LIBRARY 
 
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 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA. 
 
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THE INAUGURATION OF 
 PRESIDENT WILLIAM PRESTON FEW 
 
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THE INAUGURATION 
 
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 WILLIAM PRESTON FEW 
 
 A.M., PH.D. 
 
 AS PRESIDENT OF 
 TRINITY COLLEGE 
 
 DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA 
 NOVEMBER 9, 1910 
 
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INTRODUCTION 
 
 At the annual meeting of the Board of Trustees in Tune, 
 1910, John Carlisle Kilgo, A.M., D.D., LL.D., President 
 of Trinity College since 1894, tendered his resignation, 
 which was made necessary by his elevation to the office of 
 bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, at the 
 general conference which met in Asheville, North Carolina, 
 in May. At the same meeting the Trustees elected as 
 President of the College William Preston Few, A.M., 
 Ph.D., Dean of Trinity College. 
 
 The Trustees authorized, at the time of the election of 
 President Few, the appointment of a committee to make all 
 necessary arrangements for the Inauguration, which should 
 take place as early as possible in the following autumn, 
 but not until the Washington Duke Building, West Wing, 
 could be completed. The committee chosen consisted of 
 Professors Flowers, Brown, and Wannamaker. 
 
 Many of the citizens of Durham felt that the coming 
 of so many distinguished scholars and educators to the 
 city should, in some fitting way, be recognized. The 
 initiative in this movement was taken by the Merchants' 
 Association. To aid the movement, Mayor Griswold 
 issued a proclamation, urging all citizens to co-operate. 
 After conferences between representatives of the College 
 and the citizens, arrangements were effected for making the 
 day an occasion for both the College and the city. The co- 
 operation of the citizens added greatly to the eclat of the 
 Inauguration, and the hospitality of many of them in 
 welcoming to their homes the guests of the College made 
 the problem of entertainment easy. 
 
Many of the alumni, invited guests, and delegates 
 reached Durham on Tuesday, November 8, but most of 
 the delegates, especially those from the North and East, 
 came on the morning of the ninth. To make it possible 
 for them to reach Durham in time for the exercises at 
 nine o'clock, the College operated, from Greensboro to 
 Durham, a special train (consisting of dining-car and 
 Pullmans), which connected at Greensboro with trains 
 from New York, Washington, and from points in the far 
 South. Professor Brown, of the Committee on Arrange- 
 ments, met the delegates at Greensboro and accompanied 
 them to Durham. The train, which was stopped near 
 the entrance to the campus, was met by a delegation 
 representing the College and the citizens. The entire 
 party was conveyed in automobiles to the Washington 
 Duke Building, West Wing, where all delegates and guests 
 enrolled and put on academic costume. 
 
 The Washington Duke Building, West Wing, which 
 was practically finished, was presented to the Trustees at 
 a quarter to ten o'clock. For the presentation exercises 
 tickets had been issued to the alumni, members of the 
 Faculties and their wives, the Trustees, the guests, and 
 delegates. Mr. Frank L. Fuller presented the building 
 for the donor, Mr. Benjamin N. Duke, and Mr. James 
 H. Southgate, President of the Board of Trustees, accepted 
 it for the Trustees. 
 
 Immediately after the presentation of the building the 
 delegates, specially invited guests, members of the Board 
 of Trustees and of the Faculties of the College, and the 
 alumni moved, at the direction of the marshal, in the 
 order of procession, to the Craven Memorial Hall, where 
 the exercises of Induction were held. As the first section 
 of the procession was mounting the steps of the Hall, the 
 chorus, which consisted of over thirty of the city's most 
 talented singers, led by Mr. T. Edgar Cheek, began the 
 processional hymn, "How firm a foundation"; the audience 
 
joined in the singing, while the members of the procession 
 entered the building and repaired to the seats reserved 
 for them. Section I, consisting of the members of the 
 Faculties and the alumni, was seated in the section in 
 front of the stage, while those in sections II and III, con- 
 sisting of the delegates and specially invited guests, members 
 of the Board of Trustees, officers of the College, and 
 speakers, took seats on the stage. 
 
 When all had been seated and the singing of the pro- 
 cessional hymn had been finished, the head marshal, 
 Professor Flowers, introduced the Reverend Stonewall 
 Anderson, who offered the Invocation. Bishop John 
 Carlisle Kilgo, the retiring President, representing the 
 Board of Trustees, then inducted President Few into office, 
 presenting to him the Charter and Seal of the College. 
 When President Few had accepted, in earnest words, the 
 trust committed to him, the head marshal introduced 
 the speakers who delivered addresses of congratulation 
 William Walton Kitchirf, Governor of North Carolina, 
 in behalf of the Commonwealth, and Harry Pratt Judson, 
 President of the University of Chicago, in behalf of the 
 honored delegates. Then followed President Few's in- 
 augural address, after which the exercises of Induction 
 were closed with the Benediction, pronounced by Fred- 
 erick William Hamilton, President of Tufts College. 
 
 While the orchestra was playing, the procession moved 
 from the Craven Memorial Hall to the Washington Duke 
 Building, West Wing, where the delegates, in the order of 
 the foundation of the institutions which they represented, 
 were presented by Professor Brown to the President of 
 the College, the Retiring President, the Governor of the 
 State, and the Commissioner of Education of the United 
 States. 
 
 At the close of the Presentation of Delegates, a photo- 
 graph, which is reproduced in this volume, was made of the 
 delegates and guests before they assembled at the luncheon. 
 
Promptly at half -past one, the delegates, guests, members 
 of the Board of Trustees and of the Faculties, and the alumni 
 more than three hundred in all were summoned, by the 
 music of the orchestra, from the dressing-rooms to the 
 luncheon given by the President and members of the 
 Faculties. After making a most pleasing address, James 
 Hampton Kirkland, Chancellor of Vanderbilt University, 
 acting as toastmaster, called upon Abbott Lawrence Lowell, 
 President of Harvard University, Andrew Fleming West, 
 Dean of Princeton University, Elmer Ellsworth Brown, 
 Commissioner of Education of the United States, John F. 
 Downey, Dean of the University of Minnesota, William 
 Walton Kitchin, Governor of the State, Frederick Sheetz 
 Jones, Dean of Yale University, and Edwin Boone Craig- 
 head, President of Tulane University. 
 
 While the delegates and guests were at the luncheon 
 given at the College, the ladies accompanying the dele- 
 gates were being entertained at a luncheon at Greystone, 
 the residence of Mrs. James Edward Stagg. 
 
 At the conclusion of the luncheon the delegates and 
 guests were taken over the city in automobiles and then 
 conveyed to the homes of the citizens who had kindly 
 offered to entertain them. 
 
 At nine o'clock P.M. Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Newton 
 Duke gave a reception, at their home on Chapel Hill Street, 
 to the delegates, guests, Trustees, alumni, members of the 
 Faculties, and friends. 
 
 Since some of the delegates desired to attend the meet- 
 ing of the Association of American Universities at Char- 
 lottesville, Virginia, on the following day, November 10, 
 the College arranged for Pullmans to be operated by special 
 train from Durham to Greensboro and thence by regular 
 train to Washington so that the trip to Charlottesville 
 might be made in time for the first session of the Asso- 
 ciation. The special train left Durham at half-past eleven, 
 immediately after the reception. 
 
About eleven o'clock P.M. the students of the College 
 turned out in a body to celebrate the occasion. Each 
 carrying a brilliant torch or lantern, they marched to the 
 home of Mr. Duke to serenade the hosts and lingering 
 guests, visited the railway station to speed with songs and 
 cheers of appreciation and good-will the departing guests 
 on the special train, held up the President's automobile, 
 on its way from the reception, to manifest their love for 
 him in heartiest cheers and special songs, and closed the 
 night's serenades with a visit to the home of the Retiring 
 President to show him, by touching tokens, their genuine 
 affection for him and their deep appreciation of his long 
 and unselfish service to the institution which had been 
 so singularly honored in the exercises of the day. 
 
CONTENTS 
 
 PAGE 
 
 PRESENTATION OF THE WASHINGTON DUKE BUILDING, WEST 
 WING 3 
 
 ORDER OF THE PROCESSION 15 
 
 PROGRAM OF THE EXERCISES OF INDUCTION . . . .19 
 
 THE INVOCATION 23 
 
 THE INDUCTION AND THE PRESENTATION OF CHARTER AND SEAL 27 
 THE ACCEPTANCE 33 
 
 ADDRESSES OF CONGRATULATION: 
 
 Governor William Walton Kitchin 37 
 
 President Harry Pratt Judson 39 
 
 THE INAUGURAL ADDRESS 47 
 
 THE PRESENTATION OF DELEGATES AND GUESTS . . -59 
 
 SPEECHES AT THE LUNCHEON: 
 
 Chancellor James Hampton Kirkland, Toastmaster . .67 
 
 President Abbott Lawrence Lowell 71 
 
 Dean Andrew Fleming West . . . . . . -75 
 
 Honorable Elmer Ellsworth Brown 79 
 
 Dean John F. Downey 83 
 
 Governor William Walton Kitchin 89 
 
 Dean Frederick Sheetz Jones 95 
 
 President Edwin Boone Craighead 99 
 
 APPENDIX: 
 
 Forms of Invitations, Circulars, etc 107 
 
 Reduced Copy of the Program . 135 
 
 Circular of Information for Delegates and Guests . .141 
 
 Circular of Instructions to Alumni 143 
 
 Circular of Information for Members of the Faculties . . 145 
 
 Circular of Information for Marshals 147 
 
 Tickets of Admission 149 
 
APPENDIX (Continued) PAGE 
 
 Facsimile of the Order of Seating at the Luncheon facing 151 
 Luncheon Menu. Announcement-Form . . . .151 
 
 Facsimile of Announcement-Form 153 
 
 Delegates from Other Institutions 157 
 
 Specially Invited Guests 165 
 
 Board of Trustees of Trinity College 169 
 
 Faculty of Trinity College 171 
 
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 
 
 PRESIDENT WILLIAM PRESTON FEW .... Frontispiece 
 
 THE PROCESSION RETURNING FROM CRAVEN MEMORIAL HALL 
 
 Facing page 1 7 
 
 BISHOP JOHN CARLISLE KILGO .... Facing page 27 
 A GROUP OF THE DELEGATES AND GUESTS . . Facing page 157 
 
THE PRESENTATION 
 
THE PRESENTATION OF 
 
 THE WASHINGTON DUKE BUILDING 
 WEST WING 
 
THE PRESENTATION EXERCISES 
 
 9:30-10:00 A.M. 
 
 THE PRESENTATION 
 
 FRANK LANNEAU FULLER 
 
 In behalf of the donor, Benjamin Newton Duke 
 
 THE ACCEPTANCE 
 
 JAMES HAYWOOD SOUTHGATE 
 
 The President of the Board of Trustees 
 
THE PRESENTATION 
 
 FRANK LANNEAU FULLER 
 In behalf of the donor, Benjamin Newton Duke 
 
 Mr. Benjamin N. Duke, the giver of this building, has 
 asked me to present it to the Board of Trustees of Trinity 
 College. On this glad occasion Mr. Duke presents the 
 building to this College with great good-will because he 
 believes the College stands, and will always stand, for the 
 things that promote peace, security, and strength in the 
 State and in the Nation. As a new administration is this 
 day formally put in charge of the College, he wishes for it a 
 long life of wide-extending influence and usefulness. 
 
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THE ACCEPTANCE 
 
THE ACCEPTANCE 
 
 JAMES HAYWOOD SOUTHGATE 
 The President of the Board of Trustees 
 
 In behalf of the Board of Trustees of Trinity College 
 and with deep and grateful appreciation I accept this hand- 
 some building now nearing completion. It is welcomed for 
 its own sake and for its own uses, and it is the more gladly 
 welcomed because it is but the first in an extensive and 
 imposing scheme of buildings which will be pushed to com- 
 pletion as rapidly as possible, and which, when finished, 
 will give the College adequate housing for a good many 
 years to come. But it is most of all welcomed because it is 
 just another in a long series of benefactions from one whose 
 heart and hope and resources never fail the College. For a 
 decade and a half those who work at the problems of this 
 college have been steadily inspired by the unfailing sym- 
 pathy and the wise care and thought that have been 
 lavished upon the College by him whose philanthropy has 
 made possible this building and so much of the success of 
 the College that high-minded, true-hearted friend and 
 benefactor, Mr. Benjamin N. Duke. For good deeds like 
 these and especially for good-will like this the College can 
 never be sufficiently grateful. But it will do its best to pay 
 such debts by intense devotion to progress and the widest 
 human service. 
 
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THE PROCESSION 
 
 [After the Presentation Exercises, the Honorable Dele- 
 gates, Specially Invited Guests, Members of the Board of 
 Trustees and of the Faculties, and the Alumni formed in pro- 
 cession and moved to the Craven Memorial Hall.} 
 
ORDER OF THE PROCESSION 
 
 CHIEF MARSHAL 
 AIDS 
 
 I 
 
 AIDS 
 
 THE PROFESSORS OF THE COLLEGE 
 
 THE PROFESSORS IN THE SCHOOL OF LAW 
 
 THE ASSISTANT PROFESSORS OF THE COLLEGE 
 
 THE OTHER MEMBERS OF THE FACULTIES OF 
 THE COLLEGE 
 
 THE ALUMNI OF THE COLLEGE IN ORDER OF 
 THEIR CLASSES 
 
 II 
 
 THE COLLEGE MARSHAL 
 
 THE DELEGATES FROM OTHER INSTITUTIONS 
 
 THE SPECIALLY INVITED GUESTS 
 
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Ill 
 
 AIDS 
 THE MEMBERS or THE BOARD or TRUSTEES 
 
 THE BURSAR, Bearing the Keys 
 THE LIBRARIAN, Bearing the Charter 
 
 THE SECRETARY TO THE CORPORATION, 
 Bearing the Seal 
 
 THE DEAN OF THE FACULTY OF LAW 
 
 THE DEAN OF THE COLLEGE 
 
 THE PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES 
 
 THE MAYOR OF THE CITY OF DURHAM 
 
 THE GOVERNOR OF THE COMMONWEALTH 
 
 THE REVEREND STONEWALL ANDERSON 
 
 FREDERICK WILLIAM HAMILTON, President of Tufts College 
 
 THE RETIRING PRESIDENT 
 
 HARRY PRATT JUDSON, President of the University of 
 
 Chicago 
 
 THE PRESIDENT-ELECT 
 
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THE INDUCTION 
 
THE EXERCISES OF INDUCTION 
 
 THE CRAVEN MEMORIAL HALL 
 
 PROCESSIONAL HYMN 
 
 1 How firm a foundation, ye saints of the Lord, 
 Is laid for your faith in His excellent Word ! 
 What more can He say than to you He hath said, 
 Who unto the Saviour for refuge have fled ? 
 
 2 "Fear not, I am with thee, oh, be not dismayed, 
 
 For I am thy God, and will still give thee aid; 
 
 I'll strengthen thee, help thee, and cause thee to stand, 
 
 Upheld by My righteous, omnipotent hand. 
 
 3 "When through the deep waters I call thee to go, 
 
 The rivers of sorrow shall not overflow; 
 For I will be with thee, thy troubles to bless, 
 And sanctify to thee thy deepest distress. 
 
 4 "When through fiery trials thy pathway shall lie, 
 
 My grace, all-sufficient, shall be thy supply; 
 The flame shall not hurt thee : I only design 
 Thy dross to consume, and thy gold to refine. 
 
 5 "Even down to old age all My people shall prove 
 
 My sovereign, eternal, unchangeable love; 
 And when hoary hairs shall their temples adorn, 
 Like lambs they shall still in My bosom be borne. 
 
 6 "The soul that on Jesus hath leaned for repose, 
 
 I will not, I will not desert to his foes; 
 
 That soul, though all hell should endeavor to shake, 
 
 I'll never, no never, no never forsake!" 
 
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INVOCATION 
 
 THE REVEREND STONEWALL ANDERSON, D.D. 
 
 Corresponding Secretary of the Board of Education 
 
 Methodist Episcopal Church, South 
 
 THE INDUCTION AND THE PRESENTATION OE 
 THE CHARTER AND SEAL 
 
 JOHN CARLISLE KILGO, A.M., D.D., LL.D. 
 
 The Retiring President, Bishop of the 
 Methodist Episcopal Church, South 
 
 THE ACCEPTANCE 
 
 THE PRESIDENT OF THE COLLEGE 
 
 ADDRESSES OF CONGRATULATION 
 
 THE HONORABLE WILLIAM WALTON KITCHLN 
 
 The Governor of the Commonwealth 
 
 in behalf of the State 
 
 HARRY PRATT JUDSON, A.M., LL.D. 
 
 The President of the University of Chicago 
 
 in behalf of the Honorable Delegates 
 
 THE INAUGURAL ADDRESS 
 
 PRESIDENT WILLIAM PRESTON FEW, PH.D. 
 
 BENEDICTION 
 
 FREDERICK WILLIAM HAMILTON, D.D., LL.D. 
 The President of Tufts College 
 
 MUSIC 
 
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THE INVOCATION 
 
INVOCATION 
 
 THE REVEREND STONEWALL ANDERSON, D.D. 
 
 Corresponding Secretary of the Board of Education 
 
 The Methodist Episcopal Church, South 
 
 God of our fathers, we praise Thee; we worship Thee. 
 Infinitely worthy art Thou to receive our adoration. We 
 depend upon Thee for all sustenance, both material and 
 spiritual. Thou art the fountain of all power and knowledge 
 and wisdom and righteousness and goodness in heaven and 
 in earth. Out of the eternal stability and harmony of Thy 
 life flow all law and all order in the vast domain which lives 
 and moves and has its being in Thee. 
 
 "Behold the heaven and the heaven of the heavens 
 cannot contain Thee." Thou art the God of all worlds 
 and of all life, the contemporary of all time and of all 
 eternity; still, Thou art very near unto us this day; in Thy 
 Son we have come to know Thee as our Father-God, inter- 
 ested in our lives and in our labors. In Thy great Spirit 
 Thou art in us to purify and to ennoble, the joy of our 
 hearts and the inspiration of our achievements. 
 
 Through men whose lives were dominated by faith in 
 Thee, Thou didst establish this institution of learning; 
 hitherto it has been conducted by men who have ever 
 relied upon Thee. 
 
 Cause this great assemblage to be profoundly conscious 
 of Thy gracious presence, we implore Thee. Richly bless 
 him who is this day inducted into the office of president of 
 this college. Throughout his administration may he have 
 illumination and wisdom and strength from Thee that he 
 
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may worthily discharge the responsible and delicate duties 
 of this office. Do Thou continue to dwell in fulness of 
 blessing in the lives of the instructors and students, trustees 
 and benefactors, and friends and patrons of this institution; 
 and may they give to the President effectual and hearty 
 cooperation and support. Cause, Thou, the affairs of this 
 seat of learning to continue to be so controlled and directed 
 that it shall be more and more, as the years come and go, 
 a potent agency in building wisely and well the Common- 
 wealth and the Nation, the Church to which it belongs, and 
 the Kingdom of Thy Son. 
 
