South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1873-10-31
The University.


contemporaries evidence of the growing favor Of
West Virginia University among the people,
just as they become acquainted with the solid
basis on which il has been organized, its tho
rough course of study, and the high grade Of
culture and discipline maintained by its efficient
and accomplished Board of Instruction, in the
same degree will they more and IN ore appreciate
its value. We are glad TO understand that con-
slant additions are being made to its apparatus
and other appliances of instruction.
We copy the following from the Mariinsburg
Statesman
WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY.
Some prejudices have been Justified into
the public mind iu.regsrd to this institution
of learning, which should be corrected. 1t
has been charged that it is under sectayian
influence. This has no foundation, in fact
The faculty consists of body of meu in
which nearly all the evangelical decomiua-
tions are represented. 10 il are to be found
Methodists, Episcopalians, Baptists, Pres
byterians, &c. The students are required
to attend public worship on Sundays, but
they select the churches most in accordance
with their own convictions. Religious SER
vice is held every day in college, but it par
taxes OF no Sectarlan formula.
The moral atmosphere which surrounds
this institution is of the most wholesome
character. The society of Morgautowu,
both male and female, is refined and eleva-
ted. Vice and intemperanco find but little
encouragement from its frugal and iptelli-
gent population; and strong moral aud
religious sentiment pervades the entire
community. A youth there has few temp.
tations to do wrong, but on the contrary
every encouragement to decency and mo-
rality Of conduct.
Some seem to think that it is simply a
school for the dissemination of radical doc
trines and ideas. Nothing can be more abb
surd for while all partisan influences are
carefully excluded from the institution, yet
when we 6ud such men as William NJ Fon-
tame and Rober, G.. Berkeley, two of the
most distinguished graduates of the Univer-
sity of Virginia, holding professorships in
the college and the members of the faculty,
/: gives US the assurance that there is at
least a fair representation of southern SEN
timCnt In that institution.
L. is true this University is Of recent es-
adjustment. Ii has yet to work its way
into celebrity. 1t has not around i, the
prestige of a Yale, a Harvard, Washing
ton aud Lee College, or of the University
of Virginia. This can only be the result
of time bu. from all that we can learn, we
believe that as solid and substantial an ed
ucalion; as thorough q knowledge of the
languages, dead and living, aud of rnatbe-
mates, can be acquired there, as in any
other institution in the land.
The expense of an education at the West
Virginia University, will be found Iess than
at any other college probably in the country.
Boarding is cheap; tuition fees are reason
able, and there are no temptations present
cd to the student for improper expenditures
of money.
The people of this portion of the State
could with great propriety until the last few
years, patronizo institutions of learning,
North aud South of us, but now, that we
have Il prosperous University 10 our own
Stale, every consideration Of patriotism
prompts us to give it hearty encourage
ment and support.