The Class of '99 Never late. Always on time. Delaware, Delaware Ninety-Nine. But talk about your farmers When we first struck this island Our class is a queer mixture We did not do a thing A happy lot were we, Of everything in view To the one who asked the teacher But now just look upon us, For we have got the farmers Where to find the small bee's sting. And tell us what you see. And a couple of Sheenies too. Of course our life is full of fun. There's Brennan, Burke and Eastburn And then we've got some preachers' sons. But not without its sorrow, Megee and Nivin too, Some boys who have taught school, For we have always got to get And Harrington and Wilson But there's not one among us, Our lessons for to-morrow. Left 'fore two years were through. Who could be called a fool. As this is all I have to say, But then to reinforce us " Ikie do you know your Latin ?" I guess I'd better close. The Vicker's brothers came, Is a monotonous cry, And say goodbye and McCabe, and even Marshall, Which is always heard at 12 o'clock Wish that God will bless all those, Returned and did the same. But Ikie says ; " Not I," Who read this Annual. Purty Girls

Of all the queer, queer critters, Then sometimes an angry frown, From dodgers to co'n fritters, All the way from chin to crown, Purty girls are queerest. Distorts their purty faces; But again jes bear in mind, And again, afterwhile, when They can make 'emselves so kind They greet you so kindly, then That then, they prove the dearest. They jes serpass the graces.

Whether they may smile or frown, Help you up or cast you down, Men will love them for all that. Sometimes they may be tryin' And make you feel like cryin' But who stops to think of that ? E. L. S. '96. 96 Life Evanescent Shimmerings I Love

Life is not more than a fragile bubble How sweetly the sun shines in Southern I love too, to be loved Sailing o'er a sea of trouble. Spain, All loving praise And while floating on some tropical sea As it falls 011 the walk with golden gleam ; Seems like a crown upon my life to make It may be ta'en away from thee. Bathing the tower built on the Spanish main, It better the giving than to laise With a light not less bright than Heaven's Still nearer to my own heart you take. It may survive the winter's driving hail, beam. I love all good and noble sounds, And the cold North winds angry wail. I heard one speak of you but lately and foi But when you think your ship so staunch and When Fancy wafts us on her soaring wings, days true, Over seas and o'er leas spread far and wide, Only to think of it While stern, pitiless Fate bodingly sings, It may quickly vanish with you. My heart was stirred Of the pain and the rain we must abide. In tender memory of such generous praise. The heaven-given spark may cling for years, Years full of sorrow, pain and tears. What is finer than Beauty's golden sheen, I love all those who love you Then it will sail off like the winged seed, As it gleams in the dreams of sweet sixteen; All who owe comfort to you Carried far from the parent weed. And what is sweeter than Fame's stirring And I can find regret for those poorer hearts song, E. L. S. '96. Who once could love you As it waves o'er our graves when dead and And can now forget. gone ? Will you be jealous ? Wbat Comes to ALL What fires the knight more than his lady's Did you guess before ? tears, I love so many things A mortal's stay on earth hath five stages, As he goes down the rows of cavaliers; Still you the best Given to churls as well as to sages. When he charges under chivalric laws, Dearest, remember I love you more, Oh Infancy, childhood and youth's flaming page, For great name, for fair fame and earth's more. Complete manhood and impotent old age. applause ? A thousand times all the rest. E. L. S. '96, E. L. S. '96. (Found among the scraps.)

97 The College Man's Life.

Defoe, in all his novels, Can ever such a man or boy, All the trials, tribulations, Ne'er pictured such a sight Do any body good? Past, are now as light as air, As we presented on the morn, Ah! Yes, indeed, I answer, And the world bows down before him ; After a sleepless night. You're blessed right he could. College boy, so bright and fair.

Each member of our little class Oh! You don't seem to understand, Nothing dares to stand before him ; Had lain, and thought of home Your mind is surely dim ; He is master over all; And of the many trials You see he always has opposed We will surely hear more of him, Through which he had to roam. The class next under him. He will answer well his call.

Late in the silent evening, I^et them, therefore, touch a Freshman, Naught can man do but respect him, A fearful shriek was heard ; Who on his work has just begun ; He who has his duty done, In vain, our fellow Freshman, You may surely wager money, He upon whose brow are shining Pleaded and demurred. That there's going to be some fun. All the laurels he has won.

At last he is a Sophomore Last class of all he's now attained, U may think he is conceited And straightway has begun Now watch and see how straight he walks, As he walks with stately tread, To thrash the feeble Freshman See the lower classmen sneaking But I tell you you're mistaken, And wet him just for fun. From the region where he stalks. As he's just about to wed.

Well! well! who would have thought it; Even noble Juniors fear him, As the years go flying onward, I don't quite comprehend And the Sophomores from him shrink, And his family's growing too, How, he, the cruel Sophomore, And the Freshmen hide their faces He's thinking of his college A Freshman could befriend. When of him, they even think. And his boy who's going through.

Ah! let me now explain it, Qracious ! What a fine young fellow, Little cares he now for trouble, And I will try to show That's our son, from college home, As his boy stands at the head How, this, once brutal Soph can After all his trials and troubles, Of the class, with which he entered, To a noble Junior grow. After all his lessons known. And which he has always led.

Remember, he was smarting Every boy, of course, is proud From the treatment he'd received, As he hears his father say, When he first soaked the Freshy, 44 Son, come out and take a good look By whom he'd been relieved. At the farm you'll own some day."

Ever and anon he was Waiting for a chance To tease, the harmless underling, And make him sing and dance. A Distinguished Trustee

OHN M. CLAYTON was at one time a trustee of in his selections from the great English bard, whose Delaware College, and was a regular attendant 011 works he seemed to have at his tongue's end on all oc- the meetings of the board. casions. When he spoke in Wilmington after the death The writer remembers well his robust figure, white of General Taylor, whose Secretary of State he had been, head, black eyebrows, pale face and genial expression of he began his touching tribute to the memory of his countenance. He was fond of the boys and talked to lamented chief, by a quotation from Macbeth : them in a kindly, affectionate manner. It was a treat to —" Duncan is in his grave ; hear him speak, for he always spoke with so much ease After life's fitful fever he sleeps well. and grace. Whenever he made a speech at some place within convenient distance of the college, the students Few men excelled Mr. Clayton in that style of ora- were accustomed to turn out in force and greet him with tory characterized as the suaviter in modo. He soon had enthusiasm. On one 22d of February he delivered an his hearers in perfect sympathy with him, and led them address at New Castle and pronounced a beautiful and along easily; seeming to be as much delighted with them glowing eulogy upon Washington which stirred his large as they were with him. audience profoundly and elicited unbounded applause Delaware does well to be proud of the name and fame from the college boys. For many a day thereafter they of such a man, eminent as he was in the councils of the repeated some of his eloquent expressions. He was apt nation, and excellent in the discharge of his duties as a in his quotations from the poets and was especially happy citizen.

99 One of the Early Presidents firl) HE Rev. E. W. Gilbert, D. D., who had the honor thoroughly digested and assimilated that he could com- 1 of being president of Delaware College twice, was mand it at a moment's notice. physically small, but intellectually great. On the subject of education, he was a firm believer He was a close reasoner and forcible speaker. He in the old classical course of study, and his pressure in made as clear as light every subject he handled. Not- that direction was constantly felt by all who came in con- withstanding his slight figure and cracked voice, he had tact with him. The proper relation to be sustained by a no difficulty in holding the attention of his audience, no board of trustees to its college faculty he has set forth in matter what was the subject of his discourse. He had a communication made by him to the trustees of Dela- profound convictions on all moral questions, expressed ware College on his election to the presidency of the in- his views with unflinching courage, and would not sub- stitution, and the acceptance and approval of that com- mit to any compromise. The impression he made upon munication was of incalculable benefit to the college. It the students under him was that of an upright, able and brought cosmos out of chaos. If he had done nothing fearless officer. Even those whose misconduct subjected else for Delaware College than to prepare and submit them to his censure, respected him. He was deeply read that paper he would be entitled to lasting gratitude. in all philosophical subjects, and his learning wras so

