Wealthy Supporting Public Education, May 31, 1925

R.H. Wright has given another $50,000 to Louisburg College for women. He has been particularly interested in the institution. Through his generosity much of its strength has been gathered and its power for service expanded. Benjamine N. Duke, another Durham man, has given $200,000 to Kittrell College, an institution for colored. His father before him, Washington Duke, gave aid to the school. We continue to be glad to see the turning of wealth to mass education purposes. Suzanne La Follette’s contempt for institutions and appeal for individual subsidation notwithstanding. Organized education, ‘tis true, will scarcely engender genius in us all, but we have at least eliminated the slave block.

From the editorial page of The Durham Sun, Sunday morning, May 31, 1925

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