The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1893-06-19
As TO TRINITY COLLEGE.

AhS HN'
making a delicate distinction-and they
are always troublesome-THE GLOBE
finds much satisfaction to-day, in print
ing on another page some facts accompa.
MED by a few figures concerning Trinity
college. This Information was sought
by THE GLOBE, and so it comes direct
with no solicitation from DR.. CRowELL
and no one of the faculty has been con-
suited.
All the hub bub, all the trouble with
General Discomfort in charge has been
brought about by those who were wait
ing to throw stones at Trinity. To
briefly make a resume of the difficulties
which did surround Trinity, we require
but a few words. A faculty which could
not run the college, could not run
CRowELL. He did not ask any one to
resign, but he continued to saw wood,
and instead of picking up chips and
doing what they should have done, each
one concluded that he was the sawyer.
The faculty did not resign. Just a part
of it made a welcome present of its room.
But because the busy-bodies who knew
nothing about Trinity, and who were
parlor matches to the aurora borealis, and
yet who imagined that they were great
guns-Krupp guns-when they were but
pop guns, put on so much natural agony,
DR.. C%RowELL, being fully equipped for
any kind of educational work, like the
honest man that he is, sent in his resig-
nation, and what was the result? He
was unanimously reelected; the board
of trustees said to him that he was the
man for the place-the man for Trinity.
And the gentlemen who were not salts
fed went their way or ways, we hope
rejoicing, and Trinity is stronger to-day
than ever.
When we remember that over a hun
dred gentlemen-educators from every
state in the United States and out of the
United states, applied to fill vacancies,
it must at once be discovered to the OBJ,
tuse-that which is known to many
that Trinity college, Durham, N. c., is
established and from this one fact, recog-
nized by educators throughout the
world. But in the figures hurriedly OBJ
tanned, THE GLOBE sees the strongest
point concerning CRowELL, a point that
talks for him if he needs talk, even while
he sleeps. And that point is this:
According to the records to day, the
old Trinity property ~inventoried an even
$2O,OO0-that the year that DIR. CROwELL
took hold of what, viewed in any light,
was a very common and a very ordinary
institution of learning. Because Of it's
meagre facilities it may have been unable
to have appeared as little more, if any,
than q high school, but CRowELL was
not batfied. He was chosen as president
when fourteen other candidates were in
the tield-fOr the same reason, doubtless,
that he has been unanimously re elected,
because: He is as he was, the man for
the place-Or vice versa. Six years ago
the property of Trinity was valued at
100000, and to-day there is close to $780,
900 worth of property. And that is not
all. Trinity has been moved out of the
wOOds-it has been made a part, and
soon to be a still larger part, of one of
the foremost towns of North Carolina.
Few men could have moved such an in
stitution, especially when there was so
much in sight for it, but it was moved
and CROwELL was moved with it-which
is a speaking silence for the doctor, talk
ing louder than any other one thing. But
a little more about figures and then we
are done with such things. Six years
ago the income of Trinity was but be-
tween $4,000 and $4,000 a year, while
now the minimum estimate by the finance
committee shows the income to be SCI
600. And who has wrought this change?
Was it brought about by the faculty,
which was ripe and ready for mutiny-
which would have scuttled its own ship
to drown a president which it could not
control, or was ii brought about by that
president, who, during such trials, re-
manned firm for Trinity, and when he had
disposed of the mutinOus crew, said 10