Newark post., 1913-04-23
GREATER DEL A w ARE

DELAWARE COLLEGE is IN THE MIDST or
INTERESTING DEVELOPMENTS IN IT'S HISTORY OF ALMOST
EIGHTY YEARS. THE NEW PERPETUAL CHARTER NOW
INTO EFFECT, A DIRECT APPROPRIATION FROM THE
STATE OF $4,000 FOR TWO YEARS WILL SOON BECOME
AVAILABLE AS INCOME; THE COMMISSION TO sUPERIN.
TEND THE BUILDING THE AFFILIATED COLLEGE FOR
MEN HAS BEEN APPOINTED: AND AN IMPORTANT MOVE
MENT AMONG THE ALUMNI FOR THE RAISING OF PERM
ANENT ENDOWMENT FUND FOR $25000o Is HOPEFULLY
UNDER WAY.
PERHAPS THE MOST SIGNIFICANT OF ALI. THESE
INTERESTING MATTERS IS THE ALUMNI MOVEMENT FOR
THE CREATION OF A PERMANENT ENDOWMENT. NEVER
BEFORE HAVE THE ALUMNI UNDERTAKEN TO RAISE A
CONSIDERABLE SUN IN AID OF THE COLLEGE, THERE ARE
MANY REASONS FOR THIS SEEMING INDIFFERENCE UPON
THE PART OF THE ALUMNI, CHIEF AMONG THEM, PER
.HAPS, THE PARALYZ1NG NOTION THAT AN INSTITUTION
ENJOYING THE FINANCIAL SUPPORT OF THE STATE AND
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HAS no NEED OF PRIVATE
FRIENDS IT WORTH A GREAT DEAL TO HAVE THAT
FALSE NOTION Exploded ANOTHER REASON
THERE HAS HITHERTO BEEN NO SUCH CONCERTED MOVE
MENT OF THE ALUMNI AS is NOW IN PROGRESS. Is FOUND
IN THE COMPARATIVELY SMALL BODY OF GRADUATES
TO 1852 THE COLLEGE WAS EXTREMELY SMALL THEN
CAME A SUSPENSION OF MORE THAN A DECADE, FOLLOW
ED A PERIOD STRUGGLE AND NUMERICAL WEAK
NESS ONLY WITHIN THE LAST FIFTEEN OR TWENTY
YEARS HAS THE ALUMNI BODY GROWN MORE RAPIDLY IN
NUMBERS AND THERE ARE UNDOUBTEDIN FAR MORE L4IN
ING GRADUATES AND FORMER STUDENTS OF THE COLLEGE
THAN OTHER PREVIOUS TINE IN IT'S HISTORY.
FURTHERMORE THE GRADUATES OF DELAWARE COLLEGE
ARE SHARING AS NEVER BEFORE THE PROSPERITY OF THE
COUNTRY, so THAT THERE ARE MORE OF THEM ABLE TO
GIVE INSTITUTION THAN At ANY PREVIOUS TIME
OF THEM AWAKE TO THE FACT THAT THEY
OWE THEIR SUCCESS IN BUSINESS LIFE VERY LARGELY
TO THE TRAINING OBTAINED IN THEIR COLLEGE COURSE
THE ACTIVE CANVASS OF THE ALUMNI ENDOWMENT
FUND $250000 HAS JUST BEGUN, AND QUITE SUBsTAN
TIAL SUMS HAVE ALREADY BEEN SUBSCRIBED THE
ALUMNI COMMITTEE IS MADE Up OF: H. RODNEY SHARP,
CHAIRMAN, DUPONT BUILDING, WILMINGTON DELu THE
HON VICTOR b. WOOILEY T. BAYARD HEsEL, HUGH NJ
MORRIS AND CHARLES w. BUSH
1T HAS BEEN SUGGESTED THAT SINCE TUITION Is
FREE TO ALL DENTS OF DELAWARE AND TUE CHARGE
FOR OTHERS IS 500 PER YEAR, EVERY ALUMNrS WHO HAS
HAD THE PRIVILEGE OF FREE TUITION SHOULD FEEL
THAT SOONER Or LATER, He SHOULD TURN INTO THE
FUNDS OF THE COLLEGE THE $780, WHICH THAT PRGVI-
LEGE REALLY REPRESENTS, AND THUS AID THE COLLEGE
TO EXTEND THE PRIVILEGE TO ANOTHER DELAwAREAN.
AS TO THOSE ALUMNI, WHO HAD PAID TUITION DOUBT
LESS MANY OF THEM FEEL THAT WHAT DELAWARE
COLLEGE HAS GIVEN THEM WAS WORTH FAR MORE THAN
1T COST AND BE INCLINED TO GIVE THE ENDOW-
MENT FUND IN PROPORTION TO THEIR NEEDS.
THE FUND IN QUESTION IS INTENDED TO YIELD AN
INCOME AVAILABLE FOR ADMINISTRATIVE PURPOSES.
so NARROW ARE THE MEANS OF THE COLLEGE AVAIL
ABLE FOR SUCH PURPOSES THAT EXECUTIVE EXPENSES
ARE WITH DIFFICULTY, AND THE WORK OF THE
INSTITUTION is CRIPPLED BY THE NECESSITY OF KEEP
ING SUCH EXPENSES TO THE LOWEST POSSIBLE POINT.
PROPER ENDOWMENT FUND WILL. MEAN THE POSSIBILITY
OF RELIEVING THE PRESIDENT FROM THE WORK OF IN
STRUCTION AFFORDING NEEDED CLERICAL AND
OTHER AID PROVIDING FOR HIS TRAVELLING EXPENSES
so HE MAY VISIT ALL PARTS OF THE STATE AT FIRE
QUENT INTERVALS, PRESENT THE ADVANTAGES OF THE
COLLEGE SHOULD KNOW ABOUT THEM,
AND PROMOTE CLOSER RELATIONS BETWEEN THE COL
LEGE AND PREPARATORY SCHOOLS