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

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five from each of the three counties, The Governor of the State and the Presi- dent of the College are members, ex officio, The Delawfnre College Agricultural Experiment Station was established as a department of the College in 1858, by Act of the Delaware Legislature, under the provisions of an Aet of Congress, approved Mareh 2, 1887, commonly known as the Hateh Bill, appropriating $15,000 annually for the purpose of acquiring and diffusing among the people of the United States useful and practical informa- tion on the subjects eonnected with agriculture and to promote secientific investi- gation and experiment respecting the prineiples and applieation of Agricultural Seience under direction of the College or Colleges established in each of the States and Territories' in aceordance with the provisions of the Morrill Bill. The still further expansion of the work of the Experiment Station along lines set down by the law for the development of Agricultural Science by means of research and experiment iz made possible by the Adams Bill, approved Mareh 16, 1906, appropriating $5,000 for the first year and inereasing this amount hy $2,000 a year until it reaches $15 0041, The College is beneficiary also under a further Aet of Congress, known as the New Morrill Bill, approved Aungust 20, 1890, which appropriated for the vear then eurrent $15,000 to each State for the Land Grant Colleges, and pro- vided that the inerease shonld be $1,000 each year until it should reach 25,000 a vear. Delaware College receives annually four-fifths of this appropriation, one- fifth, in accordance with the provisions of the bill, being applied to the mainte- nanee and support of the College at Dover for the education of colored students. This act was supplemented by the passage of the Nelson Bill, approved Mareh 4, 1907, providing for an appropriation of $5,000 for the year ending June 30, 1908, and a subsequent annual inerease in appropriation of $5,000 until it reaches $25,000, thus making an annual ineome of $50,000 from the national rpovernment, 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 Aet are to be applied to instruction in Agriculture, the Mechanie Arts, the English Language, and the varions branches of mathematical physieal, natural and ecenomic sciences, with special reference to their applica- tions in the industries of life, and to the facilities for sueh instruction, There is also an appropriation by the State of Delaware of $2,500 yearly for the Chair of History and Economics, Stimulated by the inereased ineome provided by these recent Aets of Con- gress, Delaware College, within the past few vears, enlarged her corps of instrue- tors and inereased her equipment of apparatus and applinnees, so that she is now hetter enabled than ever before in her whole history to perform her appointed duty. The buildings of the College include the dormitory, originally the only Col- lege building used for all purposes and still oceupied, not only for lodgings, but also for laboratories and recitation rooms ; recitation hall erected hy the State in 15

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1891 ; the wood-working and machine shops, where is found machinery and ap- paratus for a practical course of instruetion in the Mechanie Arts; the gym- nasium, splendidly fitted for its purpose, The buildings are situated in a beauti- ful eampus shaded by fine old trees, The Experiment Station, containing the offices, libraries and laboratories of the station workers, ocenpies a building on the College grounds. The station has a greenhouse, with lnboratory adjoining, and several buildings used for storage and other purposes in the eonduct 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 en- larged, and are now entirely adequate for the present needs of the Colleze. The first floor is equipped with wood-working and iron-working machinery and di. rectly adjoining are mechanieal and electrieal Iaboratories. On the second floor of the building are found large deafting rooms and laboratories. The sum of $25,000 appropriated by the Delaware Legislature in the year 1801 for rebuilding and repairs to Delaware College, was expended mainly in re- pairing and enlarging the dormitory. The bnilding was replastered throughout, and the floors were made secure by the introduetion of new timbers. The sleep- ing rooms were made comfortable and attractive, and the Oratory was remodelled and redecorated so that it is now one of the handsomest anditoriums in the State. New fronts; corresponding in style with the Doric portico of the main entrance, were placed on the wings, and at right angles to the wings and parallel to the main strueture were built threestory extensions. These improvements have inereased the number of sleeping rooms, and furnished handsome apartments for recitation rooms and laboratories. The appropriation of $15,000, which was made hy the Legislature of Dela- ware in 1905, has been applied to the building of a drill hall and gymnasium, 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 gymnasinm. A baleony is suspended from the walls of the building, which is used as a running track and also by speetators, At the session of the Legislature of Delaware of 1907, a bill was passed au- thorizing a commission to apply $20,000 to the purchase and equipment of a farm to be managed and conducted by the Board of Trustees of Delaware College at Newark, for experimental purposes in providing efficient instruetion in agrieunl- ture and in condueting investigation and original research in conneetion with the Experiment Station established as a department of the College. A farm of two hundred and seventeen acres, lying a mile south of the College, has been bought, It is most attractively situated and furnishes excellent means for practical instrue- tion in agriculture. At the last session an appropriation of $10,000, payable in two installments of $5,000 each, was made for the eare of the College property, and for the support of its work along such lines as are otherwise unprovided for, Ten thousand dollars was also appropriated for buildings on the College farm, 17