Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1916-06-14

councils,-a teacher who insisted
on work and yet was popular, for
his students believed in his know
ledge. in his sincerity, and above
all, in his justice"
Judge Woolley has said of
him. "The singular thing about
his personality to me was the
very great affection which he
stimulated in others, without al
lowing intimacy and certainly
without permitting familiarity.
There were no terms of equality
between him and his students.
While not standing aloof, he
nevertheless remained somewhat
detached from the student body,
vet keeping his hand and exerting
his influence upon it. He was the
sunerior of all others without as
serting superiority, and we were
glad that he was superior and re-
manned so. He was strong as a
teacher. first because he knew
his subject, and second because
he loved it, and yet he recognized
that his subject was such as not
to be attractive to all others, and
therefore was not impatient with
those who were not as fond of it
as he was. He therefore endeav-
ored and succeeded in making his
subject at least interesting to
those who had no aptitude for it.,
and he made his course of chem
istry popular because it meant
contact with his personality"
There is an enlightening tri-
butte from one of our most dis
tinguished alumni. 1t is this
combination of qualities, scien-
fist of much culture, a patient
teacher of great ability, a coun-
sellor with strong human SYM
pathies for his students, and for
his colleagues, that made DR..
Wolf the notable parsonage of
Delaware's Faculty"
AS this building will be devot-
ed largely to the uses of the De-
partment of Agriculture, it seems
fitting to review very briefly the
extraordinary, rapid and solid
growth of this department. Ten
years ago Delaware College had
one student in agriculture. To-
day we have seventy-fve or a per-
centage of 33 per cent of the en-
tire college. Ten years ago Dean
Hayward and Professor Grant
ham were genuine tillers of the
soil, doing their own farm work
with sewing machine and pitch
fork. Today we have the college
farm with its great equipment
and corps of workers.
THE proof of the value of this
department to the State is very
marked, and it seems to me the
evidence of it's value is shown
in the interest of our farmers in
the college. It was a very for.
tunate thought of Dean Hay,
wards when in 1908 he instituted
Farmers Day. With the expect.
alton of bringing together a few
hundred farmers, over a thou
sand appeared on the first ami
versary. Farmers Day, today
with its four or five Thousand
farmers is conclusive evidence OF
the service is renders the state
Looking at the purely materia
gain to the state, the work of thu
department Of Agronomy in thu
improvement of the alfalfa crop
of the soy bean crop, of the corr
crop, and its introduction to tn,
state of the bearded wheat, ha!
probably brought a greater fnan
cial return to the farmers of De
laware than we have ever receiv
ed back through the State appro
priation for this Department O.
Agriculture. l could go on ant
recite instances in horticulture
in plant pathology, and ANNA
husbandrv which have .directl,
redounded to the material bene
fit of the farmers of this state
but the examples I have named
are sufficient.
"But, gentlemen of the Trus
tees and Faculty. we fail in thi
whole question of education if w,
measure our work only by mater
ial standards, important as the,
are. If we send our boys from
here without a proper conceptio,
of the spiritual and ethical value.
of life, without a clear know
ledge of the proper balance be
tween the things of the spirit anc
the things of the world, our worl
| is useless. DelaWare's student,