Duke University - Chanticleer Yearbook (Durham, NC)

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TABLE OF CONTENTS A Brief History of Duke University II Book One — University 25 Book Two — Academic 39 Book Three — Features 137 Book Four — Athletics 175 Book Five — Activities 209 Book Six — Organizations 229

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clA nrief History of DUKE UNIVERSITY . ITS ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT . . . EARLY DAYS . . . GLANCES AT THE VICISSITUDES AND ROMANCE OF THIS RENOWNED INSTITUTION AND ITS MAGNIFICENT MARCH OF ACHIEVE- MENT TOGETHER WITH MANY RARE ILLUSTRATIONS THAT BRING BACK AN INTERESTING PAST JN the 1830 ' s the people of North Carolina became conscious of the need for establishing colleges and other institutions of higher learning in the State. Just as Wake Forest, Davidson, Guilford, and several other colleges were founded about this time, what was later to become the Duke University that we know today had its beginnings in 1838. Brantley York, a picturesque pioneer preacher and teacher, was engaged in 1838 by a group of people of Randolph County, North Carolina, to teach a school for them on a subscription basis in a small dilapidated building which had been known since about 1835 as Brown ' s Schoolhouse. During the winter of 1838-39 efforts were begun by the Methodists and Quakers for better school facilities for their children, and as a result, at a small meeting early in 1839 there was organized what was called the Union Insti- need of tute Educational Society, and a permanent school to be known as Union Institute Academy was the result. This marked the origin of what was later to become Trinity College and Duke University. Shortly before this time a larger building had been provided, but even this new one was not large enough to accommodate the students. Another two-room structure about thirty-five by sixty-five feet in size was built, and in 1841 the School A SCHOOL