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Hubert Ashley Royster

1871–1959 as the Library of Congress records it · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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By Hubert Ashley Royster

Selection of correspondence to and from H. H. Brimley.

Royster, Hubert Ashley, 1871-1959 · 1902

Correspondence of 1902 and 1903 to and from museum curator H. H. Brimley about founding the North Carolina Academy of Science, with Hubert A. Royster among the writers. Other scientists named include C. S. Brimley, W. W. Ashe, T. Gilbert Pearson, Franklin Sherman and H. V. Wilson of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 16 images.

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May 7, 1903 The university confers its first Doctor of Medicine degrees On the evening of May 7, 1903, Dean Hubert A. Royster presented four graduates of the Medical Department, and the M.D. degree was conferred for the first time in the university's history. People: Hubert Ashley RoysterSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. II (1912), p. 621

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Background context: NCpedia: Hubert Ashley Royster NCpedia Dictionary of North Carolina Biography entry
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