The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1891-08-20
LATEST ABOUT THE ENDOWMENT.

IAIESI AbOU1 1hE univ
For some DAYS past the News has heard
rumors of great things in store for Trim
ity college, and subsequent events give
even~more than a tinge of probability to
the rumors. The report in substance IS
that Mr.. WASHINGTON DUKE has decided
to endow Trinity college with half a mil
lion dollars. This much Of the report,
from what can be learned, is pretty GER
tain to pan out true.
Another report is that a movement is
being made, in view of Mr.. DUKES mu-
niicent gift, to change the name Of the
institution to DUKES college, though
there arc some, MR.. DUKE himself among
them, who oppose any change of name.
However, if Trinity gets the half million
endowment, the small matter OF a name
will be a secondary consideration.-Char-
lOtte News.
And the News is only one of the half
hundred papers in this and other states
which have published this report in good
faith, and as they believed, or we'll au-
thenticated statements.
The News, however, has, in a moment
of wild enthusiasm and stupendous en-
terpise, gone a step farther than the rest
in suggesting that the name of the insti-
tuition would be changed in consequence
| of the alleged half million dollars with
which Mr.. DUKE is credited as giving or
intending to give at an early stage in it's
history.
Whether or not there is any foundation
for the rumor THE GLOBE is not pre-
pared to say. MIR. DUKE has not commu
nicated his future intentions as regards
Trinity college to the editor of this pa
per, neither has he communicated his flu
ture intentions to the editor of Gny other
paper.
Mr.. DUKE is a man who attends to his
own business, and it is a cheerful habit of
his not to call in the public to consult it
before deciding whether he will or will
not do a thing, provided he want to do it.
If it is his pleasure to do a handsome
or generous act he will do it when the
time comes, but he will lot 60 about the
country advertising the fact for twelve
months in advance.
Having done so much for Trinity al
ready, it is but reasonable to suppose
that he will always feel the deepest in
terest in its success and will be a lasting,
firm and munificent friend to the %institu-
ton.
The current rumor, however, about
the half million endowment as a hope or
expectation of the near future is unjust to
MR.. DUKE and damaging to the institu-
ton, it having the appearance of a syste-
matte and preconcerted scheme to force
n man into carrying the institution on
his shoulders and having a tendency to
make others who could and would do
something withhold their donations. o
THE GLOBE would like to be able to
print the fact that such a gift had been.
made and that it COM from this one of
Durham's most generous and loyal citi-
But liking to see fair play in all
things, it does not believe in crowding a
man simply because he has shown a dis
position to be liberal.
AS for changing the name from Trinity
to that Of DUKE college, such a wild and
improbable suggestion hardly needs con
tradiction. Trinity is Trinity, and will
be so long as the college is what it has
been and was intended to be, a Metho-
dist institution, under the auspices of the
Methodist denomination, and neither MIR.
DUKE nor the Methodist church desire to
change a name that has taken years of
hard and unceasing labor to build up and
establish.