"Chapel Hill makes no pretense of being cosmopolitan. It strives rather for an enlightened provincialism. It is primarily concerned with Southerners and the South, and it seeks to equip men to lead useful lives in a backward empire now slowly moving into what may become the most astonishing renaissance ever seen on American soil."

-- David Cohn, The Atlantic Monthly, 1941

 

Source: The Atlantic Monthly, March 1941, pp. 327-328.