Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-04-01

ture. whose object is to methodise and
perpetua,e all liberal knowledge, and to
take DID every new branch rs 1t comes into
existence. II goes without saying that
graduate of the School OF Ancient Ian,
guages, for example, VIII oe better trainea
simply studied the languages IS part OF
Curriculum course. While, therefore, q
professor will have every stimulus OF pride
and selt.respect to make his Schoo. rs good
as any in the University, IL only to main
tain his personal dignity among the stu
dents. he must also aim at such success OF
method, and such infusion of seal and in
terest, as to take away from students the
sense Of excessive labor or other discour-
sgernent in achieving the better work ex-
acted OF them.
t. the other could not but Occasion some
friction and some confusion. Among the
students themselves there Was temporary
feeling of bewilderment, as the class sys-
tenn TO which they had been trained, and
other compulsory organizations melted
away, and they were thrown upon their
individual efforts. They viewed, with dis
satisfaction and uncertainty, the increase
in the time allotted to Rotations and lee
tures: the assignment of some OF these ex-
ercises to afternoons and Saturdays,
and the advance in the scope OF
examiu ations and of the value attached to
them. few in their haste and demoraliza,
ton left, or migrated to easier schools, ana
thus, purposely or innocentiy, caused
reports which, exaggerated and colored as
ignorance or malace suggested, have oe'
ceiyed o movement whose sole design Is 10
improve the quality and extent OF the
Education Attainable at the UNI
yersity.
and as such merits the praise OF all who
know what true education IS, and who ap-
preciate genuine culture as distinct from
the sham and pretence thereof. But the
faculty have endeaVored to guard the
change against excessive or unreasonable
requirements, and to seek in the beginning
nothi ng more than is already required IN
any good college in the country. Never
theless, they feel it but a duty to the
State and to themselves, that the
West Virginia University shall not
belong 10 that great throng of So
called and mis- called universities and col
leges, especially numerous IN the States
vest of us, where graduation depends on
attendance alone, and which yearly send
out shoals Of titled ignoramuseS, with
scant culture and much conceit; but that
they will spare no effort to put it among
the genuine Universities Of the land, being
content, il necessary, to stake its reputa-
tioa, while this effort is in progress, not on
thenumber enrolled in the catalogue, but
Oh the accuracy, extent and thorough
ness of the education attaina-
bic within its walls. Because the
Higher Education In West Virginia
is naturally marked by lack of appreciation
of it his duty is only the more imperative.
II there is small demand for such educa-
ton; If there is even a prejudicial outcry
against il, the University cannot longer
Justify It's existence, if it does not attempt
to create the demand by providing the sup
ply. As long as our young men are infect
ell, as so many of them are to-day, with the
idea that the end of education is to grsdu'
ate, they will naturally seek institutions
where graduation and degrees are attain
s5le with least effort, and which run upon
tie theory that the chief end OF college
course is TO get a sheepskin, and that educa-
ton itself is getting something instead OF
becoming something. Il is the mission OF
the West Virginia University to diSpel
these ideas, so widely entertained in this
Sta e, and so blighting to its educational
pRgress; to require and in all respects, en-
courage high standard; to stimulate the
young men OF the State, no matter how de-
isCiye the preparation with
whih they come, TO faithful
vorl and scholarly attainment, and to send
out graduates with the modesty and high
aspiration of true culture, not with the
preteuce and cenceit of unconscious and
fatuous ignorance.
Il remains but 10 add few words as IA
the
Increased Advantages
/ for special or professional education now
| oaered at the University. The Law School
| heretofore running but two terms, extends
| through the full session, and those com
| pRting the course will receive the degree
| Oil. l. r. This course is full and the eX
! ariinations are rigid and exacting, and it is
| sac to say that young men who go into
thu profession, as graduates OF this School,
! will not lack in that careful and discri.n-
inaing knowledge of legal principles, on
which Is the only basis Of great legal &C
QusitionS. There is as yet no medical de-
psrtment, but in the study of Chemistry,
of Anatomy and Physiology, and OF Botany,
there are unsurpassed opportunities tOr
the preliminary instruction OF medical
students. The State has recently appro-
priated twenty-five hundred dollars to the
chemical laboratory; the amount Of material
used IN the dissecting room is such as &c
give students a better opportunity OF &C
curing familiar and fnger-end knowledge
Of anatomy and physiology than is posi-
bic in the larger schools of the country
and these subjects and botany, also, are
also taught by men who fully understand
that such subjects are not to be studied by
mere book work, but in the only profitable
way in which science can be studied, by
Direct PERCEPTION Of the facts, and practical
Exercise OF the observing faculties upon
hem.