Middletown transcript., 1914-12-19
A NEW DELAWARE COLLEGE

schools, academies and business col
leges extending their fields of operation
but its ola Delaware College is showing
wonderful growth; and moreover, /
new and already iOurishing institution
of learning has been founded this yeal
The Women's College
Delaware College has in a few years
almost doubled in numbers, having
now 2O2 students on its roster. The
freshman CLASS entering this year is
larger than all the other three classes
PIT togetherl
Several new buildings have been erec.
ted, new and better apparata provided,
and additions made to its very excellent
corps of professors and instructors,
while in other ways its educational fa-
cilities have been increased until it has
become in every respect well appoint
ed College of which the State may
rightfully feel very proud.
Under its new President, DR.. Samuel
S. Mitchell the college promises to take
high place among other institutions
for the promotion of higher learning
indeed, DR.. Mitchell utters the glow
ing prophecy that in five years Della
ware College will have from 500 to a
1000 students!
DR.. Mitchell is well fittedin learning,
experience, and native ability to be the
President of college, and his erudi-
ton plus his large enthusiasm cannot
fail to make him blessing to the
youth of our state fortunate enough to
be brought in contact with his infecti-
Gus personality.
Therefore, seeing that Delaware has
in its college such first class education
al machinery, and so able President
and Faculty to use it to the best advan-
tage, the parents of the state should
send their sons thither instead of else
where.
Not only does proper state pride in
so worthy College demand this, but
the possession by Delaware College of
certain other important advantages not
found in larger institutions, also de-
mands it.
The writer having spent five under
graduate years in College and few
years ago four years doing post-grad-
uate work at one of the largest colleges
in the country, having then an enroll
ment of over 1000 students, thinks him
self in a position to speak with some
authority upon the question of Small
colleges vs.. Big ones. So, had he as
many sons as Gideon, not one of the 70
would he send to big college.
These are his reasons: l. A single
student is lost in the multitudes that
throng the larger colleges, and because
Of the numbers which compose the
classes, he must of necessity receive
from the professors less personal at
tention in his work during recitation
and at other times than be would in
smaller classes.
2. That careful personal oversight Of
each student and Of his work that dis
covers his peculiar needs, lacks and
is not possible in large classes
to anything like the degree it is in
spaller ones where but few are under
the teachers care.
Therefore, in these big schools it re-
iults that the young and inexperienced
scholar is too much thrown upon his own
an evil which in this day of
% many elective courses, is more than
.ver increased.
3. Several fads whose cultivation is
,roving a curse to many larger institu-
ions, viz: athieticism, ''frats" and club
ife, can not have this excessive develop
nent in the smaller college.
These three things are today seriously
the usefulness of many
'olleges by distracting the student
rom his studies, and by breeding un-
american snobbishness, and habits of
xtravagance, harmful at once Sto his
urse or has father's-and his morals.
rom these evils the smaller college is
apply free.
Finally, in these enormous crowds is
ost most Of that which after all is the I
ighest profit that comes to the cOllegian
intimate contact witn superior souls,
ouls inspired by lofty ideals in morals
nd in characteristic purity and great Z
ess of soul which made an Arnold at I
.ugby great power for good in all
'ngland Thlstnoble contagion of virtue
nd manliness can best be felt in schools