 Forgive our offenses, receive our praise and worship, 
 and grant our petitions, we ask in the name of Christ, our 
 Lord. Amen. 
 
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THE INDUCTION AND THE PRESENTATION 
 OF THE CHARTER AND SEAL 
 
THE INDUCTION AND THE PRESENTATION OF 
 THE CHARTER AND SEAL 
 
 JOHN CARLISLE KILGO, A.M., D.D., LL.D. 
 
 The Retiring President, Bishop of the 
 Methodist Episcopal Church, South 
 
 Both for personal and official reasons I count it a high 
 honor to be the delegated representative of the Board of 
 Trustees at this joyous instant of your inauguration into 
 the presidency of Trinity College. I do not violate the 
 proprieties of the occasion when I assure you, Sir, that your 
 election to this office was wholly due to a well-founded 
 faith in your personal character and your eminent fitness 
 in every way to discharge the large and delicate duties 
 that belong to it. You are no stranger to this college and 
 it is no stranger to you. The fourteen years of wise, 
 devoted, and efficient service you have given here have 
 afforded you ample opportunity to learn the spirit 
 and the aims of Trinity College, and fairness requires me 
 to say that your labors have been one of the leading factors 
 in its remarkable progress. Trustees, alumni, and its hosts 
 of friends, scattered throughout the earth, with glad confi- 
 dence, commit this day to your keeping and defense the 
 virtue of their college and their Alma Mater, feeling well 
 assured that you will do all within your power to promote 
 its good and make it an everlasting source of light and bene- 
 fit. It is evident that Trinity College is now entering upon 
 the largest chapter in its history and that the Greater 
 Trinity College will be the term by which your adminis- 
 tration will be best distinguished and described. 
 
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But I heartily congratulate you upon coming into the 
 possession of such a large organ through which to express 
 your thought and faith, and such a great agency through 
 which to serve your day and generation. In saying this 
 I do not have in mind simply the material assets in grounds, 
 buildings, endowment, and apparatus, all of which are 
 absolutely necessary and, as you already well know, cry 
 perpetually for enlargement, but I have in mind especially 
 those immense assets you can never itemize on your stock 
 accounts or value in the terms of the market. 
 
 You will find inspiration in the labors of the other gen- 
 erations of men who have wrought here and whose spirits 
 seem to breathe in the life of the College. All the material 
 resources here are the translations of faiths and loves and 
 hopes, a mighty volume in which has been written the 
 stories of the noblest impulses that stir the human heart. 
 The voices of generous benefactors will always call to you, 
 and the deeds of their unselfish hearts will always be be- 
 fore your eyes. As an illustration of immovable courage, 
 untiring energy, unselfish devotion, patriotic faith, and a 
 belief in mankind, the history of this college is unsurpassed 
 if, indeed, it is not unrivaled among southern colleges. 
 Every page of its record blazes with the glory of a faith 
 that will hearten you for your responsible tasks. 
 
 Among the most valuable resources of Trinity College 
 are great hosts of friends, composed of high-minded, patriotic, 
 and progressive American citizens. They are devoted to 
 this college, and their devotion through all the past years 
 has been a tower of strength, even as an indestructible 
 wall about it. 
 
 But, Sir, there is a Trinity family, and a great family it 
 is. Year by year it increases. It has its sacred roll of 
 noble sons who did grandly their work and died, but her 
 highest hopes and proudest days are not in the ceme- 
 tery. Her sons in every honorable walk of life, laboring 
 as they are in all quarters of the globe, by their fidelity to 
 
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duty, allegiance to truth, and loyalty to all that is high, 
 are adding new splendor to the name of Alma Mater. 
 They love their college because they believe in it. Sacred 
 to them as the virtues of their human mothers is the virtue 
 of this college. They will keep a jealous watch over you 
 as the guardian of their Alma Mater, and, Sir, they will be 
 to you a right hand of power in all your labors for the good 
 of Trinity College and the services it may tender state, 
 nation, and church. 
 
 There is a spirit of unity and cooperation that pervades 
 and rules the life of this college. Out of a good and some- 
 what vigorous experience I can speak on this matter with 
 much certainty. The Board of Trustees, the members of 
 your faculties, and your students will give you cordial and 
 unstinted support, and you may trust them as the unvary- 
 ing companions in a common labor. 
 
 However, there are limitations, though of truth and 
 righteousness, and these do not restrain they make free. 
 The formulated doctrines and aims of Trinity College give 
 unity and continuity to its history; so administrators may 
 change, but the principles and purposes do not change. 
 That you may be well advised of these things, I am com- 
 missioned by the Board of Trustees to present to you first 
 the Charter of Trinity College. It bears the great seal of 
 the Commonwealth and confers upon this college all its 
 rights as an educational corporation. And by this act of 
 the Legislature this college is in the truest sense a part of 
 the State's system of education. 
 
 I also present to you the Seal of the College. The 
 design is a simple design, but upon whatever document 
 it is impressed it is a mark of dignity and a guaranty of 
 honor and honorable dealings. 
 
 Lastly, I present you, Sir, a copy of the Constitution and 
 By-Laws of Trinity College. By these you will be guided 
 in administering the affairs of your office. In the first 
 article is set forth in these clear and positive terms the 
 
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policy of the College: "The aims of Trinity College are to 
 assert a faith in the union of knowledge and religion set 
 forth in the character of Jesus Christ, the Son of God; to 
 advance learning in all lines of truth; to defend scholar- 
 ship against all false notions and ideals; to develop a Chris- 
 tian love of freedom and truth; to promote a sincere spirit 
 of tolerance; to discourage all partisan and sectarian strife; 
 and to render the largest permanent service to the individual, 
 the state, the nation, and the church. Unto these ends 
 shall the affairs of this college always be administered." 
 
 The Trustees having chosen you to the presidency of 
 this college, I now by their orders invest you with all the 
 dignity, privileges, and authority of the office and pray that 
 Almighty God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, may 
 grant you wisdom, patience, courage, and strength to do 
 all the things required of you. 
 
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THE ACCEPTANCE 
 
THE ACCEPTANCE 
 
 WILLIAM PRESTON FEW, PH.D. 
 The President of Trinity College 
 
 These symbols of the office which the Board through 
 you has committed to me I accept in a full sense of 
 the responsibilities. I will do my level best to keep the 
 future worthy of the past and to make the College serv- 
 iceable in all possible ways to the causes of men. 
 
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ADDRESSES OF CONGRATULATION 
 
ADDRESS OF CONGRATULATION 
 
 His EXCELLENCY, WILLIAM WALTON KITCHIN 
 The Governor of North Carolina 
 
 I am very, very glad to participate in the pleasure of 
 this great occasion, which has brought together so many 
 distinguished gentlemen from this and other states. The 
 occasion is one of great importance in the history of the 
 educational life of North Carolina. Our state, year after 
 year, is placing a greater premium upon cultural progress. 
 It is laying broad and deep the foundations of popular 
 education. It has witnessed the completion of a public 
 schoolhouse every day for the last seven years. The 
 number of our sons and daughters who demand collegiate 
 training is rapidly increasing and must continue to increase 
 even more rapidly as material prosperity, on the farms, in 
 the factories among all classes of our people increases 
 in our state. There must be more and more young men 
 who will desire higher learning. Trinity College has done 
 much in the past, is doing much now, and will continue to 
 do much in the future to supply this demand. Her sons 
 are filling honorable and useful positions throughout the 
 State. Two of them today represent this state in the 
 United States Senate, and two of them are in the lower 
 house of Congress. Ladies and gentlemen, the demand 
 of our young men and young women for more thorough 
 training and higher education must force all of our seats 
 of learning rapidly to enlarge their capacity. 
 
 As Governor of North Carolina, I congratulate Trinity 
 College on its new President. I congratulate him upon 
 
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the honorable, useful, and responsible position which he 
 assumes. By training and ability, by character and cul- 
 ture, he is worthy of the trust which today rests upon 
 his shoulders, and, in the name of the people of North Caro- 
 lina, I extend him good cheer and hearty sympathy in his 
 task. He now becomes the center of your college life. 
 From him will radiate the ideals and aspirations in large 
 part that will inspire those who kneel at Trinity's shrine. 
 I count not only Trinity College but also North Carolina 
 fortunate in the promotion of Dr. Few to this eminent 
 position. Splendid buildings, full libraries, extensive labo- 
 ratories, alone, can never impart the inspiration that leads 
 to a better life and a useful manhood. The youth looks 
 up and catches it from those who bear the principles and 
 elements of good character and noble conduct in their own 
 lives. The intellectual paragon may be neither just nor 
 useful to his fellows he may even be the curse of man- 
 kind. The learning that leads neither to justice nor to 
 service to humanity is cruel, is heartless, and undesirable. 
 
 Ladies and gentlemen, fortunate it is for the young 
 man or young woman of the South to sit at the feet of 
 Christian culture, full of deep sympathy, broad humanity, 
 and unwavering integrity. 
 
 Therefore, in the name of the State and its people, I 
 again congratulate Trinity College upon securing such a 
 competent successor to the talented, the magnetic, the 
 eloquent Bishop Kilgo. 
 
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ADDRESS OF CONGRATULATION 
 
 HARRY PRATT JUDSON, A.M., LL.D. 
 The President of the University of Chicago 
 
 To share in the higher education is an honor and a 
 privilege. To be intrusted with the executive direction 
 of an institution devoted to that education involves also 
 a heavy responsibility. The college has a unique function 
 in our American life, infinitely potent for good certainly, 
 and perhaps for ill. It means, we say, the dissemination 
 of knowledge the college is an institution of learning. 
 Knowledge is a privilege, is a power, is a danger. It is 
 indeed the key which unlocks the gates of good and evil. 
 Every high civilization has been the fruitage of profound 
 knowledge. All barbarism, all defective civilization, is the 
 concomitant of ignorance. The increase of human knowl- 
 edge, both in the acquirement of new truths and in their 
 wide distribution, has brought new forms of comfort, of 
 safety, of happiness. The mastery of new forms of truth 
 has meant control of the forces of Nature by human will 
 and for human use. It has also meant a better organiza- 
 tion of society, protection for the weak, justice and security 
 for all. Our enlightened age, we think, has remedied 
 many evils. We know how to remove the causes. By 
 intelligent sanitation we have made the Isthmus of Panama 
 the salubrious home for toiling thousands. We can elimi- 
 nate yellow fever and malaria and typhoid. Modern 
 scientific medicine has displaced the blind dogmatism of 
 the old practice and saves its tens of thousands where the 
 old schools cured their hundreds. We have done away 
 
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with serfdom and with political autocracy. Republics 
 in fact or in substance have displaced despotisms. Schools, 
 colleges, hospitals abound. We care for the indigent, for 
 the sick, for the insane, and we seek to open the blessings 
 of education to all the community. Enlightenment, in 
 other words, knowledge, has been everywhere at the root 
 of this wonderful progress. 
 
 The theory that knowledge is the exclusive attribute of 
 any artificial social class has everywhere broken down. 
 There will always be enough of those who are ignorant. 
 It will always be hard enough to keep the progress of the 
 world in the lines of intelligence, and it needs a constant 
 influx of cultivated brains for the adequate educated power. 
 English aristocracy lives because of a constant transfer 
 from nobility and commons and the reverse. The new 
 creations pour into the nobility a tide of new blood. So 
 the aristocracy of education is constantly reinforced by 
 nom homines, the parvenus of culture, if you like, whose 
 rugged strength supplies the loss of educated feebleness. 
 
 Perhaps not all the college-trained men reach the height 
 of culture which rigorous study implies. The ages are not 
 very unlike. Youth is about the same in all the generations 
 and in all lands. Those who are willing to engage in 
 severe mental toil have always been the remnant. The 
 joys of life and the bliss of idleness have always had a 
 charm for young sensibilities. Those who have become 
 scholars, not merely by virtue of what they know, but 
 because they understand and because they have learned 
 to think consecutively, these are, and always will be, the 
 minority. The masses in schools of all grades will always 
 do the minimum of work and will seek the maximum of 
 pleasure. The college may be a source of benefit to such. 
 Surely it is if it gives some tincture of education of mind 
 and if it successfully trains to a noble standard of conduct. 
 But it is idle to expect that the lofty ideals of the scholar's 
 life and attainments will be those which characterize the 
 
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great body of those who pass through college walls. The 
 true test, then, of what the college does is in its production 
 of a chosen few who will be the leaders of thought. The 
 English idea of a pass and an honor course in a sort of way 
 recognizes this diversity of result. The leaders of every 
 age are the men who really create the age. The rough- 
 hewn but powerful men who, with little schooling, yet 
 give direction to social advance, are the outcome of tem- 
 porary conditions. In an older civilization, like that of 
 England and Germany, we find the university men, on the 
 whole, in the seats of the mighty. As the ages pass and the 
 turbulent waters of our new land settle into quiet, we may 
 expect that here, too, the trained men will usually be in 
 the places of authority. 
 
 Of late years there has been an increasing amount of 
 criticism of our colleges, bearing both on their efficiency 
 to do what they profess to do in their special work, and on 
 the character of the young men who form the student-body. 
 It is not my purpose at this time to consider how far these 
 criticisms are well grounded. This only I beg to have you 
 observe: the colleges are no isolated phenomenon, but 
 are a part of society and may be expected fairly to reflect 
 the general social conditions. The ideals, methods of life, 
 and standards of judgment which pertain to society at 
 large these we must expect to find among the college 
 students. On the whole they will differ little in their ethi- 
 cal standards from the average of men outside the college. 
 They will seek the same sort of pleasures and will subject 
 life as it passes to much the same sort of criticism. No 
 college authorities can segregate their students from the 
 world, even should it be a part of the world, a part of the 
 world in the making, if you please, but still a part of the 
 real world, not an abstract fraction shut in by library 
 walls. College boys will be uniformly self-denying, high 
 minded, industrious, when American society is character- 
 ized by self-restraint and simplicity of life. 
 
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But, in fact, our riotous material prosperity has got 
 into the heads of modern society like a strong wine. Is 
 there not too far an inversion of values in much of our 
 present-day thinking ? Is not the final test of the conduct 
 of life too generally put in the attainment of happiness? 
 Is not this the secret of a large part of the self-indulgence 
 which is so freely charged to the colleges ? 
 
 But the philosophy of happiness as the main end, a 
 modern pseudo-epicureanism, is totally fallacious. Hap- 
 piness as an immediate object of pursuit is the will-o'-the- 
 wisp, it is the end of the rainbow it is anything you 
 please which signifies what crumbles in the grasp and 
 vanishes away when seized. The true standard of life, 
 then, is not the attainment of happiness, but obedience to 
 duty and honor. This is always within the limits of the 
 attainable. Happiness belongs to the realm of tomorrow. 
 Duty is with us now, and honor is the breath in the nostrils 
 with each heart-beat. Happiness may or may not come 
 to one whose life is under the sway of a high sense of duty; 
 whether indeed such a one attains happiness is a question 
 wholly secondary. A sense of living an honorable life, 
 if not itself happiness, is at least a good substitute for it. 
 Life is worth living, with or without material success, if 
 indeed it is a life of duty faithfully done. And the brightest 
 promise in our modern age lies in those, within or without 
 college walls, who grasp this conception of the main values 
 of life and are seeking to render service rather than to grasp 
 at gratification of the senses. 
 
 Here, then, lies the function of the college to keep 
 inflexibly true to the ideal of intellectual attainments as 
 a worthy aim and to set self-restraint and honor above 
 pleasure as a just standard of life. The college thus will 
 do its part toward that revival of the fine spirit of chivalry, 
 which is the salt that keeps sweet any society worth pre- 
 serving at all. 
 
 I have been speaking, as becomes the occasion, of the 
 
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college, not of the university. The latter, if it is a cluster 
 of colleges, as we often find, has at bottom this same funda- 
 mental aim. Quite commonly, to be sure, there is a second 
 purpose in a university of this class, the fitting of the student 
 for some specific function in life. But this adaptation, 
 valuable as it is, by no means is adequate to the best social 
 results unless the basic idea of college education is also 
 preserved inviolate. The engineer is an important factor 
 in economic progress; but the engineer who fails to real- 
 ize acutely the honor of his profession, who for a moment 
 consents to tarnish that honor by connivance with dishonest 
 contractors, or who in any other way puts immediate per- 
 sonal profit above fidelity to professional ideals, is not 
 better, but far more dangerous to the community by virtue 
 of his technical education. The graduate of the law school 
 also is fitted at much cost of time and money to enter on an 
 honorable calling. The political organization of the state, 
 and the rendering of justice between man and man, will 
 always lie largely in the hands of the legal profession. The 
 lawyer who scrupulously observes a lofty sense of duty to 
 the public, rather than to a paying client, is of enormous 
 value to the society of which he is a member. The legal 
 shyster is an eruption on the body politic, an indication of 
 poisoned blood in short, a mere filth disease. So with 
 all professions the trained professional man who is worth 
 while keeps always in mind the best inspiration of a real 
 chivalry noblesse oblige. 
 
 The universities of the higher type, the ones which, like 
 those of Germany and some in this country, have the gradu- 
 ate schools as their essence, are under somewhat different 
 conditions. They take the college graduate, whose char- 
 acter should be formed already, and devote their energies 
 to making him a specialist in some field of science. The 
 problem is quite different, and must be approached in a 
 quite different way. The university, as we are of late begin- 
 ning to understand it, is one thing, the college another. 
 
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But the college has a vital function in all our states. 
 As it performs that function well, the generation into whose 
 hands the control of society will shortly pass can be trusted 
 to make its day better and sounder and more replete with 
 the things which make life worth living than has been any 
 past age. 
 
 I congratulate this college, then, on its opportunity for 
 a priceless service to North Carolina and to the South, 
 and I congratulate the new President on the great trust 
 which is placed in his hands. 
 
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THE INAUGURAL ADDRESS 
 
THE INAUGURAL ADDRESS 
 
 WILLIAM PRESTON FEW, PH.D. 
 The President of Trinity College 
 
 It would seem to be appropriate for me, on an occasion 
 like this, to give as clearly as I can my conception of the 
 place of the college in southern development, and, coming 
 closer home, to say plainly what I think Trinity College 
 should undertake to do. This last is the easier for the 
 fact that I have, during the past fourteen years, sustained 
 intimate relations to the administration of the College, and 
 with that administration have been in complete accord. 
 I find now that the way has been marked out by my prede- 
 cessor and that the College has only to go on to the com- 
 pletion of the tasks it has already set before itself. 
 
