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The Court of North Carolina was previously used as a cow pasture and later as the site of the Quonset Huts that served as housing for World War II veterans. Legend has it that trees were planted in the Court to represent each of North Carolina's 100 counties, but there is no evidence to support the claim.
In response to graffiti on campus protesting the Vietnam War, student government dedicated a graffiti space for students at the Student Supply Store Tunnel, which was later known as the Free Expression Tunnel. Rules were established by the Campus Welfare Committee concerning the painting of the tunnel, and any use of obscenity or vulgarity was considered a Campus Code offense.
The speaker was R. Gregg Cherry, governor of North Carolina. Rev. B. R. Lacy of Union Theological Seminary in Richmond, VA, gave the baccalaureate sermon on May 27th. An honorary Doctor of Agriculture was awarded to Dudley Warren Bagley, executive officer of the United States General Accounting Office. An honorary Doctor of Textile Science was awarded to Arthur Mills Dixon, alumnus and mayor of Gastonia, NC. An honorary Doctor of Military Science was awarded to William Carey Lee, alumnus and lieutenant who served in World War I.
E. B. Owen, class of 1898, was hired in 1899. Owen, along with University of Texas librarian Benjamin Wyche, were hired to implement the Dewey Decimal System of book classification, construct a card catalog, and institute a card loan system. He served in this position until 1902. He held a variety of other positions at the college, including teacher of college preparatory classes (1898-1901), English professor (1904-1907), proctor, and registrar (1907-1928). Owen was the first alumni secretary and editor of the Alumni News (1928-1930), which was a publication he established during World War I.
Harlan Brown joined the library in 1936 as the circulation librarian. After becoming director in 1939, he presided over many significant changes for the library, including its 1954 relocation from Brooks Hall to the facility where it remains today. The larger space provided the library with the room to expand the collection from 50,000 to 500,000 volumes, construct a comprehensive scientific periodical collection, and acquire the renowned Tippman Collection of Entomology volumes. The enhanced D. H. Hill Jr. Library formed part of Brown's vision of a centralized campus library system. From 1942 to 1946, Brown took a leave of absence to serve in World War II. Brown became associate director in 1964 and retired in 1971.
Many new materials, compounds, and processes had been developed during the war and prompted faculty to reassess and update the teaching programs and curricula. Albert Harvey Grimshaw wrote that the list of processes with major changes included, "sizing with cellulose ethers; dyeing and finishing in one process for permanent finish; the many uses of resins in finishing; continuous bleaching processes; high speed printing; the great interest shown in processes for water proofing, flame proofing, mildew proofing, etc., either by themselves or in combination; and radiant heat in drying," as well as studying the "properties of the new fibers such as nylon, Vinyon, Aralac, Plexon, Saran, soybean, etc.," and "the natural fibers and their blends with the new synthetics."
