The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-02-24
West Virginia University
Card From the President.
Resolutions OF the Students,
WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY, I
MoRGANTowN, W. Va. J


Editors of the Register:
GENTLEMEN: According to instruc'
tions l transmit for publication in the
REGIsRER, a copy of the proceedings had
by part Of the students in the State
University in regard to an article pub
lished your paper Of the 18th inst. As
sured that your scuse of justice will per,
nit its insertion, ] beg leave at the
same time very briefly to correct one OF
two gross inaccuracies into which the
writer of the same article has fallen.
As to the course of study send you
for comparison the catalogues of Prince
ton, Dickinson, Allegheny, Washington
aud Jefferson colleges. You will see
that our curriculum in both the prepar-
atory and regular classes is in advance
OF some and equal to the best OF the
above.
As to Finance Ninety thousand dol
lars of the endowment is from the sale
of Government land scrip and has cost
the State nothing. 1t has added to the
above only ten thousand dollars. The
whole 100000 is securely invested in
bonds known as currency, or Pacific
Skies, registered, and so endorsed upon
their face as utterly to preclude their
being used for other purposes. The
Legislature, for sufficient reason, or
dered the sale of the old Academy aud
the investment of the proceeds in new
building, 1t was sold at its exact valu-
alton when given to the State. Toward
the new building the Legislature, as
yet, has given only SIS, 900. need
only further say that from the forward
ness of the work and the contracts
already made, the superintendent esti-
mates it will require only S2O, 600 to
finish and pay for it; that there is no
building in the State which, in proper
ton to its size and the quality of its
workmanship, has cost 30 little, nor any
for the early completion of which there
is such immediate and pressing necessi.
ty. The $500, from the Peabody fund,
goes to individual students in the Nor
NAL Department. The aggregate of
Profes sors' salaries is $3.50 and not
$4,000. What the people of Morgan.
town contributed was mainly in grounds
and buildings. Perhaps not more than
$4,000 will be realized from bonds, &C.,
surrendered as endowment of former
academy. The idea that the gentlemen
who compose the Board of Regents
would either themselves be guilty OF
corruption" or would connive at it in
otte is simply preposterous.
As to grade of students. 1t should be
remembered the above article is
based on the showing of only the Sec
oud year in the history of the Universi-
ty. We are now but in the second term
l. l.. far N N
year shows about sixty students enti-
tied to be enrolled in regular college
CLASSES, aud not fourteen, as some might
infer from the above article. The true
representation would be: Beginning
first year with zero; second year, Ia;
third year, 60, ratio of increase which,
with large and ever increasing attend
ance in the Preparatory Department, is,
under all the circumstances. scarcely
paraleled in the history of education.
| shall content myself with saying that
in no part of his article was the writer
wider of the mark than in his attempt
ed comparison of the University with
the old academy.
The charge of partisanship is sufh
ciently answered by the action of the
students, which here append:
WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY,
February II, 1870.
At public meeting of the Democrats
of the University, to deliberate upon an
article in the Wheeling REGISTER, OF
the 18th inst, on motion Mr.. L. G. Ed
miston, of Weston, was appointed Presi-
dent, and Mr. G. Linden Smith, of Fair
mont, Secretary.
On motion a committee of three was
chosen by the President to draft resolu-
tions in regard to said article, consist
ing of Messrs. NJ. III. Dent, of Lewis
county, James Dunkin, of Harrison, and
A. Z. McLane, of Monongalia.
The committee presented the follow
ing resolutions, which, on motion, were
unanimously adopted:
WHEREAS, The Wheeling REGISTER,
ofthe the 18th inst, in an article full of
Misrepresentation, asserts, among
other things, that at the State Univer-
sity "the sons of Democrats are treated
as rebels" and that the institution is
"a hot-bed for the propagation of Radi-
calism," and that political harangues
of the fiercest sort have been made In
the halls of the University" therefore,
resolved,
l. That the above assertions and all
similar charges and insinuations, when
ever and by whom made, are absolutely
and totally false.
2. That the utmost kindness and
friendship is, and from the beginning
has been, manifested towards us, who
are Democrats and the sons of Demo-
Gratis, by the President of the Univer-
sity, by the Professors and citizens gen.
orally.
3. That copy of these resolutions be
handed to DR.. Martin, to be through
him transmitted to the editor of the
REGISTER.
[Signed T..G. EDMIsToN, Pres't.
c. LINDEN SMITH, Sec'y.
DIR. Martin, President Vest Virginia Uni
| rerSity:
DEAR SlR:-I have the pleasure of
supplying you with copy of the above
resolutions. i should say that in addi-
ton to those whose names appear in
the same, there were present, and voted
for these resolutions, Messrs. Tom. c.
Wilson, of Morgantowp, j. S. S. Woods,
of Wheeling, ID. w. Border, Of Jefferson
county, F. A. Golden, of Wayne G. H.,
Frank Woods, of Barbour county, and
others from different sections of this
and adjoining States, constituting about
one half the entire body of students.
Very Respectfully,
LSigned,1 c. LINDEN SMITH, sec'y.
Imay add that of the State Cadets
fully one-half are from Democratic fam
lilies.
The following slip, from the Constitu
tion of this place, whose Democratic or
thodoxy even the REGISTER will not
question, shows how the institution
stands in the estimation of the Democ
racy who are best acquainted with it
You will see from the date that it wa
published just three days in advance o.
| the unfounded and injurious Statements
of the article here referred to:
From the Constitution, February IA