 The structural break with the past caused by the Civil 
 War and succeeding events has made difficult and important 
 our political readjustment and the right mediation of the 
 present between our past and our future. But apart from 
 any considerations of history and without regard to any 
 theory or school of politics it must be plain to us all that, 
 in a democracy where everything is determined by majori- 
 ties, every intelligent man should carefully inquire into 
 the merits of all questions upon which he is to cast his 
 ballot and should vote his matured convictions, rather than 
 settle these questions as if they were matters of course, 
 off-hand and in obedience to ancient sentiment. In the 
 part of the South with which this college is immediately 
 concerned, freedom of speech and freedom of action in 
 politics are today complete. But here as everywhere else 
 
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in the country we need to intensify the sense of responsi- 
 bility that is imposed by the right to vote upon every 
 thoughtful and upright man. And here perhaps more 
 than elsewhere in America we need the courage and moral 
 energy which compel a man to speak the thoughts that 
 are in him and, when the time comes, to stand up and be 
 counted, whether girt by friend or foe. Just as for many 
 years it has been teaching, Trinity College will continue, 
 both by precept and example, to teach this sort of resolute 
 doing of one's public duties. 
 
 Upon the college in the South rests the further duty of 
 mediation between the religious conservatism of this region 
 and the great intellectual ferment of the age. Again the 
 problem is to keep the good that has come to us out of the 
 past and adjust it to the conditions and needs of the present. 
 The influential place which the church holds in the South 
 I should like to see, not only abide, but grow and extend; 
 for it is the business of the church to guide the spiritual 
 forces that control the world. The southern college, if it 
 be wise enough to understand its opportunity, will work 
 in hearty cooperation with the churches. It will not seek 
 to make friends with the churches for the purpose of using 
 them as bill-boards on which to advertise its wares; it 
 will not court their good-will in order to rally its constitu- 
 ency; but in all sincerity it will labor with them just to 
 the end of strengthening and sweetening human life. The 
 aim of Trinity College is stated by the words on its seal, 
 " Religion and Education"; not two but one and insep- 
 arable: religion that comprehends the whole of life and 
 education that seeks to liberate all the powers and develop 
 all the capacities of our human nature. 
 
 One of our first tasks is the material uplifting of the 
 section, the development of all kinds of business, the creation 
 of wealth, and the building of vital forces of civilization. We 
 are now in the midst of a great industrial awakening even 
 in the old business of agriculture a new day has arrived. 
 
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In solving the problems of the new industrialism education 
 has a part to play; and I am not now thinking of industrial 
 education. For while every individual ought to be trained 
 with some reference to the kind of life he is going to live, 
 yet I for one do not wish to see money-making set at the 
 heart of the education of southern people. Greed is already 
 perhaps our characteristic national vice, and it does not 
 need the fostering of education. Southern people are 
 poor and ought to be encouraged by every right method 
 to get their share of the wealth and physical well-being 
 that have been more widespread in other parts of America, 
 but to educate a race of mere money-makers would hurry 
 in an era of sordid materialism that would be a more dead- 
 ening blight to right and worthy living than ignorance and 
 poverty have been. Let us have wealth and the training 
 of wealth-producers; but let us not give to industrial train- 
 ing an undue emphasis in the education of youth. 
 
 Of all the confusions and tragedies that followed the 
 Civil War in the South, perhaps the most pathetic have 
 been the chaotic educational conditions of the last half- 
 century. There has been progress in the direction of a 
 rational system of education, but we are not yet out of the 
 wilderness. In all educational reform the college should 
 furnish its full share of leadership. And this means that 
 it must not be content to ride upon whatever may happen 
 to be the popular wave, but it must resist fads and bad 
 tendencies, as well as encourage and direct right tendencies. 
 Trinity College will always throw itself unreservedly into 
 the doing of the supreme duty of the hour. A while ago 
 it was at any cost to break the shackles of politics and 
 traditionalism. Today it is to put within reach of every 
 child the opportunities of the elementary school, the 
 grammar school, and the high school. This task is made 
 extraordinarily difficult by the double system of education 
 that must be maintained for the two races; and in this 
 great task every bit of strength the State can command 
 
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from all sources for the next ten years should be concen- 
 trated. To consolidate all the forces in the State for this 
 purpose and to utilize them so that the largest and most 
 beneficent results may follow is a proposal that should com- 
 mand the heart and hope of all enlightened men and women. 
 
 I have sought to emphasize my belief that our colleges 
 should give themselves to the doing of the hard tasks of 
 society and that educated men should do their full stint 
 of work. Attention ought also to be paid to the gentler 
 side of southern civilization. The hospitality, the gra- 
 ciousness, the beauty and purity of the social life were the 
 best characteristics of the old order. The grace and charm 
 of our elders in their best estate have gone and have been 
 succeeded by much that is crude and raw in our life. In 
 the discipline and invigorating of mind, in the formation 
 of tastes, and in the amendment of manners which come 
 through the right kind of education will be found the surest 
 nourishment for the poise and fineness of temper that 
 make cultivated men and high-bred civilizations. 
 
 These are some of the ways in which a college may 
 promote the interests of society if it is controlled by wide 
 sympathies and a spirit of constructive helpfulness. It is 
 not, however, among the direct aims of the college to edu- 
 cate publicists or ministers or skilled workmen or teachers, 
 but to send out graduates who have been trained for effi- 
 ciency and who are equipped with trustworthy character. 
 The college that is doing most to produce these qualities 
 of efficiency and character is rendering the largest service 
 to the world. These are precisely the qualities that are 
 needed in politics, in the church, in business, in education, 
 and in society. Many lines of business and some other 
 forms of endeavor in America have grown faster than men 
 have been developed to manage them. And this failure 
 of American civilization to develop an adequate supply 
 of efficient and trustworthy men gives whatever of justi- 
 fication there may be for the belief held by a good many 
 
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foreigners and others that our form of government is break- 
 ing down at some points. 
 
 There is a feeling rather widespread, though I am not 
 sure it is just, that the college of today does not make as 
 surely for efficiency and character as did the college of 
 other days. The college has certainly in some ways gained, 
 and perhaps in others it has lost, ground. The old curricu- 
 lum with its fixed studies and severe disciplines has been 
 liberalized and enriched. American colleges have grown 
 and have improved their facilities for education until, in 
 the matter of educational opportunities, the best of them 
 are perhaps unexcelled in the world. But it is becoming 
 increasingly clear that it is not enough for the college to 
 provide even the richest of opportunities for its students 
 and then unconcernedly leave them to use or neglect the 
 opportunities as they may see fit. Ways and means must 
 be found to make education take effect. The educational 
 appliances must somehow be brought into live connection 
 with undergraduate callowness. There is a saying current 
 in German universities that one- third fail, one- third go to 
 the devil, but that the remaining third govern Europe. 
 This survival represents too great a loss of human life. 
 Freedom of opportunity must mean freedom to go to destruc- 
 tion, but in the case of college youth, freedom must be 
 hedged about with restraints. The fine old phrase "cure 
 of souls," if extended to include cure of minds and bodies, 
 would define the function of the college. 
 
 The four years in college ought to be very happy years 
 in every man's life happy not because he spends them in 
 idleness or luxury, but because they are years full of effort 
 and achievement, of generous friendships and inspiring 
 ideals, full of youth and hope. A normal man, if he once 
 get a taste of it, enjoys vigorous work and wholesome 
 living. The educational opportunities offered by the 
 prosperous colleges of the East or the big state universities 
 of the West are unquestionably far superior to the oppor- 
 
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tunities that can be offered by the struggling colleges of 
 the South. But there are evils of prosperity as well as 
 evils of adversity. And, despite all our limitations, it is 
 probably no more difficult for us than for them to secure 
 vigorous intellectual work and wholesome living; in fact, 
 I am encouraged to believe that the conditions are ripe 
 for the building of some great colleges in the South. But 
 we shall have to profit by the experiences of colleges else- 
 where by their successes and by their failures. Espe- 
 cially must we learn how to bring the processes of education 
 effectively to bear on a larger proportion of students. 
 The growing importance that secondary concerns hold in 
 the thought of undergraduates is more and more tending 
 to obscure the true ends of a college course. If we will 
 take command of the situation before the tyranny of pub- 
 lic opinion is fastened upon us by students, young alumni, 
 and communities taught to demand this sort of entertain- 
 ment at the hands of colleges, then I believe it will be 
 possible for us to shift the center of interest from athletics 
 and other equally irrelevant undergraduate absorptions 
 to the intellectual pursuits and wholesome recreations 
 that are proper to college life. This shifting of the center 
 of gravity will be helped by adequate regulation and due 
 subordination of athletics; by demanding strict attendance 
 upon college duties; by exacting a reasonable amount of 
 intellectual work; and by enforcing rigorous standards of 
 scholarship. In developing our colleges we have the 
 chance to put upon self-cultivation and wholesome living 
 an emphasis they do not now usually get in American 
 colleges. 
 
 Our opportunity consists partly, too, in magnifying 
 the office of the teacher. For its teachers the college needs 
 men of ideas and power rather than experts in the several 
 branches of learning. The almost exclusive use of scholar- 
 ship tests in the selection of teachers is, in my judgment, 
 one of the gravest defects in American colleges and even 
 
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in the greatest American universities. Scholarship enters 
 essentially into the making of a good teacher, but so do also 
 a genuine interest in young men and some gift for teaching. 
 Graduate-school ideals have worked themselves down into 
 the college to the serious detriment of the college. I have 
 nothing but praise for the painstaking investigation and 
 thoroughgoing honesty that belong to the best scholarship 
 of our time. Unceasing search for truth is necessary to 
 insure the continued progress of the race; and every wise 
 man will keep a mind open toward truth in all its phases. 
 I, of course, believe in perfect freedom to teach and free- 
 dom to learn. But I do not regard the speculative pursuit 
 of new truth as the main end of college education. The 
 search for truth is in itself profitable, but the search is most 
 profitable when it results in finding truth and in making 
 the widest applications of it to human life and human 
 conduct. An undergraduate ought not to be ever learn- 
 ing and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. 
 The thin air of highly speculative knowledge cannot nour- 
 ish hardy and robust manhood. Probably everybody 
 knows truth enough to save his life if he would use what he 
 knows. Some things, after all, are known, and there is no 
 need for a man to stop and build his own bridge every time 
 a bridged river crosses his path. If a perfect college curricu- 
 lum could be framed, I believe it would insure to every 
 student familiarity with the best that has been wrought 
 out of the experience of the race and close contact with 
 such studies as are fitted to produce in him "soberness, 
 righteousness, and wisdom "; and then it would leave room 
 for individual tastes and aptitudes. 
 
 To give the proper oversight to the studies of under- 
 graduates is not enough; their living conditions, their 
 conduct, and their habits must be looked after. The 
 minds need rectifying, but just as often the lives need to 
 be renovated. What profiteth it a man though he speak 
 with the tongues of men and of angels and leave college 
 
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a dyspeptic; though he understand all knowledge and have 
 the habit of spending money that does not belong to him, 
 or be confirmed in any of the other fatal vices that beset 
 college youth? Conduct, as Matthew Arnold has said, 
 is more than three-fourths of life. If their work is to be 
 of the highest value, colleges must find and control the 
 motive-powers that lie at the basis of character. I admit 
 it is hard to keep other things equal; but, other things being 
 equal, the so-called small college, with its intimate con- 
 tacts and direct methods, probably has the best chance 
 to do the sort of teaching that forms as well as informs. 
 
 If the southern college is to be a leader for conservative 
 progress in this generation, it must be given a free hand. 
 To stand against reaction on the one side and radicalism 
 on the other it needs a great deal of power. It must, by 
 its organization, be safeguarded against the dangers of mob- 
 opinion and the possibilities of inefficient control. To 
 stand for correct ideals and even fight for them when neces- 
 sary and at the same time to keep in sympathetic relations 
 with the people whom it would serve is, perhaps, the most 
 difficult problem that a southern college in our time has to 
 solve. 
 
 Regard for the voices of political expediency and pliant 
 opportunism has time and again proved disastrous to the 
 southern states as it has often proved disastrous to other 
 American states. Minds unpracticed in cogent thinking 
 usually seek to catch the nearest way and follow the line 
 of least resistance. The college that aspires to a place of 
 leadership in the service of the republic must at times 
 resist with all its power the mighty local influences that 
 would sway it from its true course. To have faith in the 
 future of America at all, or, for that matter, to contem- 
 plate human life with any degree of patience, one must 
 believe that the people wish to do right and in the long run 
 and in the main will do right; and more and more we are 
 going to rely upon the people. But this does not mean 
 
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that they have the expert knowledge to manage a college 
 any more than it means that they are competent to argue 
 a point of law before the Supreme Court of the United 
 States or to treat an acute case of pneumonia. The 
 susceptibility of a pliable democracy to periodic attacks 
 of national or sectional hysterics, the oft-used power of 
 sensational newspapers and alarmist popular leaders to 
 "insurrect the public mind 7 ' ought in the colleges always 
 to find bulwarks against which they beat in vain. Only 
 the college that is strong enough to survive these fearful 
 testings can fulfill in our civilization the mission that great 
 colleges should fulfill. 
 
 Such colleges must also occasionally rouse themselves 
 to the still more ungracious task of resisting the imposition 
 upon them from the outside of ideas that would hurt them. 
 There are competent and conscientious educational experts 
 in our time who seem to ignore the fact that a college must 
 be in large part the product of development and not a 
 forced growth; and that it should follow the lines of its 
 own development and not be made to form itself on some 
 wholly extraneous model. Forced conformity to types 
 of organization that prevail elsewhere and are there regarded 
 as ideal would unfit southern colleges for doing the very 
 service to which they seem by circumstances to be ordained. 
 Against this subtle danger I believe that Trinity College 
 will set itself with all its might. 
 
 Another temptation from which our colleges should 
 turn is the temptation to strive for bigness. The vicious 
 doctrine of numbers has, I think, never been more over- 
 worked than in American institutions of education. The 
 desire to be big rather than great is responsible for many 
 of the evils from which American colleges are suffering 
 today. Some of these evils are temporary and due to 
 quick growth and inability of the colleges at once to adjust 
 themselves to the new conditions. We at the South have 
 not suffered from this cause, but we are in danger of delib- 
 
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erately taking over some of the evils from which circum- 
 stances have kept us free. One result of this over-anxiety 
 for size and numbers is the ruinous tendency for colleges 
 to be concerned primarily about their immediate interests- 
 more students, bigger buildings, increased appropriations, 
 larger gifts rather than to serve, and when necessary even 
 to suffer for, the great causes of mankind. This kind of 
 striving must benumb the noblest aspirations and make 
 impossible the truest success of colleges; for colleges, like 
 men, are subject to the immutable law of greatness through 
 service. The greatness of a college depends not upon the 
 size of its plant or the number of its students, but upon the 
 quality of the men who teach and the quality of the men 
 who learn, upon its ideals and its influence. 
 
 We here have no ambition to be miscalled a univer- 
 sity; we are not even concerned that this shall be a "big" 
 college; but we are immensely concerned that it shall be 
 a shining place where high-minded youth may catch aspira- 
 tions to true character and genuine excellence, and whence 
 into this vast experiment in democratic government that 
 is being tried out on the American continent, there shall 
 go a long succession of men who have been trained to think 
 straight and to think through to right conclusions, and 
 who have been made strong by the power to know the truth 
 and the will to live it. 
 
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THE PRESENTATION OP DELEGATES 
 
THE FORMAL PRESENTATION OF DELEGATES 
 
 AND 
 
 SPECIALLY INVITED GUESTS 
 
 TO THE 
 
 PRESIDENT OF THE COLLEGE 
 
 THE RETIRING PRESIDENT OF THE COLLEGE 
 
 THE GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF NORTH 
 
 CAROLINA 
 
 AND 
 
 THE COMMISSIONER OF EDUCATION OF THE 
 UNITED STATES 
 
 THE WASHINGTON DUKE BUILDING, WEST WING 
 12:30 P.M. 
 
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ROLL CALL AND PRESENTATION OF DELEGATES 
 AND SPECIALLY INVITED GUESTS 
 
 PROFESSOR FRANK CLYDE BROWN 
 
 I have the honor, Mr. President, to present to you and 
 the distinguished gentlemen John Carlisle Kilgo, the 
 Retiring President, Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal 
 Church, South, His Excellency, William Walton Kitchin, 
 Governor of the State of North Carolina, the Honorable 
 Elmer Ellsworth Brown, Commissioner of Education of 
 the United States who receive with you and thus honor 
 this occasion so auspicious to you and the Institution 
 which has this day been committed into your hands, these 
 eminent scholars and educators who come as the repre- 
 sentatives of many of the most splendid institutions hi 
 our nation. 
 
 [For the list of delegates and guests see p. 157] 
 
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SPEECHES AT THE LUNCHEON 
 
SPEECHES AT THE LUNCHEON TO DELEGATES, 
 SPECIALLY INVITED GUESTS, MEMBERS OF 
 THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES AND OF THE FACUL- 
 TIES OF THE COLLEGE, AND THE ALUMNI 
 
 THE WASHINGTON DUKE BUILDING, WEST WING 
 
 I P.M. 
 
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JAMES HAMPTON KIRKLAND 
 
 CHANCELLOR or VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY 
 Toastmaster 
 
 In calling this assemblage to order, I find myself in a 
 rather awkward position. I have been asked by the chair- 
 man of the Committee on Ceremonies and by the President 
 of Trinity College to take the place which properly belongs 
 to him at this banquet and to act as Master of Ceremonies. 
 
 This is the first mistake that the new President has 
 made in his administration. (Laughter.) We trust, 
 however, that, on account of his youth, his administra- 
 tion will not be wrecked by it. 
 
 I have accepted for several reasons: first, because 
 I have never yet denied myself the pleasure of carving a 
 turkey furnished by another, and, secondly, because I have 
 been most closely, and I may say affectionately, related to 
 Trinity College, to the new President and to the old Presi- 
 dent. I use that last adjective with all the meanings that 
 properly attach to it. (Laughter.) I may say that I 
 have the right to take liberties with one who was, in days 
 long past, my own pupil. I do not claim that I taught 
 him much, but that was my fault and not his. (Laughter.) 
 However, the affectionate relations established between us 
 then have continued even to this good hour in spite of the 
 fact that, after my efforts to make him a bishop were 
 successful, and he had been honored with the highest office 
 of his church, the first thing he did was to bring suit to 
 eject me from my position. (Laughter.) But even to that 
 cruel thrust I make answer now in the words of the poet, 
 "With all thy faults I love thee still." (Laughter.) 
 
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But if I may have the privilege of further remarks at 
 this time, I desire to extend a hearty welcome to these, 
 our guests, who have come to us from almost every state. 
 We welcome you most heartily. The South may not be 
 as solid now as it has been. (Laughter.) The returns 
 from Tennessee, the great daughter of North Carolina 
 the state that I have the honor to represent are such as 
 to cause a little unhappiness to His Excellency, the Gov- 
 ernor, who sits by my side. (Laughter.) But, at least, 
 you will admit this, that when Tennessee goes Republican 
 and Massachusetts goes Democratic, the people are begin- 
 ning to think for themselves. (Laughter.) 
 
