Newark post., 1915-02-24

vance is Tue uemOcIdtlZlHS VI tHe
ideals Of colleges.
Delaware College is therefore
grounded upon granite. 1t is
owned, controlled, and supported
by the State while it is buttressed
by federal funds and endowment.
It is the conveyance Of these three
lines of support that constitute its
potential strength. A mere glance
at it's growth since 1870 furnishes
the basis for encouragement as to
it's future development. In 1870
Delaware College had an assured
income of less than $1,000. From
The Federal Government alone there
is an assured income Of more than
100000, while the Alumni Endow-
ment and the State funds may be
counted upon confidently to grow
as the service Of the college becomes
more and more appreciated. The
budget of the dual colleges Of Della
ware the present year represents
about $15O,00O. Such has been the
growth in income. The expansion
in grounds, buildings, and equip
ment somewhat corresponds to this
growth in income. Delaware Col
lege, therefore, offers solid invest
ment for those generous citizens
who wish to render service to the
State and advance the cause of
truth and progress.
Delaware College is moral fort
ress. It seeks to reinforce every in
tellectual and spiritual cause in
the commonwealth and nation.
While it eschews rigidly all parti-
san and political efforts, it ener-
gises moral agencies through ideas.
An idea is the only creative energy
on earth.
The power represented in the
student body of small college was
finely illustrated by what DR.. J. r.
Parkin, the agent of the Cecil
Rhodes Scholarships, told me.
When Parkin was small boy at
Oxford, in 1873, seven boys were
casually chosen for a debating
team. He said, you would be in
terested to know where those seven
boys are today. One was Mr.. H. H.
Asquith, Prime Minister Of the
British Empire, the virtual ruler
Of fifth of the inhabitants Of the
earth. Lord Rosebery contends
that the British Empire is the
greatest secular agency for good in
the world. Through the moral in
fuence, therefore, Of the British
Empire, Mr.. Asquith influences in
timately the destiny of mankind.
Another of these boys was Lord
Miner, one of the most conspicu-
Gus statesmen in England.
Another is the Chief Justice of
India, ministering the courts for
three hundred million human bel
ings. But why need l continue?
Everyone Of those seven boys in
that small college at Oxford has
given good account of himself in
life.
An illustration to the same eff
feet is found in the influence of
Bowdoin College. President Hyde
once told me that if at Washington
on certain occasion you had en-
tered the House Of Representatives,
you would have seen a Bowdoin
man presiding, Thomas B. Reed.
If at the other end Of the capitol
you had entered the Senate, you
would have seen a Bowdoin man
presiding, Senator Frye. If mid
way you had stopped in at the Su-
preme Court, you would have seen
a Bowdoin man presiding, Chief
ustJice Fuller. Think of the
alumni of a small New England
College filling at one. time three
such strategic positions in our
Another striking instance of the
potentiality of the small college is
found in the influence of Brown
University has exerted upon edu-
cation. Brown at the time Of which
speak, was a small college. Yet it
trained Horace Mann, the father of
he public school system in Ameri-
"a James B. Angel, who really de-
veloped in Michigan, the modern
dea Of State University; and
8arnas Sears, who after the Civil
War, laid the basis of public edu-
cation in the South.
How shall we account for this
creative output Of the small col
ege? 1t is due in my opinion to
he intense fellowship which the
conditions of small college in
luce, and to the inspirational ef-
'ect of personality in the great