Duke University - Chanticleer Yearbook (Durham, NC)

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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]

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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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Dl Ki: UNIX I.KSl I CIATI.NNIAI, OCCASION, The concluding event on the years Clcntennial calendar was the formal celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of the origins of Trinity College, April 21-23, 1939. Among the delegates who participated in the Centennial Occasion were the pres- idents of many of the institutions represented. In other cases distinguished members of the faculty and alumni represented universities and colleges of various sections. Some of the leaders in present-day educational thought had a prominent place on the program. The general theme of the Centennial Occasion was One Hundred Years of Southern Education in the Service of the Nation. Warious aspects of this and other subjects pertaining to American education, as well as the place of education in the modern world generally, was presented by authorities in their respective fields. The program officially began at nine in the morning on Friday, April 21, with the registration of dele- gates. During that day guides showed visitors the campus and other points of interest. The reception of delegates and welcome to visitors was held from three until five on Friday afternoon. The occasion was an impressive one, with the President, Governor, speakers, and delegates, in caps and gowns, walking in a procession down the walk by the library. President Few delivered the welcome, which was follov ed by responses and felicitations by Sir William Bragg, President of the Royal Society, Homer P. Rainey, President of the University of Texas, and Henry M. Wriston, President of Brown Uni ' ersity. There was a band concert that evening in the Sarah P. Duke Ciardens. Throughout the celebration several band, orchestra, organ and carillon recitals were oficred. After a banquet in honor of the delegates, which was held in the Union dining halls, the Mikado was presented by the Duke Uni ' ersity Glee Clubs. At ten thirty the next morning, Saturday, April 22, a meeting was held on the subject of Education and the Public. Edward Benes, former President of Czcchoslo ' akia, deli ' ered an address on Education and De- mocr acy, and John H. Finley, Editor of the .A ' ew York Times, spoke on Education and Public Opinion. An alumni meeting, The University and the Nation, was held in the afternoon. Speaking at this occasion were H. W. Dodds and President Few. One of the interesting events of this meeting was the delivery to the President by the Chairman of the Alumni Association of the package to be opened in 2038-39. On Sunday, April 23, Dean Willard T. Sperry, of the Harvard University School of Divinity, delivered the morning sermon in the Chapel service of Thanksgiving and Rededication. A suitable close to this significant and impressive Centennial Occasion program was the carillon recital by Anton Brees at four fifteen o ' clock in the afternoon. M. RJORIE HOPE NICOLSON .XNA DEL PULCi. ' R DE BURKE 28