Middletown transcript., 1915-11-20
DELAWARE COLLEGE
Spoke on ''The Fear of Learning
Too Much"
GOOD SANITARY AND HEALTH

On November 2, Professor Conover
spoke in Chapel on 1.-The Fear of Learn
ing too Much. !" He said in part: ''The
old idea that an educated person should
be well grounded in all departments of
learning, seems to be fading away rap
idly. This is the age of specialization.
Time was, when a professor of Greek
might be transferred to the chair of
Mathematic or Philosophy. But now
the demand is for specialists, for men
and women trained to do one thing, and
to do it well. While this is well and
proper. there is danger of becoming
narrow. In order to avoid this danger
you should not begin to specialize too
soon. Do not be person of one idea,
even if it is good one. Let the maxim
be to know something about everything
and everything about something"
On November 9, Professor Short
spoke on the subject "Be Sanitary and
you will be Healthy" After showing
that the earning capacity of awell man
is estimated at from $3.50 to $500 per
year, according to the class of his labor
and that the sick man on the other
hand represents not only absence of
value to community but also an eco
nomic loss the speaker said: at has
been demonstrated that most of the
common diseases can be traced to con-
ditions easily prevented and eliminated.
Typhoid Is filth product, and can be
taken in water from polluted supply
from ice from polluted pond; from
dust blown from a dried out, infected
spot onto food, or by food contamina-
ted by fil's. Other diseases may be
traced in like manner. Knowing the
causes, many of the remedies are abvi-
Gus. AS college men you are expected
to take the lead in affairs looking to
the betterment of conditions affecting
the community in general. Fit your
selves tn help in this common sense
problem of bettering health by SANTA
ton and clean living"
L CKERs FOR ENGINEERING DEPT.
The Department of Civil Engineering
has recently acquired 81 lockers for the
housing of transits and levels and cor
responding equipment. They are built
of wood, with glass doors, and in seven
sections, three lockers to a section.
Each locker has an arrangement which
holds the instrument, mounted on its
tripod, ready for use. Besides the in
or Oh,
necessary equipment for outfittlng the
party with transit or level, as the case
may be. In the top of each locker is a
shelf on which is stored the instrument
case. The lockers not only provide a
place for the safe keeping of the equip
ment, but also facilities handling of the
equipment when the classes are large.
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
The Department of Horticulture of
the Delaware College Experiment
Station is using portion of it's green
house this winter for determination of
the Heritability of certain head char
acteristics of cabbage. A student
apple judging team represented Della
ware College at the second eastern in
tercollegiate fruit judging contest held
at Baltimore on Friday, November 10 in
connection with Maryland horticultural
Society Fruit Show during the Maryland
Week exposition. The other teams in
this contest will be from New JERSEY.
Pennsylvania, Maryland, W. Virginia
and Ohio. The contest last year was
won by the team from New Jersey.
COUNTY AGENT TO ATTEND CONFERENCE
Mr.. NJ. o. Pence. county agent for
Kent County, will represent the State
of Delaware at the conference of State
Leaders of Ex-work at st. Louis No
vember l6 to 10. Miss Elizabeth JEFF
ferson, the extension worker OF the
department of Home Ecohomics of the
Women's College of Delaware, will also
attend the conference.
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