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

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for the purpose of acquiring and diffusing among the people of the United States useful and praectical information on the subjects connected with agriculture and to promote seientifie investigation and experiment respecting the prin- ciples and applications of Agricultural Science under direc- tion of the college or colleges established in each of the States and Territories in accordance with the provisions of the Morrill Bill. The Adams Bill, approved March 16, 1906, appro- priating $5,000 for the first year and increasing this amount by $2,000 a year until it eventually reaches $15,000, makes possible the still further expansion of the work of the Ex- periment Station along lines set down by the law for the de- velopment of Agricultural Seience by means of research and experiment. Delaware College is beneficiary also under a further Act of Congress, known as the New Morrill Bill, approved August 20, 1890, which appropriated for the year then cur- rent $15,000 to each State for the Land Grant Colleges and provided for the inerease of the appropriation by $1,000 each year until it should reach $25,000 a year. Delaware College receives annually 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 colored students. This Act was supplemented by the passage of the Nel- son Bill, approved March 4, 1907, providing for an appro- priation of $5,000 for the year ending June 30, 1908, and a subsequent annual increase in appropriation of $56,000 until it reaches $25,000, thus making an annual income of $50- 000 from the national government. Delaware College will 19

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i 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 fifteen 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-officio. 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 $15,000 annually

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receive four-fifths of this amount annually, the rest going to the college for the colored race at Dover. 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 mathe- matical, physical, natural and economiec sciences with special reference to their applications in the industries of life, am:l to the facilities for such instruction. THE GYMNMASLITIM Stimulated by the increased income provided by these recent Acts, Delaware College has, within the past few years, enlarged her corps of instructors and greatly in- creased her equipment of apparatus and appliances, so that she iz now vastly better enabled than ever before in her whole history to perform her appointed duty, 20