Evening journal., 1914-07-01
Delaware College Carving W Directly the Homes of the People


A Study Of Typical Community; 12.l
A Summer in Europe
Assistant Professor A. G. Whittier.
Department of Agricultural Chemis-
try-1, How We Live-Nutrition 2,
The Chemistry of Everyday Life.
Last week every high school in the
State was visited by the members of
the extension committee. Dr. Reed,
of the department Of bacteriology, vis-
tied the schools Of New Castle county.
DR.. Vaughn, Of the department Of his
tory, visited the schools Of Kent
county. Professor Short, of the de-
partment Of mathematics and engi-
neering, visited the schools Of Sus-
sex county. The object of these visits
was not to find out how many pupils
in each school expected to 20 to col
lege and how many OF them would
come TO Delaware College. The mem
bers Of the committee aimed first of
all to make the acquaintance of the
people in charge of the schools and
the pupils themselves. In almost
every case, the visitors we're given
a cordial welcome. This first vista
tion of the schools was success In
every way. and the same plan will be
adopted next year.
Plans for the establishment of
schools at certain convenient centres
in the State are now being formed.
but will hardly be put into operation
for year or two. With the organf-
zation Of these schools Delaware Col
lege, with its libraries and labora-
tories and its trained specialists. will
become available to those persons who
desire a college education, but are
unable to leave their homes for the
regular four years course at col
/ lege.
The appointment Of a publicity COM
/ mite this year was the outcome of
the wish Of those connected with the
college to let the people of the state
know what the college is doing, and
also to give to the people information
that might prove useful to them.
Many who live In the lower counties
especially have said that they did not
know what was going on at the col
lege, because they never saw any
thing in their papers about it. With
a view to correcting this condition
Of affairs, the publicity committee has
been since its appointment preparing
and sending out to the country papers
each week news notes of interesting
events at the college, the resulas
OF experiments in such agricultural
problems as the amount of lime nee
essary to the soils of the State. the
preparation Of ground for corn, etc.
and accounts Of lectures and talks
given by members of the faculty and
prominent men in the business and
professional world. The papers of
I the State, with one or two executions
at most, have given generously Of
/ their space, and several OF the edi-
tors have written to the nmittee
commenting the plan and offering to
aid the committee and the college in
every way possible. In addition to
sending out these weekly news notes.
the committee is working. on a
pamphlet of about 80 pages which
VIII contain cuts of exterior and in
teriors Of the buildings on the cam
! pus and at the farm, and also ex-
| plantations of the size, cost, equip
ment, etc, Of buildings, classrooms.
and laboratories. The object of the
pamphlet Is to give prospective stud
ents and others an idea of the work
ing plant of the college, which is not
excelled by the working plant OF
more than two OF three colleges ol
the same size. The work of the com
mittee In the three months of its ex.
istence has met with so much en-.
couragement that plans are already
under way for enlarging its scope
next year.
In order to bring the high schools
OF the State closer together in friend
ly competition and also to make
their pupils and friends better ac
quainted with the college, two inter
scholastic contests have been ar
, ranged-one by the athletic council o
the college, and the other by the col
( lege extension committee. On Ma,
l6 a track and field meet will bi
held on the new athletic field of thu
college-Fraser Field-one of tn,
finest athletic fields in the East. An,
high school of the State is eligible
d to send entries. The schools will
! be divided into two classes: thos'
which have had experience in ath
letics and those which have not
Many of the high schools of the State
q including practically all the large
Z ones, have already entered for tn,
meet, In connection with the ath