Co-Education at Delaware College

T is a striking coincidence that co-education was abol- 1874, it began to suffer a loss of patronage, and, after ished at Delaware College the very same year that the various vicissitudes, it was obliged to close its doors in only woman's college ever established in the state was 1885. Co-education was adopted at Delaware College in obliged to suspend operations. The Wesleyan Female 1872, and, after a successful career of thirteen years, was College grew out of a seminary which was established in abolished in 1885 by a vote of 13 to 8, ten of the trustees Wilmington in 1837, It was chartered to confer college being absent from the meeting. Thus, by thirteen votes degrees in 1855, and was fairly successful for many years. of the board of trustees, consisting in all of thirty-one At one time it had enrolled 257 students, but, about members, Delaware refused to do anything more for the higher education of her women. At the very time when this account than in the high-school or academy, where the world was beginning to realize that the advancement they recite together. of civilization depends more upon the education and cul- The second fact stated above deserves very careful ture of women than of men ; when the oldest and most consideration in every discussion of this question, for it is conservative colleges, one after another, were throwing one which the opponents of co-education are inclined down the barriers and admitting women to equal privi- to ignore, There is always a class of students who do leges with the men, Delaware, though anxious for more their level best under any and all circumstances, and the students, deliberately took a step backward toward med- more we have of these the better, There is another class, iaeval monasticism. This is now the only state in the fortunately very small at Delaware College, who shirk Union where a woman cannot obtain a college education. every duty, who violate with pleasure every rule, and In connection with the history of co-education at who have not a single spark of noble ambition latent in Delaware College, there are three well-attested facts : their bosoms, Such students are not wanted here. There 1.—The number of young men attending the college is also a class between these two extremes, to whom was greater than ever before during the same length of study is rather irksome, whose souls do not steadily burn time. with a desire for knowledge and future achievement. 2.—They were never more studious and orderly These are likely to be influenced by the second class than during the period of co-education. more than by the first. They have pride enough if it 3.—In the distribution of honors, the young ladies, can only be reached. We want to stimulate such stu- by superior scholarship, carried off more than their pro- dents to their highest endeavor by every possible means. portionate share. The presence of women in the class will often have a I have watched the career of a number of colleges very wholesome influence on such students in arousing after adopting co-education, and in every instance the their latent energies and inciting them to do the very best number of students has steadily increased under the new work they are capable of, conditions, possibly not on account of co-education, but Delaware College claims to be the crown of the pub- at least in spite of it. The chief friction usually comes lic school system of the state; but is it, when it refuses to from the propensity of women students to carry off the admit the great majority of the graduates of the high- honors, but the trouble from this source is only temporary schools 011 account of sex ? The opponents of co-educa- and is bound to pass away in a few years, as the men be- tion may not be aware of the great preponderance of come accustomed to the altered circumstances. There is girls in the graduating classes of our high-schools, Last no more reason why friction should occur in college on year the graduating class of the high-school at Wilming- ton contained 62 girls and 27 boys; at Newark, 8 that they tossed on balconies of professor's houses, had girls and 4 boys ; at Middletown, 4 girls and 2 boys ; at been put, class to class, in competition with us, they Smyrna, 10 girls and 4 boys; at Dover, 11 girls and 1 would have wasted less time upon us; and I could not boy; at Georgetown, 10 girls and 2 boys; at L,ewes, 5 deny that if the girls who cut little holes in their fans, girls and 1 boy; a total of no girls to 41 boys. I am through which one could look, undetected and unre- not able to get the statistics in regard to the other high- proved, at one's favorite academy boy on some public schools of the state, but they would probably show about occasion, had been preparing to meet or pass that boy at the same proportion, Unfortunately, the majority of our Euclid or Xenophon next morning, he would have occu- boys enter business careers either before or immediately pied less of their fancy. Intellectual competition is after graduating from the high-school, and only a com- simpler, severer and more wholesome than the unmitigated paratively small number of them care to get a higher edu- social plane; and a mingling of the two may be found to cation, while the girls, many of whom would be glad of produce the happiest results.'' the chance to secure a college education, are deprived of We want no weightier argument for co-education the opportunity. For the great majority of the students than this, nor from any more authoritative source. The of the state, therefore, the crown of the public school question of the age of admission is one worthy of consid- system is the Delaware high-school. eration. We have recently advanced the age of admis- The argument is sometimes advanced that the asso- sion from fourteen to sixteen years. The age of admis- ciation of both sexes in the same school leads to prema- sion for women ought to be a year or two higher. I^et ture attachments, and consequent neglect of studies, but it be not less than seventeen, that we may have, not im- the evidence* of history proves quite the contrary. That mature girls, but women. charming writer, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, daughter of Another argument that has been advanced against Prof. Phelps, of Andover Theological Seminary, thus co-education at Delaware College is the additional ex- relates the results of her observations on this subject in pense. The additional cost would be only a trifle in the old scholistic town of Andover: comparison with the present expenses of running the in- "A large academy for boys, and a flourishing semin- stitution, while the rich benefits derived by the state in ary for young men, set across the village streets from giving its daughters the same intellectual opportunities two lively girls' schools, gave to one observer of this as its sons would be a manifold compensation for all it little scholastic world her first argument for co-education, would cost; the halls of Old Delaware would be thronged I am confident that if the boys who serenaded (right man- with many new students, and the presence of women in fully) under the windows of Abbott Academy or of '' The the class-rooms would incite many to a higher grade of Nunnery,'' or who tied their lady's colors to the bouquets work. Co-Education At Delaware College

ITHIN the territorial limits of the State of Dela- this institution, then what is the reason. Let us look ware there is but one institution devoted to the carefully into the matter of co-education of Delaware dissemination of higher education. This insti- College, and see if there is a reasonable excuse for the tution—namely, Delaware College—is supported by present position of the college relative thereto. public funds, and admits as students, tuition free, all In the first place then it is urged that a long conti- male residents of the state who are properly qualified. nuous line of precedents show us that women have not The college records show, among those who have been admitted to the colleges of men in the past; and been -enrolled as students, the names of many whose in- that therefore such a thing would be an innovation. fluence in business and political circles has extended To this it may be replied that while it is true that there beyond the borders of the state, and whose mental attain- may be found precedents of this kind, still it is also true ments have been recognized at the National Capital. that there are plenty of precedents for any old fagy notion ; It will thus be seen that Delaware College has a but we live in an age of advancing civilization where we creditable array of alumni, and a glance into its halls to- are not bound by customs that have nothing in their day will reveal the fact that it is exteding its influence favor except that they are mossgrown with age. for a higher intellectual development among an increas- Again it is said that the different needs of men and ing number of the young men of the state. women require that different courses of instruction be used This is all as it should be and is therefore right and for each sex. This is true only to a very limited extent. well ; it is not right, however, but a burning injustice The principal aim of an education is not so much the and wrong that the doors of this public educational insti- number ot facts glanced from years of memorising, as it tution are closed to the aspiring young women of the is the cultivation of the faculties, and the development state, simply because they are women. On what ground, of a trained intellect; and the same means may be used for we have a right to know, are they excluded ? for the accomplishment of this object in men and women Are we, as a people, so filtered with prejudice that indiscriminately. we cannot free ourselves from semi-barbarous opinion The opponents of co-education also say that the that woman, being an inferior creature, is not entitled strain of competition with the stronger intellect of the to the same consideration and advantage as man ? If men would prove too heavy for the poor women, so we this be not the reason that the legends, " Let none but must not allow them to injure themselves in this way. m ales presume to enter here '' is found over the doors of How considerate they are ! But unfortunately for that argument its strength has already been tested and '' found P. Powell; Co-education was adopted at Delaware Col- wanting," in the institutions where coeducation now lege in June 1872, two years after the reorganization ; exists, and where the girls have shown themselves fully and after a successful career of thirteen years was abol- able to compete with their brothers without any serious ished, June 24, 1885 by a vote of 13 to 8 ; 10 of the inconvenience, and indeed in many cases to carry off trustees being absent from the meeting. During this time more than their proportion of the laurels. 81 young ladies were matriculated and 37 were gradu- The argument against co-education seems to carry ated." the most weight is that the intimate association of the '4 In the distribution of honors the young ladies by young men and women of college age is attended with superior scholarship carried off more than their propo- grave danger of a moral nature, and that it also serves to tionate share. This department was exemplary. The attract to each other the attention that should be given young men of the college were never more studious and their studies. Now while this is to some extent true, orderly than during the period of co-education. Morever, still it is very doutful if the exclusion of either from the their number was greater than ever before during the society of the other is wiser or more desirable, as it tends same length of time.'' to the engendering of false, morbid, and romantic ideas Now, if our state is not to fall lamentably behind to which the school age is peculiarly susceptible, and the advance of civilization, we must provide for the which proper association would prevent or eliminate. It higher education of the young women of the state, and is not the hothouse culture that produces the most useful where can this be done better or more economically than plant, but it is the sapling that has been judiciously ex- at Delaware College ? The capacity of the college is not posed to the sun and wind and rain that grows into the taxed. It is capable of meeting the intellectual demands sturdy oak ; so it is not by excluding the boys and girls of double the present number of students. The people from all temptation that strong men and women are pro- should insist that the public funds, which are here duced, but it is the careful oversight, while they are ex- expended for the purpose of producing a more enlightened posed to the ordinary temptations of life that will develope citizenship, shall be expended for the benefit of the the healthy moral tone that is so desirable in our citizen- greatest number, so that the state may secure the fullest ship. possible return for its money. Further than this it has been the experience of many In conclusion, since the advance of civilization advo- schools that the presence of both sexes serves as a healthy cates it, public policy and economy require it, justice stimulus in their studies, and also is of noticeable assist- and right demand it, and the young women of the state ance in the school discipline. Delaware College herself add their appeal; let us by all means throw open the can bear testimony to this. The following is taken from doors of this honorable institution and welcome back the History of Education in Delaware, by Prof. Lyman co-education to Delaware College. Co-Education

