Middletown transcript., 1916-02-19
DELAWARE COLLEGE

of eouipment made more vigorous tram
ing impossible, With the arrival of a
ladder, jumping standards, chest
weights, a ''horse, and other appara-
tus, the gymnasium exercises take on
an increased value.
ATTENDED COUNTRY LIFE CONFERENCE
Dean Winifred J. Robinson and Miss
Elizabeth Jefferson of the Women.s
College attended the meetings of the
Four State Country Life Conference in
Philadelphia, on February Z, 8, and 9.
Miss Jefferson read paper on Home
Economies Extension work in Delaware.
STUDENTS LOAN FUND REACHES $50
With the donation by the Washington
Heights New Century Club of twenty
five dollars annually to the Student
Loan Fund of the Women's College,
the fund has reached $3.50. This fund,
when completed, is to be loaned to
worthy students, who will pay low
rate of interest on the loans, and replace
the sum borrowed within a given time.
LINCoLN's BIRTHDAY OBSERVED WITH
APPROPRIATE EXERCISES
February II, was observed as Lincoln's
birthday by appropriate chapel exer-
cises at the Women's College. Extracts
were read from Mary Raymond Ship
man Andrews Perfect Tribute, "
LowelPs Harvard Commemoration
Ode," and Lincoln's Second Inaugural
Address, by Misses Anna Thompson,
Thera Twitchell, and Edith McDougle.
The service closed with the singing o
Julia Ward Howe's Battle Hymn of
the Republic.
INDUSTRIAL TRAINING AMONG
SOUTHERN NEGROES
On Wednesday, Feb. 9, the students
Of the Women's College had the plea
sure of hearing Miss Rosa B. Cooley
talk on her work among the negroes Of
the Penn Industrial School on st. He
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endeavoring to train the boys and girls
so to develop their own powers and take
advantage of local conditions, that they
may be able to redeem themselves
from the vicious economic pressure
which enslaves them. The students at
this school are all pure negroes and
with two exception, the teachers like
wise are negroes. mostly graduates of
Hampton Institute.
Miss Cooley particularly emphasized
the work that was being accomplished
through the agency of the school farm,
IN which the students take such an in
terest that several walk fifteen miles
daily to receive the instruction given
there.
DR.. MAINS TO REPRESENT COLLEGE
DR.. 7. F. Manns, plant pathologist of |
the Delaware College Experiment Sta
ton, represented the college at a |
conference on the Fire Blight of the
P ar and Apple, held by the
Eastern Fruit Growers Association in |
Washington on February II. DIR.
Manns gave a full report of the
status of the disease in Delaware dur
ing the past year. Fire Bought which
is bacterial disease has been very dis
throughout the State recently,
causing much loss in the orchard dis
tricts. Many young apple trees have
been killed outright.
DEAN HAYWARD TO ADDRESS NEW YORK
MEETING
Dean Harry Hayward, director Of the
Delaware College Experiment Station,
S on the program of the third confer
ence on secondary agricultural educa-
ton, which will be held in the Hotel
McAlpin, New York, on February 26.
Next week Dean Hayward will make
trip to Ohio in the.interests of the
Colored College at Dover.
FARM HENS MAKE GOOD SHOW
The pen of birds owned by James
Spiers, of the College farm, Newark,
Delaware, tied with a pen owned by
Ar. Tom Barnon of England, for the
highest egg laying record during the
month Of January in the Egg Laying
being carried on under the
luspices of the Delaware College Ex
Station. Mr.. Spiers pullets
we're bred by himself from stock which
anne directly from the poultry yards OF
Ir. Barron in England.
COLLEGE FARM NEWS
The cow Fernwood Olwen in the Col
ege herd which completed her years
ecord in November of 13, 763. 4 lbs. of
milk and 586.7 lbs. OF fat, equivalent
0 685 lbs. of butter recently gave
irth to fine bull calf. The average
reduction of this young bulls dam and
ire dam is 18, 1923 lbs of milk and GIT =
os. of butter fat for the year, equiva- +
ent to 100 lbs. of butter. He should .
1ake most excellent head for fine
erd.
Mr.. R. B. Pepper, of Georgetown, :.
delaware, has been engaged to work
n the College farm. Among other 0
uties, he will have charge of the
wine. /.
EXPERIMENT STATION NEWS d
Professor C. A.. MeCue, horticul- h
lrist, addressed the Farmers Insti- tt
ute held in Dover on February IL.
rofessor A. E. Grantham, agronomist,
the Institute at Frankford on u
ebruary z II