Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-07-31

saency - the employment OF proper
e and efforts for presenting the
merits of the institution to the young
men of the State, and drawing them In
TO II, instead of allowing them to drift
out Of the State to other colleges.
1t is an egregious mistake to suppose
that any institution will run itself, at
the present day. The time has gone
by in this country when any business
or other establishment that depends up
on public support can be made to go
without drumming. You can't sen y
broom without you drum it. You may
offer the most superior advantages at
the University to be found In the
country; you may continue to
equip it handsomely and spend
money freely in making 1t attractive,
but the men Of the State will pass
it by and go to inferior institutions in
other States unless they are "drum.
med.n 1t is no use for the State Uni
versity to attempt to stand on its dig
nifty and say to young men "you can
come II you choose, or go elsewhere IL
you choose while the agents Of other
institutions are canvassing the State
and making plausible offerings to our
young men to go away. 1t will come
to pass that our University will pres
emily have nothing but dignity to SUBJ
sist upon, If this policy is%pursued.
AS it is, little or nothing is being done
to inform Dur young men Of the ad.
vantages Of the University. No provi-
sion is made for it. No appropriation is
provided. There is now no President,
and the Chairman Of the Faculty Is bur-
dened with the same work in the insti-
tuition as when he was a professor, and
with neither time nor can for his ex-
penses in taking III Of the interests OF
the University in the State.
In the mean time two active intiu-
enees are at work to keep our young
men out of their University. The par
tisan papers Of the State are hard at
work doing this, and partisan agents
are doing a quiet, but energetic work in
the same direction. But q few weeks
since a Republican preacher Of Parkers-
burg, went over to Delaware College,
Ohio, and eXhOrted the authorities
there TO come over into West Virginia
and take our young men; alleging that
the University was virtually wrecked
and not a fit place to educate young
men. This was the institution that
last winter flooded the University with
its eatalogues-pIobably at request OF
this energetic wrecker. And this is
only one instance Of what is doing IN
this direction.
The consequence of ali this sthat our
young men are leaving the State.
There are agents, advertisements, and
circulars in every county ftom other
colleges, but few from the University
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country that Is not represented by
yOnng men from this State as the result
of this work. Some colleges employ
agents who travel continuously in thel
interest, and they seem to think West
Virginia a good field.
The University ought to have from
two 10 three hundred students on its
roll from this State. 1t might have-lt
would have-if the proper effort was
made; but until this defect in its policy
is corrected it will not have.
>. The second defect in the policy OF
the University is the fact that 1t has not
yet been practically recognized as a
legitimate pant, and an important adj
iunct, of our State school system.
II can never do the work it was de
signed to do until thiSl fact is recog-
niZed.
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