Evening journal., 1910-11-10
HIGHER EDUCATION
FOR STATE GIRLS
DR.. Harter Tells Century Club
Of His Ideas on the
Subject

Al the business meeting of the New
Century Club yesterday afternoon. ap-
plause greeted the announcement by
the corresponding secretary that
twenty-five new applications for mem
pbership we're under consideration.
The present membership is 427
Miss Mary r. Hazard was appointed
custodian Of the music owned by the
club. Mrs. Frank Jones. chairman OF
the civics committee. reported one
meeting held by that committee. Miss
Mary A. II. Mather asked that any
women present who were college grad
uatcs would join the club of women
college graduates being formed for the
purpose ofefurthering the higher edu-
cation of women I'm Delaware. and 70
be known as the committee of fifty.
Mrs. Thomas B. Young, chairman Of
the entertainment committee. asked
the club members to make note of a
change of date i'm the November pro-
gram. AS the club rooms are engaged
the day before Thanksgiving Miss
Carpenters ethical talk on ''The Tenn
per Of Our Time will be transferred
to the day after Thanksgiving Noyem-
Der 20.
Mrs. John c. Robinson told of the
meeting Of the State Educational Com
mittee held i'm the interests of the
higher education of women in Della
ware and the Inauguration of kinder
gartens as part of the public school
system. She told of the mothers meet
in8held by the Froebel club, the four
ten kindergartners of the city, at No.
school Mrs. Robinson read a letter
which the Froebel Club will send TO
the Board of Education, asking that
they may be given the use Of the
school buildings after school hours to
I hold mothers meetings, as they think
this would increase the usefulness of
/ the schools. and arouse public inter-
! est in kindergarten training. The
/ New-Century Club endorsed this let
/ ter officially
/ Mrs. Robinson commended the eff
Z ficient teaching of sewing in the Will
mington schools The State Commit
/ tee had visited School No 2S that af-
J ternoon and we're pleased with the
sewing instruction. They wished it
might be given throughout the state.
/ The class in German, new this year,
has been successfully started
The business meeting adjourned
and the president, Miss Emma Lore
introduced Dr. George A. Harter
President of Delaware College, who
addressed the club on Better OPP
/ portunities for the Education of Girls
in Delaware"
DR.. Harter said that the faculty and
trustees Of Delaware College were in
favor of Offering college opportunities
to girls at Delaware College provided
they could get the facilities. Il would
be impossible to give the girls what
they ought TO have without additional
buildings. and additional teachers
The whole trouble, he said, was that
they could not get an appropriation
from the legislature for this purpose
They had approached members of the
legislature a number of times about
the matter. but were told they ought
TO be satisfied to get appropriations tC
keep the college buildings in repair
AS fact, the money they received was
/ insufficient to do even this.
DR.. Harter suggested that the thinf
to do now was TO arouse public senti,
ment in the matter until the legisla.
ture were convinced that the people o.
the state wanted higher education foi
women in Delaware, and he though
the New-Century Club could do prac
teal work in this way.
DR.. Harter suggested several plans
but the one he favored was, neY
buildings for the girls, a dormitory,
recitation hall, gymnasium, near tn
present college buildings, and separ
ate Fairgrounds. perhaps separat
recitations i'm the lower classes, tn
higher classes reciting together Tn
libarary and laboratories could b
used in common. He thought thi
would be far less expensive than al
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