Duke University - Chanticleer Yearbook (Durham, NC)

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Administration Wisdom and experience, personified in this group of self-effacing administrators, helped to guide us through our years at Duke. They encouraged us to realize and cherish the Ideals of the University. W. E PAY TRIBUTE to the men and women who have helped to give us a great university. Constantly striving for ex- cellence, they have seen the transformation of Union Institute, founded in a log cabin at Trinity, North Carolina, to Normal College; and that, in turn, to Trinity College. They have seen Irinity moved to Durham under great protest from the Trinity townspeople. Through the benevolence of Washington Duke and his sons, James B. and Benjamin N. Duke, they have seen the growth of Trinity College into Duke University. It is significant that each succeeding administrator of the univer- sity, each a leader in the life of the nation, has directed his ability toward the development of an institution of higher learning; for these men might have had brilliant careers in religious or civil fields. Although the fame of Duke is spread by its students as they go to their life ' s work in the world, all the prestige they attain can find its foundations in the influence of the men with whom they associated in college. The administration is keenly interested in the future. Their duty is to prepare the students for life following college years. The kind of men and women that will control the country in the next few years is determined to a large extent by the university from which they graduate. Consccjuently, the adminis- tration is aware that the students of today must be fit citizens of tomorrow. This year that duty was a difficult one. With men of all ages returning to the campus it was hard to conibinc them and their desires into one organized unit. The enlarged en- rollment created further difiiculties. The size of the facult - was increased. Every facility was used to the best advantage and everyone devoted his energies to the task at hand. It was a year of readjustment and settling down to a strange new life. Mistakes were made, but each emerged wiser and more assured of what Duke Uni ersity has to offer, and what is to be derived from that realization.

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L BOARD OF TRUSTEES N THE HANDS of the thirty- six men who make up the Board of Trustees rests the supreme authority of the University. They are empowered to make any rules and regulations necessary to achieve the good government of the school. The new Chairman of the Board, elected last May after the death of J. F. Bruton, is Mr. Willis Smith of Raleigh. Mr. Smith, a Duke alumnus, is also president of the American Bar Association. The trustees meet twice a year to reccise reports from committees and to approve the issuance of diplomas from the Uni- versity, as recommended by the faculty. The Board must also appoint the University presi- dent and manage the property and the funds of the University. The Executive Committee, composed of fifteen trustees, meets once a month with the trustees of the Duke Endowment to review the annual budget. This Endowment was estab- lished in 1 924 by the indenture of James B. Duke. It represents an endeavor to pro ide in some measure for the spiritual, mental, and physical needs of mankind. To do this, Mr. Duke provided for the establishment of churches, the maintenance of charity wai ' ds in hospitals, the care of orphans, and the care of widows of po (M-ty-stricken ministers. He also created educational opportunities, helping other schools as well as our own university which bears his name. Trinity College, named in honor of his father, Washington Duke, was remcxleled according to instructions in ilir indenture, and its depart- ments of learning were expanded, so that they include departments of Religion, Law, Edu- cation, Science, Business Administration, Medi- cine, Engineering, and a W ' oman ' s College. Mr. Duke desired that great care and dis- crimination be exercised in admitting as stu- dents only those whose previous record shows a character, determination, and application evincing a wholesome and real ambition for life. The Board of Trustees has little actual con- tact ith student activities on the campus, but their approval of us and of ovir ideas is, although intangible, of outstanding importance to our life here at Duke. Left to right: G. G. .Allen, V. N. Reynolds, J. H. .Separk, Willis Smith, Chairman; Dr. Flowers, A. H. Sands, Jr., M. E. Nevvsom. 19