The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1883-02-03
The West Virginia University.

we are III receipt OF copy oil the
report ard recommendations of Presi-
dent Wilson, Of the West Virginia
University, reviewing his connection
with that institution, and giving a
concise and intelligent exhibit of its
workings, its needs and its prospects.
This report supplies information
which only an officer Of the institution
and properly the President, coul d
present, viz: an inside view of the
machinery of the University, and the
kind Of work it is doing and ought to
be fitted to do in the future, If it ac-
composites its mission in the State:
and we bespeak for it a careful peru
sal by the public generally.
Without referring to the matter Of
the report we desire to say that the
malicious partisan designs against
the institution which are being daily
fostered and fabricated b. certain
4 Republican organs of the State. are
sufficiently rebuked by the several
official reports issued from the Uni
versity. There is less number Of
students in attendance at present
than at the beginning Of the year.
That has always been the case during
! the winter term. A number of self
sup porting students are, as usual,
teaching during the present term to
obtain means to defray their expenses
A number have left the college
through the sin lister partisan agen-
cics that are at work to damage the
University Nevertheless it's condi
ton is fairly up to the average.
The spirit which actuates some
Republican papers in the State, in
endeavoring to rule or ruin it, has
been as aggressive of late as it is
contemplate. 1t might be supposed
that they would stop short Of at
tempting to destroy State institu-
| tion in which all alike are interested,
but they do not. Their ground of
complaint is not that the college is
in any sense defective in its work Or
unsuccessful in its results. 1t is
based solely on the plea that it is I'M
der the supervision Of Democratic Of
ficers. They pretend to deprecate and
attempt to involve it in politics, but
they are piqued only because the
| politics which they allege to be in
control is not the sort not Republi-
can. They forget that under Rcpub
lican administration, no Democratic
officer or teacher was allowed any
connection with the institution, and
while nothing more of political ma
ture can now be charged against its
governmental that can be done
they prefer to destroy the University
itself rather than that such a condi-
tioE should exist under any other
than a Republican administration.
Actuated by this patriotic spirit,
the college has been flooded with
catalogues Of other Republican,
institutions with view of enticing
students away. The most silly and
contemplate canard is circulated
that one of the professors had forbid
den student to read the life of Chas.
Summer on the ground that it twas
not fit book to read" This little
yarn, we under stand, first originated
in the University of Virginia, some
years ago, and was imported to this
State and worked over SO as to give
it local application that would meet
the exigencies of the cause in which
these Republican organs are now
busily engaged.
Notwithstanding this desperate
disposition on the part Of men who
might be expected to feel some little
pride in State institution, we learn
/ that the University is not only fairly
prospecting, but that with proper
encouragement from its friends, it
promises to take rank in the future
with the hest universities in the
! country.-RegiSter.