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The Pullen Literary Society was founded in 1889. This student organization frequently engaged in formal debates with the Leazar Literary Society and remained active until the early 1930s.
The Leazar Literary Society was founded in 1889. This student organization frequently engaged in formal debates with the Pullen Literary Society and remained active until the early 1930s.
Chemistry courses were offered when the College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts opened.
History courses were offered when the North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts opened.
Mathematics courses were offered when the North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts opened.
D. H. Hill Jr. began his career at North Carolina College of Agricultural and Mechanic Arts upon its opening in 1889. He engaged in the common nineteenth-century practice of serving as both a professor of English and the first college librarian. This responsibility was not a major burden, as the early library occupied only a reading room in the Main Building, and later Holladay Hall. For the first ten years of the college, Hill ordered all books and supervised student assistants. Due to his scholarly interests, the early collection was dominated by the humanities and history, despite the agricultural and mechanical focus of the school. In 1908, Hill became president of the college.
The Board of Trustees appropriated $500 for "library purposes" and $150 for subscriptions for magazines, newspapers, and other periodicals.
The first classes were held at the North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts. Fifty-two students, at the minimum age of 14, attended. Tuition was $20 a session. Students could select from two basic curricula: agriculture and mechanics.
Of the 72 students that enrolled, 19 graduated in 1893. Tuition was $20 a year and free to those living within Wake County.
The Board of Trustees chose Alexander Q. Holladay as the first president of the North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts. The offer surprised Holladay because he applied to be a professor of English, but he accepted the presidency position anyway. He served in the position until 1899. (Biography of Alexander Holladay)
The Agricultural Experiment Station was transferred from the North Carolina Department of Agriculture to the North Carolina College of Agricultural and Mechanic Arts.
Agronomy courses were offered when the North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts opened.
The North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts (A&M) taught two curricula: agriculture and mechanics. The mechanics curriculum included fundamentals of civil and mechanical engineering.
The Department of Horticulture, Arboriculture, and Botany was established as one of the five original academic divisions of the North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts.
English courses were offered when the North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts opened.
Botany courses were offered when the North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts opened. One of the first five faculty members at the university was Wilbur Fisk Massey, Professor of Horticulture, Arboriculture, and Plant Biology, and horticulturist of the experiment station.
This building would later be renamed Holladay Hall in recognition of the first president of the university, Alexander Holladay. The building was constructed from 1.5 million "penitentiary bricks" made at the State Prison in Raleigh.
The first student enrolled at the college was Walter J. Matthews, who studied mechanic arts.
