"From the coming of the first student to its open doors . . . the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has been a magic gulf stream flowing in an ever-widening current through the lives of people in the cities, the counties and the state of North Carolina and beyond -- tempering the customs, traditions and habits of the people it serves and lifting them to higher levels of living wherever it has gone."

-- Albert Coates, Founder and first director of the Institute of Government at the University of North Carolina

 

Source: Albert Coates, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill : A Magic Gulf Stream in the Life of North Carolina, 1978. p. 34