The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-08-25
TRINITY COLLEGE NOTES.
All the Faculty Coming in Ready for
the Sessions Work.

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All the Faculty are coming in now.
DR.. and Mrs. Crawford are once more on
the campus. They have gone to house
keeping in the house formerly occupied
by Prof. Bogges. Prof A. Fl. Merritt
and wife have arrived from Germany
where for the past year Prof. Merritt
has been studying Latin and Sanskirt at
Leipsic Prof. Merritt is one of the most
popular men ever connected with Trinity
and host of old students will be glad to
welcome him back. He is living in the
house formerly occupied by Prof. Dowd
Prof. Pegram and family have returned
from Randolph county. Prof. Lock
wood, who visited Prof. Pegram, there
has returned also. Only two members
of the faculty are still absent. Profs.
Minis and Flowers are in New York,
after leaving Cornell, they are now visit
ing Niagara Falls, Watkins Glen and
other places of interest before returning
to Durham. They are expected in few
days.
The incoming Senior class will prob
ably be the largest in the history of the
college. From what can be known now,
it will have twenty five members, thus
going beyond the class of 1878, which
had twenty-five A very remarkable
coincidence is that both of these classes
contain girls, the present class having
four while the former had three. 1t
seems that the young ladies have some
thing to do with bringing the boys back.
In personnel the present class is exceed
ingly strong and promising.
DR.. Bassett, Professor of History, has
been asked to deliver the annual address
before the Historical Society of the North
Carolina Conference at Elizabeth City,
Dec 10, 1895. This is a young society
but it is doing good work for the cause
of history in the State. 1t is in keeping
with the policy of the Methodist church
to have such society in each confer
ence. 1t all grows out of very decided
historical renaissance that one sees all
over the South today. Dr. Bassett has
also been asked to read a paper before
the American Historical Association at
their next meeting in Washington City,
during the Christmas holidays.
DR.. Kilg0 has gone to Laurinburg to
lecture on Christian education. He is
just closing one of the most active edu
cational campaigns ever made in North
Carolina. During the summer he has
travelled over 5000 miles and spoken on
an average of twenty times a month,
thus reaching about third of the
Methodists in the State. His friends are
glad to see that he has stood the strain
on his strength remarkably well.
Every days brings many letters apply
ing to have rooms reserved for the com
ing year. From every indication there
will be very large attendance.
Mr. Plato Durham, of the class Of '95,
who is well remembered as the polished
orator and winner of the Wiley Gray
medal at the recent commencement, has
decided to enter the ministry and will
take a course in the Yale divinity school
this fall. Mr.. G. t. Rowe, of the same
class, has also decided during the present
summer to enter the ministry. These
are two of the brightest young men who
have ever left any institution in the
State and the fact that they have con
secrated their lives TO the pastorate
speaks well for Trinity and for its great
president.