University of Delaware - Blue Hen Yearbook (Newark, DE)

Text from Pages 1 - 170 of the 1898 volume:

:a. -:'-:' L 7 D e L ML, F 3 jl'h ,E'a;;-.: I:fu'. g e el ekt v g S ey a3 Yo o T 1l i . T J hadda y w- Tk 7 T w d L . . . - 4 i a d -. il X a . -- i iy A L e e Ll il i ol sh LY e s il L S AT T T WIEW OF CAMFPLIS. . FROMT FHILOL LOGIGA RHETOR MATHEM ETHICA PHYSICA Ghe Htll Ol a BE s BN x o e $w$im$ a g o R AT 3 9 a 2 2 AR s mf.cwmw E 8 z i S i3l 12888 gh f +-.DEDICATION:-.. To the memory of those valiant heroes, whose lives were lost in the disaster of the good Battleship Maine, to the grieved fathers and mothers, to the sad and bereaved widows, to the loving sons and daughters, this book is solemnly dedicated. J While others are erecting monuments to their honor, this oblation with like emotions is contributed by The Board to the same sacred shrine. bn im LSRR A7 g our mcst gentle ond foithful eeaders, 1o these whe haee watehed cue eourse through ollege with lowing anxiety, te these dear girls at home, and fo our many patrons, the Elass of Plinety Pline presents this Burora. e have endeavored 1o make this publization a true morn- ing light, shcwing the happy side of our f?clicgc life, and we trust cur efforts may be of some interest 1o you, P ur most sineere thanks are extended fo those who haee s0 kindly assisted us in this cur first publie literary undertaking. orbiuug yours, TFhe GEditers. Evererr C. Jouwson, Edifor-in-Chicy. Hsasistant Editors. GED, VICKEERS, HaroLD GREEN. Josern W, Brows, GED, L. MEDILL,. H. K. McCany, f2e Afuwmenis. 5. H. BAVNARD, JR., Foer, A. D. MARSHALL, Ariisf, JBusiness Managers, E. 0. MACSORLEY. Rocer O, Masow. Evwarp H. McCang, Jr, Bright Anrora's rosy fingers Backward pushed the gates of night: And the gun in all its splendor Flooded half the world with light. URORA, the golden hour, the dawn-was deified by the ancients, Q who pictured it as a goddess. She was arrayed in saffron-colored robes, with a star on her forehead and a zone of light around her waist. She was represented as breaking the bars of night and scattering brightness in her pathway. May it be the mission of Delaware College, now in its dawning, to diffuse intellectual and moral light, and scatter health and gladness far and wide. Soon may she reach a high and glorious noon and long remain at the zenith of influence and blessing. Let her loyal and faithful sons make our name a true prophecy of abiding good. You cannot shut the windows of the sky Through which Anrora shows her brightening face. 18 ! A GOLD AND BLUE. Q,euege ell... D-E-I-A-WARE SIS, BOOM, TIGER, RAH, e RAH, RAH. E',.,.'h ; ' Offieers of Delaware Qollege. The Board of Trustecs. His Excellency, GOV. EBE W. TUNNELL, ex-afficio. The President of the College, ex-afficio. The Trustecs Wepresenting the Priginal Board. 5. M. Cortris, Esg., i . Newark, Del, H. G. M. EoLLock, M. D., Grorcr G. Evans, Esg., , . Newark, Del. Joux C. Hiceins, Eso., WirnLiam H, Purnenn, LL. D. . New Windsor, Md. Grorce W. MarsmaLL, M. D., Mawvtove Haves, Esg., : - Dover, Del. Tur How. J. HarveEy WHITEMAN, James Hossiworr, Eso., . 7 Wewark, Del. CHAnLEs B, Evang, Eso., Trustees on Bebalf of the State of Delaware. t NHEW CASTLE COUNTY. KENT COUNTY. WinLiam J. Ferris, Esg., : New Castle, Del. Tue Hox, JoHN B. PENNINGTON, I-' Tae Hox. CHARLES B, Lorg, . Wilmington, Del. Joux C. STockLy, Esg., LEpwarn Revyonns, Esg., 5 Middletown, Del. Tug Hox. Joux F, SAULSBURY, Liws C. VANDEGRIFT, Eso., . Wilmington, Del, Naruanw PraTr, M. D, H. A. NowLAND, Eso., ; Middletown, Del, Jaues PennEwiLL, Eso., BUSSEX COUNTY. Tre Hox. WIiLLIAM F. CAUSEY, . Milford, Del. Tue Hox. Cuartes C. Srockiey, Georgetown, Del. jl Davip L. Mustrarn, M. D., . Lewes, Del. y Epwin R, PavyNTer, Esg., ; Georgetown, Del. ' CoL. Wu. H. STEVENS, : 3 Seaford, Del. 14 Pt MNewark, Del. Delaware City, Del. Milford, Del. Wilmington, Del. Newark, Del. Dover, Del. Smyrna, Del. Daover, Del. . Milford, Del. Dover, Del. Officers of the Board. Tue Hon. Coarnes B. Lorg, President Marrove Haves, Esg., Fice-President, Cuarves B. BEvans, Esq., Secefary and Treasurer, S. M. Curris, Eso. Tae Howx. J. Harvey WHITEMAN. Dr. D. L. MUSTARD. Jonx C. Hiccins, Esq. Epwin R. PaveTER, HEsq. TaE Hon. CHARLES C. STOCKLEY. THE Hox. WiLLiAM F. CAUSEY, Jorx C. Hiceins, Esg. H. A. NowrLAaxD, Esg. Georce G. Evans, Eso. De. GEORGE W. MARSHALL. Prudential Commitiee. GrorcE A, Harrer, PH. D., Chairman., Committee on Examinations. Joux C. Stockry, Esg., Chairman. Committee on Bgriculture, James Hossinger, Eso., Chairman. gommittee on Wnstruction and Disipline. Mawtove Haves, Hso., Chairman. 15 z. H. G. M. KOLLOCK. Grorce G, Evans, Esg. Dr. H. G. M. KoLLOCK. Tur How. Joun B. PENNINGTON. THe How. J. HarvEy WHITEMAN, Cor. W. H. STEVENS, Maxrove Haves, Eso. Dr. NATHAN PRATT. EnpwArRD REVNOLDS, Eso. 5. M. CurTis, Esq. James HossIiNGER, Hso. Ofticers of the Melaware College Floricultural Erperiment Seation. o Xoard of Control. THE TRUSTEES OF DELAWARE COLLEGE, Supervisory dommittee. James Hossinger, Esq., Chafrman. Tae Hox. Cras. C. SToOCKELEY. THE HoN. WM. F. CAusEy. Con,. W. H. STEVENS. Mawtove Havs, Eso, Jouw C. Hiccins, FEso. H. A. NowLawp, Esg, Dr. Naruanw Prate. Epwarp ReEvnoLps, Eso. Station Staff. ArTHUR T. NEALE, Pr. D., Director of Station. Freperick D, CHESTER, M. S., Botanist, CHARLES L. PErxy, M. A., Chemist. WiLLiam H. Bisnor, B. 5., Agriculturist and Meteorologist. H. P. Evrs, D. V. M., Veterinarian. G. Harorp PoweLL, M. 5., Horticulturist and Entomologist. The Faculty. GEORGE A. HARTER, M. A., Pr. D. President and Professor of Mathemalics and Physics., THEODORE R. WOLF, M. A., Pu. D., HEIDELBERG, Professor of Chemistry, Mineralogy, Geology and Sanitary Science, ' FREDERIC H. ROBINSON, C. E., Frofessor of Civil Engineering, WILLIAM H. BISHOP, B. 5., Frofessor of Agricullure and Biology. H. B. EVES, D. V. M, Professor of Veterinary Scicnce, WILLIAM A, PRATT, C. E., Elec. Eng., Drex. Ins., Professor of Mechanical and Electrical Lngincering, EDWARD N. VALLANDIGHAM, Pu. B., Professor of the English Language and Literature, and FPolitical Seience. 17 EUGENE W. MANNING, M. A., Pu Professor of Modern Languages. ELISHA CONOVER, M. A., Professor of Latin and Greek, Pl LIEOT. WALTER H. GORDON, 18th U. 8. Infantry, Lrofessor of Military Seience and Tactics, Commandant of Cadefs, and fnstructor in Malhematics and Engincering ., WM. H. FURNELL, A. M., LL. D Instruclor in Flocution and Oratory. CARL HARRINGTON, B. E. E., Fustractor in Mechanical and Flectrical Engineering, CHARLES J. HIBBERD, fustruclor in shopwerk, FREDERIC H. ROBINSON, C. E., Secretary of the Faculty. WILLIAM H. BISHOP, B. 5., Librarian, Calendar, 1897. June 7-14Annual Examinations, June 13Bacealaureate Serman. June 14Declamation Contest. June 15Annual Meeting of Board of Trustees. Anniversary of the Athenman Literary Sociely. June 16-Commencement Exercises, 10.30 A. M. Meeting of Alumni. Exhibition Drill. Anniversary of Delta Phi Literary Society. SUMMER VACATION. Fall Term. September 13Monday, 10 a. M., Entrance Examina- tions begin, September 14Tuesday, First Term begins. December 20-24First Term Examinations, December 24Friday, First Term ends, WINTER VACATION, I18g8. Wlinter Term. January 4Tuesday, 8.50 A. M., Second Term begins. 18 March z85Monday, Spring Meeting of the Board of Trustees, March 28-31Second Term Examinations. March 31Thursday, Second Term ends. SPRING RECESS, Spring Term, April sTuesday, 8.50 A. M., Third Term begins. June 6-1o0Annual Examinations. June 12Sunday, Address before Y. M. C. A,, Bacea- laureate Sermon. June 13Monday, Class Day. Declamation Contest, June 14Tuesday, Annual Meeting of the Board of Trustees. Anniversary of the Athenzean Literary Society. June 15Wednesday, Commencement Lxercises, 10.30 A M. Meeting of the Alumni. Exhibition Drill, Anniversary of the Delta Phi Literary Society. FECITATION HALL. history of Delaware College. HE statesmen of Delaware, during the early part of this century, were usually men of scholarly instinets. Many of them were graduates of Yale, Princeton, and other leading colleges and uni- versities. These men at the head of a state which had been the first to adopt the Constitution and among the first to learn the art of self-government, were not con- tented that their state should lack those educational facilities which, as they knew, are the chief ornaments of safeguard of a nation. Many families whose financial re- sources permitted them, engaged tutors, whose education had been secured at the best colleges in the country, to prepare their boys for Northern colleges. This contrib- uted somewhat in bringing before the public the necessity of having a college within their own state. Numerous appeals were made to the General Assembly from time to time to establish a college, but nothing definite was done until January 15, 1818, when an act was passed to enable the Trustees of Newark Academy to raise $50,000 by a lottery for the purpose of erecting and establishing a col- lege in Newark. This effort was supplemented from time to time by acts of the General Assembly. Finally, Newark College was established under a charter granted February 5, 1833, and buildings were at once erected. The members of the Board of Trustees were named in the charter, and the Board, at its first meeting, April 1, 1833, elected E, W. Gilbert as president. Before the end of this year, the main portion of the structure of what is now the dormitory was completed, and arrangements were made for the reception of students. On December 23, 1833, the trustees elected Albert Smith and Nathan Monroe to professorships in the new institution. Upon the refusal of Albert Smith to accept the professorship, John Holmes Agnew, a relative of D. Hayes Agnew, the famous surgeon, was elected to fill the vacancy. By the influence of Andrew Gray a third profeszor was appointed, N. Z. Graves. Two courses of instruction were offered: the Aca- demic Course and the Collegiate Course. The Academic Course was equivalent to the courses offered by Newark Academy, which institution was absorbed by the college the following year. The doors of the college were thrown open to stu- dents May 8, 1834, and during the first term 64 students were enrolled, 42 of whom boarded in the college. During the first term the relation of the Faculty and Board of Trustees seems not to have been clearly compre- hended by either party and from the fact that almost every page of the minutes of the Faculty records shows a law broken and that seven students were suspended dur- ing the first term, it appears that the students did not understand their relation to the Faculty. At the beginning of the next term, the Board elected E. W. Gilbert. I.ID., as president of the coilege. Before accepting the office, he addressed a letter to the Board of Trustees, outlining the policy which he thought should direct and govern the relation of the Trustees to the Faculty, and he said that be would accept the office if this policy was adopted. The Board adopted this policy and Dr. Gilbert asumed the duties of President. The method of discipline adopted by the new presi- dent was a decided improvement over that which had been exercised during the previons term. Good order and studiousness were maintained. Dir. Gilbert held conscientious scruples against rais- ing the principal fund of the college from a lottery. Thinking the college rested on an immoral basis and not having an elastic conscience, he therefore resigned his office as President, August 11, 1835. Dr. Gilbert was followed by R. S. Mason, D.ID., who served a term of five years, On his resignation, in 1840, Dir. Gilbert was recalled, but he would not accept unless the board would refuse to receive aid for the college from the lottery. The trustees, after some discussion, decided that they would not accept the money directly from the lottery managers, but would tum the mouey over to the state treasury amd have it appropriated by the legislature to Newark College. Dr. Gilbert reassumed the duties of president of the college. He was supported by a very able faculty, and important improvements were made in the curriculum. He held his office until 1847, when he resigned. Dr. Gilbert was succeeded by Jas. P. Wilson. For some years there was no marked change in the running of the college. The Presidents during this time were William Augustus Norton, the Hew. Matthew Meigs, the Rev. Walter S. F. Graham, Daniel Kirkweood, LL.D., afte:- wards widely known as an able astronomer. It was under Dr. Kirkwood s administration that the college had enrolled the highest number of students in its history. Two hundred and nine students were enrolled at one time, The saddest event in the annals of the college ac- cared during Rev. E. J. Newlin's administration, the homocide of John Edward Roach. Roach had been chosen to deliver an oration at the Annual Exhibition of the Junior and Sophomore classes, which was to be given that evening in the College Cratory. The members of thie other classes, according to custom, had prepared sham programmes, tidiculing the exercises. Roach and his friends, on learning of the sham programmes and their virulent character, perhaps exaggerated, determined to destroy them. At noon, previous to the evening of the exercises, while the students whe boarded with different familiez of the town were at dinner, a committee organ- ized to destroy the programmes broke into a room and found them in a trunk. Cathering them up, they took them into another room, where they proceeded to put them into the stove. While in this act the other students rushed in and a very lively scrimmage ensued. Roach had seized the hands of one of the students to prevent him from gathering up the seattered programimes. At this moment Isaac H. Weaver was seen through the smoke advancing toward the two, and Roach received a stab in the neck. Immediately Weaver rushed from the room. Roach, bleeding profusely, came out after him, Hestag- gered to the door opening on the porch and sat down on the step, but he soon grew weaker and weaker and sank back, his body inside and his limbs upon the porch. Dr, Couper, who had been in a meeting of the Board in the building, immediately came to his side, but he could do nothing for him, and in a few minutes Roach expired without regaining sufficient consciousness to make his last words trustworthy testimony at the trial. Weaver and one or two other students were arrested, but all were acquitted. A few weeks after the trial Weaver was mortally wounded by an explosion near Baltimore, and like Roach died from the severing of the carotid artery. It was the popular opinion that the death of Roach cansed the closing of the college, but this was not the case. 'The college was already on the brink of ruin a consequence of lack of funds, which condition had ham- pered the institution throughout its whole history. The college was suspended for a period of about 11 vears, during which time the trustees held several meet- 25 ings to discuss plans for re-organizing the institution, but nothing was done until February 1y, 1867, when the board sent a petition to the Legislature to re-organize the college with an Agricultural Department in order that the state might make use of the benefits of the Land Grant of Con- gress of 1862, The Legislature finally passed an act in compliance with this petition. The trustees now saw that the college would be on a sound basis if it could be made a State College. The board therefore proposed to convey to the state a joint and equal interest in the grounds, building, libraries, apparatus and invested funds on condition that the state should vest that income to be derived from the sale of land in a Board of Trustees, not more than half of whom should be representatives of the state to be appointed by the Ciovernor, and the other half to be representatives of the original corporation. The Legislature accepted the proposition of the trustees and the college was re-incor- porated by the Legislature in 1869 under a new chatter, Acts from time to time since then have been passed in favor of the college. The college opened in 1370 with William H. Parnell as president. Under his administration the college pros- pered. It was during his term as president and mainly through his influence that the admission of women to the college was provided for. In June, 1885, after a period of fifteen years of succesful administration, Dr. Purnell resigned as president of the College. Dr. Purnell was succeeded by John H. Caldwell, D, D., a member of the Wilmington Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Dr. Caldwell was a man of unguestioned ability, but the successfulness of his administration was hampered on account of antagonism between the president and certain members of the faculty, He resigned his office March 27, 1888, Albert N. Raub, A. M., Pu. D., was elected as Dr. Caldwell's successor. The number of students enrolled at the time of his election was 16. During his term the number reached 7. During his administration many important improve- ments were effected to the college. An Agricultural Experiment Station, a Gymmnasinm, a Wood Working Shop, a Greenhouse and a new Recitation Hall were erected. Girounds for athletics and for horticultaral experiments were purchased, Departments in Agricult- ural, Electrical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering were established., Instruction in military tactics was obtained by the appointment of an officer of the 1. S. Army to a position in the faculty. Thege improvements were the result of the increased fund which came from the Hateh Bill of March, 1887, and Morril Bill of 18go. Dr. Raub resigned the presidency 1896, and George A. Harter, A. M., Ph, D., Professor of Mathematics and Physics in the college, was chosen as his successor. Dir. Harter has had a successful adminis- tration and the inslitution is steadily improving under the prudent and ahle faculty. 26 CORMER OF BIOLOGICAL LABSRATORY END OF MACHINE JHOP. g -.r The First Prevident Elipbalet Wibceler Gilbert, D. D. LIPHALET WHEELER GILBERT was born De- cember 19, 1793, at Lebanon, N. Y. He was graduated from Union College in 1813, and the next year entered Princeton Theo- logical Seminary. He was licensed to preach in 1817, and served on a mission of six months to the West. The following year he was called to the pastorate of the Second Presbyterian Church of Wilming- ton, Del. In 1829 the building of the Hanover Street Church caused a division in the congregation, A large majority how- ever followea their pastor to the new edi- fice. He was appointed agent of the American Education Society in May, 1834, and on October 2gth of the same year was chosen president of Delaware College, He resigned the presidency on June 8, 1833, and for the next five years officiated once more at the Hanover Street Church. In May, 1841, he was recalled to the presidency of Delaware College, which position he held for six vears, antil April, 1847. He then accepted a call from the West- ern Presbyterian Chureh in Philadelphia, and remained there until his death, July 31, 1853. The University of Vermont conferred upon him the degree of D, D, in 1841, Dr. Gilbert published a volume called The Letiers 31 Lives of JFormer Presidents. B of Paul and Amicus, a theological disputation with the Hicksite Quakers, which first appeared in current period- icals; two tractsone on Regeneration ' and one on Perseverance ; ' and articles in the Presbplerian Review on Geology, ' The Apocalypse and Millenarian- ism. All these productions indicate great talent. He possessed not only the instincts but also the methods and industry of the scholar. The light from his study window alwavs greeted the belated stundent., Fven in scanning the newspaper his atlas lay open before him. Although of slight form and delicate constitution he had great dignity of presence, and no one dared take any liberties with him, remarks Dr. Purnell. ' Dr. Gilbert is aff frad, said a woman who knew him well, Short of stature and slender, with a finely shaped head, a clear hazel eye, '' a womanlike nose, a prominent chin and a squeaky voice, which once heard was never forgotten, says Dr. Caleb P. Johnson, and the picture of bis per- sonal appearance is complete. Dr. Gilbert was a man of clear mind and decided views: skilled as a controversialist, yet with such cour- tesy to his opponents that when the joust was over they were among the first to sit down in his tent. He was mighty in the Seriptures, and studied them with constant care. His effort as a preacher was to set forth the truth in strong, sharp outlines, yvet these outlines were often illuminated and tinted by vivid lights and touches. He was an ommnivorous reader, and drew knowledge and illustration from every available source. In the discus- sion of theological questions he charmed his hearers by crystalline statements, acate distinctions and the playfual radiance which he threw over all. His life ran into that of the chur:h at large like a clear, bright stream, whose qualities were only diffused, not lost, after the stream had ceased to flow.' Dr. E. W. Gilbert was chosen to be president a sec- ond time, October 12, 1840. He agreed to accept the honor on condition that the board of trustees of the college should abolish the lottery system of support of the college. The gambling system was abolished, and Dr. Gilbert again became president of Delaware College. Dr, Gilbert's second term may truly be called the golden age in the history of Delaware College because of the high character of the work done, the high tone of the students, the cosmopolitanism of the college, and the presence within its walls of such professors as Gilbert, Allen, Norton and Horsford. The Sccond Prosident Ricbard Sbarp Mason, . D, Richard Sharp Mason was born December 2g, 1795, on Barbadoes, one of the West India Islands. He was ! Neving, Presbyterian Encyclopedia, Art, on Gilbert. The writer is indebted to ex-President Wm. H. Purnell and other students of Dr. Gilbert for many facts concerning the first president, 32 graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, and, in t817, was made a deacon in the Protestant Episcopal Church. Three years later he was received into the order of priests, and from about 1818 to 1829 acted as rector of Christ Church at New Berne, N. C. He was president of Geneva now Hobart College from 1829 until he was called to the presidency of Newark College in 1835. He returned to North Carolina in 1840 and served as rector of Christ Church, Raleigh, until his death in 1875. He was made a D. I. by the University of Pennsylvania in 182g. He published 'A Letter to the Bishop of North Carolina on the Subject of His Late Pastorate'' New York, 1850, and ' The Baptism of Infants Defended from the Objections of Antipaedo Baptists,'' edited by his son 1874. All who knew Dr. Mason can testify to the purity of his life and the sincerity of his charac- ter. ! Dr. Mason's scholarship and his force as a metaphy- sician were universally acknowledged, but he seemed to lack administrative ability, tact and knowledge of boys. t He knew no more about a boy than about a kangaroo, ' said a gentleman who knew him well, Consequently he did not succeed either in managing the students or in winning from the trustees confidence in his ability to do so. U Appleton's Cyclopmedia ; article on Mazon, Wheeler's Remi- niscences of North Carolina, 445. The Thire President Fames Patriot Wiilson. James P. Wilson was elected president of Delaware College in 