Duke University - Chanticleer Yearbook (Durham, NC)

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ADMINISTRATION

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ew administrative heads point toward a renewed direction for Duke. Through the leadership of administration and faculty we learn to appreciate the multiple directions within a university and the constant growing process of an institution which will remain long after each four-year cycle is past. And with such leadership students find their own direction for future years.

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After two years of quite intimate association, I find at Duke two particular qualities of spirit which have much to do with this youth of ours and this uniqueness, this suddenness of our founding. The first is a very high expectation of ourselves, which grows quite naturally from what Mr. Duke himself expected. Although obviously I did not have the privilege ot knowing him, I can see enough of the conse- quences of his lite all around me to know what he himself expected and what his standards were. All of us must feel this if we have a right to be here at all. The second quality grows quite naturally from the first: a sense of impatience with ourselves, a feeling that we want events to take place rapidly as well as at a high level of quality. Now, both these are natural, proper, important feelings; but there has been one curious by-product of these two attitudes. What I am going to say about it has a good deal to do with both the past and the future of the University. Douglas Maitland Knight President Because we here at Duke have been both ambitious and impatient, we have not always seen the strength that was actually developing. As a result, e may not have assessed ith enough accurac) ' or enough real confidence the base on which we can build and the level of per- formance which we now have a right to expect of ourselves. There is nothing more important for Mr. Duke ' s idea and for the present and future of this University than an understanding of the level of performance which we now- must reach and which our society has a ris ht to ask of us. 30