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

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A Glimpse of Our History ELAWARE COLLEGE is situated at Newark, a guiet, well-ordered, and hospitable vil- D lage of fifteen hundred inhabitants in the northwestern part of the State. Newark is connected with Philadelphia, Wilmington, Baltimore and Washington by the Pennsylvania, and Baltimore and Ohio railroads, and there are few points in Delaware or in the Peninsular countics of Marvland distant from the village more than four hours by rail. The region about Newark 1s one of the most healthful and beauntiful on the Atlantic slope. The site of the Col- lege, near the center of the town, iz one of unusual charm. The village has a supply of excel- lent water and is lighted by electricity. Delaware College was chartered in 1833 by Act of the Delaware Legislature, and the doors of the College were first opened to students in May of the following year. The College had been doing for a quarter of a century an important work, not only for Delaware, but as well for neighboring parts of Fennsylvania and Marvland, when by a succession of misfortunes, she was forced in the spring of 1859 to close her doors, Eleven vears later the College was resuscitated, having meanwhile been designated by Act of the Delaware Legislature as beneficiary under the Act of Congress apportioning to each of the several States large areas of public lands to form the basis of endowments for Colleges es- pecially devoted to the teaching of Agriculture and the Mechanie Arts, and Military Tactics. This Act of Congress, commonly known as the Morrill Bill, from its originator, Senator Mor- rill, of Vermont, declares that the Colleges made beneficiary under its provisions shall have as their leading object, without excluding other scientific and classical studies and including Mili- tary Tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts jn grder to promote the liberal and practical education of the induostrial classes in the several pursnits and professions of life. In comsideration of the designation and establishment of Delaware College as the institution to be provided by the State of Delaware in accordance with the provisions of the Act of Congress in question, a joint and equal interest in the grounds, buildings, libraries and vested funds of the College proper was conveyed fo the State of Delaware, and equal representation upon the Board of Trustees was given the State.