The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-07-24

Professor Berkeley, Chairman Of the
University Faculty, found time to attend
the meeting Of the State Educational AS
ISOLATION at Buchsnnon. Regent Thomas
Jefferson F~arnsworth was also on deck, and
more or less numerous. There appeard
also Professor Kidd, Of the GlOnville
Normal School, and he Seems to have been
tle man that Chairman Berkeley and
Regent Thomas Jefferson Farnsworth were
looking for.
These eminent educators were bent upon
yindication, for themselves, their party
and their University methods, and they
filed Professor Kidd full Of u fool resoIu'
ton which he asked the Association to
pass: ,,
citation that the b tier and partisan discus,
sion now being conducted by the papers oil
The State, concerning the West Virginia Unit
ysrsi,y Is very damaging 10 SAID institution
end has q tendency 10 mske our school tys'
TEN 4 foot ball 10 be tossed 10 and Iro ny con
tending political parties. And TO avoid such
u calamity we hereby enter our earnest pre-
test against any ana sl proceeding eAIGu'
lated to destlOy the usefulness OF our uniVsr
sity, and to create prejudice against the SCHOOL
System Of the State.
This jargon can't be appreciated at first
sight. Everybody willunderstand what it ID
driving at, in this frightiul havoc of words
aud ideas. There are, however, hidden
beauties Of Thought and construction when
grow on the contemplativs mind. But
never mind these minor things. The Uni
versity management wanted vindicationr
Chairman Berkeley went there to get it.
and Prof. Kidd had just enough sense TO
let Berkeley and Farnsworth make a fool
OF him. The Association laid the res
olution on the table, and It made
the same disposition Of Mr.. Hills resolu-
ton to the following effect:
Resolped, That We are III favor Of the free
dom OF the press, believing y TO be q power
full educator, aud that all public institutions
should be subjCt TO the closest Investigation.
The motive OF the Association was to get
rid Of the whole matter, yindication and
all, and perhaps that was the best way to
treat it. But We should have been glad to
see a vote taken on both the resolutions.
We arc advised that the Berkeley-kidd
yindication could not have commanded
more than ten votes, and that no greater
number would have been polled against
the Hall resolution. The Association
knew that Chairman Berkeley was behind
the Kidd business; knew that he wanted
to use the Association to bolster up him
self and the Bourbon management OF the
University, and it gave him and his
scheme the cold shoulder.
Having tried his hand att public vindi-
cation and a published card nominating a
brother professor for slaughter, perhaps
Chairman Berkeley will devote some part
of his vacation to explaining why it isl that
the University is going down in spite OF
the advanced Bourbon methods Of the "in-
telligent majority" We were aware that
he and his friends ''entered their
protest." and that sort Of thing;
but if the charges published il
the IS~TRLLIGENCER and other newspapers
are not true, let him tell the people OF this
State what is the matter with the Univer-
sity. The University was running down
the record will show it-belore the alleged
"foot ball" practice began-what caused
it2 A direct answer to this will be moro
to the point than a resolution Of vindica.
ton which must sleep on the table for a
uI,oIh war