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

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. LT AmssEssmm LR box and a third packing case for its long journey. On a Friday afternoon I finally set out on the trip to the Peruvian coast, the port of Mollendo, In the custom port of Guayaquil, yet on Bolivian soil, I found after consider- able search the Pernvian Consul, who promised to send at once a cable to Puno, the port of entry in Peru, so that there would be no difficulties in landing the body the next day. Yet when I eame to Puno no such instroetion had been cabled. Through the courtesies of the Peruvian Railway Corporation, I was, however, permitted to proceed at once to the eoast. Here new difficulties arcse. The cap- tain of the port had no official instructions regarding the matter, and as he had attended the previous night upon a firemen s ball, he felt very ill and exceedingly eross. But when the steamer was about to sail, he weakened and permitted the transfer of the precious freight to the waiting steamer. By this time 1 had a lot of doeuments about the matter and yet, on the Oronsa' the sanitary inspeector of the eoast, who was a fellow passenger, pointed ont to me that I had no permit to trans-ship the body from the steamer on which we sailed to another going farther north from Callao. After a good deal of talking I persuaded that same inspector to make out for me such a permit, which he did, and through which doeument I had no diffi- culty in trans-shipping to the Mexieo. My troubles, however, were not to be at an end as yet, for the purser of the Oronsa'' forgot to hand to the purser of the Mexieo' one of the doeuments, so that when we landed in Panama, the receipt which showed that the transportation of the silent passenger had been paid to New York was missing, It was really very fortunate that an experieneed traveler accompanied Mr. Frazer, for else there might have been a eonsiderable delay at this point. At last, however, even this diffienlty was overcome, and we sailed from Colon on the exeellent steamer Almirante'' of the United Fruit Company to New York, where Mr. Stanley Frazer awaited the incoming of the steamer. Sinee it was Columbus Day, we eonld not land the body that afternoon, but the follow- ing day the easket was shipped to Newark, Del. From the time we lifted the body out of its temporary resting place in La Paz, until it landed in New York City, it was trans-shipped from cart to railway, to boats and steamers fourteen times. What a comfort to know that at last the remains of Mr. Frazer rest peacefully in the beautiful cemetery at West Nottingham in the homeland and among the mem- bers of his own family. -G. J. B

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Delatware College A Brief Historical Sketch and Some I'nformalion as to the Aim and Scope of the Institution ELAWARE COLLEGE is situated at Newark, an attractive little town of two thousand inhabitants in the northwestern part of the State, Newark is connected with Philadelphia, Wilmington, Baltimore, and Washington by the Pennsylvania and Baltimore and Ohio Railroads. It is eonnected with nearby towns by splendidly made macadam roads. The surrounding eountry is healthful and beautiful. The village is lighted by electrieity and has a supply of fine water. The College ocenpies a charming site near the eentre of the town, Delaware College was chartered in 1833 by Act of the Delaware Legislature, and students enrolled for work in May of the following vear. A suceession of misfortunes forced the College to elose her doors in the spring of 1859, Eleven years later the College was again ready for students, having mean- while been designated by Aet of the Delaware Legislature as beneficiary under the Act of Congress giving to each of the several States large areas of publie lands to form the basis of endowment for colleges especially devoted to the teaching of Agrieulture and the Mechanie Arts, and Military Tactics. This Aet of Congress, suown as the Morrill Bill, from its originator, Senator Morrill of Vermont, de- elares that the Colleges made beneficiary under its provisions shall have as their leading object, without exeluding other scientific and classical studies and in- eluding Military Taetics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to Agrienlture and the Mechanic Arts, in order to promote the liberal and praetieal eduecation of the industrial classes in the several pursnits and professions of life. In consideration of the designation and establishment of Delaware College as the institution to be provided by the State of Delaware in accordance with the pro- visions of the Act of Congress in question, a joint and equal interest in the grounds, building, libraries, and vested funds of the Colleze proper, was con- veyed 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, representing the original board, and fifteen members on the part of the State appointed by the Governor,