The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-06-11
A MEMORIAL
TO DIR, CRAVEN
The Big Drained Founder of
Trinity College.
A GIFT TO EDUCATION
BEST WAY A RICH MAN CAN IN
VEST HIS MONEY.
IGNORANCE IS AN INCUBUS ON PROGRESS
All Advocates Of Education Rejoice in Every
Gift 10 Education, All New Taxes
and Increased Rppro-
nriaInnS,
priations.


Durham, n. c., June 9.-(Editorial
Correspondence Everybody who at
tended Trinity commencement was
greatly pleased with the new Cra-
ven Memorial liall which was
used for the first time as an auditorium.
1t will seat 1900 people, and architecture
ally it is the most pleasing building to
the eye ON the campus. 1t as model
auditorium and was erected by the
alumni and friends OF the college as a
fitting memorial of rirInity-s great Tound-
er. 1t is a worthy monument of the big
Drained man who made Trinity college,
for BraXton Craven made TRINITY COL
lege. The church helped 1lim, but it was
born in his brain and grew through ms
: learning and self-denying zeal. During
the coming year a fine OIL portrait OF Dr.
Craven will be painted and will be per-
manently placed in the most prominent
position in the hall erected by loving
hands TO his memory.
The Craven auditorium has been erect
ed at a cost of about $4,000, and is ele-
gantly and tastefully furnished with
modern opera chairs and every other ne
cessary adjunct at a cost of something
like $500. The interior furnishing was
the gift of Col Julian s. Carr who has
been a generous friend to Trinity, giving
help OF substantial character to the
great Craven when the college was To-
Gated in Randolph county, when friends
with money We're few and far between,
as well as haying donated the splendid
site in Durham upon which Trinity Col
lege is located.
The trustees have not completed any
plans, so far as | could learn, for making
the magnificent auditorium also a memo
rial of all who helped the college III its
early strugges and who are now helping
it in its new home. 1t would be a fine
idea to associate the names of all OF them
with that of Craven by having marble
tablets placed in the Craven Auditorium.
1t would not be well to thus honor any
of Trinity's living instructors and
friends, but to contine these memorial
tablets to such men as Jesse A. Cunning
gim, Marcus l.. Wood, w. II. Branson,
John H. fierce and others who had min
gled their prayers, efforts and gifts in
loving service to the college, and to leave
room for a tablet to the living friends
and benefactors when they have gone to
the great university in the skies.
Speaking of this method by which the
names of all those friends Of the college
who had done something great or noble
for its advancement could be perpetuated
at the college. puts me in mind to COM
mend the Angler Gymnasium as one of
the best gifts yet made to Trinity 1t is
a model gymnasium with swimming pool,
and with Il competent instructor tPresl-
dent Southgate says Prof. Whitehouse is
the best in America), the physical in
struction and development keeps pace
with the moral and mental. 1t is the
best phase of our new education that the
college authorities provide for the care
and development of the body as we'll as
the education of the mind. 1t WAS not
always so. The time was when pale
faces marked the collegian who lead his
class BY wisely dividing his time, the
graduate now comes to receive his di-
ploma with a sound mind in a sound
body. and many of them hook more like
vigorous youths who do manual labor
than youths who burn the midnight oil.
No education is worth getting that is
obtained at a sacrifice of health, and at
is because the public is appreciating that
fact that the first class colleges are Civ
ing heed to physical culture.
Trinity is coming to be a rich college.
When ! read few days ago that Mrs
Leland Stanford had decided property
worth thirty-eight million dollars as an
endowment to the Leland Stanford Jf.
University. and that preacher III Con-
necticut had willed 81 900 to Elon Col
lege-each giving all that they had to
help educate the youth | could but con-
trast such benefactions with such lavish
waste of money as the Bradley Martin $
dinners and balls. The late Governor
Holt, who was noted for his practical
wisdom, speaking TO men of wealth gave
them this advice, Invest your money in
immortal mind 1t is an investment
that cannot be dissipated but goes on
giving larger dividends as the wears go
by. When the announcement was made
at Trinity commencement this week that
Mr.. Il. \. Duke had given an additional
fifty thousand dollars to Trinity | re-
joiced that in his large wealth he had the
wisdom and generosity to invest much of
it in Immortal mind" He has given
more largely to Trinity than is generally
known, and his gifts are always made
with the view Of laying deep and broad
the foundations of the college to which
he is devoted friend. / love to see a
man give while he HIVES He is then
certain that il viii so to the objects that
meet his approval. and besides men OF
practical judgment like Mr.. Washington