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

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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,

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