Ghosts of UNC Commencements past
Posted May 13, 2020
1811: The first Commencement without any graduates. Today, we have graduates with no Commencement, but in 1811 the University had the opposite problem. In its youth, Carolina had an unusually rowdy student body, known for everything from “stealing beehives, removing gates, stoning houses and damaging crops to firing pistols and staging duels.”
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