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2 TRINITY COLLEGE GOES FORWARD " One of the First Colleges in the South. HONOR TO METHODISM IT RANKS WITH THE FOREMOST; METHODIST COLLEGES. AN INTERVIEW WITH PRESIDENT KILGO A Glance at Its Glorious History-lts Usefu Present-And Its Bright Future- lts Next Session Opens Sep tember 6th. Durham, N. C., Aug. 24.-(Staff Cor respondence.) —The most talked-ahout man in North Carolina to-day is Dr. j John C. Kilgo, President of Trinity Col-j lege. I heard him preach his first ser mon after he came to North Carolina to become president of Trinity College. 1 knew then that he was a man who would run in no ruts, hut was a 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 a 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 lec tures aiul addresses without number; traveled 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 coining to North Carolina has been the wisest thing for Trinity College, for it has grown and prospered as never before under his progressive administra tion. From the first there has been the pleasantest relations between the presi WILLIAM H. PEGRAM, A. M., Professor of Chemistry, Geology and Astronomy. dent and the members of the faculty, and the board of trustees. There has not been a jar in the internal manage ment. The same cordial relations have subsisted between the student body and the president and faculty. Dr. Ivilgo 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. I chanced 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 linos 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. N. Duke; through the commodious and admirably adapted buildings; and as we went talk ed with an enthusiasm and spirit that was contagious. I asked him questions that I thought would bring out the best features of Trinity College, and he answered in a full and clear mariner, giving expression to the purposes that animate the faculty and enlarging upon the advantages offered to the youth who are so fortunate as to matriculate here. INTERVIEW WITH DR. KILGO. How are your facilities now for sue cessful and complete college work?” I asked President Ivilgo. “Trinity is decidedly in better condition to do high grade college work than it has ever been in its past history. The policy of Trinity College is different from that of any other southern institu tions. We have suffered in the South from the idea of “extension.” “Forty acres to the mule” has been our agricul tural doctrine, and the same influence lias wrought in all the linos of southern life; nowhere more so than in our eol- M w' .i:\ j > ■'•"■ 1 /? ■• // * y WILLIAM I. CIIANFORI), Pli. I>.. Professor of Philosophy and Greek. legos. The entire tendency is to cover large scope, and hence there is weakness in every line of work. It is the easiest thing in the world to make a University in the South. I regard this policy os the most ruinous to anything like educational perfection, and I have reversed this poll" at Trinity and intend to build up from the inside. M o have fourteen schools and employ fourteen professors and tutors. To give you an idea of what I mean by the policy ui -Ln,,!,. .n.ls I K.w.'..eded in securing another professorship for the college. I did not mid n new school to 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 a larger scope. So if 1 had ten new professorships given to the college I 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 Ihe South, you note the fact that our ambitious young men attend northern institutions simply because they cannot ! secure in Southern institutions the facil ities for doing special work. 'I his is not liecause we have not the ability in the South to do special work, hut bc- I cause we have squandered it by an attempt to cover too much ground. I felt sure that in a few years I will he able to double the force* in nearly all the departments of work. “The faculty which the trustees*have associated with me I regard one of the most remarkable faculties I have ever known. They represent Wofford College, Trinity College, Annapolis. Wesleyan College, Vanderbilt University, Kansas tlniversity, Hopkins University, 3k ale University, Harvard, Cornell and Leip sic, thus bringing together a large range \'WJ ? / \ k- / JOHN S. BASSETT, Ph. I>„ (J. H. U.) Professor of History and Political Science. of study and being up to tbc most modern methods of scientific investigation. | “We are constantly building at Trin- I ity. Some new* improvement is made i every week during the year. Just two | years ago the Historical deportment be- I gan to collect relics for the Historical Museum. We now have dn many re spects one of the most interesting collec tions 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 a new library building. “You would be surprised to know the amount of w T ork done by our Faculty; not simply their work in the college, but their work in the community and throughout the State. “I have been much gratified with the commendations which Trinity has receiv ed from northern papers and educators. I am greatly wedded to our policy and feel sure that it will more than vindi cate itself. “Wkit are the prospects for the ap proaching session, judging from indica tions observed in your visits to and communication wuth the friends and pa trons of the college?” I asked. “I am most highly gratified,” replied President Kilgo, “with the prospects During the summer I have travelled much through the State and come in contact wiith the leading men of our church. I have not heretofore met so much enthusiasm. In fact, I 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. I 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 ROBERT L. FLOWERS (U. S. N. A.) Professor of Pure and Applied Mathematics. to their churches for the conservation and development of the highest princi ples of life. I have never been so much gratified at the prospects of the church colleges as I am now. “I notice that you have added a ‘co educational’ feature. Will you make this a leading feature of the institu tion?” I asked. “We will admit women just as we admit men. Female education in the South lias reached a crisis,” said Presi dent Ivilgo. ‘‘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 lias 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. 