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

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' The Digger stood, strikingly resembled the ruins of Lou- vain. Nine houses including the old Colmery Home were completely demolished; such historic places as soap fat alley with all its traditions, were obliterated. Three new buildings were creeping out of the ground, old residences were taken for recitation rooms and laboratories, and Old College Hall was but a ghost of its former self. But at last the new campus is taking shape. We see the level plane more than half a mile long and three hundred feet wide, which is to be the Green. The line of new buildings which are to surround the green is clearly suggested by the new dormitory and Wolf Hall. And the Old Dorms stands forth in new array as though it had been thoroughly sprinkled with waters from the fountain of youth. The Old College Hall is being fitted up as a student center and will take the place of Purnell House. It will contain two dining rooms, one to seat two hundred and fifty and the other to seat one hundred. This building will contain offices and other centers for interest of student life. The new dormitory is situated just south of Main Street where the Old Colmery Home once stood. It will house sixty-five men and is constructed ac- cording to the most modern plans. Few of us have ever before had the pleasure of seeing under construction a building so substantial and well designed, both for comfort and convenience, as Wolf Hall. It may eventually be used solely for Agricultural purposes; for the present it is amply large to furnish supplementary quarters for the departments of Biology, Bacteriology, and Chemistry. Wolf Hall and the dormitory are in the Colonial style of arch- itecture, as will be the future buildings. Thus they will harmonize with the present buildings of the Women ' s Col- lege and when the scheme is completed there will be unity in the whole. Another improvement of this year is the addition of a new infirmary in charge of a trained nurse, where any cases of illness or accident may receive the best of care. The old Elliott Home of Revolutionary times has been remodeled and is now used as temporary quarters for the Board of Health and Bacteriology department. ' ' t C, ' for n olf Hall [18]

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Since the Last Blue Hen Being a Chronology of Happenings at Delaware College Since the Publication of the Last Blue Hen in Nineteen Hundred and t t j» j» Fifteen jt jt j» j» j» Gifts to the College O N November 30, 1915, at a meeting of the board of trustees, Mr. Rodney Sharp announced a gift to Dela- ware College of five hundred thousand dollars. The donor preferred that his name should not be mentioned. This meeting of the board on Tuesday, November 30th, 1915, is the most notable that has occurred in the history of the college since its found- ing. This gift was the first of many which were to fol- low. And subsequent gifts from the same source have brought the total amount to more than a million dollars. That was a great moment, when by a brief announce- ment, in an instant was made possible the realization of the dreams and ideals of those who for years have worked patiently on in behalf of Delaware College. From that instant the college was on a new plane of existence. Her possibilities for usefulness were placed on an almost limitless scale. Material Growth For the first term of this year one might easily have mistaken the campus of Delaware College for a European battlefield. The new campus was plowed and the top soil piled in four rows, each one a quarter of a mile long. The students had almost literally taken to tents. And those buildings which still

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