PAGE TWO
The Future of Duke
Virginian-Pilot Editor Discusses Uni
versity’s Situation and Prospects
(From the Chapel Hill Weekly)
In the February numoer of
McNaught’s Monthly, Louis I.
Jaffe, editor of the Norfolk Vir
ginian-Pilot, has an article en
titled “Duke University’s Bid for j
Greatness. Mr. Jaffe lived in
Durham and a few years ago
was a student in the institution
before its name was changed
from Trinity to Duke.
His analysis of the {present
situation of Duke University,
and his speculations upon its
future, are preceded by a brief
summary and bequests which it
has received, he sums it all up
with the statement that “it is
to have the • costliest physical
plant ip America” and “the fu
ture value of its productive en
dowment is certain to be
$50,000,000,
Then he proceeds to consider
what the university will do with
its newfound wealth. Here are
presented extracts from the ar
ticle:
“Dmkt is i«t U extinguish its in
tellectual spark im an. orgy of uplift.
Its aim is ts be great rather than big.
*A college must in large part be a
produet of development and not a
forced growth/ said President W. P.
Few, taking over the helm fifteen
years ago from his predecessor, the (
late Bishop John C. Kilgo. Dr. Few
carries a torch lighted at Harvard.
Dean W. H. Wannamaker and his
ablest colleagues have bathed in the '
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robust academic freedom of the Sor
bonne and Leipzig. Professor R. L.
Flowers, business genius of the Uni
versity, steers by the sign of a dis- i
criminating tolerance. These leaders
of greater Duke will not, if they can
help it, tolerate a sacrifice of true
learning to the dulcet temptation of
mere service.”
, * * *
“Rich Duke University will be, but
not purse-proud or exclusive; dedi
cated to social service, but guarding i.
the pure flame of scholarship and in- 1 ‘
sisting on academic thoroughness;
open to men and women of all sects j
and creeds and welcoming them with
out regard to where they come from, I
but selecting its student body dis
criminatingly and restricting it to ‘
numbers not too large for successful |'
and dstinctive assimilation. That may
be said to be the present purpose of j
those who are plough ng Mr. Duke’s
millions into the 4,000-acre tract of ’
Durham County hill and dale which j ‘
is presently to become a Tarheel V>r- ;
sailles embellished with fountains,
bridges, lagoons, a golf course ana a
towering campanile, and sprouting a .
forest of Gothic halls.” j ‘
* * *
“What has been said up to this i;
point suggests the essential reason- I
ableness of the expectation that Duke !
will become a vital in Southern ]
education. That is not the same
thing as saying that it may hope to 1
become a great seat of learning in ! 1
that term’s world or even national j 1
significance. It will have the mater- !
iai wherewithal for such an achieve
ment but between it and the shining
goal there are certain imponderable
and certain circumstantial barriers. !
An inherent difficulty is the straitness
of its connection with a powerful,
sensitive, socially and politically a
lert religious denomination. Twenty
four of its thirty-six trustees are
elected, twelve each, by the two
North Carolina Methodist Confer
ences. Twelve are elected by the 1
trustees themselves from the alumni
at large. The trustees are ultimate
masters over professorships and pro
motions, degrees and honors, courses
and ourricula. It is true that the Con
ferences cannot nominate. They can
only approve or disapprove nomina
tions made by the self-perpetuating
board es trustees. Their power is
analageias to the Senate’s ‘advice and
consent’ function in the case of for
eign treaties. No one need be remind
ed hew deadly that power can be
come in certain emergencies. In the
neighboring college of Wake Forest,
a comparable although not identical
denominational control of the trus
tees is being resorted to by Baptist
fundamentalists to hold over the head
of a president who preaches Christ
and evolution, the threat of summary
dismissal.”
o * *
“Justice to the traditions and pre
cedents of Trinity Coilege requires the I
statement that in the main it has a i- ■
ministered its academic trust with a,
tegrity, liberality and independent*. j
There was, for example, the case of
Dr. J. S. Bassett, professor, of history, !
who published en h a own respond- j
bilifcy am article on the race question
ttftt brought the community, indud-
ng many influential alumni, to its
feet with a demand for his head. Dr.
