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

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few hours by rail. The region about Newark is one of the most healthful and beautiful on the Atlantic slope. The site of the College, near the center of the town, is one of unusual charm. The village has a supply of excellent 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 import- ant work, not only for Delaware, but as well for neighboring parts of Pennsylvania and Maryland, when by a succession of misfortunes she was forced in the spring of 1859 to close her doors. . Eleven years later the College was resuscitated, having meanwhile been designated by Act of the Delaware Legisla- ture 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 especially de- voted to the teaching of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts, and Military Tactics. This Act of Congress, commonly known as the Morrill Bill, from its originator, Senator Morrill of Vermont, declares that the colleges made bene- ficiary under its provisions shall have as their leading ob- ject, without excluding other scientific and classical studies and including Military Tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts it it it in order to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the several pursuits and professions of life. In consideration of the designa- tion and establishment of Delaware College as the institu- tion to be provided by the State of Delaware in accordance 17

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I ,A Erivf Eiatnrg nf Al, gap? Bvlamnrv V ELAWARE COLLEGE is situated at F-is :E Newark, a quiet, well-ordered, and f i hospitable Village of fifteen hundred ETX f5 Q1Q f inhabitants in the northwestern part W '54 of the State. Newark is connected S 'W A3 3 with Philadelphia, Wilmington, Bal- K C I I D timore and Washington by the Penn- Q3' sylvania, and Baltimore and Ohio if Railroads, and there are few points in Delaware or in the Peninsular counties of Maryland distant from the Village more than a 16 NW'-

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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 to the State of Delaware, and equal representation upon the Board of Trustees was given the State. The Board of Trustees consists of Hfteen members, rep- resenting 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 ex-oiicio. In 1888, by Act of the Delaware Legislature, the Dela- ware College Agricultural Experiment Station was estab- lished as a department of the College under the provisions of an Act of Congress approved March 2, 1887, commonly known as the Hatch Bill, appropriating 315,000 annually 18