"There is some talk in these days of the greater advantages of the small college. It is easy to see that the question is rather one of small classes and that the small college with its over-worked professors and poor equipment can offer little to compare with the fine equipment, high-priced teachers, and small classes of the greater university."

-- Francis Venable, President of the University of North Carolina, 1900-1914

 

Source: Louis Round Wilson, The University of North Carolina, 1900-1930. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1957, p. 49.

Image source: Kemp Plummer Battle, History of the University of North Carolina. Volume I: From Its Beginnings to the Death of President Swain, 1789-1868. Raleigh: Edwards & Broughton, 1907, frontispiece. Scanned by Documenting the American South.