Smyrna times., 1872-07-10
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Delaware College.

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the Athenienn society.
Last week was commencement week" at |
Delaware College, Newark.
On Tuesday the Board of Trustees held their |
annual meeting
The resignation of Mr.. Wilson, the former
President of the Trustees, was presented and
accepted, and COL H. s. McComb, of Will
mingten, was elected to the position thus made
vacant.
One question which gave rise to a lengthy
discussion was the prOpriety Of throwing open
the college to both sexes. Col Purnell Presi
dent of the Faculty, earnestly pressed the
measure, which also found several advocates
in the Board, at the conclusion of the discus
sion the Board, by a more than two thirds
vote, authorized the Faculty to admit girls to
the College classes.
1t is understood that the young ladies will
not reside at the college, but board in the town,
but that in all studies they will be placed on
precisely the same footing as the male students
!: On Tuesday evening the Athen9an Literary
T Society celebrated its anniversary. The College
oratory was filled by the citizens of the town
and surrounding country. After prayer by Rev.
address was made by Thomas Lumb, of
3 Newark. He welcomed the audience and
introduced George w. Marshall, of Milford, an
d Undergraduate, who gave very high tribute
4 to the memory of Robert Burns.
:. The next speaker, George Morgan, of Della
n ware, also an undergraduate gave an addres;
q upon the subject Of Ambition, Well, and Lily
iirr Directed.
ir Hon. William G.. Whiteley, the orator o.
s ! the evening was next introduced.
Mr.. Whitley opened his address with brie
e. history of Delaware College and its two Socie
I'd ties the Athenean and the Delta Phi. Tn,
o. speaker was one Of 40 or so boys who appeared
e there one morning about the middle of Ma
Of 1884, and with an improvised faculty opene,
or or mate offspring of Newark Academy. Th
ID latter founded in about the middle of the las
at century had in the 80 years of its then exis
ITS tence by the thorougbness of its of stud
~ and the character of its teachers, obtained wha
Sy may we'll be termed a national reputation
"a Some of the most distinguished men OF Penn
all Maryland, and our own State we're educate
~, entirely there. For some years, prior to l83C
in it's Trustees had been mooting the question
IN, llr College but the Academy being unendoweC
ee, .fo and the individual means of the Truste'
INK limited, what is now called wealth being
,1l af fact unknown, the ways and means Of raisir
lies enough money to build the College building
i've were objects of prime consideration. AT Ia
90, plan was suggested which met the approb
om- tion OF the whole body OF the Trustees, al
be being adopted, the College was built. Th
Py plan was one which in these days would pr
y badly not be tolerated, certainly would not
1ps , s resorted to, but was then quite common
the most of the States of the Union, not only
aSa sSaa the erection of Colleges and Academies, b
;. also for Churches in the Middle States to {
not not speakers knowledge having thus been erecte
'eedd This plan of resource was lottery graz
e in Delaware College was built by money arisi
nss 81 from the sale of lottery, and without it ney
,rty would have been built. At that day all class
Or clerical and lay, looked upon these grants wi
sse stS approval Amongst the managers OF the otte
ners named in the original grant TOT the DullulnB
sno q or this college we're the Rev. DIR. Thomas Rei