Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1893-06-22

suited upon the matter Chairman IIayes
nelicvel IL the necessity of some imine.
diate action
Dr Nathan Pratt offered n resolution
requiring the attendance of one of the
members of the faculty in the students
quarters to see that good order and clean.
Illness Is maintained
co.EhucArroX.
The next measure takon IN was that of
cocducation, being the motion offered bv
Ex-Governor BtgHs at last meeting for the
lege.
Mr. Bisgs spoke strongly in favor of his
motion
Mr.. Calsey said the people Of his sec.
tion Of The State are opposed to it. lie
thinks there is no change Of sentiment Oh
ms SUBJECT III Delaware since the last vote
~ the trustees 1t was not seen at Dover
last winter. lie continued, we have not
PROVISION Tor the girls barely enough for
lhe boys \ special appropriation would
pe necessary tn meet the matter.
doHh Z salisbury replied to Mr.. Causey
that there has been decided expression ia
heht IN favor OF cocduCatiun. At the last
teachers institute in that county a rgsuiu-
tlUn to that effect was unaianimuusly
passed. he sentiment was in favor of 1t
at Hover. 1t is concealed in ever asriCu-
tural college in the United States He
Thought the Prudential committee could
hire a building and the girls need not meet
tue boys except at recitation.
br. Pratt thought the question is in re-
gard TO whether the college could afford
the proposition financially. DR.. Purnel
reminded those present that II was a ma.
lorlty vote hillcd Go-educati0n at the last
meeting ana it needs only majority vote
TO reVivify it. He moved that u committee
OF five he appointed TO take the whole
matter INTO consideration and report at the
next regular meeting of the board.
Mr.. Fulton asked fur the yeas and nays
on the motion to lay DR.. purncrs motion
ON the table.
The vote which prevented further dis.
custom OF the Co.cducatlun question was II
10 10 as follows leGs-Catlscv, Higgins,
kollock, Murphy, Marshall Paynter, Pratt,
Raub, Roberts, &. {. Stockley. Nandcgrift,
H. nays-Biggs, Curtis, Cruikshauk Evans.
Fulton, Hayes, purncll, Pennington,
Edward Reynolds, salisbury, H.
The co-edueatiOn idea is therefore laid
upon the table.
MILITARY MATTERS.
John c. Higgins introduced a resolu.
ton arranging for such modification Of
the bylaws by which the military drill
will in Il certain modified sense be COM
pulsOry. Out of 30 students there am less
- 49, 10y ~ 1A'ttA attNlAht'll w
military drill.
Lieutenant Frer, who is the United
states officer in charge at the college feels
very much the action Of the college regIl-
latiOns as they stand now Us working
against AN efficient development of the
mission which finds him at the college.
DIR, Nathan Pratt believed parents not
opposed to their sons taking up the mill
tary course
Mr.. HIggins-"Let il be little more
difficult not to drill than to drill
Mir. salisbury was strongly opposed to
any species of compulsory drill.
Ex-Governor BlggS was equally emphatic
agaisL il. Colonel Marshall warmly Ell.
dorsed Mr.. Higgins resolutions and ex-
planned that 1t would he required from
freshmen aud sOphOmnres only.
DR.. Raub saw no objections where the
parents wishes are considered lie thought
perhaps there was too much ml!itarism. In
answer to Mr.. Higgins, President Raub
admitted that the military department aids
in the efficiency of the college,
Chairman ManlOve Hayes thought the
resolutions were too compendions. II
looked like code. There IS too much of
it, He (the chairmau) did not want to see
the old classical features of the college
eflaced in the military idea.
Mr., Higgins resolutions with some of the
details omitted were adopted. According
10 the college rules us they now stand
students of the freshmen and sophomore
classes will be required to take the military
course unless their parents are opposed to
it or the student physically incapable.
TREAsURER's REPORT,
The treasurer, q. G. Evans report on
the financial condition of the college
proper showed that the expenditures eX-
CcCdcd the receipts by the sum of S3G4S.3J
that he has on hand S2,57l.92 belonging to
the experiment station fund to be used for
agricultural purposes only. lie has on
hand from the fund known as the Morrill,
Fund the sum of 81, Az, to be used for
salary aud apparatus only
The treasurer reported that on Septem.
Der LIST next the college will he clear of debt.
of to-dHy's thirteen graduates, it has
been noticed that the first six are from the
engineering class.
Extreme qualification was expressed
among those gathered around the college
buildings at the action of the county court
IN refusing the application for a liquor
license for Il saloon ut the corner of Main
street and College avenue. Had the appli-
cation been granted the saloon would be
placed across from the college gates.
The report of the committee ON inStruc-
ton and discipline included the recon-
ntndation that rule be made that no a;,-
paratus be purchased by the professors
without permission OF the Prudential Com
mittee. The report was accepted,
The request for an assistant to teach the
subject OF drawing was strongly objected
by several Of the trustees. they being Of
the opinion that a corps of Is teachers is
plentiful for 80 students.
Messrs, Reynolds, Causey and Pratt
were named u committee tn report officers
for the board II trustees, They reported in
favor OF rejecting the old officers. Organ
lZatiun now stands rs follows. President,
Chief Justice Charles b. Lore; NiCe.pres.
dent. Manlore Hayes, Secretary and Trea-
surer. George &, Evans.
DR.. 4 L. Neale WAS allowed TO temper
ariiy hire All assistant at the Experiment
Station during the absence of Professor
Chester, who will attend the Worlds Fair
on government business.
On motion OF j. Alexander Fulton the
Agricultural Station was requested To OBJ
tam apple and other orchard seeds for eX-
pertinent,
resolution to the effect that the college
catalogue give the title Of the text books
used was lost.
Messrs. Pratt, Fulton and Hayes were
appointed u committee to draft resolutions
on the death OF the late DR.. Hugh Martin.
The resolutions which made feeling refer
ence to the interest the deceased trustee
always empliied in his duties as q mem
Der Of the board We're offered and unanl-
mousiy adopted.
number OF visitors arrived by the late
trains to attend the exercises .pf the
Athengan Society, which were held last
night in the new recitation building. The
society address was made by Alfred Lee
Ellis, and the farewell address by Francis
A.. CoOCh. An eloquent Grafton was de.
liyered by James Beck, prominent Phila.
delphia lawyer.
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