DUKE UNIVERSITY at Durham, North Carolina, U.S.A., owes its existence to a trust established by James B. Duke Dec. II, 1924 (see DUKE ENDOWMENT). The university is being built around Trinity college, founded 1838. From 1910 to 1925 the college grew in endowment and value of property from $1,221,382 to $6,145,087; in faculty from 32 to 113; and in students from 315 to 1,164.
After spending two years in college, including summer reading, the ablest students may enter the professional schools or continue in the advanced college or university courses.
The woman's college provides for women educational oppor tunities equal to those provided for men in Trinity college. The graduate school of arts and sciences with the purpose of differ entiating more sharply between the college and the graduate school, gives to the work of the latter a more distinctively uni versity character than has heretofore been the rule in the United States. This school aims at developing those especially fitted for teaching, but special emphasis is laid on research, mathe matics, chemistry, physics, biology (in close co-operation with the medical school) and on the social sciences including law. The school of medicine runs through four quarters, so that a four year medical course may be completed in three calendar years. The school of law provides liberal training in law as one of the social sciences closely allied with government, economics and business administration. A university press is maintained, and issues the South Atlantic Quarterly, the Hispanic American His torical Review and Studies in American Literature. In 1928 there were 1,608 students, exclusive of the summer school, and a teach ing staff of 17o.
See E. W. Knight, Public School Education in North Carolina (1916) ; W. K. Boyd, The Story of Durham (1925) ; W. P. Few, Twenty-five Years of Trinity College (Trinity College President's Reports '917, and Trinity Alumni Register, vol. iii. p. 14o-167) ; E. C. Brooks, Trinity Alumni Register, vol. i. p. vol. ii. p. 248-258, 309-3 21 ; vol. iii. p. I—i 169-185; vol. iv. p. ; W. T. Laprade, Trinity Alumni Register, vol. viii. p. 4-18.
(W. P. F.)