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...Duke seems bound to reach maturity and fame before the institution's other branches. Money can get results faster in medicine than in the less scientific fields of culture. The $40,000,000 which the late tobacco and power Tycoon James Buchanan Duke gave to little Trinity College of Durham, N. C. in return for taking his name (TIME, Jan. 12, 1925), will doubtless turn out many an able doctor before it polishes an important poet, will probably improve physically thousands of lives before it contributes much original thought on the way of life...
Buildings. Duke moved last Autumn out from Durham and up the broad asphalt avenue to the clearing in the forest. The women's college took possession of the old Trinity campus with several new buildings added. The first spring in the clearing finds everything there completed? 31 separate structures?except the great chapel which is rising opposite where the asphalt avenue sweeps into the clearing. The long axis of the campus is at right angles to the avenue, with the hospital at the right end as you enter and dormitory quadrangles opening off the left end, beyond the long double...
Sunderland, Co. Durham England...
This proposal has been made from time to time, and is even said to be favored by the Bishop of Durham and a considerable body of Anglican clergymen and laymen. Essentially, however, it is the protest of the great body of British Dis-senters?Presbyterians, Methodists, Bap-tists?against the favored position of a Church to which they do not subscribe, but for whose upkeep they are taxed. If the proposal were to take effect, English Episcopalians would be obliged to support their own Church out of voluntary funds, and they would lose the prestige conferred by the presence...
Baron Ponsonby, rising to defend the MacDonald Government, demanded of the Bishop of Durham, 67, and of Lord Newton, 74, whether in 1908 they "denounced the British Government then in power for remaining silent when the report to the Russian Duma gave authentic details of cruelty under the Tsarist Regime? . . . Evidence in the present situation is much more vague and unreliable than in 1908. . . . We have grave suspicions concerning labor conditions in Russia...