The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-06-30
TRINITY TRUSTEES MEET
This Meeting Will be Held in Day
or Two TO Consider Organization
of the College-Views of
Colonel Webster.
Especial to News and Observer

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Durham, n C., June 27.-There is a
movement on foot to build, in connection
with Trinity College Il great female col
Irge and meeting of the executive com
mittee Of the board of trustees OF Trim
Itv viii be held next week to consider
the organization Of this college.
Mr. J. H Southgate, chairman of the
board Of trustees, admitted this evening
that such a move was on foot and said
That while the plans were definitely con
,eived he was not ready to give them to
the public yet.
When asked what relation this move
ment would have to the closing of the
Greensboro Female College he said that it
had none, that is that there had been no
conference between the executive commit
Tee of the Trinity board and the Greens
boro Female College Association. He
said however. that he hoped this new en-
terprse at Trinity would conserve the
great work OF the Greensboro Female
College Continuing he said that the wo-
mans college at Trinity would start out
with the advantage of a million dollar in
VeStment. and that when the plans should
be perfected it would be the greatest
movement ever made in the South IN be
L3jf Of higher education for women
Something definite will be done at the
meeting Of the executive committee of
Trinity next week 1t Is considered that
the Womans College is a certainty.
Referring to the action looking to the
closing of Greensboro Female College. Col
john r. Webster writes the following in
the last issue of Webster's Weekly:
4 CALAMITY HAS BEFALLEN US.
The closing permanently of Greensboro
Female College last week by its owners,
is nothing less than calamity to this
section of the State and to the Methodist
Episcopal church., South. 1t has long
heen leading institution for the higher
equcatlOn of women and few, if any of
our colleges have sent out, from year to
year larger number of we'll equipped
graduates than it has.
This is particularly true of the first
forty years Of It's existence, when it was
presided over by Rev. Solomon Lee Rev.
Charles T. Deems and Rev. T. NJ. Jones
-he~e were great educators and the col
-tge was then owned by the Methodist
chHrch, and all the time filled with stud
ents
Inquiry is safe as to what caused the
5ailure Of this noted school. Different
answers are being given and different in-
hNences may have contributed to It's down
'a.a. but we know mucn Of It's history and
We nave taken some pains to inquire of
".hrfS and We do not hesitate to say that
""al Is generally known in this section
'S higol~m has brought this calamity
oDon Greensboro and the State.
Jf. Dred Peacock, who for ten OF
we've years, until a year ago, presided
over TINS institution, for some unaccOunt-
oo'e reason. felt called upon, against the
@'@hes Of the former President Of the
.','l STOCK Company that owned it, Gen.
IMAM ,. Carr. to become the champion
'1' defender of Rev John C. Kilgo, who
>RE nothing Of the fact that he has been
nee convicted IN the civil court, fol
~ ''sI. mas been a stIrer up OF strife al
rl'9sh the Methodist church in Nortl
'''lna, and has done inconceiva bic
3Aase to lis educational and religious
and for several years Peacock
l'|ed to use the college in the in
,Nr Oh kIlgo. This drove many of the
c. ''Nhda to other schools and Genera
. not being willing to be connected
"tibiI W nose pOUcy WcS III
'H opposition to what he conceived
Wise and right, retired from it:
a a"r>@lsement and sold his stock to Ml'
co,. DdAe. Then Mr.. w. r. Odell, OF
K1a.'"' bind follower of Rev John G
of ~ was made president Of the Boart
Can. '''.'olS The retirement of Genera
ua ana the promotion of Mr.. OdeIl, put
or r r.'"eee practically under the contro
da, t. hIso management and from that
ana '.S late was sealed. The Kilgo spirit
Iatfar' 'o''y say rule or ruin, and thC
.srl generally follows
cb.r.I people of Greensboro and of tn,
re.ra,'. ought TO hold the guilty partie
ezc,.a 3''e Tor this calamity. There is NJ
befar, .I i'F 1t, They had ample evidenc'
astral, '''ir eyes to show them the dis
Tba,, ana bhghting effect Of Kilgoism
the ,,l ""' seen Burlington Academy one
out rrrr'perty Of the Durham district. g,
Mount. our hands. They had seen PHO
church n, academy pass entirely from
control They had seen old Trinity