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Fire and Stone - The Making of the University of North Carolina under Presidents Edward Kidder Graham and Harry Woodburn Chase (Hardcover)
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Fire and Stone - The Making of the University of North Carolina under Presidents Edward Kidder Graham and Harry Woodburn Chase (Hardcover)
Series: Coates University Leadership Series
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In June 1919 Harry Woodburn Chase was chosen to succeed Edward
Kidder Graham as president of the University of North Carolina. The
two were a study in contrasts. Graham was a southerner whose father
had worn Confederate gray. Chase was a New Englander and suspected
of being a Republican. Chase had advanced academic degrees,
including an earned doctorate, while Graham's title was honorific.
Chase was quiet, almost shy, and he best expressed his thoughts in
the written word. Graham was an accomplished writer but also a
superb public speaker whose friends had a political career charted
out for him until his death at 42 years of age, a victim of the
1918 influenza pandemic. The university trustees chose Chase to
succeed Graham after two more highly favored candidates were
disqualified at the last minute. A young man-Chase was 36 at the
time-he wasn't expected to stay in Chapel Hill all that long. He
remained for a little more than a decade and in that time he
oversaw the transformation of the institution and introduced it to
a national audience. Chase built upon Graham's ambitions for the
university that its work extend beyond the campus to reach citizens
all across the state. Graham first kindled this fire for a new
mission among the undergraduates he met in his classroom in the
decade before he became president in 1914. One of those acolytes
was his younger cousin, Frank Porter Graham, who called him the
greatest teacher he had ever known. Chase gathered his
administration behind this spirit of service and moved the
university into a new era. If one man had not followed the other,
the university would have been a different place. Taken together,
the presidencies of Graham and Chase turned a relatively small
institution founded in the liberal arts into an institution worthy
of its name, the University of North Carolina.
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