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SOUTH ENTRANCE TO TRINITY COLLEGE PARK.

Iege, and studied in New York City. 1t is
we'll known that his school of political
economy and sociology at Trinity is the
most extensive ever offered in any
Southern college. Few men have better
control over their subject than has Prof.
Dowd. He is full of energy and socolOgi-
cal facts and never fails to awaken en-
thusiasm in his classes.
Prof. Edwin Minis is a native Of Ar
kansas, and took his NJ. A. degree at
Vanderbilt University. During the past
year he has been at Cornell and will
next year receive his doctorate degree in
English language and literature. He is a
man of remarkable brightness and ex-
traordinary enthusiasm. He has made for
himself an enviable reputation as a lee
turer While his body does not indicate
great physical strength, nevertheless he
has wonderful powers of endurance, and
does a large amount of work outside his
class room. He is one of the potent fac
tors in the life of Trinity College.
Prof A. II. Merritt is a native Of New
York. He graduated from Wesleyan Uni
versity and spent q year in Germany.
He is a man of immense powers of endur-
ance and is known in the college as the
hard worker" He is always patient and
accurate in his investigations. He exerts
a large intellectual influence upon the life
of Durham. He is a man of immense re-
sources and his knowledge is of the
widest range.
w. z. Few, Phi. D., is a native South
Carolinian, a graduate Of WOfford, after
which he received his doctorate degree
from Harvard, having been a student un-
der the late DR.. Childs. Few men have
UGH native scholarly instincts as has DR..
Few. He has been at Trinity only one
year, but has impressed himself upon the
college community as man Of incalcula-
bic value. Probably the highest compli-
ment ever paid young man in the South
was paid him when a friend Of the col
ege established a new chair Of English in
order to secure his services to Trinity.
He throws himself with great energy in
to all the work Of the college.
J. /. Hannaker, Phi. D., is a native of
Kansas and a graduate OF Kansas Uni
versity. He received his doctorate de-
rec from Harvard. He comes to Trinity
with the highest recommendations. He Is
q man Of great energy as we'll as accurate
cholarship, and will no doubt fill all the
emands Of the college
Besides these full professors, there are
four assistants in the various schools OF
work. During the past year Mr.. p. v.
Anderson, OF Wilson; Mr.. w. II. Adams,
Bethel; Mr.. u. +. Curtis, of Luther,
and s. S. Dent of Jefferson, were the
assistants. All of these young men gave
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in securing another professorship for
the college. / did not add n new school
10 our work but divided the school of
English and put another man into this
school, so that now we have two full
men in English. This fits us to do work
in English language and Literature not
done in any other Southern college. We
can do a better class of work and cover
Il larger scope. So if j had ten new
professorships given to the college l would
simply put them back into the schools
that we are now running. This is the
only policy that will ever perfect an
educational institution.
'If you have noted our educational
work in the South, you note the fact that
our ambitious young men attend northern
institutions simply because they cannot
secure in Southern institutions the facll-
tiles for doing special work. This is
not because we have not the ability IN
the South to do special work, but be-
cause we have squandered II 10y
an attempt to cover too much
ground. | felt sure that in a
few years I will be able to double the
force in nearly all the departments of
work.
"The faculty which the trustees have
associated with me | regard one Of the
most remarkable faculties | have ever
known. They represent Wofford College,
Trinity College, Annapolis, Wesleyan
College, Vanderbilt University. Kansas
University, Hopkins University, Yale
University, Harvard, Cornell and Leip
sic, thus bringing together large range
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and has his laboratory in good working
order.
Prof Robert J.. Flowers is native of
North Carolina and n graduate of the
United States Naval Academy. He is a
man of large native ability and great
energy. Unlike the usual mathematician
he takes equal interest in literature. His
course in methamatics is one of the
/ argest to he found in any Southern col
lege. As professor he is very popular,
while at the same time very eXacting in
his work.
