Newark post., 1915-08-04
ALL DELAWARE. REP
RESENTED AT FARM
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"Within a fortnight Miss Eliza
beth jefferson will enter the field
in order to cooperate with the
women of the State in the homes,
in the clubs, in the schools, and
on the farms. Delaware College
stands for the enrichment of rural
life.
"The meaning of this outreach is
that the citizens of the State have
entered into new sense of their
ownership of Delaware College.
The school is merely tool with
which to do social tasks. 1t is not
something aloof or isolated. 1t
lives in the common current of hu-
manity. 1t aims to reinforce every
intellectual and moral cause. The
soul of the school is service.
delaware is highly favored
State by reason of its mid-position
on the Atlantic, it's compactness,
and the unity of it's educational
agencies. The eyes of many think
ing people in the nation are fixed
on the progress of education in
this State. Delaware is unique in
having only one college for white
people. This Capitalization of
forces at the college necessitates
the utmost cooperation upon its
part with all the social activities
of the Sttae. No school is so re-
mote in the rural districts that 1T
should not feel the vitalizing eff
feet of the college. No farm is so
small that it's enrichment should
not be aided by the college. Good,
roads, public health, growth OF
community life, quickened indus
tries, nobler civic ideals, more eff
ficient schools, and more practical
churches are some of the things
that find an abiding lodgment in
the heart and purpose of the mod
ern college.
"As a result of this cooperation
on the part of the educational
agencies of this State, Delaware
can be made an Eden. DR.. P p.
Claxton, United States Commits
sioner of Education, has grasped
fully this idea of making Della
ware an Eden. He is sending his
experts to work with the citizens
of this State in order to make an
example here of what an Ameri-
can commonwealth can achieve
, through wisely directed education
al effort. The Cooperative Edu-
cation Association of Delaware
has been formed to carry forward
: these combined purposes. The
= = four home-making schools that
have been held in Sussex ano
Kent counties are only forerun
l ners of the positive benefits that
I may be expected from the coop
L Grafton that Commissioner Clax
ton is giving to this State.
v "We stand today face to fac'
t with constructive program IL
education. Delaware has lonl
a been getting ready for the advance
" Evidences of this multiply upol
S every hand.
"The State has found a neV
k leadership in all these matters Il
# the commissioner of education
DR.. Charles A. Wagner, who's
o plans are drawn in wisdom an
a are being pushed forward with re
d markable energy.
"The State Board of Educatio
" under the inspiration of that grea
" citizen, Henry Ridgely, is reinfore
m ing all of these plans, such as tn
% consolidation of schools and tn
,e strengthening of the course G
20 study.
"a "The Summer School now i
progress here is focalizing ager
cy for the progressive forces
Delaware.
E. "The establishment of the W.
0 mems College last September, wit
0 a special department for the trail
0 ing of teachers under Professo
0 Mary E. Rich, will release greatly
0 energy in the womanhood of tn
O State for social tasks.
@ "And above all the iniativ
O resourcefulness and coural
l which Governor Charles R. Mile