Daily Republican., 1888-06-20
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, The annual mesting OF she trustees O
Delaware College WAS held In the col
lege building In Newark yesterday. Tn
session Was secret, bot the prin cipa
business was the election Of presidsn
70 succeed the Raw. James 81. Cald well
There were three names preseptcd, q
follows: DIR. A. N. Rsub or Newark
Or. Morrieop Of Washington, and Pro
feesor a IN. Rssd of st Johns College
AnBepoiis. After the matter had beer
thoroughly discussed ballot was saksr
which resulted in the election OF DIR
Raub.
The now president Is q native Of Lar
caster, Pa, and was born In 1910. He
grad mated from the State Normal School
at Miilersville In 1860 and soon after
was made principal of the Bedford
Union school, where he gave such en-
tire sntlsfa tion that ere long he was
elected principal OF the public schools
n Crossona, he remained In this posi
zion until he was called to reorRAuize
the schools and act rs county supsrin.
teudent. He was Afterwards rendered
the chair OF English literature AMI
Rhetoric In the Pennsy ylvania State Nor.
NAL School, which hs aoosptsd aud
hued until 1858, when he accepted the
position of principal OF the Look Haven
school.
The Pennsylvania Stats Teschsrs'
Asaooiation elected him president In
1870, and he Was successfully chosen to
several offices In the State educational
department oil Of which strengthened
mis- reputation as o succetsful teacher
hnd organizer. Since 1885 Or. Rsuh
has been continuously "a teacher of
tenchers," lecturing ct nearly all of the
county institutes In the county and
eventuslly extending his reuown 10
most OF tbs large Institutes IN every
State In the EAT and South. His suc-
oessful reorganizlng powers were fully
demonstrated In the case Of the Look
Haven Normal School, which he soon
transformed from mediocre county
SCHOOL to most hourishipg State in,
stitution, from which seven ty. six thor
ouEhly prepared teachers were gr ada.
Ated In 1882. making 318 graduates ip
seven years. the most remarkable show
Ing ever made In any State school In
Pennsylvania. In 1885 he aooeptsd the
principalship Of the Academy OF New.
ark, which he soon reofgslized as q
normal school, increasing the mum bsY
OF students nearly fifty per cent. In
three years.
WIN hucu ttCOIu tn6f6 IL no O0uDk
bus President RAub will Bucoeed In
making Della wsre College what Ill
should be, the leading educational in-I
stltution OF this State.
The Alumni Assc citation held their
annual banquet At the Daer Park Hotel
last evening, with DR.. L p. Bush pre-.
siding,
J. Alexander Falton responded to
the toast of "our Trustees" Dr.. Raub,
'Our Faculty, One and Inseparable;''
aud Georgs W. CruikshAnk, ''Ths
Press"
Among those present we're Presid ent-
elect OF the College DE-. A. N RAub, |
Professor Theodore b. Wolf, Frederic |
d. Chester. George A. Harter, Director
Of the Agricultural Station George d. |
Purtnt0n, q. 8. Oonwell of the fEculty,
Dr.. Lewis P. Bush, Deputy Attorney
General ThomSs Davis, LsEls P Bush,
Jr., Charles M. Curtis, Esq, Edward /
Henry Eokel, James Fl. j. Bush, IL, G
Knowles, William Lyman. John 8.
Grohe aud Harlow II. Curtis, all of |
james a. Maxwell, James
IL. Hossingsr, George o Kerr, j. vii.
ktna Oooch, b. William Curtis, Charles
Eyans, Harry Wititemsn, David j.
Murpheg, R. p Pilling, John Pilling,
Jr., John T Armstrong, Nathan N
Motheral, Flank Collins, Stsphen
Ohoate, John Nsvin, T. BAga-d Heisel
and John 8. Boyd, OF Newark.