The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-11-24

year the college has grown, until at
present it is as described above. From
year to year large sums of money have
been donated and with a large en-
doWment fund OF six hundred thous-
and dollars Trinity stands among the
leading colleges.
The highest product of education is
character, and in the government of
the college this aim controls all meth
DDS. Military regulations are avoided,
because force can never produce per-
sonai character. Students are trusted
and when it is found that they cannot
respond to confidence they are quietly
advised to return home. The best
Ideals. are constantly presented to
them and if they do not aspire to lofty
purposes in life it is not due to care
less government of the college. Every
influence for the development of Chris
tan character is given a student at
Trinity College, and every effort is used
to develop in the student the higher
ideals of manhood and womanhood
and a reverence for divine things y
devotional service is conducted in the
Memorial Hall every morning and all
students are expected to attend thlS
service. Every Sunday students at
tend the various churches scatterd
throughout the city and suburbs:
Some of them accomplish much GOOD
in the mission churches which means
a great deal TO them, to others, ana
sDeaks well for the college. The I.
NJ. c. A. also does great good IN de-
yeloping the Christian side of stu
dents character. Trinity stands Tor
Christian education and truly we are
not educated until the heights of truth
and knowledge have been attained.
This is the forty-siXth year of Trim
ity College and the attendance is larg-
er than it has ever been. The Law
Department was added this year and
it is regarded BY all as one of the
most notable and significant move
ments the college has made with
in recent years Would that
had time to so more into detail about
the history of the college, its growth
and present condition, but as time is
short / will speak briefly of two lead
ing issues of the college, the Wo-
mans College and the Library. FIRST
let us take up the Woman's College.
AS said before the most notable ana
significant movement the college has
made is the opening of IT'S doors to
women, giving them the same adVant-
ages offered to men. For long time
ueople had the idea that women were
not as capable as men and therefore
should not have the same advantages,
but this idea is fast dying out and
now woman is placed on IN eqlal
footing with man, and all the leading
colleges are opening their doors 10
her, that she may compete with man
for college honors. Trinity realized
the need Of higher education for wo-
men. and in 1896 Mr.. Washington
Duke donated one hundred thousand
dollars as permanent endowment
fund. The gift was made on the con-
dition that young women be given all
the privileges granted to young men
as students at Trinity College. Later
the Womans Building was erected IT
is a modern structure, we'll equipped
and in every way adapted to the COM
fort and health of young women. Each
year the number of women students at
Trinity has increased until 1t has be-
come necessary to have larger
building and for this reason Trinity
College is to have an annex Tor Wo-
men which will result in untold good
towards the education of women in
our Southland. Woman is just as
capable as man and why should she
be denied the right of higher educa-
ton?
The news was spread with joy, of
the great Womans College in connec-
ton with Trinity College. On June g.,
! 1904, Immediately after the com
mencement exercises the decision of
the Board of Trustees was announced
| by President Kilgo. The College is to
cost $4,000. Two great gifts We're
announced in connection with this
move Mr.. B. \. Duke, of this CITY,
| and his brother, Mr.. j. b. Duke, of
| New York, gave to this fund tract
of land adjoining the Trinity tract,
/, valued at $4,000, and an additional
| $4,000 in cash. In addition TO these
| gifts other private donations from
members of the Board of Trustees were
i hi
| places the donations at 100000. The
only condition placed upon the gifts
is that the Methodist people of North
Carolina shall raise an additional $780,
! 600. This will be no hard matter to
| do and the Woman'S College, to be
known as Woman's Annex to Trinity,
| is now an assured fact. The board
readily saw that Il woman IS Depart
ment of the college, giving to women
| of the State the same privileges and
| rights as are given men in the great
! embodiment of the college, yet to be
! separate ard distinct in it's work, was
/ the idea.
| In deciding to take this step, the
| Trustees passed the following resolu-
ton: Being moved by desire to
/ fully carry out the wishes of Mr..
Washington Duke in December, 1896,
and to offer to the young women of
| higher education that are given to
young men, the trustees Of Trinity
! College have determined to establish
1.-The Woman's Anrex to Trinity Col
| lege."
The Wonan's Annex shall be a
part of Trinity College, but it shall
be q distinct college. governed by
such regulations Us may be deemed
necessary for the purpose of its es-
| Enlistment The President of Trinity
College will be the president of the
Womans College. A dean is to be
chosen by the trustees of Trinity,
who shall have charge OF the detailed
nagement of the Wom9n's Annex.
The College will be operated under
tie charter of Trinity and have affixed
to all official papers the seal of Trinity.
The standard IF entrances, the courses
of study and requirements for gradu-
alton Will be the same as they are in
Trinity. The faculty for the two
will be the same and all women grad
yates will be given their degrees under
the seal of Trinity College.
In short there viii be ? Woman S
College separate and distinct from
Trinity, yet with all the advantages
afforded by Trinity's great endow-
ment fund and other advantages af-
forded.