Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1912-09-27
DELAWARE COLLEGE AND IT'S NEEDS.


II EIAwARE College begins the school year
~ with 100 students The outlook is for of the
most prosperous and useful years in the history Of the
institution. With it ALL the college, is not what it
ought be for old honorable in educational
effort nor until it is adequately. It
has done splendid work. when it's and equip
ment taken into consideration but nothing like the
work it would have done had It been, since it's founda
ton, supported adequately by public funds private
endowment. Properly financed it long ago would have
taken position in the front rank of Americas uni
verstes That it failed do so due to the fact
that II received from the State its people the
financial support It deserved and had handto-mouth
existence until the Federal Government, under the
Hatch, Morrel and Adams bills TO its relief But
with that Federal aid, which carried with It the
agricultural experimental station feature the college
has failed size up to what II would have been had
the State Of Delaware and the people of Delaware done
their duty by what is concededly Of its most val
liable Institutions The State has given to II
the appropriations II deserved and the people of the
State have denied to it large private endowments and
the opportunity educate their children If Delaware
College had received from Delaware and Delawareans
the Northumberland and liberal support that have
been enjoyed by Princeton. Harvard, Yale, Columbia,
the University of Pennsylvania and other American
institutions which rank high as educational centers,
Newark long would have been Of the leading
college towns in the United States. There could be
no such result that, however, when the State
adopted toward its only college policy of parsimony;
when wealthy men and failed to remember
the college in distributing their wealth. either be-
fore after DEATH and when almost all Delawareans
who could AFFORD to do It, sent their children out
side colleges and universities to be educated In
tain of its features this policy o. starvation naugu-
rated and persisted in against institution which
merits the mate rial and moral support of State
and its people still continues. The equipment is bet
ter than It but not what it ought to be; the men,
bers of the faculty who Industrious sef-sacrihcing
and loyal, are, rule underpaid; endowments
few, far between and usually inadequate and the
runous policy of contributing thousands of dollars to
outside institutions for the education of Delaware boys
continues Delaware College become what
It ought to be while such practices persisted in by
those who should be engaged in building it up. Della
forget that educational institution
is limited in its activities by the financial it
has at command.
Delaware College, according to recent statistics,
has productive funds amounting to only SS30OO and
its total income including tuition incidental
charges amounts to only $4,000 or $4,000. What
a college So financed do against the larger ones?
Columbia has productive funds aggregatng $317SS,339,
and total annu al income OF $31726S6. Harvard has
productive funds aggregating S24S2361S and total
annual income of $2241,221. The University Of Chi
cago has productive funds amounting to $l5,945,5l6,
and an annual income of 81 9SO66S Yales produc-
tive funds amount to 1885, and its annual in
come is s145SS11. Cornell has productive funds
amounting to $S7371OS and annual income of
$1769669. Princtons productive funds amount to S4F
10000, and its annual income also is large It will
be from the above figures that under existing
conditions Delaware College is merely drop in the
educational bucket far finances affected. 1t
may be pleaded that there are many other colleges
IN country which do not have the productive funds
or the income of Delaware College small they
That is true but It is no reason why Delaware
College should continue to be sthed by poverty when,
If Delaware and Deawareans to do their duty it
might enjoy an unprecedented era Of prosperity and
usefulness.
other educational institutions have received many
millions in endowments Delaware College has
ceived little that source, although it has within
its borders hundreds OF and who well
might afford assist in making college what it
ought to be from financial and educational point of
view. rs It not time that State pride should impel
such men and to establish for the benefit OF
our only college, adequate endowment fund?