Evening journal., 1918-02-26
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 20. 1918.
THEY ARE YOUR INSTITUTIONS.

nELAwARE COLLEGE and the womens College Of
~ Delaware your Institutions
They the highest schools Of learning in your native
state.
They represent the very best there is in educational
opportunity in the commonwealth which you call your
own.
TheS were founded and maintained for the primary
good Of the youth of your state and ultimately for the
good Of your State and your nation
DR.. Samuel Chiles Mitchell is at the head Of Delaware
College
Miss winifred j. Robinson is at the head OF the
Womens College.
They wonderfully earnest, enthusiastic and capable
executives. Since they have been control they
done much bring the two colleges to higher planes
Of efficiency and popularity
IT, however they to accomplish the things for
which they striving. they must have your earnest
and whole-hearted support DO not lose sight Of that
fact.
Thanks to the generosity of Pierre S dupont and
others the institutions are Will be- well supplied with
building and equipment
Thanks to the executive ability of President Mitchell
and Dean Robinson the faculties well organized and
the courses well laid out.
But unless you send your boys and girls to Newark
TO be educated those things will count for but little
because, after all the real Of the usefulness Of
college is taken by its student body.
A Delawarean who goes the platform who stands
90 the street corner and proclams his approval Of
Delaware College and the Womens College and who fol-
lows It up by sending his her boy girl outside
Institutions be trained lines Of education which
he Newark Institutions mpart is less friend Of those
colleges than is the or the woman who keeps his
OF her mouth shut but who sends a boy or a girl TO
OF them for higher education
Il may be said that our two colleges viii draw
Students from outside the stale So they Will and so
they doing; but they would draw many more stu
dents from outside the state Delaware parents 70
put into those colleges boys and girls from
within the State TO outside recognition and respect
both Delaware College and the Women's Collese must
show by their enrollments that they shave the recos
milton and the respect Of Deawareans who have children
of college-gong age and desire We do not think that
the most earnest and consistent friend Of either
the institutions win seek TO dispute that planly-put
out al-mportant assertion
The high schools and other institutions Of prepara-
tory nature have entered upon their second terms.
Within few short months they viii graduate their
senior classes. Hundreds Of Delaware boys and girls
will receive their diplomas. Having done So the all
important question that will present itself the mind
Of each Of them and the minds of their parents viii
be- Vhat next?' In fact it already has been presented
70 the minds Of many Of them and awaits answer
It is highly important therefore that at this time
the seniors and their parents shall not forget that
have at Newark two admirable educational institutions
which well worthy Of recognition and that the most
pressing need Of both Of them FAN viii boys and
girls to teach Nor should they forget that the studn,
haryest-time is and that the very best news thai
President Mitchell Of Delaware, and Dean Robinson Of
the Womens College, and their associates can receive
now is that the enroments next Fail will be unprece
dented in size and quality and that Delaware parent.
and Delaware boys and girls keenly alive to the
advantages which Newark has to offer Delawarel
chief eductional centre