HE general education of life from the cradle to the tives, friends and former school companions are being grave is essentially co-educational. The parental educated. care surrounding the beginning of life is almost, Thousand of dollars are spent from year to year in or altogether, uninfluenced by the thought of the sex of equipping and maintaining in our state a college for men ; the young child. For months, and in some cases for and to that college at present no young woman may be several years, the food, clothing and general care given admitted, it matters not how vigorous in health, how the child involve little or 110 thought of sex. And the fully prepared, how strong in memory, how clear in thought of sex is so far overlooked in the school pro- mind, how thirsty for knowledge, how needy of further grammes of our public and high schools, that it is rare mental training for the strugle of life, where her talents to find any recognition whatever for it. Boys and girls and taste would naturally take her. up to about sixteen years of age study exactly the same To her sisters in other states, the doors of the state subjects, sit in the same rooms, recite side by side in the colleges generally stand open wide ; a hearty welcome is same classes, meet and chat before the school door, and given them ; able men and women are these to break the in the school halls and very generally play in the same seals of history for her, to teach her of nature of art, of yards. And all this has had the sanction, or at least literature, and so, by enriching her thought and refining the sufference of our ancestors for long years in the past. her taste, by broadening and deepening her view of life At about the age of sixteen, however, this co-educa- to enable her to bring a clearer and richer intelligence tion ceases, and the girls are refused admission in the and a more charming personality to her home of the State of Delaware to the College to which the boys go at future. Not only the state colleges generally, but the about that age. The girls are to go right on living with leading institutions of this country and Europe have, in men as daughters, sisters and a little later, perhaps, as the main, either entirely or in part, taken down the bars wives and mothers in the same houses, in the same against woman. A worthier idea of the dignity and des- rooms, at the same tables; and socially they may spend tiny of woman has touched Harvard, Hopkins, Columbia, with men, in these relations, or as their friends or lovers Cornell, Chicago, the University of Paris and many of any hour of the day; and yet, when engaged in those of Germany, and now the intellectual bread of life strengthening and storing their minds they are refused is being given by the professors of these institutions to admission to the place where the young men, their rela- the long hungering and thirsting sex. In view of the general history of the co-education of young men and study." Many a young women whose life has been young women in other states where the success of the made richer and worthier at that institution has brought movement is at once so complete and so charming, the a loving tribute of gratitude to its founder. valid objection to co-education in Delaware, aside from In education, as in other phases of life, there are a its cost in dollars and cents would be that the young men few things that the masculine mind may want, yet female or young women, or both, of Delaware are not on so high intellect does not need. A young man may want, or a moral plain of living as are those of other states. think he wants, a gun—a young woman is usually con- After considerable conversation about the question tent to let guns alone. A young man in college may of co-education with Delawareans in different parts of need to study certain phrases of mathematics, electricity, the state, I have yet to find the first Delawarean who the construction of roads and bridges, etc. A young thinks so poorly of our young people. woman may let all these alone, and yet find enough, Time was when there were far more valid objections and more than enough, in college studies to try all her to educating the young women in the colleges for young powers and train her for the worthiest spheres in life. men than at present. The mental food given to young The fact is, there is little more sex in intellectual food men consisting almost exclusively of Greek, Latin and than in food of the table. mathematics, was little suited to the masculine intellect, Just as bread, and meat, and vegetables, and water and even less to the female mind. are good alike for the stomachs of men and women, so Thanks to the more general sharing of the people at the intellectual food offered by a college worthy of the large in the highest educational privileges and attain- name is good for the minds of men and women alike. ments, the old education, so aristocratic and so largely It would be just as sensible to have separate tables in our useless, has given place to an education of life and utility. homes for men and women, as it is to have separate intel- The material world presses for recognition ; social prob- lectual tables (colleges) for our young men and our young lems will not down ; the reign of mind and taste over women. The attempt to put sex in the study of matter and brute force are apparent; and colleges have language and literature, and botany, and chemistry, and made way for things that breathe and move—biology, in fact into scarcely any of the subjects taught in a mod- the living languages, the mechanical arts, etc., etc. But ern college, is about as sensible as to put sex into the for the cost, the state of Delaware should write over its subject of religion ; or to study history from the so-called college what a man of educational faith and generosity Christian stand-point; or to suppose there is a worthier wrote over the institution he founded ; "I would found an science, called Christian science. institution where any person can find instruction in any Singularly enough, without seeming to know it, we have had the co-education of young men and young But if she is to be such a companion as shall take an in- women going on in our churches, and especially in our telligent interest in all that touches his life; if she is to fill Sunday-schools, during the whole century. The sanc- well the important place to which modern life calls her ; tions of religion are apparently supposed to make holy if she is to grace the parlor, and be at home in the library, the associations of the young men and maidens who go as well as direct the kitchen ; if she is to give her children to church together to learn and worship. But in the that endowment of intellectual refinement and enthusiasm, Sunday-schools, the young men and women sit often side and that early intellectual awakening which must come by side, sing or read from the same book, discuss freely in the main from the mother, then we must unite and and fully the great questions of life, including the intri- urge her to the fullest training we can give her. How cate and many-sided questions of human as well as divine many children of great men have bitterly disappointed love, and yet who protests ? who is harmed ? who would the hopes of their fathers largely because the wife and have it otherwise ? What wise superintendent does not mother was unable to contribute her full share to the give the classes of young men over to the teaching of natural endowment, and especially to that vigorous young women, sure the seats will be filled, the smell of training and uplift in tender years which she alone could tobacco will decrease, or entirely disappear; that boorish- have given !

ness will give place to politeness; in short, that the boy Iyet the future mothers, out of the larger resources will give place to the man, and at the same time the of a highly trained and cultured mind, pour the wealth of girlish teacher shall develop that ever-enduring woman- their being into the tender years of their children, and hood that leadeth us onward. continue their advisers and friends, and Delaware shall " What has been going on, and is still going on, and soon take a high educational rank among her sister states is likely to continue throughout the length and breadth of the republic. of our little state in our churches and Sunday-schools (viz : It was once supposed that the education of the mind the education of our young men and young women under of necessity weakened the body. Our colleges are now identical circumstances and with the favoring influence athlete producers ; and even the women are found to be of their mutual interest and reciprocal rivalry) ought to strengthened in body by the regular life, the gymnasium be going 011 in our highest educational institution. If exercise, the excursions for the study of botany, geology, our ideal woman is not a companion to man in the fullest etc. of a college course. sense of the word, but rather his cook, his housekeeper, The one objection to the highest education of woman what you will—only not a real companion, then keep the that does not vanish before the light, is its cost. To doors of our highest educational institution closed to her. make the highest education possible to the women of Delaware will cost several thousands of dollars yearly. be disciplined or need to be disciplined at college. I Since, however, the corps of teachers, and the general neither knew during that time, nor during the two years plant will not have to be duplicated, but simply some- of my own college course spent at a co educational insti- what enlarged when co-education is reinstated in our tution, of any charge of serious unpropriety made against college, the additional expense may not be so great as is any college woman, and I have known, of fewer cases of generally supposed. If we may assume that the woman injury from among college woman than among col- who will come for higher education, shall bring as fine a lege men. My observation corroborates the almost uni- sense of the proprieties of life, and as great a willingness versal testimony, that college women, as a class, stand and firm a purpose to observe them as do the young higher in their work, even in the supposed several studies, woman who act as private secretaries, etc., in our town> as mathematics and logic, than the men. The influence the college authorities need feel under no obligation to of college women in the lecture room, and in fact every- provide apartments or board, or watchers for them. The where, so far as my observation has gone, has invariably State of Michigan (as also other states do) makes no pro- been helpful. My admiration for woman could not be vision for these things for the hundreds of its daughters, what it is had I not, first as student and later as instructor, that, just as its sons, crowd to its highest educational seen her stand in the light of the lecture, recitation and institutions. The young women find their homes in the examination rooms as well as amid the rivalries of college homes in the town; and Newark's homes could, and, I class meetings in the delightful freedom and intimacy of do, not doubt, would, offer no less hearty and appreciated college society, and in the serious hours of college worship reception to the daughters of Delaware. But even with and even sorrow. Taken as a class there are no more these items of expense rendered unnecessary, co-education womanly or charming women than college women. will cost. Can we believe, however, that if the people of We need women at our college—they need what our Delaware realize the importance of the cause, they will college can offer them. And if our doors were open to fail to bring it every needed offering? Every man, them they would come to us. There is no other institu- woman and child in the state should feel that the opening tion of equally high grade in the state to which they may of the highest educational privileges to our women should go. From one end of our state to the other there are be made a matter of the greatest interest to the home, the about four young women fore ach young man in the classes community, and to the whole state. now preparing for college, that is, doing the work that After a personal experience of nine years in three will fit them for college. If allowed to come, these young colleges where young men and young women were edu- women would bring their young womanly enthusiasm to cated together, I can say I never knew a young woman to quicken the pulse of our old college mother. If every trustee, instructor, alumnus, alumna, and the best thought on this subject, the years the months every friend of the college will give serious thought to even—may be few before the bars may be taken down and the subject of the higher education of woman in Delaware, our young women admitted to equal privileges with young and become the centre of influence and energy in realizing men in our state college.