 But the South is solid in one thing it is solid still in 
 its feeling of hospitality and in the glad welcome that it 
 offers to every visitor from every clime; so we greet these 
 friends today with a glorious autumn day that has no 
 equal in all the seasons. The colors of your colleges have 
 been thrown over our trees the glorious crimson of Har- 
 vard, the orange of Princeton, the gold of my own insti- 
 tution, and even though the blue of Yale is absent from the 
 trees, it is not absent from the violets that spring under 
 our feet and from the great dome that bends with a bene- 
 diction above us. (Loud applause.) We welcome you 
 to a great state, for this is indeed a great state. (Loud 
 applause.) 
 
 His Excellency, the Governor, will allow me to quote 
 a story that comes from his mansion, but from a prede- 
 cessor of his a story told by Governor Aycock, whose 
 name is still pleasantly remembered by educational work- 
 ers. (Applause.) Governor Aycock told me that on one 
 occasion he pardoned a man out of the penitentiary on the 
 condition that he leave North Carolina and never come 
 back. The man left, and of course went to Texas. After 
 a year he wrote a letter which read: "Dear Governor: 
 I shall be at your office on or about the first of next month. 
 You can do with me as you please, but I had rather stay 
 
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in the penitentiary in North Carolina than live anywhere 
 else/ 7 (Laughter.) 
 
 We welcome you because we are engaged in great 
 educational enterprises and need your counsel and your 
 assistance. I am persuaded that there is no more signifi- 
 cant educational movement now going on than the present 
 high-school movement in the South. We are also doing 
 a great work in strengthening our colleges. I will not 
 say in building colleges, for we have reached the conclu- 
 sion that we have colleges enough. In fact, some of us 
 have felt very much like the old preacher who had carried 
 on a revival in a church for some weeks. When asked as 
 to results, he said he had mighty good results. 
 
 "How many accessions ?" 
 
 " No accessions, but we got rid of five fellows.' ' (Laugh- 
 ter.) 
 
 If our educational revival in the realm of higher 
 education is even lessening the number of colleges, we 
 may not grieve. We also recognize that some institu- 
 tions in the South must be placed on a permanent basis 
 with high standards and must measure up to the ideals 
 so nobly expressed for us in the inaugural address today. 
 (Applause.) 
 
 In calling on our distinguished guests, by common 
 consent we turn to the representative of that institution 
 whose primacy is universally acknowledged among us. 
 Harvard College was established in pioneer days and in 
 a village community. Born in primitive surroundings, it 
 bore testimony even in its birth to the greatness of the 
 ideal to the supremacy of the spirit over the material. 
 From that day to this, it has preserved the glorious tradi- 
 tions of the higher life. It has been the teacher of us all. 
 It has furnished arguments for or against every line of 
 educational policy adopted or rejected in this country. 
 It has been an institution of great changes, it has been 
 and is the home of freedom and of light. (Applause.) 
 
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It is, therefore, with peculiar pleasure and also with 
 a due sense of the honor involved that I introduce Presi- 
 dent A. Lawrence Lowell, of Harvard University. (Loud 
 applause.) 
 
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PRESIDENT ABBOTT LAWRENCE LOWELL 
 
 Chancellor Kirkland, Fellow Delegates, and Members of the 
 Faculty of Trinity College: 
 
 I am sorry that the new President should have begun 
 his administration so soon with a second blunder. I am 
 told that there are turkeys to be carved and that I am a 
 turkey stuffed with chestnuts. (Laughter.) We heard 
 a great deal this morning of congratulation to President 
 Few on his inauguration, but after hearing his inaugural 
 address any man would have felt like congratulating the 
 College. (Applause.) I feel still more like congratulating 
 him on the opportunity that lies before him. He has 
 charge of the doors that stand at the threshold of life, and 
 it is for him to open and shut those doors and direct the 
 course of the young men who are passing through. 
 
 Our educational institutions in this country cover many 
 fields. It is well that they do so. They are trying to do 
 many things that must be done. We have professional 
 schools of law, medicine, engineering, forestry, and every 
 kind of thing that we can think of. That is the largest 
 and most rapid development of the day, but there is some- 
 thing else besides; there is the college the old-fashioned 
 college which does not make men specialists, but which makes 
 men citizens. (Applause.) I happen to have the privi- 
 lege of being at the head of a university which has several 
 professional schools, but has not for one moment swerved 
 from the task of the college that breeds men, and I hope 
 never for one moment will swerve from it. 
 
 You [President Few] said today that the object of a 
 college was to teach efficiency, and I think you are per- 
 
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fectly right. There is another object which you touched 
 on which seems to me to be greater still, and that is the 
 "cure of souls." You know well that souls are not cured 
 by a recipe like fish on the coast that I come from. The 
 cure of souls is the greatest task that any man can set him- 
 self to do, and there is no place in the country where it 
 can be done with the same lasting and permanent effect 
 as in the college. You will, I know from your inaugural, 
 doit. 
 
 Character is largely a matter of personal influence, and 
 I feel sure you will get into close touch with, and live the 
 life of, your students just as much as you possibly can 
 until they feel that you are in the fullest sympathy with 
 their thoughts and lives, because it is only in that way 
 that the student can be brought to take a high moral view 
 of things. You cannot, in this twentieth century, drive 
 the students by regulation, but you can lead them through 
 fire and water anywhere you chose to lead them. (Applause.) 
 You cannot prescribe by regulations what they shall do. 
 The thing a young man really wants is not self-indulgence; 
 is not pleasure. It is to sacrifice himself for something 
 worth the sacrifice, and that is one reason why athletic 
 contests of the present day have such a hold on young men. 
 They believe they can bring glory to the institution to 
 which they belong, and they desire above everything to 
 find means by which they can satisfy that craving. Sup- 
 pose you should turn to young men and say: "There is a 
 war going on, and there are two regiments to be enlisted, 
 one to go to Fortress Monroe and live in luxury, and the 
 other to go to the front and see service until its muscles 
 ache, and the men are killed and suffer grievous wounds. 
 In which regiment will you volunteer ?" Not a single one 
 would volunteer in the first, but every man would hold up 
 his hand for the second. (Applause.) What we want to 
 impress upon our young men is that scholarship is worthy 
 of sacrifice. I don't mean they are to be among the great 
 
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scholars of the world that is given to few; I refer to the 
 training of their minds so that they can think straight and 
 be worthy citizens. We want them to feel that this is a 
 thing worth more than success on the ball-fields. The 
 way to lead them is not to repress the things that they want 
 to do, but to show them greater things. 
 
 But there is another point: colleges should make not 
 only citizens, but citizens of the nation. One of the 
 things that we wish to avoid above all things is localness 
 in the college. All the colleges in this country are a fra- 
 ternity, which knows no place, and which knows no differ- 
 ences to be compared in importance with the ties that bind 
 together. At every college to which I have ever been 
 I have felt at home. I have never gone to any college 
 that I did not feel the spirit of unity among all the educa- 
 tional bodies of the land. No doubt politics tends to unite 
 men from every section of the country, but there is nothing 
 that does it in the ways that education does. There is no 
 place where you feel the absolute unity of interest in 
 national life so strongly as you do in our great educational 
 institutions; and we must make our young men see that 
 all activities of intellectual life, although apparently 
 diverse, converge in fact at last in the national interest 
 of our country. (Long applause.) 
 
 THE TOASTMASTER 
 
 College men throughout the whole country have been 
 looking with the greatest possible interest to the issues 
 of the election of last Tuesday in the state of New Jersey. 
 They have felt almost a personal concern in this matter. 
 That state has called to the leadership of one of the great 
 parties a man whose life has been given to the study of 
 statecraft and who gives promise of making a national 
 leader for the Democratic party. I think, therefore, 
 that college men everywhere have rejoiced exceedingly in 
 
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the election of President Woodrow Wilson as Governor of 
 New Jersey. (Applause.) 
 
 But a President isn't everything to a college. (Laugh- 
 ter.) Presidents are made; great deans are born. I intro- 
 duce, therefore, with special pleasure, Dean Andrew F. West, 
 of Princeton, recognized by all Princeton men and college 
 men as the great original of the college song, "For he's a 
 jolly good fellow." (Applause.) 
 
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DEAN ANDREW FLEMING WEST 
 
 It is with no small degree of diffidence that I venture to 
 add a word or two, gentlemen, which I trust will not con- 
 tribute to cast a gloom on this occasion. All Princeton 
 men will appreciate the great compliment which you have 
 done our distinguished President on account of his political 
 success of yesterday. It is a tradition of Princeton that 
 her sons should serve in public life. 
 
 But after all, I imagine you are not here for politics 
 or even for religion. (Laughter.) And so it occurs to me 
 to return to that famous dictum of John Stuart Mill, that 
 the two most important concerns of human life are the 
 ones upon which men seem to be the most divided: the 
 question of politics and the question of religion. To these 
 two great concerns it seems to me we might be disposed to 
 add a third, education. And I hope the differences there 
 are not so radical. And here let me say with the utmost 
 sincerity that no business career, no political service, 
 nothing else in this life seems to me more interesting, more 
 noble, and more serviceable than the career of the educa- 
 tor, with the one exception, and the only exception, that 
 of the Christian ministry. It does seem to me that a man 
 who is an educator, though I hate to use that technical 
 word, is an artist, superior even to the great painter or the 
 great architect: he is dealing with more difficult material. 
 He is attempting to produce or develop greater things in 
 the human spirit, to lead it to intellectual and moral free- 
 dom. And when we remember that the teachers of the 
 nation are not ordinarily receiving pecuniary rewards of 
 an excessive amount (laughter), is it not at least gratifying 
 
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to think that they are members of a most worthy profes- 
 sion, that they are engaged in becoming artists, makers, 
 fashioners of men ? They are not making specialists, they 
 are not making trained scholars; they are engaged in the 
 supreme artistic effort of turning boys into men. Can 
 there be a more arduous and splendid work than that ? 
 
 It was with much satisfaction that I listened to the 
 words of President Few this morning, with high appre- 
 ciation of what he said and with deep sympathy. And 
 if I may refer to President LowelPs remarks, may I go so 
 far as to say that, while agreeing with practically all he 
 said, I do not agree with his remark that you cannot drive 
 young men. I think you can drive young men with ease 
 and certainty in one direction to the devil. (Laughter.) 
 That is my exception, to which I am sure the distinguished 
 President will not except. I have also listened to what 
 Chancellor Kirkland has said and have no sympathy at 
 all with what he said about me. (Laughter.) Well then, 
 before closing these desultory remarks and disappearing 
 as gracefully as I can (laughter), let me say just a word 
 about the American college. 
 
 It has a glorious historical record; it has two foes. One 
 is the self-seeking commercial spirit of the country and the 
 other is the common weaknesses of young men. The 
 first will be its eternal foe unless the college can so enlighten 
 the commercial spirit of the country that it becomes instilled 
 with something higher than the desire of mere "what pays" 
 as the end of life. I believe the colleges can be made so 
 interesting that the wealth of this country will be a friend, 
 a helper, a maker of our higher spiritual development. 
 On the other side, the side of tendency toward self-indul- 
 gence, this weakness both in young men and old men and 
 all men is to be overcome in another way. 
 
 I don't know how it seems to you, gentlemen, but to 
 my mind, the most regular verb in the whole grammar of 
 knowledge is conjugated thus : 
 
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I don't like to work, 
 
 You don't like to work, 
 
 He don't like to work, 
 
 We don't like to work, 
 
 You don't like to work, 
 
 They don't like to work. (Laughter.) 
 
 It isn't doing the thing because it is hard, it isn't doing 
 the thing because it is unpleasant that has any virtue; 
 but I believe it is in doing the thing we somehow know we 
 ought to do at the time we don't want to do it that the 
 highest power in any man is wakened and developed. 
 There is a gymnastics of the mind, an intellectual athletics, 
 and every time these mind-muscles are worked there is a 
 new response and a new power. The greatest power comes 
 from overcoming difficulties that ought to be overcome 
 these and no others. 
 
 The enthusiasm which President Lowell has said, and 
 justly said, would show itself in college students who were 
 given their choice between his two imagined regiments 
 the enthusiasm which we see in athletics is the sort of 
 power that is to be used to overcome self-indulgence. If 
 we can once waken in young men the desire to overcome, 
 to win in the athletics of the mind; if we can once turn 
 into the field of study and self-discipline the enthusiasm 
 which we find on every athletic field, the problem is solved, 
 and the student will be on his way to the highest achievement. 
 And when he succeeds in overcoming and mastering him- 
 self, he owns himself and will surely turn, day by day, 
 effort by effort, going "from strength to strength" till he 
 attains the true stature of his full manhood. (Applause.) 
 
 THE TOASTMASTER 
 
 We have with us today, gentlemen, a representative 
 of the educational department of our national government. 
 In every gathering of college men, there is a place at our 
 
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board for this representative. We look to the National 
 Department of Education for assistance in many ways, 
 and it is our duty to assist in building up this national 
 department in making it greater and more efficient, 
 in securing larger resources for the splendid tasks that 
 have been outlined for it. I am sure that we have always 
 the sympathy and support of the United States Com- 
 missioner of Education, and I now have the pleasure of 
 introducing the Honorable Elmer E. Brown. (Applause.) 
 
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THE HONORABLE ELMER ELLSWORTH BROWN 
 
 I have been unusually moved by this gathering. In 
 the past few years it has been my privilege to be at a num- 
 ber of university celebrations the inauguration of new 
 presidents and other occasions of similar character. I 
 see about me other well-seasoned attendants upon such 
 gatherings. I think they would all agree with me that 
 we have been singularly moved by the impressive char- 
 acter of this occasion. (Applause). 
 
 I want to congratulate you at Trinity College upon 
 your success in making the inauguration of your new 
 president an event of so large significance. We have, all 
 of us, I am sure, listened with unusual pleasure to the 
 inaugural address that we have heard today an address 
 characterized by extraordinary frankness and insight. 
 I congratulate the new President of this institution upon 
 having made so notable a beginning. (Applause.) I have 
 listened, as have others, with unusual interest again, to 
 the words of the President of Harvard University, and 
 with the sense that has been growing upon me for the past 
 year, and I think has been growing upon others, that in 
 its new president Harvard is making a strong claim, not 
 only to scholastic leadership, but also to moral leadership 
 as well in our affairs of the higher education. It is good 
 to hear such words as those which we have heard from 
 President Lowell this afternoon. So, gentlemen, it seems 
 to me that the occasion is a notable one, not only in the 
 history of your institution, but in the history of education 
 in the South and in the whole country as well. We are, 
 all of us, interested in this occasion, in that it signalizes 
 
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another step in the development of that higher education 
 which makes for our national excellence and our national 
 success, in the best use of the word "success." 
 
 I have been talking with your Governor here, trying to 
 persuade him that I am correct in my interpretation that 
 the South is today the center of the liveliest and most 
 effective federalism that we have in this country. I notice 
 that the Governor does not quite accept that view, but, 
 when I reflect, it seems to me that he has said the same 
 thing in other words, and in words much better than mine. 
 We are all certainly interested in that kind of federalism 
 or nationalism or patriotism, whatever it may be called, 
 which is represented by the common spirit of education. 
 I know of no place in the United States where I am more 
 impressed with the fact that education is pushing to the 
 front as the dominant interest of the several states than 
 I am right here in the South. It is exhilarating to me to 
 come into the South, because of the way this section is 
 driving educational interests to the front the interests 
 upon which the hopes of the commonwealth in a peculiar 
 way and measure depend. Now, whether we agree in 
 calling the thing federalism or nationalism old nationalism 
 or new nationalism (laughter and applause) whether we 
 agree or not in what we call it, I think we realize this, that 
 there are different ways of achieving the kind of unity that 
 is best for our American life. At some points it is to be 
 achieved by action of the Federal Government; at some 
 points it is to be achieved by that new thing that we have 
 discovered in recent years, the deliberate co-operation of 
 the several states. That is one of the most significant 
 things, if I am not mistaken, in the recent history of our 
 national affairs. Again, we are interested in seeing unity 
 achieved by a common, concerted action, springing from 
 the common interest of those who are most deeply con- 
 cerned with the things that make for the spiritual life of 
 the nation. We have that interest represented in such a 
 
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gathering as this. As we go on, we shall come to a reali- 
 zation of the fact that upon our colleges rest, not only the 
 responsibility that each bears toward its immediate con- 
 stituency, the responsibility for teaching its matriculated 
 students, but also the additional responsibility of doing 
 its part as a member of that larger scholastic body, our 
 united colleges, which share among them a large respon- 
 sibility for our American civilization. This occasion brings 
 us together and makes us feel that we are one in that we 
 have a part in that great, common work. The sense of 
 such a responsibility is indeed good for us all. 
 
 Before I sit down may I say just one word with refer- 
 ence to one of the questions that have been touched upon 
 here from time to time the question as to the function 
 of the college as the promoter of liberal education, together 
 with the question as to that other kind of education which 
 may be called technical or special. As I see it, here is one 
 of the most vital problems of our education at this present 
 time. It is not a problem of special education, nor is it 
 a problem of general education, but it is the problem of 
 getting these two into right relations with each other. 
 (Applause.) As I understand it, a liberally educated man 
 is one who has learned so thoroughly how all human inter- 
 ests hang together that he can thereafter see his own 
 interests only as related to general and permanent human 
 interests. Over against this is technical education. It is 
 an education from which a man learns to do something 
 which most men cannot do, which, nevertheless, is needed 
 by his fellow-men for the advancement of general and 
 permanent human interests. If we, in our colleges and 
 universities, can get beyond the point where we see these 
 things as opposed to each other and arrive at a point where 
 we shall see them as they are related to each other, one of 
 the great problems of American education today will be 
 solved. If we shall see these things in their relations one 
 to the other and shall work out those relations in practical 
 
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affairs and in practical education, then I think we of this 
 generation shall not have lived in vain. (Long applause.) 
 
 THE TOASTMASTER 
 
 One of the most inspiring incidents of our American 
 history has been the movement resulting in the settlement 
 of the Northwest. For a century you may track this 
 movement as the population from the eastern coast has 
 moved westward, building up one great commonwealth 
 after another and establishing American citizenship in 
 one great stronghold after another. And it is very inter- 
 esting and very striking that, hand in hand with all these 
 enterprises and with the development of new common- 
 wealths, has gone the establishment of institutions of learn- 
 ing colleges and universities. In this northwest terri- 
 tory some new forms of educational effort command our 
 attention. Great universities have brought to us new 
 lessons in education and given us new illustrations of 
 method. We are amazed at the progress these institu- 
 tions have made for the past twenty-five years; at the 
 large number of young men and young women that have 
 crowded their halls and the great equipment and resources 
 provided by the states themselves. We have listened 
 with marked attention to the representatives of these 
 institutions as they have told us of the part that these 
 universities are playing in the service of their respective 
 states. In this they have set us all a noble example. 
 
