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Isaac William Rand

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Materials pertaining to the hazing death of Isaac William Rand, 1912

Cotten, Jerry W. · 1912

Letters, photocopied newspaper articles and photographs about the hazing death of Isaac William Rand, 1892 to 1912, a student at the University of North Carolina. Jerry W. Cotten compiled the materials in 1988 around the events of 1912. Topics include hazing at Chapel Hill and student life at the university. In the North Carolina Collection at UNC.

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September 13, 1912 Freshman Isaac William Rand dies in a hazing incident on the athletic field Taken from his Old East room near midnight by sophomores, the Smithfield freshman was made to stand on a barrel behind Bynum Gymnasium, fell onto broken glass that cut his carotid artery, and died within minutes on the gymnasium steps. Four students were arrested for manslaughter that day after a coroner's inquest, and Governor W. W. Kitchin demanded a full public investigation. People: William W. (William Walton) Kitchin, Francis Preston VenableSearch 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. 6

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