Duke University - Chanticleer Yearbook (Durham, NC)

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This in DUKE IINIVEUS TY Since the theme of this year ' s Chanticleer lias to do with the ordinary on-goings of the University I am devoting my space to a brief story of the progress of these nine years on this campus. In these nine years Trinity College has been much strengthened, the coordinate college for women has been established and has already taken its place among the good colleges for women in the United States, a small but excellent college of engineering has been organized. We have one of the first-rate medical schools of America, a law school with a faculty that is exceptionally able, one of the three graduate schools of forestry in the country, a divinity school that lias made the University an outstanding center in this field of higher education. These three colleges and four professional schools have all been approved by the several rating agencies. In 1938, the year following the complete set-up of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, this School and the University received the high recognition of admission to membership in the Association of Amer- ican Universities, organized forty years ago, now having thirty other members in the United States including the oldest and most distinguished universities of the country, and two in Canada.

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ERUDITO ET RELIGIO

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President V. P. Few WILLIAM PRESTON FEW William Preston Few, President of Trinity Col- lege and Duke Universit) since [910, has carved a place in the heart of every student who has had the privilege ol know Lng and associating with him. His simple unaffectedness, his strength of char- acter, and his indisputable ahilil mighl serve as a model to every college student. I lis momentous efforts in founding and expanding Duke Univer- sity, and his unselfish, sympathetic consideration of his subordinates, will never be forgotten. He received his A.B. degree from Wofl ' ord Col- lege in [889, his A.M. and Ph.D. from Harvard in 1893 and 189b respectively. He holds LL.D. degrees from Wofford, Southwestern, Allegheny College, Syracuse University, Ohio Wesleyan, University of North Carolina, and Davidson Col- lege. He holds a Litt.D. from Birmingham Southern College, and an E.D. from Southern College. In 1933 he served as President of tin- Southern Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools. Dr. Few is a member of Omicron Delta Kappa, Phi Beta Kappa, and Chi Phi fraternities. He is also a trustee of the Southern Education Foundation. All this has taken place within the brief pe- riod of nine years, for except in the case of Trinity College all the other divisions of the University have been organized, or in two cases made really effective, since the occupation of this campus in 1930. This is a record in which all of US find a good deal ol satisfaction. Much has been done in this short time. We must not forget that there is just as much still to be done ' . This will be true- not only in the next decade but in every decade. The- University covets the full cooperation of all its students, its alum- ni and its constituency . . P. Few. 10