Milford chronicle., 1919-07-04
400 TEACHERS AT SCHOOL
ADVANTAGES OF new SCHOOL CODE
OUTLINED BY c. E. BURCHENAL.
Snecial to Milford Chronicle.

OUEGldl 10 AlAllOAu I'll AOAAANAEs
Last night "wednesday the pur-
pose and advantages of the recently
passed school cade were outlined to
the teachers of the State, gathered at
the summer school of Delaware Col
lege by Caleb +. Burchenal of Will
mington. AS chairman of the State
School Commission which has made
a study OF the educational system of
Delaware, Mr.. Burchenal urged his
hearers to leave nothing undOne to
put the schools of Delaware at work
under the new code, which, he said,
will place Delaware among the lead
ing States of the Union educationally,
instead of the 33rd place, which Della
ware now holds among her sister
States. Mr.. Burchena's address will
be followed by several address on the
State survey and the school code. Chas.
A Beard head of the Municipal Re-
search Bureau of New York, under
whose direction the survey was con-
Quoted will speak on July IA. On the
school code DR.. Samuel C. Mitchell
and Dr. Clifford ]. Scott will be among
the speakers.
Tomorrow, the Fourth of July, will
be marked by patriotic exercises dur
ing which a portrait of Caesar Rod
ney will be presented to the college
by John P. Nields. Following the
Fourth, the summer school will fall
into full swing, the regular curricu-
lum being supplemented by the addi-
tion of lectures and addresses for the
entire month of July and a part of
August
A feature of the school curriculum,
which has just been added to the
schedule for the session, is the series
Of lectures on First Aid and Home
Nursing by Miss Olive Hartlove of the
Delaware Red Cross and Major M. ].
Shields, Superintendent of the Della
ware and Maryland Red Cross First
Aid work. Major Shields has been
active in Red Cross work in the train
ing camps during the war, and his eX
periences will be of invaluable help to
the teachers gathered at the summer
school. It is to the credit of the Del
aware Red Cross that these lectures
are made possible at the summer
school during this session.
This years session of the Della
ware College summer school promises
to be the most successful ever held at
"Old Delaware" is quite evidenNfrOm
the large registration of students on
Monday, the opening of the session.
Approximately $50 teachers from every
corner of the State are taking advan-
tage of the educational opportunities
offered this year. Sussex county was
particularly well represented at the
school.
Following the registration of the
students in the Lounge of Old College,
which, recently remOdeled at great
expense to a student union, will this
year be a center of summer school ac-
tivities, the students listened to lee
ture by Dr. Newell Dwight Hills on
The Centennial of John Ruskin and
His Message to Our Century" DR..
Hills, who knew Ruskin, vividly pic
tured for the teachers in the spirit
of Ruskin's message how important
a part they play in the manufacture
of souls, which Ruskin declared to
be the one great business of the state.
In the evening, before a crowded au-
ditorium in Wolf Hall, DR.. Hills de-
nounced Bolshevism and called for
constructive and educative coopera-
ton in a lecture on Rebuilding the
Ruined Lands of Europe" On Satur-
day evening DR.. Hills held his great
congregation in Wolf Hall spellbound
from start to finish as he outlined the
progress of Christianity during the
last 1900 years and showed how, de-
spite the predictions made by pessi-
mists, we are nearing "the beautiful
Kingdom of God" of which the Savior
spoke at the birth of Christianity.
The problem of Americanization was
set forth to the entire school by Miss
Esther Everett Lape, director of the
Institute in Americanization, for the
training of teachers held last fall, and
for years a worker among immigrants.
Her lectures on Tuesday and Wednes-
day morning were supplemented by
two lectures on the same subject, but
on distinct phases of the problem, by
Prof William G. Smith, Superintendent
of Immigrant Education of New York,
and Prof. H. A. Miller of Oberlin Col
lege. Prof. Smith outlined the history
of American immigration, necessary
to a proper understanding of the i'm
problem. Prof Miller's sub
ject dealt with the Racial and National
of immigration.