Co-Education

THE most shameful of all the shameful deeds that conceit." We think we are educating our boys and girls are being perpetrated by the men of Delaware to- as well as any other state in the union ? Are we thinking day is the making of the educational discriminations of rightly ? We have not one word to say against the edu- our sex. cational advantages of our boys, but we can not but look History has proven that as a people advanced in at ourselves with shame and contempt, when we know morality, civilization and in the knowledge of a Christ, that out of three hundred pupils who graduated from our so they recognize the equality of man and woman. high schools last year nearly seventy per cent, were girls, Parallel with the development of religious freedom who, by the narrow-sightedness of our law makers, are is the decay of intellectual distinction between husband compelled to remain at home and frit away the best of and wife. their lives in showy dress, while the thirty per cent., or Can it be that Delaware is but on the outskirts of the boys, have thrown open to them the doors of a first- the forest of barbarism ? Is it true that the Aurora of class college, where they can practically get a free college pure civilization and Christianity is hidden from us by a course at the government's expense. Is this right ? Is cloud of conceit, and that we are enjoying only a few of it fair? Is it honest? Is it civil ? that Aurora's celestial rays? Men of Delaware, we have To us, the education of our girls is tb e gravest question just reason to be proud of our birth. We are proud, but that we as Delawareans of to-day, have to consider, forupon has our pride blinded us with the foul dust of conceit ? the decisions of this question depends our place of honor Let us pause a moment and harken to the wise words of among the states. We are continually howling about the Apostle, when he said: 44 Be not wise in your own political corruption ; if we would educate our girls who are to be the mothers of the coming generations, it would we have said is : That man is but what woman makes do much toward banishing from our borders all financial, him, hence, in order that man may be man, woman must ambitious, political wretches. be educated. Is there doubt as to the truthfulness of the above If the above assertions are true (as we firmly believe assertion? Let us for a moment examine it. We will them to be) ought not we, in all our pride, feel full of mean- all agree that an ignorant mother can not help surround- ness when we reflect upon the conditions of our young wo- ing her children in their earliest years with ignorance, men ; when we take into consideration the thousands of dol- prejudice and moral weakness; that she wastes, on lars of our state funds that are being triflingly spent, when account of the lack of intellectual development, the we recognize the fact that Delaware College receives an- sacred bonds of love and reverence that make youthful nually about $40,000 of government money for the educa- impressions indelible ; that natural instincts may secure cation of our youth, and only boys are admitted to the a certain amount of physical and perhaps a slight founda- class rooms of the college, and when facts compel us to tion for a moral education for her children, but they are know that there is not one cent of the public money insufficient to make a mother; that individual virtue donated for the higher education of Delaware's young must be inculcated by individual influence, and that that women. No other state cares so little for her girls. Are individual influence must be exerted by the mother, and not these facts alarming? Can we expect refined, cul- not by clubs, societies or associations ; that a woman's tured men to be the offspring of uncultured, ignorant uneducated feelings and instincts do not fit her for domes- women ? What are we to do in order to rightfully hold tic life, but indeed do little more than endow her with our high place of esteem among the sisterhood of states ? mere animal love for her husband and children ; that an In the midst of our intermingling hope and anxiety, ignorant mother can neither make fit companions or ad- we, the Junior Class of Delaware College, with all the visers for their husbands, nor guides and examples for ardor, zeal and determination that our young hearts their children ; that a thoroughly uncultivated woman possess, call upon our faculty, our trustees, our alumnae, may be, if affectionate, a pleasant toy ; she may be sharer the various Woman's Century Clubs throughout the state of her husband's more insignificant joys and-cares, but and all other individuals and societies who are interested she can never be his most valued companion, or his most in the future manhood of Delaware, to join us in our trusted friend ; that legislatures and economists will try earnest appeal for the equal education of our boys and in vain to convince man of truths, till the moral and girls, which apparently can only be accomplished by intellectual influence of the mother teaches him to wish adopting co-education at Delaware College. and strive to act upon these truths, and the sum of all no Freshman's First Letter you, yet 'tis so sweet. I have been at the college less than twenty-four hours, yet how long it seems ! Will my entire stay here be pro- DELAWARE COLLEGE, portionally as long ? Is it possible that I am to be separated from NEWARK, DKUWARK, you by three months intervals for four years ? I see no September n, 1897. other hope. But our temporary separation will only cause My Dearest Pa and Ma :— us to appreciate each other's company and love more when we do meet. Since we are parted you will allow Well, Ma, after you left, I fixed up and the boys me to call you " My onliest own," now, won't you ? came in to see me. I am liking it first class. I hope you You can form but a false idea of my love for you. will be proud of your boy some day. I have placed your picture on my desk, where I can see Please send me a check. Good bye. it all the time. Excepting you, I think it by far the Your affectionate son, sweetest thing I have ever seen. Oft times in my life I G . have seen boys take their girl's picture, press them to their hearts and kiss them. How silly this seemed to me ! Yet to-night I could not refrain from doing the same thing. It does not seem so foolish as it used to. When I see in your picture those deep, fathomless blue eyes, that well-formed mouth, that prominent nose and that broad, Freshman's Second Letter intelligent forehead, my whole soul is stirred, for I see all that is destined to make me happy, and if I miss you, my all, I am doomed to a reckless grave. DELAWARE COLLEGE, But, dearest, why should I so speak ? I doubt not

NEWARK, DELAWARE, sincerity; you are a grand, good girl. In my imagin- ation I see in you all that is good, all that is true, all September 11, 1897. that is sincere, all that is uoble. W^hat more could I see ? My Onliest Own :— The imaginative view of heaven loses its splendor, its For the first time in my life I am privileged to write charms and its fascination when I, in my mid day dreams, to my little girl. It seems so strange, to have to write to see you. in Now, Love, the time has come for me to bring this Write soon to your own little college boy. piece of scribbling to a close. Write me nice, long sweet I feel confident of success at college with such an letters; I will look only too anxiously for them. You will incentive as my dear little correspondent. not disappoint me, will you? Write as often as you think With a most affectionate good-bye and a kiss, best. Each day that brings me a letter from my own I am, yes, truly, little girl will be a good day. I had rather we not Your devoted lover, have certain days to write, for then our writing would G . become a duty, a task, and not a privilege, a pleasure.

'00 Poem

Hail! to the year of nineteen hundred, Brave, young and noble knights are we, When from Delaware's massive halls, Just now in the prime of life ; A gallant class shall then go forth Courage and valor we must acquire, To battle the world and its calls. In order to battle the strife.

Sophomores now, but two years hence, The class-room presents us its trials, When the place of Seniors were hold, 'Twill be the same in after years, The world can read from our motto, When memory recalls our college days, That " wisdom is better than gold." And the future is dimmed by our fears.

Two years in haste have sped by— In mathematics we take great pride, Their recollections we shall ever retain ; German and French we read all through, Two years more we must struggle and toil, While chemistry we all have mastered, Before the crowned summit we gain. With the aid of an explosion or two.

In numbers we are just eighteen, In athletics, all honor to us, All zealous and eager for knowledge, We are the champions now, But a happier, jollier or noisier class The other classes one and all, Never entered old Delaware College. Must to our greatness bow. 112 Oar class contains a great orator— Of course I can't mention each one, A boy of very great size— And tell of his power and fame, And although he came from Sussex, But I hope that in future years, He very easily won the prize. Kach one shall be an honored name.

Now placing all our glory aside, When at last that goal is won, And as over the roll I pass, May the future hold in store The names that we here find written Many pleasant days for one and all, Are an honor to any class. Like those which have gone before.

Now, in conclusion, I can justly say, That we all shall ever be true ; To that grand old college, 44 Delaware," From which floats the gold and blue.

Class Poem

Naughty-naught, naughty-naught, Two years more, two years more, Not a cheer have we sought; Awaitius in store, Two times nine lusty throats swell the chorus It is sure that the time will seem long ; We are Delaware boys, Although long it may seem, So let's each make a noise, Let it not be in dream As loud as was ere made before us. Of the world and its own meddling throng.

Two years gone, two years gone, Chemistry, chemistry, As the time rolls along, Were we like unto thee ! And much have we lost by our folly, For your symbols, several thousand or more, But whatever is lost, Take our brains on a flight, When by the world we are tossed, And our dreams every night, We'll find that it pays to be jolly. Are of 4 4 tons" of H2S04, JI3 Recitations, recitations. Every night, every night, Surpass expectations ; We are always (?) in sight In trig. French, German, mechanics and Greek, Of the Professor who comes round to our Good marks we always earn, Sometimes, it is queer, At the end of each term, His knocks we can't hear, And truly that's just what we seek. But of course we must retire (?) soon.

In our drill, in our drill, Del-a-ware, Del-a-ware, We are all very still ; With thy pennant so fair, The captain, with his commands strict and true, 'Tis that time-honored old gold and blue, Sometimes, just for fun, Which makes us all glad, Finds some rust in our gun, When otherwise sad, But such cases, I assure you, are few. And as her sous we shall ever be true. The Faculty

in. In speaking of our faculty, The next in line is Dr. Wolf, Our secretary we can't forget, I'll give you, as a starter, Vice-President you must know ; He's our civil engineer, The name of our new president— He is the man who taught us In whom we always recognize 'Tis Dr. George A. Harter. To spell water H20. A man who knows not fear. He is a man, we all confess, And when we go into his class But Frederic H. Robinson, Who surely knows his duty ; And see the things he does do, On clear or stormy days, He teaches us our Physics well, It makes us wonder, what on earth Takes out the boys and makes them make And tells us of its beauty. This world is coming to. Most careful of surveys.

IV. Among the names yet on our file, William Bishop now we see. He is the man who talks to us Of bugs, and birds, and bees. He's also our librarian, Who deals to us our books, And makes us all keep silence Just by his very looks.

V. VI. VII. Another name as yet I see— There's several more to come up yet; Now, as we look upon our list, 'Tis Dr. H. K. Eves; The first is William Pratt, The next name that we spy He studied each disease of beasts, Who went up to Alaska Is Edward N. Vallandigham, And tries to save their lives. To see where it was at. One of our own alumni. There's Charles J. Hibberd also, And coming back, reported, He teaches us our History, Instructor in the shop ; That as far as he could see, And English Composition ; He watches all the boys at work, A railroad to that country would And, after class, walks several miles And marks them way up top. Of great advantage be. To keep in good condition. VIII. IX. X.

And still we see another one— Professor Conover comes next There is a name I ne'er forgot, 'Tis that of " Doctor Manning ; " Upon our books, we see; For his pardon now I pray— He is the inan who fills us full He talks to us of Latin words, Lieutenant Walter Gordon, Of French and German Grammar. And how they all agree. Of the 18th, U. S. A. He taffies us on doing well— He tells us of the ancient Greeks, He is the one to whom we owe " The smartest class alive ! " And of the war they fought, The thanks for our new suits, And we congratulate ourselves Just because sweet Helen was And for the three new bugles If we get 55. By wily Paris caught. With which we toot the toots.

In Elocution we have now There's one I have not spoken of— A man we all know well, The smartest man alive ; Who used to be our president— He finished at Old Delaware 'Tis William H. Purnell. In Eighteen Ninety-Five. He tells us how he wishes us He spent one year at " Pennsy," To stand and make a speech ; Came back ; and we confess And at the end of every term In electrical engineering Gives 95 to each. He makes a very good 44 Profess."

