The daily state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 188?-1891, 1890-03-22
TRINITY RELEASED.
RALEIGH SURRENDERS HER
CLAIM ON THE INSTITUTION.

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That it May Accept Favorable Prop
Osition Made by Enterprising Dur
ham.
The board of trustees of Trinity Col
lege, in session at Durham on last |
Thursday, decided to change the loca-
tion of the institution from Raleigh to
Durham, provided Raleigh would re-
lease the trustees and the M. E. Con-
ference from the conditions of an agree |
ment already in existence in reference
to the location of the college here.
This action was taken in consequence Of
more favorable financial offer to the
institution by Durham than Raleigh
had made. The following are the Off
cial resolutions adopted by the trustees:
RESOLVED, By the board of trustees
of Trinity College, now in session in
the city of Durham, n. c., that COM
mittee of three members Of this board
be appointed by the chair to wait on
the citizens committee of Raleigh on
Trinity College, and request of them
release from our obligations to comply
with the terms of our agreement with
them, that we may be free to accept
the offer Of the citizens of Durham
2, That on condition that the citi-
zens of Raleigh release this board and
the N G.. Conference from the above
mentioned obligations, it is the sense
of this board that the offer of the citi-
zens of Durham be accepted.
RESOLVED, That the thanks of the
board of trustees of Trinity College be
rendered to the citizens of Raleigh for
their iberality, and that we shall hold
them in continued and grateful re-
membrance for the earnest interest
they have manifested and for the gen
erous spirit shown in reference to this
whole matter.
Conference of the Committees.
The members of the committee from
the trustees, as provided for in the above
resolution. were Prof. J. F. Clowell,
Rev. J. A. Cunninggim and Mr.. W. F.
Kornegay of Goldsboro.
They came here yesterday morning
and met the Raleigh college committee
!, the members of which are Mr.. r T.
Gray, chairman; Messrs. E. s. Pullen,
b. b. Barbee, Jos. &. Brown, w g.
Upchurch, julius Lewis, J. A. Jones,
:, Jas. Bovlan and Rev. DR.. ". S. Black
The meeting was held in the office of
,, MI. R. I. Gray, aud the following let
, ter was submitted by the trustees com
mlttee.
the committee Of three herewith beg
leave to submit to the 'citzens commit
tee of Raleigh on Trinity College" some
. particular reasons which have led the
4 board of trustees Of Trinity College tC
: ask a voluntary release from their obi
) gatious to remove the college from Ra
leigh.
! 1. The college is greatly in need of 2
! larger endowment fund, which Durham
9 offers to the amount of $44 900, with ad
;, dltlonal subscriptions now promised
2. The site of sixty acres will relieve
Il the college of the necessity of ever in
4 vesting in additional lands.
y 3. Tue building offered at Durham
IS will be more ample. Its cost will b,
x about $25, 200 more than the one Offered
, to the college in the gift of Raleigh.
Il T. The proposed removal to Durham
Is will unite the entire conference of NORTH
o Carolina in the interest Of the college
S and thus forestall the erection of riva
college in he western division of tn
present conference This harmony is Al
= assured result and is pledged by indi
* vidual letters AMI statements from thos
who have opposed the removal to Ra
leigh. A removal to Raleigh Woul
therefore dlsappolnt the friends of tn
W college who favor removal to that city
10 as we'll as the citizens OF Raleigh, by tn
withdrawal of the patronage of the west
: ern half of the conference, since wit
1t two rival colleges in the same State, bot
Dr. might be doomed to weakness and cor
be tinual friction.
5. The removal to Raleigh would, i
-. - view of the cash endowment offered
% Durham, raise an almost insurmount;
- - bic obstacle to securing additional Ell
ne dowment fund for the college, il locate
~ ~ at Raleigh.
~ 6. The assurances of still greater gif
no for the college at Durham are so defni
80 that the trustees consider the fnanci
~ prosperity of the college as good as qua
anteed for the future.
The committee wish further to emph
size the fact that both the board of tru
St. tees and the citizens of Durham ha'
,or constantly made prominent the necessi
'.A of keeping faith with the citizens of Re-
IN eigh in relation to the removal of t
nd college, and, that both the trustees al
i'll. donors alike have refused to enterta
oo+ any purpose of removal to Durham e
Wv cept upon condition of a free and volu
III tary release from the obligation to !
move to Raleigh.
out Great as our love for the cole
on is, and positive as is our judgment
,so the greater advantages to be derived
''o the acceptance of the offer Of Durha
ma we place the future of the college, a
rch the unanimous judgment of the tr'
ing tees, at your willingness to forego
will removal of the college to Raleigh.
iza- released, the college will be no less
also terested in the prosperity Of your ci
,ah. if not released, it will seek to fulfill
lea obligations to you with the high sense
honor and gratitude with which it a
it's representatives have always tried
act.
With special thanks to the Cham
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