Duke University - Chanticleer Yearbook (Durham, NC)

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CHHNTICLEEP D.D., was then elected president and served until December, 1884, when Prof. I. F. Hcitman was elected Chairman of the Faculty. The College was without a president till April, 1887, when Dr. John F. Crowell (A. B. Yale) was elected president. In order to widen the influence of the College and to ]3lace it in closer touch with the new movements that had begun in the South, President Crowell advised the Board of Trustees to move it to one of the growing cities of North Carolina. The Board accepted the suggestion and on May 7, 1SS9, passed a resolution to the effect that the College should be moved to some prominent city within the State, provided that city would guarantee sufficient funds to justify the removal. Sometime after this a monetary offer was made to the Board by the citizens of Durham, and on January 21, 189 1 , the Legislature of North Carolina again amended the charter b ' authorizing the Trustees to remove the College to Durham and to hold property for its use not exceeding in the aggregate $3,000,000. In September, 1892, the College opened its first session in its new plant in Durham, and has since then been located in this city. In May, 1894, Doctor Crowell resigned the presidency of the College, and on August I, 1894, Rev. John C. Kilgo, D.D., was elected to succeed him. By a special act of the Board of Trustees in May, 1897, women were admitted as students to all departments of the College, and during the next year the Mary Duke Building, for the accommodation of women students, was completed. During the year 1898, Trinity Park School was estabHshed, and buildings for its use were erected. In 1901-02 a new Library building was erected and fonnally opened. In order to imify and hannonize the fundamental laws of the College that were contained in the original charter and in several amendments, the Board appointed a committee to apply to the Legislature for a new charter, which was granted on February 28, 1903, and under this charter the College is today operated. This charter gives to the Board considerable freedom and makes it self- perpetuating. In 1904 the vSchool of Law was founded, and in iqio the School of Education was established. In June, 1910, Dr. John C. Kilgo, who had been elected a Bishop of the Metho- dist Ejjiscopal Church, South, resigned the presidency of the College, and Dr. William Preston Few was elected to succeed him. He was formally inaugurated November 9, 1910. Since the remo -al of Trinity College to Durham its growth in all respects has been remarkable. Through the great generosity of its friends its endowment and material equipment have greatly increased. The tiew plant which is now in process of erection will be one of the very finest in all the country, and from a school with a tnost htunble beginning the College has grown until today there are enrolled in it and its subsidiary, the Trinity Park School, 660 students. 12

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CHHNTICLEEP WILLIAM PRESTON FEW President and Professor of English A.B., Wofford College, 1889; Teacher in Wofford Fitting School, 1890-91; Instructor in English, Wofford College, 1891-92: A.M., Ph.D., Harvard University, 1896; LL.D., Wofford and South Western University, igi i : Pro- fessor of English, Trinity, (since 1896); Dean, 1900-10; President (since 1910); Member Board of Overseers, Har- vard University; Associate Editor Soidh Atlantic Quarterly. WILLIAM HOWELL PEGRAM Professor of Chemistry A.B., Trinity, 1873; A.M., Trinity, 1874; Tutor, Natural Science, Trinity, 1873-75; Professor, Natural Science, Trinity, 1875-91; Professor Cheinistry, Trinity, since 1891; Member American Chemical Society; North Carolina Section of American Chemical Society; and President of the same, 1898-99; Member North Carolina Academy of Science and President of the same, 1910-11. 14