Evening journal., 1912-09-04
new SYSTEM
AT DELAWARE
COMING YEAR
Students Will be Required to
Attend Saturday Classes
This Term
Or. HARTER BELIEVES
CHANGES OF BENEFIT

Special TO THE EVENING JOURNAL.
NEWARK, Del, Sept. 4.-Delaware
College will open for the fall term
on Thursday. September 12, under an
entirely new curriculum. Under
this new system chapel will be held
In the oratory at $40 o'clock. The
first class will start at $50 o'clock.
The periods will be of one hour dur
alton instead of the three-quarter
hour periods which have been held
heretofore. The last period will
close at 4.50 o'clock. From 1850
o'clock until 1.50 o'clock is the hour
designated for lunch. This gives
the boys more time than they have
had in the past. Few classes will
be held after the $50 o'clock recita-
ton. This arrangement brings the
brunt of the work in the morning,
when both professors and students
are in better condition to discharge
their duties poperly.
4 There is much to be said in favor
OF the new system, both from the
standpoint of the professors and the
students. In the first place, the hour
periods gives more time In which to
cover the subject studied. IL has
been said that more work can be
accomplished in one period OF hour
duration than two of three-quarters
of an hour. DR.. Harter, when ques-
toned about the new system and the
cause of the change, said that In
order that Delaware College should
take it's place among colleges as be-
sary to change the system OF work
which has previously been in force.
He thought the change would be OF
great benefit to the college and en-
able it to make rapid progress. The
work." continued DR.. Harter, will
be spread out more since classes are
to be held on Saturday morning.
The Saturday classes, while 1t will
inconvenience a few of the boys, will
benefit the college greatly and make
it stands out as an institution where
the students must work to get
through and an institution which
stands for progressive principles
both in the college and state"
Professor Hayward dean of the
Agricultural Department, and one of
the most progressive agriculturalists
of the State, is very enthusiastic
over the new system. He thinks it
will help the college in many ways.
Professor Hayward, who is the agi-
tator of the movement TO establish
an affiliated, college at Delaware
College, is pushing the work along
and hopes to have a bill put through
the Legislature providing for such a
college.
From the students point of view
the new system will be profitable BY
having Saturday classes all the
students will be compelled to be in
town for Saturday atheletic contests.
Heretofore many Of the out of town
students rushed home every Friday;
consequently the attendance at the
games on Saturday was small. From
now on, with all the boys home for
games there should be a spirit at
Delaware which will make every man
proud Of himself and the teams.
Many other changes have been
made in the college work. Several
courses have undergone minor
changes. A new set of absence rules
has been prepared and will be en-
forced. II is a question as to how
we'll the rules will work out. They
a
but it is hoped that they will prove
satisfactory. The following are the
principal rules which will be in
force this year:
A student absenting himself in any
one term from a course more than
twice the number Of exercises per
week, will be dropped from the
course.
ANY student who is required TO drop
two courses, will be automatically
dropped from the college.
Absence the day before or the day
after holiday or on the first day
of a term will count double.
Absence on account of Illness may
be excused when the excuse is ac-
companied by certificate of the at
tending physician.
Twelve absences from chapel I'm
any term, not excused, will result In
q student being debarred from all
college organizations.
A student absent twenty times
without excuse will be dropped.
No excuse RENTS any work of the
term. All work must be made VI
to the satisfaction of the instructor
In charge before examination.
Regarding the typhoid fever scare
DR.. Harter says the college had taken
every precaution against the disease
He thinks the students will be In nc
danger. The milk used at the college
is from the college farm and is free
from typhoid germs. The drinking
water is regularly tested for typhoid
bacteria and all the water used fol
drinking purposes at the college is
pure. The dining room and the
kitchen of the boarding club" are
thoroughly screened. Last year The
whole cadet corps of the college waE
inoculated against typhoid fever This
inoculation Will probably be given &
IL La.