Duke University - Chanticleer Yearbook (Durham, NC)

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KrAii.iin|S|ii|i«Wiifii» 11 WILLIAiU ntEKTOK VEW President of Duke University Celebrating, as we are, twenty-five years of the Chanticleer and preparing to commemorate in 1938-39 a hundred years of the college about which the University is built, naturally and properly we are all engaged with memories of the past and thanksgiving for it, with appraisal of the present and thought for the future. In this connection I recall a suggestive saying of Emerson ' s to the effect that it is possible to nestle into Plato ' s brain and think from thence. Our individual lives are in themselves weak and transitory things but they can be made strong and cndiuing through being allied with an undying institution that will go on doing good long after we have ceased to live and work. We can even now nestle into its heart and think from thence and feel from thence and act from thence. We are then no longer mere objective critics on the outside. We become builders and creators working at the heart of things. We have learned the secret of life and know the enduring personal satisfactions of those who, at least to some degree, can share with great creating nature. For the root at once of joy and beauty is to ]3ut all one ' s powers into a great cause in which one can believe with the whole heart. I welcoine the participation of an increasing proportion of under- graduates and graduates in the founding and building of Duke University : and I covet for the students of this and other generations something of the joy that has come to those of us who have worked at its inspiring tasks. [«3l

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WILLIAM PRESTON FEW A.B., A.M., Ph.D., LL.D., Litt.D., E.D. Williaiii Pifsion Few is serving his twenty-seventh year as President of Trinity College and Duke L niversity. He received his A.B. degree from Wofford College in 1899, his A.M. and Ph.D. front Harvard in 1893 and 1896 respectively. He holds LL.D. degrees from Southwestern, . llegheny College, Syracuse University, Ohio Wesleyan and the University of North Carolina. He holds a Liii.l). from Birmingham Southern, an LL.D. from I)a idson College and an E.D. from Southern College. In 1933 he served as President of the Southern Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools. Dr. Few is also a member of Omicron Delta Kappa, Phi Beta Kappa, and CWi Phi fraternities. ■4]