The daily gazette., 1882-09-02
DELAkA4.ts COLLEGE.
Wherein Mr. Denn Thinks IL Fails In Car
rying ont It's Legitimate Purposes.


Wherein Mr.. Dean Thinks It Fails in Car
rying OIt It's Legitimate Purposes.
To THE EDITOR OF THE GAZETTE -
Sometime Jack ! sent you an article in refer
ence to Deaware College, with promise
when fey leisure moments offered to again,
refer to that subject. There are some peril
nent queaions which the people of Della
ware sholld inquire into in regard to this
institution, which is owned aud operated
by the Shte OF Delaware, and receives the
vital support out of the pockets of the peo-
Pile of he State 1t therefore being an
institution belonging to the public, it's
operations are subjects of just riticism by
the. people who own the institution. Win
the people of Delaware continue to allow
the boaIl of trustees and faculty to mis-
appropriate the 5000 extracted out of the
State treasury annually as they have been
doing FIR the last dozen years? If they
have net misappropriated it, will
they please show the people what
they have rendered to them for the
sixty or moe thousand dollars which they
have taken lelonging to the people out of
the State treasury2 Are the board of trus-
tees and the faculty (for 1t looks TO me as If
they are playing into each others hands)
fulfilling the law Of Congress under which
it had its being and by which it derives its
support! Did Congress appropriate land
money TO maintain n college for classical
and general educational purposes Was
not the intent of the law Of Congress as
passed for the better devclopcment of agri-
culture and the mechanic arts mainly with
4 subsidiary allowance that classical studies
may also be permitted Does not the usual
title agricultural College, under which
these institutions are known show the origi-
nal idea for which they were founded and for
which Congress took the land belonging to
| the people for their support Congress saw
that public schools aud normal schools were
generally supplied by the different States,
but said that agriculture was the great
| mainsiay of the country. How more appr0-
| pratcly could the money from the sale of
the land be used than for spreading a knowl-
edge of the principles Of agriculture and the
mechanic arts They were to be colleges
| for the people, not mere abodes Of classical
learning, to turn out applicants for the
already oyer-crowdcd places OF doctors,
| lawyers, and parsons, lwhn already are SO
numerous that their pastures are nearly
eaten down to the roots) but they were in
tended TO be institutions for conveying prac-
tical instruction on the subjects of agricul-
| ture and mechanic arts. Can the trustees
or faculty of Delaware College point to u
single example of any such benefits arising
|
let them point them out. Congress knew
there were no schools where the principles
Of agriculture were taught, but since the
law was passed numerous technical schools
have been established where knowledge o.
mechanical pursuits can be obtained-bu
twhere can that of agriculture be hads No
, a. Delaware College This college, to ful
) tiR the law, should impart mainly only ;
knowledge of agriculture and industrial
, pursnts. 1t is plain to any thinking mint
that the late action Of the Board of Trustees
was an effort TO stamp out any spark of de
velopment of the principles of agriculture
and they show au equal disregard for tn
encouragement Of mechanical and indus
trial pursuits. Is it not time that tn
l Farmers Of Delaware arose up as one man t
| demand thionrh our State Legislature tina
, | the money derived ssa.l,s ai1F SIaIc treasur
9 | under the law of Congress shall be apprC
n priated to the purposes which it wa
legally authorized! If no redres
can be obtained let them stat
- the facts rs they e,ist to Congress, an
. ask that body If the money obtained
4 Delaware College truitees has been apprt
r priated as the law d Congress designed
n Probably it was required that sacrilc
4 should be made Of eym so good man
o Dir. Reinhart in orderthat the public heal
r should be stirred by the wrongs of this ind
n vidual case to right tie wrongs of the public
n II should be the duty, not only of ever
o farmer but of every 'itizen of the State,
o see that the law is carried out, and TIN
h their State receives he benefit which I'll
q law OF Congress INTENDED 1t should receiy
Is When agriculture lloirishes then all trade
# are prosperous, ant the Diamond Sta
never will attain its true greatness unit
her agriculture is iostcred, maintainc
= and developed. let any one tray
.. through the State and see the wonderfl
=, | agricultural developments that our farme
- have made and Thea ask and have define
- what part or lot Delaware College has ha
~ " in the Improvement that has taken plae
w " If any, Mt all, it is "as but a drop in Il
y bucket" Had We N agricultural colleg
l., such as Congress designed and such
y Professor Reinhart ondly hoped could
~ ~ created, it would le both successful AZ
10 10 useful. Yet, how en- VIC expect anythir
:, VI better in the future han in the past, VIII,
~ ~ a board of trustees, Who have the manag
Id ment and control of the institution are III
competent to judge of the capabilities III
qualifications Of Il pofessOr, but have to n
peal to lot of inexperienced boys to &
= the information, ant on such one sided tes
mony are willing To sacrifice and ruin Il
of reputation of Ms god man as today fiji
ne any chair of its aculty. From what
lis learned while mmber of the board
trustees, It was not any lack of ability {
of the part Of DR., Rehhart, but it was Il
M jealousy on the pal of Il lump of inert
at connected with the Institution, too indole
is, to move himself ami always ready to d
lis nounce and find Iaut with any one who Ii
of any vim or or go-ahQdativeness about hin
,r- ever in fear that some one will become mo
Ie popular than himsel. To me it. looks
to though he has the pHcr of the serpent
lie charm the hoard attrnstees, so that th
can only act US he suggests. You will he
in from me again whelan opportunity ollie
MS Respectfully, VIM. DEAN.
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'fe They Deserve to win.