The formal dedication of Manning Hall, the University’s new law building, will take place here January 23, when Dr. William Reynolds Vance of the faculty of the Yale Law School will deliver the principal address of the program which has been arranged.
Other speakers will include G.W. Cowper, president of the North Carolina Bar Association, and Dean M.L. Person of the University Law School. Members of the Legislature, the board of trustees and the North Carolina Bar Association will be invited to attend as special guests. The exercises will begin at 11:30 a.m. and will be held in Memorial Hall.
The University considered itself particularly fortunate in securing Dr. Vance. He has had a distinguished career. He is a son-in-law of North Carolina, having married Anne Wilmer Hume, daughter of Dr. Thomas Hume, who for many years was professor of English Literature at the University. Dr. Vance was graduated from Washington and Lee University in 1892 and obtained his doctor’s degree there in 1895. He was for a while instructor in English there and was Dean of the Law School from1902-03. He was Dean of the George Washington University Law School form 1905-10 and was made Dean of the University of Minnesota Law School in 1912.He was secretary of the Association of American Law School from 1905-10 and president in 1910-11. He is the author of a number of books.
From the front page of The Tar Heel, Chapel Hill, N.C., Saturday, January 10, 1925
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