Newark post., 1915-11-03
Anniversary Exercises At
Women's College


ever, declaring the conditions are
changing. The governor paid a
marked tribute to the work of the
bookwagon and urged his hearers
to insist that future legislatures
do not decrease the appropriation
for this purpose.
In conclusion he congratulated
DR.. Mitchell and Dean Robinson
upon their accomplishments in one
them both-they seem like our
folks"
Mrs. J. L. Pennypacker, of Had
donfield, N. j., interpreted to the
audience the meaning to woman
of college education. at is sur
prising to me-" Mrs. Pennypacker
declared, that woman without a
college education, should have the
temerity to interpret the meaning
of a college education. Such a
thing | am about to do, however.
I would interpret the meaning in
three words: progress, democracy,
and service.
"The great college DOORS" the
speaker declared, "now swing wide
and easily for everyone. The col
lege and church stand open and
waiting to receive everyone. There
is vast difference between the
life and problems that confronted
the pioneer woman, and those
that comfort, and the woman of
today. Woman in order to ad-
Just herself to the complex duties
of our day, and meet the new du-
ties that are thrust upon her, must
learn to economic her time and
strength, to apply scientific house
hold management to the home. In
the old days each woman's duties
were largely bounded by the four
walls of her home. The modern
woman is called upon to sympa-
thize with and help womankind in
every country on the globe. The
narrowness and bigotry of the
older day has disappeared with the
hard Westinghouse benches. We
find them sometimes, but merely as
relics of another day.
The college woman of the pre-
sent learns to stand erect on her
own feet, to lose religious diff
ferences in the great prin-
ciples of faith, emphasinzing
not her differences but her
points of contact with her fell
lows. Look where you will in the
great social and philanthropic
movements of the earth, you will
find a college woman at the bottom
of them, and very often at the top
of them. She has dedicated herself
to personal efficiency. Give, give, is
her motto. She extends her SYM
pathy. her personality. She stands
for all that tends to virtue and
cleanliness; she works for the sup
preston of uncleanliness and vice
"And back of all this, she is
working continuously for a better
home. What greater work can a
woman have than to make her
home the most perfect place in the
world for those who live in it?
"A college education equips the
individual to serve along all lines
of progress. The college woman is
invariably more responsive, more
ready to extend the right hand of
fellowship to those whose opinions
are not her own"
Superintendent G. J. Scott, of the
Wilmington Schools, discussed the
relation of the college to the pre-
paratory school. The speaker
reviewed the remarkable develop
ment of the high school, explaining
that eighty-fve years ago there
was not high school west of the
Hudson river, and referred to the
distinct duties of the two institu-
tions.
At the conclusion of the indoor
exercises, long procession wound
its way from Residence Hall to the
front of Science Hall. Dean Robin
son, faculty and students, led the
way, the glee club singing, "Dela-
ware, My Delaware"
Then came Chancellor Curtis,
Governor Miller and Mrs. Blank
enburg, DR.. Mitchell and Mrs.
Miller, Mrs. Mitchell and Mrs. J. L.
Pennypacker. Superintendent Scott
and Mrs. William P. Bancroft; !;
Miss Ray Heydrick, president of
the State Federation of Women's
Clubs. and Mrs. J. Allen Colby,
president of the Wilmington New
Century Club: Mrs. A. D. Warner,
chairman of the Advisory Council,
and Miss Alice Rowland; Miss
Cornelia Bowman and Mrs. Horace
potts former presidents of the