Middletown transcript., 1916-05-06
DELAWARE COLLEGE
Prof. Ayers Delivered Lecture on
Shakespeare at the Festival
STUDENTS AND AGRICULTURE

STUDENTS AND AGKlCULIUkE
In the presence of between 1000 and
5000 people from all parts of Delaware
and the neighboring counties of Penn
sylvania, New Jersey, and Maryland,
the first event of the Shakespeare Fes-
tival at Newark-the Pageant-took
place on Friday afternoon, April %.
The procession, consisting of heralds,
bad fairies, good fairies, Shakespeare,
Queen Elizabeth, ETC., formed at the
Women's College and marched to Joe
Frazer Athletic Field. Here were given
scenes from Shakespeare's Boyhood, in
which the bad fairies under Oberon and
Puck struggled with the good fairies
under Titania for the genius of Shakes
peare; scenes from Shakespeare s
Young Manhood, including the deer
stealing episode; and scenes from his
maturity, concluding with the presenta-
ton of representative parts of Gas You
Like 1t" before the Queen.
On Friday evening students of the
two colleges presented Twelfth
Night to a packed house. The play
was enthusiastically received by the en-
tire audience. The play was repeated
on Saturday afternoon.
The faculty and students of the Wo-
mems College gave an informal recep-
ton on Saturday evening to those who
took part in the play and the pageant.
This reception, which was largely at
tended, was held in the parlors of Resi-
dence Hall.
Not by any means the least important
feature of the Festival was the artistic
souvenir programs containing "the
story of the Pageant, composed by
Miss Gertrude Brady of the English
Department of the Women's College
There is a limited number of these pro-
grams still unsold. These will be dis
posed of while they last at the late of
thirty-five cents each.
PROFESSOR AYRES LECTURES
On Saturday morning at 1870, as a
part of the Shakespeare festival, Pro-
fessor Harry Morgan Ayres Of Columbia
University, delivered a lecture on
Shakespeare both of an age and for
all time.
In his introduction Professor Ayres
spoke of the permanence of Shake
speare's works, which form one of few
bonds existing between the warning
nations. In speaking of Shakespeare
for his own age, Profes ;or Ayres told
of means of staging plays by which one
company obtained exclusive rights to
them. The last point under Shake
speare for his age was his education.
1t is unnatural to think that he had no
learning.
The second part of the lecture was
about the things which give Shake
speare his appeal to all times. Among
them were mentioned his humor,
pathos, and gift of language. Some
people have tried to attribute his great
ness to the size of his vocabulary. Not
this fact, but his ability to arrange his
words has made Shakespeare great.
In conclusion Professor Ayres re-
minded the audience that all this festi-
val is failure if it does not make them
desire to study Shakespeare the more
deeply.
E,INJTCLJEC cEcOND AT PENN PETAvC
Delaware's relay team ran beauti-
full race at the Penn Relays last Satur-
day and finished second to the fast
Maryland Agricultural College team.
AGRICULTURAL NOTES
Dean Hayward is preparing a State
Supplement for one Of the standard
school biographies. The text will be
illustrated by photograph from most
of the various types of agriculture and
manufacturing that are being carried
on in the state.
The new kerosene burning tractor
that has recently been purchased for
the college farm is proving very salts
factory, and demonstrates the advan-
tage of such low-priced machine on
the farms in Delaware.
Owing to the impossibility of secur-
ing potash in the usual form for farm
fertilizers, the college farm has recent
" purchased a carload of unleached
hardwood ashes, from the northern
peninsula of Michigan, and will use
them in place of muriate of potash.
STUDENTS IN AGRICULTURE
Frazier Croft who graduates from the
Agricultural department in June has
Just been elected to a research scholar
ship in Agronomy at the University of
Missouri. He specialized in this line at
Delaware and took as his thesis. 1.-The
Occurrence of Sterile Spikelets in
Wheat" Some results of this work
have been embodied in an article by
Professor Grantham and Mr.. Croft, and
will shortly appear in the Journal of
Agricultural Research, an official publ
cation of the U. S. Department of
Agriculture.
w. l Brockson, a graduate of the
Agricultural Course, 1915, who holds
research fellowship in Agronomy at
Iowa Agricultural College, has been
elected to the position of instructor in
Agronomy at the University of Illinois,
beginning Sept. l, 1916 Mr.. Brockson
will receive his masters degree at Iowa
next June.
ENGINEERING NOTES