Papers relating to Edgar Wallace Knight, 1909-1961 [manuscript].

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Papers relating to Edgar Wallace Knight, 1909-1961 [manuscript].

Materials gathered for a dissertation on Edgar Wallace Knight, University of North Carolina professor and authority on educational history and administration. The collection includes scrapbooks and clippings related to all of Knight's career, but particularly the early years, 1917- 1926; Knight's memorandum book while a member of an educational inquiry commission in Iraq, 1932; incomplete manuscripts of two of his books; and photocopies of papers and clippings relating to Knight.

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Rollins, Forrest L., 1928- ,

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Edgar Wallace Knight (1885-1953) was a University of North Carolina professor and authority on educational history and administration. From the guide to the Papers Relating to Edgar Wallace Knight, ., 1909-1961, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.) ...

Knight, Edgar Wallace, 1886-1953

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Teacher, author, editor, and University of North Carolina Kenan professor of educational history. From the description of Edgar Wallace Knight materials relating to education in the South before 1860, 1634-1950 [manuscript]. WorldCat record id: 25754073 Edgar Wallace Knight (1885-1953) was professor of education at Trinity College, 1913-1917, and at the University of North Carolina, 1919-1953. From the description of Edgar Wallace Knight papers, 1915-1953 [manusc...

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...