Research Club of the University of North Carolina Records, 1914-1921

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Research Club of the University of North Carolina Records, 1914-1921

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The Research Club was organized by Joseph Hyde Pratt and George Howe in 1914. Records are bound typed copies of the proceedings of the annual meetings of the Research Club. The annual meetings were occasions of humor, usually consisting of fifteen-minute speeches delivered by the members on esoteric, even whimsical, subjects.

4 volumes

eng,

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. University Archives and Records Service

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. University Archives and Records Service

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The University of North Carolina was chartered by the state's General Assembly in 1789. Its first student was admitted in 1795. The governing body of the University, from its founding until 1932, was a forty-member Board of Trustees elected by the General Assembly. The Board met twice a year; at other times the business of the University was carried on by the Board's secretary-treasurer and by the presiding professor (called president beginning in 1804). Other faculty members later assumed the r...

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The Research Club, organized by Joseph Hyde Pratt and George Howe in 1914, included among its members a variety of University of North Carolina professors, such as Henry Wilson (zoology), William Dey (romance languages), William C. Coker (botany), Edward Kidder Graham (university president), Francis Venable (university president), Joseph G. DeRoulhac Hamilton (history), William DeB. Macnider (medicine), Edwin Greenlaw (English), and Harry W. Chase (university president). Annual meetings of the C...