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Cameron Morrison

Cameron Morrison was an influential trustee of the university and, as governor in the early 1920s, a strong supporter of its expansion program; the university named Morrison Residence Hall, completed in 1965, for him. He began his political career supporting Charles B. Aycock and the white supremacy campaign of 1898.

Source: The Carolina Story: Cameron Morrison (1869-1953) and Morrison Residence Hall

1869–1953 · Dates from the Library of Congress · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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StorylineResidence colleges and Hinton James, 1965–19711965–1971 · 20 events · UNC's residence college system began in March 1965 with Morehead College, and that year Morrison Residence Hall opened, Scott Residence College was dedicated and Chancellor Paul F. Sharp grouped the remaining men's halls into provisional colleges. Ground was broken in 1966 for the ten-story Hinton James Residence Hall, named for the first student to reach Chapel Hill, and it opened in 1967 to about 1,000 men. The colleges' names became official in 1967 and classes began meeting in residence halls, and in 1968 Scott and Hinton James were chosen for experimental programs with faculty fellows. In 1969 Project Hinton put women and men on neighboring floors of Hinton James in a living-learning experiment. Hinton James became coeducational in 1971, the year Project Hinton was suspended.

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  1. The University holds its 127th commencement and confers 192 degrees The University's 127th commencement ran from the baccalaureate sermon on Sunday, June 11, to the closing exercises in Memorial Hall on Wednesday, June 14, when Senator Carter Glass spoke and Governor Cameron Morrison handed out 192 degrees, which the News called the largest number ever conferred at a commencement. The women students marked the 25th anniversary of their admission, and Mary Henderson of Salisbury asked the alumni for a women's dormitory. People: Cameron Morrison Place: Memorial Hall, UNC campus, Chapel Hill · Also named: Carter Glass, Mary HendersonSearch the index · The News (Chapel Hill), June 15, 1922, p. 1
  2. Trinity's William P. Few proposes a joint medical school with UNC After the trustees' site committee split on December 16, Few met the committee at the governor's mansion and offered a four-year school with two years at Chapel Hill and two in Durham near Watts Hospital, backed by $1 million from each side and a Trinity endowment. Morrison endorsed it that night, but Baptist protest over church and state killed it within weeks. People: William Few, Harry Woodburn Chase, Isaac Hall Manning, Cameron Morrison Place: Governor's Mansion, Raleigh · Also mentions: Watts HospitalSearch 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. 251-255
  3. Governor Morrison offers the law deanship to Justice Walter P. Stacy, who declines At a trustees' executive committee meeting in early November, Morrison bypassed Chase and offered the deanship to Stacy on the spot. Stacy turned it down, and Chase saw the move as an intrusion on the president's role. People: Harry Woodburn Chase, Cameron Morrison Place: UNC, Chapel Hill · Also named: Walter P. StacySearch 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. 273-274 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, November 8, 1923, p. 2
  4. Trustees adopt higher law school standards over Governor Morrison's objection At a four-hour meeting in the governor's office, attended by about half the trustees, 45 of them lawyers, Morrison argued against stiffer entrance rules, but a voice vote approved Chase's plans. The board put off naming a dean rather than accept Chase's out-of-state choice. People: Harry Woodburn Chase, William H. S. Burgwyn, John Sprunt Hill, Cameron Morrison Place: Governor's office, Raleigh (for UNC, Chapel Hill)Search 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. 275-276
  5. UNC trustees require three years of college for admission to the law school After the longest debate of their meeting, the trustees raised the law school's entrance requirement from two years of college work to three, on the advice of President Graham and Dean McCormick, with an exception for able students who could not meet it. Senator Cameron Morrison led the opposition, saying the rule would bear hard on poor students. People: Frank Porter Graham, Cameron Morrison Place: UNC, Chapel Hill · Also named: Charles T. McCormickSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, June 12, 1931, p. 5
  6. Morrison Residence Hall opens, named for Cameron Morrison The university completed Morrison Residence Hall, a men's dormitory for 1,042 students, in 1965 and named it for former governor Cameron Morrison, an influential trustee who had backed the university's expansion program in the 1920s. The Daily Tar Heel reported in August that the hall would open that September, with work still going on, and students were living there by early October. Place: Morrison Residence Hall, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Carolina Story: Cameron Morrison (1869-1953) and Morrison Residence Hall · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, August 19, 1965, p. 1; The Daily Tar Heel, October 2, 1965, p. 2

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