"The constitutional obligation to foster the University is upon us. And we can gain the approval of posterity by exerting ourselves on behalf of this institution, until the University of North Carolina shall become a synonym for all that is progressive in science or elevating in education."

-- Daniel G. Fowle, Governor of North Carolina, 1889

 

Source: The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.), December 16, 1991.