University of North Carolina Greensboro - Pine Needles Yearbook (Greensboro, NC)

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0937 PinK HeedleO STUDENT COUNSELOMS Miss Katherine Sherrill, B.A. Cottcn Hall Miss Josei ' hixe Hege, I!. A. Slunv Hall Miss . IAK ' eesii Parker Woman ' s Hall Mrs. Ax.xe Carter Spencer Hall Mrs. Anxie Heaii Fl ' xderburkk, I ' .A., M.A Mary Faust Hall Miss Ioxe Grogax. I ' ,. A.. M.A. East Hall Mi.ss Katiierixe Taveor, V,. ., W.X. Nnv Guilford Hall HATHAWAY C. RTER I ' ARKER FUXDERBURKE «{ 18 }3i-

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Coiisliliitioiiiil l iiK ' isioiis for IcgisliitrL ' c the first slate iinkcrsil ' in the nation ar establishment ■ adopted. if seliools and for The Stale Literary I ' und in embryo form passes the Assembly -eole. Com- prised of tlie interest on certain state bonds, money from liquor licenses, crimineil fines, and the like, and special appropriations, it soon amounts to livo million dollars. This fund enables the modest beyinniny of publie school support. The first Common .School Law. dividiny the is drawn by II ' . ' . Cherry. counties into school districts. The bill creating tlie University of North Carolina was passed in the old Gov ernor ' s Palace at New Bern. The house had been built at the request of Governor Tyron in 1770 and is said to have cost about $80,000. After the state capital was moved from New Bern, one of the wings of the palace was used for dancing. In 1795 the New Bern . cademy burned, and the Legislature granted the principal. Rev. Thomas P. Irvine, the use of the liuilding for school purposes. Mr. Irvine kept wood and hay in the cellar of the palace and lived in tlie upper part. In 1798 a negro woman servant of Mr. Irvine went to Umk for eggs in the hay, carrying a light-wood torch. The hay caught from a spark, and the palace was burned to the ground.