The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-06-28
TRINITY TRUSTEES MEET
This Meeting Will be Held in a Day
or Two to Consider Organization
of the College---Views Of
Colonel Webster.
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Durham, N. c., June 27.-There is a
movement on foot to build in connection
with Trinity College a great female col
lege and meeting of the executive com
mittee of the board of trustees of Trim
ity will 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 move was on foot and said
that while the plans were definitely con-
ceived 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-
terprise at Trinity would sonserve 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 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-
half of higher education for women.
Ssrethihg definite will be done at the
meeting of the executive committee of
Trinity next week. 1t is considered that
the Woman 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:
CALAMITY HAS BEFALLEN US.
The closing permanently of Greensboro
Female College last week by its owners.
is nothing less than a calamity TO this
section of the State and to the Methodist
Episcopal church, South 1t has long
been leading institution for the higher
education of women and few if any Of
our colleges have sent out, from year to
year, larger number of well 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 Soloman Lee. Rev.
Charles F. Deems and Rev. T. NJ Jones
These were great educators and the col
lege was then owned by the Methodist
church, and all the time filled with stud
ents.
Inquiry is safe as to what caused the
failure of this noted school. Different
answers are being given and different in
duences may have contributed to its down
TALL, but we know mucn of its history and
we have taken some pains to inquire of
others and we do not hesitate to say that
what is generally known in this section
as Kilgoism has brought this calamity
upon Greensboro and the State
DIR. bred Peacock who for ten or
twelve years. until a year ago. presided
over this institution, for some unaccount-
able reason, felt called upon, against the
wishes of the former President of tho
Joint Stock Company that owned it. Gen.
Julian s. Carr, to become the champion
and defender of Rev John C. Kilgo. who.
to say nothing of the fact that he has been
twice convicted in the civil court, for
SANDER has been stirer up of strife all
through the Methodist church in North
Carolina. and has done inconceivable
damage to its educational and religious
interests. and for several years Peacock
has tried to use the college in the in
terest of Kilgo This drove many of the
hest friends to other schools, and General
Carr not being willing to be connected
with an institution whose policy was d.
rectiy in opposition to what he conceived
20 be wise and right, retired from its
management, and sold his stock to Mr.
3. N. Duke. Then Mr. w r. Odell. OF
Concord, blind follower of Rev. John c.
Kilgo was made president of the Board
OF Directors. The retirement of General
Carr and the promotion of Mr.. Odel put
The college practically under the control
of the Kilgo management and from that
day its fate was sealed The Kilgo spirit
and policy say rule or ruin, and the
latter generally follows
THE people of Greensboro and of the
church ought to hold the guilty parties
for this calamity. There is no
excuse for it. They had ample evidence
before their eyes to show them the dis
astrous and blighting effect of Kilgoism.
They had seen Burlington Academy once
The property of the Durham district. go
out of our hands. They had seen Pilot
Mountain Academy pass entirely from
church control. They had seen old Trinity.
once the pride of the Conference, drag
along for years and then close its doors,
md everybody who knew the facts, ex-
cept a very few, saw where Greensboro
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