Middletown transcript., 1917-01-27
DELAWARE COLLEGE


ship of Business Administration. This
course in Business Administr tration is tc
begin with the next collegiate year anC
will include banking, accounting, insur.
arce, commercial law and economics.
The course is already attracting consid-
cradle interest and a number of men
have already decided to elect it.
APPOINTED TO IMPORTANT COMMITTEE
DR.. Clifford J. Scott, Superintendent
of Schools, of Wilmington, who was
elected to the board of trustees of Del
aware College last fall, was recently
appointed to membership on the Com
mittee of instruction. Mr.. Horace L.
Dilworth, the new master of the State
Grange, is also member of the board,
eX-otiicio, and has been appointed a
member of the committee on Agricul-
ture.
PLANS FOR NEW DELAWARE COLLEGE
The frontispitce of the Forthcoming
catalog of Delaware College will consist
of a ground plan of the new develop.
nent of the college grounds and build
ings which has been recently wrought
out by architects Day and Klauder
The plan will be printed on folder of
three pages length.
The State Legislature has been in
| vited to visit the College but no definite
date has been set for the occasion.
Dean Cullimore and Professor Koer-
ber visited Lehigh and Lafayette Col
leges last week and made complete
inspection of their Engineering Depart
ments.
Professor G. A. Hosmer, Professor
of Civil Engineering at Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, is the guest of
Professor Cullimore.
Professor NJ. " G. Smith will deliver
an illustrated lecture on "Steam Tur-
bines" before the Engineering Society
at their next meeting, Feb. +.
ALUMNI DINNER
The Annual Dinner of the Delaware
College Alumni Association will be held
at the Hotel DUPONT, Wilmington on
Friday evening, February e. The COM
mittee of arrangements, of which j.
Pearce Cam, ESQ.,, is chairman, has
arranged most attractive program.
Every Delaware College man is urged
to be present, as plans for the develop
ment of the college will be fully ex-
planned and discussed.
DEATH OF PROMINENT ALUMUs
II the death last week of Harlow H.
Curtis, of Newark, brother of Chan
cellor C. M. Curtis, Delaware College
lost one of its most loyal alumni and the
community one of its most useful citi
zens AS secretary of the Alumni AS
sociation and editor of the Alumni
News, Mr.. Curtis has in the short space
of six months accomplished a number of
note sorthy things looking toward the
improvement of the association and the
bringing of graduates into closer and
more intelligent connection with their
college. AS trained newspaper man,
Mr. Curtis made of the "News" a |
creditable paper. AS citizen of the
town, he has done much to aid in civic
betterment The funeral services,
which were held. on Monday afternoon,
were attended by prominent people
from the entire state
DRAMATIC CLUB AT WOMEN'S COLLEGE |
The newly-organize Dramatic Club |
of the Women's College held its first |
regular monthly meeting on the second
Friday of the month at 730 z. NJ.
The program of the evening had the |
"Movies" as it's theme. Miss Alice |
Roop, of Wilmington, read a paper on
1.-The Dramatic Value of the Motion
Picture" after which group of club |
members exempliied her theories in a
movie entitled Revenge, or the Man
Pays" Miss Kitty Bowen, of Newark,
was starred, and Miss Helen Bishop, of
Doylestown, Pa, was featured as her
leading man. The scenes of the movie
were all located in or about college.
The girls dramatically proclaimed that
they would have no more to do with
the men of Delaware College. Lette
pictures, everythi ,g that should remind
ed them of the "weaker sex" as they
termed the male element, were des-
troyed But, in a few days, college
men appeared as plumbers, electricians,
walters, and the like. The girls, taken
aback by the sudden influence relented
and all were happy once more. Miss
Selma Bachrach, of Wilmington, as the
matron, Mss Pearl Wilson, also of Will
ming ton, and her lover, Miss Madge
Nick erson, of Camden, furnished much
of the comedy.
DRAMATIC CLUB ELECTS OFFICERS
The newly-organized Dramatic Club
of the Women's College, which has
more than fifty charter members, has
elected the following officers for the
coming year. Miss Paulina Smith, of
Wilmington, president; Miss Elizabeth
F. Jones, of Dover, vice-president;
Miss Alice Jefferis, of Wilmington,
secretary; Miss Lura Shorb, of Dover.
business manager and Misses K. Bowen,
of Newark, H. Stuart, of Wilmington
and A. Scott, of Milford, heads Of COM
JUNIOR PROM AT DELAWARE COLLEGE
The Junior class Of Delaware College
will give its annual promenade on Fri
day evening February 2, in the Newark