Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1886-07-26

land scrip endowment find and pro
ceeds OF real estate owned by Delawar
tCollege, will make two hundred thou
SAND dollars institution of higher edu
ication.
All teachers, journalists, ministers
lawyers, doctors and others, who shap
popular opinion, need to make II tn
fashionable and popular idea for yout]
10 become as uSefully and beautiful,
Intelligent, skilled, artistic, moral an.
christian as their time and ability vii
permit. That they should, at least. EN-
Hpioy In that direction such of their idl
time as is not nee ded for recreation.
Out of the 5000 youths in this cit,
between the ages of Is years and q
years who have finished their scboo
days and are doing nothing so much a
"putting in their time," "waiting fo
something to turn up" &C., Their
should be at least 500 In an institutio,
LOT higher education of the right kind
Out OF the many thousands in the Ma.
ton at large who are thus idle abt
comparatively idle there should be I
large attendance for such an Institution
But what the right hind of an insti
tuition of higher education is for vii.
inington city and the people of Della
ware State is a difficult question n
give satisfactorily PSI ul1f answer
IL appears TO the writer to be a propel
ana interesting question for populal
discussion until solid and aggregated
print.
For one the writer thinks such an in
stitution In Wilmington should:
| First. Inculcate Christian morality
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catholic spirit-and in the matter ol
precept to such AN extent only Az m n.
tually endorsed and approved BY both
| Cathulicsa and Prote otestants-that no
IChristian denomination would object
thereto: That 1t should be truly and
faithfully Christian and yet never pro.
selyte. Being faithful aud CO operative
to all Christian churches and parents IL
should favor the child's Continuance in
the relie ions denomination where found.
rhis course honestly carried ont has
osen found to be unobjectionable to all
reasonable Christians OF both Protestant
and Roman Catholic persuasion. At
present both Catholics and Protestauts
lament and disapprove the prevalent
aud shameful negligence OF intoxicating
christian morality in schools in gen.
|eral. so
Second. Contain everything useful
and artistic, @. g., all the studies of the
well-known business college, normal
school, law school, political ecience
tcnool, Journalism, music, decorative
art, drawing, painting, mechanic sci
ences, mathematics, mechanical draw
ing, architecture Civil and marine)
the English, Latin, Greek, German.
French and Italian languages and litera.
lures
Third. Combine the advantages of
the system of optional studies to q large
extent with prescribed courses and
coorses where prescription is discretion.
ary with the faculty and especially with
the lecture courses accompanied with
ote-takipg, with courses OF prescribed
reading and catechising.
Illustrated lecture practice lessons in
household decorative art should attract
ali the young ladies of leisure, both sin
gle and married.
Letters on etiquette, with social par
Ties to put the same in practice, might
be expected to lure the young gentle
men TO become members of such an |
institution SO successfully
that course of lectures on business
ethics and another on commercial law
could be sand dwiched between. All the
popular questions of public interest
could be discussed instructively byl
earned men with the intellectual free
lom or debate and competition open col
III students. Travels and history, di.
international law and business
md the latest news (of proper import
or instructicn) afford at least one pro-
essorship. The writer would even pol
% far az to introduce the moral and
cholastic drama, carried on by we'll.
.nown and excellent home characters.
need be to attract youth away from v
ne average theatre Of such moral status
" it now is.
Fourth. Not receive Wilmington
outh who are under school age of re-
lrement, are not high'school EraduatesI;
nd can be better educated in the pub.
ic schools. With the exception OF in
luding large number of topics notl
ow taught in the public schools It'll
Mould be supplementary thereto for
Wilmington youth.
Fifth. Not add anything to the pub
!c tax. Its rate of tuition should bel !
United not to exceed 10 cents per school I
ay. This with the eleemosynary and {
lated fund above prescribed would EN-
10Y hrst class faculty. Such an in
titution would also be afforded addi-
lonal phianthropic assistance. It'll
'ould be within the reach of all whose !
eneIal circumstances would permit q
aem to profit by it. H.
sixth. Theoretically, ard so far asI 4
ossible, investigate and grasp the h
'oorld's highest progress in mechanical | q
'iences and arts-and, working co. ope | q
tive with, give its light and encour- a
cement TO manufacturing industries.
eciprocally: Our great manufacturinpl
are schools of the high
t order; schools of decorative art,
hools of civil engineering, of meohani. o.
II engineering, of civil and navalIe
'chitectnre, OF applied mathematics, o.
chemistry. of natural philosophy, &c.
ae right kind of higher educational II
stitution in Wilmington should bothI
10 them and make them the better and VI
cher for being used.
JOHN @. HARNESS, Principal.
July 16. 1886.
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