The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1872-01-17
WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY.
Report or the Board Of Regents.

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Virginia University report, under date
OF June Is, 1871, that the institution
continues to meet with increasing sue,
cess. There is a larger number o.
students on the roll than ever before !;
the higher classes are enlarged and
increased facilities in the way Of library,
cabinets and apparatus are provided.
The important elements Of exactness,
com prehensiveness and popularity char
acterize the course Of instruction at the
University and equal provision is made
for instruction in the natural sciences,
political economy, psychology, ethics,
English literature, history, modern Ian
guages, and other practical studies.
The founding of the institution upon
the broad scale designed by its pro-
iectors and demanded by the needs Of
the State has been beset by many diff
culties, most OF which have been hap
ply avoided or overcome. The Board
say:
I'm regard to local support, enough
interest has been manifested to show
how fully the University has commend.
ed itself TO the best minds of'the COM
munity, while in the body of students,
in the Board OF Instruction, and among
ourselves, the Regents, there is and has
been such diversity Of political interests,
local views and religious feeling, as not
only to preclude any danger from these
sources but also to secure in the out
ward relations and internal workings Of
the University the most desirable, most
generous and well balanced adjustment,
and to save from that narrowness and
one.sidedness, which the exclusive con-
troll of party, sect or section usually
engender. The Importance OF these
facts, and the importance that, in order
to correct any erroneous impressions
which may obtain, they should be
known to all the people Of our State,
justify us in thus particularly referring
to them. They will be best appreciated
by those who know how difficult it is,
in what more than any other may be
called the creative period Of such al in
stitution, to duly consider and provide
for all its interests and possibilities and
how fatal any mistake at it's foundation
must be-"
The great want OF the institution
from the beginning has been the need
of means for the proper support and
enlargement of the faculty, the library,
apparatus, cabinet, laboratory, grounds
and buildings. So. many and such
pressing wants have manifested them.
selves that the Board Of Regents has
felt perplexed 70 know to what particu-
lar use they could best apply the funds
in IT, cir control. The estimated receipts
of the institution for the year ending
June 10th, 1872, are $1,000 and the
necessary ex penses, making no provision
for library, reading room or instruments,
| is 81, 100, leaving deficit OF $3.50.
which the Legislature is recommended
to provide for by appropriation. This
estimate is based upon the present rate
of salaries Of professors, which are at
the low average Of $1,000 per year.
More liberal provision should be made.
The University cannot expect to retain
permanently the services Of the present
corps of teachers or obtain any who are
equally qualified to fill their places, at
the present rate of compensation. In
accordance with the suggestion Of the
President, the Board have ordered the
nroyisional election Of two new Pro.
f.ssors in place Of the tutors now EN-.
ployed. -. Ill,
continue the annual appropriation Of
$lO,O 600 to the permanent endowment oil
the University. -'i2 .aa sHa," 81,
An imperative need is . suitable
building for an Armory for the safe