University of North Carolina miscellaneous diplomas, 1798-1929.
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University of North Carolina (1793-1962). Philanthropic Society
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The Philanthropic Society was the second of two literary societies formed in 1795, the year the University of North Carolina opened. Throughout the nineteenth century, nearly all students were members of one of these societies. Students from the eastern portion of the state tended to belong to the Philanthropic Society and those from the western portion to the Dialectic Society. The societies provided literary and oratorical training, and exercised many of the functions of student government. Th...
University of North Carolina (1793-1962)
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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...
University of North Carolina (1793-1962). Dialectic Society
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The Dialectic Society of the University of North Carolina was the first of the university's two student debating and social clubs. It was established as The Debating Society in 1795, but changed its name the following year. The debating societies amassed sizable libraries and functioned as the campus student government for over a century. In 1919 the Philanthropic Society reorganized itself as the Philanthropic Assembly and the Dialectic Society reorganized as the Dialectic Senate in 1924. Membe...