1847, immediately after the acceptance of the resignation of his predecessor. He was the son of James Patriot Wilson, D. D., a prominent clergyman of the Presbyterian church, and the grandson of Rev. Matthew Wilson, I, D., of Lewes. He was president of Delaware College until January 24, 1850, when he resigned and accepted the presidency of Union Theological Seminary, New YVork. Later in life he was pastor of a Presbhyterian church at Newark, N. Ji where he died a few years ago. The new president had the admiration and confidence of all who knew him, but the usefulness of his administra- tion and the prosperity of the college were sadly hampered by an unfortunate wrangle in the faculty. Dr. Wilson became discouraged and resigned his office. The Fourth President William BRugustus WForton. William Augustus Norton 1810c-1883, the learned mathematician, succeeded President Wilson, but finding the executive duties uncongenial to his scholarly tastes, he resigned a few months later, on Aungust 19, 1850. A native of New Vork, he was graduated from the Ukited States Military Academy in 1831, He was assistant pro- fessor of natural and experimental philosophy in that institution for two years, and during that time, in 1832, served in the Black Hawk expedition. He resigned his commission in the army September 30, 1833; to accept the professorship of natural philosophy and astronomy in the University of the City of New Vork, which he held until he was called, in 1839, to a similar position in Newark College. TUpon retiring from the presidency in 1850 he was elected professor of natural philesophy and civil engineering in Brown University, and two years later accepted the chair of civil engineering in the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale, which he held until his death in 1883. The University of Vermont gave him the de- gree of A. M.in 1842. He made scientific researches into molecular physics, terrestrial magnetism and astronomical physics, and published his results in the American fowrnal of Seienee, or read them before the American Association for the Advancement of Science or the National Academy of Sciences. Of the latter he was elected a member in + 1873. He published 'An Elementary Treatise on As- tronomy ' New York, 1839 and '' First Book of Natural Philogophy and Astronomy ' 1858. Noah Porter said of him: Nortun was eminently a liberal student, and kept himself fully abreast of the speculations and science of the times. The Fifth Presivent Rev. Matthew Meigs. Rev. Matthew Meigs, principal of the academy, acted as president from Auvgust, 1850, to April, 1851. A reso- Jution to reorganize the college and its curriculum was adopted about this time by the legislature. A new charter was obtained on February 10, 1851, which reiterated the salient points in the charter of 1833, and provided, among other things, for a normal school connected with the college for the preparation of teachers. Upon graduates of this school was to be conferred the degree of Master of School-keeping. Italso provided for the imposition of a fine of ten dollars upon persons who knowingly sold in- toxicating liquors within two miles of Delaware College to students of the college. At the same session of the legislature the trustees were authorized to establish in connection with the college a 'scientific school' for such students as might not desire to pursue the regular college course. This was accordingly done during the next administration, and many availed themselves of its advantages, The Sirth Presivent WRev. Wialter 5. F. Grabam. Rev. Walter 5. F. Graham was elected to succeed President Meigs on April 7, 1851. A man of genial temper, attractive manners and abundant tact, he dis- charged the duties of his office with credit. His health, however, was infirm, and after a long and heroic struggle with disease he died in the early part of 1854. In order that the Annual's readers may know some- thing of Mr. Graham's energy and of his keen adminis- 4 trative powers, we will print the terms upon which he accepted the presidency. The following are the terms: 1. He was to conduct the college upon his own responsibility under the existing schedule, with the ad- dition of a scientific course, and was also to be principal of the academy. 2. He was to employ the faculty and to pay their salaries from his own resources. 3. The trustees were to place at his disposal the unlimited use of the college and academy buildings. 4. 'The balance after the payment of all expenses was to go to the president. ; 5. If the Rev, I. W. K. Handy did not accept the professorship of mathematics and the financial agency of the college, the president was to carry out alone, as far as possible, the scholarship plan. The Seventh Presibont Baniel Kickwood, LL. B, Dr. Daniel Kirkwood was elected to succeed Presi- dent Graham., He was even at that early period of his career an astronomer of wide reputation. The position soon became uncongenial to him becduse of his great modesty and retiring disposition, and, at his suggestion, in 1856, a committee was appointed to communicate with Rev. William Patton, D. D, and offer him the presidency. Dr. Patton, however, declined it. Soon afterwards Dr. Kirkwood accepted a call to the chair of astronomy and mathematics in Indiana University, and on October 16, 1856, he resigned the presidency of Delaware College. Daniel Kirkwood was born in Bradenbaugh, Md., September 27, 1814, He was educated in York County Academy, Pennsylvania, and subsequently devoted his life to educational pursnits. He become princi- pal of the Lancaster, Pa., High School in 1843, and of Pottsville Academy five years later. In 1851 he was made professor of mathematics in Delaware College, and in 1854 was elected president of that institution, retain- ing these offices until 1856, He was then called to the Indiana University, and ten vears later succeeded to a similar chair in Washington and Jefferson College, Penn- aylvania. In 1867 he was recalled to Indiana University, where he still remains. He received the degree of A, M, from Washington College, Pennsylvania, in 1850, and LL. I. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1852. Prof. Kirkwood is a member of various scientific societies, and in 1851 was chosen a member of the Ameri- can Philosophical Society. His many contributions to scientific literature have been publistred in the proceed- ings of societies of which he is a member, and in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society,' The American fowrnal of Svicnee, The Sidevial Messenger, and other journals. Among these have been ' Analogy between the periods of Rotation of the Primary Planets ' i 184g9; ' Theory of Jupiter's Influence in the Formation of Gaps in the Zone of Minor Planets' 1866;: and Physical Explanation of the Intervals in Saturn's Rings ' 1867. He has also published in book form Meteoric Astronomy ' Philadelphia, 1867; Comets and Meteors 1873; and '''The Asteroids or Minor Planets between Mars and Jupiter ' 1887. Under the administration of Dr. Kirkwood the college reached the highest point, as regards the number of students, in its history. During the scholastic year 1855- 56, 209 students were enrolled, of whom 87 were college and 122 academic students. The Eighth Presivent Rev. E. FJ. Rewlin, President Kirkwood was succeed by the Rev. E. J. Newlin, of Alexandria, Va. The choice appears in many respects to have heen an unfortunate one. Although the new president admirably represented on the platform the dignity of his position, he never succeeded either in winning the confidence of the students or in uniting the much-discouraged and inharmonious faculty, But to attribute to him the cause of the closure of the college would be a great injustice. His only relation thereto was of time. The institution would have closed inevitably under any administration whatever ; for the trustees were hecoming less willing to assume the responsibility of its continuation with no prospects of an endowment. The homicide of John Edward Roach, to which popular sentiment attributes the closure, had no further connection with it than did the presidency of Rev. E. J. Newlin. It iz even doubtful if the murder visibly hastened the closure. The popular mind committed the logical fallacy of false cause.'Fost hoe ergo propler hoc. The Rintk Presivent William . Purnell, LL. D, In May, 1870, William H. Purnell was chosen to preside over the new State college. The mantle fell upon shoulders eminently worthy to wear it. A graduvate of the college, he had closely identified himself with its interests early in his career, having served as trustee before its suspension. Although his first official duty as trustee was to bury his Alma Mater, no one was more active in her resur- rection. William H. Purnell was born in Worcester County, Md., and was graduated from Delaware College in 1846, in the palmy days of the Gilbert adminstration. In :848 he began the practice of law in Maryland, and in 1850, without his solicitation, was appointed prosecuting attorney of Worcester county. Three years later he become State's attorney. In 1855, he was elected comp- troller of the State treasury ; in 1857 he was re-elected, defeating Bradley T'. Johnson, the rival candidate. In 1859 he was nominated by acclamation and again elected to the same office. 36 In 1361 President Lincoln, by the advice of Governor Hicks, Montgomery Blair, Postmaster-General, and Henry Winter Davis, appointed him postmaster of Balti- more. A staunch Union man, he, after the first battle of Bull Run, raised a regiment of infantry, two companies of cavalry, afterwards increased to three, and two batteries of artillery. He took the field in person with the rank of colonel, but after six months service he returned to the post-office and there remained until August, 1866, He was appointed assessor of internal revenue in 1867 for the third district, Baltimore, He practiced law in Balti- more from 1868 to 1870, and then accepted the presidency of Delaware College. After his retirement in 1885 he took charge of a ladies' seminary at Fredericle, Md., where he still resides. In 1874 he received the degree of LL. D. from Indiana University. He brought to his new position a well stored and well-trained mind; a happy and peculiarly irresistible method of disciplining boys; a sympathy with the boy nature that enabled him to avoid many of the breakers upon which colleges have been wrecked ; a magnetism which inspired students to the best work ; and a clearness of thought and a readiness of speech that always made him master of the situation. In the words of a Newark divine, He is an all-round man. Such a man the new State institution badly needed. The college opened in 1870 with 22 students, which number was increased during the term to 29. The new president favored coeducation and was influential in securing, in 1872, the admission of women to the college, He rendered valuable services to the State by assisting in the creation of a public sentiment favorable to the public-school law of 1875, and by aiding the first superin- tendent of free schools, James H. Groves, to reduce to order the chaos which greeted the latter upon his acces- sion to office. He assisted also in the organization of teachers' institutes,'' and no figure more frequently adorned the rostrum or was greeted by the teachers with louder applause than that of the first president of Dela- ware college after its reorganization. The law of 1875 made him sx-officio president of the State Board of Education, in which capacity he exercised a great influence in shaping the public-school system. The whole number of students graduated under Dr. Purnell's administration 1870 to 1884 inclusive was too. Of these 25 were classical, 36 scientific, 33 literary, and 6 normal. No material change was made in the old curriculum, The agricultural course, which had formerly been a part of the scientific course, and the literary course, which was designed to meet the needs of coeducation, were organized. The abolition of coeducation followed close upon Dr. Parnell's resignation. In June, 1885, Dr. Purnell tendered his resignation as president of the college and John H. Caldwell, D. D., was elected to succeed him, Dr. Purnell was elected to fill the chair of elocution and public speaking in Delaware College in June, 18g7. A brief sketch of his life will be given in the biographical sketches of the faculty. 37 The Tenth President, Jobn B. Caldwell, . D, John H. Caldwell, Id. ., was elected president July 13, 1885, and in the following September assumed office. The new president was born at Spartanburg, 5. C., June 4, 1820, and when three years old removed into Georgia, where he was brought up. He was educated at the academy in Gainesville, Ga., which was at that time a branch of the University of Georgia. In 1841 he studied law, but abandoned it for the ministry in the Methodist Episcopal Church. From 1845 to 1853 he filled warious appointments in the Georgia conference, In 1854 he founded and established Andrew Female College, which is still a flourishing institution. From 1858 to 18565 he filled varions appointments in the Southern Methodist Episcopal Church. In 1867-68 he was a member of the constitutional convention which was provided for in the reconstruction acts adopted by Con- gress. In that convention he served as chairman of the committee on education and as a member of the com- mittee of eight appointed to revise and perfect the con- stitution. He was a member of the State legislature from 1868 to 1870, and was then appointed judge of the district court, which office he held untill 1872, Then he moved North and joined the Wilmington cooference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He was stationed at Still Pond, Md., for three years; at Dover for three years ; at 8t. Paul's Church, Wilmington, for three years; and at Dover for a second term of three years. In 1884 he was made presiding elder of Easton district, and in 1885 elected president pro fempore of the Wilmington con- ference. He was a member of the peneral conference in 1868 at Chicago, and again in 1884 at Philadelphia; in 1876 and in 1880 he was a reserved delegate. Emory College conferred upon him the degree of A. M. in 1854, and Dickinson College the degree of D. D. in 1878. After serving as president of Delaware College from September, 1885, to March, 1888, he resumed the ministerial work and was appointed to Frederica, Del, Dr. Caldwell, although a man of unchallenged ability, was well advanced in years when he assumed the presi- dency of the college. His position was rendered doubly trying by the fact that, as a prominent Methodist preacher he was expected to draw students from that sect, which had patronized the college but little. His earnest, conscientions exertions to fill the col- lege with students won the admiration of its friends, But is was apparent from the first that the trustees had erred in electing to the presidency of a state college a preacher and a man mnot then in the educational current. At the outset Dr. Caldwell failed to win certain members of the faculty to his methods. Consequently a long and bitter antagonism developed, which well-nigh overthrew discipline in the institution. Good govern- ment could scarcely be expected in a college whereto quote a student of that time'The president and faculty always pulled against each other. Dr. Caldwell is still living and resides at George- town, Del,, where he enjoys the pleasure of old age and has the confidence, good will, and the highest esteem of all who come in contact with him, The Eleventh Presivent Albert M. Raub, Pbh. . Albert N. Raub, Ph. D., was elected president of Delaware College, June 19, 1888, He was a man of good administrative ability, tact, long experience in educa- tional work, and unlimited capacity for hard work. Dur- ing his administration important additions were made to the college. An agricultural experiment station, a gym- nasium, a wood-working shop, a machine shop, a green- house, and a new recitation hall g7 by 50 feet, were erected. Departments in agriculture, electrical engineer- ing, and civil engineeing were established. Grounds for athletics and for horticultural experiments were purchased Free scholarships were made free to all student from Delaware. Instruction in military tactics were secured by the appointment of an officer of the U. 8. Army toa position in the faculty. Albert N. Raub was born in Lancaster County, Pa., March 28, 1840. He graduated in the scientific course of the State Normal School, at Millersville, Pa., in 1860, and until 1866 engaged with much success in public school work in the State. Then he was called to the chair of English literature, rhetoric, and English grammar in the State Normal School at Kutztown, Pa. He became principal of the Lock Haven public sclicols in 1868, and it was chiefly due to his efforts that a State normal school, of which he was chosen principal, was opened at that place ten years later At the end ot seven years, when Dr. Raub severed his connection with the school, it had sent out 310 graduates. He was principal of Newark Academy from 1885 to 18g0. Since 1865 Dr. Raub has spent many weeks of each year in lecturing before teachers' institutes in various States of the Union, and few iustitute workers are to-day more popular and successful, Princeton conferred upon him in 1866 the honorary degree of A. M., and from Lafayette College he received in 1879 the honorary degree of Ph. D. The lives are extrocts from History of Education of Delaware. He has become widely known as a writer of educa- tional text books, of which the following is a list: ' Plain Educational Talks with T'eachers and Parents, published in 1369 ; a series of arithmetics and a series of readers, 1877-'78 ; Lessons in English and Practical English Grammar, 1880; ' Studies in American and English Literature,' and School Management,' 1882 Meth- ods of Teaching,'' 1883, and ' Practical Rhetoric, 1887. In January, 1885, he established the weekly Educational MNews, a sixteen-page journal, which he still edits and publishes at Philadelphia. 39 'vE-nFmQ:G:.-F m:uogtmu-ww:dna: N TSR L L A5 ES T i R LT-1 -aogno:unmwvgnumuuz' Class of '98. Officers. E. L. Tosnzy, L. L. Prarr, En. Kravse, R s P e ED. Eratvse, E are Seniors ! Four years have come and gone since that Wednes- day morning when Fresh- men, eager in their search after knowledge, crowded into the doors of old Dela- ware, The thought thrills us as the realization of our highest ambition; we crossed the threshold with the fierce determination to cut our way through all obstacles, and to prove onr- selves most worthy of ex- istence, and also sll honor to the institution, these things we have done. 41 Fresident. Iice- President. Secrelary. Treasurer. Historian. Searcely had it been made known to us that we were entered on the roll as students, when almost simul- taneously we were given to understand that our every care would be looked after by a husky looking lot of non descripts, yelept Sophs. These we immediately chastised and showed them the way in which we would have them to go, we brought per- fect discipline out of chaos and confusion. A calm came, light broke through the darkness, a new era dawned, our every hasty resolution we carried out to the letter. The end came, the college was saved and g8 reigned supreme, Though a few of our members have fallen out of rank, we can still boast of a class, such as never hefore has been equalled in the history of the institution ; we have, in a charitable way, received into our class some that old 'g7 could not carry out with her. They have, on account of having had the extreme pleasure offered by our modus operandi, been fitted to go out into the world with us. We 98 will not leave a single member for 'gq. Never before has a class been able to cover the ground that we have gotten over. What class was it that finished their required math' early in the Junior year, and then thirsty as it were, still went on penetrating still further into the depths of that ancient science, further than it had ever before been penetrated by any who can claim Delaware for his Alma Mater? Why 'g8! What class was it that put athletics on its present footing ? Why 'g8 ! I will not go on enumerating the many things g8 has actually done in advance of those who have gone before, suffice it to say that she has witnessed more changes in and about the college than has any other class. We await only our admittance into the Alumni where we will be in better position to show to the outside world the material of which she is composed. To many the term class history will doubtless he very misleading. Tt is my intention to give but a brief sketch, instead of relating every thing incident to our career while in college. We have always studied hard ? We have pever been absent from chapel 7 We have never taken any part whatever in any dis- order ? We have never been out of our rooms when the f prof. paid us a visit? We all had our troubles down in the chemical labo- ratory. We never did go to sleep listening to the pro- fessor in civil engineering 2 Weare not going to tell a soul about ' Yankee Doodle and the houses and the town?' We are the people 42 who made the experiments in physics even if the air pump did get rusty 7 We have a fellow in our class who has been preaching on the sly. Some that have suffered with the enlargement of the head, others of the enlargement of the liver. A few that know a little and some that don't know a little. As regards the military wiew of it 'g8 is purely a class of commissioned officers. Never have we in any way been intoxicated within from joy or from ye spirits Srumentum, our favorite drink being ice water 7 Through the efforts of a distinguished member of our class we witnessed last vear a decided advance from an insignificant foot ball eleven to the efficient team which won so much applause by delighting our friends and confounding our enemies. When we look back over our four years of college life we are stirred with conflicting emotions. The fact that college life is made up vicissitudus deeply impresses us. How materially one short year works a change in a manin his convictions and in his habits of thought, as well as in his character! We can wividly recall our Freshman existence. How we each impressed ourselves, if not our fellow classmen, with our profound knowledge. Maost positive in everything and about everything is a quality that we admired greatly in ourselves at that time. But, alas! in social ecircles we were not, fortunately, the lions we thought we were intellectually. In the Sophomore vear we found that much of our learning had been based on erroneous doetrines drawn from too hasty conclusions, and consequently lost much self.esteem. Socially, we now had the most enviable pleasure of being recognized. In the Junior year we found out just how little we did know; and when we became Seniors, we found that we knew absolutely nothing. It is indeed very curious that in one's own opinion he finds that his intellectual capabilities varies inversely with the number of years he is in college. We realize that every individual action contributes its strand to the threads of history. The more trivial events are eliminated in tracing the thread, and the ap- patently more important factors are investigated. Soit has been with our college life. Individnal actions have counted for little in themselves. The class is the unit of power, and this source of influence in our college for the last four years has been found in the Class of 'g8. We will soon have to leave our fellow-students, and break those friendships so slowly formed and more and more closely drawn as the last four years of undergradu- ate life have sped swiftly by, It is said by men of experi- ence that college friendships are the closest and strongest ever made, so our parting will be doubly hard. But along with all these feelings of emotion is mixed the intense feeling of satisfaction at the thought of our having so nearly finished our course and are so soon to enter upon a path of usefulness to the world, and to the bringing the development of curselves more near to that idealPerfection. And now, at last, we are forced to call for a reprieve. That most august body, the faculty, have told us that it will come in a few weeks now. But what shall come next? Oh, that we were but able to fathom the great depths of the future! Oh, that we could but see across life's vale! For we Seniors there is no place. It iz with the most sincere regret that we make this our last communication to our friends through Tus Avrora, and with reluctance that we bid farewell to our dear old Alma Mater. HiIsTORIAN, GRS Senior Eppointments for Class Day Erercises. J. W. Browr, '99, Chairmarns. H. 1. CONSTABLE, b . . z : 3 4 : Orator. En. Kravss, ; : : ; . ; : : Historian. L.. R. SPRINGER, : ! - : : : - . Lrophet. E. 8. HeLrinca, . . 