Duke and Deity

The trustees of Trinity College were not, as it seemed to many, faced with the question of whether or not to "substitute the name of Duke* for that of Deity." On the contrary, the terms of the proposed agreement left them free to put Duke above Deity and retain the two.

This they did, at a meeting held last week. They resolved that to the list of Trinity Colleges--Oxford, Cambridge, Edinburgh, London, Dublin, Toronto Universities--there now be added Trinity College, Duke University. Mr. Duke, who is on the Trinity board, did not vote for the resolution, but all the rest did, including six absentees, who sent proxies.

At a meeting held in October, the Trinity trustees had approved a plan for "the expansion of this historic college," as outlined by President Few, on condition that funds be found. Last week, with undreamed of funds already in their midst, they found their condition met. For months Durham real estate agencies have been active buying up lands adjacent to the present campus. There will arise a medical school, a large college for women, a law college, a school of engineering, a school for teachers, and the customary football stadium "with a seating capacity of approximately 30,000."

-Last month, James Buchanan Duke, North Carolina tobacco man, established a 40-million-dollar trust fund (TIME, Dec. 15). He told Trinity College (Durham, N. C.) that if it would become Duke University, it might have the money. Otherwise, there would be a new university in the land.