early student group

Building a Research University

Carolina's early twentieth-century transformation from a small local college to a true university with highly trained professors, improved libraries and laboratories, and a university press.

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  1. Francis Preston Venable (1856-1934) in 1900
  2. John Motley Morehead, Jr. (1870-1965)
  3. William Rand Kenan, Jr. (1872-1965)
  4. Library Building, 1907-1929
  5. Members of the Order of the Golden Fleece, 1904
  6. Francis Preston Venable (1856-1934)
  7. Venable Hall, dedicated 1925
  8. Edward Kidder Graham (1876-1918)
  9. Mary Lily Kenan Flagler Bingham (1867-1917)
  10. Students in uniform posing in front of Silent Sam, photo from Yackety Yack, 1918
  11. Graham Memorial, constructed in 1931
  12. Harry Woodburn Chase (1883-1955)
  13. New classroom buildings of the 1920s: Saunders, left, Manning, center, and Murphey, right
  14. Howard W. Odum (1884-1954)
  15. Dudley DeWitt Carroll (1885-1971)
  16. Albert Coates (1896-1989)
  17. William T. Couch (1901-1989)
  18. Frederick Henry Koch (1877-1944) and Paul Green (1894-1981)
  19. Sallie Marks (1891-1968)
  20. Wilson Library, dedicated 1929
  21. J. G. de Roulhac Hamilton (1878-1961)
  22. Photograph of mascot from 1925 Yackety Yack

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