3 : - L : . i Poel, Members of '08. William Ray Baldwin, Elkton, Md. Edmund Spenser Hellings, Wilmington, Joseph Fergus Brewster, Chester, Pa. Edwin Krause, Osceola Mills, Pa, Henry Lyttleton Constable, Elkton, Md, Hugh Martin Morris, Greenwouod. James Vance Craig, 5t. Georges. John Timothy Mullins, Faulkland. George Norton Davis, Laurel. Louis Lockwood Pratt, Milford. George Edgar Folk, Wilmington. Lewis Reese Springer, Wilmington. Emmet Lawrence Tosney, Delaware City. 46 47 Class of '99. Officers. Harrison W. VICKERS, Jx., Geo. L. MEDILLE, WiLLarp F. Woon, Rocrr 0. Masox, Samrel H. Bavmarn, Jr., ISTORY is a strange thing. It be- gan before the creation of the world ; and will continue to exist to the end of time. It is the Alpha and Omega of knowledge. It deals with all things and creatures. It takes Abel, the first of our race to die and hurls him down through the ages, and presents him to-day to all Christendom and canses him to speak sacred truths with a voice that has been hushed by death these thousands of years. It seizes Cain the first murderer of our race and unfolds him to us in all his disobedience and sin. The goddess history stands at the threshold of knowl- edge and quietly draws back the curtains of time and 48 FPresident. Fice- Presidend. Secrelary. Treasurer. HHistoriun and Pecl. shows to us all the past. We can see Moses as he is leading the children out of the land of bondage, we see him as he extends his staff and canses water to gush forth from the rock. We see him as he descends from the mount with the law. Who is there so blind as not to be able to see Cicero as he appeared in the Roman forum to plead for the good of the repnblic? Who is so deaf as not to hear the voice of Haunibal as he stood on the mountain looking down upon Rome and enthused his soldiers speaking thus: Ye are standing on the Acropolis of Italy ; yvonder lies Rome. ' Who is o dumb asnot to be able to compre- hend the greatness of Bonaparte, of Wellington or of JUMIDRS. Washington? The very thought of such men fills us with a spirit of loyalty to fatherland. Yes, history is indeed a strange thing. It causes us, though dead, to live, and to act and to speak. As history has caused all things in the past, be they good, or be they bad to live, so it will deal with ns. It cares not for person. True history is true facts. I pro- pose to speak the truth and to you, the Aurora's readers, a true account of the works, ambitions and successes of the Class of 'gg, thereby showing to its members and the world that history iz a thing to be feared, and which should admonish us to live upright, honest, truthful lives. We saw our first college life the 4th of September, 18g5. All things' were green and fresh to us and we were green and fresh to all things.' The recollections of those first days at Delaware College will never fade from our minds. We created no great sensation when we entered. Our ignorance was gradually plucked off by the keen wits of the upper classes. We stood about in small groups and looked with awe at the wise Soph, the proud Junior and the dignified Senior. We were good boys then; but alas, it took but a few months for the image of innocence to be transformed into a mass of deviltry. At first we shuddered when upper classmen knocked at our doors, but the kindness of our superiors, was immediately taken advantage of by us, and we were soon eaught throw- ing water down the steps, the water of course landed on some one's head. We would buy bananas and place the skins on the steps which often caused our superiors to recede three or four steps instead of advancing one. But youn may ask why did the upper classmen tolerate such dangerous nonsense. I will answer by say- ing simply because the upper classmen were fools and were working on the policy plan. How well do we remember them as they strutted about the college wear- ing their swallow tail coats, and sporting their canes. We had joined in society. So great was the rivalry between the two societies, that honor, manhood, and loyalty to everything that was dear to them was sacri- ficed for the sake of satisfying the greedy, selfish ambition of a few of the upper classmen. We were soon imbued with the same selfish spirit, and became identified with one of the societies, joined the rings, and to-day to our disgrace, we poor silly fools are dickering with and catering to things in our college life that are of the devil and for the devil. But we would not have our readers believe that we never did anything good. We are human, and while we know we are tainted with evil, we feel confident that we are no meaner than our predecessors or many other people. We realize our weakness, we see our greatest fault, we have lacked manhood, we have wasted courage ; but we expect to possess both, We are still Freshmen, we are still conceited, we look through the dark mist of the future and see great things awaiting us. We walk the streets and imagine all the girls love us because we are college men. We contend for and win victories on the diamond. We are so proud of our uniforms that we have our pictures taken in order that some silly maiden may see us, when posing as a brave. We attend church and act like monkeys that have recently escaped a men- agerie. We behold the Seniors as they sit during chapel exercises and wonder how in the world a Senior becomes the simulacran: of an Egyptian sphinx. Thus through the first vear of checkered light and shade we pass. We reach our second vear and look back to the days of our college infancy and sigh. Alas! those happy days have gone. We are now in a position where the pride of being college students has left us, and where the dignity of upper classmen has not dawned upon us. What a miserable place! Our first pride has forsaken us; the second lies hidden in the future. This is the dark period of a student's life. T'he medicine is bitter, and we loug to see the bottle emptied. But one must not think that hecause this is a period of gloom that there is no good being derived from it. During this dark age we are being regenerated. We are emerging from the body chrysalis into mature manhood. We are laying aside those silly things and childish ways and assuming a grave, solemn appearance. We are being taught to recognize onr weak- ness and to know that we are not much after all. We are heing brought to recognize the knowledge of an Omnipo- tent, thereby being fitted for not only the duties of this wotld but for the duties of the mext. Thus we pass through the second year of our college existence, with all its trials and upliftings. We have at last reached the long-desired state of de- velopment. We are Juniors. We appreciate our place in college and before the world. How far we failed, we will leave to the decision of those who are watching us in 52 pur struggles up life's crooked stream. We are trying to bend our energies to the business part of our college life, thereby becoming fitted for the rough encounters of this cold, heartless world. Qur college athletics employ all the enthusiasm and devotion that students should render to such things. In literature, science, mathematics and classics we have held our own. We gave the first military ball that was ever given at this college, and we have entered upon an under- taking that never before has been attempted by the stu- dents of this institution. We are going to publish an annual. Our friends have rushed to our side, and are doing what they can to make the AUroRA a true morning light. Day is dawning, and Delaware College will yet live to see a brilliant noonday and a glorious sunset. It was not until we became Juniors that we were able to find out how little we knew ; and if our true knowledge keeps growing, by the time we become Seniors we will then have found out that we know absolutely nothing. Our advice to each other has been : Fight manfully, and vic- tory will crown your efforts. To the ' Sophs. we have said: ' Put aside your pedantry and show some sense.' And we have counseled the Freshmen not to exhaunst the knowledge of the universe but remember that other gen- erations are to follow, therefore they must have some consideration for future researches. We have lost one member by death, and five others have left us and our college. We have been grinding away now nearly three years and we have experienced many revolutions of dislikes and altered prejudices, and we trust all have been for the betternone for the worse, though we will frankly say our aversion for examinations has not changed one iota since the fall term of our Fresh- man year. Truthfully, examinations have been the bane of our college life. We have looked at them from three different points of viewFreshman, Sopnomore and Junior-but we have failed to detect the siighiesi differ- ence, in our judgment, and we openly and truthfully assert that no college custom has been so heartily ab- horred as this system of fiery tri-memstrial tests. We have, at most times, tried to be men by cultivat- ing a love for truth and thus making sure for ourselves, in after years, a place on the hill top of mankind, where the air is always pure and serene, where we can see the errors and wanderings and mist and tempest in the vale below. MNothing has given us more delight in our little spell of college life together than our acquired friendships. Only a true friend holds the open sesame heart. A true friend to the human heart to whom we may impart griefs, joys, fears, hopes, suspicions, counsels or whatso'er lieth tpon the heart to oppress it. Such friends we have found in our faculty and among the members of onr student body. At times, no doubt, the instructors have thonght we were inclined to be boisterous and full of disregard for all authority, but we take this opportunity to say, with 33 all the sacredness of our hearts, that we were only con- tending for what we supposed to be our rights and duties as students. We have sought for honor, for we firmly believe that pure honor is only a revelation of a man's real virtue and worth. Honor is itself a great fortune, and if we miss it we loose all and our lives will have been lived in vain. Ambitionthat quality that makes men active, full of alacrity and stirringhas kept us awake and watchful. The ambition that we have fostered is not of that selfish kind which, when checked or cannot have its own way, becomes malign, venomous, discretely discontented and dangerous. Owur shortcomings and faults we have many. No one knows them better than we. We are now in a position to view the unsoundness of our former proceed- ings, and we are willing to take counsel in the wise words of Solomen: The wise man taketh heed to his steps; the fool turneth aside to deceit. ' As we end this our third college vear, we, as a body, firmly resolve in the language of the Seripture, That we make a stand upon the ancient way, and then look about ns and discover what is the straight way, and so to walk in it 'thus making the end of our career greater than the beginning. Individual Siographical 5He?clies of uglior Qlusa : ArmarroNG, HowarD MaLcoLM. What a lucky class to have a strong arm to lead it. Just what this first of our gennii was intended for, has not yet been determined by the faculty, though his case has been diagnosed daily for the past 214 years, He is an interesting character, has a portly form, a smiling coun- tenance, a merry laugh, and a ready grin, which keeps his image continually rising before our minds. Heisa bird in analytics and files away with Latin constructions. We will always remember with reverence Shylock of gg. BaxTER, THOs., GEO. Here's Tom, do you know him ? Of course you do, Every body knows Tom. But how shall we describe him? We are puzzled. Tom came from the marshes around Slaughters, entered the Class of 1900, but hefore the end of his first vear at Delaware he had completed the necessary studies and was handed over by the Faculty to 'gg, and gladly did 'gg receive him. When class or anvthing concerning class is men- tioned, Tom is right there. He is always on hand on the football field, not trying for honor but to help the athletics of old Delaware. Tom though not on the Annual Board has done as much toward its publication as any man could do. He has stood by the Board through thick and thin. Who is the greatest orator in Delaware College ? Tom. 55 Who was one of the founders and first president of the V. M. C. A, at this institution ? Tom. Who was sent as one of the representatives of Dela- ware College at the International Student Convention held at Cleveland, Ohio, this year? Tom. Who wrote the History of the Junior Class which it is said has already killed 7 men ? Tom, Who 15 it in for anything that will help D. C. and especially gg ? Tom. S0 vou see Tom is a classmate to be proud of, and surely we are. BAYNARD, SAMUEL HARRISON. Tis but a slip from the sublime to the ridiculouns. Baynard is often found engaged in his favorite occupa- tion of making a noise. TUndoubtedly as the phraseolo- gists would say, his bump for the appreciation of unprac- tical jokes has a premature development. Not unlike most boys he often is found amusing himself at a prof.'s expense. The mascot of the foothall team, a loyal class- man and a genial companion. Tkie ' like many other voung men who has sown wild oats in his vouth will, we venture to predict, see the follies of his ways and will eventually become a loval citizen and do credit to his class and alma mater, Brown, Josern WEesT. Familiarly known as ' Joe ' comes from the historic town of Odessa. Joe is a wonderful chemical genius and plays the fiddle, too, with remarkable skill. A noble class, mate, sincere friend, and one of the most pleasant and best natured men of the great Class of 'gg. He has grown rapidly in favor with the bovs as well as in stature since coming to college, and unless something unlooked for happens, Joe will be heard of if he lives long enough. A tennis enthusiast, a mathematical crank, a conical joker, a loud laughter, a big eater, and awkward gaited favorite iz Joe. Joe iz funny but we all like him. Du Hapway, Louls. Some boys are funny all the time, some funny some of the time and some funny none of the time. Du Had- way belongs to the last class named. Polite and curteous at all times, always has a smile for the meanest of our tribe. Seems to like gay society but afraid to venture out into it. He likes the girls, but the girls don't like him. Just where this lad came from we have not been able to find out, nor can any one tell us where he is going. Have at all times tried to help this tender youth along. We feel that he left his mother's arms too soon. He is too good for a preacher's son. Vet they say he is of such origin. How long this youth will follow the counsels of his father is a guestion whose answer we are waiting to see. But do not expect to see this piece of mimaturity a piece of maturity. 56 GreeN, HArROLD, Green, otherwise known as Pea or Pea Green or Green Pea, Scrapper, Bow Legged Harold, is among the first in our class to be in a fight or Serap of any kind and then first in making peace. Pea is a jolly good fellow always tryving to kid somebody. He says he is always in the swim with the girls, a graceful dancer, good foot- ball plaver, but in walking we must admit that his legs are warped too much for him to come up to the standard. Pea as athletic editor on the Review, has acquired wide fame as sporting editor and it is thought in a few vears he will be able to rank with sporting reporter Woodward and baseball fiend Tinney, Summing him up he is a good fellow. JounsoN, EVERETT CLARENCE. One of the most important personages of the tribe of 'gg is Johnson, who by fate was blown by a strong South- easter from the sand swamps of old Sussex to the green terrace of Delaware College. Johnson's highest ambition is to win military honor and renown. He has a good class standing as a student. Takes well with the girls and is well liked by all who know him. Though a boyish vouth with just enough fuzz on his face to make him proud he, is always ready and willing and able to do his class a good turn whenever an opportunity affords it. Johnson is a student of langunages taking Latin, French, German and Italian. It was this man Johnson who was selected to manage Delaware's first military promenade. It was Johnson who was selected to edit the first College Annual the boys of old Delaware published. It is Johnson who wears the military medal and holds the highest military post in the Junior Class. It is Johnson who by his deep sense of truth, honor, frankness, fearlessness and sincerity has won the hearts of all his associates. We will leave the further considerations of this voung man's character to readers of this book. LEwrs, CHARLES EpwIn. If we have one thing more to be thankful for it is that Lewis in his great wisdom decided to become a stu- dent of Delaware College, for the greatest wonder is and always has been that a man possessing such eminent abilities should have chosen this modern institution, instead of one of our modern universities. He is in truth ' hiding his light under a bushel,'' but he displays his trinkets to the world. We all know Reddy by his funny laugh., Although somewhat inclined toward religious worlks. It is said that he is serving his apprenticeship for his future occupation by attending fires for his wealthy uncle who lives down town. MacSorLEY, FrRaAXK OLnin. A typical Scotch punster; a typical son of a preacher, Nothing goes on that he is not into., Talks more than any other man in college. Walks with a higher air than President Harter, and assumes control of everything he touches: 57 Well, we must not be too hard on old Mac, for, after all, he is a good fellow, and we predict for him a great future, Now, Mac, let thy energy develop and yvou will vet get your coveted place Unecle Sam's chief justice, MArsHALL, ANDREW DONNELL. With him, as with the conjurer, now you see him and now vou don't see him, but it is the same Marshall all the time. Without him, Dr. Wolf's stock of jokes would have been sadly diminished. Much smaller in stature than he is in his own estimation. It is hoped that in time he will be able to boss his younger brother around and compel him to wear all of Don's old clothes, hats and ties. He is somewhat of an indolent nature, is inclined to study just a little, and looks upon the profs. as a body of men whose sole object in life is to condition him. But, seriously, Marshall is one of the best-hearted fellows in our clasg, Masow, RoGER OWEN. Nene so brilliant, none so kind-hearted, none so genial as Mason, there was never one just like him. In fact, you seldom see such a combination. An all-day talker, can entertain an audience of any size with the latest songs, stories, both amusing and sentimental. An athlete of considerable note, and a No, 1 scholar, Comes from the unparalleled and wwregualled town of Newark. His chief hope and ambition is to become an orator., In art, science and literature he stands without a peer, The few words that we have writte n about this young man fail to do him justice. We are compelled to dismiss him by imparting our blesgsing upon him where- ever he may go. McCang, EpwArRD HENRY. A man of guiet mien, but of whom it may be said still waters run deep. Who is McCabe? Well, we don't know, nor do we know how to find out. He has been with us for nearly three years and he has not been heard speak a dozen words during this time, excepting what he has said in the recitation-room, but with all this, McCabe is a true friend, a good student, and a perfect gentleman. We feel sure that he will always keep the preace, no matter how big a piece of his fellow-man may choose to give him. MeCape, HArLEY LIVINGSTON STEVENSON BarTivg Kinc. The great and only fellow, or the man who knows it all. An orator who would put Cicero in the shade., A schemer before whom Alexander or Ceesar would be as pigmies. A walking encvclopedia. His massive brain has stored up thousands of nice and helpful ideas and suggestions for the benefit of his unenlightened class- mates. He comes from old Sussex, the county of the ox-carts and sand-burrs. ' 58 college. If you want any pointers, call at the Burean of In- formation, or, in other words, the Goat's Pen, No. g Poverty Row. MEDILL, GEorGE LODGE. High among the names of Newark's illustrious sons will be found that of George Lodge Medill, the hoy who always has a grave look. George is a brave boy, always ready and willing to fight for the honor of his class and While a Democrat, he is inclined to honor men regardless of party principle. He speaks well, and thinks he will be an orator some day. When Medill gets to be a lawyer, some one will hear him, should he be fortunate enongh to have a case before the court. He has obtained a little fame az a writer, being the aunthor of the well-known book, What a Curious Object Man Might Have Been.'' It it upon this publi- cation that his fame chiefly rests. We will now dismiss this subject by imparting our blessings upon him where- ever he may go. REED, RICHARD PavuL. This is a great character, and 'tis with great reluc- tance that we undertake to do it justice in the short space allowed us, We might write whole volumes about him. He iz a dead game sport from Wilmington, and says that he cuts lots of ice with the girls in that ity ; but we would add that as a story-teller he is second to none, excepting Tom Baxter. We wish we could im- part an adequate conception of his handsome form, that nobly and firmly-set head, erowned with a mass of flaxen hair, parted in the middle, that Roman nose and that big upper lip, void of a moustache. As right guide of Co. A., he is the observed of all the observers. STEWART, JAMES LAMONT. Stewart rooms at home on the farm, and iz a model young man in many respects. He is an ardent supporter of his class, Somewhat sportive, gentle in his manners. He never seems at case unless attired in a plain jumper and a pair of overalls, and never seems to enjoy himself unless he is listening to the rythmic splash of milk into his pail. He is a brave and fearless soldier, a good, hon- est and straightforward man. He has of late taken upon himself the hardships of exercising his father's horses, and, from the common report, he is now on a sharp look- out for a fair voung Miss with chestnut hair. Vickers, GRORGE. George Vickers aliaz ' Big Gowdge has been a marked man since the moment of his arrival at Delaware College. A stranger in a strange land. As an orator, statesman, politician, pugilist and haseballist, he leads his class. Vick is a student at times but he is conscious of it. But turning to the real worth of this young man, we would truthfully say that he is a loval classmate, a genial companion and a true friend. 