Evening journal., 1914-12-28
SEE needs Of A
LARGER COLLEGE
Delaware Trustees Name
Supervising Architect to
Prepare Plans
PREPARE BUDGET
FOR LEGISLATURE

What was considered by the trus-
tees to be one of the greatest ad-
vances in the history Of Delaware
College took place at a special meet
inc of the Board of Trustees in the
Hotel DUPONT this morning when at
the suggestion of Henry B. Thomp-
son. of this city. Frank Miles Day, a
prominent Philadelphia architect, was
appointed supervising architect of the
college The idea Is to have Mr.. Day
Law plans for the development of the
college on a twenty-five or fifty-year
basis. While no gifts TO the college
have been promised IL lis the belief of
the trustees that there will be some
substantial donations as soon as a
tangible plan of development has
been outlined by Mr.. Day.
The purpose of the meeting was to
20 over the budget. For two or three
months the finance committee, OF
which Governor Charles r., Miller Is
( chairman. has been preparing a bud
get covering the maintenance ana eN-
penses of the college for the next TWO
years. The budget was approved by
I the trustees today and the legislative
4 committee will prepare bill embody-
II ing the budget and present II TO the
\ next Legislature. The budget Is
based on the college expenses for the
last five years. 1t also includes the
expenses of tuition at the Woman s
College from last September The
Woman's College was built under an
appropriation granted by the last
Legislature. ...
In presenting the resolution for the
appointment or a supervising arcnl-
tect. Mr.. Thompson said:
1T is evident there is immediate
need for certain buildings at Delaware
( College. particularly a building IN
which the social activities of the un-
der-graduates can be centered. Also,
there is a crying need for improved
chemical laboratories, but the trustees
have decided that before any building
he proceeded with, that a complete
} campus survey must be made and
S study and decision for the future de-
velopments of the campus and locatior
e of buildings must be made.
a Other trustees agreed with MT
S Thompson that Delaware Colleg
. should have a commons somewhat ol
a the plan of Houston Hall of the UNI
d versity of Pennsylvania and Harvar
: Union at Harvard The resolution
G was unanimously adopted. Mr. Thomp
s son then suggested the appointmen
t. of Mr.. Day as the supervising archl
tect and the appointment was made.
2 Probably no man in the country
q better qualified for this work tina
a Mr.. Day. He is supervising archite'
m for Princeton Yale, Cornell and John
p Hopkins. Some of the newest, an
~ best work at Princeton, Holder an
is Cuyler Hall and the new inhrmai
a are splendid specimens OF his co
h leeiate Gothic work. Two years az
the Pennsylvania Legislature
pointed Mr. Day supervising arcl
tect of the State College at Bell
fonte. He was the architect of Il
local Y. NJ. c. A. building.
II was announced that the eNpen
l. attending the appointment OF supe
IL vising architect has been taken care
bv some friends Of the college
Following the appointment of the s
no porvising architect a committee on ne
os buildings was appointed, with N
-, Thompson as chairman. The other mel
70. bers are Dr. $. c. Mitchell, president
If Delaware College; Governor Charles
no Miller. Eben Frazer of Newark, al
~, Frank Bancroft of Kent county. sta
.hn master of the Delaware Grange n
No Thompson was chairman of a commit
.,,,. which worked out a similar plan for d
~, velopment at Princeton 1t is fashion
~ somewhat after the Carnegie foundati
.a to get at college efficiency. The arcl
sn ar tect and the committee will visit Ne
ny ark shortly Besides the commons 9th
-, new buildings are needed, such as
.fs, science hall, library and agiicultu
building report will be made at
-. carly meeting of the trustees.
Mr.. Thompson was given vote
nor thanks for his action. The truste
tt tsn realize that the college is about
enter on an era of expansion and
~ velopment which Il is consider
Tho really started with the installati
aet of the new president last year a
Ly the erection of the Women's Collie
Former Governor Preston l.
president of the Board presided, a
Charles B. Evans, secretary
. treasurer, was secretary.
Il was decided to raise the boa
NJ of pupils in the dormitory at the Y
,,ao % mems College from 5000 to $3.50
r;b. & year beginning next September.