! w. I. Crawford, Phi. D., is a native
North Carolinan and an alumnus OF
Trinity College. After graduating at
Trinity he went to Yale and received his
doctorate in the school of philosophy. He
is known among students as the Intel
cctual giant" He never fails TO enthuse
his classes on philosophical questions, and
most modern standards.
John s. Bassett, Ph.D., is a native of
North Carolina, and an alumnus Of Trim
ty College He took his doctOrate degree
from Johns Hopkins in the school Of his
tory and political sciences. His native
ability and his faculty for close and tedi-
Gus investigation especially fit him for
his department of work. Likely no man
in any Southern college has aroused so
much interest in historical investigation
among students as has DR.. Bassett
Through his leadership Trinity College
has one of the most interesting historical
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chartered as Normal college with n
larger faculty and better equipment. Be
fore the end of this decade it had out
grown its distinctly normal purpose and
considerably enlarged its curriculum. In
1859 it acquired for the first time the
charter of a regular college. The North
Carolina Conference of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, South, then converting
at Beaufort, accepted the transfer Of the
property land re-chartered it under the
name of Trinity College. The first class
graduated in 1858, and from that date to
the outbreak of the Civil War, the insti-
tuition enjoyed an unusual degree of pros
perity. During the Civil War it kept its
doors oponed, with a small attendance,
the work of instruction being interrupted
only from the time of the encamping of
troops on the college grounds in the
spring of 1865, until the following Janu-
airy, an interval of five scholastic months.
In 1868, DIR. Craven resigned as presi-
dent and Prof. w. II. Gannaway was
elected and held the position until DR.
Craven was reelected in January, 1866.
In 1873, the large chapel, one of the
very best auditoriums in the State, was
erected, and other additions made to the
college buildings. The college grew in ev-
cry way from that hour, receiving in 1888
its first bequest for an endowment from
DR.. Siddle. Upon the death of DR.. Cra-
ven, November Z, 1882, Prof. w. II. Pc
gram became chairman of the faculty,
in which capacity he served until June,
1883, when Rev. NJ. l.. Wood, ID. D.,
was chosen president. Upon the retire
ment of DIR. Wood in 1884, Prof f.
Hoffman became chairman of the faculty,
serving until June, 1887, when
DR.. John Franklin Crowell was elected
TO the presidency.
1t was during DR.. Crowelfs administra-
ion as president of Trinity that the col
ege was moved to Durham, after much
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of study and being up to the most modern
methods of scientific investigation.
1--WE are constantly building at Trim
ity. Some new improvement is made
every week during the year. Just two
years ago the Historical department be-
gan to collect relics for the Historical
Museum. We now have in many re-
spects one of the most interesting collec-
lions to be found in our State. What
has been done in History, in some form
or other is continually being done in
every other department.
"Our library has outgrown its present
accommodations. and we are now con-
templating new library building.
"You would be surprised to know the
amount of work done by our Faculty;
not simply their work in the college, but
their work in the community and
throughout the State.
Il have been much gratifed with the
concentrations which Trinity has receiv-
ed from northern papers and educators.
I am greatly welded to our policy and
feel sure that it will more than vindi-
cate itself.
what are the prospects for the ap-
preaching session, Judging from indica-
tons observed in your visits to and
communication with the friends and pa
irons Of the college?' / asked.
II am most highly gratiied," replied
President Kilgo, with the prospects
During the summer l have travelled
much through the State and come in
contact with the leading men Of our
church. / have not heretofore met so
much enthusiasm. In fact, / doubt
whether ever in the past the various
churches have been so aroused to the
Importance of Christian education. Our
people realize the necessity Of a new
factor in our educational influences, and
the great body of our people believe in
Christ. l am sure that the day is not
far off when our church people will ed
ucate their sons and daughters in their
hurch schools; for after all they look
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TRINITY COLLEGE
GOES FORWARD
One of the First Colleges IN
the South.
