Evening journal., 1914-03-21
COLLEGE FOR
WOMEN MEANS
STATE GROWTH
ContInued From FIrst Page.

Yale, founded in l70l, took its curri.
culum from Harvard and passed it on TO
Princeton in l146. In 1853 William
Smith outlined the plan of course OF
study which was the real source of the
curriculum at Philadelphia Academy,
now the University OF Pennsylvania and
lat Kings College. now Columbia Uni.
yersity. in New York.
while all this in the way OF educa
tion, was being done for the young
men, said Miss Robinson, "the Young
women were being educated at home by
their mothers in useful household ac.
complishments, with the help OF the
danes school, where the number OF
rules for conduct were as many as upon
a man of war, where reading, writing
in a precise hand and numbers, and
often a little French and music were
taught"
Illustrating the accomplishments of
the girls of an earlier period, Miss Rob-
inson quoted from the diary OF the year
. l77l of Anna Green Minslow. who
though only 10 years old, was sent from
her Nova Scotia home 20 an aunt IN
Boston to be Finished Since those
days, Miss Robinson said, there have
been many changes in the occupations
and interests Of women along the lines
|, of Industrial pursuits, education, civic
responsibilities. philanthropy, domestic
duties and social life.
The growth of colleges and universi-
ties, Miss Robinson said has been ex-
tremely rapid since 1870. Perhaps the
most noticeable development has been in
that which was originally called manual
Training. and now has developed into
home economies for women and manual
arts for men. The coordinate college is
Ia farm of separate education which has
arisen for economic reasons. Whether
the form of education be separate. or co.
educational, matters very little so far as
the possible results are concerned 1T
matters very much, however, 20 the in
dividua student, whether the one OF an
lother of these be the form best suited"
/ she said. In closing, Miss Robinson
spoke about the new Woman's College,
which she said marked a growth in the
educational system in Delaware.
"ldeals,7 she said, "are ours, for it now,
rather than accomplished facts which lie
in the future
In speaking of the colleges and uni
Iyersities in the United States, Miss Rob
inson gave the following statistics:
Number of universities, l52; colleges
for women. 1873. In l2 of these latter
there is an Attendance of over 500, and
in Is an attendance of less then 100
Mrs. Wollaston in introducing DR.,
I, Wagner. said that the New Century
Club had always been vitaily inter-
esteo h educational wors, and re-
3 fcrred to the active working being
done by the educational committee
OF IN club 1t being the frs. time
Dr. Wagner had spoken ia the club
building, she said, she was doubly
pleased &c welcome him.
Or. Wagner spoke Of the status OF
education in lower Delaware and
; gave corresponding statistics which
showed the need of Detlerment.
THE school situation means SO
much, he said. that everyone should
e be vitality interested "a IT,"
Speaking of the progress OF educa.
G ton he said that as kho Nledgc Is in.
y ! creased 50 are wants and desires. and
! said he. Wilmington viii rise, il
] there is created aud scattered over
T Delaware a population that demands
from il more and more.
S The one thing. Or. Wagner said in
which there was a sad deficiency was
7 the great loss of time from school by
llt CHuuItus anu tue ldll Audl ilit
r parents did not realize il as they
n should. AS the results of a study of
school conditions in New Castle
county Dr. Wagner said he had form
ulated the following statistics which
he gave, showing the loss Of time
from school.
In New Castle county town schools
the children average an attendance OF
"a days out of every hundred; in the
rural schools, SO days out of 100; in
Kent county town schools, 20 days
out of 100: in the rural schools, SO
days out of 100; In Sussex county
town schools, 40 days out of 100, and
in the rural schools, so days out OF
100.
The saddest aspect, DR.. Wagner
said. was not that the children we're
. not getting an education, but the in
difference of parents to the fact that
3 in reality the children were averag-
S ing only FIVE months schooling. TAX
ing the State at large. DR.. Wagner
said. the average attendance was SO
8 days out of every 100, which meant
: that of the S272,000 spent last year
for schooling, S96,S00 was practically
4 a loss.
DR.. Wagner emphasized the import
ance of his statements and said that
r since January he had spoken to 15,-
: 600 people in the State, urging that
a they take steps TO remedy the con-
: ditions as he had found them.
n He referred TO the conservation OF
forests, etc, and said that all to.
gether they we're as nothing as COM
pared to the great conservation OF
human energy and intellect which
, counted for so much in the develop
ment of nations.
What you are doing in this New
!, Century Club" he said, needs to be
y done elsewhere"
b Speaking of the anniversary of the
e bill creating the woman's college, he
: said that all loyal Delawareans must
T feel proud at the things which are
e coming TO such a rich fruition in the
/ future.
q The womans college, he said
would mark when her history was
d written an educational Renaissance In
i Delaware and he congratulated those
who had made the college possible
for their perseverance and endur-
I, ance.
: At the close OF DR.. Wagner's ad-
!, dress Miss Robinson, who said she
I felt very earnestly about the school
work, pledged for the woman's col.
! lege that everything in the way ol
i bettering conditions in the rura
schools would be done.
q Following the addresses, which
y closed with a few words of ancOur.