Duke University - Chanticleer Yearbook (Durham, NC)

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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 •, '

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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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TlIK .S AIPOSHM ON I IIP, f;iI T;TNr; F :r) ' OMir I ' .ASI: of ' nil ' , SOI ' TII The Chang- ing Economic Base of the South was the central theme of the second of the series of the four Centennial Symposia. This discussion of economic problems vital to the south, the nation, and the world was held on Thursday, November 17, and Friday, November 18. The purpose of this symposium was to examine the present economic status of the south ; to analyze the foreign and domestic demand and supply situ- ation of the staple products of the south ; to investigate the potentialities of particular industries which afford the prospect of expansion in the south ; finally, to consider the problems of financing the expansion of industry in the south. Attended by a distinguished group of southern leaders from the fields ol ' industr)-, linance, science, economics and agriculture, the subject of the symposium was discussed in its multiple aspects by such eminent men as Dr. Paul Van Zeeland, former prime minister of Belgium ; Secretary of Agriculture Henry . . Wallace, and a number of others. The whole southern region was represented by those in attendance and, in addition to the largely attended round table and discussion sessions, two capacity audiences heard the principal speakers at the public evening sessions. On the evening of the first day, Dr. Van Zeeland spoke on Proposed Roads to World Recovery. Dean Clalvin B. Hoover, of the University ' s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, presided, and Senator Josiah W. Bailey introduced the speaker. Dr. Van Zeeland, who is probably the outstanding personality among the younger generation of European statesmen, declared that the power and influence of the United States provide reason for hope for the world. The second day of the economics symposium opened with a round table discussion on the potentialities of international trade for the economy of the south. Dr. Van Zeeland led the meeting which was presided over by James H. R. Cromwell, New York economist and author. During an afternoon session Eugene R. Black, vice president of the Chase National Bank, New York, discussed problems of financing industry in the south. Secretary Wallace was the final speaker on the symposium program. While admit- ting that the future appeared dark for the south ' s cotton growers, Secretary Wallace said that the technology which is producing synthetic fibers to compete with cotton can be made to serve the south through other channels by finding new products upon which the region can expand new industries. He suggested that the south make every effort to push its industrial expansion program. HENRY A. WALLACE W.ALTER LIPPM.AN SYMPOSIUM ON LAW AND C:OXTEMPORARV PR( )BLi:. IS. The program for die third sym- posium in the Duke University Centennial series revealed a list of distinguished jurists, political scientists, and writers on modern legal and social problems who appeared on the program carried out Friday and Saturday, December 2 and 3. With Dean H. Claude Horack, dean of the Duke School of Law, presiding, the symposium opened on Friday afternoon with the address of Justice Harold M. Stephens, of the United States Court of Appeals 1 4 1