HONOR TO METHODlSM
1T RANKS WITH THE FOREMo0A
METHODIST COLLEGES.
AN INTERVIEW WITH PRESIDENT NL6o
A Glance at Its Glorious HistOry--lts Usefd
Present--And Its Bright Future--Its
Next Session Opens Sep
TENDER 9th.

Durham. n. c., Aug. 24.-(Staf Cor
respondence.)-The most talked-aoou'
man in North Carolina to-day Is Ut
John G.. Kilgo, President of TRINITY Coi-
lepe | heard him preach his first ser
mon after he came to North Carolina to
become president of Trinity College. L
knew then that he was man VINO
would run in no ruts, but was man of
such conviction and force that he would
become a power in the educational life
of the State. He is wholly taken up
with the advancement and glory of
Trinity College. He came to the State
in response to the earnest solicitation OF
the trustees to become its President be-
cause he believed the call meant hard
work and wide field of usefulness. He
has had no rest since he set foot on
North Carolina soil. He has preached
in most of the counties; delivered lee
lures and addresses without number;
travelled thousands of miles; written
much about Christian Education; visited
all the Conferences and other church
gatherings-gOing anywhere at any time
when he thought he could thereby ad-
vance the interest of the college or the
church of which it is the chief educa-
tional institution.
Assisted by an able and loyal faculty
DR.. Kilgo has every reason to feel that
his coming to North Carolina has been
the wisest thing for Trinity College
for it has grown and prospered as never
before under his progressive administra.
ton. From the first there has been the
pleasantest relations between the presi
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electric lights, heated with warm all
and ventilated by the famous Rutan
Warming and Ncntilating system
widely approved system for supplying
pure air, warm or cold, ana removing
vitiated atmosphere from building.
This is the system in Use i'm over forty
of the government school buildings in
Washington, II. G. 1t contains fiftv-sty
dormitorics on the second and third
floors; twelve lecture rooms and Offices.
bathing apartments on every floor OK.
cept the first; dry-closet system: undor-
ground drainage from the inside and from
the surface about the building; bose.
ment 20SX50 feet. the size of the build-
ing, thus rendering the building PRO #
against unsanitary conditions. 1t NAV
be well said to be the "most complete
college building in the State" in point
Of ventilation, architecture, comfort AMI
modern cOnveniences.
The Crowell Science Building is large
brick building, three stories high. 1t
was built through the benefaction OF
DIR. John Franklin Crowell, President Of
Trinity College, 1SS7-1S94, in memory
of his first wife, who died during his
presidency of the college. There are
located in this building the schools Of
Chemistry, Physics, Biology and Econ
Omy. The entire second floor is devoted
to schools of Physics and Biology; the
third floor is occupied by the laboratory
and class-rOoms of the school Of Chem
istry The dynamo-rOom is in the base
ment.
The Epworth Hall is a college build
!
| chitectual design and in point of utility.
| 1t contains Is dormitOries. two parlors.
| the college chapel, a dining-hall HAVING
a seating capacity Of $50, and a waiting
room. 1t is heated by warm air and
! lighted by electricity. It's sanitary ar
rangements are complete, including bath.
rooms on each floor. This building was
gift from Mr.. w. Duke, and cost thirty
thousand dollars.
"Braxter Craven Hall" is new
building that the alumni propose u
erect during the coming year. Rev. \
NJ. Jurney has headed the subscriptions
with 81 900 and there is not a shadow
of doubt that this building. to contain
a great auditorium, will be ready fol
use within a year or two.
The residences of the Faculty and Off
GERS of the college are mostly on Facul
ty Avenue, in the college park. They
are furnished with bathrooms, cold ant
hot water, are connected with the city
water works. and lighted by electric
lights Nearly all of the buildings in the
college park are lighted with electricity
furnished by a 100 light dynamo install
| IL he n
New York.
