The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1873-07-02
WEST LEBER W .
The State Normal sclol'
Closing Exercises OF the aooai
School-GraduatiOn OF n ella OF
Twcnfy-HisforyO OF the Schou

importance than seems 10 nave zen
generally supposed by the people dhe
State. A normal school, a schodOr
training teachers, has a scope d a
responsibility that is but little appel
ated BY the public and, in some Gee,
is no. sufficiently fels in the no,al
schools themselves. 4 large pror-
ton Of those who receive q cours o'
normal instruction become teacti5 /;
they have received at school a 60 ol
stamp or trade mark which they dry
with them throughout life; they I've
upon their own pupils the imple oI
the same stamp and these tns'
nit it to others; 50 that he
teachers OF q normal school msgnd
ottea do impress their own peculiaEes
upon a thousand youth in fifty nsh-
borhcods in single year.
Lock for instance at West Lisey.
There have been iu attendance the
during the past year, az shown by
catalogue, 10 students, 90 OF "hn
have been present during the sssn
that closed on Tuesday. OF th'seit
least 80 design to become teacnrsn
TIE public schools. Each Of the % vi
probably have so pupils under his'F
her charge. If each o! the
prospective teachers copies, as is
very apt to be the case, th' E
culisrities o. the teacher OF tc
normal school and, as must nauH-
" follow, transmits them i te
pupils OF the district schools, TIE III"
NAL school at West Liberty willmke
its mark Tor gool or for evil upn OF
less than fifteen hundred youth tung
d ai@g3e year. Year a.tcr year tiisn'
fucncc j. multiplied There wntat
from the West Liberty school on T's'
day 20 gradGstes, 9yonns ladies ard
youvg men, al fully equipped ast'
s.ructo7s, and, armed with dIp!oH;
which are the certificates OF their quiz
fcation to teach. Last year q simlI
class (tLough rot 50 large,) weat fot'
10 train the minds of the young. ~
year another company Of teacheEa VI
be sent out to spread abroad the !
struciions received at West Libert
and 80 year after year the influence
that school will be marked upon t
youth OF the State.
When these considerations recei
proper attention it will be seen that t
work OF norma! schools is OF unusu
and paramount importance.and deserv
the solicitude and attention Of the pc
pie in a greater degree than has Y
been generally bestowed.
The annual examination OF class
at West Liberty was concluded >
Monday, the graduating class being =
quirei to submit; written answers o
questions pertaining TO tie Tsrias
branches of study pursued. Thse
written reports are Observation-Disclosures
ed by the Boari OF Regents, bu pradi-
callv the members OF the BId fird
little leisure and less inclinton ioy
reading three Or four hundrednges OF
manuscript and roting this r. that
mistake in the arsw era rendore the
legislature should devolvc his tty up
on some other body and thus sere its
performance. The Board of Rcgts has
too many other duties to peifn and
its members are distracted by touany
other public concerns to givep this
matter the attention which its Aport-
ance demands. In this case, htever,
come attention was bestowed uIn the
written reports furnished by thnem.
bers of the graduating class al, al.
though it was impossible to sutc. all
to strict scrutiny. the general lpres'
sion OF the Board seemed to be,vora-
ble. The members present werE. u.
Bennett, Auditor OF State; J. ] Bur-
dett, State Treasurer and Ho Thos.
Kline, of Cabell, Col. B. AByrne.
State Superintendent OF FreeSchools
was prostrated by sickness ad was
therefore unable to attend, though
Mr.. C. E. Gallaher, Clerk of the
Board, was present and WORTHY per-
sonated his chief.
The weather on Tuesday W. all that
could be desired by those whexpected
and hopel for the presence Ga crowd.
At an early hour the spacits hal oI
the school building was fillt, and the
following programme was alost liter
ally carried out, the music wich inter.
spersed the literary performsces bring
furnished by the Valley Gre corue
band, a company that reaF deserves
praise for the good taste offs musica
selections and the skill VII which
they were performed.
Salutatory. Mollie E. iarman, o
Marshall county. Esssy-fhe day VI
Celebrate" Carrie C. Walk, OF Ohit
county. Oration-"The Death o
Caesar" Geo. !. Garrison, of Brook
county. Essay-"For Wat do W
Live" Jennie W. Hedges, OF Brook
county. Oration-"Origina Thought,
C. W. Wallace, OF Tyler comfy. Essa
al Would Not Live AFays," Semi
E. CrutchfeId, Denton, Tens. Oratio'
Effects OF War on Natinal Charac
ter" Joseph Hunt, OF Booke county
Essay - Nothing but Withere
Leaves" Lizzie Biggs, oDhio count!
Oration-"The Teachingsof History,