Bassett offered • his resignation but :
both the trustees and faculty declined
to accept it. Their memorials on this
incident, now yellow with the dust of
twenty-two years, have the dignity of
an academic bill of rights.”
* * %
“Trinity has managed a high de
gree of academic self-determination
under its sectarian stewardship, but
the college was small and the era non- |
contentious. The situation has radi- !
cally changed. Trinity has become
Duke with ambitions to become a
great university. What was simple
for the old college is Lkely not to be
so simple for the new. One year ago
Lhe embattled fundamentalists fought
at Raleigh for a law like that later :
passed by Tennessee. The University
of North Carolina round’y denounced
this assault on academic freedom, but
no sound in protest was heard in the ,
legislative halls from the institution
whose faculty twenty-two years be
fore was prepared ‘to tolerate error
as long as reason is left free to com
bat it’ and whose president on assum
ing the robes of office had defined it
to be one of the functions of the
highest type of Southern college ‘to
stand for correct ideals and even J
fight for them'-when necessary’ and to '
‘throw itself unreservedly into the,
doing of the supreme duty of the
hour\” ,
♦ * *
“The bill was defeated but it may ,
come up again. The controversy is
a symbol of what has been going on 1
in the imperfectly defined field of
religion and education ever since Abe- 1
lard. Always when the Galileos sue- J
ceeded in making Nature a little
clearer, the Popes cried out that some- (
body was destroying their God. Al- ,
ways it has been a false alarm. From I
Abelard’s earliest university down to
our own Congregationalist-born Yale i
and Harvard, great seats of learning 1
have found that the free pursuit of
truth in all its phases is best carried ‘
on independent of ecclesiastical aus
pices. On neither side of the At- ,
lantic does there exist today a uni- '
versity of national or world rank that *
does not in respect of denominational 1
control, assert and enjoy complete J
autonomy.” j (
* * *
“Duke, freshly emerged from Trin-
ity, is a free university in a strictly ]
qualified sense —not in the under- |
standing of that term at the College <
de France, Cambridge or Harvard, t
It extols free speech but its leading <
intellects find it convenient and com- 1 '
sortable to practice the fine art of (
reticence. There are no sacred cows
ostentatiously belled, but by long tra- j
dition and no doubt by an impercep- 1
tible osmosis from denominational (
councils innumerable, there has been j
perfected at Duke an attitude of i
pietistic restraint, a disposition to a- !
void grappling with social controversy i
and intellectual unrest, and to stick
to the unadventuring muttons of po- j J
lite learning. The university will j
have the money with which to hire (
Michelsons, Remsens, Deweys, Pupins, j
William Jameses and Basil Gilder- ,
sleeves, but it has yet to acquire the
full academic enfranchisement that <
would enable them to live and teach 1
I
there at their ease. It has yet ’
to achieve that academic adult- (
ness that would make James Ilarvey
Robinson as welcome an addition to
its history staff after he wrote his 1
‘Mind in the Making’ as he would have
been before.”
1 * $ *
“If Duke University, lacking the
Jeffersonian tradition and be ng in
addition handicapped in catholicity of
appeal by its organic affiliation with
Methodism, expects not only to neu
tralize the pull but even in some
measure to reverse it, it must perform
something in the nature of an academ
ic miracle. Many years—fifty, at
least —will have to be allowed for
such a consummation.”
* * *
“The whole South has still great
monsters of obscurantism, prejudice,
partianship and ignorance to slay be
fore it can become an environment
capable of discriminating between a
true aristocrat among seats of learn
ing and a scholastic department
store ministering to educational and
vocational arrivism. The level of liv
ing and thinking among tho millions
from which Duke must drs*w its stu
dents cannot but have its effect on
the kind of institution Duk} will be.
It earn march only so far ahead of the
P rocession.”
