. North Carolina Christian advocate [serial] . e of North Carolina. It was not difficult to discover that all of us concern-ed would prefer to have Trinity College become the cen-ter of our university. Mr. Duke and his family were al-ready attached to the college, like thousands of others of December 15, 1932 NORTH CAROLINA CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE 9 us. It had a rich heritage out of the past, with its longand creditable educational record, its traditions, itsideals, its thousands of graduates; but there were ad-justments that had to be made and that required a greatdeal of thought. I believe that w
. North Carolina Christian advocate [serial] . e of North Carolina. It was not difficult to discover that all of us concern-ed would prefer to have Trinity College become the cen-ter of our university. Mr. Duke and his family were al-ready attached to the college, like thousands of others of December 15, 1932 NORTH CAROLINA CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE 9 us. It had a rich heritage out of the past, with its longand creditable educational record, its traditions, itsideals, its thousands of graduates; but there were ad-justments that had to be made and that required a greatdeal of thought. I believe that we worked out a plan bywhich we are building a university that rests upon moraland religious sanctions and that will not be liable to im-proper interference with its pursuit of university idealsin education or with its high and disinterested service tocountry, to causes, and to humanity. Speaking for myself, I am most happy that the uni-versity is building around a good American college. Ishould have no confidence in the future of any American. DR. ROBERT LEE FLOWERSTrustee of the Duke Endowment and Secretaryand Treasurer of Duke University university that did not have a good college at its would be none to love it and care for it in the suc-ceeding generations. People in general are not inter-ested in ideas for their intellectual purity but for theirmoral power, and the college must be the moral centerof a university. It is, as a rule, the graduates of the col-lege that give to the university their lifelong devotion—their money and their influence in getting money fromothers for the support of the university. Graduates ofthe schools of arts and sciences, medicine, law, and the-ology, will do much for the fame and the influence of auniversity, but they cannot be depended on for its sup-port in the same way as may be expected of the collegegraduates. I have given a great deal of thought to this particularphase of university development, and I have found inAmerican
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