The evening Republican., 1902-08-23
THE REMOVAL
!. OF COLLEGE.

8 pecsea from and offered by the CO
leges was chiefly Greek, Latin an
. Mathematics with a little Englis
thrown in. The students were CHIEF
: ly sons of gentlemen of means ant
; leisure who were themselves to folio,
IN The foot steps of their sircs. Unde
such conditions Delaware College al
Newark had its day OF prosperity. Th,
war changed things and brought If
the beginnings of the strenuous life
and Delaware College went down
and was closed for years. The gen
eral government offer for agricultu
raj education opened it and an extrs
offer was made by thegeneral govern.
ment, chiefly for agriculture and the
mechanic arts, that two went to the
Old college. And now, after thirty
years trial in agriculture and the me-
chanic arts, it is evident that the up-
to-date parents and the up to date
youth tend to shun the college. They
Know that the vigorous present de-
mands> the larger insight into and
touch ot ife to be found best in the
large institutions, or al least in the
college IN large place. They know
that the standard of the small college
IS apt to be low, that the poorly pre-
pared go to the small rather than to
the large college.
I The rush Of numbers raises the
standard in Il self-respectng institu-
ton. Our largest institution, Har-
ward, is also our highest in it's stand
ard OF admission. Can Delaware
College materially raise it's standard
this fail when the Christian Asso-
cation canvass fur students now
knows of but twelve candidates for
admissions though it knew of forty
candidates just one year since. The
lack OF equipment, aud of reinforce
ment TO- equipment through loca-
ton, IN small and financially poor
college causes IT to be- passed by for
the larger and richer institutions.
Delaware College has an aslicult-
urdH department. but it is without a
farm; 1t has mechanical and cleo
trlral departments but it is removed
from the mechanical and electrical
center OF the State and it is hard
TO TINT amy Department OF the col
lose which ITS present location spec
tally favorS
Though lar,,rl"s' is not Of necas-
SHY greatness, 1t is one OF it's ele
heN'S. LaA%ene7s us wei, as mo
mIitN tHatS to "o!iign." The GOOD
as we'll rs the bad seeks the large.
The Young Means Christian Assoria- i
lon ana the control Of the Athletic
4N">;"%Ia.lon found our larger Col
ltg"5 many years before they found
Delaware College. And the larger
colleges, notably JOHNS Hopkins,
sent men to us to help us in the
work OF the Christian Association.
1t is Il sIander to ASSUME that Young
people go 70 college, either in
large town CT Il small one. to seek /
the Dad rather tiIan the good. 1t is
wrong to assume that the plane of
llVlng among thnse that college
students viii be thrown with is
lower N ii large town than in q
small one
In small towns Ioaling especially in /
groups, and the vices that c)me from i
oahng are the bonc of college life,
particularly where there are dOrmj.
.ofjerS. ~ Eccn observer once said
w. me wien aYoung m al goes into
ne auFmI'prr / lSIi' with. 1t is hard
q tie proud OF weak aud unknown
college some one has said Probably
IS because 80 many are always
lfcam'h4 OF Princeton that their
lredmS come true, and that, it doe,
lol cost mach 10 be a sluI,nJ at
Princeton but is very expensive lie be
A graduate After all, the wiling
Tess tospend and to be spent for
'auSe is tina measures Of ones de-
'olion to 1t, aud tor most the wiling
'ccss increases with the creatures, ot
he cause.
college removal is not unheard of,
impractical, or CT necessity the
chtme Of dreamer. Eight of the
NY OeneiIcarIcs OF the generll gov
educational fund have
banged their location. Other in.
) aEees, as that OF Munich and Syra-
Use M b! be cited. Df the latter
Day saws: "Genesea Col
eye now Syracuse University at
N. Y, was Struggling
sa'nst fate and poverty a, Las. On
lie investment that Syracuse nude
400, 600 The University is today
laying $50 per cent annually
n The money S expended for
acuIteS, students and the reunion
expenses of tho Institution. The
resent tendency Of colleges is toward
lie large cites
1t wonld lie easy to dwell upon
he increase n the value of real es-
ate upon the stir in building, and
p"n the Impulse to trade that
I'VE college brings to a city, but nv
ppeal to Wilmington is to give,
ot to get. She will get in houses
MI lands more than she will give,
nv II Is true even to cities, in some
hlnEs, that 1t is in 'morej blessed to
I'VE than to receive This is most
lhplatlraIly true for ricn man and
women. The ambition To have a
ohlottab!c and even beautiful
ONE and 10 leavein comfort those
nat are dependent on rs is indeal
worthy one. But to leave larta
state as Mr. Seth Low says, for
ttr relatives to quarrel over when
10 ar" gone, or SIMPLY to bring
Irt'"r temptation or sIoth or vice
} our rhIdren's children is an I'M.
'orthy ambition Better far TO
I'VE 10 college a well equipped
i'ln where the Young NAV
'a'n to earu their bread bv the
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