1 “It is useless for our women to go j north when they can be provided for in I Southern institutions. At ’lrinity they I 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 I Trinity will be easily recognized for their superior intellectual development and ' scholarly attainments. | “We are now constructing an elegant building for the accommodation of our 1 young women. It will be equipped with j ail modren improvements and ho super intended by a capable hrdy. This is the first woman’s home at Trinity, and as tile demand increases we will build other homes for them. We think this plan pro THE S EWS AND OBSERVER, AUGUST 26, 1897. ferable to one large building. The pre sent building will accommodate twenty to twenty-five young women. It will be on the northwest side of the Duke build ing and in full view of the Southern Railroad. “There are numbers of young women who are teaching school and who really desire to take some advanced work in college. Such young women can attend Trinity, elect sjiecial departments, and letter fit themselves for the line of work they wish to carry on. 1 regard this new departure in Trinity College as one of the greatest blessings over offered our young women in the State. 1 feel sure that hundreds will take advantage of it. I “You asked me a moment ago concern ing our facilities for successful college work. One ]H>int 1 overlooked. When | moving the college to Durham was in .contemplation very many of the friends thought it would endanger the morals of the students to he located in a city. This had its weight, but our experience has vindicated the fact that it is easier to manage a body of students in a eit.v than it is in a small village. I think this arises from the fact that in a city a | student body is largely absorbed and is not influenced by that conceit which j must come to a student body when it realizes that it is the most imiKtrtaut sac tor in the town life. Resides, there are restraints upon a student hotly tit u city which, in a smaller community, arc wanting. “1 have received the highest com mendation of the conduct of our student* from citizen* of Durham. “I regard the location of Trinity as of great educational value. Our students art* put in touch with the largest cultural and business life .and easily become acquaint ed with the leading men of North Caro I Him. as well as leading men of other States. I can best illustrate this value by referring you to the study of sociology. jWe are in the millet of all sociological {problems, from sanitation and tenement • houses, to the most delicate relations of the highest circles of society. The study of this science is, therefore, not a theory, but a fact. What is true of sociology is | true of many other lines of etudji. In fact, a large part of a man’s education is gotten outside of the school-room, and the college that has not a large environ ment must be limited in its opportunities. “This was the leading influence which moved the college to Durham, and it lins ( been more than vindicated.” HISTORY OF THE COLLEGE. A college is like a tree. It must grow. You cannot start one full grown, no mat ter how many fine buildings you have, how much new apparatus, or how able a faculty. Y’ou must plant the seed in good ground; you must water it and dig 1 about it; you must fertilize it with the sacrifices and labors of consecrated men; you must enrich it with the achievements 11 1 .pep JEROME DOWD, Professor of Political Economy and Sociology. of its alumni; you must tend it with prayers and labors unnumbered. And you must trust much to Time to ripen it and make it the full grown, splendid product. Trinity College was born in 1838 as a high school, called Union Institute, in Randolph county, starting to meet a lo t 1 ' T WASHINGTON DUKE BUILDING, TRINITY COLLEGE. cal demand on the part of the leading citizens for educational advantages for their children. The late Rev. Brantly A’ork was principal until 1842, when Rev. Braxter Craven was elected principal. He continued at its head, becoming pres- EDWIN MIMS, A. M., Professor of English Language and Literature. ident later on aud remaining president of the college with a short intermission dur ing the war, until his death, Novem ber 7, 1882—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. Lie started with a little country academy, doing all the teaching himself. lie was a great teacher, another Mark Hopkins in capacity to inspire his students to rise to the height of all that was in lliein. JR* started 'in with a boy, no matter how poorly endowed, to make him think he could he somebody. He told him that he could he somebody. He showed him hat at was only by diligent application to hooks that he could learn, lie himself, self-taught, was an object lesson of what apliention and brains could accomplish. Under such teaching as Dr, ('haven im parted, the institute grew until there was a demand that it provide special instruc tion for teachers, ami so, in ihfil, it was j tft'v, ’ , / a- A .... . .... . a . . -—— Da. chartered as a Normal college with a larger faculty and better equipment. Be fore the end of thin 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 convening at Beaufort, accepted the transfer of the property ,and re-chartered it under the name of Trinity College. The first class graduated in 1853, and from that date to the outbreak of the Civil War, the insti tution enjoyed an unusual degree of pros perity. During the Civil War it kept its doons oponed, with a small attendance, the work of instruction l>eing interrupted only from the time of the encamping of troops on the college grounds in the spring of 18G5, until the following Janu ary, an interval of five scholastic months. In 18(53, Dr. Craven resigned as presi dent and Prof. W. T. Gannaway was elected and held the position until Dr. Craven was re-elected in January, 18(50. 