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Holland Thompson

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  1. Eleanor Roosevelt gives the University commencement address in Kenan Stadium Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt spoke to about 9,000 people at the 140th Commencement, the largest crowd the Weekly knew of there outside a football game, and received an honorary doctor of laws. The paper had called her the first woman chosen as the University's commencement speaker. Honorary degrees also went to James King Hall, Rufus L. Patterson, Holland Thompson and Wallace E. Rollins. People: Eleanor Roosevelt, Frank Porter Graham, Josephus Daniels, James Hall, Rufus Lenoir Patterson, Holland Thompson Place: Kenan Stadium, UNC, Chapel Hill · Also named: Wallace E. RollinsSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, June 14, 1935, p. 5

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By Holland Thompson

The magazine for fifty years

Thompson, Holland, 1873-1940 · 1894 · Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies

Holland Thompson's history of the North Carolina University Magazine at fifty years, written while he was a student of the class of 1895. It ran in the magazine for March and April 1894 and was issued separately at Chapel Hill by the Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies.

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François-Xavier Martin

Thompson, Holland, 1873-1940 · 1893 · Published by the students of the University

A short life of François-Xavier Martin, 1762 to 1846, by Holland Thompson. It ran in the North Carolina University Magazine for April 1893, signed Holland M. Thompson, and was issued on its own at Chapel Hill by the students of the University.

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About Holland Thompson

David Matthew Thompson papers, 1863-1938

Thompson, David Matthew, 1844-1925 · 1863

Papers of David Matthew Thompson (1844-1925) covering 1863 to 1938, part of the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 3957-z. Topics range from Confederate army life and soldiers' correspondence at one end and early football at the University of North Carolina and Trinity College at the other, with the 'North Carolina University magazine', Cornelia Phillips Spencer, Samuel F. Phillips and university president Edward Kidder Graham named.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Thompson, Holland, 1873-1940.

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