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

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rd 0 00 00 D000 0 m 100 0 010010 DELAWARE COLLEGE Continned The 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 ex officio. In 1888, by Act of the Delaware Legislature, the Delaware College Ag- ricultural Experiment Station was established as a department of the Col- lege under the provisions of an Act of Congress approved March 2, 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 useful and practical information on the subjects connected with ag- riculture and to promote scientific investigation and experiment respecting the principles and applications of Agricultural Science under direction 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, appropriating $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 Experiment Station along lines set down by the law for the develop- ment of Agricultural Science 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 appro- priated for the year then current $15,000 to each State for the Land Grant Colleges and provided for the increase of the appropriation 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 colored students. This Act was supplemented by the passage of the Nelson Bill, ap- proved March 4, 1907, providing for an appropriation of $5,000 for the vear ending June 30, 1908, and a subsequent annual increase in appropria- tion of $5,000 until it reaches $25,000, thus making an annual income of $50,000 from the national government. Delaware College will 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 in- struction in Agrieulture, the Mechanic Arts, the English Language and the various branches of mathematieal, physical, natural and economie 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 these recent Acts, Delaware College has, within the past few years, enlarged her corps of in- structors and greatly inereased her equipment of apparatus and appliances, s0 that she is now vastly better enabled than ever before in her whole his- tory to perform her appointed duty. 0 O0010t 0001C 0 00 00 C D 0-0 00 O

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INTERIOR OF THE GYMMASIUM WITH SEATS ARRANGED FOR A RECEPTION TO THE DELAWARE LEGISLATURE

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0 00 0 -4-0049 f . . AN AUDIENCE OF DELAWARE FARMERS ATTENDING AN AGRICULTURAL LECTURE AT THE COLLEGE