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agent for his Alma Mater. In 1890 he
was elected to the chair of philosophy in
Wofford College, which chair he filled till
1894, when he was elected president of
Trinity College. Besides being president
of Trinity College, he is also professor in
the Avera School of Bible Study. He in
spires young men to higher things. His
is no dry and pedantic teaching as dull
as reading the pages of a Concordance.
Bible study under DIR. Kilgo is illuminat-
ed and made fresh. There is no lack Of
Interpretation in the realm of scholar
ship, but it is made bright and real by
reason of the fact that the preacher in
the teacher points out the truth that
the true way ito know of the doctrine
is to do the will of God" Speculation
and abstract study have no place, but
the Bible is studied as n rule Of life, as
the chart of right living and to life etern-
al. This gives it a sacredness unknown
to the dry philosophical treatises that too
often fill the idea of Biblical instruction
The course in the Bible extends over
four years, and is required of every stu
dent. 1t is the object of this department
to acquaint the student with the truths
Of Divine revelation, and to train him
in the true methods of Interpretation.
Special attention is given to evidences
of Christianity and the superior char
acter of the ethics of Christianity is
emphasized. The course includes the
parallel study of those subjects that will
aid i'll a proper study of the Bible. DR..
KilgO is a teacher of great power and
force, imparting his instruction with an
interest that is most stimulating and
helpful. The student body goes into his |
lecture room with gladness
Prof. w. III. Pegram is a native OF
North Carolina and a graduate of Trim
ty College. He has been connected with
the college for more than twenty years.
He is held in highest esteem by his stu
lents, and never fails to impress him.
self upon his classes as a man of high in
Legrity and pure character. He always
.akes a great interest in hiswaepartment
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debate and discussion by it's friends. DE-.
Crowell took the ground that the college
ought to be in or adjacent to a growing
city or town, and cut across the grain:of
the long embedded idea in North Caro-
lima that our institutions of learning
ought to be located in the country OF i'll
villages. OF course there was some Cop
position to the removal by good friends
of the college, particularly on
the part of those who were ATTACHED
to the old location. But the overwhelming
sentiment of the Conference sustained
the views of DR.. Crowell and the Board
Of trustees, and it was determined TO To-
cate the college in Raleigh. Shortly there
after, Mr.. Washington Duke, one Of the
leading manufacturers of the South-an
ardent and liberal Methodst-sta4ed to
Rev. e. A. Yates, ID. D.. and othess that
Iif the trustees would locate Trinity col
lege at Durham, he would erect u COM
modious building and donate fifty thou
sand dollars toward an endowment. AS
soon as there was a suggestion to locate
at Durham, Col. Julian S. Carr, who had
given generously to Trinity for twenty
years at its old location, offered to do
mate the elegant park upon which the col
lege is situated. These two magnificent
tenders were so inviting that the trustees
Of the college accepted them gladly, and
every day that passes they are more and
more satisfied that the removal of the
college to this good town was the best
step in its history. The sociaB religious
and business environment are not sur
passed by any community of :the State,
and it is the verdict OF those who know
the history Of the college best that the
advantages here in good Influences are
better than they could he in any village
or small town.
Such in brief is the history of Trinity
College mp to the election of DR.. Kilgo
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dent and the members of the faculty,
not been jar in the internal manage
ment. The same cordial relations have
subsisted between the student body and
the president and faculty. DR.. Kilgo
understands boys. He believes in them.
He appeals to them along lines that
touch their better nature, and stimu-
lates the best in work and in purpose
that is in them.
