Word: 98th
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Eight-year-old Duke University near Durham, N. C. announced the beginning of its "98th" year, proudly counting back not only to Trinity College from which it derived but also to little old York Academy. Squabbles and jealousies in Duke Medical School, which during the summer lost its able Dr. Harold Lindsay Amoss (of the Rockefeller Institute), had quieted down, but the school was still plagued by lawsuits brought by local citizens charging that their relatives were wrongfully operated upon or autopsied in Duke Hospital. Too, there was talk at Duke that the University income (mostly from Southern Power System...
...Jordan, vigorous and powerful at 62 (he had played first base on the faculty baseball team until his 98th year), was not due for retirement for three years. The trustees offered him the chancellorship of the university. In his autobiography he tells how, abruptly on Commencement Day, his new appointment was announced: "The audience . . . was plainly dazed. . . . Hoover now rose and proposed 'Three cheers for the chancellor!' But few understood why they should cheer at what seemed (to most, at least) a painful separation, and he got only a slight response...