59 VIcKERS, HARRISON WiLson, Jr. If one can picture to one's self a creature with the horns of a rhinoceros, the two great toes of an ostrich, the grizzly jaw of the lion and the strong hind legs of the Royal Bengal tiger, one can then picture the monster that those Swarthmore giants dreamed of in Vickers be- fore the famous football game on October sth. Vick is all right with the ladies and the boys too, He has a good disposition, wonderful guyer, and is con- tinually accusing the hoyvs of kidding him. Little George'' is a sincere friend, an open enemy and a loyal classmate, commands the respect and esteem of all and has a high class standing. As an athlete he is a veritable fiend. He is little, but oh, my ! To him more than any other one man is due the position which our class holds in ath- letics, but with all his good qualities he has, however, one failinga weakness for the female sex. WELLs, GEorRGE HARLAN, Milton said, The childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day.' If this assertion be true, and surely it is true, there is no telling what will become of that boy, Wells. Only weighs ninety pounds by apothe- cary weight, but, notwithstanding his minuteness, he is an important subject. With Portia we would exclaim, How far that little candle throws its light. It is a marvel to all that in so small a compass can be contained so great an intellect and so many virtues. It has already been decreed by the oracles that Pickel Wells will carry off the honors of his class. Woop, WILLARD FRANKLIN. If there were another flood, we feel assured the Class of 'gg would have at least one representative in the ark, If peace were declared a virtue, surely Wood would un- doubtedly be the most virtuous boy in our class, for truly, we have heard him utter less than a dozen assertions since he enlisted, in 'g5. But the Lord willeth all things best., A more faithful worker; a more conscientions stu- dent or a better classmate would be hard to find. As a man, he is an honest, straightforward fellow, and, while we cannot prophesy a brilliant career for him, we feel sure that he will never be 'launched into eternity'' as the victim of unbridled passions, WoopALL, EDwWARD, JR, Of men like Woodall it may truthfully be said, The gods made but one and broke the mould. He is very careful with whom he associates, being the only non- society man in the class, and as yet he has refused to at- tend any of Newark's churches, because he has not had time to thoroughly examine the character of the church members. When Dr, Harter asked Woodall why he did not attend church, his reply was, My religion is not in thizs town.'' He stands pre-eminent as an all-round sport. But, laying all fun aside, we are everything proud of our Quaker friend from the ' Eastern Shore. Members of '00. Howard Maleolm Armstrong, Cooch's Bridge. Samuel Harrison Baynard, Wilmington. Thomas George Baxter, Slaughter, Joseph West Brown, Odessa. Louis Du Hadway, Cambridge, Md. Harold Green, Middletown. Everett ClarenceJohnson, Selbyville. Charles Fdwin Lewis, Newark. Frank Olin MacSorley, Newark. Andrew Donnell Marshall, Milford. Roger Owen Mason, Newark, FEdward Henry McCabe, Jr., New Castle. Harley King McCabe, Selbyville. George Lodge Medill, Newark. Richard Paul Reed, Wilmington, James Lamont Stewart, Newark. George Vickers, Chestertown, Md. Harrison Wilson Vickers, Jr., Chestertown, Md. George Harlan Wells, Elkton, Md. Willard Franklin Wood, Newport, Edward Woodall, Jr., Royal Oak. Class of '00. Officers. REGINALD CONSTARBLE, ; : . 2 : : President, WesT A. FROLLER, ; : - : . : ; Viee-President, W, L. Hirsm, - 5 - i : i : ! Secretary. Hexey W. Revronn, . 3 : . : i : i Treasurer, Taos. B. McKeax, : ; z : 3 I Hisforian, C N - g N RINTE o AT T BSOS - I 1 : t A 61 Sophomore Class Mhistory. Here we are Raising Thunder, Delaware, Delaware, Nincteetn Hundred ! HEN wvou hear that vell you may know that there iz trouble. This is our second year of college life, but short as the time has been, many great things have been accomplished. When we were Freshies the uppet classmen did not in any way offend us, except once in a while we became the victim of a Soph with a ! bucketful of H.,O, or when some other Soph would with the aid of a piece of string and a bed-slat get the combination of our door locks. It was during this year that Willie Heersh ' proved himself the swiftest runner in college. For nearly an hour he ran one race after another, beating competitors. It was not until Bill was entirely exhausted that he could see the joke. Ebe had a great deal of trouble with the spooks which came into his room at night, until finally he was compelled to room down town. But before the Winter was over he was very sorty, because while going past the public schools he would be nearly snow-balled to death. To record the achievements of the Class of 1900 would be too great an undertaking for any human being. Volumes might be written about them, and still the writer would fall short of his purpose. Naturally our development was very rapid. This is shown by the fact that three weeks after we matriculated Tinney's brain weighed fifty pounds: so he told the professor. While we were yet Freshies everyone could see that we were destined for great things, During the first term of that year we pursued with much diligence that branch of science known as zoology, or the 'science of cats,'' as the boys ealled it, because of the complete study made of that auimal. The class as a whole, has no equal, for among its members are enrolled boys who will shine forth in every branch except chemistry.' The reason for this is that v A T g1y ' L i i 1 3 3 1 1 T . F i we have been informed that a little knowledge on that subject would kill us. So with due respect for our lives we have decided to let ' well enough alone. ' The engineers of the class must not be forgotten. 'There is Googe Woodward, with his song and dance coat, who can tell yon everything that ever happened in the sport- ing world. Then there is Hyland, the nice looking boy, who bought a new pair of ' blue ' shoes the other day. If you doubt the ability of the engineers just go out to the shop, and see the wonderful work they have done, On first entering college our class took a liking to German and French, so that now we are so proficient that it does not inconvenience us in the least to converse in these languages, when we become tired of English, Our preatness does not terminate at this point. In athletics we are unexcelled. Without the material from our class the base ball and foot ball teams of last year would have been negative quantities. Four positions on both the base ball and foot ball team hawve been captured by 1goo boys. And faithfully have they upheld the gold L and blue in many a struggle on the diamond and gridiron. Our class teams proved without a doubt that our class is the champion. Last spring we took revenge on 'gg and gave them a few lessons in the art of base ball, by beating them by a score of 16 to 1. In the foot ball game with the Freshies, although we beat them 6 to o, they played a great game, In conclusion, as I peer into the future, 1 see all the old rgoo boys holding responsible places, as was predicted. To the Seniors we wish much success; may their after-lives be days of pleasure, Now to those who come after us. Go to the class of igoo for iustruction; consider her ways, and be wise. As we continue in our glorious path it will become more and more evident that The world admires just as before The wonderful knowledge of the Sophomore ; Then Iam sure you must agree That we are the class of old D, C. Himrorian, Members -of 00, Edward James Ayars, Wilmington, William Henry Conner, Wilmington. Reginald Constable, Elkton, Md. Alfred Hanson Hartman, Wilmington, Thomas Becker McKeon, Newark., Thomas Rankin Nivin, Strickersville, Pa. Henry Wilson Reybold, Delaware City. Jacoh Elmer Sentman, Newark. Hugh Rodney Sharp, Lewes, MEMBERS. Avars . . CoNNER CONSTABLE . . . . HvyLAND . HarTMAN Hirsu . . MACSORLEY MARVEL McEEow . NIviy REEveOLD . . SENTMAN SHARPE TROTTER . TINNEY . . VANSANT WoOODWARD WALTER . . AMBITION. . President . : . Baker A Lawy ;Erhhltu: E lj'up i Railroad President . . Civil Engineer . Electrician . Chemist a4 Chief Justice Contractor . General Inventor . . .+ Teacher . - Docter . : o Sprinter . . : . Base ball player ven JBinger Lol . Anarchist s Lawyer . . . Bumming tobacco . . . Gymnastic fiend . . Reading Anabasis . . . Making out ponies o Btudying 2Y . - - Telling the truth f?j; . . Reading the Bible . . . - Midnight loafer . . . 3 l.rrmmng . . Looking in n:1rrur : William Louis Hirsh, Osceola Mills, Pa Charles Scott Hyland, Wilmington, James Roe MacSorley, Newark. Andrew Marvel, Georgetown. William Seott Tinney, Newark. West Alexander Trotter, Wilmington. Harvey Lee Vansant, Highlands. Ebe Walter, Frankford. George Daniel Woodward, Wilmington. FAvorRITE OCCUPATION 0 Painting ' 'oo ' on cupola . Thinking nf hisie el . Talking to the girls . Prushing his clothes . . . Reading rule book . . .+ . Boning Dutch . . + Reading N. V. J'uurnal . Studying chemistry 65 DESTINY. . Clothing store dummy. . Novelist. . Prize fighter, . Fakir, Engineer in feather foundry. . Mule driver. . Bartender. .+ Dog catcher, .+ Any old thing. . Dog trainer. . Millemaid. Barber. . Fashionable milliner. . Street car conductor, . Bat tender. . . Phonograph engineer. . . SBporting editor. . Organ grinder. Class of '01l. Officers. ARCHIBALD GRANT . i ; : ; - ; . President. Crcin C. McDoNALD . : ! ' . : ; Vice- President. CHarRLES 1D, STOCKLEY ; : ; ; : 2 - Secrefary. Hanry E. TUNKRELL : ; ; : : : : . Treasurer, SaMUEL J. Orr. . : A . . i i E Flistorian, 57 Thistory of the Class. N the fourteenth day of September, eighteen hun- dred and ninety-seven, thirty-one young men, from all parts of the state of Delaware, and from adja- cent parts of Maryland, arrived at Newark and enrolled as students of Delaware College. The event was an important one in their lives, for, having com- pleted the public school and preparatory education of their boyhood days, they were now to become college men, and to assume the more onerous duties of college life. The youngest man in the class at the time of entrance was fifteen vears and four months old, and the oldest, twenty-four. The average age was seventeen years and eleven months. Fifteen members of the class are from New Castle County, five from Kent, six from Sussex and five from Maryland. The first meeting of the Class of 'or was called on Tuesday, October the twelfth, when the following officers were elected for a term of one vear. Hexney G. McComn E. ByvroM GRIFFIN SAMUEL J. Orr Fresident. Viee- President. ..S:!'IJ'. I'IH-III ?:rr'a.'f. The next event of importance to the class was the Freshman-Sophomore foot ball game, played on Decem- ber tenth. During the progress of the contest, a mem ber of the Freshman team was injured, and Mr, Grant, ar, who had been watching the game from the side lines, showed his class spirit by pulling off his coat and taking the injured man's place in the line. S MEN. The statement made by the Faculty that the present Freshman Class is one of the hest prepared that ever en- tered Delaware College was verified by the fact that nearly every man passed the first term examinations success- fully. It is the duty of the historian to record what has happened in the past rather than to suggest what may Members E. V. Armstrong, Cooche Bridge, Del. E. M. Baker, Selbyville, Del. R. T. Cann, Kirkwood, Del. D. Cheney, Wilmington, Del, E. R. Crothers, Elkton, Md. 0. Crothers, Elkton, Md. E. G. Davis, Newark, Del. F. Evans, Wilmington, Del. A Grant, Granite, Md. E. B. Griffin, Newark, Del, H. B. Hughes, New Castle, Del. J. N. Knox, Wilmington, Del, Wm, Marshall, Milford, Del. H. G. McComb, Wilmington, Del, J. W. McCoy, Hare's Corner, Del. T come in the future. Vet from the promising showing made by the Freshman Class thus far, it is safe to predict that in Nineteen Hundred and One there will graduate from Old Delaware a class that will do her honor, and in after years be a source of gratification to those who are now our professors. SAMUELJ. OrT. of 01, C. C. McDonald, Newark, Del. W. M. McMullin, St. Georges, Del. J. B. Messick, Shortley, Del. W. P, Nandain, Stanton, Del. S. J. Ott, Wilmington, Del. Harold K. Paxon, Summit Bridge, Del. J- W. Rickards, Ocean View, Del. L. D, Smith, Newark, Del. W. H. Smith, Newark, Del. C. D. Stockley, Smyrna, Tel. H. E. Tunnell, Georgetown, Del, H. R. Tunnell, Georgetown, Del. G. W. Ward, Cherry Hill, Md. J. G. Whann, Newport, Del. T. R. Wolf, Newark, Del. ARTMENT 5 WALTER H. Gorpox, rsf Liend, rpth fnfantry, U7 5. 4., Commandant of Cadets. L. L. PraTT, Major, J. T. MuLrixs, Adjtant, W. R. Barpwin, Serpeant-Major. CoMPANY A. J. Vaxcy Craig, Capl. J. W. BrewstTer, rsf Leenl Everert C. JoaxNson, rsf Spi. Sergeanis: R. P. REED. G, L. MEDILL. J: L. STEWART. Corporals: T, B. McKron. T. B, Niviw. E. J. Avars. ANDREW MARVEL. Bagrlers Ept WALTER. i Byron GriFrFim, - Company B. Lewis R, SPRINGER, Capt. En, Kravsg, raf Livwd. Joskrn W. BrowxN, 7sf Sef. Sergeants: E. H. McCAzE. R. 0. Mason. Corporals: R. CONSTABLE. W. A. TROTTER. HARVEY VANZANT, Hugler - S. HARRY BAVNARD. 73 THE CORFS OF CADETS ACTED AS ESCORT OF HONOR TO PRESENTATION COMMITTEE TO U. 8. GUNBOAT WILMINGTON. WHILE SHE WAS AT WILMINGTON, DEL. AL S s lioh P N Tl HE influence of the College Young Men's Christian Association cannot be measured, The Association serves as a home for the new college boy, and places around him such environments during the format- ive period of his life as will mould him into a perfecta Godly man. Men who have spent a few years together as mem- bers of a common cause, having thoughts in common, feelings in common, aspirations in common, purposes in common, visions in common, must surely work together upon the great battlefield of life in the years to come with a singleness in aim, a purity in motive and unselfishness in co-operation, which in themselves will be a powerfil appeal for the truth and the God of the common message that Christian workers convey. To those who fear that institutional Christianity is on the wane, that churches are dying out, that prayer is a lost art, and that the consecration of our best-educated voung men to Christian service belongs to a past age of faith, are recommended to read the history of the College Y. M. C. A., which had its birth probably in the Univer- sity of Virginia in the vear 1858, and which has spread with its sweeping influence until it has reached the sacted halls of more than six hundred of our colleges and universities, and the hearts of more than forty thousand of our cultured young men. B2 The College V. M. C. A. movement is a perfectly sane one. It is free from that emotionalism which, div- orced from judgment, creates an enthusiasm as short- lived as it is vociferous, It means a new hirth of wise, well-ordered, sane Christian enthusiasm among the young of the more educated and cultured class of America. Our organization has a two-fold mission-First, the puri- fving of the college life, and, secondthe tmilding of Cliristian character in its individual members. It is necessary to have a pure college life, because gane parents look well into the meoral condition of our colleges before selecting one for their bovs., It is neces- sary to build up individual Christian character, hecause the world to-day demands not only men well trained physically and intellectually, but of sturdy Christian manhood. Our College Y. M, C. A, means to bring a more abundant life to all the churches in the years to come, to challenge Christendom to awake from slumber and to send it forth to spread the triumphs of the Cross of Christ in every department of civil and domestic life. The movement is here and here to stay. Long may it live in Delaware College, and let each of its members ever remember that sin worketh, and that as busy as sin iz 50 should he be till his soul finds rest only in the rest of eternity, Officers of the 10, D, C. H. THos, GEO. BAXTER, H. K. McCasg, R. O. Mason, H. M. Morgis, ArcHIBALD GRANT, FPresident. Iiee- President. . Recording Secrelary. . Corresponding Secrelary. Treasurer. Committees. On New Students. R. 0. Mason, Chairman. H. W. VICKERS. G. L. MEDILL. One Membership. E. C. Jonxson, Chairman. H. M. Morrrs, E. M. BAKER. On Keligious Meelings. G. L. MEDILL, Chairman, H. B. HuGHESs. E. M. BAKER. On Bible Study. ARCHIBALD GRANT, Chairman. R. OweN Mason, GEORGE VICKERS. O Finance, AncuiBarLp Grawr, Clhafrman. J. LAMONT STEWART. H. K. McCang. On futer-Collegiaie. J. W. RiCcKARDS, 43 H. M. Morrig, Chafrman. H. K. McCangi, Elthenzan Literary Society. Founders., D, Haves Acwiw. GrorcE C. JoNes. GeorcE R. RIDDLE. Anos SLAVMAKER. Josern TaTLow. Jas. V. Braxgy. Jas, T. McCuLLOUGH. Wxn. 8. CrLawson, Jas. C. TUurNER. Wu. G. WHITELEY, Tuos. D. BeLLn. WM. 5. GRAHAM. 71-115 society was founded December 18, 1834, It is established beyond question that the above date is correct by the testimony of Dr. D. Hayes Agnew, Rev. Thos. D. Bell, James T. McCullough, Judge Wm. G. Whiteley and Joseph Tatlow, witnesses who are still liv- ing, and whose names are among the founders of our society, The constitution of the Athensean Literary Society was adopted February 4, 1835, while that of the Delta Phi, according to their catalogue of 1880, was adopted January 12, 1835. In this we freely grant them precedence, but insist that it is no claim to priotity in founding ; in fact, this is expressly contradicted in an ad- dress delivered before the Athenman Society by Rev. Thos, D. Bell, in 1838, in which occurs the following : At that time it was thought best to confine our society to those in collegiate classes. The more promi- nent academical students, being somewhat pigued and perhaps justly at this arrangement, determined to estab- lish a society for themselves, The present Juniors, being then in their preparatory vear, were the principal movers L in this scheme, and this accounts for the fact that no member of that class has ever belonged to our society ' This statement has since been confirmed by Mr., Bell, and as far as human testimony can go. sets the matter at rest forever. The Athenman Society has ever looked more to solid acquirements than to outward show, and is content to rest her tlaim to distinction upon results. She is proud to name among her members those who have been prominent in state and national councils, distin- guished at the bar and on the bench, renowned as physi- cians and eminent as divines. Inall this she has nothing to fear by comparison with any rival. During the interval caused by the suspension of the college, the organization of the society was kept up by an association of the old members, and since the re-open- ing has been in full operation. 'The Athenman Society was incorporated by act of Legislature dated February 11, I881, A cordial welcome will be given to any of her former members who may return to visit her once more, JOHN T. HARRINGTON To see a young man laken from life while in the very beginning of hs broader existence in colfege is hearivending. We have suffered this to0 an exceeding degree throngh the death of onr feliow collegian, and brother Athencan, fohn T Harringion, e him woas great prongise ; ke was on the very Lhreshold of fife, fuli of a figh sense of movalily and religion, and stndions fo a marked degree. fe was perhaps krowwen befter to us, his associafes in fhe Afthensan Litevary Saciely, than fo his other assoctales, and through close inferconrse with him wwe are enabled fo fudge him fruly. e had tn hine the promise of a fudnre smankood awd success in life. And we can bt feebly express onr sincevest vegrels al s anfimely death, and exiend them o kis bercaved father and mother, and fawmily, by adopiing this minufe in kis memory, We feel this all the more as ke was an aclive wember of our socicly at the time e wirs faken from us fu oy young championship. Witk our best sympalhy brealhing hrough i we transmil a copy fo kis family, and feel thankful that we can sumber foln T, Harrington among the deparied brother Athenceans, whom we love and whose memory is so dear fo ws. J' LEWIS R SPRINGER, Jr. Commifiee RICHARD F. REED, GEORGE HARLAN WELLS, Delta Phi Literary Society. Founders. Eraraim J. BEg. GrORGE 5. WirriaMm W. FERRIS. PETER B. DELANY, Lukre C. GrRAVES. Brvawn. HIS society dates its regular organization from January 14, 1835, The exercises of Delaware, then Newark College, were opened on the 8th of May, 1834, by the inaugural address of Prof. John Holmes Agnew, and the recitations commenced on the following Monday. The college records show that on the 17th of Novem- ber, 1834, the faculty resolved to recommend to the students the formation of Literary Societies and adopted conditions upon which they should be organized. The language implies that in accordance with the general custom in colleges, two such societies were contemplated. fq MANLOVE HavEes. Joux B. Le FEVERE. ALFRED P. Romixsox, WriLLiam D. SHERRERD. Epwin J. STEVENS. The students held meetings for the purpose here indi- cated, but refused to combine under the restrictions which the faculty had imposed. This accounts for the fact that neither society was promptly organized. The Delta Phi dates, as we have stated from January 14, 1835, and the Athenzean dating, according to the statement in their catalogue of 1833, from February 4th, 1835. These facts agree also with a statement made by Wm. D, Sterrerd, Benj. F. Watson and Wm. M. H. Irwin, a committee of the Delta Phi Literary Society, in a memorial addressed to the Board of Trustees, on the 23d of June, 1835, in which they said, The society which we represent is the first Literary Society ever T 1 BELTA PFHI 3OCIETY. organized in the institution, and the number of students connected with it is considerably greater than any other association in the institution.' Such declarations at that early date would have been very impertinent and very ridiculous if they had not been true. We freely admit that very little importance is to be placed either upon priority of organization or upon mere nimbers. The attractions and claims of such a society depend upon what its members have made it. Chur sister society can boast of some brilliant scholars upon its roll at the beginning and throughout its career, but we acknowledge, to say the best, no inferiority dur- ing any period during the history. The first student ever admitted to the college, Alex- ander T, Gray, was a member of our society. The first graduating class consisted of five, three of ar whom were Delta Phi's; the second class containing four, were all Athenzean; the third class containing eight, and the fourth class containing four, were all Delta Phi's. Throughout the history of the college, however, very neatly an equality of numbers has been maintained, and this