Middletown transcript., 1915-01-16
Fruit Judging Team Paid a Visit
to West Virginia
HISTORICAL SERIES LECTURE

twenty classes OF apples, three plates 4
per class, five apples per plate) repre-
senting the most important and widely \,
grown varieties in the United States.
The contestants were required to iden-
tify each apple in the contest according
to variety. They were also required to
place the plates in each class, according
to merit. Furthermore, it was neces-
sary to detect individual apples which
were substituted in several of the
classes. The standing of contestants
was calculated equally upon the work in
identification and in placing, and the
ranking of each team was determined
from the individual scores of its mem
bers..
The standing of the teams in the
contest was as follows:
~ New Jersey
(2) Kentucky
(3) Pennsylvania
(4 Ohio
(5) West Virginia
(6) Maryland
CO Delaware
the silver loving-cup ",
ed by the West Virgil.
Society to the team
number of points
come the perm
college whose D IL;
number of points for TT
years, was won by the
Jersey.
The loving-cups offered
viduals scoring the 1st
highest number of points VI
the following men: ~ r.
Jersey, (2) hubbard, New
Burkholder, Ohio.
ADDRESS BEFORE IN
On Thursday evening, Jal
Paul Micou, representing AK
committee of the Young Mems 6
Association, spoke before the m.
of the Delaware College Y. M.
and their friends among the stu,
body and the faculty, in Recital
Hall. Mr.. Micou first explained th
although the war had hurt the Y. M. [
A. work in some respects, the worl
would go on more enthusiastically and
effectively than ever after the war is
over. He then said that In this country
a scientific and adequate campaign lin
progress to carry out the purpose ortie
Y. M. C. A. The main part of his adj -
dress was devoted to discussion of the
four objects of the work. First, he I
said, it is life saving. II tries to per-
suade students especially to laed true
lives and to select the right kind of vo-
cation for their life work. Secondly,
it is life conserving. 1t aids students
to fit themselves to help their fellow
men. One result of this phase of the
work is the establishment of classes and
means of employment for foreign immi
grants. Thirdly, it is life directing, in
that it directs the lives of students into
useful channels, and teaches them the
| altruistic and ethical spirit. And it
doesn't lose man at graduation. FL
nally, it is life expanding, in that it
broadens the sympathies Of all men who
come under its influence.
At the chapel exercises of Friday
morning, January 9, Mr.. Micou gave a
similar talk to the faculty and student
body.
LECTURES IN THE HISTORICAL SERIES
On Thursday evening, January IA,
DR.. William E. Lingebach, Prof. of
Modern History in the University of
Pennsyv ania, gave a lecture at Della
ware College upon ''The Basic Factors
of the European War" Aside from its
timeliness, this lecture was significant
as the result of personal observation and
study in Europe last summer.
DIR. Albert Hushness Hart, Prof of
Government at Harvard University,
has been secured for one Of the lectures
in the Historical Series. The lecture
will be given in the College Oratory on
the evening of February 1S, and part of
that day will be spent by Prof. Hart in
becoming acquainted with Delaware
College and its work.
DR.. E. " Vaughn, professor of His
tory and Economies at Delaware College
has been invited to give an address at
the annual meeting of the Association
of Principals and High School Teachers
to be held in Dover, Saturday, January
16.
The Delaware College Library has re-
ceived copy of Januaty's Life eff 4
William Penn, the gift of Mr. L. G.
Cowgirl, Secretary of the State Grange
Insurance Company.
The Agricultural Department of the
Delaware Experiment Station had an
interesting exhibit at tho meeting of
the Peninsula Horticultural Society held
at Wilmington, from january IL to jan
uary 16. This exhibit comprised eighty
varieties of Irish potatoes showing the
yield for the past season, eighty-fve
preserved varieties of peaches, plume
grapes, and currants, twenty-five plates
of apples, pears and ounces, thirty
plates of different varieties Of grapes
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