Duke University - Chanticleer Yearbook (Durham, NC)

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V; J AS ! -; K V -f k - f V Q CHANTICLEER. k u ;n n - m MjT iJ y, Durham, and to hold property for its use not exceeding in the aggregate three million dollars. 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 1, 1894. Rev. John C. Kilgo 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. In order to unify and harmonize 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 School of Law was founded, and in 1910 the School of Education was established. In 1909, plans were accepted for the new Washington Duke Building; and work on the West w;n was begun in the Spring of 1910. In June, 1910, Dr. John C. Kilgo, who had been elected a Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal 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. The West wing of the Washington Duke Building was completed and occupied January 10. 1911, and the East wing, in March, 1912. This group of buildings took the place of the old Wash- ington Duke Building, which was destroyed by fire January 4, 1911. In August. 1911, and in October. 1912, two new dormitories, called respectively Aycock Hall and Jarvis Hall, were completed and occupied. The erection of these buildings was but a part of a movement to raise funds for an increase in the resources of the College, inaugurated by ex-President Kilgo, and carried on after his retirement. As announced at Commencement, in June, 1913, this movement resulted in contributions that aggregated $1,418,146.89. Of this amount, Messrs. Benjamin N. and James B. Duke gave one million; the General Education Board of New York gave $150,000; and the remainder came from many sources, in large and small amounts. Of this grand total. $1,096,335.12 went to the permanent endowment fund of the College, and the rest to material equipment. Trinity College has a remarkable record for high public service and for steady growth, especially since its removal to Durham. And this growth is constantly accelerated with the passing years. The students of this generation have seen the largest additions to permanent endowment and material resources that have come to the College in a like period throughout all its history. It is not too much to say that this rapid outward growth has been matched by an ever-increasing power of the College to form men; and the students themselves, in tone and quality, have kept pace with all this development. Page eleven '

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