Milford chronicle., 1931-08-28
BUILDINGS AT THE
UNIVERSITY COST
ABOUT S2,OOO,OOO
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been a corresponding increase in
the income secured by the board
during the same decade. The in
crease in income has been used to
improve the Institutional efficiency
of the university and for the upkeep
and maintenance of the university
plant. Not only have salaries been
increased where it was necessary
but the instructional staff has also
been enlarged with the increased
income to meet the growing needs
of the university.
In concluding his report Dr. HUI
linen explains what the future
needs of the university as to the
building program and institutional
staff will be during the next few
years.
In his report DR.. Hullihen lists
the buildings already erected and
those for which he feels real need
exists.
when we check through this list,
which includes all the buildings
needed to give us an institution
thoroughly well equipped to give
collegiate instruction." he contin-
ues, 1--WE find that they total in esti-
mated cost about $3,000,000 and that
those already secured Library,
heating plant, engineering build
ing, New Castle dormitory, Kent
Hall commons, Delaware College
swimming pool, auditorium, and
Women's College gymnasium, with
equipment and endOwments, have
cost about $1,S5O,OOO, or something
like two-thirds of the whole, and
that all of this, as well as many
other very valuable additions that
amount to a considerable sum in the
aggregate, have come to the univer-
sity in the last eight years.
"As noted above the buildings in
the list not yet secured are: Glass
room and office building, WOmen's
College campus; chemistry building,
Delaware College campus; dormi-
tory, Delaware College campus;
physics and biology building, Della
ware College campus; music and so
cial activities building, WOmen's
College campus; museum, Delaware
College campus; class room and Of
flee building, Delaware College cam
pus.
COR these the ones most needed
at present are the class room and
office building, Women's College
campus; the chemistry building,
Delaware College campus; and the
dormitory, Delaware College cam
pus.
"The need of the class room and
office building at the WOmen's Col
lege has been set forth at length to
the board and by it to the Legisla-
ture which at its last session voted,
almost unanimously, an appropria-
ton of $21 900 for this purpose. The
bill making this appropriation, how
ever, was not signed by the Cover
nor because of his feeling that the
amounts appropriated by the Gen
eral Assembly exceeded the amount
that could safely be withdrawn from
the public treasury. The Governor
fully approved of the purpose for
which the appropriation was made
and there seems little doubt that
the appropriation will be made avail
able at the next session of the Legis-
lature, and the purposes for which
it is needed need not be repeated
here.
apart from the above building
our outstanding need is chemistry
building.
"Wolf Hall, in which present work
in chemistry is housed, is badly |
over-crowded; there has been no |
space for any expansion work in |
chemistry for some years past; pro-
gress practically halted by this con-
dition.
Expansion in research and ex-
tension work in agriculture, through |
recent Federal subsidies amounting |
to $4,000 a year, has called for
more space than is available in Wolf |
Hall (Which was originally built in
the main as the agricultural build
ing) and the dean and director of
research and expansion insists that
this work is being badly hampered
at present and that no provision
can be made for satisfactory devel-
opment of it unless he can have
more space.
There are twice as many regis
trations in the courses in chemis-
try as in all the other natural
sciences combined" he reports.