# % •«!
“Duke has great wealth and a ?t.■•at j
vineyard in which t > uo us-ku! v-oro
For the work in the vineyard it needs j
>o further preparation. F r the more '
exacting work in the higher readme ;
j of scholarship, for the ser-ice v-:..:L j
along can make a name for ic among j
| the world’s great seats of icarrch. itj
i needs chiefly two things —comp..-etc j
| autonomy and time.”
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j Misses Gordie Harmon r .r.d I; }
. Berry roocored tc R . \ ! 'd >■&-• :
evening to see the p.;, . .
the famous comedian, Will ho : :
SHARK GOD’S WRATH
■ OF LITTLE MOMENT
L Qk ' '.J'’
Overcome by Peace Offer •
isig, or by Cement?
Hawaiian natives prophesied calami
ty when ground was broken in Octo
ber. 1909, for the construction of Pearl
harbor, America’s strongest naval sta
tion, on the shore of the island of Oahu,
near the city of Honolulu. For their
legends said that on the site selected
for the immense dry dock were the
caves in which the shark god once
lived. Their belief was based on the
presence of numerous sharks in the vi
cinity.!
When, on February 17, 1913, the im
mense coffer dam collapsed, the natives
fancied that the shark god had avenged
himself for the desecration of his tem
ple. The construction ' company in
charge of the naval works believed that
faulty engineering rather than one of
the ancient island gods was responsi
ble for the collapse, and requested au
thority to proceed with the project.
The opposition of the natives was so
strong that many conferences were
held before the Navy department
agreed upon the plan which has since
been developed.
When work began anew in December,
1914, the natives, believing that an
other disaster was Inevitable, did what
they could to avert it, and retained a
female “kahuna” or priestess. They
believed she possessed the ability to
appease the wrath es the Shark god
by making efferings, and engaged her
to conduct her rites en the shores es
Pearl harbor during all tha timo that
tho dry dock was being reconstructed.
In the spring es 1919 all was in readi
ness for the release es the water from
the new deck. Thia was regarded as
the supreme test. A Hawaiian fere
man sacrificed a white pig and white
chicken to the shark god, with prayers
and supplications that the dry dock
be spared.
The pumping began. It was noticed
that a muddy streak arose in the vva
ter within the docks. The Hawaiian?
then insisted that the shark god was
again attempting to break down the
structure by boring through the basin
As the last foot of water was pumped
out the remains of an immense shark
were revealed on the bottom of the
dock, and naturally the Hawaiians be
lieved that it was the god which had
destroyed the lirst dock. The bones
were distributed among the members
of the construction crew as souvenirs
Engineers who have studied both
the first and second dry docks have
been inclined to scout the efforts of
the priestess in appeasing the shark
god, and to credit the success of the
second work to the fact that the pres
ent basin has a concrete thickness ol
16 feet, while the collapsed dock had
a base of only 8 feet.
Cancer on Increase
A careful analysis of cancer statis
tics gathered by the United States
census bureau over a period of about
twenty years in ten Eastern states re
veals definitely that cancer mortality
is from 25 to 30 per cent higher than
it was about twenty years ago, accord
ing to Dr. J. W. Schereschewsky of
the United States public health serv
ice, who made the statistical analysis
and reported it to the American Medi
cal association. “There has been a
pronounced increase in the observed
death rate from cancer in persons
forty years old and over In the ten
states comprising the original death
registration area,” Doctor Schere
schewsky said. “Part of this increase
is due to greater precision and ac
curacy in the tilling out of death re
turns, but the remainder is an actual
increase in the mortality of the dis
ease.”
Plan Prehistoric Park
Twenty-seven acres of land just
south of Hollywood will be converted
into a prehistoric park by the Los
Angeles Museum of History, Science
and Art. A large number of bones of
prehistoric animals have been found in
the asphalt beds in this small area. If
the plans work out, the park will be
planted with trees and shrubbery as
nearly as possible like those which
grew there when the saber-toothed
tiger, imperial-tusked elephant and
their, contemporaries roamed in the
jungles of southern California. Pre
historic animals, reproduced in stone,
will be placed in this reooaatrucu.U
Jungle.—-Pathfinder Magazine.
