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...campus of the university at Durham, N. C., which "Buck" Duke endowed with his name and fortune, students gazed disapprovingly last week at a huge, empty pedestal, set squarely in front of Duke's $1,000,000 Gothic Chapel. The pedestal will be capped, next Commencement, with the Duke statue. Last month the Archive, Duke's literary magazine, placed the statue in its Hall of Infamy "because it is in extremely bad taste, because the cigar in his hand is the keynote to its vulgarity, because it will be an object of ridicule...
...Elephant squashmen making the trip are number one, John Dane, Jr, '32; number two, John A. Mason 1L; number three, Talbot Rantoul '36; number four, Frank W. Jones, Jr, '35; and number five, Robert G. Durham...
...Economist Mitchell was disturbed by what the late James Buchanan ("Buck") Duke created with his tobacco millions on the campus at Durham, N. C., he must have purpled at the thought of what "Buck" Duke had left up North. At Somerville,N. J. was Mr. Duke's 5,000-acre estate with its statues, its fountains, its 35 miles of paved road. At Newport was Mr. Duke's summer place. In Manhattan, at No. i East 78th St., was the classic marble palace "Buck" Duke built for his wife 25 years ago, with its tapestry-hung salons, winding...
Barker (E) defeated Purcell (W), 3-1; Adelsheim (E) won by default; Ach (W) defeated Durham (E), 3-2; Day (W) defeated Brigham (E), 3-0; Northey (E) defeated Gallagher...
...chapter, for the time being, Dr. Rhine decided to begin systematic investigation of the capacities of "mediums" (whom he calls parasychic sensitives), whose special field is supposed to be perception without help from the five senses. Accordingly he invited Eileen J,. Garrett, a medium well known in Britain, to Durham to take his tests. Last week he published the results of this inquiry in Character and Personality...