West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1883-05-16
WEST VIRGINIA FREEMAN.
CORRESPONDENCE.
w. Va University Notes.
Moro NToWN, w. VA.
May 10, 1888. {

want to peep into the State Uni
versity before the session closes.
This has been an eventful year
with the institution--a year max
ing the transition from one system
to another--a year full Of revolu-
tions, involutions and evolutions ;
of impression, egression and prog
ression. The school, born again,
gives promise of life filter for sur
vival and usefulness.
President Wilson recently took a
tri to South Carolina, and on his
return, he treated the boys in a
magnificent speech.
On last Wednesday evening, Mr..
A. R. Pendleton, of Wincheter, Va,
a native of w. Va, an honored
graduate of Princeton, delivered a
lecture in Chapel Hall on "Litera-
ture." 1t was timely, highly fin
ished, and indicative of rare liter
airy attainments in the lecturer.
The Literary Societies will have
close and exciting contest on the
evening of Commencement Day,
June ID. The President offers a
prize of 800
The subject for the regular prize
essay (s25) is: sought the General
Government to Extend Aid to Common
Schools Within the States gu
Maj. Jed Hotchkiss, editor of the
Vjrginias, Stanton, Va, is to de-
liver the annual address before the
Literary Societies, at Commence
ment. r..."
There is considerable conjectur-
ing as to who will be next President
of the w. V. U. Some suspect that
the Presidency will be abolished,
and Chairman of the Faculty eiec-
ted.
Prof. White and the senior class
have been making some short geo.
logical excursions in the "regions
round about" He infuses into the
class great enthusiasm. They
started on a tour spoken of by the
Firqinias as follows.
GEOLOGICAL EXCURSION.
"The West Virginia University
class in Geology, in Charge of Prof.
&c. White, one of the best of our
American field biologists, as his
volumes in the Pennsylvania sur
veys and his papers in the Virginias
attest, will start on its annual geo.
logial tour May Sd [4th]. The
route selected for observation and
exploration is: Down the Ohio in
boat, from Wheeling to Point
Pleasant Great Kanawha mouth),
ascertaining the geological facts
along the Ohio, of which we have
no defined knowledge as yet; then
up the Great Kanawha, spending
a week studying the vast coal field,
concerning which definite contiou-
oats Information is badly needed just
now when railway lines are enter
ing it and old ones are seeking to
develop it by extending branches
to where its best coal beds are most
accessible. From the Kanawha
field it is proposed to 60 to Rich
mond, Va, by the Chesapeake &
Ohio and Richmond & Allegheny
railroads, examining the grand
geological sections of great iron ore
mines along these roads, then re-
turn by way of Chesapeake & Ohio
Railroad to Waynesboro, the Shen-
andoah Valley Railroad, to Shen-
andolh Junction, stopping at the
Luray Caverns, at iron ore beds,
limestone quarries, &C., and back
to the University by way of the
Baltimore 4 Ohio.
professor White and his stu
dents make a party of a round doz-
en-, and we question whether any
portion of the Union can match
these sturdy West Virginia boys
(the Prof himself is West Virgin
ian and will always be boy in en-
thusiasm in his professional science)
in 'muchsom; ness of all things that
enter into the makeup of manly
men. We bespeak for them the
greetings and hospitality that such
young men on such a mission are
fairly entitled to. Oar readers will
have from Prof. White some of the
results of this tour"
President Wilson made the BOYS
a yaledictOrv address.