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Such signs, splashed on freight cars, railroad stations and blank walls, warn visitors to North Carolina of their approach to super-collegiate Duke University. Duke has one of the most spectacular football teams, one of the most Gothic campuses in the U. S. Its students are fanatically fond of football. They are also fanatically reverent toward the man who gave their university its name, its Gothic campus and its football team-the late Tobaccoman James Buchanan ("Buck") Duke...
Buck picked the site for his university (on Durham's outskirts), decided its architecture should be Gothic, even selected the stone for its buildings, a greenish-grey rock quarried in nearby Hillsboro, which he chose because it resembled Princeton's building stone. Buck directed that the campus should be dominated by a great Gothic chapel. When he saw the architect's plans, he ordered them changed, the 210-ft. tower moved to a commanding position in front...
Duke today has a sumptuously equipped medical school and a hospital (largest in the South) that has treated more than 110,000 patients, schools of religion, law (some of whose students ostentatiously study in log cabins), nursing, forestry and graduate studies, a college for women on a separate, Georgian campus. Tobacco, source of Duke's wealth, is not neglected: a laboratory conducts constant research in prevention of tobacco diseases, improvement of cigaret paper...
...fraternities, no football team. Thus unencumbered by the machinery of curricular and extracurricular activities, it devotes itself to art, music, dramatics, philosophy and what it calls "community living." Last week, the better to house "community living," the college announced plans for new buildings such as no U. S. campus has seen...
This is your Campus, your school. The affairs of this Campus are your affairs. The business of choosing a Varsity Dance Manager is your business...