Word: dukensian
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Dates: during 1939-1939
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Last week Duke University published an expensive little book* by English Professor William Blackburn, detailing how thoroughly Dukensian the University is. Buck's father, old Washington Duke, who founded the Duke tobacco dynasty, got small Methodist Trinity College to move to Durham from a North Carolina village in 1892 by giving it $85,000, made it co-educational five years later by giving $100,000 more. When, in 1924, Buck Duke made little Trinity the tenth richest university in the land (endowment today: $30,000,000), it was glad not only to take his name but also...
Shrewd old Buck Duke saw to it that his University should remain Dukensian even after his death. Not only did he forbid the University to sell its Duke power stocks, but he directed Duke Endowment trustees (mostly officers in the Duke companies) to withdraw his money from the University Whenever it ceased to be operated "in a manner calculated to achieve the results intended hereby...
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