Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1870-05-12
State Normal School.

PROPOSED ERECTION OF BUILDING IN THIS CITY.
Any earnest effort 10 revive the dropping and
depressed work OF Public Education, in Delaware.
should receive, il u erits, the warm supptrt Ct
the community. At the foundation of oil public
virtue, as well as property, lies public intelli-
gopcc, and this is to be secured only by COM
plete and thorough system of education. We
have said, more than once, that such thorough
system does not now exist In this State, and our
state ment, itdetd, has been too moderate. A
few localities excepted, the whole structure Of
public education iu Delaware Is decayed and fall
Ing into ruin. There was never time when the
labors Of good men were more more impcra-
lively CALI for, " establish an efficient means OF
instruction iof the children Of the people.
Our endorsement, therefore, goes very heartily
to the effort now on foot to establish, In this city
State Normal School, for the training of teach
e $. Good teachers eau make good schools, and
thorough education; but the most complete ap-
pances OF all other sorts must full entirely,
unhout good teachers.
The enterprise Of establishing the Normal
School has been most earnestly begun, and has
progressed thus far, with degrees OF success
that coniers credit upon its projectors. Not to
our knowledge, has any friend Of public educa
lioa done SO literally, in the past, Us 10 under
take the raising Of fund oil from fifty thousand
To one hundred thousand dollars by private sub-
ScTlPtlOu IOr tnt tTtctiOn Ol U NOTmhl ccnOol,
and when the amount shalt be procured. as we
ore assured 1t will be- the gentlemen accomplish
ing 1t will be entitled 10 the public thanks
IL may be stated, here, more definitely, that the
cnt rprise thus spoken Of, is the establishment OF
y State Normal and Polytechnic University, to
be located iu Wilmington, TO be under the exclu-
rive control OF the subscribers TO the fund, and
desgcd, primarily, for the training Of teachers for
the pubic schools of the State. A Department oi
Pulvlechnic instruction is also proposed.
The fund needed is placed at moi less than fifty
thousand dollars, aud, as we have already stated,
that amount is considered TO be assured. One OF
the subscriptions is the most handsome amount
of fifteen thousand dollars from one of our
wealthy citiz.ns, Colonel II. s. McComb) and
other gentlemen have followed 10 liberal spirit.
Ihe list Of subscribers includes the names of
Henry du Pont, Hon. Willard Hall, Rev. Chas.
D. Shaw, Rev. Lafayette Marks, Rev. j. f. Ciy-
mer, George G. Gordon, Esq, Joshua Maris, Esq,
Victor du Pont, ESQ, Thos. Y. dc Normandie,
John 2. McLear. Jesse Lane, John G. Hardness,
DR.. c. Harlan, William Bright, a. r. woolston,
james Lewis, Francis Barry, Ed. Horner, Bauduy
simmons, Howard VI Jenkins, and others OF our
citizens These gentlemen eviuce their desire to
aid in rebuilding the structure of Public Educa-
tion, by giving substantial support to this portion
OF the work. Seine of them, we know, are ener-
geticay and earnestly pressing the enterprise,b by
their Influence, as well their subscriptions aud
It bears now an excellent promise of success.