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Dr. Marvin is now the country's youngest onetime college president —but all is not well in the land of little rain, all is not peace at the university where polo is a year-round sport. There is a report that all but two of the university faculty will resign in June. Onetime Chancellor Ellinwood has joined his faction in the lower house of the Legislature to fight Governor Hunt.
Feudal Delaware
The State of Delaware did more thinking about public education last week than it had done for eight years. For eight years, whenever a question of public education arose, Delaware had said: "Let Pierre duPont do it." But last fortnight, Pierre duPont, tired of "doing it." Pierre duPont, having personally contributed some $5,000,000 to build public schools and support public instruction in Delaware, now beheld an apathetic legislature about to let public instruction languish for lack of state funds. Pierre duPont made statements:
"I believe the state should appropriate at least $2,000,000 annually to improve the school buildings throughout the state. If the request for this amount is pared it will be a mistake. . . . I hope what I have done will be an example. . . . The next Legislature may make me change my mind, but my present attitude is that I'm through.