Evening journal., 1914-06-16
NEEnEn-A GOLD. D.AND.GREENRACK DIET

NEEDED-A GOLD-AND-GREENBACK DIET.
IT RODNEY SHARP is chairman Of the Alumni
i 4. Committee that is seeking to raise an endow-
ment fund Of 100000 for Delaware College He have
received from him the following letter:
TO the Editor Of THE EVENING JOURNAL:
Sr-I wish to express to you the satisfaction your
editorials and articles have given me the subject of
the endowment for Delaware College AS chairman Of
the Alumni Committee you must understand my appre-
citation OF the support your paper has meant to our
work. Again assuring you Of the gratitude of the
Very sincerely.
Il. RODNEY SHARP.
Wilmington, Del, 10, 1914
In reply TO Mr.. Sharp we will say that our only
regret is that what have in the matter Of lay
ing before the public the financial the col
lege has not produced the practical results desired
The spirit Of giving, which has been exercised so
potently in behalf of other institutions no more
worthy Of liberal public and private support not
been exercised in behalf Delaware College In fact
the treatment that has been accorded to our chief
educational institution reproach to heipeope of
State
Running college successfully is not a scholastic
mystery but a wide-open business proposition. Its
foundation is money, and plenty of It, With money suit
able grounds may be purchased, needed buildings may
be erected nrst-class administrators and educators
may be employed and adequate campaign for stu
dents may be naugurated. without money Of
those things may be done With only part of the
money needed placed at the command of those dele
gated to do the work, only part Of the work may
be done It is question of dollars cents. which,
wisely expended, buy grounds buildings, equipment
and public favor. Let us illustrate:
Delaware College organized in 1888. At the
close Of 1913 It had % instructors 162 Students IL
brary of 10000 volumes productive funds amounting
to $4,000, and total income including tuition or in
cidenta charges amounting S112,535.
The University of Chicago was organized in 1890
At the close of 1913 it had 462 instructors 6So2 stu
dents, library of S75OOO Volumes productive funds
amounting to $1S145166, and total income, includ-
ing tuition incidental charges, of S1,74O925.
In other words, Delaware College was organized
eighty years and the University of Chicago was
organized only twenty-three years ago and yet the
University Of Chicago has seventeen times many
structors, ortytwo times many students and nine
teen times many books as Delaware College
And why? Because Of any special educational quail
ties possessed by the University of Chicago? No; the
great secret of its success and quick growth is found
in the fact that through the liberality of John D.
Rockefeller and Others it has been financed to ex
tent that permitted It to produce results Those
delegated to make of it university in fact as well as
in name supplied with the money required to
buy grounds, buildings. equipment and brains and
that publicity needed to put it upon the educational
map
Think Of it, Delaware College with productive
funds amounting to only $4,000 and total income
of only Sll2635 attempting to compete in the educa-
tonal field with the University of Chicago with its
1S145166 Of productive funds its annual income
of $1,74O,925.
Suppose the situation were reversed. Let Delaware
College have the S1S145166 of productive funds and
the Sl14O925 of annual income let the University
Of Chicago take the $4,000 of productive funds and
the total annual income of $112,5S5. What would be
the result? Delaware College would go up and the
University Of Chicago would down. There could be
no other result All the genius of the and the
faculty of the university could not prevent it.
To express It in a few homely words, the University
Of Chicago has been fed well and Delaware College has
been shamefuy starved The results are shown in the
comparative figures cited above II is not a pleasant
picture for Deawareans contemplate but It is one
Of their own painting If they wish to be relieved Of
the reproach it represents they can do easily by
making the sacrifice needed to put Delaware COLLEGE
upon proper financial footing. It be done in no
other way II is waste time to feed maudlin senti
ment to collegiate patient that is hungering and
languishing and almost dying for want of god-and-
greenback diet