116 Junior Roll Call.

A's for " AURORA," our first effort you know, O s for occasions that come in our way, You can have one of these when you hand out your dough. And help us the cash for 44 AURORA " to pay. B'sfor Joe Brown, known as " Fiddler Joe," P s for the pies, we have after dinner, He's the one in our class who best handles the bow. But the cook's bread pudding is surely a winner. C is for Chipman, the man who took sick, Q's for the quarters, the halves and full pages, To get into our class for he knew we were slick. Merchants use these to help raise their wages. D's for Du Hadway, his girl's age thirteen, R's for Dick Reed, our wonderful short stop, He sees her each evening that he visits Christeen Who's never been known a good ball to let drop. E is for Eddie who was ne'er known to holler, S is for Stewart, a stately young fellow, But that is because of his four inch high collar. Whose hair is not all red but part is yellow. F s for the flunks of which there are few, T s for the tricks that we play while at school, But fewer's the number that have passed them off too. For when we leave here we'll have no time to fool. G's for Pea Green, a curious young gent, U my dear readers, both the young and the old, Who cannot play foot ball his legs are so bent. I thank you sincerely for your silver and gold. H is for Harley he's the " Big Goat " you know, V's for the vacations from two weeks to four, He started this season some whiskers to grow. The faculty gives when they can give us no more. I is for " Ikey " a queer little jew, W's for the workers, we'er ten times two, Who supplies all our matches and strings for the shoe. This Junior class that put " AURORA " through. J is for Johnson, our editor-in-chief, X is for the 'xplosions, in the chemistry class, The way his work's done affords us relief. That raise a big racket and smash all the glass. K's for the knowledge we get from our books, Y not send your boys now to " Old Delaware," You can easily see we are wise by our looks. Mathematics and chemistry, both are taught there. L is for Lewis, his other name's Eddie, Ze French and der German, Italian and Spanish, In honor of his hair he's always called " Reddie." Help each one of us his home sickness to banish, n is for Marshall, our artist you must know, now our dear friends who have read through these lines, Who with pen and pencil was ne'er very slow. And helped on this work of old ninety-nines. N is for " Nanny," our " goat " number two, We thank you each one as surely we ought, Who'll feed on a show bill, gum coat or a shoe. And hope that this next year you'll help naughty-naught. 117 A Hot Time On Klondike To-night

As composed by Virgil Moore and sung as the 'Alki" sailed from Seattle, August 3, 1897*

When we sailed on the good old ship 44 Alki," Now good-bye girls, and don't you shed a tear ; Our best girl stood on the bank, with a tear-drop in her eye. We'll come back and marry you in one short, happy year, When we come back she'll wear diamonds every day— Then we'll take a European tour— There'll be a hot time in our town to-night. There'll be a hot time in Paris that night.

We're going north to get that good old gold ; When we walk across that Chilcoot trail, While we dig that yellow stuff, we'll never feel the cold. Hanging on with might and main to a bucking bronco's tail, When we make our hundred dollars a day— Then we'll wish that we were safe at home— There'll be a hot time on Klondyke to-night. And the Devil take the Klondyke that night

Taken from Prof. Pratt's lecture "A Trip to the Interior of Alaska."

One Side.

There were three Freshies young and strong, They took some paint and with a brush Three Freshies both bold and sly, Put " ' 01 " bold and white, And they had sworn a solemn oath, Upon the college cupola, That " Naughty-naught " must die. And then yelled with delight.

Their hearts were fixed on some revenge, The Sophs must now give way to us, Just what, they did not know, They cried with joyful glee, So they talked the matter o'er and o'er Their class contains no single boy, For several hours or so. Who will so risky be.

At last they agreed upon this plan : No Soph will dare to climb up there, We must surely show the people, And then the town can see, That " ' 01 " rules the college, That " ' 01 " leads.the classes, So we'll paint it on the steeple. An honor, indeed, will it be. 118 The letters appeared artistic, Then 44 Rab " put on his thinking cap, And conld be seen on every side, And devised a plan so neat, Because 44 Ted " had held the ladder, That all the boys agreed with him And 44 Mag " the brush applied. That it was hard to beat.

The Sophs next day were raving mad, About one o'clock on Friday night, Very little did they say, Three Sophs, just to a man, But quietly said to one another, Did slowly climb the fire-escape Where there's a will there's a way. To carry out their plan.

In shorter time than I can tell, 44 'oi" appeared as 44 never," And painted just above this Was 44 Naughty-naught " forever.

The Other Side.

There is a class in old D. C., Next morning along comes Mr. Soph, Who are very wise, as you can see,— My ! how his eyes began to pop, In everything but noise they're left, Because on the cupola he could see Even in the making of a jest. 44 'oi " acccompanied by old 44 D. C."

Of course we term them very wise, How the news began to flash, Though they are only Sophs in disguise ; Let's have a meeting ot the class; They came a year ahead of us, To think that we, so full of knowledge, And now they make an awful fuss. Should undergo such awful folly.

With all their wisdom they couldn't see As time went on, so did they, Anything higher than the campus trees, But not along in their usual way, Until some Freshmen, one fair eve, Because for the first time this year, Painted our number ('oi) to the breeze. They for suggestions turned an ear. 119 In the course of seven weeks or more, Not very long could we see They finally reached the cupola door, " 'oo" on the cupola of old D. C. And with their wisdom carefully wrought: Where they went you shall know, "D. C., Cuba" and " ('oo) Naughty-naught." And just how the Freshmen made them go.

My ! how they did walk about, Next day some Freshies with brush and paint To think " 'ox " had been rubbed out; Quickly removed the awful taint, To know how easily they had scanned, Not with a dozen in the dark hour of night, The work the Freshies carefully planned. But before the Sophs' eyes, in broad daylight,

And now the cupola doth bear " 'oi," which it can proudly wear; And the Sophomores as a class agree, That " 'oi " is the best in old D. C.

I20 Athletic Association

Edmund S. Hellings President

Joseph Brewster Vice - Presiden t

Henry W. Reybold Secretary

F. Olin MacSorley . Finayicial Secretary

C. M. Curtis Treasurer

Waldo Wilson . Foot Ball Mariager

George Vickers Base Ball Manager

Everett C. Johnson Tennis Manager

Ebe Walter Gymnasium Ma7iager

121 Foo Ball

colleges whose players are college students and our players are college students. We have stopped playing foot ball with athletic clubs. The change at first weakened our team, but we are gradually recovering lost strength. The team of last season was better than the team of the preceding year, and we expect next year a further improvement. The team of '97 was undoubtedly with the students the most popular that we have ever had. We opened the foot ball season of '97 with three vacant positions to be filled—centre, quarter-back and right half-back. With so many of the old players back in college, it seemed that the chances for success were good. This year, as in lormer years, we were handicapped by the light weight of the men and the lack of a regular coach. The teams that we met on the gridiron were on the average five to twenty pounds heavier than our men. We could hardly expect our team to be successful against heavy teams, especially in the mass plays that were so OOT BALL has been for years the principal out- much used last season. Another great disadvantage door sport at Delaware College. The student was the short time we had each afternoon for practice. body takes a lively interest in the game. Until Nearly all of our players are engineering or scientific r students, and they had work in the shops or labora- four years ago we did not have a purely college team. We played college teams that had players who were not tories until 5 o'clock every afternoon, except Friday. college students, and we played athletic clubs. Since Several of our players are day students, who come to then a change has been made in foot ball. We now play town by rail, and they have to leave Newark before 6 Foot Ball Team of }97.

o'clock. Our team was at a disadvantage in playing called for the first half. In the second half Mason carried classical college teams that had two hours each afternoon the ball across the line for a touchdown. for practice. The less said about the last game with Haverford the Last season we had an organized scrub team, some- better. Our team played poorly, Haverford played thing that was lacking the year before. These men magnificently, and the final result was never for a undoubtedly helped the first team greatly. Before this moment in doubt. Our team usually manages to play year we had never met St. John's College or Ursinus one particularly bad game each season, and this season College on the foot ball field. The team played seven was no exception. match games during the season, winning one and tieing Mter that game, Rice of the University of Pennsyl- one. Because of injuries to several of our players we vania, coached our team for a week, and the playing of were compelled to cancel the game with Johns Hopkins the men was very much better in the second game with University, and for the same cause the team disbanded a Ursinus and in the game with St. John's. week before the close of the season. The first game of In the last game of the season we had as our oppon- the season was played at Newark with Haverford Col- ents the heavy team of Pennsylvania Military College. lege. Our team was weakened by the absence of Marvel Our team was much weakened by the absence of several and Vansant. The Haverford team was much heavier of our players, and it was simply a case of how much than ours. When the Haverford team came on the field P. M. C. could score. our Freshmen stared and wondered. They did not know The team of the past season was strong on the de- what particular kind of insanity our manager had when fensive, but lacked scoring ability. The men would carry he arranged for a game with so heavy a team. The the ball to within a few yards of the opponent's goal line Haverfords were simply too much for our men, and the but could not carry it across. final score was: Haverford, 16; Delaware, o. There are two men, Morris and Vansant, who de- The second game was played with Swarthmore, at serve especially to be complimented. They played hard, League Park, Wilmington. Swarthmore won, 12 to 6, consistent foot ball throughout the season. Morris at but it was the best game we ever played against them. right-guard played a strong game, both on defensive and Hartman made the touchdown for Delaware and kicked offensive, and Vansant played a remarkable game on the the goal. end. The next game was played at Newark, with Ursinus At the close of the season Harrison W. Vickers, Jr., College, and our team won, 4 to o. Delaware had the was chosen captain for the next year. He has played an , ball a yard from the Ursinus goal line when time was end on the college team for two years. Foot Ball Team,

Captain, J. T. Mullins. Manager, W. G. Wilson. Assistant Manager, F. O. MacSorley. Left Guard, Marvel. Ceyitre, Hughes. Right Guard, Morris.

