Middletown transcript., 1916-12-02
DELAWARE COLLEGE
REPORT ON DELAWARE MARKETS

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tension Service of Delaware College.
After it has been presented to the COM
mittee consisting of three members of
the Board of Trustees and DR.. Vaughn
and Dean Hayward, it will probably be
published and distributed throughout
the state.
COLLEGE FARM SELLS LIVE STOCK
The College Farm recent shipped a
pair of Berkshire gifts to A. H. Berry,
of Dover, Delaware, and a registered
jennet to Charles H. Cook, of Trenton,
N. j.
DELAWARE TO BE REPRESENTED
Dean Harry Hayward of the agricul-
ture department Of Delaware College,
will represent the state of Delaware at
the Fourth Annual Conference on
Markets and Rural Organization to be
held at Chicago from December to 9.
DAIRYMEN'S S MEETING IN SUSSEX
County Agent Pelton has arranged
for a special meeting in the interest of
the dairymen of lower Sussex County
for November &c. Considerable interest
in dairy matters has recently been
awakened in Sussex, and one of the
large milk-dealing firms Of Philadelphia
is planning to put up shipping station
in that county. Dean Hayward will ad-
dress the meeting on Wednesday.
REPORT ON WHEAT-CULTURE
Professor Grantham, of the depart
ment of agronomy of Delaware College,
has just completed the manuscript of a
comprehensive report of the investiga-
tions in Wheat culture which he has
been carrying on at the College Farm
during the last six or seven years.
FIRST PUBLIC LECTURE OF THE SEASON
Professor w. S. Myers, of the depart
ment of history and politics of Prince
ton University, delivered lecture on
"Our gymnasium. In spite of the storm
large audience from the college and
the community was present. Professor
Myers in vigorous manner attracted
manifest interest by his defense of the
Monroe Doctrine as an indispensable
American policy in foreign affairs, by
his criticism of President Wilson's deal
ing with Mexico, and by his illuminat
ing analysis of our relations with Japan,
present and future. Professor Myers
Lecture will be followed on December 3
by lecture by Professor Carl Kelsey,
socialogist, of the University Of Penn
sylvania, on 'The Cost of Progress,
the second of d series of five to be given
during the winter under the direction of
the department of history.
DELAWARE COLLEGE GLEE CLUB
About twenty-five or thirty students
attended the first rehearsal of the newly
formed glee club at Delaware College
last week. A program of classical and
popular selections is being prepared,
and will probably be presented at sew
eral of the towns in the State in the
Spring. There is a possibility that the
mandolin club, and perhaps the orchestra
also, may join with the glee club in
their trip. The orchestra, under the
leadership of Robert L. Sumwalt, of
Lewes, is maintaining its high standard
of the last two years. The mandolin
club, under the direction of E. Earl
Plumley, of Wilmington, has already
given one delightful concert at Odessa.
DELAWARE CADET CORPS TURNS OUT
In accordance with the annual custom,
the Delaware College Cadet Corps turned
out in uniform last Saturday afternoon
for the Delaware-G Gallaudet football
game. The corps, headed by the band,
marched around Frazier Field, and after
short drill broke ranks and took its
place in the cheering stand.
The game was hard fought and the
Delaware team defeated the Gallaudet
eleven by the score of 1876. The visi-
tors, representing a school for mutes in
Washington, put up remarkably bril-
liant defense. Many visitors witnessed
Delaware's fourth victory of the 1916
season. The Athletic Council issued
about 75O complimentary tickets to resi-
dents of Newark, and employees of the
paper and fibre mills of the vicinity.
LEVY SPEAKS TO ENGINEERING CLUB
At recent meeting Of the Engineer
ing Society of Delaware College, Mr..
w. Scott Levy, '19, of Wilmington,
gave talk of unusual interest on the
manufacture of pigments for paints
Mr.. Levy is chemical engineering stu
dent and has taken ali active part in de-
batting: He was a member of the team
which won for Delaware College in the
debate with St Johns College last
spring.
PREPARES INTERESTING THESIS
w. V. Marshall, II, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. w. V. Marshall, of Lewes, and F.
T. Campbell, II of Washington, D. c.,
are carrying on valuable joint expert
ment at the Delaware College Experi-
ment Farm in perfecting a feeder for
hogs. This work will be used as a basis
for their thesis. The investigation will
be of value not only to the college, but
also to the farmers of the state. Mr..
Marshall and Mr.. Campbell are officers
on the board of the college farm paper,
''The Delaware Farmer"
PRESIDES OVER LITERARY SOCIETIES
Charles Myers, president of the Delft
Phi Literary Society of Delaware Col
lege, presided at joint meeting of the
Athenaen and Delft Phi societies on
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