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CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) — It's a battle of honor for North Carolina's largest public universities that has been brewing for a century.
Professors from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and North Carolina State University deliver lectures Tuesday looking back on changes in America based on a 100-year-old Montgomery Ward mail-order catalog.
The discussion closes a century-old challenge from former University of North Carolina President Kemp Plummer Battle.
He sent a box in 1915 to the North Carolina Historical Society containing that year's Montgomery Ward catalog and directions for the university community to use it to reflect on changes in society 50 years later and 100 years later.
UNC-Chapel Hill Chancellor Robert B. House claimed a $50 prize in 1965 with his essay about great changes.
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