The daily state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 188?-1891, 1890-11-12
PRESIDENT CROWELL TALKS
TIE OUTLINES THE PLAN OF
TRINITY COLLEGE AT DURHAM.
trinity College is to Be Thorough and
PRACTICAL COllege.-It Will be a Glory
to Methodism and an Honor to North
CarOIina
Editorial Correspondence

Carolina.
Editorial Correspondence
DURHAM, n. c., Nov. 18th, 1S90.-
President John F. Crowell is here. He
IS a man of great individuality, great
industry, sound scholarship, faith in
himself and in his cause; and he has the
rare faculty of in spiring others with his
own enthusiasm.
l had an interview with him this
morning. He said:
The removal Of Trinity College to
Durham marks new era in it's history
as we'll as the inauguration of a new
policy. The scope of it's work has been
steadily broadening since its beginning
back in the forties. To day it is fuller
Of life and hope than ever before.
[ look upon college as the only in
stitution in our American civilization
that can bridge the distance between
church and state. It must be
source Of strength and light to both
through those whom it trains to assume
the duties of civil and religious life. If
it divorces itself from either it ought to
die. If it does it's part we'll it is
bound to live and prosper.
What will be the scope Of the work l
asked:
PRESIDENT CROwELL said
The scope of collegiate education is to
be widened to embrace all the chief
subjects of popular interest. There is
NO hxyo ch1 oI
cate its students up to a point where
they can step directly into industrial and
commercial life as we'll as into other
phases of human development The old
A. B. course is to be strengthened and
broadened; this will be pre- eminently
the intellectual course. For the indus
trial the School Of Mechanics and Engi-
neering will be built and equipped For
political education the School of Politi-
cal and Social Science is being developed
as rapidly as possible. A large collec-
ton of political studies have accumu-
| lated in this school as the results Of the
work Of it's instructors and scholars, and
we are preparing TO publish them in a
| Journal of Political Science under the
management of this school. The relig-
iou5 part of liberal education will be
provided for in the Divinity School. The
aesthetic in education Is not to be neg
lected. Under that We include physical,
culture, music, architecture and others
of the fine arts.
The college has increased in resources
to the extent Of 1925, 900 in little more
than year.
The college grounds to day are worth
$4,000 TO US. Every building on il
can be turned to good account. We
have no less than six buildings provided
for instructional uses: The main col
lege building, 200x5J feet, three stories
high; the sc entifc building, 125x5O feet
three stories high; the divinity building
125z4O feet, two stories high; the Schoo
of Technology, 125x50 feet, two high
the pattern shop for working in wood
the shop for working in iron and th
foundry. These buildings will be pro
vided with about 100 suites of room
consisting of a study and bedroom each
each room adapted for two student
only. All these suites of rooms will b
f so ventilated that the atmosphere viii
I be changed every five minutes. The
will be heated by hot air from blowe
outside the buildings and lighted b
| electricity a hanging light in eac
t study and each bed room. There will b
, several bath rooms on each floor occu
| pied by students.
+ We regard athletics as part of cole
: giate culture. Our grounds are not 9,
o celled by any of which [ know in an
!. American college, The fine half mil
s track will make fine bicycle track Q
e which we hope to have annual bicyc
q races by competitors from all over tt
State and from other States. Runnir
g is one of the safest and healthiest of e.
# ercises and fast walking is better stil
d We propose to make physical instru
n ton part of our curriculum. Eve
n physically weak youth can be MAJ
y strong and vigorous by the right kind
@ exercise chosen with reference to /
state of body upon admission to colleg
Young men ought to be requlr
to pass a required standard
physical as we'll as in ment
attainments. For example, Ishould S
a that every student should bo required
% walk at least one hour weekly at t
~ rate of a mile in Is minutes for fo
= weeks to pass his physical examinatic
-, He should be taught how TO walk scle
90 =; thcally. Not one man in a hundr
~ ~ can do that: most of us jog or wade
m mro along. We need better lungs fer c
20 ~ youth and young men; better muse
~ and better appetites and the open air
the place to get them. Therefore
believe in body y-culture as we'll as in 81
W. culture. Their lives will be long
II,ul purer, less dyspepsia and more vigore
IL. ~. in every way. That athletic track v
,n u' save and prolong many of the most u
)" ful lives.
- propose to have an endowed pri
,os a,s ing press. This powerful agency
10 -, education has been too much neglec
n1 nt' by the colleges. They do much t
g. 81. ought to be made known to the pull
~. ~ or used for distribution among edu
~ ~ tional institutions. We will dispense W
na' a professorship TO have our own print
press. 1t will do more teaching tt
any two teachers, and it is the best '
to educate the public which never s
md to college.
lay We have prospered this year beyt
oW our expectations. With 153 stude
bod enrolled we have reached the high
- IL