Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-11-24
THE STATE UNIVERSITY
Examinations and Literary Per-
Torrance.
Correspondence Of the RegisteT.

MoRGANTowN, W. Va, Nov. 22d.
Examinations are the order OF the
day and have been since the 18th inst;
they will close on Tuesday next. The
students as rule have passed very
creditably, and are well pleased and en-
couraged with their success. Winter
term opens on Wednesday, Goth inst.
The Department of Law and Medicine
will resume again.
Law will be taught by Prof. Brook
and medicine by DIR. Brock. Fine facil-
tiles are afforded to young men wishing
to study either or both of the above
mentioned branches.
Several students will 90 to take charge
OF schools during the winter; but sew
eral others are expected to take their
places. The second Junior and Senior
performance came OFF on Friday even
ing. the DIST inst, at p. NJ. The fol-
lowing is brief synopsis OF the per-
formance:
Juniors-First performance, essay by
A. l.. Cox subject, "Kansas." He took
up the history of the State, and gave a
very graphic account OF its primitive
settlers, describing their hardships and
fierce combats with the mosquitoes"
and concluded by showing the great
advancement made by her in education;
how she paid more taxes for the support
of free schools than our own.ittle noun
tain State.
The next performance was an essay by
T. +. Hodges: "The Negro Exodus He
stated that the negro has ever been
puzzle, as where to class him, or what
TO do with him; that he may be trans
fcrred to the Northern States to sub
serve political ends; yet he will ever re-
gard the sunny South as his home; that
the North makes great professions OF
love for him, but when he is brought
into their social circles they drop him
Immediately; that the people of the
South are his true friends, notwIth-
standing, in some instances he has re-
ceived i'll treatment at their hands. The
cssavist closed with an admirable perora-
ton, in which the negro was represent
ed as sitting beneath the Southern palm,
surrounded by his dusky Offsprings.
w. NJ. Hvland followed with an
Grafton. Subject "Chivalry." He
showed that chivalry had been a bless
ing to civilization, 10y breaking up the
ieudal system. The most chivalrous
ace was during the time of the order OF
Knights Templars. Chivalry died when
fire arms were introduced. The
word chivalry, in our day is al
most obsolete, serving to remind
us OF the glory of an age gone by.
Seniors first performance Essay by
c. +. Grafton. Subject: "Minstrels."
The minstrels treated in this essay were
not the nomadiC negro trOupes which
we see, only patrOnized by the lower
classes, but they were kept by lords and
borons for entertainment in their own
house, occupying high rank in the
family, supplying in the place OF public
entertainments. King Alfred went forth
in the disguise of minstrel in order TO
save his country by his winning ways.
J. y. Marsh, Grafton. Subject: Crit
icism." Criticism ranks among the
noble faculties OF man; in fact, none
stand out more prominently. 1t Is
essential TO perfect manhood. We are
all avcrse TO criticism when 1t is leyeled
at ms : but we are ever willing to use it
against others. Very few are calculated
to use criticism judiciously.
G.. \. Pcarre, Jr., essay. Subject,
prospects of our Republic The OBJ
ect OF all government is to secure the
happiness of the people. All govern
mcntS, except the Democratic form,
have failed to DO this. Hence the decay
of Rome aud other nations, where the
government has failed to make the peo-
pie happy. We need not fear that
America will decay, for her principles ot
government are democratic, and We may
look forward TO a,univcrsal virtue, uni
versal intelligence.
b. J.. Keenan,, Grafton. Subject:
Economy of Evolution" The study
of fossils has attracted the attention OF
thinking minds for twenty centuries.
Out of this study grew geology, the
science OF evolution OF inorganic matter.
The history OF the earth, as recorded in
geology, has been the scene OF cOntlnu-
Gus life creation for more than thirty
million years. The two methods by
which the life may have been created
are: First, independent creation; sec
ond, evolution. He took the evolution
theory, and adduced several examples
to illustrate this theory. The argument
was good throughout and was closed
with an appropriate quotation from Ten
nysOn.
A. 4. Waters, essay. Subject: "Home
Life, the Index of National Life" Fami-
lies are the beginnings OF nations. What
shall our family life be? is one form of
putting the question, what shall the
life of the Republic be? The home
is the crystal of society; the
nucleus Of national character. Govern
ment is neglected. In many families
the parents evidently do not rule, and
the children inst as evidently do. Pa
rents often need governing fully as much
rs the children. Children are mirrors
rejecting not only the faces, but the
lives of parents. Home happiness is a
rare article in these dsys. Parents are
too busy to sec that they are letting
this choice gift of heaven slip through
their hands, which nourished would
have twined for them garands more
soul-satiSiying than the laurel wreaths
Of fame, or the golden crowns of wealth.
Tossing upon a Bed of Agony,
Tortured In every Joint with intammatory rhcu-