One of the brightest liberal ornaments of the South, the first U.S. state university to open its doors, last week celebrated its 150th anniversary. At Chapel Hill the Tarheels of the University of North Carolina had every reason to congratulate themselves on their sesquicentennial. North Carolina had had to grow in a climate which had often been desolating to the liberal spirit. But the University had grown lustily and had substantially changed the very air in which it breathed.
North Carolina was founded on Columbus Day, 1793 by a Princeton graduate, Revolutionary Cavalryman...
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