Duke University - Chanticleer Yearbook (Durham, NC)

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■ •■ -V ' ff MM SENATOR A. H. VANDENBERG visiting at Princeton University, and by Professor R. L. Calhoun, of Yale Uni -ersity. Dr. Charles C. Morrison, editor of the Christian Centurv, and Dr. H. Paul Douglas, editor of Christendom, were on the program to discuss the problem of Clnistian unity. Dr. George A. Buttrick, of New York, president of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America, and Dr. Alan K. Chalmers, pastor of Broadway Tabernacle, N ew York, were among the other well known speakers on the symposium program. SYMPOSIIM ( N WOMAN AND C:ONTEMPORARY LIFE. Some of the most distinguished women in America gathered at Duke on March 3 1 -April 2 to participate in the symposium on Woman and Contem- porary Life. This symposium was the fifth and last in the series car- ried out as a part of Duke ' s Centennial C ' elebration. The woman ' s symposium program fell into three parts. On Friday, March 31, the theme was Women ' s Relation to Peace and Interna- tional Good Will. Dr. Sarah W ' ambaugh, recognized authority on international affairs, and Dean Marjorie Hope Nicolson, of Smith College, were the principal speakers at meetings and conferences held on this day. The general subject treated on Saturday was Women and Leadership : Qiialifications and Hin- drances. Discussions, presided over by President Marion Park, of Bryn Mawr College, were led by Miss Mary Woolley, president cmeriia of Mt. Holyoke College ; Judge Florence Allen, of the United States circuit coinl of appeals ; and Dr. Georgia Harkness, professor of religion, Mt. Holyoke College. Hanya Holm, brilliant American dancer, and her concert group ga -e a lectme and demonstration of the modern dance Saturday evening. The last event on tlie svmposiinn program was the worship service held on Sunday morning in the Duke Lhiiversitv chapel. Dr. Harkness delivered the sermon — the first woman e -er to preach from the Duke pulpit. CFNTENNHAL TAR MARKED B LECTURES. C:ONCERTS AND OTHER OC:f:ASIONS. Duke ' s centennial year was marked not only by symposia, but also by a series of lectures by internation- ally known leaders in the realms of science, literature, and education; concerts by musicians, appearing solo and in symphony, who brought the best of their art to the campus ; and by other notable occasions. The lecture series featured the work of various fields of instruction and dealt in a general way with the educational and cultural progress of the past one hundred years. Dr. Clharles H. Judd, known as Amer- ica ' s first educational statesman, delivered the first in the series of centennial lectures on the evening of November 7. His subject was General Education For American Youth. Dr. Judd has a distinguished record in the field of education, and is now a member of the President ' s advisory committee on education. The second of the Uni ersity ' s centennial lectures was delivered on November 28 by Dr. Henry Sloane Cofl in, president of the L ' nion Theological Seminary, New York. He spoke on Religion Through the Past Hundred Years. On January 16, Dr. John C Merriam, deli ering the third lectme of the series, spoke on Science and Belief. Dr. Merriam, one of the country ' s leading palaeontologists, was formerly President of the Car- negie Instituti on, Washington, D. C. The fourth lecture was given by Roscoc Pound, dean emeritus of the Har ard Law School, on the eve- ning of February 17. Dean Pound, speaking on American Juristic Thinking in the Twentieth Clentury, [26:

