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

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

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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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D000 0100!C DELAWARE COLLEGE Continued The buildings of the College, situated in an ample and beautiful campus, shaded by trees as old as the institution itself, consist of the re- cently improved Dormitory, a large brick structure originally the sole Col- lege huilding for all purposes and still occupied, not only for lodgings, but also for laboratories and recitation rooms, the newly fitted library af- fording commodious reading rooms and ample storage for books ; Recitation Hall, a handsome brick building erected by the State in 1891; the wood- working and machine shop, where are housed machinery and apparatus for a thorough practical eourse of instruction in the mechanic arts; the Gym- nasium, which is admirably fitted for its purpose. The Experiment Station, which contains the offices, libraries and lab- oratories of the station workers, occupies a building on the College grounds. The station has also a greenhouse, with laboratory adjoining, and several buildings used for storage and other purposes in the conduct of the various lines of experimental work. The Legislature of 1903 appropriated $15,000, payable in two equal annual installments, by the expenditure of which the workshops have been greatly enlarged and are now entirely adequate for the present needs of the College. The first floor is equipped with wood-working and iron-working machinery and on the gecond floor are found large drafting-rooms and lab- aratories. The sum of $25,000 appropriated by the Delaware Legislature in the yvear 1901 for rebuilding and repairs at Delaware College, was expended mainly in repairing and enlarging the dormitory. The building was re- plastered throughout, and the floors were made secure by the introduetion of new timbers. The sleeping rooms were made comfortable and attrac- tive, and the Oratory was remodeled and redecorated so that it is now one of the handsomest auditoriums in the State. New fronts, corresponding in style with the Dorie portieo 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 num- ber of sleeping rooms, and furnished handsome apartments for recitation rooms and laboratories, The appropriation of $15,000 which was made by the Legislature of Delaware in 1905 has been applied to the building of a Drill Hall and Gym- nasium. In the basement of the building will be found shower baths and lockers for the use of the students. The main floor serves as a drill hall and gymunasium, At the session of the Legislature of Delaware of 1907 a bill was passed authorizing a commission to apply twenty thousand dollars to the pur- chase and equipment of a farm to be managed and condueted by the Board of Trustees of Delaware College at Newark, for experimental purposes in providing efficient instruction in Agriculture and in conducting investiga- tions and original research in connection with the Experiment Station estab- 10010 01001C 000100 IC 0 100 00 0 Jx