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

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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

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i, il r.h.i The College buildings are heated by steam and lighted by electricity and are supplied with water by the town water works. , A considerable part of the rear campus is oceupied as an athletie field and affords excellent facilities for outdoor sports and games. Mr. and Mrs. Eben B. Frazer and their son, Mr. J. Stanley Frazer, of the class of 04, have provided, as a memorial to Joseph H. Frazer, 03, for the grad- ing, draining, and otherwise fitting up of the athletic grounds of Delaware Col- lege. The grounds are enclosed by a substantial tile and concrete wall, A run- ning track, a quarter of a mile in length, and grounds for baseball, football, ten- nis, and other sports have been laid out, The Board of Trustees have necepted this gift as a memorial to a graduate of the College and have named the field the Joe Frazer Field. Tuition is free to all students from the State of Delaware, so that the College constitutes a part of our system of free public instruction. She places within reach of the young men of the State a thorough collegiate training with no other east than that of living and the provision of necessary books and a few ineon- siderate fees to cover expenses incurred by the institution. Her work is laid out upon broad lines, and the eulture of liberal learning and the practical usefulness of the applied sciences are equally emphasized in her seheme of education. While, in pursnance of the special aims of her organization, stress is laid upon those departments which build up good eitizenship and useful manhood, the place so wisely provided in the foundation of the Land Grant Colleges iz given to the refining graces and amenities of the older learning, THE DAIRY BUILDING