Evening journal., 1920-02-03
DELAWAREBEGINS
ON Second Term
Rush Work on Temporary
Engineering Buildings,
Gifts of P. S. dupont
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
TO MEET SATURDAY
specIaI 10 The EyenIng Journal.

Special to The Evening Journal.
NEWARK. Feb 3-Delaware Colleg
enters upon the second term this weel
with every member OF the faculty Il
place and with the largest body o
students ever assembled on the cam
pus The total enrolment the pres
ent year Is l3t Of whom 302 are mer
and 1873 women. Taking into accoun
The Summer and Winter schools IN,
number OF students that the Colleg,
touched the present college year stand.
as follows: Delaware Coll &c, BOP
Women's College, 1873; Summer Schoo
for 1912 2ii; Winter Agricultural
School. 1922; grand total, 79s.
When the war broke. construction
was naturally dropped. Happily today
The sound Of the hammer Is again
heard on the campus. Three temporary
engineering buildings are rising on the
green south OF Hartcr Hall. Perma-
ncnt equipment Of values win be
placed in these buildings. Much Of the
new machinery for the teaching OF
electrical and mechanical engineering
has already arrived and merely awaits
installation This needed addition 10 the
facilities for teaching engineering was
made possible by a generous gift Of
about $4,000 by Pierre s. dupont As
there are no students enroicd in en-
cheering the present session, IL was
impossible 20 accommodate them in Ne
chanical Hail. Hence these three tom-
pOrary structures for engineering The
following students are helping 10 erect
these three buildings H. +. thinner
man. o. w. Gofilgen. z. A. Copltts, c.
A. Nulter, Z. A. Hoey, r. r. Price
The calalog for the present session
has lust gone 60 press. 10 has been
edited by Or. w: o. Sypherd As the
College turns the nftleth mile post since
its reopening after the Civil War, this
caialog will have historical significance
of great value 10 Is expected that II
viii include a diagram OF The develop
ment Of the college. setting forth The lo-I
cation Of the recent buildings arrange
ment Of trees, and the prop0s d sites
Of new buildings. The area OF the cam
Dls and Experiment Farm now embrace
about three hundred acres, stretching
sorfhward along the Station Road from
ihe Baltimore and Ohio Railway.
Tho trustees OF Delaware nave pre-
scented copies OF the annual, called the
"Blue Hen" to the four year high
schools Of the State. Professor Ber-
lin OF the Wilmington High School. as
well as many other principals. have
written in a gratifying way Of the eX-
cellence Of this publication. The editor
ln-chief was F. Bayard Carter, who has
received the appointment OF the Rhodes
Scholarship to oxford University. Eng
land allowing him $500 a year for
three years. Mr.. Carter was ably as
sisted by strong stan OF editors The
art work on the "Blue Hen" was done
by Alexander Blair aud has won COM
mendatlon by reason OF us variety,
engrestiveness, taste and tlmeliness. I
Nir Blair is a senior and Is the chair
man Of the student committee on pub /
licity.
The wireless OUTFIT which the dupont
Company have presented 10 the College
VIII be Installed on Harier Hall and
the new engineering buildings. This
wireless outft Is a great addition 10 (
the teachlng facilities OF the College In
electrical engineering. II was formerly
on top OF the dupont Hotel and sent
messages as far as Chicago and caught
messages from as distant point as
Panama.
The Executive Committee OF Delaware
College will hold meeting at the Ho- E
fel dupont next Saturday morning Ihcf
Henbers OF the Executive Commtteef
are Henry B. Thompson, president OIL
the board chairman; Charles NJ. Cur
lis. chairman OF the Committee on the /
Women's College; 5. II. Derby, OF Wood /
side. chairman Of the Committee on Ag-
riculture; Henry Ridgcfy, OF Dover /