Evening journal., 1913-01-29
HIGHER HIGHER
SALARIES FOR
PROFESSORS
Two Of Delaware Instructors
Will Receive $500 Increase
Next Year
TRUSTEES HEAR OF
NEEDS OF COLLEGE
speeiaI % THE EVENING JouRNAL.

Special to THE EVENING JOURNAL.
NEWARK, Jan. 29-1n his report
submitted to the Board of Trustees
yesterday afternoon, DR.. George A.
Harter, Of Delaware College, states
that Lieutenant Francis B. Eastman,
military instructor, will have to leave
the college next month to rejoin his
company and that 1t will be neces-
sary to secure another instructor.
Relative to the change of periods
which went into effect at the begin
ming Of the new year DR.. Harter had
this to say: The faculty put into
effect at the opening of the term the
new timetable, making recitation
periods of an hours length instead of
40 minutes as in the past The old
45 minute period divided the time
into such choppy portions as to rem
der futile all efforts to do serious
work. BY the new ARRANGEMENT
which is now almost universally fol-
lowed In Educational Institutions,
our work is lifted to a plane which
Will make IL easy TO compare with the
work of other colleges. It is work
ing out smoothly and no one would
think of returning to the old plan.
We have also added another work
day TO each week, in having recita-
tions on Saturday until 12.45 o'clock.
The faculty and students have natu-
rally fallen in with this plan and
there is a valuable gain in effective
ness Of our college work"
At the suggestion of Dr. Harter in
his report the board approved the
formation of the new Athletic Coun-
ell which was organized last fall and
that the combined athletic and gymna-
stun fee be $12 a year or Sc a term.
The report calls attention to the
great need Of new buildings at the
collage.
On the recommendation of DR.. Har-
ter the board voted to increase $500
year the salaries of Professors
George Dutton and 2. H. Srager, to
go into effect at the beginning of the
next college year.
There are 164 students 10 Shs col
lege at this time.
The growth OF the Agricultural De-
partment continues most gratifyingiy
healthy. Professor Harter said.
Joseph H. Hossinger, chairman Of
the agricultural committee. submit
ted a report which will be of great
interest 70 hundreds of farmers, as
II shows the good work the depart
ment has been doing. The report
makes a number of suggestions and
recommendations for enlarging the
work and the Legislature will no
doubt be appealed to, for material as
sistance in this respect 1t will be
asked to appropriate $4,000 a year
for the next two years for extension
work and also to provide additional
new buildings. A building is badly
needed for the purpose of judging
grain, fruit and stock and another
one to be used as hog cholera serum
laboratory. In part the report says
"The appropriation made by the
State for the purpose Of Agricultural
Extension has been of the greatest
service both TO the State and to the
College II has made II possible for
the agricultural department to under
take number of cooperative exper-
iments IN different parts of the State,
to answer calls, for personal con
sultation on farms, and TO carry on
to a large extent the work of the
Delaware Corn Growers Association,
Of which a member of this depart
ment is executive head
| Inc Appropriation vi pf,OuO pei
year for two years for extension work
expires June 80, 1918. II has been
thought best by your committee to
ask for $4,000 per year for the next
two years, as this work is constantly
enlarging and we think is becoming
more useful
"A small building that can be slight
ly heated, is needed on the Expert
ment Farm, for instruction in grain
fruit and live stock judging and It is
hoped that the present Legislature
will make provision for this building
"A hog cholera serum laboratory to
be erected on the farm is also badly
needed. The ravages of hog cholera
seems to be increasing rather thar
decreasing. In most commonwealths
the State is making provision for tho
production Of hog cholera serum tC
be distributed at actual cost or gratis
affording a means within the reacl
/, of farmers for combating this dread
ed disease. Such a building costini
about $1.SO0 should produce enough
serum during the early summer 4
supply the needs of a small Stat