Milford chronicle., 1914-03-06
DELAWARE COLLEGE.

BY the will of the late DR.. George W
Iwitmyer, superintendent of the schools
of Wilmington and President of the State
Board of Education, the new Delaware
College for Women will receive his entire
professional library, consisting of several
thousand volumes dealing with all phases
of educational work. For MANY wears
DR.. TwitHyer had standing orders with
several publishing houses for new books
on educational subjects, and his library
was as nearly complete as he could make
It. AS the number of books in the Della
ware College library which deal directly
! with the science of education is COMPARE
/ lively limited, the gift of DR.. Twitnyer's
/ books will help to solve one of the great
est problems confronting those in charge
I Of the new college.
Owing to the fact that the holding Of
chapel exercises at S.35 a. III. made II
impossible for many committing students
to be present, the faculty, at a meeting
held on March 2, decided to hold the
exercises III the future at 1885 a m
rms new arrangement will make it DOS
sible for both students and instructors TO
attend. Attendance will be compulsory
for all students, aud members of the
faculty will be expected to be present
The exercises in addition to the readings |
from the Bible will consist of selections
by the college orchestra and short ad- |
dresses by members of the faculty and /
oy men not connected with the College
DR.. J J. Taubenhaus, of the Delaware
College Experiment Station, is the author
OF an article III the February number oil
the Gardeners Chronicle of America ON
the Why's in Plant Disease Control. -
In this article DR.. Taubenhaus deals
chiefly with the problems of the gardener
after reviewing briefly the damage done
by the most destructive forms of plant
diseases, he suggests the following meth
ods OF control and explains the relative adj
OF each ID spraying, (21 treat
nlent OF seed - treatment of soil. l4)ll
tree surgery, ~ sanitation, (6) the plant
ing OF varieties of both vegetables and
fruits that have high powers ofresistance
70 disease. The purpose of the article
was to point out how plant disease may
DC controlled lntelligently by the average
armer or gardener.
The third lecture of the historical
.eries, given under the supervision Of tbe
department. Of history of Delaware Col
ege, was delivered in the college oratorv
IN the afternoon of February Is bv Dr i
v. W. Willoughby, head of the denart- +
nent OF political science of Johns HopLins :
University. His subject was, The Leo :
slatve Caucus in Its Relation to Party
government. DR.. Willoughbv FIRST Il
allied attention to the importance of tbe a
aucus in the work of the present Con-
ress. He then showed that politicaI Il
arhes are not essential to popular govern II
lent, and said that throughout Furone a,
Though political parties do exist thev ci
ave no perfected machinery. An ev-
of the early federal and state =
apers reveals the fact that there was NO
lought Of the use of political parties a,
nd that the idea of popular government m
len held supposed merely the selection q,
men of judgment and probitv 70 carrv .
1t the wishes of the people. But politi- n,
Il parties soon arose, and for a time pl
rr1ed on the government unrestrained
any check. As a result certain methods -;
ere invented to enable the voters Of a
ry to limit to some extent the control a
party machinery; for instance fhe
llstralian ballot system, civil service W.
forms, etc. The party caucus is aimed
expediate business and do away with a,
clustering. All the members of tbe
rty meet in secret session and nv a.,
iJorlty vote decide what action shall "a,
taken on measures pending in Con- am
ess. Each member is bound to support ass