Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-01-08
pELamdRE ooLLEn q.
The Progress 1t Has Made Under DIR
Raub's Direction.


report of DIR. A. N. Raub, president of
the State Board of Education, which
was among the papers accompanying
the governors message, submitted to the
Senate IN Tuesday:
Since my last biennial report Della
ware College has grown rapidly, and it
is now prepared to offer as good facili-
ties for instruction as any other college
in the country
AT present it offers the five following
courses of study with the corresponding
degree attached, namely: 1. The Clas-
steal, A. b., equivalent to the classical
course in other colleges. 2. The Latin
Scientific, A. b., which substitutes mod
ern languages for Greek. 3. The Course
IN Modern Language and Science, b. S.
z. The Course in Engineering and Sci
eenee, 3. 5. 3. The Agricultural Course.
II is probable that in the near future
Course a will be subdiyided so as to
give three separate courses in mechani-
cal, civil and electrical engineering.
This will give the institution d general
polytechnic department, including a
school Of draughting, to which the
trustees hope to add the necessary shops
n which to give practice in the opera
ton and construction of machinery.
The number of students in the col
lege at present 1883, probably the highest
number Of male students ever registered
IN a single year in the college proper
Many of these have been admitted free
and through the generosity of the trus-
tees this policy is likely to be continued
for the benefit of Delaware students.
The corps of professors, now number
ing eight, Will be increased in the near
future to comply as fully as possible
with the purposes of the new Morrill,
act, approved August 30th, 1890.
1t should be said, as regards the col
lege, in connection with the act referred
to, that the benefits the institution
receives are confined strictly to the de-
partment of instruction in the studies
bearing on agriculture and the mechanic
arts, as noted in the following language,
taken from the act, in which it is spe-
Critically stated that the money appro-
priated is ito be applied only to instruc-
tlon In agriculture, the mechanic arts,
the English language, and the various
branches OF mathematical, physical,
natural and economic science, with
special reference to their application in
the industries of life, and to the facili-
Ties for such instruction"
The college finds itself embarrassed,
not in having too much money, but in |
lacking funds for the erection of the |
necessary shops and other buildings in
which to carry on the mechanical in
struction and apply the instruction fund |
ludiciously and probably. The fol-
lowing clause, taken from the new Nor
rill act, will further explain. The act
says; "And no portion of such moneys
shall be applied, directly or indirectly,
under any pretence whatever to the pur-
chase, erection, preservation or repair of
my building or buildings" 1t will be
seen, therefore, that none of this fund is
lvailable for building purposes in any
sense. This provision of the law was
Inserted in order that the instruction
night be made the more effective and
he responsibility of providing suitable
buildings be put on the individual states,
Yearly every one of which has responded
more or less generously,
One of the great needs of Delaware
College is a new building, with larger
ecitation rooms and lecture rooms, in
rider that the new work devolving upon
t may be more effectively done. 1t is
believed that with such a building and
ONE necessary alterations in the pres
mt buildings, as good work can be done
or the youth of Delaware in their own
state, and practically at no expense, as
an be done for them at any of the other
lassical and technical schools of this
ountry. Over $4,000 of the new fund
viii soon be expended in the purchase
new apparatus, models, and additions ]
} the library.
The work of the Delaware College
-gricultural Experiment Station, which
rder the Hatch act is department of
lie college, is of great value to the
and horticulturists of the
tate. The work of the station costs j
lie State nothing whatever, this depart
tent of the college being sustained
holly by an annual appropriation of
l5,O00 from the general government.
l this station all the laboratory expert
tents for the agriculturists of the State l
e made, and the students have excel !,
mt opportunities not only here but
so in the horticultural departments to
illness actual experiments as affecting
9TH the science and the practice of y
,riculture, conducted by experts in the II
-rious departments.
Among the improvements lately made NJ
the college is the introduction of
Gam heat throughout the building at
total expense of $1,S06 for the plant. N
lc college grounds, especially the rear
mpus, have been greatly improved Nj
d beautitied during the past year
der the supervision of Mr.. Charles z.
yves, an eminent landscape gardener p,
Philadelphia.
Ten acres of land, adjoining the cam :,
5 on the east, have been purchased by o.
} trustees and added to the college
FUNDS. Half of this land is devoted II
experiments in agriculture and horti-
ture and the other half to athletic M,
rposes. VI,
\ two-story frame building go feet by "
feet, to be used Jointly as drill hall, =
and experimental station N
rehouse, has been erected on the new u
letic grounds, much of the cost being Of
ne by liberal donations from friends a. IS.
the college in this and other states. an
'hese various improvements add ma INC
ally to the attractions of the institu- an an