Counting the Pennies
“Getting to work from an all-night
poker party is sometimes something
of a problem,” says a downtown busi
ness man. “The oilier morning after
an awfully bad session, I found I had
just a few minutes in which to reach
my office several miles distant. I
had onP’ $1.24 nut l called a taxi
cab. 1 kept one eye on the meter and
when the bill amounted to sl.lO, I or
dered the driver to stop. I wanted the
'„en cents for coffee and sinkers and
the four cents for luck. —Detroit News.
Little Choice
First Casualty—What happened to
you?
*‘Been teaching my wife to drive the
car.”
“Aii, ha! Why didn’t you act sen
sibly. as l did? Mine wanted me to
teach her. and I refused.” —Judge.
She Knew the Game
Traffic Cop—l’m sorry, miss, but
I’ve got to mg yoi r car. Yojl know
what tlm*. means? ™
The Sweet Young Thing—Certainly.
Now l chase some’ >dy else and tag
Hwsa and then they re “it.” —Life.
THE CHATHAM RECORD
is a prescription for
Colds, Grippe, Flu, Dengue,
Bilious Fever and Malaria. ‘
It kills the germs.
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MORTGAGE SALE OF LAND
Under and by authority of a mort- j
gage deed executed to T. L. Dowd by
Horace Dowd and w»fe, Agnes Dowd,
dated January 7, 1924, the debt for
which said mortgage is security, not
Having been paid at date due, I will
offer for sale at public auction at the
Court House Door in Pittsboro, on
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1926-,
at 12 o'clock noon, the land described
as follows:
Lying and being in Gulf Townslrru
Chatham County, beginning in In
dian Creek at the mouth of* Spruce
Hill branch and lip said branch, to an
'ash stump, supposed to be the corner; :
thence east 94 poles to a white stone :
and Jointers; thence nortji 108 poles
to ap ash on the bank of the creek;
cnence up the said cicmc to the begin
ning, containing 35 acres more or less, j
.terms, cash.
This January 28, 1926.
T. L. DOWD,
Mortgagee.
Feb. 4, 4tc.
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NOTICE OF SALE OF LAND UN
DER DEED OF TRUST
Under and by virtue of the power
contained and conferred in and by
a certain Deed of Trust executed by
J. W. Sanders, Sr., to Daniel L. Bell,
Trustee, on the 9th day •# April,
1925, and registered in the ©flee of
the Register of Deeds for Chatham
County in Book “GL” at pages 181-2,
default having been made in the pay
ment of the indebtedness thereby se
cured having requested a sale of the
land thereby conveyed to secure the
payment of the same, the undersigned
Trustee will, on
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23RD, 1926,
AT 12:00 O’CLOCK, NOON,
AT THE COURT HOUSE DOOR
OF CHATHAM COUNTY IN PITTS
BORO, N. C. sell, at public auction to
the highest bidder for cash, the fol
lowing described tract of land, located
in Gulf Township, Chatham County
North Carolina, which is bounded anc
described as follows:
Beginning at a stake, Peter Evaim
corner in J. A. Dowas line running
South with Evans line 71 poles to a
stake; thence North 88 3-4 degrees
West 144 1-2 poles to Daniel Dowas
line; thence North 5 1-2 East 73 1-2
poles to a post oak, W. A. Sanders
jorner; thence South 87 degrees East
142 poles to the beginning; contain-
A. C. RAY
Attorney-at-Law
PITTSBORO, N. C.
W. B. CHAPIN, M. IX
PITTSBORO, N. C.
Office Now Opposite Former Office
Telephones: Office, 43. Residence, 39
VICTOR R. JOHNSON
Attorney-at-Law,
PITTSBORO, N. C.
Office: over Farmers Bank.
Practices in all courts —Federal, State
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