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

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5ENMR. MOTTO :Loval en tout. CLASS YELL - Who are we? Why you see, Delaware, Delaware, Nineteen three! Class Officers. WILLIAM R. M. WHARTON, President, LUCIEN GREEN, Fice-President. EUGENE REYBOLD, Secretary and Treasurer, CHARLES W. BUSH, Historian, WILLIAM R. M. WHARTON, Prophet.

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but also for laboratories, the old library, the literary societies and recitation rooms: Recitation Hall, a handsome brick building erected by the State in 1807 ; the Wood-working and Machine Shop, where are housed machinery and apparatus for a thorough practical course of instruction in the mechanic arts; and the Gymnasium and Drill Hall, which is amply equipped for in-door phvsical exercise. The Experiment Station occupies a building on the College grounds, which contains offices, libraries and laboratories of the station workers, The Station has also a green-house, with labo- ratory adjoining, in the rear campus, and several buildings used for storage and other purposes in the conduct of the various lines of experimental work. A considerable part of the rear campus is occupied as an athletic field, which affords excel- lent facilities for out-door sports and games, The College buildings are heated by steam and are supplied with water by the town water works. The sum of $25.000, appropriated by the Delaware Legislature in the year 1g9o1 for build- ing and repairs at Delaware College, was expended mainly in repairing and enlarging the Dor- mitory, The building was replastered throughout, and the floors were made secure by the intro- duction of new timbers, The sleeping rooms were made comfortable and attractive, and the Oratory was remodeled and redecorated so that it is now one of the handsomest auditorinms in the State. New fronts, corresponding in styvle with the doric portico of the main entrance, were placed on the wings, and at right angles to the wings and parallel to the main structure were built three-story extensions, These improvements have increased the number of sleeping rooms, and furnished handsome apartments for recitation rooms and laboratories, Tuition is free to all students from the State of Delaware, and the College thus constitutes a part of our svstem of free public instruction. She places within reacli of the voung men of the State a thorongh collegiate training with no other cost than that of living and the provision of necessary books, and a few inconsiderable fees to cover expenses incurred by the institution, Her work is Jaid out upon broad lines, and the eculture of liberal learning and the practical use- fulness of the applied sciences are equally emphasized in her scheme of eduocation. While, in pursuance of the special aims of her organization, stress is laid upon those departments which build up good citizenship and useful manhood, the place so wisely provided in the foundation of the Land Grant Collezes ig given to the refining graces and amenities of the older learning.

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