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...trustees considered the offer and turned him down. So Duke turned to Trinity College in Durham, North Carolina. (They sealed the deal in 1924.) Duke, who lived near Princeton, never forgot the rejection, Rudenstine says. A statue of him at the Princeton, New Jersey cemetery faces away from the school...
Duke flew her into Durham, North Carolina tovisit the campus and "made a huge effort" toconvince her to enroll, including a freebasketball game. Morrow currently attends Duke ona full scholarship, which includes a specialsummer program at Oxford University...
Nathans, a former associate dean at Duke University, made the 16--hour drive from Durham to Cambridge with five cats, two dogs and her son in tow. In between setting up her office and meeting her staff, she has accidentally set off both the fire and burglar alarms at her Dunster Street residence...
...year later, dissatisfied by theatmosphere in Durham, Gates made the jump again,after another lengthy recruiting effort, toHarvard...
When Afro-American Studies Department Chair HENRY LOUIS GATES JR. was teaching at Cornell University, he was aggressively recruited by both Princeton and Duke. After a long courtship, the Afro-American literature specialist made the move to Duke. But a year later, dissatisfied by the atmosphere in Durham, Gates made the jump again, this time to Harvard...