Newark post., 1914-01-28

l all-found teacner, preferably one
: with no training other than that OF
her home school, to conduct an un,
. graded school having pupils Of diff
, ferent ages and degrees Of advance
: ment, is needed to illustrate to the
country teachers good practice in
such work. | would strongly urge
the appointment Of DR.. Wagner as
dean of this school,
THE DEAN
The committee on instruction and
discipline last October appointed
Mrs. Alfred D. Warner, DR.. Geo.
w. Twitmyer and myself to re-
ceive applications for the deanship
of the woman's college, and they
have presented to the committee
the name Of Winifred j. Robinson,
assistant professor of botany at
Vassar College, and assistant ward
en- Of women s homes in the same
institution She has the highest
testimonials from leading scholars
and educators She has a charming
personality and she is filled with
enthusiasm and devotion to her
work.
Only tentative statements con-
ecernlng entrance requirements and
courses Of study can now be made.
but If Miss Robinson is elected she
will come on next week to go over
the matter with the college faculty
and will come to Newark to stav
about March l.
| should suggest that steps be
taken soon to secure a professor of
education and philosophy and of
domestic science and home econom-
les, as they will be wanted early
next fall. Economical and social
science in the new college may be
cared for for the present by the
professor Of history, but the duties
Twill soon become too heavy to be
borne by one man and an assistant
should be appointed as soon as the
work may become burdensome.
COMMITTEE OF WOMEN
| should like to mention plan
that is followed at the Western Re-
serve University and other places
of nn-nrdinn+n ol--~~A:~-- of Doon I
sexes, of having an advisory COM
mittee of women to make sugges-
tions and recommendations to the
Board Of Trustees concerning the
Of the education of
the girls. Such a committee would
serve to bridge over the time when
the Board Of Trustees shall be COM |
posed partly OF women to represent
the interests of education peculiar
to the sex.
TOTAL ENROLMENT 154
The total enrolment of students
for the current year is 154.
The college has been working on
a plan of hour periods for recita-
tions and six days a week since Sep
.tember, 1912, and finds it secures
better results than by the old plan
Of forty-five minute periods and
five days work. The restricted
elective system in the course of arts
and science whereby the student is
required to select studies so CORE
lated as to form a consistent and
progressive training, serves to open
a course suited to his tastes and
purposes, and effectually prevents
a selection of unrelated studies
chosen rather with regard to ease
.of getting through than for devel-
oping power by hard work. A COM
imittee of the faculty at the begin
ming of the year meets with the stu
dents i'll the course Of arts and
science and with each student
making out program that he shall
follow for the coming year.
PREPARATION POOR
The preparation a student brings
when he enters college, owing to the
scarcity of four-year high schools,
is rather poor, and the college has
been content with a credit of be-
tween twelve and thirteen Carnegie
units, instead of fourteen units, as
the minimum requirement. 1t is
hoped that by the consolidation of
the rural schools, graded schools
advantages may be offered to every
child in the State. AS it is now
Delaware College would have to
close its doors to the most of the
students from rural Delaware if it |
should insist upon the preparation
Of fourteen units, which is the ac-
cepted minimum requirement Of
nearly all the colleges of the east.
We have gradually raised the
standard for admission, to what it
is now, and each year we have
seem q ho6y of StlldnptS antar with |