Evening journal., 1916-06-29
NEEDED BOYS AND GIRLS.

EuRIHER evidence Of the growing popularity Of
Delaware College under the progressive and eff
oient management Of Or. Samuel Chiles Mitchell is
found In the large early enrolment for the Summer
School at that institution II not only bespeaks acute
public interest in the enterprise OF using the plant in
vacation time for special educational purposes but
also well for the future Of Delaware College
and the Womens College OF Delaware for the promo
tion Of which President Mitchell and Dean Robinson
are working so whole-heartedy and effectively. It is
of this latter phase OF the situation to which we de-
sire TO refer at this time
Just the high schools in this State are turning
out hundreds Of graduates. Many Of them will seek
higher education. II is longer a question whether
they will 90 to college but rather one Of where they
will go. In this connection wish to make an ap-
peal to the Of such children in behalf Of Della
ware College and the Womens College of Delaware
We hold no brief for President Mitchell and Dean
Robinson nor have We been requested by them to
make this appeal We feel however that the time
has come when parents should be reminded that
the only real practical reward they bestow upon
President Mitchell and Dean Robinson for the mag
nhcent work they have been doing is to send their
boys to Delaware College and their daughters to the
Women's College to be educated That is the real
test Of Delawareans interest In those centres Of
educational activity scant credit should go to any
woman who processes interest in either Della
ware College the Women's College and who then
evinoes lack Of interest by sending the boys and the
girls in his her family outside our State to he
educated That assertion only applies Of course to
those lines of education that are taught and we'll
taught at the home colleges in Newark
There time when the most pressing need Of
Delaware College and its affiliated institution was
money with which to obtain suitable grounds build
ings equipment. teachers and advertising, Thanks to
the philanthropy Of bg-hearted, practical-minded
and oducaton-loving business in this city. that
need has been supplied in broad essential particu-
lars.
Today the most pressing need Of those colleges is
not money, but boys and girls to avail themselves Of
educational benefits which flow from money already
provided It is the duty Of Delaware parents supply
them from the ranks Of those who have received d
pomas from the schools of our State and who are
qualified to take up college work.
II Delaware College and the Womens College are
to succeed they ousht to succeed their success
must flow from two closely-related sources.
One is appreciation by Delawareans Of the value
! Of higher education.
The other is appreciation by Delawareans OF the
value Of those two institutions agents for impart-
ing such education.
When that appreciation has been manifested, not
theoretically but practically. through the enrolment
and Dean Robinson receive adequate reward for the
work they prosecuting persistently and aggres
svey. They working for practical results. II
they are have a harvest time in their task OF re-
cruitng students this is that time they must have
the hearty cooperation OF Delaware parents IL their
hopes for the colleges for next year to be realized
The cooperation is deserved It ought not be de-
MED Delawareans should experience pleasure in as
sistng in the making the 1916 enrolment sur
pass anything Of its kind in the history of the two in
stitutions