is for the interest both of the college and of the two societies. Up to the time of the publication of the Athenman Catalogue, December zist, 1853, the Delta FPhi Society had outnumbered that society just ome in the aggregate of membership, At one time, during the period of several vears, our society for the sake of sufficient room, held its regular meetings in the Odd Fellows' Hall, each of the society halls was enlarged to double its former extent. We will give a cordial welcome at any time to non- resident members, who may return to renew their former pleasant associations. OQur Literary Societies. OU have just seen the accounts of our Literary Societies as they are copied from their respective catalogues., Our readers will notice a conflict as to which was founded first. You will observe that each claims priority. Both no doubt are con- scientious in their claim. One must be wrong. The catalogue of Delaware College of last vear, in speaking of the founding of the two societies says, '' The Athenman Literary Society, according to the testimony of its founders, was founded December 18, 1834, about six months after the opening of the college. The society's first constitution was adopted in February, 1835, and the society was incorporated by act of the Delaware Legislature dated Febroary rr, 1881, The Delta Phi Literary Society claims for itself somewhat greater age than its rival, but was not legally incorporated until January 1z, 1835. The society ob- tained a new charter from the Legislature of Delaware about 1571, and another in 18g5. oz Lyman P. Powell in his History of Education of Delaware,' in discussing the founding of the two societies says: It has long been an open guestion as to which society was founded first. According to the catalogues, the constitution of the Delta Phi was adopted January 12, 1835 and that of the Athensman February 4, 15835. We do not mean to dispute anything claimed by either society, but simply give the above questions to show to our readers the conflict is one that can not well be avoided. The societies were founded almost simultaneously, and why this point has proven such a bone of contention we are unable to understand, It is enough for us to know that each society has an important place in Dela- ware College, and that each is filling its place admirably. On account of the secrecy of our societies it is almost impossible to write an interesting account of their work, From their foundings, each society has held that secrecy which has given birth to the truest kind of loyalty and brotherhood. A healthy vigourous rivalry exists. Nothing in our College life gives us more pleasure than to be priveleged to fight for our fraternity. The work done in each of our societies is of a literary type. Parliamentary practice debating, speaking and reading constitute a part of each week's program. We believe the benefits of our societies are indespensable for here we learn the value of speech, here we are taught quick thinking, here we receive our first lessons in oratory, here is where selfishness of all sorts is set aside and each brother's works for his brother's good, here we are taught to love and to be loved ; and by a common intermingling we become as a sheafl of wheat bound together by the same lovely twine. Nothing in Delaware College absorbs as much of the stu- 4z dents' time or has a greater claim upon his heart and mind than the Literary Societies. You may stuff a man's brain full of science, literature, classics and mathematics, but if you take from him the power of expression, the power of speech, the power of imparting knowledge, his stuffing amounts to naught and you deprive him of that which is as essential to his progress in the world as is food to the nourishment of his body. We think the societics have a just claim upon a great deal of our time. We believe if you take from Dela- ware College her Literary Socicties, you rob her boys of that which is equal to all the instruction they received in the class rooms Just as the sun is to the planets of the the earth so is the Literary Societies to the boys at college, ln Sasele BI?ILLM S5SOR ME HP.NiC.AL. E. Ed. I:ETH 1CA 113 Tavees e r- -, Sy - IN MEMORIAM When we first struck this island A happy lot were we, But now just look upon us, And tell us what youn see. There's Brennan, Burke and Eastburn Megee and Nivin too, And Harrington and Wilson Left fore two years were through. But then to reinforce us The Vicker's brothers catie, MecCabe, and even Marshall, Returned and did the same. Of all the queer, queer critters, From dodgers te co'n fritters, Purly girls are queerest. But agnin jes bear in mind, They can make emselves so kind That then, they prove the dearest, The Class of '99, Never late. Always on time. Delaware, Delaware Ninety-Nine. Our class is a queer mixture Of everything in view For we have got the farmers And a couple of Sheenies too. Andthen we've got some preachers sons. Some boys who have taught school, Rut there's not ofe amon us, Who could be called a fool. Jkie do yon know your Latin 7' Is a monotonous ery, Which is always heard at 12 o'clock But Tkie says; Not I, Who read this Anoual. Purty Girls. Whether they may smile or frown, Help you up or cast you down, Men will love them for all that. Sometimes they may be tryin And make von feel like cryin But who stops to think of that ? E. L. 8. '96, g6 But talk nbont your farmers We did not do a thing To the one who ssked the teacher Where to find the small bee's sting. OFf course our life is full of fun. Bat not without its sorrow, For we have always got to get Ouir lessons for to-morrow, Asg this is all T have to say, I guess I'd bhetter close. And say goodbye and Wish that God will bless all those, Then spmetimes an angry frown, All the way from chin to crown, Distorts their purty faces; And again, afterwhile, when They greet you so kindly, then They jes serpass the graces. Life. Life is mot more than a fragile bobhle Sailing o'er a sea of tronble. And while floating on some tropical sea It may be ta'en away from thee. It may survive the winter's driving hail, And the cold North winds angry wail. But when you think your ship so staunch and true, It may guickly vanieh with you. The heaven-given spark may cling for years, Years full of sorrow, pain and tears. Then it will sail off like the winged seed, Carried far from the parent weed. E. L. 8. 'g6. Tbat Comes to AL A mortal's stay on earth hath five stages, Given to churls as well ns to sages. Infancy, childhood and youth's laming page, Complete manhood and impotent old age. E. L. 8. 'g6. Evanescent Shimmerings. How sweetly the sun shines in Sounthern Spain, As it falls om the walk with golden gleam ; Rathing the tower built on the Spanish tmain, With a light not less bright than Heaven's heam. When Fancy wafts us on her soaring wings, Over seas and o'er leas spread far and wide, While stern, pitiless Fate bodingly sings, OF the pain and the rain we must abide. What is finer than Beauty's golden sheen, As it gleams in the dreams of sweetsixteen: Apd what is sweeter than Fame's stirring BORE, As it waves o'er our graves when dead and gone? What fires the knight more than his lady's lears, As he goes down the rows of cavaliers; When he charges under chivalric laws, For great name, for fair fame nnd earth's applanse E. L. . 'g6. 1 Love, I love too, to be loved All lowving praise Seems like a crown upon my life to make It better the giving than to 1aise Still nearer to my own heart you take, I love all good and noble sounds, I heand one speak of you but lately and for dayvs Only to think of it My beart was stirred In tender memory of such generous praise, I lowe all those who love vou All who owe comfort to you And I can find regret for those poorer hearts Who once could love youn And can now forget. Will you be jealous ? Did you guess before 7 I love so many things 5till you the best Dearest, remember I love yon more, Oh miore, A thousand times all the rest. and amoug the sctaps. anor:, in all his novels, Ne'er pictured such a sight As we presented on the morn, After a slecpless night. Each member of cur little class Had Inin, and thought of home And of the many trials Through which he had to roam. Late in the silent evening, A fearful shriek was heard ; Tu vain, our fellow Freshman, Pleaded and demurred, At last he is a Sophomeore And straightway has begun To thragh the feeble Freshman And wet him just for fun. Well ! well! who would have thought it ; I don't quite comprehend How, he, the eruel Sophomore, A Freshman could befriend, A let me now explain it, And I will try to show How, this, once brutal Soph can To a neble Junior grow. Rem ember, he was smarting From the treatment he'd received, When be first soaked the Freshy, By whom he'd been relieved. Ever and anon he was Waiting for a chiance To tease, the harmless underling, And make him sing and danee. The College Man's Life, Can ever such a man or boy, Do any body good? Ahl Yes, indeed, I answer, You're blessed right he could. On! vou don't seem to understand, Vour mind is surely dim ; You see he always has opposed The class next under himi. Lct them, therefore, tonch a Freshman, Who on his work has just begun ; You may surely wager money, That there's going to be some fun. L.ast class of all he's now attained, Now watch and see how straight he walks, See the lower classmen sneaking From the region where he stalks, Even noble Juniors fear him, And the Sophomores from him shrink, And the Freshmen hide their faces When of him, they even think. racions! What a fine young fellow, That's our son, from college home, After all his trials and tronbles, After all his lessons known, Every boy, of course, is proud As he hears his father say, i Son, come out and take a good look At the farm you'll own some day. All the trinls, tribulations, Past, are now as light as air, And the world bows down before him ; College boy, so bright and fair. Mothing dases to stand before him ; He is master over all ; We will surely hear more of him, He will answer well his call. Naught can man do but respect him, He who has his doty done, He npon whose Lrow are shining All the lanrels he hag won. LJ may think he is conceited As he walks with stately tread, But Itell you you're mistaken, As he's just about to wed., As the years go flying onward, And his family's growing too, He's thinking of his college And his boy who's going through, Little cares he now for trouble, As his boy stands at the head OFf the class, with which he entered, And which he has always led. A Distinguished Trustee. Delaware College, and was a regular attendant on the meetings of the board. The writer remembers well his robust figure, white head, black evebrows, pale face and genial expression of countenance. He was fond of the boys and talked to them in a kindly, affectionate manner. It was a treat to hear him speak, for he always spoke with so much ease and grace. Whenever he made a speech at some place within convenient distance of the college, the students were accustomed to turn out in foree and greet him with enthusiasm. On one 22d of February he delivered an address at New Castle and pronounced a heautiful and glowing enlogy upon Washington which stirred his large audience profoundly and elicited unbounded applause from the college boys. For many a day thereafter they repeated some of his eloquent expressions, He was apt in his quotations from the poets and was especially happy dOHN M. CLAYTON was at one time a trustee of i in his selections from the great English bard, whose works he seemed to have at his tongue's end on all oe- casions. When he spoke in Wilmington after the death of General Taylor, whose Secretary of State he had been, he began his touching tribute to the memory of his lamented chief, by a quotation from Macbeth : - Duncan is in his grave ; After life's fitfal fever he sleeps well. Few men excelled Mr. Clayton in that style of ora- tory characterized as the swawifer fn mods. He soon had his hearers in perfect sympathy with him, and led them along easily; seeming to be as much delighted with them as they were with him, Delawdre does well to be proud of the name and fame of such a man, eminent as he was in the councils of the nation, and excellent in the discharge of his duties as a eitizen, MOne of the Gavly Presidents. gHE Rev. E. W. Gilbert, D. ID., who had the honor of being president of Delaware College twice, was physically siall, but intellectually great. He was a close reasoner and forcible speaker. He made as clear as light every supject he handled. Not- withstanding his slight figure and cracked voice, he had no difficulty in holding the attention of his andience, no matter what was the subject of his discourse. He had profound convictions on all moral questions, expressed his views with unflinching courage, and would not sub- mit to any compromise. The imi:lressiml he made npon the students under him was that of an upright, able and fearless officer. Ewven those whose misconduct subjected them to his censure, respected him. He was deeply read in all philosophical subjects, and his learning was so Co-CEducation at T is a striking coincidence that co-education was abol- ished at Delaware College the very same year that the onuly woman's college ever established in the state was obliged to suspend operations. The Wesleyan Female College grew out of a seminary which was established in Wilmington in 1837. It was chartered to confer college degrees in 18355, and was fairly successful for many years, At one time it had enrolled 257 students, but, about thoroughly digested and assimilated that he could com- mand it at a moment's notice, On the subject of education, he was a firm believer in the old classical course of study, and his pressure in that direction was constantly felt by all who came in con- tact with him. The proper relation to be sustained by a board of trustees to its college faculty he has set forth in a communication made by him to the trustees of Dela- ware College on his election to the presidency of the in- stitution, and the acceptance and approval of that com- munication was of incalculable benefit to the college, 1t bronght cosmos out of chaos, If he had done nothing else for Delaware College than to prepare and submit that paper he would be entitled to lasting gratitnde. Delaware College, il 1874, it began to suffer a loss of patronage, and, after various vicissitudes, it was obliged to close its doors in 1885. Co-education was adopted at Delaware College in 1872, and, after a successful career of thirteen years, was abolished in 1885 by a vote of 13 to 8, ten of the trustees being absent from the meeting. Thus, by thirteen votes of the board of trustees, consisting in all of thirty-one members, Delaware refused to do anyvthing more for the higher education of her women. At the very time when the world was beginning to realize that the advancement of civilization depends more upon the education and cul- ture of women than of men: when the oldest and most conservative colleges, one after another, were throwing down the barriers and admitting women to equal privi- leges with the men, Delaware, though anxious for more students, deliberately took a step backward toward med- iseval monasticism, This is now the only state in the Union where a woman cannot obtain a college education. In connection with the history of co-education at Delaware College, there are three well-attested facts 1.The number of young men attending the college was greater than ever before during the same length of time. 2.They were never more studious and than during the period of co-education, 3.In the distribution of honors, the yvoung ladies, by superior scholarship, carried off more than their pro- portionate share. I have watched the career of a number of colleges after adopting co-education, and in every instance the number of students has steadily inereased under the new conditions, possibly not on account of co-education, but at least in spite of it. The chief friction usually comes from the propensity of women students to carry off the honors, but the trouble from this source is only temporary and is bound to pass away in a few vears, as the men be- come accustomed to the altered cirenmstances, There is no more reason why friction should occur in college on orderly Iox this account than in the high-school or academy, where they recite together, The second fact stated above deserves very careful consideration in every discussion of this question, for it is one which the opponents of co-education are inclined to ignore. There is always a class of students who do their level best under any and all circumstances, and the motre we have of these the better, There is another class, fortunately very small at Delaware College, who shirk every duty, who violate with pleasure every rule, and who have not a single spark of noble ambition latent in their bosoms, Such students are not wanted here. There is also a class hetween these two extremes, to whom study is rather irksome, whose souls do not steadily burn with a desire for knowledge and future achievement. These are likely to be influenced by the second class more than by the first, They have pride enough if it can only be reached. We want to stimulate such stu- dents to their highest endeavor by every possible means, The presence of women in the class will often have a very wholesomme influence on such students in arousing their latent energies and inciting them to do the very best work they are capable of, Delaware College claims to be the crown of the pub- lic school system of the state; but is it, when it refuses to admit the great majority of the graduates of the high- schools on account of sex? The opponents of co-educa- tion may not be aware of the great preponderance of girls in the graduating classes of our high-schools, Last yvear the graduating class of the high-school at Wilming- ton contained 6z girls and 27 boys; at Newark, 8 girls and 4 boys ; at Middletown, 4 girls and z boys; at Smyrna, 1o girls and 4 boys: at Dover, 11 girls and 1 boy ; at Georgetown, 1o gitls and 2 boys; at Lewes, 5 girls and 1 boy; a total of 110 girls to 41 boyvs. I am not able to get the statistics in regard to the other high- schools of the state, but they would probably show about the same proportion, Unfortunately, the majority of our hovs enter business careers either before or immediately after graduating from the high-school, and only a com- paratively small number of them care to get a higher edu- cation, while the girls, many of whom would be glad of the chance to secure a college education, are deprived of the opportunity. For the great majority of the students of the state, therefore, the crown of the public school system is the Delaware high-school, The argument is sometimes advanced that the asso- ciation of both sexes in the same school leads to prema- ture attachments, and consequent neglect of studies, but the evidence of history proves gquite theccontrary. That charming writer, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, danghter of Prof. Phelps, of Andover Theological Seminary, thus relates the results of her observations on this subject in the old scholistic town of Andover: A large academy for bays, and a flourishing semin- ary for yvoung men, set across the village streets from two lively girls' schools, gave to one ohserver of this little scholastic world her first argument for co-education, I am confident that if the boys who serenaded right man- fully under the windows of Abbott Academy or of The Nunnery, ' or who tied their lady's colors to the bouguets that they tossed on balconies of professor's houses, had been put, class to class, in competition with us, they would have wasted less time upon us; and I could not deny that if the girls who cut little holes in their fans, through which one could look, undetected and unre- proved, at one's favorite academy boy on some public occasion, had been preparing to meet or pass that boy at Euclid or Xenophon next morning, he would have ocen- pied less of their fancy. Intellectual competition is simpler, severer and more wholesome than the unmitigated social plane; and a mingling of the two may be found to produce the happiest results, We want no weightier argument for co-education than this, nor from any more authoritative source, The question of the age of admission is one worthy of consid- eration. We have recently advanced the age of admis- siom from fourteen to sixteen years. The age of admis- sion for women ought to be a year or two higher. Let it be not less than seventeen, that we may have, not im- mature girls, but women, Another argument that has been advanced against co-education at Delaware College is the additional ex- pense. The additional eost would be only a trifle in comparison with the present expenses of running the in- stitution, while the rich henefits derived by the state in giving its danghters the same intellectual opportunities as its sons would be a manifold compensation for all it would cost ; the halls of Old Delaware would be thronged with many new students, and the presence of women in the class-rooms would ipcite many to a higher grade of work, Co-CEducation at Delawave Collepe. ITHIN the territorial limits of the State of Dela- ware there is but one institution devoted to the dissemination of higher edueation. This insti- tutionnamely, Delaware Collegeis supported by public funds, and admits as students, tuition free, all male residents of the state who are properly qualified, The college records show, among those who have been enrolled as students, the names of many whose in- fluence in business and political cireles has extended beyond the borders of the state, and whose mental attain- ments have been recognized at the National Capital. It will thus be secen that Delaware College has a ereditable array of alumni, and a glance into its halls to- day will reveal the fact that it is exteding its influence for a higher intellectual development among an increas- ing number of the young men of the state. This is all as it should be and is therefore right and well ; it is not right, however, but a burning injustice and wrong that the doors of this public educational insti- tution are closed to the aspiring young women of the state, simply because they are women. On what ground, for we have a right to know, are they excluded ? Are we, as a people, so filtered with prejudice that we cannot free ourselves from semi-barbarous opinion that woman, being an inferior creature, is not entitled to the same consideration and advantage as man? If this be not the reason that the legends, Let none but males presume to enter here ' is found over the doors of 103 this institution, then what is the reason. Let us look carefully into the matter of co-education of Delaware College, and see if there is a reasonable excuse for the present position of the college relative thereto. In the first place then it is urged that a long conti- nuous line of precedents show us that women have not been admitted to the colleges of men in the past; and that therefore such a thing would be an innovation. To this it may be replied that while it is true that there may be found precedents of this kind, still it is also true that there are plenty of precedents for any old fagy notion ; but we live in an age of advancing civilization where we are not bound by customs that have nothing in their favor except that they are mossgrown with age. Again it is said that the different needs of men and women require that different courses of instriuction be used for each sex. 