Duke University - Chanticleer Yearbook (Durham, NC)

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CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION IN ' REVIEIV HUN. CLYDE R. HOEV STURDY ' HFRrr fTl There is scarcely a more interesting ex- ample of educational inheritance than that of Duke University — begin- ning a hundreci years ago, in a brave little school called Union Institute where a determined group of Methodists and Quakers imdertook to meet the vital need for the better education of their children. That ambition is Duke Uni ' ersity ' s heritage today. Just as the parent institution cndca ' ored to meet the educational neces- sities of the surrounding area, changed its name to Normal tollege and broadened its field in 1850 to include the training of teachers, so Trinit) ' Clollege — the name assumed on reincorporation in 1859 — continued with its growing power to fill a larger and more important place in the edu- cational world. Under the able guidance of such stalwart figures a.s Presidents Braxton Craven, John Franklin Clrowell, John C arlisle Kilgo, and William Preston Few, Trinity reached a place of eminence among Southern colleges. The institution, with veneration for the past and determination for the widening future, was therefore ready for the dra- matic development of 1924 when Mr. James B. Duke pro ided the generous endowment which enabled it at once to grasp its larger opportunities. With its immediate aid Trinity assumed its logical position as the undergraduate college for men. Eleven buildings were added to form the Woman ' s C ollegc unit. The original building program ended in 1932 with the completion of the University C iapel, towering dominantly over seventeen impressive Gothic structures on a heavily wooded campus extending five thousand acres away. Duke University thus became the guardian of a hundred years of educational tradition, and the unify- ing factor of the undergraduate colleges, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the professional schools of Law, Religion, Forestry, Medicine, and Duke Hospital. Here is something well worth commemorating — a Centennial that means much to all people every- where who believe in high educational standards. In each stage of growth Duke ' s forebears undertook to do the thing most needed. Duke University bears the same obligation with added responsibilities. The College has had an eventful history, and in recognition of a century of extraordinary development resulting in Duke University, a centennial celebration was held at the University, beginning in October, 1938- THf: C:ENTENNI; L YE. R is LAUN(::HED. The Duke Clenlennial Celebration representing a stir- ring event in the history of the University was the result of nearly two years of diligent planning and pre- paring. During this period committees and indi iduals were hard at vork under the direction and supervision of the Executive Secretary, Mr. A. S. Brower, on the prc-Centennial program and the formal Centennial Celebration with its important literary, academic and social events. In impressively fitting exercises October 6, in Page Auditorium, Duke University formally launched its Centennial Year. A large audience representing a cro.ss section of the University ' s varied constituency [20

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ALLAN K. NL XCHESTER, Ph.D. Dean of Freshmen V ADMINISTRATION FACULTY S T U D E N T G () E R N M E N T CLASSES

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DR. GEORGE WALTER MCCOY attended the Centennial Year ' s opening exercises and heard four spir- ited addresses, including that of Governor Clyde R. Hoey, who came to speak in behalf of the interest of the people of North Carolina in the Duke Universitv ' celebration. The three speakers representing the University were Dr. Robert L. Flowers, secretar --treasurer and vice president ; A. S. Brower, executive secretary of the committee on the Centennial ; and President W. P. Few, who made a clear statement of the nature and scope of the observance that was uppermost in the minds of all those on the campus during the next sc en months. Oi particular public interest was the announcement by Mr. Brower of the names of the brilliant array of internationally known thinkers and leaders in almost ever ' field of life who would participate in tlie varied symposia and lecture programs that were scheduled for almost every week from the present through the Centennial Occasion held in April. THE SYMPOSIUM ON MEDICAL PROBLEMS. Opening the formal activities connected with the celebration of the Centennial Year was the distinguished three-day program of the symposium on medical problems held October 13-15. Two problems were brought before the symposium. On the first evening, with three prominent physi- cians speaking, the future of American medicine was discussed, v ith particular consideration being made of the proposed feder al participation in a program of socialized medicine. The remaining sessions were devoted to the discussion of diseases of particular interest to southern physicians. At the opening session, wth Dean Wilburt C. Davison, of the Duke University School of Medicine, presiding, President Villiam P. Few welcomed the isiting physicians to the first of the Centennial sym- posia. The first speakers were Dr. Allen V. Freeman, dean of Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, who spoke on Public Health Development in the South ; and Dr. George Walter Mc- Coy, of Louisiana State University, whose subject was Leprosy in the United States. An overflow audience heard the three addresses of the first evening of the symposium on the subject, The Future of American Medicine. Dr. John P. Peters, of Yale University, and Dr. Morris Fishbein, editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association, were t o of the speakers who discussed every phase of the problem of socialized medi- acinc. All of the subsequent papers were on diseases of particular interest to medicine in the south, including pellagra, amebiasis, malaria, fungus diseases in man, and sprue. Dr. George Hoyt Vhipple, dean of the - J University of Rochester School of Medicine, spoke on Anemia and the Building of Hemoglobin in the Body, and Dr. Villiam H. Sebrell, of the United States Public Health Ser ice, spoke on pellagra. Friday e ening s speaker was Dr. ' illiam G. MacCallum, professor of pathology and bacteriology at Johns Hopkins, who discussed malaria. J S T quality of the papers read during the various sessions by these ■ A y notable figures in the medical profession indicate that the south, and 9tk. Mewff - . jj g entire nation, will be benefited by the discussions heard by the DR. PAUL . N ZEEL. ND five hundred or more physicians in attendance. [23] { «• f •, '