 I take great pleasure in introducing the representative 
 of one of the greatest of these universities, Dean John 
 F. Downey, of the University of Minnesota. 
 
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DEAN JOHN F. DOWNEY 
 
 I bring you greetings from an institution in what we 
 are wont to call "The Great Northwest." In one way it 
 is quite fitting that I should be the bearer of these greetings. 
 I have seen the institution grow from infancy to vigorous 
 manhood I am serving my thirty-first year with it and 
 while we have a faculty of more than three hundred and 
 fifty people, only four of them were connected with it 
 when I joined it. By this long service I am pretty closely 
 identified with the institution and can fittingly be the 
 bearer of its greetings to you. In another way I am not so 
 fitting a bearer. In one respect, to say nothing of many 
 other respects, my early education was neglected and, as 
 a result, I have not contributed anything to the wealth of 
 Durham. While, by the sign-boards all over the country, 
 I am familiar with "Bull Durham," "Duke's Mixture," 
 and other brands of Durham output, I have never bought 
 any of them and, consequently, have not contributed to 
 this source of your city's prosperity. I can make amends 
 only by giving assurance that if, after all these years of 
 neglected opportunity, I take up the habit in which so 
 many seem to find solace and comfort and quiet joy, I 
 shall use none but Durham brands. In any case, I shall 
 continue to admire that statuesque Durham bull on the 
 signboards that heralds to all the world "Bull Durham." 
 With noble poise and head erect, his attitude is truly 
 heroic, like that of Nelson on the shaft in Trafalgar Square 
 or the statue of Admiral Blake in his native town in Devon- 
 shire. We have some fine Durham bulls at the farm of 
 the College of Agriculture connected with the University. 
 
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Like myself they do not use tobacco in any form; but 
 they have never entered any formal protest against adver- 
 tising a good brand of it by one of their kind. If, to pro- 
 tect them from the rigors of our northern climate, it ever 
 becomes necessary to put clothing on these bulls, I promise 
 to see to it that they shall be clothed in overalls made of 
 denim from the Erwin Mills at Durham. However, a 
 delegate is selected with reference to his sympathy with 
 the spirit and work of the institution to which he goes 
 rather than to his being a connoisseur in the products of 
 the chief industry of the city in which it may be located. 
 Judging from what I knew of your institution before coming 
 here, from the subjects offered in your curriculum, and 
 from what I have seen and heard since coming, I find 
 myself in complete sympathy with your work and your 
 ideals. 
 
 I am gratified to find that the commercial or vocational 
 mania has not seized you with the grip which it has laid 
 on many institutions; that you believe in the pursuit of 
 certain subjects for their own sakes for their cultural and 
 disciplinary value, without reference to their direct voca- 
 tional applications; that whatever is to be one's vocation, 
 if he have a good mind and any scholastic instincts, a broad, 
 liberal education is quite worth while, not only as a founda- 
 tion for professional or vocational training, but for broad- 
 ening one's horizon, giving him high and worthy views of 
 life and multiplying his sources of happiness; in short, 
 that you believe in education as distinct from vocation. 
 
 Far be it from me to decry, in these days of specialization, 
 most thorough training for a comparatively narrow field of 
 activity. Trained specialists are those who achieve great 
 successes. But that training is more readily secured and 
 is more effective when preceded by a broad, general edu- 
 cation, such as is afforded by your curriculum. If one has 
 sufficiently tested his powers and learned his tastes to 
 enable him to know, while pursuing this general course, 
 
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what his occupation is to be, it is well for him to elect such 
 offered subjects as have a direct bearing upon, and give 
 preparation for, that occupation: for example, mathe- 
 matics, mechanics, and drawing for engineering or archi- 
 tecture; chemistry, animal biology, anatomy, and physiol- 
 ogy for medicine; and similarly for other professions, but 
 not to the exclusion of time-honored and time-tested subjects 
 that do not have a direct bearing upon the chosen pro- 
 fession. 
 
 The trend for the last few years has been decidedly the 
 other way. In too many cases, boys, while still in the 
 high school or academy, who know not yet their capacities 
 or their adaptabilities, are expected to decide what their 
 vocation is to be and to select their course accordingly; 
 and then, with the minimum of preparation permitted, 
 enter upon their technical course. As a result they enter 
 into practical life narrow, lop-sided, half-educated, few 
 of them rising to distinction and all of them getting less 
 out of life and contributing less to it than they would had 
 they pursued a broader and more liberalizing course. The 
 idea that one needs to know little outside of his profession 
 or business is a very unworthy one. The man is not made 
 for the vocation, but the vocation for the man. The man 
 is primary; the vocation, secondary. The vocation should 
 not be made an end, but a means to an end; and we should 
 impress upon our youth that one is to be educated, not 
 because he is to plead at the bar or practice medicine or 
 preach sermons or build bridges, but because he is a man- 
 to be educated into a nobler and more effective manhood. 
 
 Of course this tendency to omit the subjects which we 
 are accustomed to regard as constituting a liberal educa- 
 tion and taking the shortest cut to a profession or other 
 vocation comes largely from the spirit of what we call a 
 commercial age, by which we mean a money-getting age, 
 with its doctrine that, whatever else suffers, one must 
 prepare himself to be a money-getter. The doctrine that 
 
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every man should be a money-getter is good doctrine; but 
 it need not be at the expense of those things that are of 
 even more value than money. 
 
 Those who come to us to receive such training as will 
 increase their money-getting power need not be discour- 
 aged by us; but they should be encouraged to aspire also 
 after those things which money cannot buy knowledge, 
 discipline, culture, character. The mind of the honest 
 German who was asked why he bought more land moved in 
 a very small circle: said he, "I bought more land so I could 
 raise more wheat." "Why do you want to raise more 
 wheat ?" "So I can get more money." "Why do you 
 want to get more money?" "So I can buy more land." 
 "Why do you want to buy more land?" "So I can raise 
 more wheat." "Why do you want to raise more wheat ?" 
 "So I can get more money," and so on in an endless circuit, 
 always coming round to more money. 
 
 When there is a wrong trend on the part of the public in 
 matters educational, it is clearly the duty of professional 
 educators, like ourselves, to do what we can in the way 
 of counteracting it. Many do; but many others, in case 
 of the particular trend of which I am speaking, help it on 
 all they can some of them because they think a young 
 man's time too valuable to be wasted upon what they con- 
 sider as non-essentials, but more of them because they like 
 to be "on the band-wagon," as we say in the slang phrase 
 of politics, and like to be regarded as progressive. They 
 wait until they see which way the procession is going. Look 
 at that procession a little later. Who are those fellows at 
 its head shouting so loudly and waving their banners so 
 furiously ? They are these same so-called educators, who 
 wish to be regarded as progressives. We have a great 
 deal of that to contend with in the West. It is bad enough 
 that students, influenced by the spirit of the time, avoid, 
 or take under protest, standard educational subjects with 
 the remark that these subjects will be of no use to them; 
 
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but it is worse that professional educators, both in college 
 and secondary school, keep pushing to replace these subjects 
 with what they call "practical subjects," by which they 
 mean vocational subjects. True, some of these subjects 
 have considerable educational value; but more of them 
 have little or none. I believe in trade-schools for those 
 who wish to learn a trade and technical schools for the vari- 
 ous professions; but education is one thing and a trade 
 or profession is quite another, and a boy ought not to be 
 deluded into the thought that, because he is learning to 
 file a flat surface on a piece of iron or to judge the meat- 
 or milk-value of a cow, that he is acquiring an education. 
 These are valuable accomplishments for those who have 
 occasion to use them and may be turned to money account; 
 but they contribute very little toward a liberal education. 
 I am glad to find that this craze has not struck Trinity 
 College and that it has not infected the minds of its patrons. 
 I hope you will continue to send out from here young men 
 and young women with the knowledge and discipline and 
 culture that your courses are capable of giving. I con- 
 gratulate you upon having inaugurated today a President 
 whose administration promises much for Trinity College. 
 We, too, are looking for a president to administer the affairs 
 of our university. If we find one as well adapted to the 
 place as President Few seems to be to Trinity, we shall 
 count ourselves fortunate. In the meantime we congratu- 
 late ourselves that we still have with us that grand and 
 capable man, President Cyrus Northrop, although he 
 resigned a year and a half ago and is serving only until a 
 suitable successor is found. When we inaugurate that 
 successor, we shall hope that a delegate from Trinity College 
 will bring to us Trinity's greetings and good wishes. 
 
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THE TOASTMASTER 
 
 Dean Downey begs me to announce privately, what he 
 felt a little delicacy in saying himself, that applicants for 
 the presidency of the University of Minnesota may file 
 their petitions with him before leaving. 
 
 I take the liberty of interrupting the regular program 
 at this moment and feel that I am voicing the sentiment 
 of all the delegates present when I insist on introducing 
 at this time His Excellency, the Governor of North Caro- 
 lina. (Applause.) 
 
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GOVERNOR WILLIAM WALTON KITCHIN 
 
 I am really very greatly astonished at this call. I have 
 been sitting here where I could see the list of those who 
 were to speak, and my name was not on it. To my sur- 
 prise some friend has sent up a card, requesting Chan- 
 cellor Kirkland to call on me. It was against his wishes, 
 and it is against mine. (Laughter.) Of course as I sat 
 here listening to those eloquent and appropriate remarks, 
 things have passed through my mind. When the Chan- 
 cellor himself told the story about the North Carolinian 
 who would rather be in the penitentiary in North Carolina 
 than live free in Texas, I thought of what is perhaps a better 
 story that was told by Senator Taylor in New York. When 
 Senator Taylor was invited to make a speech before the 
 Tennessee Society in New York some years ago, he told 
 them he was worried almost to death in trying to settle 
 upon something to discuss. He said he went to sleep the 
 night before and dreamed he went to heaven. He got on 
 the inside, he said, and an angel was showing him around. 
 He saw people from New York, Massachusetts, North 
 Carolina, Texas, and other states, and almost every friend 
 he had ever known was there, except those from Tennessee. 
 He said he kept wondering, "Where are the friends of my 
 youth that I labored with during the War and afterward ?" 
 But he saw not one. Finally he asked his guide where the 
 good men from Tennessee were, and the guide told him that 
 he would show him after awhile. So he kept going around 
 from one place to another along the golden streets, seeing 
 his friends from every other state, and his heart grew 
 heavy, and he was never so sad in his life so sad that 
 
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after he woke he found his pillow wet with tears. After 
 a while he made inquiry again about his friends from Ten- 
 nessee, but the guide only answered as before. Finally 
 he took him out to a very beautiful public square where he 
 saw thousands of Tennesseeans with chains around their 
 ankles, and those chains fastened to stakes in the ground. 
 The guard noticed that he was sad and said, "Taylor, 
 that is the only way we can keep them here; otherwise they 
 would all go right back to Tennessee." (Laughter.) 
 
 It is but fair to say, however, that that was before the 
 recent election in Tennessee. (Laughter.) 
 
 As Dr. West was speaking about education, politics, 
 and religion, and asserting that politics and religion are 
 irreconcilable, it occurred to me that he was in error; that 
 education, properly applied for a sufficient length of time, 
 will harmonize the people in politics as well as religion; for, 
 when I remember how the oldest university, and therefore 
 the greatest, in this country has been educating the people 
 of Massachusetts for more than two hundred and fifty 
 years, and has made them better and wiser year after 
 year, and when I recall how that great university in New 
 Jersey has been educating the people year after year, and 
 how Trinity College here in North Carolina has been edu- 
 cating them and making them better and wiser, and how 
 all these states are now harmonious (long applause) when 
 I consider all this, I begin to think that Dr. West is mis- 
 taken, that we are all going to become better after a while. 
 But out there in Tennessee education hasn't done its work 
 properly yet. (Laughter.) There is still work to be done 
 in Tennessee, and we shall have to let Trinity and Harvard 
 and Princeton help her a little more before she gets right. 
 My friend on my left [Dr. Elmer E. Brown] spoke of 
 the New Nationalism. He thinks we haven't many 
 differences, not even enough to talk about or discuss; but 
 I couldn't help thinking that in the only place where new 
 nationalism has been tried lately, the people determined, 
 
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not to carry out the doctrines, but to throw them out, as 
 the elections in New York amply show. 
 
 At the risk of being a little personal I am going to tell 
 a story on President Lowell. It shows how accurate a 
 man may become, how painstaking, how careful as to the 
 smallest details; how he must be a great executive before 
 he can hope to be the head of any of the great institutions 
 of the land. I understand that Dr. Lowell took a trip 
 out West last summer and that he got his brother, who 
 lives in the West, to take charge of his home and keep his 
 household in order during his absence. They say that 
 although President Lowell before leaving wrote out a pretty 
 full bill of instructions for him, when the President got out 
 to Cleveland, Ohio, he telegraphed his brother, "I forgot 
 the canary; find food in safe and please feed." When 
 he got out to St. Paul he received this telegram: "The 
 canary is again hungry; wire instructions." (Applause.) 
 I do know that President Lowell keeps his household in 
 order because I had the rare pleasure of sharing his hos- 
 pitality last summer. 
 
 I feel, gentlemen, that I have done what I came here to 
 do. I have a friend who sells soda fountains I won't call 
 his name, for several gentlemen in this audience know him. 
 He had been loving a young lady, who is now his wife, for 
 many years. He went to her home one day determined to 
 ask her father for her, but, luckily for him, the old gentle- 
 man was absent. So, he went to the next town and wrote 
 him a letter, in which he acquainted him with a few facts 
 and circumstances that he already knew, and asked for the 
 girl. Soon afterward he got a letter from the old gentle- 
 man, in which he said that he had no objection on earth 
 to him as a man, but that he didn't like to see his daughter 
 get married at all; that she was his only child, that he had 
 a large home, and that he would consent to the marriage 
 upon one condition only, and that was, that after the 
 marriage they would make his home their home. The 
 
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young man went to the telegraph office and sent this tele- 
 gram: "Letter received. Terms accepted." (Applause.) 
 They say he has complied with the terms ever since. I 
 feel that I, too, have complied with the terms which were 
 tendered to me in the invitation. 
 
 I can't help again expressing my gratification at seeing 
 here so many prominent educators from other states. The 
 more you know of North Carolina, gentlemen, the better 
 you will like the good old state, and we welcome you from 
 the bottom of our hearts. This has been a great day for 
 Trinity College and for the entire state. The best wishes 
 of every North Carolinian will accompany you back to 
 your homes. The rays of the sun never kissed a fairer 
 land; the plowman never turned a kindlier sod; Columbia 
 never knew a truer love, and the stranger never clasped a 
 friendlier hand than Carolina's. (Long applause.) 
 
 THE TOASTMASTER 
 
 It will be agreed by all that the toastmaster made no 
 mistake in calling on His Excellency the Governor, even 
 without notice, and President Lowell and I are wondering 
 what he would have done to us if he had had more time. 
 (Applause.) 
 
 In speaking of North Carolina, I am reminded of a dis- 
 tinguished politician in this state who later went into 
 political life in New York. He was bragging on North 
 Carolina on its achievements and its great material 
 development and its resources, its cotton-mills, tobacco- 
 factories, and so forth, and finally said: "If I could only 
 be sure that I could come back a hundred years from now 
 to see the Old North State and what it has done, I should 
 die happy." His friend said, "Don't give yourself the 
 least trouble about that; when you have been dead a 
 hundred days, you will be glad to come back on any condi- 
 tion." (Laughter and applause.) 
 
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It is not a far cry from Minnesota to New Haven. The 
 University of Minnesota and Old Yale have been closely 
 connected during many years of history. If Harvard was 
 founded as a reproduction in some sense of Oxford and 
 Cambridge on this new soil, Yale was started as an Ameri- 
 can institution. Its first faculty were largely trained at 
 Harvard. It had been from the beginning, in some respects, 
 a typical American institution, representing American life, 
 American energy, American aspirations, American vigor, 
 and, in some respects, American self-satisfaction. You 
 always know a Yale man wherever you meet him. A 
 man was attending a great football game a few years ago 
 when those games were played in New York. It was a 
 game between Yale and Princeton. A stranger sitting by 
 him was very enthusiastic over the game, and the friend 
 who was rather sedate and not very well acquainted with 
 athletic history and detail, said to him, "You are an 
 alumnus of Yale?" The fellow stopped his yelling a 
 minute and said: "It doesn't take a Sherlock Holmes to 
 find that out." 
 
 I take great pleasure in introducing Dean Jones, as a 
 representative of Yale University. (Applause.) 
 
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DEAN FREDERICK SHEETZ JONES 
 
 It is an ill wind that blows nobody good. While Yale 
 regrets that President Hadley's absence abroad on national 
 business prevents his being here to represent the College 
 at your gathering today, I may be pardoned if I indulge 
 in secret satisfaction that it has resulted in my being per- 
 mitted to take part in the festivities of this occasion. Nor 
 is it altogether illogical that I should be here as a delegate, 
 for while I have lived most of my life in the far North I am 
 a southerner (by marriage), and I was born in that twilight 
 zone between North and South which makes me, not 
 exactly a son of either, but loyal to both, and the blood 
 of southern ancestors tingled in my veins this afternoon 
 as I heard the well-known strains of "Dixie." 
 
 It is with peculiar sympathy, then, that I bring to you 
 the greetings of Yale on this occasion. A good deal of 
 water has run under the bridge while we have been sitting 
 here, and as I look up and down this table and see the many 
 dignitaries of church and state, men prominent in education 
 and philanthropy, I realize that there is a good deal of 
 deep water still ahead of us for the afternoon, and I do not 
 wish to obstruct navigation. If we multiply the whole 
 number of delegates present by the average time that it 
 takes each man to make a speech (including the time 
 required for the Toastmaster to introduce him), it is found 
 that it will require approximately eighteen and three- 
 quarter hours to finish these exercises. In view of this 
 fact I shall reduce my own remarks to a minimum. 
 
 No one can fail to be impressed and delighted with what 
 has been seen and heard here today. In years gone by 
 
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there may have been some little rivalry affecting the rela- 
 tions which existed between the colleges of the country; 
 that is a thing of the past, and it certainly augurs well 
 for the cause of higher education in America that repre- 
 sentatives of so many of our great institutions have gathered 
 here to prove their deep interest in this college and to take 
 part in the inauguration of her new president. 
 
 I beg to express the hope, Sir [addressing President 
 Few], that your administration may carry out in detail the 
 ideas contained in your admirable inaugural address deliv- 
 ered this morning. As I listened to it, it seemed to me that 
 it was the address of an idealist. I believe it was. We 
 are well convinced that your administration will be emi- 
 nently successful. We have no fear as to the financial 
 future of this institution; we have no fear as to its intel- 
 lectual future, and I confidently hope that you may real- 
 ize your own ideals, that you may do much more for the 
 students of Trinity College than to teach them to be law- 
 abiding citizens of North Carolina. May you be per- 
 mitted to lead them into the high mountains, to touch 
 their hearts and lives, that the young women of Trinity 
 College may be women of sweeter charity and deeper 
 sympathy, and the young men may be men of more devoted 
 loyalty and more exalted patriotism because of your 
 inspiring leadership. 
 
