The daily Republican., 1902-11-11
FOR A NEW
STATE COLLEGE.
Member Of Old Delaware's
Faculty Pleads for In
stitution.
GROWTH OF "PLANT."
Attendance Has Quadrupled
in Fourteen Years. Ad-
vantages of the
College.

history of Delaware College wrot,
in 1899, "She has Of late year!
been justifying her right to exist
ence, for good number of people
hold that Delaware does not neet
and cannot support college. But
her idea should not be great uni,
versity; rather shall she find saliva.
tion In the noble work Of preparing
for good citizenship those whom fit.
ness, preference for small college,
or a lack Of funds dcbars from the
great universities. -
One can scarcely Y believe that any
citizen of this State is willing that
her educational system should be a
parasite on that cf Maryland or
Pennsylvania, defending himself by
saying that we cannot support a
college. 1t would be about as pa.
trlotic to send our leglsl tors to
Maryland and say we have no need
OF separate political existence, for
il we have no State College we
must fit our school system under
that OF into that ofsome other sta te.
aid by so doing become a part of
1t in one OF the most important de
paltments of staJe life. Young
men who yell for Maryland athletic
teams, grow up in Maryland atmos-
phere and are trained by Maryland
teachers, are more truly citizens of
Maryland than they are of Della
ware, l use Maryland only as an
example, for any state other than
our own. We certainly need a COL
lege.
And we certainly are able to sup.
port one. Delaware College now has
large and valuable plant" aod
an income Of S42, 900 year. None
of this is paid by the state. Is any
one willing 10 say that the State OF
Delaware is not able to pay the five
to ten thousand dollars q year which
should be added to this to keep this
S22, 900 in the state and to make the
college one Of which the state may
justly be proud? Thatneed hardly
be asked.
No we need and can have a COL
lego which shall be the capstone Of
our system OF public education. Now
is the present college sit" Has she
justified her right existence? Do the
peop'e look upon her as their col.
lege, 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.
here were 80 students in the college |
n 1896 there were II: in 1902 there |
were ia. Some Of the people see the
advantage OF keeping their sons in
he state and giving them better
'ducatlon al Eome and at 4 lower
'rice they could get outside.
| say better education advised
Y ter all thinking men mus, agree
hat the undergraduate is better
rained iu small college than in a
University; in n small town
han III a large city. The
moral aud physical atmosphere
$ better on the lace Of it, and near
y all # not all educators agree that
be more nearly a students comes
n contact with his instructor the
iOre Gain he gets, concedirg, of
curse, that The instructor is the
an he should be. The Faculty of
Delaware College consists 9 pro.
.ssOrS, 5 and instructors,
nd IA numOer of lecturers, etc. OF
lese five are Doctors of Philosophy,
y having received their degrees
t the best German Universities:
nd three others have studied
broad, She has one of the most
calthful locations in the country,
ear enough TO the large cities to ,
1t all the advantages; about as
EAR in time as Columbia, n. y, is
ON the business part cI New York
ty. Among her departments of 7
struCtion, there is scarcely a col =
&c at which better opportunities n
q offered in Chemistry, and the h
'rious Engineering departments; +
I'd her academic departments
c beiug raised as rapidly as the i,
nd!tIOn Of the state schools will u
rmIt. =,
The day when Delaware College Il
I'd the problem of existence to solve "
past. With numbers quadrupled h
fourteen years, with dormitories o,
DIVIDED and students seeking rooms y
vain, with Faculty alert aud r
reast ol every new movement in h,
ucation. with athletic teams that M
Il admiration from the partizans nj
their opponents by manly aud CO
nest work cot which see more ia a f.,
lure article On Delaware's foot 81,
II season. with everything a col. If
20 needs except a ittle money,
t invites examination aud challen.
3 criticism from her eucmics, if
} has any, and demands what she -,
8 a right to expect, the 10y al sup. ", "
ri and patronage of every citizen g. g.
the state she so nobly repr esen:s. - -
John Iaurle succeeds Isaac Moore W
John Eaurie has succeeded Isaac to