Colors
The university's school colors come from the two debating societies that were prominent in early campus life: the Philanthropic Society's color was white, and the Dialectic Society's color was light blue. Students wore ribbons in their society's color to important school events, and ...
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Cyprett's Bridge
After the University of North Carolina received its charter, the board of trustees had to find a location for the university. Wanting a site near the center of the state, they considered several locations before settling on an area within a fifteen-mile radius of Cyprett's Bridge in northern Cha...
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Woollen Gym
Woollen Gym opened in March 1938 to serve as a replacement for Bynum Gymnasium, which the university had long outgrown. In addition to more space for games and exercises, the most exciting feature of the new gym was the Bowman Gray Memorial Pool, which was said to be the largest pool in the South wh...
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Escheats
To provide funding for the newly founded university in 1789, William R. Davie wrote and helped pass through the legislature an act that would give to the university all unclaimed land and property in the state. Known later as the Escheats Act, after a legal term for the reversion of property to the ...
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