, Recollections (1920-1921), scan p. 213 · Also: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. II
6. June 1885 The trustees enlarge the faculty from nine to fifteen Meeting in Raleigh, the trustees chose from several hundred applicants Thomas Hume for English, Walter D. Toy for modern languages, William B. Phillips for agricultural chemistry and mining and James Lee Love for mathematics. A faculty circular then announced postgraduate courses toward the A.M., Ph.M. and Ph.D., free of tuition to graduates of any college. People: Thomas Hume, James Lee Love, William Battle Phillips Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Walter D. ToySearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. II (1912), p. 333
7. December 23, 1885 James Lee Love marries June Spencer at the Chapel Hill Presbyterian Church Mathematics professor James Lee Love married June Spencer, Cornelia Phillips Spencer's daughter, in an afternoon service led by the Rev. Mr. Wilhelm, who then served both the Chapel Hill and Hillsborough Presbyterian churches. The couple went from the church to the train for a wedding trip to her birthplace in Alabama and on their return took rooms at Mrs. Thompson's house in Chapel Hill. People: George Francis Atkinson, June Spencer Love, Cornelia Phillips Spencer Place: Presbyterian Church, Chapel Hill · Also named: Elinor S. PhillipsSearch the index · James Lee Love, Recollections (1920-1921), scan p. 239
8. 1886-87 James Lee Love becomes University Librarian and secretary of the faculty In the 1886-87 session the mathematics professor James Lee Love took on the posts of librarian and secretary of the faculty, after representing the university in the merger of the literary societies' libraries with its own. Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. II (1912), pp. 388-389
9. 1886 The university begins leasing its Franklin Street land to faculty for houses Because a federal court had ruled about 600 acres around the campus inalienable, the trustees leased a Franklin Street parcel to James Lee Love for fifty years, followed by leases to Charles Baskerville and Francis K. Ball. Later, on legal advice, such lots were sold outright to faculty members. People: Charles Baskerville, James Lee Love Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Francis K. Ball · Also mentions: Franklin StreetDocumenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. II (1912), p. 366
10. March 18, 1886 The literary societies merge their libraries with the university's The Philanthropic Society voted almost unanimously and the Dialectic 42 to 30 to join their books to the university library in Smith Hall, to be called the Library of the University of North Carolina endowed by the Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies and opened every weekday. Borrowing rose from 3,657 books in 1885-86 to 4,761 the next year. People: George Tayloe Winston, James Lee Love Place: Smith Hall · Also mentions: Philanthropic SocietySearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. II (1912), p. 356
11. April 1887 Battle Lane is cut along the edge of the president's house lot After the president's house burned, the eastern edge of its lot on East Franklin Street was opened as Battle Lane, and the rest of the eastern part was leased to Professor James Lee Love for fifty years at $15 a year. People: James Lee Love Place: Battle Lane at East Franklin Street, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: East Franklin StreetSearch the index · Bernard Lee Bryant Jr., Occupants and Structures of Franklin Street, Chapel Hill (1998; Chapel Hill Historical Society, 1999), scan p. 151
12. winter of 1888-89 James Lee Love takes over the mathematics courses during Ralph Graves's last illness When Professor Ralph H. Graves fell gravely ill, President Battle put Love in charge of mathematics. At George Winston's insistence a man was called from Johns Hopkins, and Love brought in his friend Mansfield T. Peed to take the freshmen while he taught the sophomores and juniors; after Graves died the trustees chose William Cain over Love for the chair. People: Ralph Henry Graves (1851-1889), Kemp Plummer Battle, George Tayloe Winston Place: UNC, Chapel Hill · Also named: Mansfield T. Peed, William Cain, Ralph H. GravesSearch the index · James Lee Love, Recollections (1920-1921), scan p. 249