Education: Duke and Deity

The trustees of Trinity College were not, as it seemed to many, faced with the question of whether or not to "substitute the name of Duke* for that of Deity." On the contrary, the terms of the proposed agreement left them free to put Duke above Deity and retain the two.

This they did, at a meeting held last week. They resolved that to the list of Trinity Colleges—Oxford, Cambridge, Edinburgh, London, Dublin, Toronto Universities—there now be added Trinity College, Duke University. Mr. Duke, who is on the Trinity board, did not vote for the resolution, but all the rest did, including...

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