Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1923-12-08
AN OLD COLLEGE
FOR A new DAY

"I'll fares the land, to fastening ills
prey,
Where wealth accumulates and men
decay"
Some of the readers of this article
may have asked themselves the ques-
ton, Why is Washington College?
And others, What is it? And still
others, What does it do? or What
does it propose to do?
Don't read the following para
graphs, unless you believe that the
kind of country we have depends
upon the kind of folk we have.
Washington College-with every 9TH
err college-rests Gibralter-like, on a
belief in and a hope for better folk.
An Eastern Shore institution, loved
and largely patronized by the folk
east of the Chesapeake, and founded
only twelve years after Goldsmith
wrote the lines heading this article, it
was, is, and evermore must be estab-
lished for securing better folk. Every
dollar the State has put into Wash
ngton College represents an invest
nent in Citizenship Insurance.
Agencies, companies, associations,
committees, societies there are to
promote better highways, bricks, au-
tomobiles, soils and pigs. Colleges
exist to promote better folk. Some
colleges aim to make farmers, engi-
neers, doctors, lawyers, druggists;
the colleges of ''liberal arts"-like
Washington-live to make first of all
better citizens-better neighbors, men
and women with ideas and ideals.
builders and stand-byes in the COM
munity. You know and appreciate
such men and Women. They are the
folk you can tie to.
I have ued the term "citizenship in
surance" advisedly in speaking of in
vestments in colleges. It isn't enough
that man knows how merely to
make his pile and support his family,
Cor he may still be fool, a crouch, a
trickster, a libertine, or devil. 1t
IS just as true now as it was in Ito,
when Goldsmith wrote the words used
;or text, that wealth may accumu-
late but men decay. Washington
College existes, not only to stop the
process of spiritual death and decay,
but to make live men and women
better folk.
Go up and down>the Eastern Shore
:ross the Bay and enter the city of
Baltimore, go into the villages and
towns of Maryland; indeed, journey
aorth, south east, west, you will fine
the Washington product-men ano
women of observation-disclosures, law
,,ers, judges, bankers, farmers
school teachers, business men, home
makers, preachers-doing their share
ysst more than their share, of the
York of the world. By it's fruits, you
shall know the college
In addition to these children Of thu
old college, should be mentioned as
assets of Washington it's long ane
proud history-it was founded II
l882,-its connection with the illus
trious Father of our Country, the
goodwill of Maryland and particu
.arly of the Eastern Shore, a grow
ing and enthusiastic student body, &
good, though small, faculty, six gooe
buildings and beautiful campus Of
about sixteen acres. William Smith
Hall and gymnasium take thei1
place among the best small-college
buildings in the country.
The story of Washington for the
last few years with their increasing
State support has been one of the
modest but steady growth in numbers
and in college standards. The enroll
ment today represents of course ev.
cry country in the State and sever
states in the Union the heaviest ex-
tra-M Maryland registration coming
from Connecticut. Also in these lat
ter years there has been notable ad-
vance in the size and quality of the
faculty. The teaching staff of the
college is now composed of men rep.
resenting Harvard, Yale, Columbia
Johns Hopkins, University of Mich
gan, University of Wisconsin, Univer-
ity of Marburg Germany and Mad
rid (Spain). In other words, the stu
dents Of Washington get focused
upon their thinking and living the
personalities of men and women who
have drawn their ideals and theil
knowledge from wide and deer
study at several of the most famous
educational shrines of America ane
Europe.
Washington next year will take al
advanced position in the college worlo
because, beginning with September
1904 +bo ;pc+;+,,+;on will limit itca11