Duke University - Chanticleer Yearbook (Durham, NC)

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(k.ASSON rpKAIMIATI SCHOOL I HHK ' ' |H I lie first provision for the yflSaT . H promotion and organization d Bjt ' 4 A B9E3 1)1 ' graduate instruction in I ' riiiity College was made in 1 916. At the outset six stu- dents constituted the graduate enrollment of the College. After careful investigation by the Committee on Graduate Instruction provision M ' as made in 1923-24 for the granting of two advanced degrees, Master of Arts and Master of Education. During this year thirty-five students were enrolled in graduate courses. The Duko endowment made funds available for the establishment of the Grad- uate School of Arts and Sciences. In 1926 a Council on Graduate Instruction was appointed and Professor William K. Glasson was elected Dean of the Graduate School. Dr. Glasson has retained his position as Head of the Deparimcm of Economics which he held prior to his tenure of the office of Dean. SCHOOL OP LA IV The School of Law was founded in 1904 through an endowment established l)y James B. Duke and Benjamin N. Duke. .Samuel I ' o.K Mordecai organized the .School and served as its dean until his death in 1927. The 1 rinity Law School set a pre- cedent in southern legal education liy requiring college work as a prerequisite of admission to legal study. By the establishmeiU of the Duke Endowment in 1924 the Law School was enlarged and its scope of activity broadened. H. Claude Horack, a distinguished authority in the field of legal education, was appointed Dean in 1934. Dean Horack is also Professor of Law and has served in an executive capacity in many of the nation ' s prominent legal organizations. r 9]

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m TItlKITY €»LLE«E Trinity College is the undergraduate college of arts and sciences for the men of Duke University. Its interesting history is marked by several very definite phases of devel- opment. The precursor of Trinity, Union Insti- tute, - a s f o u n d e d i n 1838. In 1 85 1 Union became Normal C:onege and finally, in 1859, was named Trinity College. During this period of its metamorphosis, the college was situated |in Ran- dolph County, North Carolina. In 1892 the college was moved to Durham and continued in the location of the Woman ' s College for nearly forty years. With the signing of the indenture of trust by Mr. J. B. Duke, Trinity College became the nucleus about which the University was founded and was established in its present location in i(.y]o upon the completion of the West C ampus. . . . am. ki:r Smith Anderson Wilson THE IVOAIAK ' SS COLLEGE The Woman ' s College is designed as the counterpart of Trinity College and is its coordi- nate. ' The first provisions for women students in I ' rinity C ' ollege were made in i8()t). Since that time there has been rapid growth in co- education at Duke. With the c()ni|)leiion of the West Campus in 1930, the East Campus w-as given over almost entirely to women students. It was in this year that the Woman ' s College became a separate entity in the organization of the University. Miss Alice Mary Baldwin came to Trinity Col- lege in 1924, and with the establishmeiu of the Voman s C ollege of Duke University in 1930, she became its lirst Dean. Mrs. Ruth Black Smith came to Duke in 1927 as instructress in Hducation and became .Assistant Dean of Women in 1930. Miss Mary (irace Wilson performed the duties of Acting Dean of Women in 1929 and became Social Director in 1930. Miss Elizabeth Anderson is Assistant Dean in charge of the Freshmen. ■ 81

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SCHOOL OF lUEOICIKE Inchulcd in the plans of tht- late James B. D uke, Mliich made possible the cle ( ' l- opmem of Duke University, was a school of medicine and a hospital to provide facilities for the medical students. In 1925 the Duke University School of Medicine became a reality. Since its founding only twelve years ago, this school has made rapid progress to national recognition with Dean W. C. Davison and his staff making numerous contributions to the field of medicine in general. Besides having the most modern devices at the disposal of the students, the School of Medicine itself has a separate library of over 31,000 volumes of American and foreign medical literature and sul)scribes to over 300 current medical journals. In addition to confering the degree of Doctor of Medicine, the school is so arranged as to provide facilities for students ho are studying for other degrees. Davison SCHOOL OF KUItSilKO Kstablishcd in i ) ' - -, ' ' al the same lime as the School of Medicine, the School of Nins- ing, under Miss Bessie Baker, has progressed along the same lines of advancement. The first class was enrolled in nine- tcen-thirty. Throughout its relatively short period of existence the School lias had a steady increase in enroll Not only docs the School instruct young women in the care of ihc si( k in I and hospitals, but it also gives an introduction to the problems ol ( onui health and preventive medicine. The graduates are well prepared to eni( one of the various fields of ntusitig, siu h as Institutional, Pri ale DiUy. or Health Nursing. nienl. loines uuiity ■r any iblic Bakkr [20]