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 ery way from that hour, receiving in 1883 its first bequest for an endowment from Dr. Siddle. Upon the death of Dr. Cra ven, November 7, 1882, Prof. W. 11. Pe gram became chairman of the faculty, in which capacity he served until June, 1883, when Rev. M. L. AVood, D. D., was chosen president. Upon the retire ment of Dr. AVood in 1884, Prof J F. Ilcitman became chairman of the faculty, serving until June, 1887, when Dr. John Franklin Crowell was elected to the presidency. It w as during Dr. Crowell’e administra ion as president of Trinity that the col ege was moved to Durham, after much debate and discussion by its friends. Dn. 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 lina that our institutions of learning ought to he located in the country of iu villages. Os course there was eomecop position to the removal by good friends of the college, particularly lon 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 lo cate the college in Raleigh. Shortly there after, Mr. Washington Duke, one pf the leading manufacturers of the South —an ardent and liberal Methodist—stated to Rev. E. A. Yates, D. D.. and others that if the trustees would locate Trinity col lege at Durham, he would erect A com modious building and donate fift-y thou | sand dollars toward an endowment. As | soon as there was a suggestion t.b locate at Durham, Col. Julian S. Carr, tvho had (given generously to Trinity for twenty j years at its old location, offered to do jnate 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, aud 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 religious and business environment are not sur passed by any community of ftlic 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 Ilian they could ho in any village or small town. Such in brief is the history: of Trinity College up to the election of Dr. Kilgo to the presidency in 1894. The full his tory is written in the hearts of the Meth odists of North Carolina, and jn the achievements of its nlum j fii in all the walks of life. There is no department of progress or usefulness that has not been touched ami helped by the alumni of 1* is Chris tian college. The breadth and spirit of i Craven have never left the college, and the earnestness and consecration and i fteholnrship of Dr.Kilgo and his associates give a tone that is all that parents could desire. The future historian will write of this as one of the greatest periods of the college, the beginning of a ’pros perity and usefulness much larger than the college has heretofore known. BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS. The location is an ideal one. The site which Col. Carr donated had been used as a park and for holding fairs. It con tains G3V» acres. Situated in the ex treme w T est end of Durham, there was ample room for the future needs of the college. The entrance to the park is ■from the south side through a sightly and elegant iron gate that spans the entire avenue leading to the AVashing ton Duke building. The grounds have been improved in every way under the guidance of a landscape gardener, and Mr. B. N. Duke, who donated the arch entrance, has of his own means, taken A. 11. MERRITT, A. 8., Professor of Latin nnd German. in hand the mattcNof beautifying the park. It is growing into such beauty as to be the admiration of nil who pass through Durham. The “Washington Duke Building” is located near the centre Inf the park. It 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. It is a three-story brick build ing, covered with slate, lighted with electric lights, heated with warm ah, t and ventilated by the famous Rattan < Warming and Ventilating system-a | widely approved system for supplying 3 pure air, warm or cold, and removing 1 vitiated atmosphere from a building, ii r J his is the system in use in over forty < of the govern! it school buildings in 1 Washington, D. C. it contains fifty siv < dormitories on the second and third | floors; twelve lecture rooms and offices; 1 bathing apartments on every floor ex- ’ Cept the first; dry-closet system; under- ' ground drainage from the inside and from 1 the surface about the building; a base ment 208x50 feet, the size of the build ing. thus rendering the building pro if against unsanitary conditions. It may he well said to lie the “most complete college building in the State,” in point ! ! of ventilation, architecture, comfort and modern conveniences. | The Crowell Science Building is a large ; j brick building, three stories high. It was built through the benefaction, of Dr. John Franklin Crowell, President of Trinity College, 1887-1894, 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 | iimy. The entire second floor is devoted ! to schools of Physics and Biology; the | third floor is occupied by the laboratoiy and class-rooms of the school of Chem istry. The dynamo-room is in the base ment. The Epworth Hall is a college build ing of extraordinary merit, both in nr ehitectual design and in point of utility, j It contains 75 dormitories, two parlors, | the college chapel, a dining-hall having ! a seating capacity of 250, and a waiting j room. It is heated by warm air and j lighted by electricity. Its sanitary ar rangements are complete, including bath rooms on each floor. This building was a gift from Mr. W. Duke, and cost