/ CHANGED to meet President Kilgo just
as he was returning from Beaufort,
where he dedicated the new Methodist
church last Sunday. He was in excel
lent spirits, full of faith in the great
career that stretches out before Trinity
College, and confident that the work be-
ing done here is along lines that will
tell for all time. He took me over the
grounds and parks that are growing into
beauty and symmetry under the wise
and generous efforts of Mr.. b. ". Duke;
through the. c0mmodious and admirably
adapted buildings; and as we went talk.
ed with an enthusiasm and spirit that
was contagious. / asked him questions
that / thought would bring out the
best features of Trinity College. and he
a
giving expression to the purposes thai
animate the faculty and charging upoD
the advantages offered to the youth who
are so fortunate as to matriculate here
INTERVIEW WITH DIR. KILGO.
How are your facilities now for sue.
cessful and complete college workY' 7
asked President Kilgo.
Trinity is decidedly in better condition
to do high grade college work than il
has ever been in its past history. The
policy of Trinity College is different
from that of any other southern institu.
tons. We have suffered in the South
from the idea Of extension" "Fortv
acres to the mule has been our agricul-
tural doctrine, and the same influence
has wrought in all the lines of southern
life; nowhere more so than in our COL
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to their churches for the conservation
and development Of the highest princi-
pies Of life. l have never been so much
gratifed at the prospects Of the church
colleges as / am now.
81 notice that you have added Co
educational feature. Will you make
this leading feature Of the institu-
ton? asked.
1--WE will admit women just as we
admit men. Female education in the
South has reached a crisis" said Presi-
dent Kilgo. "Our female colleges are
not endowed and have not the means
with which to advance their courses. I
do not believe that any educational work
has been more successful than that Of the
female colleges, with the resources they
have had at their disposal. But we have
reached that point where our young wo-
men are demanding better advantages.
The, only solution is to open the male
colleges. This is not an untried policy.
All the leading institutions of the world
admit in some way, women to their
courses of study. SO Trinity College is
but following the example Of the leading
universities of this and other countries.
"It is useless for our women to go
north when they can be provided for III
Southern institutions. At Trinity they
will have all the advantages and will re-
ceive all the degrees conferred upon men.
This is one of the most popular move
ments the college has ever made. and
the young women who graduate from
Trinity will be easily recognized for their
| superior intellectual development and
scholarly attachments.
"We are now constructing an elegant
| building for the accommodation Of our
young women. 1t will be equipped with
all modren improvements and be super
intended by a capable lrdy This is the
first woman's home at Trinity, and as the
demand increases we will build other
homes for them. We think this plan pre-
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in hand the matter>of identifying the
park. 1t is growing into such beauty
as to be the admiration of all who pass
through Durham.
The washington Duke Building" is
located near the centre OF the park. 1t
was named in honor of Mr.. Washington
Duke, whose great benefaction has made
it possible for Trinity College to project
new life into the educational work of the
South. 1t is a three-story brick build
ing. covered with slate, lighted with
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ident later on and remaining president of
the college with short intermission dur
ing the war, until his death, Novem-
Der Z, 1SS2-a period OF forty years in
to which he compressed more labor and
usefulness in the face of more difficulties,
than any man the State has known. He
started with a little country academy,
doing all the teaching himself. He was
great teacher, another Mark Hopkins in
capacity to inspire his students to rise to
the height of all that was in them. He
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started in with n boy, no matter how
poorly endowed to make him think he
could be somebody He told him that
he could be somebody. He showed him
hat it was only by diligent application
TO books that he could learn. He himself,
self-taught, was an object lesson of what
APPLICATION and brains could accomplish.
Under such teaching as DIR, Chayen inn
parted the institute grew until there was
n demand that it provide special instruc-
tion for teachers, aud So, ia 1851, il was
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THE NEWS AND OBSERVER, AUGUST 90, 1897.

TO the presidency in 1894. The full his
tory is written in the hearts of the Meth
odists of North Carolina, and
in the achievements of its alum
nj in all the walks of life.
There is no department of progress
or usefulness that has not been touched
and helped by the alumni If ills Chris
tan college. The breadth and spirit of
Craven have never left the college, and
the carnestncss and conservation ana
scholarship Of DR. Kilgo and his associates