'T'his is true only to a very limited extent. The principal aim of an education is not so much the number ot facts glanced from years of memorising, as it is the cultivation of the faculties, and the development of a trained intellect ; and the same means may be used for the accomplishment of this object in men and women indiscriminately. The opponents of co-education also say that the strain of competition with the stronger intellect of the men would prove too heavy for the poor women, so we must not allow them to injure themselves in this way, How considerate they are! But unfortunately for that argument its strength has already been tested and ' found wanting,' in the institutions where coeducation now exists, and where the girls have shown themselves fully able to compete with their brothers without any serious inconvenience, and indeed in many cases to carry off more than their proportion of the laurels. The argument against co-education seems to carry the most weight is that the intimate association of the young men and women of college age is attended with grave danger of a moral nature, and that it also serves to attract to each other the attention that should be given their studies. Now while this is to some extent true, still it is very doutful if the exclusion of either from the society of the other is wiser or more desirable, as it tends to the engendering of false, morbid, and romantic ideas to which the school age is peculiarly susceptible, and which proper association would prevent or eliminate. It is not the hothouse culture that produces the most useful plant, but it is the sapling that has heen judiciously ex- posed to the sun and wind and rain that grows into the sturdy oak ; so it is not by excluding the boys and girls from all temptation that strong men and women are pro- duced, but it is the careful oversight, while they are ex- posed to the ordinary temptations of Tife that will develope the healthy moral tone that is so desirable in our citizen- ship. Further than this it has been the experience of many schools that the presence of both sexes serves as a healthy stimulus in their studies, and also iz of noticeable assist- ance in the school discipline. Delaware College herself can bear testimony to this, The following is taken from the History of Education in Delaware, by Prof. Lyman P. Powell ; Co-education was adopted at Delaware Col- lege in June 187z, two years after the reorganization ; and after a suceessful career of thirteen vears was abol- ished, June 24. 1885 by a vote of 13 to 8 1o of the trustees being absent from the meeting. During this time 81 young ladies were matriculated and 37 were gradu- ated. In the distribution of honors the young ladies by superior scholarship carried off more than their propo- tionate share. This department was exemplary. The voung men of the college were never more studious and orderly than during the period of co-education. Morever, their number was greater than ever before during the same length of time. ' Now, if our state is not to fall lamentably behind the advance of civilization, we must provide for the higher education of the young women of the state, and where can thiz be done better or more economically than at Delaware College? I'he capacity of the college is not taxed. It is capable of meeting the intellectual demands of double the present number of students. The people should insist that the public funds, which are here expended for the purpose of producing a more enlightened citizenship, shall be expended for the benefit of the greatest number, so that the state may secure the fullest possible return for its money. In conclusion, since the advance of civilization advo- cates it, public policy and economy require it, justice and right demand it, and the young women of the state add their appeal ; let us by all means throw open the doors of this honorable institution and welcome back co-education to Delaware College. T o-Cducation. grave is essentially co-educational. The parental care surrounding the beginning of life is almost, of altogether, uninfluenced by the thought of the sex of the voung child. For months, and in some cases for several years, the food, clothing and general care given the child invelve little or no thought of sex. And the thought of sex is so far overlooked in the school pro- grammes of our public and high schools, that it is rare to find any recognition whatever for it, Boys and girls up to about sixteen years of age study exactly the same subjects, sit in the same rooms, recite side by side in the same classes, meet and chat before the school door, and in the school halls and very generally play in the same vards. And all this has had the sanction, or at leasat the sufference of our ancestors for long years in the past, At about the age of sixteen, however, this co-educa- tion ceases, and the girls are refused admission in the State of Delaware to the College to which the hoys go at about that age. The girls are to go right on living with men a8 daughters, sisters and a little later, perhaps, as wives and mothers in the same houses, in the same rooms, at the same tables; and socially they may spend with men, in these relations, or as their friends or lovers any hour of the day; and yet, when engaged in strengthening and storing their minds they are refused admission to the place where the young men, their rela- gHH general education of life from the cradle to the 105 tives, friends and former school companions are being educated. Thousand of dollars are spent from year to year in equipping and maintaining in our state a college for men ; and to that college at present no voung woman may be admitted, it matters not how vigorous in health, how fully prepared, how strong in memory, how clear in mind, how thirsty for knowledge, how needy of further mental training for the strugle of life, where her talents and taste would naturally take her. To her sisters in other states, the doors of the state colleges generally stand open wide ; a hearty welcome is given them ; able men and women are these to break the seals of history for her, to teach her of nature of art, of literature, and so, by enriching her thought and refining her taste, by broadening and deepening her view of life to enable her to bring a clearer and richer intelligence and a more charming personality to her home of the future. Not only the state colleges generally, but the leading institutions of this country and Europe have, in the main, either entirely or in part, taken down the bars against woman. A worthier idea of the dignity and des- tiny of woman has touched Harvard, Hopkins, Columbhia, Cornell, Chicago, the University of Paris and many of those of Germany, and now the intellectual bread of life is being given by the professors of these institutions to the long hungering and thirsting sex. In view of the general history of the co-education of young men and young women in other states where the success of the movement is at once so complete and so charming, the valid objection to co-education in Delaware, aside from its cost in dollars and cents would be that the young men or young women, or both, of Delaware are not on so high a moral plain of living as are those of other states. After considerable conversation about the question of co-education with Delawareans in different parts of the state, I have yet to find the first Delawarean who thinks so poorly of our young people, Time was when there were far more valid objections to educating the voung women in the colleges for young men than at present. The mental food given to young men consisting almost exclusively of Greek, Latin and mathematics, was little suited to the masculine intellect, and even less to the female mind. Thanks to the more general sharing of the people at large in the highest educational privileges and attain- ments, the old education, so aristocratic and so largely useless, has given place to an education of life and utility . The material world presses for recognition ; social prob- lems will not down ; the reign of mind and taste over matter and brute force arve apparent ; and colleges have made way for things that breathe and movehiology, the living languages, the mechanical arts, ete., etc. But for the cost, the state of Delaware should write over its college what a man of educational faith and generosity wrote over the institution he founded; I would found an institution where any person can find instruction in any 106 study. Many a young women whose life has been made richer and worthier at that institution has brought a loving tribute of gratitude to its founder. In education, as in other phases of life, there are a few things that the masculine mind may want, yet female intellect does not meed. A young man may want, or think he wants, a guna young woman is usually con- tent to let guns alone, A young man in college may need to study certain phrases of mathematics, electricity, the construction of roads and bridges, ete. A young woman may let all these alome, and yet find enongh, and more than enough, in college studies to try all her powers and train her for the worthiest spheres in life, The fact is, there is little more sex in intellectual food than in food of the table, Just as bread, and meat, and vegetables, and water are good alike for the stomachs of men and women, so the intellectual food offered by a college worthy of the name is good for the minds of men and women alike, It would be just as sensible to have separate tables in our homes for men and women, as it is to have separate intel- lectual tables colleges for our young men and our young women, The attempt to put sex in the study of language and literature, and botany, and chemistry, and in fact into scarcely any of the subjects taught in a mod- etn college, is about as sensible as to put sex into the subject of religion ; or to study history from the zo-called Christian stand-point; or to suppose there is a worthier science, called Christian science. Singularly enough, without seeming to know it, we have had the co-education of young men and young women going on in our churches, and especially in our Sunday-schools, during the whole century, The sanc- tions of religion are apparently supposed to make holy the associations of the young men and maidens who go to church together to learn and worship. But in the Sunday-schools, the voung men and women sit often side by side, sing or read from the same book, discuss freely and fully the great questions of life, including the intri- cate and many-sided questions of human as well as divine love, and yet who protests ? who is harmed who would have it otherwise? What wise superintendent does not give the classes of young men over to the teaching of young women, sure the seats will be filled, the smell of tobacco will decrease, or entirely disappear; that boorizh- ness will give place to politeness; in short, that the boy will give place to the man, and at the same time the girlish teacher shall develop that ever-enduring woman- hood that leadeth us onward. What has been going on, and is still going on, and is likely to continue throughout the length and breadth of our little state in our churches and Sunday-schools viz ; the education of our young men and young women under identical circumstances and with the favoring influence of their mutual interest and reciprocal rivalry cught to he going on in our highest educational institution. If our ideal woman is not a companion to man in the fullest sense of the word, but rather his cook, his housekeeper, what you willonly not a real companion, then keep the doors of our highest educational institution closed to her. 107 But if she is to be such a companion as ghall take an in- telligent interest in all that touches hislife ; if sheis to fill well the important place to which modern life calls her : if she is to grace the parlor, and be at home in the library, as well as direct the kitehen ; if she is to give her children that endowment of intellectual refinement and enthusiasm, and that early intellectual awakening which must come in the main from the mother, then we must unite and urge ber to the fullest training we can give her. How many children of great men have bitterly disappointed the hopes of their fathers largely because the wife and mother was unable to contribute her full share to the natural endowment, and especially to that vigorous training and uplift in tender years which she alone counld have given ! T.et the future mothers, out of the larger resources of a highly trained and cultured mind, pour the wealth of their being into the tender years of their children, and continue their advisers and friends, and Delaware shall soon take a high educational rank among her sister states of the republic, It was once supposed that the education of the mind of necessity weakened the hody. Our colleges are now athlete producers; and even the women are found to be strengthened in body by the regular life, the gymnasium exercise, the excursions for the study of botany, geology, etc. of a college course, The one objection to the highest education of woman that does not vanish before the light, is its cost. To make the highest education possible to the women of Delaware will cost several thousands of dollars yearly. Since, however, the corps of teachers, and the general plant will not have to be duplicated, but simply some- what enlarged when co-education is reinstated in our college, the additional expense may not be so great as is generally supposed. If we may assume that the woman who will come for higher education, shall bring as fine a sense of the proprieties of life, and as great a willingness and firm a purpose to ohbserve them as do the young woman who act as private secretaries, etc., in our towns the college authorities need feel under no obligation to provide apartments or board, or watchers for them. The State of Michigan as also other states do makes no pro- vision for these things for the hundreds of its daughters, that, just as its sons, crowd to its highest educational institutions. The young women find their homes in the homes in the town: and Newark's homes could, and, I do, not doubt, would, offer no less hearty and appreciated reception to the daughters of Delaware. But even with these items of expense rendered unnecessary, co-education will cost. Can we believe, however, that if the people of Delaware realize the importance of the cause, they will fail to bring it every needed offering? Every man, woman and child in the state should feel that the opening of the highest educational privileges to cur women should be made a matter of the greatest interest to the home, the community, and to the whole state. : After a personal experience of nine years in three colleges where young men and young women were edu- cated together, I can say I never knew a young woman to 108 be disciplined or need to be disciplined at college. 1 neither knew duoring that time, nor during the two vears of my own college course spent at a co-educational insti- tution, of any charge of serious unpropriety made against any college woman, and I have known, of fewer cases of injury from among college woman than among col lege men. My observation corroborates the almost uni- versal testimony, that college women, as a class, stand higher in their work, even in the supposed several studies, ag mathematics and logic, than the men. The influence of college women in the lecture room, and in fact every- where, so far as my observation has gone, has invariably been helpful. My admiration for woman could not be what it is had I not, first as student and later as instructor, seen her stand in the light of the lecture, recitation and examination rooms as well as amid the rivalries of college class meetings in the delightful freedom and intimacy of college society, and in the serious hours of college worship and even sorrow. Taken as a class there are no more womanly or charming women than college women. We need women at our college-they need what our college can offer them. And if our doors were open 1o them they would come to us. There is no other institu- tion of equally high grade in the stale to which they may go. From one end of our state to the other there are about four voung women fore ach young man in the classes now preparing for college, that is, doing the work that will fit them for college. Ifallowed to come, these young women would bring their young womanly enthusiasm to guicken the pulse of our old college mother. If every trustee, instructor, alumnus, alumna, and every friend of the college will give serious thought to the subject of the higher education of woman in Delaware, and become the centre of influence and energy in realizing the best thought on this subject, the years the months even-may be few before the bars may be taken down and our young women admitted to equal privileges with young men in our state college. Co-CGducation. Q;IE maost shameful of all the shameful deeds that are being perpetrated by tie men of Delaware to- day is the making of the educational discriminations of ont sex, History has proven that as a people advanced in morality, eivilization and in the knowledge of a Christ, s0 they recognize the equality of man and woman. Parallel with the development of religious freedom is the decay of intellectual distinction between husband and wife. Can it be that Delaware is but on the outskirts of the forest of barbarism? Is it true that the Aurora of pure civilization and Christianity is hidden from us by a cloud of conceit, and that we are enjoying only a few of that Aurora's celestial rays? Men of Delaware, we have just reason to be proud of our birth. We are proud, but has our pride blinded us with the foul dust of conceit? Let us pause a moment and harken to the wise words of the Apostle, when he said: '' He not wise in your own conceit. We think we are educating our boys and girls as well as any other state in the union? Are we thinking rightly? We have not one word to say against the edu- cational advantages of our boys, but we ean not but look at ourselves with shame and contempt, when we know that out of three hundred pupils who graduated from our high schools last year nearly seventy per cent. were girls, who, by the narrow-sightedness of our law makers, are compelled to remain at home and frit away the best of their lives in showy dress, while the thirty per cent., or the boys, have thrown open to them the doors of a first- class college, where they can practically get a free college course at the government's expense, Is this right? Is it fair? Isit honest? Isit civil? Tous, the education of our girls is the gravest question that we as Delawareans of to-day, have to consider, forupon the decisions of this question depends our place of honor among the states. We are continually howling about political corruption ; if we would educate our girls who are to be the motherz of the coming generations, it would do much toward banishing from our borders all financial, ambitious, political wretches. Is there doubt as to the truthfulness of the above assertion? Let us for a moment examine it. We will all agree that an ignorant mother can not help sarround- ing her children in their earliest years with ignorance, prejudice and moral weakness; that she wastez, on account of the lack of intellectual development, the sacred bonds of love and reverence that make youthful impressions indelible ; that natural instinets may secure a certain amount of physical and perhaps a slight founda- tion for a moral education for her children, but they are insufficient to make a mother; that individual virtue must be inculcated by individual influence, and that that individual influence must be exerted by the mother, and not by clubs, societies or associations ; that a woman's uneducated feelings and instincts do not fit her for domes- tic life, but indeed do little more than endow her with mere animal love for her husband and children ; that an ignorant mother can neither make fit companions or ad- visers for their husbands, nor guides and examples for their children ; that a thoroughly uncultivated woman may be, if affectionate, a pleasant toy ; she may be sharer of her hushand's more insignificant joys and eares, but she can never be his most valued companion, or his most trusted friend ; that legislatures and economists will try in vain to convince man of truths, till the moral and intellectual influence of the mother teaches him to wish and strive to act upon these truths, and the sum of all 8 s we have said is: That man is but what woman makes him, hence, in order that man may be man, woman must be educated. If the above assertions are true as we firmly believe them to be ought not we, in all our pride, feel full of mean- ness when we reflect upon the conditions of our young wo- men; when we take intoconsideration the thousandsof dol- lars of our state funds that are being triflingly spent, when we recognize the fact that Delaware College receives an- nually about $40,000 of government money for the edueca- cation of our youth, and only boys are admitted to the class rooms of the college, and when facts compel us to know that there iz not one cent of the public money donated for the higher education of Delaware's young women. No other state cares so little for her girls, Are not these facts alarming? Can we expect refined, cul- turedd men to be the offspring of uncultured, ignorant women ? What are we to do in order to rightfully hold our high place of esteem among the sisterhood of states ? In the midst of our intermingling hope and anxiety, we, the Junior Class of Delaware College, with all the ardor, zeal and determination that our young hearts possess, call upon our faculty, our trustees, our alumnee, the various Woman's Century Clubs throughout the state and all other individuals and societies who are interested in the future manhood of Delaware, to join us in our earnest appeal for the equal education of our boys and girls, which apparently can only be accomplished by adopting co-education at Delaware College. TFreshman's Fivet Letter, DELAwARE COLLEGE, NEWARK, DELAWARE, September 11, 1897, My Idvarest Pa and Ma : Well, Ma, after you left, I fixed up and the boys came in to see me. Iam liking it first class. I hope yon will be proud of your boy some day. Please send me a check. Good bye. Your affectionate son, G Ireshman's Second Letter, Derawarg COLLEGE, NEWARK, DELAWARE, September 11, 1897. My Onliest Own :- For the first time in my life I am privileged to write to my little girl. It seems so strange, to have to write to 11K you, yet 'tis so sweet, I have been at the college less than twenty-four hours, yet how long it seems! Will my entire stay here be pro- portionally as long ? Is it possible that T am to be separated from you by three months intervals for four vears? 