Middletown transcript., 1905-01-07
FARM FOR
della WARE
Slate Grange Favors Improv-
menls at the College
STATE SHALL ACQUIRE TITLE

| committee appointed ut the annual ses
sion of the Delaware State Grange in 100
to visit Delaware College and report a
the annual session of 1904, submitted tn
following report, which owing to the I'm
portant recommendations contained
therein, was favorably acted upon ant
adopted by the Grange:
"We visited the college, accompanied
by Brother S. NJ. Messick, of Bridgeyille
who is member of the Board of Trustees
of Delaware College. The college is wei
located in the beautiful and cultured
town of Newark. The recitation hall,
are comparatively new and are wei
adapted to their purposes and quite large
enough for the present needs of the col
lege. The equipment, SO far as We would
judge, was up to date, and in the engi
neering and some other departments, is
OF superior quality and character and
fully meets the demands of the institu.
tion. The shops for practical work are
ample and we found at the time of onr
visit a new carpenter shop was being
fitted up. We were impressed with the
fact everywhere that the young men in
the mechanical arts were receiving most
excellent and valuable information. DR..
Harter, who welcomed US and showed us
every attention and every courtesy, in
formed us that the college had full corps
of teachers who are well qualified to per-
form their duties.
"We found, however, that the institu-
ton is almost without dormitories for the
boys and has no building of any kind for
girls. Many of the students are COM
PEELED to seek rooms outside of the COL
lege building. The college has no gym
nasium which as an educational appliance
is as necessary for physical training as
books are for mental discipline and de-
velopment.
"The condition that impressed us most
deeply and sadly, was the almost utter
lack of equipment for teaching agricul-
ture. The'labratory is fairly we'll sup
piled with apparatus for giving instruc-
tion in dairying. What the institution
emphatically needs is farm. The COL
lege has no land for agriculture purposes
and your committee believes that the
farm is as necessary as an educational
appliance in teaching agriculture as shops
for mechanic arts and a labratory for
chemistry. This lack should be supplied
by an appropriation from the State trea-
sury, and the appropriation should be
large enough to purchase good farm of
moderate size equip it with all ordinary
farm buildings and in addition model
barns and stables and complete build
ing for dairy school and special build
ing adapted to giving instruction and de-
monstrations in horticulture. Your
committee would repeat and emphasize
a paragraph of the report which was
adopted by this Grange in session in this
room two years ago; as follows:
"One thing that is especially needed to
equip the college is farm; not to be run
as money-making machine, but as an
educational appliance just as the shops
are run; not to turn out merchandise,
but to turn out trained-men. Trained
men are needed in the agriculture of
Delaware-sorely needed. The college
should turn them out, and when it has
an up-to-date equipment for this purpose,
Delaware farmers will send their sons to
supply the raw material. Incidentally,
the college should also be equipped to
turn out trained women.
"We would also call attention to the
fact that the institutions governed by a
large body of trustees, some thirty in
number, one-half of whom represent the
old corporation and the other half of
whom are appointed by the Governor.
1t is possible that more compact and
smaller body would be more harmon.
ious and effective in their manage
ment of the institution. But at any rate,
some agreement should be made with the
board of trustees by which the State
should acquire absolutely, for purpose of
education, the entire property of the COL
ege and when this is done ample appro-
priation should be made not only for
iarm and other equipment, but also for
expenses"