Newark post., 1921-09-28
ADDRESS OF
DR.. HULLlHEN
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changing the name of the whole to
the University of Delaware.
"What did that change mean? How
are we different from what we were
before?
"To outward appearances there has
been little or no change. A group of
schools or colleges, more or less in
dependent in organization and
lcourses, have been united under a
more appropriate name the rela-
(tionship of each to each, and to the
iwhole, has been made more clear
Iproblems of administration have been
Somewhat simplified otherwise
things seem to be much as they were
before.
'If, however, we look a little
Aeeper we shall find, / think that the
Intangible, and less obvious, change
has been and will be profuond one.
estate ownership and state re-
8ponsibility are more clearly indicated
hnd felt throughout the state than
MOULD be possible under any other
hame-state pride has been stirred
hnd will prove an increasing source
bf strength as the years go blythe
prestige of our degree has been en-
hanced as it could not have been by
!, Any other single enactment. But it is
within the institution itself that the
host important change should be
wrought. We have attained our ma
ority-we have passed from child
hood to manhood-and with st. Paul
We should say and when l became a
han laid aside childish things AS
Btudents of university we must
! Realize that we are men and women
We must conduct ourselves as men
nd women-not as prep. school chill
ren-we must lay aside the methods
nd ideas of the prep. school and
! ubstitute for them the methods and
he ideas-the restraint and sense OF
ignity-of grown men and women.
"Strange how long the prep. school
Tradition of the relationship between
he lower classes in Delaware College
ersisted. Greatly modified in recent
ears by the good sense and insistence
the student body until last session
Z hw the prep. element almost elimi-
hted-one wonders how it persisted
long as it did!
"To us as students and as faculty
, embers the change to university
y eans that we must lay aside fol
yer the right to- excuse our short
bmings-if we have ever done so
pon the small college plea.
! "We have entered companionshiI
here we can measure ourselves ant
4 br attainments only by the highes
~ kisting standards--in which we ma!
satisfied only when our results
proportion to our size-equal thos'
bel any American college or universit!
u rin which we must realize an obliga
pm not merely to impart informa
bn, as instructors, and receive it, a
III udents, but ourselves to strive t.
ktend the bounds of knowledge
Having become the state univer
ty, the head of the states system o
hblic education, our field of worl
hd our educational interests ar
featly broadened. We can no longe
ink of our college work as some
ling separate and detached and in
kpendent of outside relationships
he whole question of public educa
bn in Delaware becomes our prob
m and our responsibility. Our out
ok must shift from the self-centere
kint of view, so characteristic Of tn
nall college, to one which embrace
of the varied interests of the Stat
hich depend upon education or ca
related to or bettered by it.
"And at this point it will not /
Inappropriate to mention with col
tatulations the record of our mil
lry unit at Plattsburg this summe
ar hich reflected high credit upon tt
- University and gave evidence thu
e klr students carry the 'Delawal
=, pirit' with them wherever they go.
e "The outstanding facts were thes'
~ "There were 38 universities ar
blleges represented at the Plattsbul
Imp. They were divided into eleve
|mpanies.
delaware won the intercollegla
championship in field and track co
full sts-stood second-only fe
bints below the first company in e
eiency and general rating-and Sc
nd in the baseball contests and
bmpany rifle shooting. ALI in all
bitter record than any other collel