Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1913-03-18
Advocates Of Higher EduCa-
ton for Women Given
a Jolt
APPROPRIATION BILL
PASSED THE HOUSE

Special to THE EVENING JOURNAL
DOVER, Del. March Advocates
OF higher education for women, in
Gliding a delegation of women and
tr3istees Of Delaware College, were
gwen jolt yesterday afternoon when
tho bin providing for an affiliated
college for women at Delaware Col
ieee was defeated by a vote of ten
yeas to six nays. The bill which had
pissed the House provided for an is
sue of S125,000 OF state bonds TO erect
a building for the affiliated college.
AZ the bill authorized a state bond is
sue a three-fourth's vote was neces-
fary. Senators who voted for the bill
ware. Messrs Anderson, Blackstone,
ellison, Ewing Furniss, Harris,
Hazel. Walker. Walls and President
PRO tenn Marshall The Senators who
voted mo" we're Messrs David, Fooks,
Gbrmley. Pierce. Reinhardt, and VIII
liams Before the vote was taken a
lengthy hearing was given by the SEN
ate to advocates of the project.
Speeches were made by Chancellor
Charles NJ Curtis, Mrs. Elizabeth G..
Robinson, president of the State
Federation Of Womens Clubs, Miss
lLida s. King. dean of the affiliated
'vpmen's college at Brown University,
Everett c. Johnson and S. II. Derby,
itT7lstees, President George A. Harter
lof Delaware College. and DR.. George
w Twitmyer OF Wilmington
Senator Reinhardt, IN the only
speech in opposition to the bill, said
J..
measure as he considered a state bond
issue unwise save in cases Of emer-
gtncy He said he had been con-
fifmed in his opinion by talks with
Wilmington bankers. The desirability
OF the womans college he said was
beyond question and he believed that
AN the Senators we're in favor OF the
project aside from the state bond Is
sue. He would favor the proposition,
siS said. II the bill could be amended
SO that the S125.000 could be raised
hv yearly state appropriations or SELL
ing securities Of the state 10 that
amount.
After the vote had been announced
Mr.. Reinhardt moved that the vote be
rcconsidered and the bill be recon-
mitted on education. which prevailed
unanimously. The bill will be amend
ed in the manner Senator Reinhardt
suggested.
chancellor Curtis. the first speaker
to advocate the bill, said that al a
injecting OF the Delaware College trus-
toes in tho morning. attended by about
twenty of the trustees. the woman's
rollege project was given hearty APP
proval. He told how sentiment for
such a college had been worked up by
the State Grange and the woman'i
Gibbs until il has crystalized in the
present bill drafted by the State BoarG
Of Education.
Mrs. Robinson said the proposition
had been endorsed by the seventeen
vpmen's club separately and by tn
State Federation IN annual meeting.
Miss King. dean of the women's dc
pertinent OF Brown University, a
Providence. r. l.. showed the effec
Of an ahiliated college upon the high
en- education of girls in Rhode Island
SIN prophesied that a similar cffec
would be experienced in Delaware
Se~maintained that such an instltu
ton would increase greatly the mum.
Der of girls who secure a college edu-
cation. and that a State college would
reach girls living in sections not now
reached She contended that the real
scholarly ability Of girls could be as
.cdttained only at a college. and that