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James B. Duke established a $40 million trust fund, The Duke Endowment, in 1924, propelling the university to officially change its name in honor of his family's philanthropy. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
Current Name Former Name(s) Year of Change Babson College: Babson Institute 1969 Baldwin Wallace University: Baldwin Institute (1845), Baldwin University (1855), Baldwin-Wallace College (1913) 2012 [9] Bellevue College: Bellevue Community College 2009 [10] Bemidji State University: Bemidji State College Benedictine University
Few, who remained president of Trinity, insisted that the institution be renamed Duke University to honor the family's generosity and to distinguish it from the myriad other colleges and universities carrying the "Trinity" name. At first, James B. Duke thought the name change would come off as self-serving, but eventually, he accepted Few's ...
James B. Duke establishes the $40 million Duke Endowment, propelling the final name change to Duke University 1925 Original campus rebuilt with Georgian style buildings 1930 Majority of construction on the new Gothic Revival-style West Campus is complete 1938 Duke's football team, dubbed the Iron Dukes, dominate their regular season opponents 1942
Name change is the legal act by a person of adopting a new name different from their current name. The procedures and ease of a name change vary between jurisdictions. In general, common law jurisdictions have looser procedures for a name change while civil law jurisdictions are more restrictive. While some civil law jurisdictions have loosened ...
The Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University is named after former Duke president and Governor of North Carolina Terry Sanford, who established the university's Institute for Policy Sciences and Public Affairs in 1971 as an interdisciplinary program geared toward training future leaders. When the School's current building on Duke's ...
Duke is a masculine given name, also used as a nickname or stage name. Notable people with the name include: Duke Aiona (born 1955), American politician; Duke Cunningham (born 1941), American fighter pilot and politician; Duke Dawson (born 1996), American football player; Duke Droese (born 1968), American wrestler; Duke Dumont (born 1981 ...
The daughters used the title of mademoiselle, followed by the name of a manor owned by their father. For example, Anne Marie Louise d'Orléans, Duchess of Montpensier (known as La Grande Mademoiselle ), was the eldest daughter of Gaston d'Orléans ( Monsieur ) and his first wife Marie de Bourbon, Duchess of Montpensier .