“Well may university lovers rejoice over the munificent benefaction, because it will definitely put Chapel Hill on a real university basis, swelling the State income to proportions that will make many things possible, and will doubtless break a broad way for future benefactions of great moment to the State and its venerable center of education.”

-- New York Sun, on the bequest of Mary Lily Kenan Flagler Bingham establishing the Kenan Professorships, 1917

 

Source: Almonte C. Howell, The Kenan Professorships. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1956, p. 17.