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Primary document
Title:
Minutes of the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees,
April 4, 1867 [Containing a Report on the Death of James Phillips]:
Electronic Edition.
Author: University of North Carolina (1793-1962). Board of Trustees. Executive
Committee
Funding from the University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill supported the electronic publication of this title.
Text transcribed by
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Images scanned by
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First Edition, 2007
Size of electronic edition: ca. 16K
Publisher: The University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
2007
The electronic edition is a part of the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill digital library, Documenting the American South.
Languages used in the text:
English
Revision history:
2007-02-08, Stephanie Adamson finished TEI/XML encoding.
Source(s):
Title of collection: Records of the Board of Trustees of the University
of North Carolina (#40001), University Archives, University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill
Title of document: Minutes of the Executive Committee of the Board of
Trustees, April 4, 1867 [Containing a Report on the Death of James
Phillips]
Author: [University of North Carolina (1793-1962). Board of Trustees.
Executive Committee]
Description: 4 pages, 4 page images
Note:
Call number 40001 (University Archives, University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
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The text has been encoded using the recommendations for Level 5 of the TEI in Libraries Guidelines.
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Original grammar, punctuation, and spelling have been preserved.
Page images can be viewed and compared in parallel with the text.
Any hyphens occurring in line breaks have been removed, and the trailing part of a word has been joined to the preceding line.
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All double right and left quotation marks are encoded as ".
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Minutes of the Executive
Committee of the Board of Trustees, April 4, 1867 [Containing a
Report on the Death of James Phillips
]
] Page 274
Death of Profr. Phillips
The following announcement was made by the secretary & the following
Resolutions adopted on the motion of Col. Barringer.
The Revd. James Phillips
D.D. the senior Professor in this Institution departed this life in the 75th year of his age on the morning of the 14th ulto. He was the first to enter the Chapel & take his accustomed seat with
his recitation room key & text book for morning recitation in his hand.
He died almost instantly
Page 275
without a struggle or a
groan in the very spot where at stated intervals during more than thirty years
he had risen to lead in the religious services of the Institution.
The last sounds in his ear were the familiar tones of the College Bell, the last
object of sight the students assembling for prayers.
D.D. the senior Professor in this Institution departed this life in the 75th year of his age on the morning of the 14th ulto. He was the first to enter the Chapel & take his accustomed seat with
his recitation room key & text book for morning recitation in his hand.
He died almost instantly Page 275
Dr. Phillips
was born in England 22nd April 1792, came to
this Country 1815, was appointed Professor of Mathematics and Natural
Philosophy, over eminent competitors in May & entered upon the
performance of his duties in July 1826.
was born in England 22nd April 1792, came to
this Country 1815, was appointed Professor of Mathematics and Natural
Philosophy, over eminent competitors in May & entered upon the
performance of his duties in July 1826. He never failed to meet his class, at the appointed hour from any cause during
the first ten years, was rarely absent during the remaining thirty one
Page 276
of his service, & never except from
unavoidable cause, or while with the concurrence of the authorities of the University, engaged in the performance of higher duties He
filled his professorship during a longer period than any of his predecessors
with learning, fidelity & ability rarely equaled & never
surpassed in the department of service to which his life was devoted.
Page 276
In the opinion of the Committee, the authorities of the University
& the people of North Carolina are deeply indebted for the long
continued & eminent services of the deceased professor, & as
offering grateful evidence of their appreciation of his worth:
Resolved that the Revd. Professor Hepburn
be
requested
Page 277
to deliver a funeral oration before the
Trustees, Faculty & students of the University in
Gerard
Hall
on the day immediately preceding the performance of the
Commencement exercises in June next & that the public be respectfully
requested to unite with them in the bestowment of appropriate funeral honors.
be
requested Page 277
on the day immediately preceding the performance of the
Commencement exercises in June next & that the public be respectfully
requested to unite with them in the bestowment of appropriate funeral honors. Resolved that the salary be continued & paid to the legal
representatives of the deceased until the close of the present session;
& that his Family be respectfully & affectionately invited to
remain in the possession of the premises so long occupied by him until the close
of the year.
Committee adjourned.