Smyrna times., 1905-07-05
DELAWARE COLLEGE GROWS
IN POWER AND USEFULNESS
NEW GYMNASIUM NOW BEING BUILT WILL
ENCOURAGE ATHLETIC SPORTS.
Several New Prizes Offered, Faculty Grows
Stronger and Equipment of a Nature
to Interest Every Delawaresn.


TO Interest Every Delawaresn.
The catalogue of our State College |
is before US, being volume two, num-
ber one. of the Delaware College Bull
letin, new series, published in June,
1900. This annual visitor is dressed |
this year in a light cafe-au-lait cover
and is thinner by a number of pages
than in former years. Much of the
material printed in earlier catalogues
is now given in the quarterly bulletins
the pages of the catalogue number be-
ing reserved for specific information
directed Immediately to those who
make inquiries about the courses of
instruction offered. On account of
the of matter of more indirect bearing
the convenience and disability of the
catalogue is greatly increased.
During the past year the College has
made few changes that indicate
healthy growth, but comparison of
the present catalogue with that of a
y
ency to radical innovations which
marks so many educational institutions
of late years. Among the changes the
most important is the replacing of the
old division of the college year into
three terms, by the semester Or two
term system. The present method di-
vides the collegiate year into two
nearly equal terms of about nineteen
weeks each, and allows for no recess
between the terms. The regular
Christmas vacation will be continued,
and an Easter recess of about a week
will be substituted for the recess for
merly taken at the end of the second
term. The new arrangement has many
advantages over the old, chief among
which is the increased continuity of
the work. Examinations recur less
frequently and less stress is thus laid
on preparation for examination" as
opposed to preparation for life.
Perhaps the most interesting and
important single announcement is
that when the College opens on the
twelfth of next September the students
will have the use of a splendidly
equipped Drill Hall and Gymnasium.
This building, the need of which has
long been felt, will contain a running
track, apparatus for general gymnas-
tics, gun rooms, various sorts of baths,
and many other conveniences and
comforts. This new equipment will
lend nsw zest to athletics at our Col
which has been exerting its in
fuence to make college athletics less
''uncollegiate'' and more consistent
with the needs of real students.
Among the minor announcement
may be noted four new prizes-thre'
to the freshman class in English, giver
by an alumnus of the College, and on,
for ''the best essay discussing tn
principles of free government, en-
dowed by the will of the late Phil
Sherman Bennett, Esq. The degrees
Bachelor of Science in Mechanical En-
gineering and in Electrical Engineer
jng and in Civil Engineering, hav
been substituted for the degrees B. M
E. B. e. E. and B. b E. respectively
In making this change Delaware Col
lev ling her influence to mum
bes institutions that are work
ing eater simplicity and con
sistency in the matter of academic an
professional degrees.
Two new names appear in the list {
professors, Captain f. W. McCaske
having become head of the Militar
Department, and Prof. M. VanC
Smith having succeeded Professor Al
thur J. Wood in the Department
Mechanical Engineering. The list
students shows a total enrolment
one hundred and twenty-one student
which is the largest attendance in Il
history Of the College. No one i
terested in education in Delaware W
fail to be saddened by noting that Il
names Of those two patrIarchal truste
George G. Evans, Esq, and s.
Curtis, Esq, will appear no more
the catalogue of the College, for t
welfare of which they were so loi
energetic.