Smyrna times., 1902-11-19
CUR HIGHER INSTITUTION OF LEARNING.
Delaware College Making An Euviable Rec
ord For the State of Delaware.

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istence, for a good number of people
hold that Delaware does not need and
cannot support a college. But her
ideal should not be great university;
rather shall she find salvation in the
noble work of preparing for good
citizenship those whom fitness, prefer
ence for small college, or a lack of
funds debars from the great UNIVERSE
ties"
One can scarcely believe that any
citizen of this State is willing that her
educational system should be para
site on that of Maryland or Pennsyl-
vania, defending himself by saying
that we cannot support a college. 1t
would be about as patriotic to send
our legislators to Maryland and say
we have no need of separate political
existence, for if we have no State
College we must fit our school system
under that or into that of some other
state, and by so doing become part
of it in one of the most important de-
partments of state life. Young men
who yell for Maryland athletic teams,
grow up in a Maryland atmosphere
and are trained by Maryland teachers,
are more truly citizens of Maryland
than they are of Delaware. L use
Maryland only as an example, for any
state other than our own. We cer-
tainly need college.
And we certainly are able to support
one. Delaware College now has a
large and valuable ''plant' and an in
come of $42, 900 a year. None of this
is paid by the state. Is any one willing
to say that the State of Delaware is
not able to pay the five to ten thousand
dollars year which should be added
to this to keep this $40, 900 in the state
and to make the college one of which
the state may Justly be proud? That
need hardly be asked.
No, we need and can have a college
which shall be the eapstone of our sys-
tenn of public education. Now is the
present college "it?" Has she justi-
fed her right to existence? Do the
people look upon her as their college,
(for that is necessary? And has she
shown herself fitted for the place?
Here are figures. In 1888, the year
the article referred to was written.
there were 80 students iu--thne college;
in 1896 there We're II; in 1902 there
were ia. Some of the people see the
advantage of keeping their sons in the
state and giving them better educa-
tion at home and at lower price than
they could get outside.
say a better education advisedly,
for all thinking men must agree that
the undergraduate is better trained in
a small college than in a university
in a small town than in a large city.
The moral and physical atmosphere
is better on the face of it, and nearly
all if not all educators agree that the
more nearly a student comes in con-
tact with his instructor the more gain
he gets, conceding, of course, that the
instructor is the man he should be.
The Faculty of Delaware College con-
sists of professors, 5 assistants and
instructors, and a number of lecturers
etc. OF these five are Doctors Of
Philosophy, two having received theil
degrees at the best German Univer
stiles; and three others having studied
abroad. She has one of the mos
, healthful locations in the country,
near enough to the large cities to ge
all the advantages with none of thi
) disadvantages; about as near in tim,
5 as Columbia, n. Y, is from the bust
ness part of New York City. Among
her departments of instruction, ther,
is scarcely a college at which bette
opportunities are offered in Chemistry
, and the various engineering depart
2 ments; and her various academic de
partments are being raised as rapid |,
I as the condition of the state school
{ will permit.
n Inc 0ht NAcu OcAdWdi6 OOli6E
f had the problem of existence to solv
e is past. With numbers quadruple
in fourteen years, with dormitorle
: crowded and students seeking room
s in vain, with a Faculty alert an
i abrea st of every new movement i
f education, with athletic teams tha
! win admiration from the partizans {
/ their opponents by manly and homes
!. work (of which see more in a futur
D article on Delaware's football season
I with everything that a college need
, except a little more money, she il
l. vites examination and challenge
criticism from her enemies, if she ha
any. and demands what she has rigI
to expect, the loyal support an
patronage of every citizen of the sta
= she so nobly represents.