Middletown transcript., 1915-01-16
MADE FINE ADDRESS
DR.. Samuel ChiIds Mitchell Pleased
Large Audience
OF Pupils AND PARENTS

the morning. Miss Nell c. Krumme,
director of music, had charge of the
singing, and under her leadership the
student sang among other numbers, the
Delaware state song song. David
Brown and Edward S. Cannon, of the
June class of 1915, gave excerpts from
Washington's farewell address,.
DIR. Mitchell in his introduction spoke
of the latent power represented in what
he styled "the most inspiring audience
in the state" He said this did not rise
from force of numbers merely, but
from the capacity for growth and USE
fulness to the state that must inhere to
body of one thodsand high school boys
and girls.
He told the sorry of seven young En-
glish boys who were causually selected
upon debating team in one of the small
colleges in Oxford, in 1873 Today each
one of the seven occupies a position
from which the entire world is literally
feeling the training of the seven. One
of these is Premier Asquith, the virtual
ruler of 500, 600, 900 of people, and whose
influence practically circles the globe.
Another is the chief justice of India,
and so on. None of US can measure the
latent and as yet undeveloped capacities
in the individuals composing a school
like the Wilmington High School, nor
their power for intellectual growth and
moral heroism.
DIR. Mitchell paid fine tribute to the
boys at Delaware College who are OBJ
tanning an education through personal
sacrifice and initiative. He cited two
specific instances of this sort and said
that both young men stand at the head
of their classes.
Commenting upon his first insight into
the spirit of education in Delaware in
Wilmington, DIR. Mitchell said that he
had been most auspiciOusly introduced
last June at the alumni banquet at the
Hotel dupont Again this winter, at
the reception given by the senior civics
/, class to Senator Salisbury he had had
Van opportunity to see what the city's
Aeading educational institution stands
for along the line of making good citi-
zens. He said that the spirit of the
school was an evidence of high civic
spirit and consciousness. e..
Concerning the relation of the Will
mington High School to Delaware Col
lege, Mr. Mitchell said that upon the
expansion Of the high school, and the
closer correlation of the two institutions
depends the future of the higher educa-
ton of both the boys and girls who ex-
peet to go to Delaware. The high
school has grown to the capacity of its
present building and an enlargement is
imperative il students are not to be put
upon half ii e. This is no longer a
possibility, but fact that will confront
Superintendent Scott next September.
Delaware College, too, is looking for
/, ward to an urgent necessity for greater
expansion and already som of those
who are vitally interested in its future,
have employed noted architect to sur
Vey the field and make such plans as
will serve the needs of student, for the
next 25 years to come. Frank Miles
Day has already entered upon this work
and it will require possibly whole year
merely to outline plans for the new
plant for the states highest educational
institution.
Delaware College, DIR. Nitchell said,
with its state and federal aid, and its
present and prospective endowments,
represents the ideal type of educational
cooperation. Federal aid has grown
from SIS, 900 in 1870 to 800, 900 last year,
and will steadily, if not rapidly, increase
by Congressional act. The alumni have
already secured $66, 900 of the endow
ment fund they have planned and the
first check for interest upon this amount
was received by the college last week.
As the scope of the college enlarges it
will more closely approximate the ideals
of the present. This will mean greater
opportunity in training for a more cul-
tured, efficient citizenship.
The Woman's College of Delaware
with its 58 students, is a splendid tribute
to the initiative of the womanhood of
the state. " While many noble women in
all parts of the state helped to make
the college possible, the name of Mrs.
Alfred D. Warner, of Wilmington,
must stand foremost always as the
finest type of civic spirit.
The courses at Delaware for men are
the Arts and Science course, the various
engineering courses and the agricultural
course; for women, there are the Arts
and Science course, the home economics
and the course in education. The en-
tering class in September numbered $50.
If succeeding classes approximate this
increment, the expansion of the college
plant must be inevitable.
DR.. Mitchell said he believed that the
college was destined to unfold as Dart
mouth has done and in the near future
that it will reach the ideal 500 students.
This, the speaker said, should be the
limit set.
The educational renaissance in Della
ware is in evidence in the spirit Of
earnest cooperation that is manifested
among all of the units of the system
DR.. Wagner is doing pioneer worl
throughout the state. The teachers o.
the rural schools are manifesting greater
interest than ever before and all of thu
agencies at the present seem to point Il
higher educational standards than hav,
ever. existed at any time before in Della
ware.
DIR. Mitchell made a very favorabl
impression upon the student body ant
he was invited to return and addres
them again at an early date.
Next Monday morning, the exercise
win be in charge of the February clas
of 1915. Examinations will begin O.
Thursday morning. the twenty first, an
will continue the following week. Re
Organization will be effected on Febru
ary l.