Education: Duke's Design

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Such signs, splashed on freight cars, railroad stations and blank walls, warn visitors to North Carolina of their approach to super-collegiate Duke University. Duke has one of the most spectacular football teams, one of the most Gothic campuses in the U. S. Its students are fanatically fond of football. They are also fanatically reverent toward the man who gave their university its name, its Gothic campus and its football team—the late Tobaccoman James Buchanan ("Buck") Duke.

Last week Duke University published an expensive little book* by English Professor William Blackburn,...

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