Duke University - Chanticleer Yearbook (Durham, NC)

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Dr. William P. Few was in his fifteenth year as presi- dent of the school when it became a university. Right: In 1926, Mr. Charles Dukes (shown second from left) had already be- gun his service. Below: In 1900, there had been only sixty fresh- men enrolled, but by 1926, this number was 600. f ALVIN COOLIDGE was enforcing his conservative and puritanical views on the country, and the American citizen was enjoying unprecedented prosperity, when William Preston Few became the first presi- dent of Duke University. Relations be- tween a faculty of seventy-seven professors and a student body of 1,164 reached an all-time high. A strike among the students over the length of a holiday period was the only serious breach to mar the har- mony. One of the hazards of a professor ' s life was the continual possibility of falling into the wide construction ditches on his way to and from classes in East and West Duke Buildings. The former also contained the administrative offices, while the students were housed in Jarvis, Aycock, and South- gate. However, Southgate was better known to the students by the name of Fraushack, learned from their German lessons. The campus maintenance department consisted of one man, who mowed the lawns and performed the odd jobs, while the duties of head electrician devolved upon Professor Edwards of the Physics Department. This panel appeared in the student life section of the 1926 Chanticleer. Although the Dude and Twenty- three Skidoo have long since gone out, there have been no changes in the fine art of wasting time and film.

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I7ARLY in 1925, at a time when Tudor cottages and Italian villas were the archi- tectural vogue, the first ground was hroken and trees cleared to make way for Gothic West Campus. Architect Horace Trumbauer and staff had drawn up all the plans for the college campus which was to become famous for its beauty, and an entire deposit of volcanic granite in nearby Hillsboro had been purchased as a permanent source of building materials. As if by magic the forest receded as scaffolding shot skyward. Right: At first glance the elaborate window frame at top center appears to be part of the Chapel. Actually. the structure stands at the north side of the Union. A view from the library shows a heavy snow covering the quadrangle as the construction neared completion. At the same time, a mile to the east, old Trinity College was undergoing a complete face-lifting, to emerge two years later as the Woman ' s College or East Campus. By 1930, Duke University was beginning to appear much as it does today. The Hospital, first building to be occupied, was opened in July. Early in the fall, Kilgo dormitory and the Union were in full use. And two years later the Gothic spires of the impressive Duke Chapel towered above Duke ' s dream in the making. Mt ' % T ' Vj fry These tracks leading to the hospital were a part of the system laid by the Southern Railway to transport the heavy stone to the campus. Construction of the Sarah P. Duke Gardens was be- gun in 1937 on the site originally planned as a lake. A worker surveys one of the fifty bells of the carillon, a gift of G. C Allen and W. R. Perkins, which is now housed in Duke Chapel tower

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j I SI as clashes were carried on un- interrupted by the work of construc- tion, so did the many campus activities continue to function as before. The Student Government enforced the rules and regulations drawn up by itself and the administration, especially the ban on music alter nine in the evening and during classes and religious ceremonies. His Satanic Majesty, head of the Hade- Club, reigned over the member imps and impesses. all sons and daughters of ministers. ■•Jelly Leftwich and his Blue Devil Jazz Orchestra gave out with the hot licks of the era. while the Duke Uni- versity Musical Club specialized in black face numbers. 9019, a local scholarship and patriotic society, initiated new mem- bers by making them crawl through trenches amid cries of Peanut butter. hit me harder. and Hesperia debated the high cost of courting and the out- come of the World Series. Top: small combo of stringed instruments accompanied (he forty-five members of the Girls Glee Club of 1 )2. in their musical endeavors. Upper middle: The imps and impesses of the Hades Clul . an organization for the sons and daughters of ministers, pose symbolically in the lowest spot of ground found on campus. Lower middle: Jelly Leftwich and his Duke University Blue Devils of 1°27 were famed for their rendi- tion of the popular soup. Who. ' Bottom: The Biologj Department and students, shown gathered with a specimen or two, were the last members of the Biolog) Club, which disintegrated at the time of the indenture.