The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-11-03
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Tho Wheeling ISrELi.iGEScER calls on The PNIt
10 know "whrthet there a. many htudenh In AZ
Tendance owss the nnTe,y thsIe Tss
dozens difference either way. We will ascertain
fora cetainty BIO Hart ard let you know "la tho
sweet bye and bye" at.H
were last year At this time. -Aoraantown Post.
The ISTELLIdESCEn begs TO bring 10 the
attention Of Regent Thompson's Hinton
Herald, Regent Bsnnett's Huntington id.
rerti,er, Of the Kanawha Gd:tiie and Of the
Democratic State press in general the very
explicit up. 81 Of the Morgantown Post;
and wo shall be gratided II they will say
what, in their several Judgements, Is the
reason for this falling oil. West Virginia
grows. Why is It that the University slips
back
II can not be because, in the language OF
some Of our contemporaries, "the 1STgLLl
GrScER has made bitter partisan assault
on our first institution OF learning" for we
have been assured by the Democratic press
that the public WAS entirely satisfied with
the management and would show its con-
tidence in the very practical way OF a
largely increased attendance at the open
ing ofthe present term.
1t cannot be because the University was
not advertised. It never was so generally
advertised as from tho close Of the last year
to tLeopening Of this. True the management
unwisely as we think, with premeditated
cruelty as all the world knows, omitted to
renew the advertisement which had been
running in the ISTELllGEScER, newspaper
held in some esteem as an advertising me.
dunn. But then the University adyer.
tisemeuts broke out in places where they
had no. been seen before, in the local col.
umns and even in the more stately editc.
rial columns Of many Of our highly es.
teemed contemporaries. \ conspicuous
part OF the advertising campaign was
vigorous denunication OF the IN.
rELLlGENcER for the attention it had given
to the University without money and with
on. price.
1t can not be because the Regents wero
indileren'. They worked as they never
worked before, determined to show by an
increased attendance that the University
was rising in the general estimation. For
this the Regents are to be commended, and
in the light Of shrunken roll everybody
will be able to appreciate the value Of
their services. They did gather in students,
mostly, we understand, cadets, whose
tuition and books are free; but still they
did good work and deserve credit for il.
What would have happened il they had
not bestrred themselves?
Il can not be because Professor and
Chairman Of the Faculty Berkeley
went about making himself offensive,
for we do not hear tina,
Chairman Berkeley went about at all in
the interest Of tho University. He seera
to have been content to enjoy his good
thing without making any demonstration
beyond somewhat Doisterious sortie as q
letter writer for the newspapers.
There is some reasou-.here may be
more than one-ior this falling of in theal-
tendance The ISTELLlG EScER will beglad
to receive and to print suggestions. II
Chairman Berkeley will agree to turn him
self around inside Of column he may have
thatmuch OF the space which is even more
valuable than it was when he stabbed the
ISTELLIGEScEHto the heart by withdraw
ing his patronage"