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

Page 24 text:

The full Board of Trustees consists of fifteen members, representing the original Board, and fifteen members on the part of the State appointed by the Governor, five from each of the three counties. The Governor of the State and the President of the College are members es- officio. In 1888, by Act of the Delaware Legislature, the Delaware College Agricultural Experiment Station was established in connection with the College under the provisions of an Act of Con- gress approved March 2d, 1887, commonly known as the Hatch Bill, appropriating $15,000 annually for the purpose of acquiring and diffusing among the people of the United States use- ful and practical information on subjects connected with agriculture and to promote scientific in- vestigation and experiment respecting the principles and applications of Agricultural Science un- der direction of the College or Colleges established in each of the States and Territories in ac- cordance with the provisions of the Morrill Bill. Delaware College is beneficiary also under a further Act of Congress, known as the New Morrill Bill, approved August zoth, 18go, which appropriated for the year then current $15,- 000 to each State for the Land Grant Colleges and provided for the increase of the appro- priation by $1,000 each vear until it should reach $25,000 a year. Delaware College receives an- nually four-fifths of this appropriation, one-fifth, in accordance with the provisions of the bill, being applied to the maintenance and support of the College at Dover for the education of col- ored students. i The appropriations provided for in this Act are to be applied to instruction in Agriculture, the Mechanic Arts, the English Language and the various branches of mathematical, physical, natural and economic sciences with special reference to their applications in the industries of life, and to the facilities for such instruction. Stimulated by the increased income provided by this last Act, Delaware College has, within the past few vears, enlarged her corps of instructors and greatly increased her equipment of ap- paratus and appliances, so that she is now vastly better able than ever before in her whole his- tory to perform her appointed duty. The buildings of the College, situated in an ample and beautiful campus, shaded by trees as old as the institution itself, consist of the recently improved Dormitory, a large brick struc- ture originally the sole College building for all purposes, and still occupied, not only for lodgings, 16

Page 23 text:

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.

Page 25 text:

N oy