Middletown transcript., 1916-10-28
DELAWARE'S COLLEGES


together with live and able presiden
and faculty, will enable the college t.
take high position among the othe
educational institutions of the land.
Not only from a sense of state pride
and duty should the parents of Della
ware send their sons and daughters tC
Delaware College and to the newly
established Woman's College, but be-
cause it offers certain great advantages
over most of its competitors should they
do so. These advantages are of such g
character that lacking them, a boy
college career will largely be misspent
labor, time and money.
1st Size. Delaware College in its stu
dent body represents about the number
best fitted to accomplish the purposes
for which a young man enters upon his
four years course in the higher educa-
ton, for it is neither too big nor yet too
small.
Many of the leading universities and
colleges have thousands of students,
the University of Pennsylvania, for
example, having this year nearly 5000.
In so vast a crowd the single youth is
simply lost so far as one of the most
important elements in his academic
life is concerned--that intimate, per-
sonal contact with his professors which
not only serves to educate but also to
inspire him. When hundreds in a single
class throng the classroom of one pro-
fessor he cannot give to each young
man that personal supervision and
study, cannot get that knowledge of
the idiosyncracies and needs of each,
which in a smaller class would be pos
sible. A large part-indeed, the best
psrt-Of the boys college education
comes from this personal touch, SYM
pathy and friendship of his teachers.
True, the student gets the general
stimulus and inspiration of the whole
college life and atmosphere, and this
is much-but he cannot get from his
teachers that personal, intimate slim
,ulus and inspiration which only the
fewer number permits.
I'd. The bigger universities are more
and more allowing side issues to interfere
with the proper work of the student
which is study rather than play or social
pleasures. These two evils are exces-
sive athleticism and college frater-
mites.
In some of these big colleges athletic
training and contests are taking up far
too much of the time and strength of
the students, and what is worse, too
often result in loss of life, broken
bones or other serious injury.
The other evil of secret fraternity
rivalry, not only tends to withdraw the
student from his college life and work
proper, but also to tempt him to spend
money he can i'll afford or, rather his
hard-working father at home. Costly
"frat houses" where the student lives
in an atmosphere of spicy club life,
which too often tends to intrude upon
his studies, his morals and his purse,
are becoming common, and every fra
ternity is ambitious to rear its high
priced frat" home.
Moreover, this fraternity evil tends
to split up the student body into little
factions and what is worst of ALTO
encourage snobbishness where the
youths title to recognition by his fel-
lows is not his brains, character and
manhood = Democratic Americanism,
that-but the amount of money he has
or spends.
From both these evils; Delaware Col
lege has so far been free, and we trust
ever will be. With its ampler equip
ment of new buildings, etc., and an in
creased corps of professors, Delaware
College under the enthusiastic guidance
of DR.. S. C. Mitchell, its new president,
and his able aids, has entered upon
new and larger career of usefulness,
and all Delaware parents should give it
the hearty patronage it so fully merits.
Delaware girls, too, need not go
away from their own State to find
irst-class female college. for the new
Woman's College under the able and
energetic management Of its dean. DR..
Winifred Robinson, assisted by gOodly
number Of experienced teachers, offers
every advantage for young woman
to get as good al education as that
afforded by on lde Institutions There
fore for these reasons both Delaware
College, a6d DelhlFs 'sss -. S..a