Stephen B. Weeks

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1. 1887 Stephen B. Weeks publishes a register of the Philanthropic Society Stephen Beauregard Weeks, class of 1886, published a 72-page catalogue of Philanthropic Society members since 1795, with a short history of the society and notes on members' careers. People: Stephen B. Weeks Place: Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Philanthropic SocietySearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. II (1912), p. 799
2. 1887-1888 Stephen B. Weeks teaches as the university's instructor in English For the 1887-88 session the university made Stephen B. Weeks, who had just taken his master's degree, its instructor in English, while Claudius Dockery became instructor in Latin. Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Claudius DockerySearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. II (1912), p. 399
3. June 1888 Stephen B. Weeks receives the university's first doctorate in English At the 1888 commencement Weeks was the one candidate for the Doctor of Philosophy, with a thesis on 'The Maid of France and Schiller Versus Shakespeare.' It was the first doctorate given in English at the university. Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. II (1912), p. 396
4. 1894 The University Magazine issues its Golden Jubilee number In 1894 the University Magazine marked fifty years since its first issue with a Golden Jubilee number, prepared largely by faculty editor Collier Cobb and filled with articles on the university's history. People: Collier Cobb, Kemp Plummer Battle, George Tayloe Winston, Stephen B. Weeks Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. II (1912), p. 739
5. June 5, 1895 Stephen B. Weeks speaks on the university in the Civil War at its centennial At the centennial anniversary exercises Weeks gave a long prepared address, 'The University of North Carolina in the Civil War,' in Memorial Hall on the evening of June 5, after Henry A. London; Alfred Moore Waddell and Adolphus H. Eller had reviewed earlier periods of the university's history that morning. People: Alfred Moore Waddell, Henry Armand London Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Adolphus Hill Eller, Henry A. London · Also mentions: Memorial HallSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. II (1912), p. 518 · Also: The News and Observer (Raleigh), June 6, 1895, p. 1
6. 1918 The university buys Stephen B. Weeks's North Carolina library After Weeks died in May 1918, the university bought his collection of about 9,000 books and pamphlets on North Carolina. The purchase roughly doubled the North Carolina Collection's book holdings and became its nucleus. Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · NCpedia: Historical Collections