Middletown transcript., 1916-03-25
DELAWARE COLLEGE
Delaware Association Of College
Women Offers Scholarship
SOME COLLEGE FARM NEWS


SOME COLLEGE FARM NEWS
Mr.. j. C. Hastings, President of the
Delaware College Y. M. C. A. visited
Princeton University on March II, IL,
IL for the purpose of studying the
methods used in carrying on the Y. M.
c. A work at that institution with a
view to Strengthening the society at
Delaware.
The remodeling of the interior of the
old library building which is to house
the Y. M. c. A. activities of the college
is about completed. The furnishings
! for the building arrived on March 21,
and was installed Immediately.
Mr.. Harlowe Curtis, of Newark, has
presented to the college a history of
the Philadelphia, Baltimore & Washing
ton R. r., which was published in 1859.
In it there is cut showing a view of
Newark taken from the P. B. & R. R.
station. There is clear sweep from
| viz oSotIOiA " IAlC COllCSO1 d5 0OI a
single building appears in the view.
SCHOLARSHIP OFFERED
The Delaware Association of College
women offers a scholarship Of $1OO, each
year to the girl passing the entrance
examination for admission to the
Women's College of Delaware with the
highest standing, The student must
be resident of this state and physi-
cally as well as mentally fit for college
life. She must make an average of at
least 85 per cent in the examinations
covering the fourteen units required
for entrance. (See Entrance Re-
quirements" in the catalog of the
Women's College of Delaware).
These examinations will be given
June 16 and II in Newark at the Wo-
mems College, where candidates will
be entertained free of charge from the
morning of June Is to the afternoon of
June II.
Further information will be given
upon application to Dean Winitred ].
Robinson or to any member of the COM
mittee whose names are given below.
Lillian W. Hayward (Mrs. H.. New
ark, Delaware, Chairman, Mary E.
Rich.
Women's College of Delaware, New
ark, Delaware, Edith P. Hubbard.
Friends School, Wilmington. Della
ware.
ANNOUNCEMENT
The Three Hundredth Anniversary
of the death of Shakespeare will be
commemorated by Delaware College
and the Women's College of Delaware
on April twenty-eighth and twenty
ninth. A tentative program has been
arranged for the two day festival.
On Friday afternoon the festival will
begin with Pageant depicting some
scenes from the life and times of
Shakespeare. A Procession will form
at the Women's College at three O'Clock
and proceed to Frazer Field. Here will be
held Community Celebration, consist
ing of exercises by the school children
of Newark, and folk songs, folk dances,
scenes illustrative of the life of the
dramatist, and scenes from the plays
by the students of the two colleges.
AT eight o'clock in the evening, STU
1ents of the two colleges will present in
the Newark Opera House Shakespeare's
Twelfth Night -
On Saturday morning at ten-thirty
''clock, Professor Harry Morgan Ayres
If Columbia University will deliver a
ecture in the College Oratory on some
aspect of Shakespeare's dramatic art.
The second performance of 'Twelfth
Night will be given in the Opera
House at one-thirty o'clock Saturday
lfternoon.
COLLEGE FARM NEWS
A little tracter has been purchased to
upplant some of the horse labor on the
;ollege Farm and to be used also for
purposes. 1t is expected
hat it will be very successful and has
cen used to some extent already.
HOG CHOLERA OUTBREAK
The hog cholera outbreak in the Col
ege Herd of Berkshires and Duroos is
ow under control. Although several
the animals are still ill, it is probable
nat no more will die. AS soon as the
utbreak is entirely over, circular will
e published by the Experiment Sta
on, dealing with the outbreak and its
ontrol. Much credit is due to the H.
;. Mulford Company for its promptness
nd cooperation in furnishing the serum
nd virus for treatment.
DR.. REED IN NEW YORK
DR.. R. c. Reed on Saturday, March
j, visited the great herd of JERSEYS at
eridale Farms, New York, and ex-
mined professionally about 100 cows.
r. F. w. Aver, one of the owners of
eridale Farms, has been familiar with
r Reeds work with the College Herd
I'd was pleased to have him examine
s herd