Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-06-06
ARRIVAL OF TRAISs-wHEELINe rIME.
"kEEBLE INSTITUTE"
Closing Exercises OF a Weston school.
To TIE Editor Of Lhs Regit,sr.

To ths Editor Of he ReqiIisr.
WESTON, June 2-The commencement
OF this Institute was held in St. Paurs
Church, of this place Saturday evening
last. 1t is gratifying to relate that the
principal and teachers were each, by their
respective classes, presented with handsome
tokens OF esteem and appreciation. Judge
Henry BrannOn delivered an address on
the subject of education. This writer was
denied the pleasure of being present, bu,
has been told on all hands that the effort
was scholarly and classical, and listened to
by cultivated and and appreeiatiye audi
enCe.
This school was inaugurated in Septem-
Der last by Rev. J. W. Keebte, rector of
this parish, and when we consider the in
suspicious circumstances incident to its
organization, and the further fact that it
was only designed to start small, select
school as nucleus, about which the inter
eStS OF the parish would eventually collect
and swell to more respectable proportions
and contrast these with the unloOked-tOr
success which has attended it, from the day
of its opening to that of its close, we at
once accord honor and credit to the heads
and hearts of the noble labOrerS who have
given their time and talent to the mental
and moral culture of those committed to
their charge The patrons Of the school
also deserve much credit Cor so promptly
supporting a measure involving interests
so vital to their welfare.
These teachers are not only accomplished
ard experienced, not only worthy and hon
o ed Representatives OfWeStV Virginia nobleSt
sons and daughters, but they brought to ihe
work the settled conviction that in dealing
with the impalpable and immortal part Of
our natures, interests and aSpira.i ions are
awakened which will outliye the scenes of
time, and eventually upon the eternal
shores in the presence ofthe great Il Am
will confront the actors in life S drama, as
they appear in the presence OF that last
dread aSSiZe and own the deeds which have
gone before. We instinctiyely lift our hat
to the noble few who are alive to the grand
possibilities, for good or for evil, in those
soon 10 rise into manhood and womanhoOd,
and labor to mould those GOl.like
powers by precept and example
that happiness and usefulness may be at
+ tanned BY themselves and by the circle in
which they shall move, Pope has said "a
little learning is a dangerous thing but
Pope with his large experience must Ger
tainly have realized that knowledge, when
acquired to subServe the selfish and un-
/ hallOwcd instincts of the human heart is
ALWAYS dangerous. An exalted genius with
sordid motives, Swayed by conflicting pas
sions may exercise influences which will
cause mighty Kingdoms to topple to their
ruin and then. like Nero, fiddle and laugh
at the misery he has wrought.
A. we'll attempt
'To satisfy the OCEAN with drop,
To marry in mortaity To- delth,
Aud with the unSutStantill shade oi time
To fill the embrace uf all eternity
as to expect honor aud happiness, either in
this life or the next, from the cultivation of
the intellect alone.
The most notable example of this in
modern times seems intellectually Impressed
W on the worlds annals, and stands ont as
a beacOn-Eght to all intelligences in all
climes, warming us not to estimate man by
his outward circumstances and mere talents.
PcllCcS saws of him, che touched his harp,
and nations heard entranced'
''Where fancy halted weary in her flight
In other men, his, fresh "a morning, rose,
And scared untrodden heights, and seemed az home
where angels haShiul looked.
suns moons and stars and clouds his sisters were;
Rocks, mountains, meteOrs, seas, and winds, aud
storms,
His brothers, younger brothers, whom he scarce rs
equals deemed. y
Yet poor wretched, miserable Byron died.
"De,l, all bat drCary, solitary pride,
And all his Sympathies in being died"
And the evils all down through the ages,
which will be traced back to this sublime
genius as their source can only be estt-
mated when time is no more.
II Is the cultivated intellect in man or
woman, touched BY the finger of God, and
con. ecrated to His service that sheds its
fragrance in blessings upon mankind and
gives the exquisite charm and delight to
the Preside and social circle. Make then,
strong and lasting, the institutions which
tend to Undue the minds of the young with
the fact that uprightness and purity allied
TO knowledge is the high prize of our call
ing; AID the educator who aims short OF
this is unworthy the care, for a sing lie day,
of the tender and impossible minds which
need to be trained to meet and battle with
the cares and difficulties of life.
Permit us, in conclusion, to give express
sion to the hope that the Keeble Institute
will meet with vet more liberal support at
the hands of its generous patrons, and be
made to grow, so that each recurring year
NAV find it occupying wider sphere, and
its opportunities for good increasing with
its growth, until a much felt want is sup
piled, and parents of West Virginia will
with pride, point to the Institution at Yves.
ton as one to which the care aud training of
their daughters may be safely entrusted.
4 FRIEND.