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for the District of Columbia, on Rules of Evidence Before Administra- tive Boards. On the first evening Judge John J. Parker, Judge of the United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Judicial Circuit, presided and introduced the speakers : Professor Harold J. Laski, professor of polit- ical science in the Uni ersity of London, and Senator Arthur H. ' an- denburg, of Michigan. Vhile taking nearly opposite views on many phases of interpretation of the subject, Law in Modern Society, the two speakers had a common stand in the contention that democracy provides the only avenue for justice in the world. Saturdav ' s program was a particularly interesting one, with five speak- ers appearing, three during the day and two in the evening. The day speakers were Charles Fahy, general counsel of the National Labor Re- lations Board, who spoke on Procedure Under the National Labor Relations .Act ; Dr. Roswell Magill, professor of law at Columbia L ' ni- versity, who discussed Federal Taxation — Practice and Procedure ; and A. L. Fletcher, assistant administrator of the Wage and Hour Divi- sion of the United States Department of Labor, whose subject was Procedure Under the Federal Vage and Hour Act. The evening speakers were Dr. John Dickinson, general solicitor for the Pennsylvania Railroad Com- panv and professor of law at the University of Pennsylvania, and Walter Lippman n, special writer and columnist for the .Veiv York Herald Tribune. Both speakers took a strong stand for the resort to law instead of government for the solution of modern social problems. The entire program of this symposium served to direct the thought of all those attending toward a new consideration of the roles of law and go ernment in life today, and like the preceding symposia made a definite contribution to one of the major fields of endeavor with which the University is concerned. The symposium concluded the fall series, but two others were held in the spring : one on religion and the modern world, the other in the field of woman ' s place in modern society. DR. H. ROLD J. L. SKI DUKE UNIVERSITY DAY. -Attended by representatives of hospitals, orphanages, churches and other institutions and agencies of the Carolinas aided by the Duke Endowment, exercises commemorating the fourteenth anniversarv of the signing of the indenture of trust by James B. Duke turning over millions of dollars to charitable and educational purposes in this region, were held at Duke on December to. Par- ticular emphasis was made of the founding of Duke L ' niversity around long established Trinity College, and in the chief address of the exercises Dr. Neil Carothers, dean of the college of business administration in Lehigh University, declared that the privately endowed university, above all other institutions, has the opportunity to present fearlessly the truth on social issues and to combat the dangers confronting Amer- ican institutions. SYMPOSIUM ON MODERN RELIGIOUS PROBLEMS. Modern Religious Problems was the general topic considered on March 20 and 21 at the next symposium held in the Duke Uni ersity Centen- nial series. The religious leaders gathered at Duke for this occasion were from many denominations and from both Europe and America. Issues affecting the relation of church and state were discussed by Charles E. Raven, of Cambridge University, canon of Ely, and one of Britain ' s noted divines. Bishop Ivan Lee Holt, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, analyzed religion today in the southern states. Contemporary religious thought in Europe and .America was discussed by Professor Emil Brunner, distinguished Swiss theologian, now [2.=5l

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ClIARI Fs I . RAVEN declared that legal order has become steadily and surely more efiectivc toward maintaming and further- ing civilization. The fifth lecture was delivered on March 23 by Harold G. Moulton, President, Brookings Institution, Vashington, D. C. The subject of his speech was One Hundred Years of Economics. The sixth lec- ture was delivered on April 10 by Robert Moses, City Park Commissioner, New York. These six lectures were the features of the centennial lecture series, and they were bound in olumc ; there were many others during the year. An unusual concert series was also arranged for the 1938-39 season. It included such indi idual artists and groups as the Ballet Russe ; the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra ; Palmer Christian, organist ; Kirsten Flagstad ; and Busch and Serkin, famous violin-piano duo. Six etchings by Louis Orr, renowned American-Parisian artist, were exhibited in March. Five of the drawings have as subjects the Georgian and Gothic structures erected since the founding of the Univer- sity by James B. Duke in 1924. The sixth is of Epworth Inn, a building erected for Trinity college by Vashington Duke, father of James B., when the college moved to Durham in 1892. Orr, recognized as one of the outstanding painter-etchers of today, was commissioned by The Duke Memorial, Inc., to make the etchings for a limited copyrighted edition of 150 sets. He was engaged in the project, on the campuses and in his Paris studios, for a year and a half Dr. Clement Eaton, head of the department of history at Lafayette College, was the author of the prize-winning manuscript in the $1,500 competition sponsored by the Duke University Press in connection with the celebration of the centennial. The volume, titled Freedom of Thought ill the Old South, is to be published by the Duke Press. The award was made formally at a joint dinner of the Duke Uni er- sity Press and Friends of Duke Uni crsity Library on April 5. Presen- tation was made by Dr. Arthur M. Schlesinger, professor of history at Harvard University, one of the three final judges. Several books, bearing the centennial stamp, were published by the Duke University Press during the year, and may properly be considered as ha ing contributed to the program. Among these books are Jerome Dowd ' s Life of Braxton Craven: John Carlisle Kilgo, President of Trinity Col- lege, i8g4-igio, by Paul Neff Garbcr ; and Personal Recollections of Trinity College, i88j-i8g4, by John Franklin Crowell. The building program being carried out this year should be mentioned as having a definite connection with the centennial celebration. The new graduate dormitory- is now nearing completion, while the new ad- dition to the hospital and the indoor stadium and gymnasium are being started. The Duke Liniversity alumni in forty-eight states and twenty-nine foreign countries, and other friends of the Lhiiversity, had a part in the realization of objectives outlined in connection with the centennial. . Duke centennial fund was created, the purpose of which was to strengthen the undergraduate colleges and to provide enlarged facilities for ad anced studies in the graduate and professional schools, . lumni and friends contributed generously to sc liolaisliip and research funds. MISS M. K-l wool. LEV [27]