[SeekAndFind]

From your link, it says:

In 1892, after a spirited competition among piedmont cities, Trinity opened in Durham, largely because of the generosity of Washington Duke and Julian S. Carr, influential and respected Methodists grown prosperous in the tobacco industry.

Wonder why they named the school after Duke and Carr was left out...

[NorthMountain]

I have no personal or professional connection to Duke University, so I can only guess ...

My "reading between the lines" in that paragraph is that Washington Duke forked over considerably more money than anybody else ... and the Golden Rule was put into effect. (He who has the gold, makes the rules.)