 THE TOASTMASTER 
 
 I had one or two other good stories, but, after the flatter- 
 ing reference to my remarks made by the Dean of Yale, 
 I shall omit them. 
 
 We have in the South a good many institutions that we 
 could name in line with the great institutions that have 
 been represented this afternoon, but there is one whose 
 progress we have watched with peculiar pride, one whose 
 
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work stands out with prominence and one whose great 
 usefulness has been increasing year after year. Tulane 
 University has received large endowments for medical 
 education and for the education of women. It occupies 
 in these two fields a distinct leadership among southern 
 institutions. It has also largely developed its work for 
 the technical training of the young men of the South. 
 Tulane University may therefore very naturally look 
 forward to a great career in coming years, and I take great 
 pleasure in introducing its President, Dr. E. B. Craighead. 
 
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PRESIDENT EDWIN BOONE CRAIGHEAD 
 
 In New Orleans there is a common belief that the value 
 of a university president is in inverse ratio to his oratorical 
 ability. If that be true, what shall we say of the Presi- 
 dents of Vanderbilt, Harvard, Princeton, Yale, and others 
 who have spoken so eloquently this afternoon! 
 
 If I may be permitted to use a word still heard in the 
 best circles of New Orleans a word, I am told, under ban 
 here at Trinity indeed in this home of intellectual liberty, 
 no professor may use it without risking his official head 
 I am charmed to be here on this occasion. I was here 
 sixteen years ago, having accepted an invitation to make 
 your commencement address. I have never been invited 
 to return. (Laughter.) I have, however, the consola- 
 tion of knowing that some of you who made fine addresses 
 on this occasion will likely wait a good deal longer than 
 sixteen years for an opportunity to make another speech 
 at Trinity. It may take a change of administration to 
 bring you back, as it did in my case. As President Few is 
 still a young man, we may reasonably expect the reign of 
 Few to continue some twenty-five or thirty years at least. 
 
 What a change has come over Trinity in these sixteen 
 years! It was in the early days of the administration of 
 your predecessor that I visited this place. All the good 
 people of this state and of Durham who had worked for 
 this college were in despair, and Mr. Washington Duke, 
 that grand. old man of great heart (long applause) that 
 grand old man, I repeat, of great heart and of big brain, 
 who might be called the father of the new Trinity, declared 
 he was not going to give another cent to the College. All 
 
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your good people were wondering whether the long, lean, 
 little preacher, who had just come here from South Caro- 
 lina would be able to pull this institution out of the mire. 
 I knew that he would succeed. I knew that he had the 
 courage, the energy, enthusiasm, and devotion out of which 
 great college presidents are made. His voice had already 
 been heard in every part of South Carolina at Charleston, 
 at Columbia, and at Greenwood, in the backwoods of the 
 hill-country, in the lowlands, where fevers seize the bodies 
 of men and ignorance hangs like thick darkness over the 
 minds of men. I knew that he would be able to build a 
 college in the swamps, on the mountain-tops, or in this 
 busy mart of trade. I know of no single educational 
 work in the whole South that surpasses the work of your 
 predecessor during the past sixteen years. He was not 
 long here until Mr. Washington Duke was ready without 
 asking to give to this college, and he gave to it liberally. 
 His sons, in the spirit of their father, have continued the 
 good work, and so have other people throughout the state 
 of North Carolina. 
 
 I was much pleased with the great speech of President 
 Judson, especially with what he had to say of educational 
 ideals. Some colleges and some universities advertise 
 the fact that the students who come to them are taught 
 how to hustle and how to get on in the world, and especially 
 how to succeed in politics. Some institutions turn out 
 dreamy men, who do nothing in the world. But, according 
 to President Judson's idea, a college should send out men 
 trained for efficient service. There's a story told of a 
 Harvard, a Yale, and a Princeton man. These three 
 students had just gone aboard a ship, when an old lady 
 came on deck. The Harvard man said, "Boys, someone 
 should get a chair for the old lady." The Princeton man 
 got the chair and placed it, and the Yale man took it. 
 (Laughter.) Now gentlemen, I do not mean to intimate 
 that this story sets forth the Yale ideal or the Harvard 
 
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ideal; but in this day of hustle, in this materialistic age, 
 the college that keeps before the students the ideal of 
 service to mankind is doing something worth while. 
 
 I think the South has contributed several educational 
 ideals. In the first place, the idea of a great state univer- 
 sity is a contribution of the South. I believe North Caro- 
 lina had the first state university or was it Georgia? 
 Thomas Jefferson had the idea of a great state university. 
 It was never fully realized in Virginia, but it has since 
 blossomed out in full fruition in Minnesota, Wisconsin, 
 California, and other states of the West. Johns Hopkins 
 University, a southern institution, wrought a complete 
 revolution in the university ideals of this country. Presi- 
 dent Oilman gathered around him a small faculty of the 
 very best men he could find in this country and started 
 the first real university in the United States indeed 
 Johns Hopkins is still revolutionizing the higher educational 
 ideals of this country. We cannot speak too well of Johns 
 Hopkins. 
 
 I trust that President Few will carry out his great plan 
 and give us still another and a greater conception of the 
 American college. I was glad to hear him say that the 
 large institution is not necessarily the great institution, 
 and that the small college may be a great college, for that 
 is what we need to learn in the South. A college of 400 
 students may be far greater than the college of 5,000 stu- 
 dents. I should like to see him do for college education 
 what Johns Hopkins did for university education. I should 
 like to see here at Trinity College a college not only as good 
 as Amherst, Dartmouth, and Bowdoin, but the greatest 
 college of this country. But more money will be needed. 
 I should like to hear this college declare that no full pro- 
 fessor shall receive less than $5,000 a year not enough to 
 make him proud, but enough to enable him to live com- 
 fortably and to make it impossible for any other college or 
 university to take this professor from you. This college, 
 
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with ten or twelve men receiving salaries from $5,000 to 
 $10,000 a year, the very best teachers to be secured any- 
 where in this country, would bring about a complete revo- 
 lution in American educational ideals. Such a concep- 
 tion of a college is contrary to the idea that vastness is 
 greatness; but it is the true conception, and, after hearing 
 your inspiring address, I think you are going to have at 
 Trinity such a college as that, and in the very near future. 
 (Applause.) 
 
 Now, gentlemen, I cannot invite you to New Orleans as 
 my friend on the left [Dr. Downey] invited you to Minne- 
 sota, at least, I trust it will not be necessary for you to 
 come there (laughter) to see the inauguration of a new 
 president. But I am going to invite you to come to New 
 Orleans, the logical point for the great Panama Exposi- 
 tion. (Applause.) 
 
 THE TOASTMASTER 
 
 We have reached the conclusion of these very inter- 
 esting exercises. You will pardon me if I relinquish my 
 post as toastmaster for just a moment to speak one word 
 as a representative of the visiting delegates and to express 
 to our hosts, the faculty and trustees of Trinity College, the 
 great satisfaction that we have derived from our experience 
 today. This has been indeed a great day for all of us, as 
 well as a great day for Trinity College. We came here 
 with a full appreciation of the past history of this institu- 
 tion. We leave with a profounder respect for the College 
 and for what it has done. We cherish the hope, which 
 takes on an element of certainty, that the future of this 
 institution will be all that its friends have expressed today 
 as their desire for it. Our minds will turn to this campus 
 in coming years. We shall watch with interest your 
 constant progress. We shall rejoice in your success and 
 
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we shall be glad to extend a hand a helping hand in 
 any great educational work that you may enter upon. 
 
 Our last word and the last lingering sentiment that we 
 would express on this occasion is, God bless Trinity College 
 and all the men into whose hands its high destinies are 
 today committed! 
 
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APPENDIX 
 
FORMS OF INVITATIONS, CIRCULARS, 
 ANNOUNCEMENTS 
 
[Reduced Facsimile of the Invitation to Other Institutions] 
 
 TRINITY COLLEGE 
 DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA 
 
 The Inauguration of 
 
 WILLIAM PRESTON FEW 
 
 as President of the 
 
 College 
 
 [Page One Hundred Nine] 
 
'Durham, Jfyrth Carolina 
 OElober i"> 1910 
 
 SiR: 
 
 By dire&ion of the Board of Trustees of Trinity 
 College, I have the honor to inform you and other 
 members of the Faculty of 
 
 that the inauguration of WILLIAM PRESTON FEW, 
 PH.D., as President of Trinity College, will take 
 place in Durham on Thursday, November tenth, 
 in the Year of our Lord nineteen hundred and ten, 
 and of Trinity College the fifty-second. 
 
 [ Page One Hundred Ten ] 
 
The Trustees request the presence of a delegate 
 frbm your body on that occasion. 
 
 In case this invitation is accepted, they desire 
 a reply before O&ober twentieth, containing the 
 name, title, and post-office address of the delegate 
 sele&ed. It should be sent to the SECRETARY 
 TO THE CORPORATION, Trinity College, Durham, 
 North Carolina. 
 
 I have the honor to be, 
 
 Sir, 
 Very respe&fully yours, 
 
 Secretary to the Corporation 
 
 To the 
 
 [Page One Hundred Eleven] 
 
[Reduced Facsimile of the Announcement of a Change of the Date] 
 
 THE INAUGURATION OF THE PRESIDENT OF TRINITY COLLEGE 
 AT DURHAM, NOVEMBER 9. 1910 
 
 By order of the Board of Trustees, I have the honor to inform the 
 President and other members of the Faculty of 
 
 that the date of the inauguration of 
 
 William Preston Few as President of Trinity College 
 
 has been changed from Thursday, November tenth, 
 
 to Wednesday, November ninth. 
 
 SECRETARY TO THE CORPORATION 
 
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[Reduced Facsimile of the Invitation to Delegates and Specially Invited' Guests] 
 
 
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[Facsimile of the Invitation to the Delegates, Specially Invited Guests, and 
 Members of the Board of Trustees] 
 
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[Facsimile of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Newton Duke's Invitations which were 
 sent to Delegates, Guests, Members of the Board of Trustees and of the 
 Faculties, and the Alumni] 
 
 
 
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[Copy of the Invitation sent by Mrs. Stagg to the Ladies Accompanying the 
 Delegates and Specially Invited Guests] 
 
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[Circular Letter sent to Delegates, Specially Invited Guests, and Alumni] 
 
 INAUGURATION OF WILLIAM PRESTON FEW, PH.D., 
 
 AS PRESIDENT OF TRINITY COLLEGE, 
 
 NOVEMBER 9 
 
 TRINITY COLLEGE, DURHAM, N.C. 
 
 October 20, 1910 
 
 DEAR SIR: The Committee on Arrangements for the installa- 
 tion of the President of Trinity College, on November 9, begs 
 leave to inform you that the program for the day, in outline, 
 is as follows: 
 
 9:00 A.M. The Registration of Delegates and Invited Guests will 
 take place in the Washington Duke Building, West Wing. 
 
 9 : 30 A.M. The Presentation of the Washington Duke Building, West 
 Wing, will take place in the Auditorium of this building. 
 
 Immediately after this exercise, Delegates and Guests are requested to 
 assemble promptly in the lower hall of the Washington Duke Building, 
 West Wing, where they will form in procession and move to the Craven 
 Memorial Hall. 
 
 10:00 A.M. The formal Exercises of Installation will be held in the 
 Craven Memorial Hall the Introduction of the President, Congratulatory 
 Addresses, and the President's Inaugural. 
 
 Immediately after these exercises, the Delegates from other Institutions 
 will be formally presented in the Washington Duke Building, West Wing. 
 
 i :oo P.M. A Luncheon will be served in the Washington Duke Building, 
 West Wing, to the Delegates, Specially Invited Guests, Trustees, and 
 Members of the Faculties. 
 
 9 : oo P.M. Reception to the Delegates and Specially Invited Guests at 
 the residence of Mr. Benjamin N. Duke. 
 
 For the convenience of Delegates who wish to attend the 
 meeting of the Association of American Universities, which 
 meets at Charlottesville, Va., November 10, arrangements have 
 been made with the Southern Railroad to run a special train to 
 Greensboro, leaving Durham at n P.M. The Pullman cars will 
 
 [ Page One Hundred Twenty-five 
 
be attached to the train which leaves Greensboro at 2:05 A - M - 
 This arrangement will enable Delegates to reach Charlottesville, 
 Va., at 7:30 A.M. Thursday morning, November 10. 
 
 FOR THE COMMITTEE ON ARRANGEMENTS 
 R. L. FLOWERS 
 
 Secretary to the Corporation 
 
 [ Page One Hundred Twenty-six ] 
 
[Second Circular Letter sent to Delegates and Guests] 
 
 THE INAUGURATION OF WILLIAM PRESTON FEW, 
 
 PH.D., AS PRESIDENT OF TRINITY COLLEGE, 
 
 WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9 
 
 TRINITY COLLEGE, DURHAM, N.C. 
 
 SPECIAL INFORMATION CONCERNING RAILROAD SCHEDULES 
 
 Durham may be reached by the Southern Railroad from Rich- 
 mond, Va., and from Greensboro, N.C., and Goldsboro, N.C.; 
 by the Norfolk & Western from Lynchburg, Va.; by the Sea- 
 board Air Line from Henderson, N.C.; by the Durham and 
 Southern, connecting with the Atlantic Coast Line at Dunn and 
 with the Seaboard Air Line at Apex, N.C. 
 
 For the convenience of delegates and guests, many of whom 
 will prefer to come over the Southern Railway via Greensboro, 
 N.C., the following special arrangements have been made. A 
 special train carrying a Pullman and a dining-car, which will 
 serve breakfast between Greensboro and Durham, will leave 
 Greensboro at 7 : 10 on the morning of November 9 and reach 
 Durham at 8 : 55. This train will carry all delegates coming from 
 the North and East on train No. 37 (Southern Railway), which 
 leaves New York at 4:25 P.M., and Washington, D.C., at 10:45 
 P.M., Tuesday, November 8, and which reaches Greensboro, 
 N.C., at 7:05 A.M., Wednesday, November 9. Delegates from 
 the South and West may come on this same special train by 
 leaving Atlanta on train No. 38 (Southern Railway), Tuesday, 
 November 8, at n A.M. This train reaches Greensboro at 10:03 
 P.M. the same day. 
 
 Those who come by the way of Knoxville and Asheville may 
 leave the former place on train No. 12 (Southern Railway), at 
 7:40 A.M., Tuesday, November 8, and the latter at 2:25 P.M. 
 
 [Page One Hundred Twenty-seven 
 
This train reaches Salisbury, N.C., at 7:50 P.M., and connects 
 with No. 38 from Atlanta. 
 
 For the convenience of delegates who wish to attend the 
 meeting of the Association of American Universities at Char- 
 lottesville, Va., November 10, a special train carrying Pullman 
 cars will leave Durham at 11:30 P.M., Wednesday, November 9. 
 The Pullman cars on this train will be attached to No. 30, which 
 leaves Greensboro at 2:05 A.M., Thursday, November 10, and 
 arrives at Charlottesville at 7 : 20 A.M., Washington at 10:40 A.M., 
 and New York at 5:00 P.M. 
 
 All those who wish to use either or both of these special trains 
 will notify R. L. Flowers, Secretary to the Corporation, Trinity 
 College, Durham, N.C., not later than November 5; those desiring 
 to use the special train out of Durham on Wednesday night will 
 please specify the amount of space they wish reserved. All 
 those who will reach Durham on the regular trains will please 
 inform the Secretary td the Corporation what time they expect 
 to arrive. 
 
 [Page One Hundred Twenty-eight] 
 
[Circular Letter sent to Alumni] 
 
 INAUGURATION OF WILLIAM PRESTON FEW, PH.D., 
 
 AS PRESIDENT OF TRINITY COLLEGE, 
 
 NOVEMBER 9 
 
 TRINITY COLLEGE, DURHAM, N.C. 
 
 October 21, 1910 
 
 DEAR SIR: The Inauguration of William Preston Few as 
 President of Trinity College, will take place in Durham, Wednes- 
 day, November 9. The first exercise will be the Presentation of 
 the new Washington Duke Building, West Wing. Immediately 
 after this exercise, an academic procession will form and 
 proceed to the Craven Memorial Hall, where the formal exercises 
 of installation will be held; the charter and seal of the College 
 will be presented to the President-elect by Bishop John C. Kilgo; 
 congratulatory Addresses will be delivered by Governor William 
 W. Kitchin, in behalf of the Commonwealth, and by Dr. Harry 
 Pratt Judson, President of the University of Chicago, in behalf 
 of the visiting delegates. After this, President Few will deliver 
 his inaugural. 
 
 The President and Faculty will give a luncheon at 1:00 P.M. 
 to Delegates, Specially Invited Guests, Trustees, and Alumni. 
 
 In the evening, a reception will be given by Mr. and Mrs. 
 Benjamin N. Duke at their residence in Durham. 
 
 The representation from other institutions will be unusually 
 large, and this occasion promises to be the most notable one of 
 its kind ever held at a southern institution. 
 
 The Committee on Arrangements is exceedingly anxious that 
 there should be a large number of the Alumni present. The 
 Alumni are requested to join in the procession, and arrangements 
 have been made by which academic costumes may be rented 
 at the College. The Bachelor's gown and cap may be rented 
 
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for one dollar; the Master's gown, cap, and hood for three dollars 
 and a half, and the Doctor's for five dollars. If you wish to 
 secure a costume, please fill out the enclosed blank at once and 
 return it to Dr. F. C. Brown, Trinity College, Durham, N.C., 
 not later than October 27, and he will take pleasure in sending 
 in the order. 
 
 Since admission to all functions, excepting the exercises in 
 Craven Memorial Hall, will be by ticket only, the Alumni are 
 urgently requested to notify me not later than October 27 in 
 order that tickets may be provided for them. 
 
 Very truly yours, 
 
 R. L. FLOWERS 
 
 Secretary to the Corporation 
 
 [Page One Hundred Thirty] 
 
[Private Mailing Card sent to Delegates] 
 
 TRINITY COLLEGE 
 
 DURHAM 
 NORTH CAROLINA 
 
 Dear Sir: 
 
 Please fill in the blanks on 
 the other side of this card and 
 mail to me at your earliest 
 convenience . 
 
 Thanking you in advance, I am, 
 Very sincerely, 
 
 (OVER) 
 
 Institution ^epresented- 
 
 When Founded 
 Full Name of Delegate 
 
 Degrees 
 
 Official Position 
 
 Name of Institution with Which Delegate is Connected- 
 
 [Page One Hundred Thirty-one] 
 
[Private Mailing Card sent to Alumni and Others] 
 
 ORDER FOR ACADEMIC COSTUME 
 
 Name 
 
 Degree Institution. 
 
