Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-09-09
raR DELAWARE COLLEGE FREE SCHOLAR
sHIPssHALL TIE PUBLIC sCH0OLCH11'-
DREN HAVE 4 CHANCE AT 1HEz3

Delaware College is to 3 certain extent,
free institution for students from this State AS
our readers generally know, it received the
whole of the proceeds Of the public lands dons-
ted, by vote Of Congress, to Delaware, reAlizlng
some eighty thousand dollars. A condition
made by the Legislature, in handing over this
.ppropriation, was that thirty Students should
receive education free oferpense, and last winter
the Legislature having voted some farther con-
cessions, the number of these free scholArships
was increased to sixty, the nominal arrange
ment being that thirty Of them should be in
structed in the ordinary collegiate departments,
and the other thirty in the proposed normal
course, with the special object Of bsng pre-
pared for teachers.
Practically, therefore, 80 far as these sixty
scholarships are concerned, the College is afree
public institution, available to the people OF tIe
State az means of affordiDg completed edu-
cation to their children. 1t is especially avsila-
be to Wilmington, for simple reason namely
That BY . slight addition to the course Of study
in our most advanced Public Schools, boys or
girls who desire to pursue collegiAte course
may be prepared for it, and may go forward, on
leaving the No. SCHOOL, TO Delaware College.
The working of this arrangement will simply
be that We shall afford TO the children Of VIII
mington, the opportunity Of free education
from. the primary school TO 1tr collegiate dlpto-
ma. The doors of the State College are open
wa oply need a more advanced and thorough
grade of preparation in our highest school. ant
those of our students who desire to go higher
and to learn more may enter them, and go fer
ward to completed education.
The question now is Shall this opportunit!
be Afforded in our schools Shall We offer ou
bows and girls the chance or not Shall thes
free scholarships - of which, according to ou
population, at least fifteen belong to Wilmingto
be put within the reach of our public SCHOOL,
or be only available to those children whose pal
ents can afford to prepare them in private acad
emies The addition to the course OF stud.
which is required is simply the introduction {
the German and Latin languages. By the stud
of the former, the graduates Of No. may
prepared to enter the second year's class OF Il
Scientific Course, at Delaware College; and vii
the Latin, they may go into the Literary Cours
or probably into the four years Classical Cours
An that We need, in order to give meritoriol
and ambitious graduate of our schools chan
at further free education, is to add these la
guages to the instruction now afforded in o
highest school.
1t is often remarked that tho children Of o.
citizens are the children Of hard-working me
and that, like their fathers, they must be br
to active labor. This is, to large degree, tru
But it is certainly not fair to every child, regar
less of his wishes, to force him to be mecha
ic, or an artisan, if he is ambitious and fitted
Nature, to do something else. There is not
mechanic in Wilmington who will not I
that he desires his children to have all the {
portunity of education possible, and who '
not, when the question is thoroughly und
stoon, warmly approve such an addition to
instruction given by our schools as will open
further door and afford q better chance to the