Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-05-10

phla, j.. Harvey Wnlteman, george ".
Evans, Edwin r. Paynter, Henry A.
Rowland.
AN EXECUTIVE SESSION.
Chief Justice Lore presided, and at
the opening I he question of allowing
reporters to remain during the proceed
lngs was discussed.
1t was finally decided to make the
meeting an executive session, where.
upon the reporters withdrew.
PRESIDENT RAUB SUSTAINED.
The committees report was then pre-
sented. Its conclusions are as follows:
That the discipline of the college has
been eXcellent-with one or two exceptions
of character likely to occur at any place
where anumber Of young men are gathered
together. The president and faculty, to
whom this excellent state of discipline is
largely due, deserve the thanks OF all
parties interested i'll the college for what
they have accomplished i'll this direction
and for the kindly feeling existing between
! teachers and pupils.
That as to the charge concerning the low
standard of admission, your committee
| finds that while this was necessarily so tive
or six years ago, yet within the past three
| years there has been marked change SO
| that your committee can now report that
after the fullest inquiry. it is satisfied that
| the requirements tor admission as lalu
| down by the proper authorities Of the col
| lcge are now fully lived up to.
| That as to the charge concerning the
| presidents devotion to his individual in
terests other than those as president OF
| this institution, your committee believes
| they are not we'll founded. After careful
| inquiry it is satisfied that the president
devotes very little time to his interests
other than those as president of the col
| lege and that such outside interests in no
wise interfere with his official duties
/ That as to the charge of discussing in
his classes other subjects than those
| properly before the class, your committee
finds that the evidence is insufficient to
substantiate the charge.
Your committee, having now disposed
| of the charges that could be reduced to
anything like certainty, desires to say, that
while those who have criticised the presi-
dent of the institution were almost with
out exception actGated by their desires to
better its condition, yet your committee
feels that they have not been sufficiently
acquainted with what the president has
done for the college and with the inner
workings of the institution to enable them
to judge correctly. Many of those who
have been the severest critics of Delaware
College are friends of the institution
and desire only what will be for
its advancement, and il they could have
had laid before them, as fully as Your
committee has had its affairs, they would
be convinced, as your committee has been,
that the friends of the college have much
for which to be thankful to the present
PRESIDENT and although many would differ
from him in his manner of conducting
such ali institution, and especially in his
mode Of maintaining discipline, yet results
speak loudly i'll favor of the mode he has
adopted, as do also the love and respect
which the students who are under his
charge have for him.
lii regard to that part of yourresolutions
directing a consideration of the efficiency
Of the presidents associates-whom we
shall hereafter in this report designate as
the faculty-your committee would report
that there was no evidence submitted oil
their ineilicency, nor was y charge OF any
kind made against them. Indeed your
committee thinks it but right that it should
bear the strictest testimony possible as to
the admirable personnel of the faculty
They are, scarcely without exception, men
highly educated i'll their respective depart
ments, earnest and conscientious i'll theiI
work and their influence upon the young
men under their control cannot be other
, wise than most beneficial. We assert
, without fear of intelligent contradiction
that it would be to the interests of the
. parents i'll this State and vicinity to make
. themselves better acquainted with the
faculty of Delawi.. e College, and that theil
sons would be much benefited ii brought
,, under the influence of such high ideals oil
J life and such high conceptions of duty as
these instructors entertain.
, Your committee cannot close this report
, without expressing the hope that those
! who in the past have criticized this inst
tuition will now, for time ut least give il
their full support. 1t feels warranted il
thus making this request, because no one
! acquainted with the fucts can say tina
your committee has not endeavored to lay
2 bare every cause of complaint against thi!
institution, and has made the fullest en-
. deavor to discover whether the criticism!
! made were warranted.
The committee did not enter upon thu
duty placed upon it by this hoard-un
pleasant AS it was-with any intention u
4 shield any one against whom Il just charg,
j was made. If the committee had fount
1 upon the facts that report directly OPP
n pOsite to this was demanded Of it, Their
a would not have been moments hesita
- ton in making it. 1t was determined
y from the beginning that in this report t.
your body it would lay before you TIL
exact condition Of things as it found then
i'll this college, and believes it has done so
This being so, the committee sincerel.
trusts that criticisms will stop until the,
= are more deserved, and that the people o
this State and our neighburing States vii
: realize what Il devoted, conscientious ant
!. industrious corps of instructors we hay
4 here in our midst and that they will prof
by the advantages which are thereb.
!; spread before them.
- The report was unanimously adopted
!. and the board adjourned for dinner.
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