Lejt Ends, Vickers, Baldwin. Tackle, H. K. McCabe. Right Tackle, Mullins. Right Endy Vansant.

Left Half-Backs, G. N. Davis, Mason. Quarter-Back, Hartman. Right Half-Back, Wolf. Fiill-Back, Pierce.

Substitutes.

Baxter, Guard. Green, Tackle. Trotter, End. Nivin, End. E. H. McCabe, Half Back. E. G. Davis, Tackle. Constable, End. J. R. MacSorley, Right Half Back. Reybold, Quarter-Back.

Second Team

E. H. McCabe, Jr., Captain. Marshall, Knox, McCoy, McKeon, Baker, Walter, H. R. Tunnell, Ott, Paxson, H. E. Tunnell, Stockley, Cann. 126 First One thing Then Another Sussex Club.

Si Quaeris Comitatem Amoenam, I ad Sussicem.

EVERETT C. JOHNSON President.

H. E. TUNNELL First Vice-President.

J. W. RICKARDS Second Vice-President.

EBE WALTER Third Vice-President.

H. M. MORRIS Fourth Vice-President.

E. M. BAKER Recording Secretary.

H. R. TUNNED Corresponding Secretary.

H. K. MCCABE . Treasurer

ANDREW MARVEL ^ i Board of Directors. RODNEY SHARPE ^

J. B. MESSICK J

128 Shakespearean Club.

H. L,. CONSTABLE President.

ED. KRAUSE, Vice-President.

THOS. GEO. BAXTER Secretary.

EVERETT C. JOHNSON . Treasurer.

G. N. DAVIS Directors. GEORGE VICKERS Officers.

HUGH M. MORRIS President. ROE MACSORLEY First Vice-President, E. MONROE BAKER Second Vice-President. THOMAS GEORGE BAXTER Recording Secretary. J. VANCE CRAIG Correspoyiding Secretary. E. H. MCCABE Treasurer.

130 Republican Club

Edmund S. Hellings ...... President. Archibald Grant ...... isi Vice-President. West A. Trotter ...... 2d Vice-Preside?it. Harold K. Paxson . . . . . Recordi?ig Secretary. Joseph W. Rickards ..... Corresponding Secretary. Willard F. Wood ...... Treasurer. Honorary Members His Excellency, William McKinley. Honorable Thos. Reed.

Delaware College Boarding Club.

Everett C. Johnson President. Harold Green Vice-Presiden t. E. Monroe Baker Secretary. Henry W. Reybold Treasurer. Harley K. McCabe Commissary. L. L. Pratt. Auditors H. W. Vickers, Jr. Ebe Walter.

131 Delaware College Review.

(Published monthly during the college year by the Press Association of Delaware College.)

Editorial Board

John T. Mullins, '98 Editor-in - Chiej.

Associates

Hugh M. Morris, '98 Edmund S. Hellings, '98

Department Editors.

Literary H. Lyttleton Constable, '98 Local Edwin Krause, '98 Athletic Harold Green, '99 Exchange George Vickers, '99 Inter- Collegiate West A. Trotter, 'oo De Alumnis Everett C. Johnson, '99 Verse Thos. B. McKeon, 'oo Business Department

Business Manager G. Edgar Folk,'98 1st Assistant Business Manager Harvey L. Vansant, 'oo 2d Assistant Business Manager Joseph W. Brown, '99 132 Declamation Contest

June 14, 1897.

Roger O. Mason . . . Wreck of the Northern Belle. Everett C. Johnson The New South. Harley K. McCabe Valley Forge. Edmund S. Hellings Eulogy on U. S. Grant. West A. Trotter On the Tennessee. Andrew Marvil Legend of Bregenz.

Prizes Awarded

Andrew Marvel, Roger O. Mason, Everett C. Johnson.

i33 Men who hope to be Commissioned in the hinds and Noble Cavalry Troop

Thomas Geo. Baxter, S. Harry Baynard, Charles Edwin Lewis,

Everett C. Johnson, * Lewis dU Had way, Harold GreeN , Frank Oil n MacSorley, Andrew DOnnell Marshall, Roger O. Mason,

Richard Paul Reed, GeO. L. Medill, HarrisoN W. Vickers, HarleY King McCabe,

Geo. HaRlan Wells, Geo. vl ckers, WillarD F. Wood, Edward H. McCabe, Joseph W. BRown, James L,. Stewart.

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Junior Promenade

T is impossible to give our readers a fair idea of our the entire student body nor do we mean the entire Junior Junior Military Promenade. However, we don't think Class, but we do mean the majority of the Junior Class. we should publish this book without making an We believe nice social evening dances do no harm, attempt to describe it. _ but,, rather, they do good. Nothing lightens our College We do not believe we flatter ourselves when we say life more than to have our minds now and then entirely that beyond a doubt our Promenade was the grandest carried away from our daily routine of duties, and nothing mid-year ball that the boys of our College have ever seems to obtain this end better than by having a short given. It was. Delaware's first Military Ball. vacation evening dance* or entertainment of some kind. The auditorium was handsomely decorated with the We, greatly to the shame of every true Delawarean, have class colors (cream and olive) and the College colors no ladies in our College. It is necessary that we"should (blue and gold). have some schooling in society, and, shockingly as it The platform was beautifully ornamented with a may-seem to some we unhesitatingly say, we have found number of finely embroidered American flags and war no school that is so well adapted for the training of polite equipments. Overhead waved buntings of all colors, while young men as the various receptions which are given at here and there odd Japanese lanterns shone with great Delaware College. They are harmless. brilliancy. Music, furnished by a Baltimore orchestra, By them we become acquainted with the most gave cheer to every heart and caused scores of merry refined and cultured people of our town. By them feet to move gracefully about the room. we are taught to respect ".and through them we are We know many people will read this book, and will respected. By them what was once rough worth- wonder how sensible college boys cariJuphold dancing. less rock in the hillside is polished and becomes fine We will not attempt to discuss the propriety of college valuable granite. In truth, we are rounded out and balls, though we do think we should give the public our become Symmetrical beings, ready for the world by being idea of dancing. When we say "we" we do not mean acquainted with the nature of man. '99. "One of the few immortal names, That were not born to die." A-m-tr—g : Mc-a-e, H: 44 Shylock is my name."—Shakespeare. " A beast that wants discourse of reason." B-yn-rd : —Shakespea re. '' I am an ass indeed; you may prove it by my Mc-a-e, E: long ears.''—Shakespeare. "In came Fezzewig, one vast, substantial smile." B-ow-n: —Dickens. " He was a man of an unbounded stomach." M-rs-all: —Shakespeare. " He was staid, and in his gait B-xt-r: Preserved a grave majestic state."—Butler. '' A politician . . . one that would circumvent M-cS-rl-y: God.''—Shakespeare. <' Too busy with the crowded hour to fear to live Du-H-dw-y: or die*''—Emerson. " His wit invites you by his looks to come, Re-d: But when you knock, it never is at home." " As proper a man as one shall see in a summer —Cowper. day.''—Shakespeare. G-e-n : St-w-rt: " A buck of the first head."—Shakespeare. " A very gentle beast and of good conscience." J-h-s-n : —Shakespeare. " An admirer of auburn hair."—Everybody. V-ck-rs, G: L-w-s: " Why may not that be the skull of a lawyer?" 4' I am slow of study.''—Shakespeare. —Shakespeare. M-d—1: V-ck-rs, H : " You have such a February face."—Shakespeare. 4 ( Give me another horse M-s-n : Bind up my wounds. " He would himself have been a soldier." A horse ! a horse! —Shakespeare. My kingdom for a horse."—Shakespeare. 136 advertisements. This and That