thirty thousand dollars. “Braxter Craven Hall.” is a new building that the alumni projmse *o erect during the coming year. Rev. N. I M. .Turney has headed the subscriptions with SI,OOO and there is not a shadow of doubt that this building, to contain a great auditorium, will be ready for i use within a year or two, The residences of the Faculty and offi i cers. of the college are mostly on Facul 'ty Avenue, in the college park. They ! are furnished with bath-rooms, cold and 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 bv a 720 light dynamo install ed by the General Electric Company of New York. SOUTH ENTRANCE TO TRINITY COLLEGE PARK. THE COLLEGE FACULTY. Dr. John C. Kilgo is a native of South Carolina and the soil of a Methodist preacher. He was raised in the itiuera ey. On his mother’s side he has a large Alethodist ancestry. He was educated at AVofford College. After quitting college he entered the pastorate and remained for six years. He was then elected as AY. P. FEAV, Ph. 1)., (Harvard), Professor of English Language and Literature. agent for his Alma Mater. In IS9O he was elected to the chair of philosophy in Wofford College, which chair he filled till 181)4, when he was elected president of i Trinity College. Besides being president of Trinity College, he is also professor in the Avera School of Bible Study. He ic- I spires young men to higher things. His j is no dry and pedantic teaching as dull I as reading the pages of a Concordance. Bible study under Dr. Kilgo is illuminat ed and made fresh. There is no lack of interpretation iu 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 “to know of the doctrine is to do the will of God.” Speculation and abstract study have no place, but the Bible is studied as a 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. It 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 iu a proper study of the Bible. Dr. Kilgo is u teacher of great power aud force, imparting his instruction with an interest that is most stimulating nnd helpful. The student body goes into his lecture room with gladness . l’rof. W. 11. Pegram is a native of North Carolina nnd a graduate of Trin ity College. He has been connected with the college for more than twenty years. He is held in highest esteem by his stu dents, and never fails to impress him self upon his classes ns a man of high in tegrity and pure character. lie always takes n great interest in hi .'•department and has his laboratory in good working order. Prof. Robert L. Flowers is a native of North Carolina and a 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 methamatios is one of the argest to be found in any Southern col lege. As professor he is very popular, while at the same time very exacting in his work. \V. I. Cranford, Ph. I)., is a native North Carolinian 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 eetual giant." lie never fails to enithuse his classes on philosophical questions,and most modern standards, j John S. Bassett, Ph.D., is a native of Girth Carolina, and an alumnus of Trin t.v 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 ous 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 J. I. IIANNAKER, PIl. D. lie Received His Degree at Harvard University. museums to be found iu any college in the Southern States. The number of his torical pa pci's published by him and his students evidence his ability to fill this department of work. Prof. Jerome Dowd is a native North Carolinian, an old student of Trinity Col- I lege, and studied in New York City. It is I well 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 eal facts and never fails to awaken en thusiasm in his classes. Prof. Edwin Miins is a native of Ar kansas, and took his M. A. degree at Vanderbilt University. During the past year he lias been at Cornell and will next year receive his doctorate degree in English language and literature. Ho is a man of remarkable brightness and ex traordinary enthusiasm. He has made for himself an enviable reputation as a lec turer. AA’hile his body does not indicate great physical strength, nevertheless he has wonderful powers of endurance, and docs a large amount of work outside his J class room. He is one of the potent sac- I tors in the life of Trinity College. I Prof. A. H. Merritt is a native of New | York. He graduated from AVesleyan Uni i versity and spent a year in Germany, j lie 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. lie exerts a large intellectual influence upon the life of Durham. lie is a man of immense rc {sources and his knowledge is of the widest range. j A\\ P. Few, Ph. D., is a native South ! Carolinian, a graduate of AVofford, after I which lie received his doctorate degree from Harvard, having been a student un der the late Dr. Childs. Few men have uch native scholarly instincts as has Dr. ! Few. He has been at Trinity only one year, hut has impressed himself upon the ] college community as a man of incalcula {hie value. Probably the highest compli jment ever paid a young man in the South j was paid him when a friend of the col ego 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. 1. Ilannaker, Ph. D., is a native of Kansas and a graduate of Kansas Uni versity. He received his doctorate de ree from Harvard. He comes to Trinity I with the highest recommendations. He Is a man of great energy ns well as accurate cholarship, and will no doubt fill all the cinnnds of the college . Besides those full professors, there are four assistants in the various schools of work. During the past year Mr. P. V. Anderson, of AVilson; Mr. AV. 11. Adame, f Bethel; Mr. Z. F. Curtis, of Luther, and S. S. Dent, of Jefferson, were the assistants. All of these young men gave (Continued on Page Four) Johnson’s Chill and Fever Tonic Cures Fever In One Day .
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