1 see no other hope. But our temporary separation will only cause us to appreciate each other's company and love more when we do meet. Since we are parted you will allow me to call you ' My onliest own,' now, won't yon ? You can form but a false idea of my love for you. I have placed your picture on my desk, where I can sce it all the time. Excepting you, I think it by far the sweetest thing I have ever seen. Oft times in my life I have seen boys take their girl's picture, press them to their hearts and kiss them, How silly this seemed to me Vet to-night I could not refrain from doing the same thing. It does not seem so foolish as it used to. When I zee in your picture those deep, fathomless blue eyes, that well-formed mouth, that prominent nose and that broad, intelligent forehead, my whaole soul is stirred, for I see all that is destined to make me happy, and if I miss you, my all, I am doomed to a reckless grave. But, dearest, why should I sospeak? I doubt not sincerity ; you are a grand, good girl. In my imagin- ation I see in you all that is good, all that is true, all that is sincere, all that is mefde. What more conld I see? The imaginative view of heaven loses its splendor, its charms and its faseination when T, in my mid day dreams, e you. Now, Leve, the time has come for me to bring this piece of scribbling to a close. Write me nice, long sweet letters ; I will look only too anxiously for them. Vou will not disappoint me, will you? Write as often as vou think best. Fach day that brings me a letter from my own little girl will be a good day. I had rather we not have certain days to write, for then our writing would become a duty, a task, and not a privilege, a pleasure. Write scon to your own little college boy. 1 feel confident of success at college with such an incentive as my dear little correspondent. With a most affectionate good-bye and a kiss, I am, ves, truly, Your devoted lover, 5 00 Foent, Hail ! to the year of nineteen hundred, When from Delaware's massive halls, A gallant class shall then go forth To battle the world and its calls, Sophomores now, but two years hence, When the place of Seniors were hold, The world can read from our motto, That wisdom is better than gold. Two yeara in haste have sped hy Their recollections we shall ever retain ; I'wo years more we must struggle and toil, Before the crowned summit we gain. In numbers we are just eighteen, All zealous and eager for knowledge, But a happier, jollier or noisier class Never entered old Delaware College. Brave, voung and noble knights are we, Just now in the prime of life ; Courage and valor we must acquire, In order to hattie the strife. The clags-room presents us its trials, T'will be the same in after years, When memaory recalls our college days, And the future is dimmed by our fears. I mathematics we take great pride, Cerman and French we read all through, While chemistry we all have mastered, With the aid of an explosion or two. In athletics, all honor to us, We are the champions now, The other classes one and all, Must to our greatness bow, Our class contains a great orator A boy of very great size And althongh he came from Snssex, He very easily won the prize. Now placing all our glory aside, And as over the roll I pass, The namiea that we here find written Are an honor to any class, Of course 1 can't mention each one, And tell of his power and fame, But I hope that in future years, Each one shall be an honored name, When at last that goal is won, May the future hold in store Many pleasant days for one and all, Like those which have gone before. Now, in conclusion, I can justly say, That we all shall ever be true ; To that grand old ecllege, Delaware, From which floats the gold and blue. Elass Poen, Nanghty-nanght, naughty-naught, Not a cheer have we songht ; Two times nine lusty throats swell the chorus We are Delaware boys, S0 let's each make a noise, Ag loud as was ere made before ua. Two years gone, LWo years gone, As the time rolls along, And much have we lost by our folly, But whatever is lost, When by the world we are Lossed, We'll find that it pays to be jolly. l.la. Two years more, wo years more, Awaitins in store, It is sure that the time will seem long ; Although long it may seein, Let it not be in dream OF the world and its own meddling throng, Chemistry, chemistry, Were we like unto thee ! Fur your symbaols, several thousand or more, Take our brains on a fight, And our dreamas every night, Are of tons of H'SO, Recitations, recitations. Surpass expectations ; Im trig. French, German, mechanics and Greek, Good marks we always earn, At the end of each term, And truly that's just what we seck. In our drill, in our drill, We are all very still ; The captain, with his commands strict and true, Sometimes, just for fun, Finds some rust in our gun, But such cases, I assure you, are few. Every night, every night, We are always f in sight OF the Professor who comes round te our room ; Sometimes, it is queer, His knocks we can't hear, But of course we must retire 7 scon. Del-a-ware, Del-a-ware, With thy pennant so fair, 'Tis that time-honored old gold and blue, Which makes us all glad, When otherwise sad, And as her sons we shall gver be true. 114 In speaking of our faculty, I'll give yon, as a starter, The name of our new president Tis Dr. George A. Harter. He ig a man, we all confess, Who sorely knows his duty ; He teaches ns our Physics well, And tells us of its beauty. i Vs Another name as yet I gee Tia Dr. H. E. Eves; He studied each disease of heasts, And tries to save their lives. There's Charles J. Hibberd also, Instructor in the shop He watches all the boys at work, And marks them way ap top. The Faculty. The next in line is Dr. Wolf, Vice-Freaident vou must know ; He is the man who taught us To spell water H,O. And when we go into his class And see the things he does do, It makes us wonder, what on carth This world is coming to. Iv. Among the names vel on our file, William Bishop now we see, He is the man who talks to us Of huga, and hirds, and bees. He's also our librarian, Who deals to us our books, And makes us all keep silence Just by his very looks. vI. There's several more to come up yet ; The first is William Pratt, Who went up to Alaska To sec where it was at. And coming back, reported, That as far as he could see, A railroad to that country wounld Of great advantage be, 115 Our secretary we can't forget, He's our civil engineer, In whom we always recopnize A man who koows not fear. But Frederie H. Robinson, On clear or stormy days, Takes out the boys and makes them make Most careful of snrveys. e VII. Now, as we look upon our list, The next name that we spy Is Edward N. Vallandigham, Otnie of oor own alumni. He teaches us our History, And English Composition ; And, after class, walks several miles To keep in good condition. VI, IX, X And still we see another one Professor Conover comes next There is a name I ne'er forgot, 'Tis that of Doctor Manning ; ' Upon our books, we see; For his pardon now I pray He is the man who fills us fall He talks to us of Latin words, Lieutenant Walter Gordon, Of French and Gerthan Grammar, And how they all agree. Of the 18th, 7. 8. A, He taffies us on doing well- He tells us of the ancient Greeks, He is the one to whom we owe 4 The smartest class alive ! ' Atid of the war they fought, The thanks for our new suits, And we congratulate ourselves Just becanse sweet Helen was And for the three new bugles If we get 55. By wily Paris caught. With which we toot the toots. XI. XII. In Elocution we have now There's one 1 have not spoken of A man we all know well, The smartest man alive ; Who used to be our president He finished at Old Delaware Tis William H. Purnell. In Eighteen Ninety-Five. He tells us how he wishies ns He spent one year at ' Pennsy, To sinnd and make a speech ; Came back ; and we confess And at the end of every term In electrical engineering Gives g5 to each. He makes n very good Profess, e 16 Funior Roll Call. As for Avrora, our first effort vou know, You can have one of these when you hand out your dongh, B for Joe Brown, known as Fiddler Joe,' He's the one in our class who best handles the bow. C is for Chipman, the man who took sick, To get into our class for he knew we were slick. D's for Du Hadway, his girl's age thirteen, He sees hier each evening that he visits Christeen E is for Eddie who was ne'er known to holler, But that is because of his four-inch high collar. F's for the flunks of which there are few, But fewer's the number that have passed them off too. i's for Pea Green, a curions young gent, Who cannot play foot hall his legs are so bent., H is for Harley he's the Big Goat ' von know, He started this season some whiskers to grow, I s for Ikey ' a queer little jew, Who supplies all our matehies and strings for the shoe. Jis for Johnson, our editor-in-chief, The way hiz work's done affords us relief. K's for the knowledge we get from our books, You can easily see we are wise by our looks. L. is for Lewis, his other name's Hddie, In honor of his hair he's always called ' Reddie.' 1 is for Marshall, our artist you must know, Who with pen and pencil was ne'er very slow, N i for Nanfiy, our goat ' number two, Whae'll feed on a show bill, gum coat or a shoe. 117 s for oecasions that come in our way, And help us the cash for AURORA to pay: Ps for the pies, we have after dinner, But the cook's bread pudding is surely a winner. Q's for the quarters, the halves and full pages, Merchants use these to help mise their wages. R s for Dick Reed, our wonderful short stop, Whao's never been known a good ball to let drop, S is for Stewart, a stately voung fellow, Whese hair is not all red bat part is vellow. T s for the tricks that we play while at school, For when we leave here we'll have no time to fool. LJ my dear readers, both the yvoung and the ald, 1 thank you sincerely for your silver and gold. Vs for the vacations from two weeks to four, The faculty gives when they can give us no more. WW's for the workers, we'er ten times two, This Junior class that put AurRora ' through, X is for the xplosions, in the chemistry class, That raise a big racket and smash all the glass. Y not send your boys mow to '' Old Delaware, Mathematics and chemisiry, both are taught there. ZE French and der German, Italian and Spanish, Help each one of us his home sickness to banish, now our dear friends who have read through these lines, And helped on this work of old ninety-nines. We thank you each one as surcly we ought, And hope that this next year you'll help nanghty-nanght. B ot Time On Klondyke To-night. A8 composed by Virgil Moore and sung as the Alki sailed from Seattle, August 3, 18g7 When we sailed on the good old ship Alki, Our best girl stood on the bank, with a tear-drop in her eye. When we come back she'll wenr dinmonds every day There'll be a hot time in our town to-night. We're going north to get that good old gold ; While we dig that yellow stuff, we'll never feel the cold. When we make our hundred dollars o day There'll be a hot time on Klondyke to-night. Now good-bye girls, and don't you shed a tear ; We'll come back and marry you in one short, happy year, Then we'll take a Enropean tour- There'll be a hot linie in Paris that night. When we walk across that Chilcoot trail, Hanging on with might and main to a bucking broneo's tail, Then we'll wish that we were safe at home And the Devil take the Klondyke that night Taken from Prof. Pralt's lecture A Trip to the Interior of Alaska. There were three Freshies young and strong, Three Freshies both bold and sly, And they had sworn a solemn oath, That Naughtv-naught ' must die. Their hearts were fixed on some revenge, Just what, they did not know, So they talked the matter o'er and o'er For several hours or so. At lnst they agreed upon this plan : We must surely show the people, That 'or ' rules the college, So we'll paint it on the steeple. One Side. 115 They took some paint and with a brush Put o1 ! bold and white, Upon the college capola, And then yelled with delighi. The Sophs must now give way to us, They eried with jovful glee, Their class contains no siagle boy, Who will so risky be. Mo Soph will dare to climb up there, And then the town can see, That o1 leads the classes, An honor, indeed, will it be, The letters appeared artistic, And could be seen on every side, Because Ted ' had held the ladder, And Mag the brosh applied. The Sophs next day were raving mad, Very little did they say, But quietly said to one another, Where there's a will there's o way. In shorter time than T can tell, 'o1 appeared as never, Andd painted just above this Then '' Rab' put on his thinking cap, And devised a plan 8o neat, That all the boys agreed with him That it was hard to beat. About one o'clock on Friday night, Three Sophs, just to a man, Did slowly climb the fire-escape To carry out their plan. Was Nanghty-naught ' forever. The Qther Side. There is a class in old D. C., Who are very wise, as you can see, In everything but noise they're left, Even in the making of a jest. Of course we term them very wise, Though they are only Sophs in disguise ; They came a year ahead of us, And now they make an awful fuss. With all their wisdom they couldn't see Anything higher than the campus trees, Until some Freshmen, one fair eve, Painted our number 'o1 to the breeze. 119 Next morning along comes Mr. Soph, My ! how his eyes began to pop, Becange on the cupola he could see 1 1 aeecompanied by old ' D. C. How the news began to flash, Let's have a meeting ot the class; To think that we, so full of knowledge, Should undergo such awful folly. As time went on, so did they, But not along in their nsual way, Becanse for the first time this year, They for snggestions turned an ear. In the course of seven weeks or more, They finally reached the cupola door, And with their wisdom carefully wronght: D.C., Coba'' and o0 Nanghty-naught.' My ! how they did walk abont, To think ' o1 had been rubbed out ; To know how easily thiey had scanned, The work the Freshies carcfully planned. And now the eupola doth bear '01, which it can proudly wear; Not very long conld we see 'oo on the cupola of old . C. Where they went you shall know, And just how the Freshmen made them go. Next day some Freshies with brush and paint Ouickly removed the awful taing; Mol with a dozen in the dark hour of night, But before the Sophs eyes, in broad daylight, And the Sophomores ns a class agree, That o1 is the best in old D0 C, Iz Elthletic Elssociation. Edmund S. Hellings ; : : ; : : 5 President Joseph Brewster . 2 3 ; Vice- President Henry W. Revbold ; : : - : . : Secretary F. Olin MacSorley : : : : : : . Financial Secrefary C. M. Curtis : ; : A ' 1 : ; Treasurer Waldo Wilson ; : : : : y . Foot Ball Manager George Vickers . : : : : : : Base Ball Manager Everett . Johnson ' : ! 4 ; . . Tennis Manager Ebe Walter y . s . 3 : . Gymnasiven Manager ia1 FootFIBall. door sport at Delaware College. The student body takes a lively interest in the game. Until four years ago we did not have a purely college team. We playerd college teams that had players who were not college students, and we played athletic clubs. Since then a change has been made in foot ball. We now play I:OGT BALI has been for years the principal out- 122 colleges whose players are college students and our players are college students. We have stopped playing foot ball with athletic clubs. The change at first weakened our team, but we are gradually recovering lost strength. The team of last season was better than the team of the preceding year, and we expect next year a further improvement. The team of 'g7 was undoubtedly with the students the most poptlar that we have ever had. We opened the foot ball season of 'g7 with three vacant positions to be filledcentre, quarter-back and right half-back. With so many of the old players back in college, it seemed that the chances for success were good, This year, as in tormer years, we were handicapped by the light weight of the men and the lack of a regular coach. The teams that we met on the gridiron were on the average five to twenty pounds heavier than our men. We could hardly expect our team to be successful against heavy teams, especially in the mass plays that were so much used last season. Another great disadvantage was the short time we had each afternoon for practice. Nearly all of our players are engineering or scientific students, and they had work in the shops or labora- tories until 5 o'clock every afternoon, except Friday. Several of our players are day students, who come to town by rail, and they have to leave Newark before 6 Py D F S ACIND 5 . r LA - . o ! fhai AT o'elock. Our team was at a disadvantage in playing classical college teams that had two hours each afterncon for practice. Last season we had an organized scrub team, some- thing that was lacking the year before. These men undoubtediy helped the first team greatly. Before this year we had never met St. John's College or Ursinus College on the foot ball field. The team played seven match games during the season, winning one and tieing one. HBecause of injuries to several of our players we wete compelled to cancel the game with Johns Hopkins University, and for the same canse the team disbanded a week before the close of the season. The first game of the season was played at Newark with Haverford Col- lege. Our team was weakened by the absence of Marvel and Vansant. The Haverford team was much heavier than ours. When the Haverford team came on the field our Freshmen stared and wondered. They did not know what particular kind of insanity our manager had when he arranged for a game with so heavy a team. The Haverfords were simply too much for our men, and the final score was: Haverford, 16; Delaware, o. The second game was played with Swarthmore, at League Park, Wilmington. Swarthmore won, 12 to 6, but it was the best game we ever played against them. Hartman made the touchdown for Delaware and kicked the goal. The next game was played at Newark, with Ursinus College, and our team won, 4 to o. Delaware had the ball a yard from the Ursinug goal line when time was 125 called for the first half. In thesecond half Mason carried the ball across the line for a touchdown. The less said about the last game with Haverford the better, Qur team played poorly, Haverford plaved magnificently, and the final result was never for a moment in doubt. Our team unsually manages to play one particularly bad game each season, and this season was no exception. After that game, Rice of the University of Pennsyl- vania, coached our team for a week, and the playing of the men was very much better in the second game with Ursinus and in the game with St. John's. In the last game of the season we had as our oppon- ents the heavy team of Pennsylvania Military College. Our team was much weakened by the absence of several of our players, and it was simply a case of how much P. M. C. could score. The team of the past season was strong on the de- fensive, but lacked scoring ability, The men would carry the ball to within a few yards of the opponent's goal line but could not earry it across. There are two men, Morris and Vansant, who de- serve especially to be complimented. They played hard, consistent foot ball throughout the season. Morris at right-guard played a strong game, both on defensive and offensive, and Vansant played a remarkable game on the end. At the close of the season Harrison W. Vickers, Jr., was chosen captain for the next year. He has plaved an end on the college team for two years. : Foot Ball Team. Caplain, J. T. Mullins. Manager, W. C. Wilson, Assistand Manager, F. O. MacSorley. Left Crward, Marvel. Cendre, Hughes. Right Guard, Morris, Lert Fnds, Vickers, Baldwin, Left Tackle, H. K. McCabe. Kight Tackle, Mullins, Righi End, Vansant. Left Half-Backs, G. N. Davis, Mason, Ouecar fer-Fack, Hartman. Right Hall-Back, Wolf. Lull-Back, Plerce. Substitutcs. Baxter, Guard. Green, Fackle. Trotter, Fnd. Nivin, fnd, E. H. McCabe, Mali-Back. E. G. Davis, Tackle. Constable, Fud. J. K. MacSoerley, Right ffaif- Back. Reybold, Cuarfer-Back. Second Team, E. H. McCabe, Jr., Caplain. Marshall, Knox, McCoy, McKeon, Baker, Walter, H. E. Tunnell, Ott, Paxson, H. E. Tunnell, Stockley, Cann, 126 First Ope Thing Ghen Another Sussexr Club. SE Ownaeris Comitatem Amocnam, ad Sussicem. Evererr C. Jouxson - : : : p . . President. H. E. TUNNELL : : ; : ; ; First Vice-Presidend. J. W. RICEARDS o - ; . . Second Viee-President. Ere WALTER : ; l - i ; : Third Vice- President. H. M. Mogrris A : : : . : Fourtk Vice-President. E. M. BAker . : f : : : Recording Secrelary. H. R. ToNEELL : - ; : ; . Corresponding Secrelary. H. E. McCapg . : v . . i . ; : Treasurer AxprEw MARVEL RoDNEY SHARPE 5 : ; ; ; 2 Board of Directors. J. B. MEssick 128 gy Shakespearean G:Iu-b. H. 1. CONSTABLE . E g - . 3 - ; FPresident. Ep. Kravse, . . 5 : . - g : Vice-President. THos. GEO. BAXTER 1 L 4 A : - . Secrelary., EverErr C. JoHNSON . : : ; . : : . Treasurer, G. N. Davis - L ; ; A Flivectors., GrEORGE VICKHRS Officers. Hvce M. Morris Ro MAacSorLiey 2 : 3 i First Vice- President, President, E. Moxror BAKER : ; . Second Viee-President. THOMAS GRORGE BAXTER . . . Recording Secretary. J. Varer Craic : : : Corresponding Secrefary. E. H. McCapg : : : . . Treasurer. 130 Egpmublican G:lup;. Edmund 3, Hellings ; 3 A ' i : Fresident., Archibald Grant : ' . ' : : . d5t Vice-Presidend, West A. Trotter ? : : : ; 1 2d Viee-President. Harold K. Paxson . : : : ; : Recording Secretary. Joseph W. Rickards 3 : . 3 - Corresponding Secretary. Willard F. Wood . 4 . . c 3 a . Treasurer. Thonorary fidembers. His Excellency, William McKinley, Honorable Thos. Reed, Delaware College Boarding Club. Everett C. Johnson : : i : ' : ; Fresident, Hareld Green ; : : ; . . ; : Vice- President. E. Monroe Baker ; ' . ' ' . . : Secrefary. Henry W. Reybaold : + ; 2 : ; 2 . Treasurer. Harley K. McCabe . f ; ; : . : Commissary. L. L. Pratt. Auwditors H. W. Vickers, Jr. Ebe Walter, 131 Delaware College Review. Published monthly during the college year by the Press Association of Delaware College. John T. Mullins, '98 Hugh M. Morris, 'g8 Lilerary - 5 Focal ' i Athietic Exchange in fcr-f,':?ffsgfaff Do Aluwenis Verse . Business Manager 5t Assistant Business Mranager 2d Assistant Business Manager Editorial WBoard. Hsasociates. Pepartment Editors, Business Department, 132 Editor-tn-Chicf. Edmund 8. Hellings, 'q8 H. Lyttleton Constable, 'g8 Edwin Krause, ' Harold Green, ' George Vickers, 'gg West A. Trotter, Everett C. Johnson, ' Thos. B, McKeon, ' g5 g8 8 G. Edgar Folk,'g8 Harvey L. Vansant, 'oo Joseph W. Brown, 'gg E?reclamation Contest. June 14, 1897, Roger O. Mason . .+ .. . . . e 4 i oww s v s s Wreck of the Northern Belle: Everett - Jobmaod: 07 s s e L Tn T, e i i e oo The New South. Harley K. McCabe . . . . . . . . T e P NN T + + o Valley Forge. Fdmund 8. Hellings . .. .. .. .. e e Eulogy on U. 5. Grant. West A. Trotter , . . ., , e e e N e hs o On the Tennessee. Tk S T e e L LR R R . + - Legend of Bregenz. Prizes Ewarded, Andrew Marvel, Roger O. Mason, Everett C. Johnson. fden who hope to be Commissioned in the hinds and Moble Cavalry Troop. Tlmmas Geo. Baxter, T Harry Baynard, Charles Edwin Lewis, Everett C. Julmsml, Lewis IJU Hadway, Harold GTL'L'N. : ; o e Frank Ulll n MacSorley, e Andrew IlOnm.:H Marshall, Ruger 0. -?1'1.:.1501':, Richard Paul Reed, GeQ. 1.. Meaill, HarrisoN W. Vickers, ::,-!. Har!eY King McCabe, Geo. Ha Rlan Wells, Geo, u li:kf:rs. witlarD F. Wood, Edv.'arfi H. McCahe, Joseph W. BRown, James L. Stewari. 134 ORCANIZATION President 15t, Sergeant E. C, JONNSON Secretary Cadet H. W. VICKERS Treasurer Sergeant . H. McCasg, Jr. Sotseeir: ' 7 PP, jfzmd:'y.f? ereeng,. rff b, KDY, vl sreree o COMMITTEES INVITATIONS Cadet . 