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N arranging the work de alumnis, the editor Edward Iy. Martin, Delaware's Representative in the Forty- has not attempted to complete a list of the Sixth Congress. William G. Whitely, Associate Judge of Delaware, graduates farther back than the reopening Edward G. Bradford, an eminent lawyer, and Judge of United of the college in 1870. He is not sure that States District Court of Delaware. ' all the information embodied in this list is John H. Paynter, Associate Judge of Delaware. v correct, but trusting that the work may be Gove Saulsbury, M. D., Governor of Delaware, 1866-1870. Mfoi some interest to at least a few, he has Rev. John W. Mears, professor of philosophy in Hamilton College, New York ; nominated for Congress in 1871, and later for done his best with the means at hand. the governorship of New York by the Prohibitionists ; author of As a tree is known by its fruit, so is a many books. college known by its alumni. While Delaware College William H. Purnell, I,. L. D., president of Delaware College, cannot boast a long list of graduates, she may feel proud 1870-1885. of the record made by many of her children. In look- Nathaniel F. C. Lupton, president of University of Alabama, 1871-74; author of " Lupton's Scientific Agriculture." ing over the history of the alumni of the college, we find Edward S. Joynes, professor of modern language in South men, who once wore the gold and blue of old Delaware, Carolina University ; author of Joynes-Meisner German Grammar, not only in the front ranks of many of the professions, Joynes' German Reader, Classic French Plays, etc. but also in places of trust and honor, both state and William F. Causey, Secretary of State of Delaware, 1883-87. national. From the following list of students, who have John G. McCullough, Attorney-General of California, 1863-67 ; vice-president of the Panama Railroad. won distinction—although the list is by no means ex- George W. Bagley, M. D., editor of Lynchburg (Va.) Daily haustive—it can readily be seen that the college has sent Express, 1853 J editor of the Richmond Whig, after the war ; a out many noted men : frequent contributor to Harper's Magazine, Atlantic Monthly, Iyip- pincott's Magazine, under the title of " Moses Adams"; also Dr. D. Hayes Agnew, the famous surgeon and medical writer. historian of Virginia. George R. Riddle, United States Senator, 1864-67. James H. McNeill, secretary of the American Bible Society. Willard Saulsbury, United States Senator, 1859-71; Chancellor Rev. George McNeill, editor of the North Carolina Presbyterian. of Delaware, 1873-1892. Capt. Alexander McRea, the hero of Valverde. Anthony Higgins, United States Senator, 1889-1895. Rev. Epher Whitaker, author of " History of Southold," James R. Lofland, Congressman from Delaware, 1872-74. Long Island. 139 Gen. Adam E. King, Consul-General to Paris, 1890. 1875. Lewis C. Vandegrift, United States Attorney for the District of Thomas Davis, A. B., Wilmington, Del., lawyer. Delaware. Walter F. C. Golt, A. B., Indianapolis, Ind,, a bank cashier. William R. Martin, Judge of Second Judicial Circuit of George Morgan, A. B., Philadelphia, Pa., Philadelphia Press. Maryland. Walter C. Curtis, Ph. B., Newark, Del. Frederic W. Cuitis, Ph. B., Newark, Del. From the opening of the College in 1834 to its sus- Septimus D. Jay, Ph. B. (M. D.), Havre-de-Grace, Md., de- pension in 1859, 454 students were enrolled,- of whom ceased. only 126 were graduated. As the doors of the college Iyewis C. Vandegrift, Ph. B., Wilmington, Del., lawyer, United were closed from 1859 to 1870 no students were graduated States Attorney for the District of Delaware. during this period. From 1870 to 1897, 587 students Elisabeth S. Blandy, B. L., Newark, Del. (Mrs. Williamson). Harriette H. Curtis, B. L-, Glasgow, Del. (Mrs. Delaware were enrolled, of whom 200 were graduated. The total Clark). number of students of the college to 1897 is, therefore, Ella Y. Mackey, B. L., Mt. Vernon, N. Y. 1041, and the total number of graduates to 1897 is 326. George F. Davis, B. I,., Milford, Del., deceased. Graduates from 1870 to 1897 John Webster Darsey, B. I,., San Francisco, Cal., lawyer. 1876. William J. Ferris, A. B., New Castle, Del., President Board of 1873. Education, New Castle National Bank. E. Morris Cloak, B. S. (M. D.), Smyrna, Del., deceased. John R. Martin, A. M., paymaster in the U. S. Navy, on the James H.J. Bush, B. S., Wilmington, Del., deceased. U. S. cruiser, Boston. Edward N. Vallandingham, B. S., Newark, Del., professor of George Balderston, Ph. B. the English language and literature and political science in Dela- William L. Heisler, Ph. B., Philadelphia, Pa., deceased. ware College. Thomas Jaquette, Ph. B., Newark, Del., farmer. 1874. Jacob A. Reinhart, Ph. B., Pat'rs'n, N. J., prin'p'l High School. Harry W. Colvin, A. B., New York, N. Y., deceased. Anna M. Evans, B. L., Newark, Del. (Mrs. Kollock). Gouverneur Emerson, A. B. (M. D.), Milford, Pa., deceased. Katie P. Porter, B. L., with her sister, Estella. William R. Martin, A. B., Eafeton, Md., lawyer, and Judge of M. Estella Porter, B. L., professor in Columbia University. Second Judicial Circuit of Maryland. ElisabethH. Purnell, B. Iy., Wilm'g'n, Del. (Mrs. C. G. Blandy). G. William Marshall, A. B. (M. D.), Milford, Del., practicing Clara Springer, B. L., Wilmington, Del. (Mrs. T. Davis). medicine. Allen V. Lesley George, Wilmington, Del., superintendent at J. Newton Huston, A. B., West Chester, Pa., lawyer. the Diamond State Iron Works. Alexander F. Williamson, A. B., Newark, Del., in the insur- Mary Husler, Newark, Del. ance business in Philadelphia. Agnes M. Ray, Zion, Md. (Mrs. McVey). Thomas Lumb, Jr., B. S., Newark, Del. Annie E. Watson, Newark, Del. (Mrs. Moore). 1877. 1880. Charles M. Curtis, A. B., Wilmington, Del., lawyer. Austin H. Merrill, A. B., Nashville, Tenn., professor in Van- William T. Lyman, Ph. B., Wilmington, Del., lawyer. derbilt University. Henry S. Stone, B. L,., Philadelphia, Pa. John E. Greiner, Ph. B., Baltimore, Md., chief engineer of Annie M. Willis, B. E. (Mrs. R. D. Roberts). bridges for B. and O. R. R. Co. Joseph P. Pyle, Ph. B., Wilmington, Del., practicing medicine. 1878. Edward D. Hearn, Ph. B., Georgetown, Del., lawyer. William M. Ogle, Ph. B., Delaware City, Del., practicing Miranda P. Niswell, B. L., Milford, Del., practicing medicine. medicine. Sarah E. Mackey, B. L-, Newark, Del., deceased. Charles F. Rudolph, Ph. B., Wilmington, Del. Annie M. Housman, B. L-, New Castle, Del. Charles Russel Jakes, Ph. B., Wilmington, Del., practicing medicine. 1881. Anna M. Springer, B. L,., Newark, Del. Thomas R. McDowell, A. B., Parkersburg, Pa., Presbyterian Harriet B. Evans, B. L., Newark, Del. clergyman. Maggie R. Williamson, B. L-, Newark, Del., deceased. John S. M. Neill, A. B., Kenosha, Mon., lawyer. Charles P. Murray, B. L., Wilmington, Del., engineer. Robert H. Wright, Jr., A. B., Wilmington, Del., Episcopal Edward R. Shaw, B. L-, Yonkers, N. Y., professor in the clergyman. University of the City of New York. Peter F. Meredith, Ph. B., Philadelphia, Pa., with Strawbridge Minnie P. Dickinson, B. L-, Pocomoke City, Md. (Mrs. & Clothier. Wolverton). Samuel H. Messick, Ph. B., Bridgeville, Del., farmer. Ada B. Miggett, B. L., Wilmington, Del. John F. Pearce, Ph. B., San Jos£, New Mexico. Frank C. P. Fosbenner, B. L., Baltimore, Md. Rodney H. Richardson, Ph. B., Lewes, Del. 1879. 1882. Emma V. Blandy, B. L-, Newark, Del., teaching in Phila- delphia. Mary M. Janvier, B. L., Newark, Del. Lizzie Iy. Darsey, B. L. Sue M. Ferris, B. L., Wilmington, Del. Margarett G. Evans, B. L., Helena, Mon. Daniel Hirsch, B. L., Milford, Del. Laura Ferris, B. Iy., Glasgow, Del., deceased. John W. Herring, B. L., Milford, Del. Carrie M. Purnell, B. L., Philadelphia, Pa., practicing med- Calvin Cubbage, Ph. B., Philadelphia, Pa. icine. Andrew J. Wiley, Ph. B., Boise City, Idaho, engineer. Jefferson D. Darlington, Ph. B., Newark, Del., deceased. Nathaniel W. Davis, Ph. B., Milford, Del., deceased. James H. Ward, Ph. B. (M. D.), Andersontown, Md., practicing William H. Broughton, Ph. B., (M. D.), Pocomoke City, Md., medicine. deceased. John S. Houston, A. B., Wilmington, Del., deceased. Lewis Heisler Ball, Ph. B., Faulkland, Del., practicing Henry J. D.Jones, A. B., Media, Pa., Episcopal clergyman. medicine. 1883. 1886. r Willard H. Heald, B. S., Wilmington, Del. Edward Henry Eckel, A. B., Williamsport, Pa., Episcopal James Bernard Cush, B. S., St. Georges, Del., deceased. clergyman. James P. Ware, B. L-, Honesdale, Pa., Episcopal clergyman. William Du Ham el, A. B., New York, N. Y., Episcopal John G. Gray, B. L,., Wilmington, Del., lawyer. clergyman. 1884. Charles Black Evans, A. B., Newark, Del., practicing law in Wilmington* L,ouis Iy. Curtis, A. B., Morristown, N. J., musician. Anna T. Reynolds. A. B., Williamsport, Pa., (Mrs. E* H. Harvey W. Ewing, A. B., Fair Hill, Md., Methodist Episcopal Eckel). clergyman. Mary G. Reynolds, A. B., Newark, Del., (Mrs. E. W. Manning). Willard R. Houston, A. B., New London, Pa., Presbyterian Laura Kelso Mackey, B. S., Wilmington, Del., teaching. clergyman. Maurice McKin, A. B., Burlington, N. J., P. E. clergyman. 1887. Alexander M. Polk, A. B., (M. D.), Orville, Wash., Govern- William C. Smith, A. B., McClellandsville, Del. ment Physician to the Indians of the Colville Reservation in John E. J. Whistler, B. S., Evansville, Ind. Washington State. Harry M. Davis, B. S., Elkton, Md., lawyer. Imogen G. Polk, A. B., Faggsmanner, Pa. Samuel A. Buchanan, B. S., Philadelphia, Pa., practicing George A. Carpenter, B. S., Smartsville, Cal., journalist. medicine. Alfred B. McVey, B. S., Zion, Md. 1888. Edward M. Purnell, B. S., Mena, Ark, engineer. A. Armitage Evans, B. L-, Washington, D. C., (Mrs. Reed). T. Bayard Heisel, B. S., Wilmington, Del., lawyer. H. Greely Knowles, B. Iy., Wilmington, Del., lawyer ; Ex-Con- John G. Boyd, B. S., New Castle, Del., deceased. sul to Bordeaux. 1889. 1885. J. David Jaquette, B. S., Newark, Del., principal of Newark Grace D. Chester, B. S., Northampton, Mass., professor in Academy. Smith College. Albert F. Polk, A. B., Georgetown, Del., lawyer. Charles West Cullen, B. S., Georgetown, Del., lawyer. Franklin Collins, A. B., Smyrna, Del. Richard T. Pilling, B. S., Stanton, Del. J. Harvey Whiteman, B. S., Wilmington, Del., lawyer; Ex- Byron G. Sharp, A. B., Philadelphia, Pa., salesman for Straw- Secretary of State. bridge and Clothier. Victor B. Woolley, B. S., Wilmington, Del., Prothonotary of 1890. New Castle Co. ; lawyer. Hugh C. Browne, A. B., Wilmington, Del., lawyer. Margaret W. Blandy, B. Iy., Newark, Del. E- B. T. Springer, A. B., Wilmington, Del., lawyer. Elisabeth Lee Hearn, B. L , Georgetown, Del., (Mrs. Bacon). John Ball Jr., A. B., Stanton, Del., practicing medicine* John Nivin, B. Newark, Del., farmer. Albert H. Raub, A. B., Philadelphia, Pa., principal of a gram- Ida Simmons, B. L,., Newark, Del. mar school. 142 189r. Brooks L. Ross, B. Ag., Seaford, Del. J. P. Armstrong, B. S., Newark, Del., superintendent in woolen William Washington Knowles, B. A., Seaford, Del. (ex-super- mills. intendent of public schools of -Sussex County, Del.), reading law. Edward R. Martin, B. S., Bridgeville, Del., farmer. Edward Ott Walton, B. S., Iron Hill, Md. Joseph ft. HOssinger, B. S., Newark, Del. Francis B. Short, A. B., Wilmington, Del., pastor of Epworth 1894. Church, Wilmington, Del. Raymond Du Hadway, A. B., Bethel, Del., principal of public Thomas C. Frame, Jr., A. B., Dover, Del., lawyer. schools. Harry Whiteman, A. B., Wilmington, Del., lawyer. Thomas Simpson Holt, A. B., Lewisville, Pa., M. E. clergy- 1892. man. S. Edwin Grant, A. B., Champlain, N. Y., Methodist Episcopal Clarence Fosh McVey, A. B., Denver, Col. clergyman. George L. Townsend, A. B., Odessa, Del., principal of Odessa public schools. Benjamin Biggs Smith, A. B., Wilmington, Del., lawyer. Charles W. Jones, A. B., Laurel, Del. Walter Ponder Conaway, A. B., Dover, Del. James W. Lattomus, A. B., Wilmington, Del., lawyer. Albert Powell Donoho, A. B., Seaford, Del. P. Blair Pie, A. B., Newark, Del., practicing law in Wilming- Edwin Somers Armstrong, B. C. E., Philadelphia, Pa. ton, Del. William Henry McDonald, B. C. E., Newark, Del., in Experi- ment Station at Delaware College. Frederick Rickards, A. B., Bridgeville, Del., principal of pub- lic schools, Ocean View, Del. Everett B. Wilson, B. C. E., Elkton, Md. Willard T. Smith, A. B., Delaware City. Del,, superintendent James Lewis Zeigler, B. C. E., Wilmington, Del. of public schools for New Castle County. S. Kirkwood Martin, B. S., Seaford, Del. 1895. Herman Miers Svpherd, A. B., St. Georges, Del., attending 1893. Dickinson Law School. George Henry Jackson Edmonston, B. C. E., Elkins, Va. William Umstead Reybold, A. B., Delaware City, Del. Alfred Lee Ellis, B. C. E. (A. B., '96), Delmar, Del., principal Charles Oran Cooper, A. B., Baltimore, Md., lawyer. of public schools at Newark, Del. Horace Greely Eastburn, A. B., Wilmington, Del., studying law. Walter Wint Hynson, B. C. E., Kent Island, Md. William Watson Harrington, A. B., Farmington, Del., student Francis Allyn Cooch, B. C. S., Cooch's Bridge, Del. at Harvard University. Abner Griswald Plumb, B. C. S , Harrington, Del. Glenn Mitchell Litsinger, A. B., Newark, Del., attending Balti- Alexander J. Taylor, B. C. S., Wilmington, Del. more College of Physicians and Surgeons. Julius Herman George Wolf, B. C. S., Boston, Mass., engineer. Crawford Stevens, A. B., Smyrna, Del. Robert Denney Hoffecker, Jr., B. A., Smyrna, Del., journalist. Edward Webb Cooch, B. C. E., Cooch's Bridge, Del., student Jacob Martin Tharp, B. A., Harrington, Del. at Harvard University. Mallery Foulk, B. A., Milford, Del. Andrew Kerr, B. C. E., Newark, Del. Edward Franklin Mullin, B. C. E-, Marshallton, Del., clerk for Robert Bunsen Wolf, B. E. E., Ticonderoga, N. Y., in the paper H. & H. Co. business. Frederick Roland Bartlett, B. M. E., Easton, Md., now travel- William Burton Jester, B. S., Delaware City, Del., studying law ing in Venezuela. at University of Pennsylvania. Franklin Herman Hynson, B. M. E. (B. E. E-, '96), Kent John Thomas Henderson, B. E. E., Appleton, Md. Island, Md. Harry Draper, B. C. E-, Denver, Col. Waldo Cleland Wilson, B. E. E., Wilmington, Del., collector Clarence Albert Short, B. C. E., Burlingame, Cal., professor of for B. & O. R. R. Co. history, civil government and physical culture in Hoyt's Academy. Carl Harrington, B. E. E-, Newark, Del., instructor in mechan- 1897. ical and electrical engineering at Delaware College. James Kilgore Burnite, A. B., Oxford, Pa. 1896, Ernest Waitman Sipple, A. B., Frederica, Del., principal of public schools. George D. Truitt, A. B., Milford, Del. Samuel Lucas Conner, A. B., Wilmington, Del., taking a post- Albert Seth Cooper, A. B., Camden, Del. graduate course in Delaware College. William Henry Cooper, A. B., Wilmington, Del., studying law. William Ellis, A. B., Sheffield, Mass., principal of public George Mclntire, A. B., Delaware City, Del. schools. Edward Campton Reybold, A. B., Deadwood, S. Dak., steno- Ira Liston Pierce, B. S., Newark, Del., taking a post-graduate grapher. course in Delaware College. Edward Laurence Smith, A. B., Newark, Del., taking a post- Lee Omahundro Willis, B. M. E., Newark, Del. graduate course at Delaware College. George Griffith Henry, B. E. E., Newark, Del., in bank. William Owen Sypherd, A. B., St. Georges, Del., teaching at Edwin Terry Phillips, B. E. E., Philadelphia, Pa., in electrical Port Penn, Del, laboratory of Queen & Co. A Letter from '99's Soldier Boys

