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

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ited traditions of refinement and achievement. Placed virtually on the Masen and Dixon Line, Delaware 1s nntinnaf in spirit and scope, able to interpret aright what is best in the North and what is best in the South in helping to make the American mind. The bases of the College are laid on granite in that it is a State institution buttressed by Federal funds and now beginning to receive the generous support of its alumni and the friends of education. Thus, whereas its ownership and control are single, centering whally in the State of Delaware, the support of the College is three-fold, representing a union of the resources of the State, the Marion, and endowment. An analysis of these three resources of income is encouraging. When Delaware College was reopened in 1870, the income from the Federal Government was less than $5.000. Today, the total income from the Nation is $85,000, and this amount will increase for the next seven years at the rate of $1,281. 5o gratifyving have been the resules of this investment in educavion along agn- cultural and scientific lines by the National Govern- ment that we may confidently expect this sum to grow from decade to decade. The financial history of the College shows thar the State of Delaware has put its shoulder to the wheel. At frst the appropriations by the Legislature were intermittent; now they are continuous and inereas- ing. The establishment of the Women's College at an outlay of $150,000 by the very Legislature which honors us with its presence ac this time 15 an infalh- ble proof that the State has embraced this institu- tion in its affections and hopes. Equally significant is the fact that public-spirited men and women both among the Alumni and the friends of education are giving gcnerously of their means to strengthen the College in its noble work of training citizens in a dcmotmy The gift of the Joe Frazer Athletic Field, one of the most beaurtiful in America, marked an epoch in the life of the Col- lege. The effores in behalf of the Alumni Endowment are indicative not only of the growing usefulness of the College, but also of sound statesmanship among its triends in seeking to achieve the higher purposes of the commonwealth through education. The spinit of CD-tJPtrdtlUl'l on the part of various civie Grganlzallnns in the building of the Women's College only confirms the belief that the two colleges are destined to enjoy the increasing support of the people of the State, Delaware stands alone in concentrating all of its agencies for higher education at one point. The advantages of this plan both as regards economy and efficiency are apparent. Such concentration, how- ever, implies outreach to every part of the State. The unification of educational agencies at Mewark will mean little unless there is effective co-operation on the part of the College with all the forces in the life of the State making for progress. Happily the spirit of co-operation has been a signal feature in the recent growth of the College. Witness the manifold activities of the Department of Agriculture. Just now it 15 plac- ing in each of the three counties a competent man who will seek to enrich rural life. Very soon a capable woman will likewise undertake similar extension work in home economics. The lectures, bulleting, and exten-

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m THE INSTALLATION OF THE PRESIDENT Cuartes M. CurTis, Chancellor of Delaware N behalf of the Board of Trustees of Dela- ware College, and in its name, 1 hereby install you, Samuel Chiles Mitchell, Ph.D., as Pres- ident of Delaware College, and bestow on you all the rights and powers of the office and impose on you all its duties and responsibilities. In token whereof I give into your hands the keys of the Colleges, a sym- bol of your responsibility to keep watch that none enter here unprepared, or depart hence unhrred. 1 also deliver to you the Charter and by-laws of the corporation, the source of your authority and your guide in the use of it. Having full confidence that your powers will be exercised with wisdom, courage, and patience, and your duties performed with fidelity, zeal, and efficiency, and pledging you the support, loyalty, and co-operation of the Trustees, the Fac- ulty, the Alumni, and the students, we look forward hopefully to a realization of the high aims entertained for the upbuilding of this institution of learning for the young men and women of the State of Delaware. BLUE HEN S INAUGURAL ADDRESS STRUCTURAL ASPECTS OF DELAWARE COLLEGE SamuieL Curires Miteneir, Ph.D. Mr. Chancellor, Ladies and Gentlemen: HESE words of welcome and encouragement move me deeply. The weight of responsibility in accepting the keys of Delaware College is more than I could bear, had 1 not these assurances of the hearty co-operation of Faculty, Trustees, and Alumni in working out the senious tasks before us, We have histened, my friends, to a series of signally able addresses, and the keynote of all of these has been to interpret the constructive purrlposes of the State in terms GF education and service. I am glad that these ntlemen have shown that this institution is a growth, ne of our distinguished guests is fond of repeating the maxim, Mothing great as great begins. It may be truly said of the founders of Delaware College that they builded better than they knew. Structurally the College embodies the ideal for an institution of this kind in an American commonwealth. This appears from many points of view. The College 1s fortunate in its location in a beautiful region of farm country, made easily aceessible by two trunk lines of railway. The community of Newark by reason of irs culture and character furnishes an admirable setting for a College which is to inspire youth with ideals of growth and of service through truth and freedom. lts situation on the Mid-Atlantic seaboard has many advantages as regards temperate climate and inher-

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sp THE BLUE HEN sion courses which the Faculty are carrying forward, all go to show that the soul of the College 1s service, elaware College will fail in its mission unless as a result of its activities every acre of ground in the State ields a richer harvest, unless all breeds of stock on the g,arm are improved, unless the varied industries are quickened with new initiative and power, unless the life of the home is sweetened, unless all the schools are srrcnithcned. and unless the churches and all the agen- cies that make for a sound social and moral life are re- inforced. The influence of the College should tend to string with energy the arm of every worker and impart a noble idealism to the thought of every citizen. In fine, the task of an American college is to make publicists. When men and women have public-mindedness, all re- forms accomplish themselves through growth and self- renewal of social agencies. The Amencan college has faith in the force of an idea. It truses in truch wich all ies subtle potency and lasting power. ldeas alone endure. Early one morning 1 climbed to the height of the tower of the Milan Cathedral in order to get :Et majestic view of the Alps spread out in semi-circle, just as the peaks were lighted up by the rays of the rising sun. Here was the pyramid form of the Matterhorn. There was the white bosom of Mont Blanc. While I stood transfigured by this vision, I heard beside me the tapping of a mason's tools. When I turned and asked him what he was do- ing, he said he was fitting a piece of marble tracery into a niche,according to the plans of the archirect. Dead the architect was, hundreds of years ago, and vet here in the rwentieth century 1 was beholding his idea embodied in marble by the hands of that workman. This is a tense moment in the history of mankind. We can almost hear the crash of the cannon-balls as they fall upon doomed Antwerp, and the fate of that ancient city is only a symbol of the martyred nation of Belgium. The events that are now taking place in Europe, while they fill our hearts with anguisg, empha- size as never heg-;re the moral mission of America. We have cherished hitherto the freedom of our nation and its independent role in the affairs of mankind. This path outlined by Washington has brought Amer- ica to a moral prestige unique in the annals of mankind. So big with import is this fact that it furnishes occa- sion for solemn thought rather than national compla- ceney. Once I had the pleasure of worshipping in St. Giles in Edinburg, Scotland. My mind was wholly taken up with the historic scenes centering in that ancient edifice. Yonder was the table upon which the fathers signed the Covenant. Memories of John Knox erowded thick upon me. The venerable minister devoted a large portion of his prayer to our country, concluding with this ringing sentence: God grant that America, as she is eminent in position, so may she ever continue to be in moral power. That peti- tion voices the most fervent hopes of vour hearts. America is not so many millions of square miles. All the great states have been territorially small. Witness Palestine, Greece, Switzerland, Holland, England. America is not so many millions of population. No, it is none of these. America is rather a tremendous idea in process of realization. This idea involves equality of opportunity for all, the worth of the average man, a deeper sense of human brotherhood, and a passionate