Restrictions to Access

No restrictions. Open for research.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Research Club of the University of North Carolina Records #40193, University Archives, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Provenance

Periodic transfer from the offices that create these records.

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• College teachers--North Carolina--Humor.
• College wit and humor.
• Howe, George, 1876-1936.
• Pratt, Joseph Hyde, 1870-1942.
• University of North Carolina (1793-1962)--Faculty--History.
• University of North Carolina (1793-1962)--Societies, etc.
• University of North Carolina (1793-1962). Research Club.

The Research Club, organized by Joseph Hyde Pratt and George Howe in 1914, included among its members a variety of University of North Carolina professors, such as Henry Wilson (zoology), William Dey (romance languages), William C. Coker (botany), Edward Kidder Graham (university president), Francis Venable (university president), Joseph G. DeRoulhac Hamilton (history), William DeB. Macnider (medicine), Edwin Greenlaw (English), and Harry W. Chase (university president). Annual meetings of the Club were held during the last week in October.

Records are bound typed copies of the proceedings of the annual meetings, 1914-1921, of the Research Club at the University of North Carolina. The annual meetings were occasions of humor usually consisting of fifteen-minute speeches delivered by the members on esoteric, even whimsical, subjects.