Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1914-10-16
DELAwARE's DUTY no ITS COLLEGES.


N ELAwARE has given lands buildings. equipments,
- funds and faculties to Delaware College and
the womens College Of Delaware
It has important duty TO per-
form
It is to send TO those two institutions its boys and
girls to be educated in the higher branches Of learn
ing.
Unless that duty be performed. we'll worhily
trChcaily and persistenty neither institution
approximate its full measure Of usefulness.
Delawareans must show, by sending their boys and
girls to Newark to be educated that they believe in
Delaware College and the women's College and that
they look upon them institutions which arc fitted
TO educate only the boys and girls Of this state.
but also those Of any other state.
Neither Delaware College nor tho women's College
can become great educational institutions while Della
wareans, who profess to be patriotic in every
Of the word ignore them and send their boys and girls
to outside Institutions to be educated in branches of
learning that taught and we'll taught in the
state institutions at Newark
The best possible service that a Delawsrean can
give TO Delaware College and the womon's College is
that cntrustng them the education Of his chill
dren. with such encouragement manifested by the
growth and representative character the student
bodies both institutions will keep pace with the pub
lie needs and in time be recognized as being
among the greatest Of Americas educational factors
The year OF Delaware College has opened under
exceptionally favorable conditions The enrolment
executive head Dr. Samuel Chiles Mitchell an cdu-
Gator and administrator Of national standing and a
man possessed Of great energy and ideals that
practical they high and publicly beneficial
Tho Womens College. founded upon the equit-
able principle that it IS the duty this state TO sup
ply TO its young educational facilities as good
those that supplied its young men, has open
ed IT'S doors under conditions that exceedingly
gratifying. Dr. Winifred j. Robinson of vassar Col
lege has been installed as dean. She has won many
friends and the esteem Of the general public
since she this State and began her prem-
mary work
If good wishes possess value in task of educa-
tional construction ia commonwealth then surely
the of DR.. Robinson's administration already
is assured That is equally OF Dr. Mitchels ad-
ministration OF Delaware College They must keep
constantly in mind however the fact that for the
few years the best work they can do for the insti-
tutions of which they the executive heads is tina,
of educating Delaware parents to the fact that Della
ware College and the WomoRs College are worthy
being entrusted with tho task of educating Delawares
young and young women and that it is fundamont-
ally wrong for such Delaware parents TO starvo the
institutions in Newark that they may feed and fattcn
institutions of learning outside tho State
campaign for parental recognition and apprecia-
ton Of Delaware College and tho Womcns College
should be carried into every district in our State II
should he persisted in until il brings the answer.
Every agency at command should be utilized Our
state BOARD OF Education, our State Commissioner OF
Education county superincndents. tho many local
boards Of education, the small army OF school princi-
pals and teachers and the hundreds Of civic organza-
tons in New Castle. Kent and Sussex counties should
be pledged to from this time on as recruiting
agents for Deawares two institutions of higher learn.
ing and to preach, IN and year out the car.
OF Delaware boys and girls that Newark should their
educational goal in far tho things taught there
fl in with their plans OF life And those preachments
should be poured with equal persistency into the
cars Of Delaware parents
II that be done, the cnromcnts OF Delaware College
and the Womens College will be Increased many fold
in comparatively short time
The work of recruiting should not he put off until
the Of the next school year Nor should It be
spasmodc 1t should be begun and carried on
nosistenty in the homes in the high schools in the
! grammar schools. in the elementary schools and IN
| tho private schools of the state.
While tho minds Of the children arc in the forma-
tive and impressonable stage. they should be satur-
aed with proper conception OF the duty they owe {,
Delaware College and TO the women's College ant
made fully acquainted with the educational rewards
that will accompany the worthy discharge of thai
duty TO the institutions which arc headed respective
ly and well, by Or Mitchell and Dr. Robinson
The allies not interested nearly so much in tb
fact that General Jonrc Of France has lost eighteen
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