Middletown transcript., 1914-11-07
DELAWARE COLLEGE

Professor E. V. Vaughn, of Delaware
College, gave his lecture on Some
Curious Facts in Delaware History, "
at FELTON,, Delaware. The lecture was
the first of series to be given before
Avon Club of that place. This club
has opened its meetings to the general
public on the evenings of these college
lectures.
That Delawareans are interested in
the history of their state is shown by
the fact that further requests for this
lecture have come to the Extension
Committee from New Castle, Whining
ton, Odessa, Seaford, and Dover.
Upon invitation of the FELTON, Grange
Prof. Vaughn returned to FELTON, on
October 81, to deliver his lecture on
"Our Town-A Typical Community.
The first of a series of extension lee
lures in Delmar was given ty DR.. W.
0. Sypherd on Friday evening, October
Both, the subject being What Should a
High School Student Read? The
speaker referred in his introduction to
the difficulty of answering the question.
Even teachers of literature disagree as
to the books which should be read dur
ing the high school period. In order to
arrive st a satisfactory answer, we
must be in reasonable accord on some
fundamental ideas in secondary educa-
ton, for instance that a student must
study things that he does not like and
that he must do many things which he
finds difficult to understand, The gen
eral answer to the question might then
be suggested. A high school student
should be asked to read those books
which are generally accepted as consti
tuting part of liberal education and
which are near enough to stu1ent's
interests to justify an honest, in
telligent, and profitable reading.
Giving more specific answer to the
question, the speaker indicated a brief
list of books and authors which he con-
sidered most important: The Bible,
SHAKESPEARE, Milton's Paradise Lost
Pilgrims Progress, Robinson Crusoe
and Gulliver's Travels, Vicar of Wake
field, Burns, Scott, Tennyson, and
Stevenson.
The Athletic Council has sent out in
vitations and tickets to the football
game between Delaware College and
Catholic University of Washington to
be played at Newark on Saturday,
October IA. Those invited to attend
this game include the members of the
Chamber of Commerce of Wilmington,
the mayor and the councilman of New
ark.
DR.. E. V. Vaughan, professor of his
tory in Delaware College, announces a
very timely topic for the first lecture
in the Historical Series for this year.
He has secured DR.. W. E. Lingelbach,
professor of modern history in the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania for lecture on
''The War at Close range" In this
lecture DR.. Lingelbach will give his
own experiences in the European war
zone last summer. He will explain
fully the Russian attitude, the German
point of view, and certain phases of
English mobilization. He was a spec
tator at the thrilling war session of the
English Parliament. When the war
broke out, DR.. Lingelbach was caught
in the land of the Gar and was thus en-
abled to see much of the situation as
he travelled westward to England,
This lecture which is open to the public
offers an interesting and authoritative
view of the Great War, from the stand
point of an unbiased American As
soon as possible, the exact date of this
lecture will be announced.
On October % team of three stu
dents G. o. Smith, of Narberth, Pa,
j. A. Hopkins Of Newark, and L. G.
Gibney of Wilmington, represented
Delaware College in the Intercollegiate
Dairy Judging Contest at the National
Dairy Show held at Chicago. Illinois,
Sixteen teams took part in the contest
as representatives of the following
state colleges: Maine, New Hampshire,
Massachusetts, New York. Delaware,
Pennsylvania, Maryland, Ohio, Ken
lucky, Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas, South
Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, and Ore
gon.
The Delaware men finished eighth,
defeating Cornell, Nebraska, Pennsyl-
vania, Maryland, Arkansas, New Hamp-
shire, South Dakota and Oregon. The
Ohio team won the contest: Kansas
was second, Maine third, Missouri
fourth, and Iowa, Kentucky, Massa-
chusetts, and Delaware very close to-
gether for the next positions. The
Delaware men were third in judging
Holsteins, and G. o. Smith, who was
among the highest scoring men of the
contest, took second place in judging
Ayrshires. The Delaware men were
accompanied on the trip to Chicago by
F. B. Hills, of the Department ::of
Animal Husbandry of Delaware Col
Iaoa ond Evpapiuoanf Station