(To the Staff of the " Aurora.")

CAMP TUNNELL, NEAR MIDDLETOWN, DEL.

May 24, 1898.

To EVERETT C. JOHNSON, Editor-in-Chief of Delaware College Annual " Aurora." We, the undersigned members of the class of '99 of Delaware College, send most hearty greetings to those of us who are remaining at home and who are preparing themselves for our nation's future defence, by laying up stores of knowledge. We are all well and are rejoicing in the fact that we have been permitted to enlist in the defence of our country's honor. We bid you a most affectionate God speed in doing your duties at college as we go forth into the field to ours. Fraternally, we are, ROGER O. MASON, 2d Lieut. Co. "L." GEORGE L. MEDII.Iv, 1st Srgt. Co. "L." HAROLD GREEN, Srgt. Co. " M." S. H. BAYNARD, Bugler CO. "L." C. EDWIN LEWIS, CO. "L." HOWARD M. ARMSTRONG, CO. "M." THOS. GEO. BAXTER, CO. "M." 145 XTable of Contents.

Athletic Association ...... 121 Literary ...... 95 to 120 Aurora Staff ...... 8 The Class of '99 ; Purty Girls ; Life ; What Comes to All; " (Illus.) ..... 9 Evanescent Shimmerings; I Love; The College Man's Athaenean Literary Society .... 84 Life; A Distinguished Trustee ; One of the Early Presi- 44 Society (Illus.) ..... 85 dents ; Co-Education at Delaware College ; Co-Education ; Advertisements ...... 137 Freshman's First Letter ; Freshman's Second Letter ; '00 A Letter from '99's Soldier Boys .... 145 Poem ; Class Poem ; The Faculty ; Junior Roll Call; A Hot Time on Klondyke To-night; One Side ; The Other Battleship Maine (Illus.) .... 5 Side. Lives of Former Presidents .... 3i Calendar for 1897 ...... 18 College Colors and Yell .... 12 Members of '98 . 46 Corner of Chemical Laboratory (Illus.) 23 " '99 bo Corner of Biological Laboratory (Illus.) 27 66 44 '00 . Corps of Cadets (Illus.) ..... 72 7i 44 'oi . . . Men Who Hope to be Commissioned in the Hinds and Noble Dedication ...... 4 Cavalry Troop ...... 134 Delaware College Boarding Club .... 131 Military Department ..... 73 44 44 Review .... 132 Declamation Contest . 133 '99 136 Delta Phi Literary Society .... 89 76 44> 44 Society (Illus.) ..... 90 Officers of Gunboat Wilmington (Illus.) . . De Alumnis ...... 139 Officers of Y. M. C. A. . «3 Obituary Notice (John T. Harrington) Democratic Club ...... 130 88 Our Literary Societies ...... 92 End of Machine Shop (Illus.) .... 29 Officers of the Board ...... 15 4' 44 Del. College Agriculture Experiment Station 16 Foot Ball ...... 122 Presentation ...... 44 7 < < <

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