“The university early excited expectations which were unfortunately too sanguine and premature to be realized. Though the attainment of knowledge may be rendered comparatively easy, it is chimerical to propose that it shall be universally, or totally, without expense.”

-- Joseph Caldwell, Presiding Professor and President of the University of North Carolina, 1803.

 

Source: William D. Snider, Light on the Hill: A History of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992, p. 34.

Image source: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, Volume I. Raleigh: Edwards & Broughton, 1907. Page 192. Scanned by Documenting the American South.