0. MackorLey Ch, 16, Sergeant J. W. Brows Cadet H, GurEs Cadet . H. Haviaen, Jr Cadet G. H. WELLS FLOOR Cadet G, W, Vickurs, Ch. Cadet Ep, WonDaLE sergeant K, 0. Mason Cadet A. D, MARSHALL Zergeant G. 1, MEDILL REFRESHMENTS Cadet T. G. BaxTER, Ch. sergeant J. L. STEwWanRT Cadet H, L. DUHADWAY Caadet H. K. McCask Caodet B, Lews FJunior Promenade. T is impossible to give our readers a fair idea of our I Junior Military Promienade. However, we don't think we should publish this book without making an attempt to describe it. oy We do not believe we flatter ourselyes when we say that beyond a doubt our Promenade was the grandest mid-year ball that the boys of our College have ever given. It was Delaware's first Military Ball. The aunditorinm was handsomely decorated with the class colors cream and olive and the College colors Llue and gold. The platform was .heautifully ornamented. with a number of finely embroidered American flags and war equipments. Overhead waved buntings of all coloers, while here and there odd Japanese lanterns shone with great briliancy. Music, furnished by a Baltimore orchestra, gave cheer to every heart and caused scores of merry feet to move gracefully about the room. : We know many people will read this book, and will wonder how sensible college boys cantuphold dancing, We will not atlempt to discuss the propriety of college balls. though we do think we should give the public our idea of dancing. When we say we' we do not mean 135 the entire student body nordo we mean the entire Junior Class, but we do mean the majority of the Junior Class. We believe nice social evening dances do no harm, but,. rather, they do good, Nothing lightens our College life more than to have our minds now and then entirely carried away from our daily routine of duties, and nothing seems to obtain this end better than by having a short vacation evening dance or entertainment of some kind. We, greatly to the shame of every true Delawarean, have no ladies in our College. Tt is necessary that we should have some schooling in society, and, shockingly as it may -seem to some we unhesitatingly say, we have found no school that is so well adapted for the training of polite young men as the various receptions which are given at Delaware College. They are harmless, By them we become acquainted with the most refined and cultured people of our town. By them we are taught to respect and through them we are respected. By them what was once rough worth- less rock-in the hillside is- polished and becomes fine valuable gramite. In truth, we are rounded out and become symmetrical beings, ready for the world by being acqupinted with the nature of man. '09, 'One of the few immortal names, That were not born to die.' A-m-tr-g : Shylock is my name. 'Shakespeare. B-yn-rd: 1 am an ass indeed ; you may prove it by my long ears. Shakespeare, B-ow-n: He was a man of an unbounded stomach. Shakespeare. B-xt-r: A politician . . . one that would circumvent God. 'Shakespeare, Du-H-dw-y: His wit invites you by his looks to come, But when yon knock, it never is at home. ' Cowper. Ge-n: 3 A buck of the first head. Shadespeare. J-h-s-n: An admirer of auburn hair. 'Euver ybody. L-w-s: I am slow of study. Shaktespeare. M-d--1: a You have such a February face. ' Shakespeare. -5-1 : He would himself have been a soldier.' Shatespeare. 136 Mc-a-e, H: A beast that wants discourse of reason. Shakespeare, Mc-a-e, E: 'In came Fezzewig, one vast, substantial smile. ' ickens. M-rs-all : He was staid, and in his gait Preserved a grave majestic state.''8Butler. M-c5-rl-y: Too busy with the crowded hour to fear to live or die' 'FEmerson. Re-d t As proper a man as one shall see in a summer day. Shakespeare, St-w-rt: A very gentle beast and of good conscience. ' Shakespeare. Vck-1s, G: Why may not that be the skull of a lawyer ? Shakespeare, V-ck-rs, H: i Give me another horse Bind up my wounds, A horse! a horse! My kingdom for a horse. 'Shakespeare. Elovertisements, WANTED.A good Baker wants a position at a moderate salary. A Mason.For commission as corporal to help build fortifications. WEeLLs ddg on short notice. REED'S for lyres liars and other musical instru- ments, Pies a specialtyMarvel. Avar rifles, by Sophomores. For SALE,A Marvel ous Hyland Trotter. NeTs and fishing tackle. Inguire of Jake. Lakz HoreL. McSorley, Proprietor, Cannoxn and war supplies. Springer. Emory ParEr.A full supply at Vickers'. A CorNELL catalogue. . Very interesting. Ebe. PExs Faders. Mason, ArMSTRONG'S best cotton. Krause. CThis and That. Junror Carcurus: As tedious as a tired horse. SorHS, GRAVEYARD : Born but for one brief day. Co-Epucation: Hail to thee! Hail to thee! Daughters of morning. Foor Barr: This s no world to play with mammets and to tilt with lips. 'We must have bloody noses and crack'd crowns and pass them current, too.Shakespeare. CHEMISTRY CLASSES: A paradise of fools to few unknown.''Millon. To Tuz Facvrry: Judge not, that ye be not judged.''8ible. 137 JUNIOR RETROSPECT. Junior NOW Freshman THEN. De Ellumnis, arranging the work de alwmwnis, the editor has not attempted to compleie a list of the graduates farther back than the reopening of the college in 1870. He is not sure that be all the information embodied in this list is correct, but trusting that the work may be pof some interest to at least a few, he has done his best with the means at hand. As a tree 1s known by its fruit, s0 is a college known by its alumni. While Delaware College cannot boast a long list of graduates, she may feel proud of the record made by many of her children. In look- ing over the history of the alumni of the college, we find men, who once wore the gold and blue of old Delaware, not only in the front ranks of many of the professions, but also in places of trust and honor, both state and national. From the following list of students, who have won distinctionalthough the list is by no means ex- haustiveit can readily be seen that the college has sent out many noted men : Dr. D, Haves Agnew, the famous surgeon and medical writer. George R. Riddle, United States Senator, 1864-67. Willard Saulsbury, United States Senator, 1850771 ; Chancellor of Delaware, 1873-18g2. Anthony Higgins, United Siates Senator, 188g-18g3. James R. Lofland, Congressman from Delaware, 1872-74. 139 Edward L. Martin, Delaware's Representative in the Forty- Sixth Congress. Williatns G. Whitely, Associate Judge of Delaware, Edward G. Bradford, an eminent lawyer, and Judge of United States District Court of Delaware. John H. Paynter, Associate Tudge of Delaware. Gove Saulsbury, M. D., Goverhor of Delaware, 1866-1870. Rev. John W. Mears, professor of philosophy in Hamilton College, Mew York ; nominated for Congress in 1871, and later for the governorship of New York by the Prohibitionists; author of many books. Willinm H. Purnell, L. L. D, president of Delaware College, 18701885, Nathaniel F. C. Lupton, president of University of Alabama, 1851-74 ; author of '' Lupton's Scientific Agriculture. Edward 8. Joynes, professor of modern language in South Carolina University ; author of Joynes-Meisner German Grammar, Joynes' German Reader, Classic French Plays, ele. William F. Causey, Seeretary of State of Delaware, 1853-87. John G. McCullough, Attorney-General of California, 186367 ; vice-president of the Panama Railroad, George W. Bagley, M. D., editor of Lynchburg Va. Daily Express, 1853 editor of the Richmond Whig, after the war; a frequent contributor to Harper's Magazine, Atlantic Monthly, Lip- pincott's Magazine, under the title of Moses Adams ; also historian of Virginia. James H. McMeill, secretary of the American Bible Society. Rev. George McNeill, editcr of the North Carolina Preshyterian. Capt. Alexander McRes, the hero of Valverde, Rev. Epher Whitaker, anthor of f History of Sounthold,' Long Tsland. ' Gen. Adam E. King, Consul-General to Paris, 185go. Lewis C, Vandegrift, United States Attorney for the Digtrict of Delaware. Willinmm R. Martin, Judge of Second Judicial Circuit of Maryland. From the opening of the College in 1834 to its sus- pension in 1839, 454 students were enrolled; of whom only 126 were graduated. As the doors of the college were closed from 1859 to 1870 nostudents were graduated during this period. From 1870 to 18g7, 587 students were entolled, of whom 200 were praduated. The total number of students of the college to 18g7 is, therefore, 1041, and the total number of graduates to 1897 is 326. Graduates From 1870 to 1897, 1873, E. Morris Cloak, B. . M. D., Smyma, Del., deceased. James H. J. Bush, B. 5., Wilmington, Del., deceased. Edward N, Vallandingham, B. 5., Newark, Del., professor of the English language and literature and political science in Dela- ware College. 1874. Harry W. Colvin, A. B., New York, N. Y., deceasei. Gouverneur Emerson, A. B, M. I., Milford, Fa., deceased. William R. Martin, A. B., Eakton, Md., lawyer, and Judge of Second Judicial Circuit of Maryland. G. William Marshall, A, B. M. D., Milford, Del, ptactlting tedicine, J. Newton Huston, A. B., West Chester, Pa., lawyer. Alexander F. Willinmson, A. K., Newark, Del., in the insur- ance business in Philadelphia, Thomas Lumb, Jr., B. ., Newark, Del. 1878, Thomas Davis, A, B., Wilmington, Del., lawyer. Walter F., C. Galt, A. B, Indianapolis, Ind., a bank cashier. George Morgan, A. B., Philadelphia, Pa., Philadelphia Press. Walter C. Curtis, Fh, B., Newark, Del. Frederic W. Curtis, Ph. B., Newark, Del. SepHmus D. Jay, Ph. B. M. IL., Havre-de-Grace, Md., de- ceased. Lewis C. Vandegrift, Ph. B., Wilmington, Del., lawyer, United States Attorney for the District of Delaware. Elisabeth 8. Blandy, B. L., Newark, Del. Mrs. Williamson. Hasriette H. Curtis, B. L., Glusgow, Del. Mrs. Delaware Clark, Ella V. Mackey, B. L., Mt. Vernon, N. Y. George I, Davis, B. L., Milford, Del., decensed. John Webster Darsey, B. L., San Francisco, Cal., lawyer. 1876. William J. Ferris, A. B., New Castle, Del., President Board of Edueation, New Castle National Bank. John K. Martin, A. M., paymaster in the II. 5. Navy, on the U. 8. cruiser, Boston. George Balderston, Ph. B. William I, Heisler, Ph, B., Philadelphia, Pa., deceaged. Thomas Jaquette, Ph. B., Newark, Del., farmer. Jacob A, Reinbatt, Ph. B., Pat'ra'n, N. I., prin'p'l High School. Anna M. Evans, B. L., Newark, Del. Mrs. Kollock. Eatie P. Porter, B, L., with her sister, Estella, M. Estella Porter, B. L., professor in Columbia University. Elisabeth H. Purnell, B. L., Wilm'g n, Del. Mrs. C. G. Blandy . Clara Springer, B. L., Wilmington, Del. Mrs, T, Davis. Allen V. Lesley George, Wilmington, Del., superintendent at the DHamond State Iron Works. Mary Husler, Newark, Del. Agnes M. Ray, Zion, Md. Mres. McVey. Annie E. Watson, Newnrk, Del. Mrs. Moore. 1877, Charles M. Curtis, A. B., Wilmington, Del., lawyer. William T, Lyman, Ph. B., Wilmington, Del., lawyer. Henry 5. Stone, B. L., Philadelphia, Pa. Annie M. Willis, B. E. Mrs. B. D. Roberts. 1878, William M. Ogle, Ph. B., Delaware City, Del., practicing medicine. Charles F. Rudolph, Ph. B., Wilmington, Del. Charles Rugsel Jakes, Ph. B., Wilmington, Del., practicing medicine. Anna M. Springer, B. L., Newark, Del. Harriet B. Evang, B. L., Newark, Del. Maggie R. Willlamson, B. L., Newark, Del., deceased. Charles P, Murray, B. L., Wilmington, Del., engineer. Hdward R. Shaw, B. L., Yonkers, N. Y., professor in the University of the City of New York. Minnie P. Dickinson, B. L., Pocomoke City, Md. Mrs. Wolverton. Ada B. Miggett, B. L., Wilmington, Del. Frank C. P, Fosbenner, B. L., Baltimore, Md. 1870, Emma V. Blandy, B. L., Newark, Del., teaching in Phila- delphia. Lizzie L. Darsey, B. L. Margarett G. Evans, B. L., Helena, Mon. Laura Ferris, B. L., Glasgow, Del., deceased. Carrie M. Purnell, B. L., Philadelphia, Pa., practicing med- icine, Jefferson D, Darlington, Ph. B., Newark, Del., decessed. James H, Ward, Ph. B. M. D., Andersontown, Md., practicing medicine, John 8, Houston, A. B., Wilmington, Del., deceased. Henry J. I Jones, A. B., Media, Pa., Episcopal clergyman. 1880, Aunstin H. Merrill, A. B., Nashville, Tenn., professor in Van- derbilt University. John E. Greiner, Ph. B., Baltimore, Md., chief engineer of bridges for B, and O. R. R. Co. Joseph P, Pyle, Ph. B., Wilmington, Del., practicing medicine. Edward D. Hearn, Ph. B., Georgetown, Del., lawyer, Miranda P. Nigwell, B. L., Milford, Del., practicing medieine. Sarah E. Mackey, B. L., Newark, Del., deceased. Annie M, Housmian, B. L., New Castle, Del. 1881, Thomas R. McDowell, A. B., Parkersburg, Pa., Presbyterian clergymati. John 8. M. Neill, A. B., Kenosha, Mon., lawyer. Robert H. Wright, Jr., A. B., Wilmington, Del., Egiscopal clergyman. FPeter F. Meredith, Fh, B., Philadelphin, Pa., with Strawbridge E Clothier. Samuel H. Messick, Ph. B., Bridgeville, Del., farmer, John F. Pearce, Ph. B., San Jos, New Mexico, Rodney H. Richardson, Ph. B., Lewes, Del. 1882, Mary M. Janvier, B. L., Newark, Dal. Sue M. Ferris, B. L., Wilmington, Del. Daniel Hirsch, B. L., Milford, Del. John W, Herring, B, L., Milford, Del, Calvin Cubbage, Ph. B., Philadelphia, Pa. Andrew J. Wiley, Ph. B., Boise City, Il:laim, engineer, Nathaniel W, Davis, Ph. B., Milford, Del., deceased. William H. Broughtou, Ph. B,, M. I., Pocomoke City, Md., decensed. Lewis Heisler Ball, Ph. B., Fanlkland, Del., procticing medicine. 1883, Willard H. Heald, B. 8., Wilmington, Del. Jamies Bernard Cush, B. 5., St. Georges, Del., decensed. James P. Ware, B. L., Honesdale, Pa., Episcopal clergyman. John G. Gray, B. L., Wilmington, Del., lawyer. : 1884. Lonis L. Cuartis, A, B., Morristown, N. J., musician. Harvey W. Ewing, A. ., Fair Hill, Md., Methodist Episcopal clergyman. Willard R, Houston, A, B., New London, Pa,, Presbyterian clergy man. Maurice McKin, A. B., Burlington, N. I., . E. clergvman. Alexander M. Polk, A, B, M. I0., Orville, Wazh., Govern- ment Physician to the Indians of the Colville Reservation in Washington State. Imogen G. Polk, A. B., Faggsmanner, Pa. George A. Carpenter, B. 8., Smarisville, Cal., journalist. Alfred B. McVey, B. 8., Zion, Md. Edward M. Purnell, B. 5., Mena, Ark, engineer, A, Armitage Evans, B. L., Washington, I. C., Mrs. Reed. H. Greely Knowles, B. L., Wilmington, Del,, lawyer ; Ex-Con- snl to Bordeanx. 1885, Grace D. Chester, B. 5., Northampton, Mass., professor in Smith College. Charles West Cullen, B, S., Georgetown, Del., lawyer. Richard T. Pilling, B. 8., Stanton, Del, J. Harvey Whiteman, B. 5., Wilmington, Del., lawyer; Ex- Secretary of State. . Victor B. Woolley, B. 8., Wilmington, Del., Prothonotary of New Castle Co, ; lawyer. Margaret W. Blandy, B. L., Newark, Del. Elisaheth Lee Hearn, B. I, Georgeiown, Del., Mra. Bacon. John Nivin, B. L., Newark, Del., farmer. Ida Simmons, B. L., Newark, Del. 1586, Edward Henty Eckel, A. B., Willinmsport, Pa., Episcopal clergyman, Wiltiamm Dun Hamel, A. B., New Yok, N. Y., Episcopal clergy man, Charles Black Evans, A. B., Newark, Del., practicing law in Wilmington. Anna T. Reynolds. A. B., Williamsport, Pa., Mrs. BE. H. Eckel. Mary 5. Reynolds, A. B., Newark, Del., Mrs, E. W, Manning. Laura Kelso Mackey, B. 8., Wilmingion, Del., teaching. 1887, William C. Smith, A, B., McClellandsville, Del. Jolin E. J. Whistler, B. 5., Evansville, Ind, Harry M. Davig, B. 5., Elkton, Md., lnwyer. Samuel A. Buchaman, B. 8., Philadelphia, Pa., practicing medicine. 1588, T. Bayard Heisel, B, 8., Wilmington, Del., lawyer. John G. Boyd, B. ., New Castle, Del., deceased. 158g. 1. David Jaguette, B. 8., Newark, Del., principal of Newark Academy. Albert F. Polk, A. B, Georgetown, Del., lawyer, Franklin Collins, A. B., Smyrna, Del. Byron G. Sharp, A. B., Philadelphia, Pa., salesman for Straw- hridge and Clothier. 18go. Hugh C. Browne, A, B., Wilmington, Del., lawyer. E. B. T, Springer, A. B., Wilmington, Del., lawyet. John Ball Jr., A. B., Stanton, Del., practicing medicine. Albert H. Ranb, A. B., Philadelphia, Pa., principal of a gram- mnr school. il e . T I8g1. J. P. Armstrong, B. 5., Newark, Del., superintendent in woolen mills, Edward R. Martin, B. 5., Bridgeville, Del., farmer. Joseph H. Hossinger, B. 8., Newark, Del. Fraticis B. Short, A. B., Wilmington, Del., pastor of Epworth Church, Wilmington, Del. Thomas C. Frame, Jr., A. B., Dover, Del., lawyer. Harry Whiteman, A. B., W mington, Del., lawyer. 18g2. 8. Edwin Grant, A, B., Champlain, N. Y., Methodist Episcopal clergyman, Benjamin Biggs Smith, A. B., Wilmington, Del., lawyer. Charles W. Jones, A. B., Laurel, Del. Tames W, Lattomus, A, B., Wilmington, Del., lawyer. P. Blair Pi, A. B., Newark, Del., practicing law in Wilming- ton, Del. Frederick Rickards, A, B., Bridgeville, Del., principal of pub- lic schools, Ocean View, Dal. Willard T. Smith, A. B., Delaware City. Del., superintendent of public schools for New Castle County, 8. Kirkwood Martin, B. 8., Seaford, Del. 1893, Gearge Henry Jackson Edmonston, B. C. E., Elkins, Va, Alfred Lee Ellis, B. C. E. A. B., g6, Delmar, Del., principal of public schoeols at Newark, Del. Walter Wint Hynson, B, C. E., Kent Island, Md. Francis Allyn Cooch, B. C. 8., Cooch's Bridge, Del, Abtier Griswald Plumb, B. C. 8 , Harrington, Del. Alexander J. Taylor, B. C. 8., Wilmington, Del. Julivs Herman George Wolf, B. C. 5., Boston, Mass., engineer. Robert Denney Hoffecker, Jr., B. A., Smyrna, Del., journalist, Jacob Martin Tharp, B. A, Harrington, Del, Mallery Foulk, B. A., Milford, Del. R, T - o e Ly PR T P Brooks L. Ross, B. Ag., Seaford, Del. William Washington Knowles, B. A., Seaford, Del. ex-super- intendent of public schools of Sussex County, Del., reading law. Edward Ott Walton, B. 8., Iron Hill, Md, 1854, Raymond Do Hadway, A, ., Bethel, Del., principal of publie schools. Thomas Simpson Holt, A. B., Lewisville, Pa., M. E. clergy- TINAR, Clarence Fosh MeVey, A, B, Denver, Cal. George L. Townsend, A. B., Odessa, Del., principal of Odessa public schools, Walter Ponder Conaway, A. B., Dover, Del. Albert Powell Donoho, A. B., Seaford, Del. FEdwin Somers Armstrong, B. C. E., Philadelphia, Pa. William Heury McDonald, B. C. E., Newark, Del., in Experi- ment Station at Delaware College. Everett B. Wilson, B, C. E., Elkton, Md. James Lewis Zeigler, B. C. E., Wilmington, Del. 15g5. Herman Miers Sypherd, A. B., St. Georges, Del., attending Dickinson Law School. William Umstead Reybold, A. B., Delaware City, Del. Charles Oran Cooper, A. R., Baltimore, Md., lawyer, Horace Greely Eastburn, A. B., Wilmington, Del., studying law. William Watson Harrington, A. B., Farmington, Del., student at Harvard University. Glenn Mitchell Litsinger, A, B., Newark, Del, , attending Balti- more College of Physicians and Surgeons, Crawford Stevens, A, B., Smyria, Del. Edward Webh Cooch, B. C, E., Cooch's Bridge, Del., siundent at Harvard University, Andrew Kerr, B. C. E., Newark, Del. Edward Franklin Mullin, B. C, E., Marshallton, Del., clerk for H. H. Co. Frederick Roland Bartlett, B. M. E., Easton, Md,, now travel- ing in Veneznela. Franklin Herman Hynson, B. M. E. B. E. E., 'g5, Kent Tsland, Bid. Waldo Cleland Wilson, B. E. E., Wilmington, Del., collector for B. O. R. R. Co. Carl Harrington, B. E. E., Newark, Del., instructor in mechan- ical and electrical engineering at Delaware College. 15gh, George D. Truitt, A, B., Milford, Dzl. Albert Seth Cooper, A. B., Camden, Del. William Henry Cooper, A. ., Wilmington, Del., stndyving law. George Melntire, A, B., Delaware City, Del. Edward Campton Reybold, A. B., Deadwood, 5. Dak., steno- grapher. Edward Lauretice Smith, A. B,, Newark, Del., taking a post- graduaie course at Delaware College. William Owen Sypherd, A. B., St. Georges, Del., teaching at Port Penn, Del, Robert Bunsen Wolf, B. E. E., Ticonderoga, M. Y., in the paper business, William Burton Jester, B. 8., Delaware City, Del., studying law at University of Pennsylvania, John Thomas Henderson, B. E. E., Appleton, Md. Harry Diraper, B C. E., Denver, Col. Clarence Albert Short, B. C. K., Burlingnme, Cal., professor of history, civil government and physical culture in Hovt's Academy. 1897, James Kilgore Burnite, A. B., Oxford, Pa. Ermest Waitman Sipple, A. B., Frederica, Del., principal of public schools. Samuel Lucas Conner, A. B., Wilmington, Del,, taking a post- graduate course in Delaware College. William Ellis, A. B., Sheffield, Mass., principal of public schools. Ira Liston Fierce, B. 8., Newark, Del., taking a post-graduate course in Delaware College. Lee Omahundro Willis, B. M. E., Newark, Del, George Griffith Henry, I, E. E., Newark, Del., in bank. Edwin Terry Phillips, B. E. E., Philadelphia, Pa., in electrical laboratory of Cueen Co. Fl Letter from '99's Soldicr JBoys. To the Staff of the Aurora. Camp TUNNELL, NEAR MIDDLETOWN, DEL. May 24, 1898, To EvererT C. JouNsON, Editor-in-Chief of Delawware College Annwal Awrora, We, the undersigned members of the class of gg of Delaware College, send most hearty greetings to those of us who are remaining at home and who are preparing themselves fur our nation's future defence, by laying up stores of knowledge. We are all well and are rejoicing in the fact that we have been permitted to enlist in the defence of our country's honor, We bid you a most affectionate God speed in doing your duties at college as we go forth into the field to ours. Fraternally, we are, Rocer . Mason, ad Lieut. Co. L. ' Georce L. Mgpiny, st Srgt. Co. Y L.V Harorp GreErx, Srgt. Co. M.V 5. H. Bavxarnp, Bugler Co. L. C. Epwin Lewis, Co. Y L. HowardD M. ArmstroNG, Co, M. Taos. Geo. Baxrer, Co. M. 143 Table of Contents. Athletic Association . Aurorn Staff 3 e v las. v Athmenenn Literary Society Society Illus, Advertisements A Letter from gg's Soldier 'Rms Battleship Maine Illus. Calendar for 18g7 College Colors and Vell Comer of Chemical Laboratory mlun 1 Corner of Biologicsl Laboratory UJiuh I Corps of Cadets Illus, Dedication Delaware Cul!ege Buan:'lmg Cluh Review Declamation Contest Delm Phi Literary Society Society Illus. J De Alnmnis Democratic Club Eund of Machine Shop Illuas. Foot Ball . . . L e Tcams of 'g7 Ilua. . ad L1l Firat One Thlng-Thl:n Another Freshmen 1llus. History of Clasa of 'g8 L1 lw i aw 1m - Y L Dl ot Delaware Cullcgc In Memoriam Individual Btugraphlc:ul Sketches of Ju nior Class Junior Promenade i Retrospect Jumiors 1lius, TPaGe 121 . 9 s 5 137 145 130 122 123 126 127 41 47 61 67 25 125 138 Literary Evanescent FARE v G5too The Class of 'gg; Purty Girls ; Lift! W'h.nt Comes to All: S.g?mmerin g t Lule. The College Man's Life; A Distinguished Trustee; One of the Early Presi- dents ; Co-Education at Delaware College ; Co-Education ; Freshman's First Letter ; Freshmans Second Letter ; 'oo Poem ; Class Poem; The Faculty ; Junior Roll Call; A Hot Time on Klondyke To-pight ; One Side ; Side, Lives of Former Fresidents Members of 'gE 3 o i rm Men Who Hope to be Cnmmtmmned in the Hmds:md Nohle Cavalry Troop Military Depm'tmcllt 'gg i 4 : Officers of Gunboat 'W':Iminp:tun Illus. :I Officers of V. M. L. A Obituary Notice njohn 1 Hi:rmgtt:n'.' Our Literary Societies t'llmcnrs of the Boand , The Other T Det Cnllege Agrlt:ulture szenumut Station 16 Presentation 7 Republican Club 131 Shakespeare Clul E 129 Speakers at Presentation Exercmea l:IlIm 1 57 Sussex Cluh . 128 Seniors Illus. 4 Senior ap;romt:mnis for C!m l'm:r Exercwes 4 Sophomores Illos. . - 63 The Blue Jackets Illus. 70 The Faculty 17 The Board of Trlmtm:n 14 This and That 137 U. 8. Gunboat Wilmington Tlins. 74 YoM COA 82 And now kind readers, adieu. THE EDITORS. MUSIC JEWELRY S. H. BAYNARD Jeweler ana Oplician SiNCOR Sth and Markel SIs. WILMINGTON, DEL. SILVERWARE CLOCKS w o MERCHANT TAILORING GENT'S FURNISHINGS CLOTHING AR JAMES H. WRIGHT Formerly Mandger al Haomburger's S. E. Cor. 8th and Market Sts. WILMINGTON, DELAWARE. WM. LAWTON . DEaYeT 1N China, Glass, Lamps, Silver-plated Ware and Housefurnishing Goods OIL, GAS and ELECTRIC CHANDELIERS Sll MARKET STREET WILMINGTON, DEL. Electric Motors, Wiring and Supplies. ii P. M. 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