 Size of Coat Size of Hat Height 
 
 Weight Erect or stooping figure 
 
 Special arrangements have been made with the firm supplying these cos- 
 tumes so that they may be rented for this occasion at a very low rate: 
 
 Bachelor's Cap and Gown . . . $1.00 
 
 Master's Cap, Gown, and Hood . . $3.50 
 
 . Doctor's Cap, Gown, and Hood . . $5.00 
 
 All who desire Academic costumes supplied them should notify the Secretary to 
 the Corporation not later than October twenty-seventh. 
 
 [Page One Hundred Thirty-three] 
 
[Reduced Copy of the Program] 
 
 TRINITY COLLEGE 
 
 ORDER OF EXERCISES 
 
 FOR THE INDUCTION OF 
 
 WILLIAM PRESTON FEW, PH.D. 
 
 INTO THE OFFICE OF 
 
 PRESIDENT 
 
 NOVEMBER NINTH 
 MDCCCCX 
 
 Academic Costume 
 
 Delegates, Specially Invited Guests, Members of the Board of Trustees and of the 
 Faculties will wear Academic Costume at the Inaugural Ceremonies on Wednesday 
 Morning; on all other occasions, the ordinary afternoon or evening dress appropriate 
 to the hour. 
 
 [Page One Hundred Thirty-five 
 
I 
 
 THE WASHINGTON DUKE BUILDING, WEST WING 
 
 Enrolment of Delegates and Guests 
 9:00 9:30 A.M. 
 
 II 
 
 THE WASHINGTON DUKE BUILDING, WEST WING 
 Presentation Exercises 
 
 9:30 10:00 A.M. 
 
 Presentation 
 BENJAMIN NEWTON DUKE 
 
 Acceptance 
 
 JAMES HAYWOOD SOUTHGATE 
 The President of the Board of Trustees 
 
 After the Presentation Exercises, the Honorable Delegates, Specially Invited 
 Guests, Members of the Board of Trustees and of the Faculties will form in procession 
 and move to the Craven Memorial Hall 
 
 ORDER OF THE PROCESSION 
 
 CHIEF MARSHAL 
 
 AIDS 
 
 7 
 
 AIDS 
 
 The PROFESSORS OF THE COLLEGE 
 
 The PROFESSORS IN THE SCHOOL OF LAW 
 
 The ASSISTANT PROFESSORS OF THE COLLEGE 
 
 The Other Members of the Faculties of the College 
 
 The Alumni of the College in Order of Their Classes 
 
 II 
 
 THE COLLEGE MARSHAL 
 
 The DELEGATES FROM OTHER INSTITUTIONS 
 
 The SPECIALLY INVITED GUESTS 
 
 [Page One Hundred Thirty-six] 
 
AIDS 
 The MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES 
 
 The BURSAR, Bearing the Keys 
 
 The LIBRARIAN, Bearing the Charter 
 
 The SECRETARY TO THE CORPORATION, Bearing the Seal 
 
 The DEAN OF THE FACULTY OF LAW 
 
 The DEAN OF THE COLLEGE 
 
 The PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES 
 
 The MAYOR OF THE CITY OF DURHAM 
 
 The GOVERNOR OF THE COMMONWEALTH 
 
 The Reverend STONEWALL ANDERSON 
 
 FREDERICK WILLIAM HAMILTON 
 
 President of Tufts College 
 
 The RETIRING PRESIDENT 
 
 HARRY PRATT JUDSON 
 
 President of the University of Chicago 
 
 The PRESIDENT-ELECT 
 
 III 
 
 THE CRAVEN MEMORIAL HALL 
 
 The Exercises of Induction 
 
 Music 
 
 Processional Hymn 
 
 It is requested that the audience stand during the singing of the hymn 
 
 1 How firm a foundation, ye saints of the Lord, 
 Is laid for your faith in His excellent Word! 
 What more can He say than to you He hath said, 
 Who unto the Saviour for refuge have fled ? 
 
 2 "Fear not, I am with thee, oh, be not dismayed, 
 
 For I am thy God, and will still give thee aid; 
 
 I'll strengthen thee, help thee, and cause thee to stand, 
 
 Upheld by My righteous, omnipotent hand. 
 
 3 "When through the deep waters I call thee to go, 
 
 The rivers of sorrow shall not overflow; 
 For I will be with thee, thy troubles to bless, 
 And sanctify to thee thy deepest distress. 
 
 [Page One Hundred Thirty-seven 
 
4 "When through fiery trials thy pathway shall lie, 
 
 My grace, all-sufficient, shall be thy supply; 
 The flame shall not hurt thee: I only design 
 Thy dross to consume, and thy gold to refine. 
 
 5 "Even down to old age all My people shall prove 
 
 My sovereign, eternal, unchangeable love; 
 And when hoary hairs shall their temples adorn, 
 Like lambs they shall still in My bosom be borne. 
 
 6 "The soul that on Jesus hath leaned for repose, 
 
 I will not, I will not desert to his foes; 
 
 That soul, though all hell should endeavor to shake, 
 
 I'll never, no never, no never forsake!" 
 
 Invocation 
 
 The Reverend STONEWALL ANDERSON, D.D., 
 Corresponding Secretary of the Board of Education, 
 Methodist Episcopal Churchy South 
 
 The Induction and the Presentation of the 
 Charter and Seal 
 
 JOHN CARLISLE KILGO, A.M., D.D., LL.D., 
 
 The Retiring President, Bishop of the 
 Methodist Episcopal Church, South 
 
 The Acceptance 
 The PRESIDENT OF THE COLLEGE 
 
 Addresses of Congratulation 
 
 The Honorable WILLIAM WALTON KITCHIN, 
 
 The Governor of the Commonwealth, 
 
 in behalf of the State 
 
 HARRY PRATT JUDSON, A.M., LL.D., 
 
 The President of the University of Chicago, 
 in behalf of the HONORABLE DELEGATES 
 
 The Inaugural Address 
 President WILLIAM PRESTON FEW, PH.D. 
 
 [Page One Hundred Thirty-eight] 
 
Benediction 
 
 FREDERICK WILLIAM HAMILTON, D.D., LL.D., 
 The President of Tufts College 
 
 Music 
 
 It is requested that the audience remain standing while the procession is leaving 
 the Hall 
 
 IV 
 
 THE WASHINGTON DUKE BUILDING, WEST WING 
 Presentation of the Honorable Delegates 
 
 in the Order of the Foundation of their Institutions 
 12:30 1:00 P.M. 
 
 V 
 
 THE WASHINGTON DUKE BUILDING, WEST WING 
 
 Luncheon 
 
 1:00 P.M 
 
 Presiding Officer, 
 
 JAMES HAMPTON KIRKLAND, PH.D., LL.D., 
 
 The Chancellor of Vanderbilt University 
 
 The seats for Delegates, Guests, and Trustees will be indicated by cards placed on 
 the tables 
 
 VI 
 
 THE RESIDENCE OF MR. JAMES EDWARD STAGG 
 Luncheon 
 
 1:00 P.M. 
 
 Mrs. JAMES EDWARD STAGG 
 will give a Luncheon to the Ladies accompanying the Delegates 
 
 VII 
 
 THE RESIDENCE OF MR. BENJAMIN NEWTON DUKE 
 Reception 
 
 9:OO-Ii:OO P.M. 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. BENJAMIN NEWTON DUKE 
 
 will receive the Delegates, 
 
 Specially Invited Guests, Members of the Board of Trustees 
 and of the Faculties of the College 
 
 [Page One Hundred Thirty-nine] 
 
[Copy of Folder which was presented to Delegates and Guests on their arrival in 
 
 Durham] 
 
 THE INAUGURATION OF WILLIAM PRESTON FEW, 
 PH.D., AS PRESIDENT OF TRINITY COLLEGE 
 
 WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9 
 
 TRINITY COLLEGE, DURHAM, N.C. 
 INFORMATION FOR DELEGATES AND GUESTS 
 
 1. Delegates and Guests will please enrol their names in the 
 Washington Duke Building, West Wing (in the room marked 
 " Enrolment"), and don the academic costume (in the Dressing- 
 Room for Delegates) between 9:00 and 9:30, in preparation for 
 the Presentation of the Building at 9 : 30. 
 
 2. At 9:30 all Delegates and Guests will congregate in the 
 Assembly-Room (second floor of the same building) for the 
 Presentation Exercises of the Washington Duke Building, West 
 Wing. 
 
 3. At 10:00 o'clock, as the names of Delegates and Guests 
 are called, they will please form in the line of procession, which 
 will move to the Craven Memorial Hall. 
 
 4. After the exercises in the Craven Memorial Hall all Dele- 
 gates and Guests are requested to take their places in the pro- 
 cession at the direction of the marshals and return to the Wash- 
 ington Duke Building, West Wing, where the Presentation of 
 Delegates will be held. 
 
 5. At 12:30, in the Assembly-Room of the Duke Building, 
 the Delegates will be presented, in full academic costume, to 
 
 [Page One Hundred Forty-one] 
 
the President of the College, the Governor of the Commonwealth, 
 the retiring President, the Commissioner of Education of the 
 United States. After he is presented, each delegate will take 
 position in the receiving line. 
 
 6. Immediately after the Presentation of the Delegates, all 
 Delegates and Guests are requested to assemble, by direction of 
 the marshals, for a photograph. 
 
 7. After the taking of the photograph, Delegates and Guests 
 may leave their costumes in the Dressing-Room for Delegates. 
 Here they will be wrapped and delivered to the owners after the 
 Luncheon. 
 
 8. After the Luncheon, all Delegates who desire to make the 
 trip will be conveyed in automobiles to the Watts Hospital and 
 to some of the factories and other points of interest in the City. 
 
 9. When the trip over parts of the City has been finished, 
 Delegates and Guests will be taken to the homes of those who 
 will entertain them during their stay in the City. 
 
 will be entertained at the home of 
 
 10. At 9:00 P.M. all Delegates and Guests are invited to the 
 Reception at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Newton 
 Duke on Chapel Hill Street. 
 
 11. The special train will leave for Greensboro at 11:30 P.M. 
 Delegates and Guests who desire to take this train should leave 
 orders at the Bureau of Information for what space they desire ; 
 otherwise, room cannot be guaranteed. Since many will find 
 it necessary to go directly from the Reception to the train, they 
 should arrange to have baggage sent to the special Pullman before 
 they go to the Reception. If orders are left at the Bureau of 
 Information, the Committee on Arrangements will have baggage 
 transferred. 
 
 NOTE. Any Delegate or Guest who has not tickets for the 
 Presentation of the Building, the Presentation of Delegates, or 
 the Luncheon, will please call at the Bureau of Information. 
 
 Academic costume will be worn on all the above occasions, 
 except the Luncheon and the Reception. Caps should be removed 
 as Delegates are seated, except at the Presentation of Delegates, 
 when they should not be removed at all. 
 
 [ Page One Hundred Forty-two ] 
 
[Copy of Folder which was presented to Alumni on their arrival in Durham] 
 
 THE INAUGURATION OF WILLIAM PRESTON FEW, 
 PH.D., AS PRESIDENT OF TRINITY COLLEGE 
 
 WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9 
 
 TRINITY COLLEGE, DURHAM, N.C. 
 INFORMATION FOR ALUMNI 
 
 1. Alumni will call at the Bureau of Information for tickets 
 for the Presentation of the Washington Duke Building, West 
 Wing, and the Presentation of Delegates, before 9:30 Wednesday 
 morning. 
 
 2. Alumni will please get costumes, in the room marked 
 "Costumes," before 9:30 Wednesday morning; they will don 
 the costumes before going into the Assembly-Room to the exer- 
 cises at 9 : 30. 
 
 3. At 9:30 all Alumni are invited to be present at the Presen- 
 tation of the Washington Duke Building. Admission by ticket. 
 
 4. After the Presentation of the Building, the Alumni, in 
 full academic costume, will form in the line of procession immedi- 
 ately behind the members of the Faculties of the College and 
 move to the Craven Memorial Hall. 
 
 5. The Alumni will take seats in the Craven Memorial Hall 
 immediately in front of the members of the Faculties of the 
 College. 
 
 6. After the exercises in the Craven Memorial Hall the 
 Alumni will form in line of procession immediately behind the 
 members of the Faculties, and return in this order to the Wash- 
 
 [Page One Hundred Forty-three] 
 
ington Duke Building, where the Presentation of Delegates will 
 be held. 
 
 7. At 12:30 all Alumni are invited to be present in the 
 Assembly-Room of the Washington Duke Building at the Pres- 
 entation of Delegates. Admission by ticket. 
 
 8. Luncheon at 1:00 P.M. 
 
 9. At 9 : oo P.M. all Alumni are invited to attend the Reception 
 at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Newton Duke on 
 Chapel Hill Street. 
 
 NOTE. Alumni will wear full academic costumes at all of 
 the above occasions, except the Luncheon and Reception. 
 Caps should not be removed until wearers take their seats. 
 
 [Page One Hundred Forty-four] 
 
[Copy of Circular sent to Members of the Faculties] 
 
 THE INAUGURATION OF WILLIAM PRESTON FEW, 
 PH.D., AS PRESIDENT OF TRINITY COLLEGE 
 
 WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9 
 
 INFORMATION FOR MEMBERS OF THE FACULTIES 
 
 1 . Members of the Faculties will be present, in full academic 
 costume, in the Assembly-Room of the Washington Duke 
 Building, West Wing, on Wednesday by 9: 15 A.M. 
 
 2. After the Presentation Exercises, members of the Faculties 
 will form in the line of procession in the order indicated on the 
 program. 
 
 3. In the Craven Memorial Hall Members of the Faculties 
 will occupy the rear rows of seats in, the section reserved for the 
 Trustees, Alumni, and members of the Faculties. Follow the 
 marshals. 
 
 4. After the exercises in the Craven Memorial Hall members 
 of the Faculties will lead the procession out of the Hall. Those 
 on the last row of seats will advance immediately after the 
 benediction shall have been pronounced. 
 
 5. On returning to the Washington Duke Building, West 
 Wing, members of the Faculties will congregate in the Assembly- 
 Room for the Presentation of Delegates. 
 
 6. Members of the Faculties are expected to be present at 
 the Luncheon and at the Reception at the residence of Mr. 
 and Mrs. Benjamin Newton Duke. 
 
 7. Costumes should be worn at all of the exercises excepting, 
 of course, the Luncheon and the Reception. Caps should not 
 be removed until the wearers are seated. 
 
 NOTE. The families of members of the Faculties are invited 
 to be present at the Presentation of the Building at 9 : 30 and at 
 the Presentation of Delegates at 1 2 : 30. Tickets may be obtained 
 at the Bureau of Information. 
 
 [Page One Hundred Forty-five] 
 
[Circular sent to Marshals] 
 
 INAUGURATION OF WILLIAM PRESTON FEW, PH.D., 
 AS PRESIDENT OF TRINITY COLLEGE 
 
 WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9 
 INSTRUCTIONS TO THE MARSHALS 
 
 1 . Be present at the new building by 8 : 30 A.M. 
 
 2. The head marshal will see that three marshals are in the 
 Dressing-Room for Delegates from 9 : oo to 9 : 30. These marshals 
 will assist Delegates and Guests in hanging their hats and coats 
 on proper hooks, which have been alphabetically arranged, and 
 in putting on their costumes. 
 
 The head marshal will also see that there are three marshals 
 in the Dressing-Room for Alumni and Trustees from 9:00 to 
 9:30. 
 
 The head marshal will station three marshals at the entrance 
 to the Building to direct Delegates and guests to proper rooms 
 and to lend any other assistance that they may be able to give. 
 
 3. All marshals will assist, at 9:30, in seating Delegates and 
 others at the exercises incident to the Presentation of the Wash- 
 ington Duke Building. 
 
 4. All marshals will assist in the proper placing, at 10:00 
 o'clock, of Delegates in the line of procession they will escort 
 them to the proper places; they will then take their own places 
 in the line of procession. 
 
 5. All marshals will see that members of the Faculties, the 
 Trustees, and others are seated in their proper sections in the 
 Craven Memorial Hall. 
 
 6. The marshals will take places inside the Assembly-Room 
 near the doors and escort all Delegates to the receiving line 
 when they are presented. 
 
 7. The marshals will assist in arranging Delegates, after the 
 Presentation of Delegates, for the photograph. 
 
 [Page One Hundred Forty-seven] 
 
8. The marshals will escort the Delegates to the Dressing- 
 Room for Delegates and then conduct them to the dining-room 
 for luncheon. 
 
 9. Three marshals will remain near the door during the 
 Luncheon; the others, by direction of the head marshal, will 
 arrange automobiles alphabetically in line. 
 
 10. After the Luncheon, the head marshal will report the 
 names of cars, and the marshals will assist in placing the Dele- 
 gates and Guests in the cars. 
 
 [Page One Hundred Forty-eight] 
 
[Tickets of Admission] 
 
 as ;Jirgtoent of tErtnti|j College 
 Carolina 
 
 ittetmt 
 
 THE WASHINGTON DUKE BUILDING, WEST WING 
 THE PRESENTATION OF THE BUILDING 
 
 WEDNESDAY MORNING. NOVEMBER NINTH 
 AT HALF-PAST NINE 
 
 <3ttm*0ttratum of 
 
 of 
 
 Cetrolma 
 wtntl}, mnetmt ten 
 
 THE WASHINGTON DUKE BUILDING, WEST WING 
 
 THE PRESENTATION OF THE HONORED DELEGATES 
 
 WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER NINTH 
 
 AT HALF-PAST TWELVE 
 
 [Page One Hundred Forty-nine] 
 
of 
 as psthcnt of tErmftg 
 
 ntttil], tttnet^n 
 
 THE WASHINGTON DUKE BUILDING. WEST WING 
 
 LUNCHEON 
 
 WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER NINTH 
 AT ONE O'CLOCK 
 
 [Page One Hundred Fifty] 
 
r. 
 
[Facsimile of the Luncheon Menu] 
 
 LUNCHEON 
 
 MENU 
 
 GRAPE FRUIT A LA RUSSE 
 
 CONSOMME MESSELINE EN TASSE 
 OLJVKS SALTED ALMONDS 
 
 J>ELICES OF OYSTERS, JUPITER 
 TARTARE SATTCB 
 
 FILET MIONON BOUQUETIERE 
 
 SQUAB CHICKEN A L'ESTOUFFADE 
 
 8AL.ADE SANTIAGO 
 
 INDIVIDUAL, FANCY FOT2MS OF CREAMS 
 PBTJTS FOURS BONBONS 
 
 COFFEE 
 
 Apoliinari* Cifiara. (fiiparettr* 
 
 Owe Hundred Fifty-one] 
 
[Reduced Facsimile of the Announcement-Form sent to Other Institutions] 
 
 To 
 
 THE Trustees of Trinity College have the honor to an- 
 nounce that William Preston Few, Ph.D., was duly 
 inaugurated as President of Trinity College on November 
 ninth, in the Year of our Lord nineteen hundred and ten, 
 in the presence of the members and friends of the College. 
 The President and Trustees wish to acknowledge their 
 obligation to all the Institutions and Learned Societies which 
 took part in the ceremonies of the Inauguration by sending 
 delegates or messages of congratulation. These manifesta- 
 tions of good-will and friendly interest have greatly encour- 
 aged the authorities of Trinity College in their endeavor to 
 be of real service in the cause of sound learning. 
 
 Secretary to the (Corporation 
 
 'Durham, $(orth Carolina 
 10 'December, 1910 
 
 [Page One Hundred Fifty-three 
 
LIST OF VISITORS 
 
OF THE 
 
 UNIVERSITY 
 
DELEGATES FROM OTHER INSTITUTIONS 
 
 United States Bureau of Education 
 
 THE HONORABLE ELMER ELLSWORTH BROWN, PH.D., LL.D. 
 
 Commissioner of Education of the United States 
 
 Board of Education, Methodist Episcopal Church, South 
 
 THE REVEREND STONEWALL ANDERSON, D.D. 
 Corresponding Secretary 
 
 Harvard University 
 
 ABBOTT LAWRENCE LOWELL, PH.D., LL.D. 
 
 President 
 
 St. John's College (Annapolis) 
 
 EDWIN D. PUSEY, A.M. 
 Superintendent of Schools, Laurinburg, North Carolina 
 
 Yale University 
 
 FREDERICK SHEETZ JONES, A.M. 
 Dean of the College Faculty 
 
 University of Pennsylvania 
 
 WILLIAM E. MIKELL, B.S. 
 Professor of Law 
 
 Princeton University 
 
 ANDREW FLEMING WEST, PH.D., LL.D., D.LITT. 
 Dean of the Graduate School 
 
 Salem College 
 
 HOWARD E. RONDTHALER, B.D., A.M. 
 President 
 
 [ Page One * Hundred Fifty-seven ] 
 
Washington and Lee University 
 
 THE REVEREND EDWARD R. LEYBURN, D.D. 
 Pastor First Presbyterian Church, Durham, North Carolina 
 
 Columbia University 
 
 GEORGE BRAXTON PEGRAM, PH.D. 
 Assistant Professor of Physics 
 
 Rutgers College 
 CORNELIUS VAN LEUVEN, B.Sc. 
 
 Dartmouth College 
 
 GEORGE AUGUSTUS GATES, D.D., LL.D. 
 President Fisk University 
 
 University of Georgia 
 
 LINVILLE LAMERTINE HENDREN, PH.D. 
 Professor of Physics 
 
 University of North Carolina 
 
 FRANCIS PRESTON VENABLE, PH.D., LL.D., DJS. 
 
 President 
 
 CHARLES LEE RAPER, PH.D. 
 Dean of the Graduate School 
 
 CHARLES HOLMES HERTY, PH.D. 
 Dean of the School of Applied Science 
 
 University of South Carolina 
 
 ASHMEAD COURTENAY CARSON, M.A. 
 
 Professor of Physics 
 
 University of Virginia 
 
 BRUCE RYBURN PAYNE, A.M., PH.D. 
 
 Professor of Psychology and Secondary Education 
 
 Colby College 
 
 CHARLES FRANCIS MESERVE, A.M., LL.D. 
 President Shaw University 
 
 [Page One Hundred Fifty-eight] 
 
Trinity College (Connecticut) 
 
 THE REVEREND ISAAC WAYNE HUGHES, A.B. 
 Rector, Protestant Episcopal Church, Henderson, North Carolina 
 
 Western Reserve University 
 
 GUSTAV GEORGE LAUBSCHER, PH.D. 
 
 Professor of Romance Languages, Randolph-Macon Woman's 
 
 College 
 
 Randolph-Macon College 
 
 IVEY FOREMAN LEWIS, S.M., PH.D. 
 Professor of Biology 
 
 New York University 
 JOHN M. MANNING, A.B., M.D. 
 
 Wesleyan University 
 
 ARTHUR HERBERT MERITT, A.B. 
 Professor of Greek, Trinity College 
 
 Pennsylvania College (Gettysburg) 
 THE REVEREND Louis ALBERT BIKLE, A.M., D.D. 
 
 Haverford College 
 
 JOHN J. BLAIR, A.M. 
 Superintendent Schools, Wilmington, North Carolina 
 
 Wake Forest College 
 
 BENJAMIN SLEDD, A.M., LITT.D. 
 
 Professor of English 
 
 J. HENRY HIGHSMITH, A.M. 
 Professor of Education 
 
 EDWARD PAYSON MORTON, A.M., PH.D. 
 Associate Professor of English 
 
 The Tulane University of Louisiana 
 
 EDWIN BOONE CRAIGHEAD, A.M., LL.D., D.C.L. 
 
 President 
 
 [Page One Hundred Fifty-nine] 
 
Emory College 
 
 JAMES EDWARD DICKEY, D.D. 
 President 
 
 Emory and Henry College 
 
 JAMES SHANNON MILLER, C.E., Sc.D. 
 Professor of Mathematics 
 
 University of Michigan 
 
 THE HONORABLE ZEB VANCE WALSER, LL.B. 
 Ex-Attorney-General 
 
 Mount Holyoke College 
 
 MRS. ADELIA GATES HENSLEY 
 Associate Principal, Mt. Vernon Seminary 
 
 Greensboro Female College 
 
 DAVID LEONIDAS CLARK, A.M. 
 Professor of English 
 
 Ohio Wesleyan University 
 
 WILLIAM PATTERSON THIRKIELD, A.M., D.D., LL.D. 
 
 President Howard University 
 
 The Citadel 
 MAJOR ST. JAMES CUMMINGS 
 
 United States Naval Academy 
 
 ROBERT LEE FLOWERS, A.M. 
 Professor of Mathematics, Trinity College 
 
 State University of Iowa 
 
 WILLIAM CRAIG WILCOX, A.M., LL.D. 
 Dean of the College of Liberal Arts 
 
 Tufts College 
 
 FREDERICK WILLIAM HAMILTON, A.M., D.D., LL.D. 
 
 President 
 
 [Page One Hundred Sixty] 
 
Wqfford College 
 
 HENRY NELSON SNYDER, LL.D., Lixx.D. 
 
 President 
 
 Louisburg College 
 
 MRS. MARY DAVIS ALLEN 
 President 
 
 Central College 
 
 RICHARD WEBB, A.M. 
 President 
 
 Lehigh University 
 
 WALLACE CARL RIDDICK, C.E. 
 
 Vice-President, North Carolina College of Agricultural and 
 Mechanical Arts 
 
 Purdue University 
 
 HOWARD E. SATTERFIELD, M.E. 
 
 Professor of Mechanical Engineering, North Carolina College of 
 Agricultural and Mechanical Arts 
 
 University of Minnesota 
 
 JOHN F. DOWNEY, A.M., C.E. 
 
 Professor of Mathematics and Dean of the College of Science, 
 Literature, and the Arts 
 
 Lander College 
 
 JOHN OWENS WILLSON, D.D. 
 President 
 
 Vanderbilt University 
 
 JAMES HAMPTON KIRKLAND, PH.D., LL.D., D.C.L. 
 Chancellor 
 
 The Johns Hopkins University 
 
 JAMES CURTIS BALLAGH, PH.D., LL.D. 
 Associate Professor of American History 
 
 [ Page One Hundred Sixty-one ] 
 
Georgia School of Technology 
 
 KENNETH GORDON MATHESON, A.M., LL.D. 
 President 
 
 Guilford College 
 
 LEWIS LYNDON HOBBS, A.M., LL.D. 
 President 
 
 North Carolina Agricultural and Mechanical Arts 
 
 DANIEL HARVEY HILL, A.M., Lnr.D., LL.D. 
 President 
 
 Clark University 
 
 HARRY WOODBURN CHASE, PH.D. 
 
 Professor of the Philosophy of Education, University of 
 
 North Carolina 
 
 Elon College 
 
 EMMETT LEONIDAS MOFFITT, A.M., LL.D. 
 President 
 
 The University of Chicago 
 
 HARRY PRATT JUDSON, A.M., LL.D. 
 President 
 
 North Carolina State Normal and Industrial College 
 
 JULIUS I. FOUST, LL.D. 
 President 
 
 JUNIUS AYERS MATHESON, A.B. 
 Professor of Education 
 
 Randolph-Macon Woman's College 
 
 JOSEPH L. ARMSTRONG, A.M. 
 Professor of English 
 
 Georgia Normal and Industrial College 
 
 MARVIN M. PARKS, A.B. 
 
 President 
 
 [Page One Hundred Sixty-two] 
 
Brenan College 
 
 THOMAS JACKSON SIMMONS, A.M., LL.D. 
 President 
 
 Winthrop College 
 
 DAVID BANCROFT JOHNSON, A.M., LL.D. 
 President 
 
 St. Mary's School 
 
 THE REVEREND GEORGE WILLIAM LAY, A.B., B.D. 
 Rector of St. Mary's School 
 
 Catawba College 
 
 JOHN FREDERICK BUCHHEIT, A.M. 
 President 
 
 Centenary College (Tennessee) 
 
 ROBERT LEE DURHAM, B.S. 
 Dean of Centenary College 
 
 Peace Institute 
 
 HENRY JEROME STOCKARD, A.M. 
 President 
 
 Institution for the Blind and Deaf 
 
 JOHN E. RAY, A.B. 
 Principal 
 
 Oxford Seminary 
 
 F. P. HOBGOOD, A.M. 
 President 
 
 Meredith College 
 
 RICHARD TILMAN VANN, D.D. 
 President 
 
 Atlantic Christian College 
 
 JESSE COBB CALDWELL, B.D. 
 President 
 
 [Page One Hundred Sixty-three 
 
SPECIALLY INVITED GUESTS 
 
 WILLIAM WALTON KITCHIN, A.B. 
 Governor of North Carolina 
 
 ELMER ELLSWORTH BROWN, PH.D., LL.D. 
 
 Commissioner of Education of the United States 
 
 THE REVEREND STONEWALL ANDERSON, D.D. 
 Corresponding Secretary, Board of Education, Methodist Episcopal 
 
 Church, South 
 
 WILLIAM J. GRISWOLD 
 Mayor of the City of Durham 
 
 JAMES S. MANNING, LL.D. 
 Associate Justice, the Supreme Court of North Carolina 
 
 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN DIXON, A.B. 
 
 Auditor of North Carolina 
 
 FRED A. WOODWARD 
 Ex-Member of Congress from North Carolina 
 
 IRVING B. McKAY 
 President of Rutherford College, Rutherford College, North Carolina 
 
 WILLIAM THORNTON WHITSETT, PH.D. 
 President of Whitsett Institute, Whitsett, North Carolina 
 
 HUGH M. BLAIR 
 
 Editor, ll North Carolina Christian Advocate," Greensboro, 
 North Carolina 
 
 Lucius S. MASSEY, A.B. 
 Editor, "Raleigh Christian Advocate," Raleigh, North Carolina 
 
 {Page One Hundred Sixty-five 
 
HARVEY B. CRAVEN, A.B. 
 Superintendent, City Schools, New Bern, North Carolina 
 
 WILLIAM DONALD CARMICHAEL, A.B. 
 Superintendent, City Schools, Durham, North Carolina 
 
 ALUMNI 
 
 [There was a large number of alumni present, but, since the 
 cards on which they enrolled were destroyed by the fire, it is impossible 
 to print the list.] 
 
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TRUSTEES AND FACULTY OF TRINITY 
 COLLEGE 
 
BOARD OF TRUSTEES 
 
 Those marked with (t) were present at the inauguration 
 
 OFFICERS 
 
 tj. H. SOUTHGATE, President .................. Durham, N.C. 
 
 T. F. MARR, Vice-President ................... Winston, N.C. 
 
 JD. W. NEWSOM, Secretary .................... Durham, N.C. 
 
 J. A. GRAY, Treasurer ........................ Winston, N.C. 
 
 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 
 
 tj. H. SOUTHGATE, ex officio ................... Durham, N.C. 
 
 tW. P. FEW, ex officio ......................... Durham, N.C. 
 
 jj. E. STAGG ................................. Durham, N.C. 
 
 jj. C. KILGO ................................. Durham, N.C. 
 
 JB. N. DUKE ................. ............... Durham, N.C. 
 
 JC. W. TOMS ................................ Durham, N.C. 
 
 JG. W. FLOWERS ............................. Durham, N.C. 
 
 MEMBERS OF THE BOARD 
 
 Term Expires December 31, 
 
 {MR. J. E. STAGG ............................ Durham, N.C. 
 
 COL. J. F. BRUTON ........................... Wilson, N.C. 
 
 *HON. KOPE ELIAS ........................... Bryson City, N.C. 
 
 JCOL. G. W. FLOWERS ........................ Durham, N.C. 
 
 MR. P. H. HANES ........................... Winston, N.C. 
 
 tMR. J. A. LONG ............................. Roxboro, N.C. 
 
 REV. T. F. MARR, D.D ....................... Winston, N.C. 
 
 REV. S. B. TURRENTINE, D.D ................. Shelby, N.C. 
 
 FROM THE ALUMNI 
 
 DR. W. G. BRADSHAW, '77 .................... High Point, N.C. 
 
 JMR. J. G. BROWN ............................ Raleigh, N.C. 
 
 JDR. DRED PEACOCK, '87 ...................... High Point, N.C. 
 
 JDR. E. T. WHITE, '78 ........................ Oxford, N.C. 
 
 * Deceased. 
 
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Term Expires December 37, 
 
 JBiSHOP J. C. KILGO Durham, N.C. 
 
 MR. W. E. SPRINGER Wilmington, N.C. 
 
 JREV. J. N. COLE Raleigh, N.C. 
 
 HON. W. J. MONTGOMERY Concord, N.C. 
 
 DR. E. C. REGISTER Charlotte, N.C. 
 
 REV. J. R. SCROGGS Charlotte, N.C. 
 
 HON. W. D. TURNER Statesville, N.C. 
 
 {MR. C. W. TOMS Durham, N.C. 
 
 FROM THE ALUMNI 
 
 MR. H. B. ADAMS, '70 Monroe, N.C. 
 
 JREV. J. B. HURLEY, '83 New Bern, N.C. 
 
 JMR. R. L. DURHAM, '91 Cleveland, Tenn. 
 
 REV. F. A. BISHOP Dunn, N.C. 
 
 Term Expires December ji, ip/5 
 
 COL. J. W. ALSPAUGH Winston, N.C. 
 
 JMR. B. N. DUKE Durham, N.C. 
 
 MR. J. A. GRAY Winston, N.C. 
 
 MR. W. R. ODELL Concord, N.C. 
 
 {MR. H. A. PAGE Aberdeen, N.C. 
 
 JHON. J. H. SOUTHGATE , . . Durham, N.C. 
 
 MR. FRANK M. WEAVER Asheville, N.C. 
 
 REV. A. P. TYER Maxton, N.C. 
 
 FROM THE ALUMNI 
 
 HON. L. S. OVERMAN, '74 Salisbury, N.C. 
 
 J*REV. W. L. CUNINGGIM Raleigh, N.C. 
 
 JMR. R. A. MAYER, '96 Charlotte, N.C. 
 
 HON. F. M. SIMMONS, LL.D., '73 New Bern, N.C. 
 
 * Deceased. 
 
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FACULTY AND INSTRUCTORS 
 
 WILLIAM PRESTON FEW, A.M., PH.D. 
 
 President and Professor of English 
 
 WILLIAM HOWELL PEGRAM, A.B., A.M. 
 
 Professor of Chemistry 
 
 ROBERT LEE FLOWERS, A.M. 
 
 Professor of Mathematics 
 
 JOHN CARLISLE KILGO, D.D., LL.D. 
 
 Lecturer in the Department of Biblical Literature 
 
 WILLIAM IVEY CRANFORD, A.B., PH.D. 
 
 Dean and Carr Professor of Philosophy 
 
 ARTHUR HERBERT MERITT, A.B. 
 
 Professor of Greek 
 
 CHARLES WILLIAM EDWARDS, A.M., M.S. 
 
 Professor of Physics 
 
 *WILLIAM HENRY GLASSON, PH.D. 
 
 Professor of Political Economy and Social Science 
 
 WILLIAM FRANCIS GILL, A.B. 
 
 Professor of Latin 
 
 ALBERT MICAJAH WEBB, A.B., A.M. 
 
 Professor of Romance Languages 
 
 WILLIAM HANE WANNAMAKER, A.B., A.M. 
 
 Professor of German 
 
 On leave of absence 1910-11. 
 
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JAMES JACOB WOLFE, PH.D. 
 
 Professor of Biology 
 
 WILLIAM KENNETH BOYD, PH.D. 
 
 Professor of History 
 
 tJOHN COUNCIL WOOTEN, A.B., B.D. 
 
 Professor of Biblical Literature 
 
 EUGENE CLYDE BROOKS, A.B. 
 
 Professor of the History and Science of Education 
 
 SAMUEL FOX MORDECAI 
 Dean of Law School and Professor of Law 
 
 ROBERT PERCY READE, A.B., LL.B. 
 
 Associate Professor of Law 
 
 JULIAN BLANCHARD, A.B., A.M. 
 
 Professor of Engineering 
 
 FRANK CLYDE BROWN, A.M., PH.D. 
 
 Professor of English 
 
 ARTHUR MATHEWS GATES, PH.D. 
 
 Assistant Professor of Latin 
 
 CHARLES BLACKWELL MARKHAM, A.B., A.M. 
 
 Assistant Professor of Mathematics 
 
 WILLIAM THOMAS LAPRADE, PH.D. 
 
 Assistant Professor of History 
 
 HERSEY EVERETT SPENCE, A.B., A.M. 
 
 Assistant Professor of English 
 
 ROBINSON GREGG ANDERSON, LL.B. 
 
 Professor of Law 
 
 ROBERT NORTH WILSON, A.B., M.S. 
 
 Assistant Professor of Chemistry 
 
 t Resigned January i, IQII. 
 
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JOHN ALLEN MORGAN, A.B., A.M. 
 
 Assistant Professor of Political Economy 
 
 ARTHUR LEWIS McCOBB, A.B., A.M. 
 
 Assistant Professor of Modern Languages 
 
 WILBUR WADE CARD, A.B. 
 
 Director of Angler Duke Gymnasium 
 
 FRANK NICHOLAS EGERTON, JR., A.B. 
 
 Instructor in Engineering 
 
 PHILLIP JEFFERSON JOHNSON, A.B. 
 
 Instructor in Physics 
 
 BEALE JENNINGS FAUCETTE, A.B. 
 
 Assistant in English 
 
 ALFRED WHITSETT HORTON, A.B. 
 
 Assistant in English 
 
 JAMES LAFAYETTE HUTCHISON, A.B. 
 
 Assistant in English 
 
 CLAUDE BASCOM WEST, A.B. 
 
 Assistant in English 
 
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