Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-06-10
AT M0sGANTOWN.
Prsparations for the Great Com
menCement To-day.
A BIG CROWD OF PEOPLE EXPECTED
University ImprOvements---Regents' Prize
Contest - The BaccaIaureate---
Lectures, Addresses, Etc.

Contest - he baccalaureale---
Lectures, Addresses, Etc.
Special Correspondence Of the Register.
MoRGANTowN, June 9.-The annual
commencement of our State University,
the great event Of the year at the Athens
of West Virginia" is now under full head
way. Already the town is crowded with
visitors, who have come to enjoy the iestiy-
tiles of the week and cheer the class OF
o6 and other friends with their presence.
This being the first Commencement since
Morgantown was connected with the out
side world by the railroad
A LARGER CROWD
are expected than ever before. Since the
old cannon balI' hack has disappeared,
visitors can feel ssfe TO leave Fsirmont
without getting their lives. insured. One
has but TO travel from Fairmont by the OLD
and new way to know how to appreciate
the change. While the scenery between
Fsirmout and MorgantoWn is al
most as grand as there is IN
this world, or any other, so far ss l know,
its beauties lost much of their charm
about the time the uususpecting traveller
Sould find his head knocked through the
canopy OF the cannon bali hack, or would
stick fast in a mud hole. Bot happily
this is all over now.
IMPROVEMENTS.
Great changes have taken place in the
University town siCce last year. With the
entrance of the iron horse came new life
Besides the railroad improvements, many
new buildings have been erected and
tSenty-one are now in process OF erection
| The University has undergone consider
able Improvement The library hall has
been enlarged, and many choice books
added; a new reading room has been fitted
up and we'll supplied with newspapers and
periodicals. Everything is looking as
bright as a new pin for commencement
Lieutenant Wilson has had the grcunds
and buildings put on their best appear
ance.
REGENTS PRIZE CONTEST.
Commencement exercises, as was an
nounced 10 the REGISTER, began with the
Regents Prize Contest last Friday even
| ing. Mr.. Z w. Stifel, of Wheeling, got
the SIS prize for defamation, this heiDg
the third time within the past three years
that this prizs has been awarded to
Wheeling boy, the other two suC .esstul
ones being MeSsrs. George and Alfred
Boyd.
Mr.. Richard Dawson, Of Gniontown,
Pa, a member of the Senior Class, read
the priza essay entitled, The True Rela-
ton of Capital aud Labor" and received
the $25 prize which had been previously
awarded.
THE BACCALAUREATE.
On Sunday morning at lG:SQ o'clock
! large and attentive audience assembled in
Commencement Hall, to hear the Bscca-
laureate delivered by Rev. I. 81. Lewis,
D D., OF Westminster, Ind He preached
! from the text. That | may know Him"
found in Philippians Sd chapter and tenth
verse. The theme was Aguosticlsm, and
the sermon, in depth Of thought, eloquent
delivery, and good advice to the young
gentlemen who this year sever their con-
nection with the old Nv. V. [" is said 10
have been one of the best ever delivered
in Commencement Hal!
MR. WlLLEf'S LECTURE
On Monday evening the old man elo'
uuent.." Hon Waitman I. Wiley Of Nor
gsntown. delivered lecture to the law
class and good audience The subject
vas Ethics OF the Bar" 1t is said that
this i the last lecture our venerable ex.
Senator will ever deliver in public. The
three chief things he sought to impres5 up
on the young gentlemen entering the legal
profession, were thorough culture, cCncer-
tration, and high moral character. Mr.
Wiley, in this his last public lecture, as one
Of his hearers remarked, goes out in
blaze Of glory
ADDRESS BEFORE THE OOLCMRIAN.
On Tuesday night Hou. John W. Mason,
of Grafton, delivered thu annual sd 1resS
before the Columbian Literary Society
! Mr.. Mason is ON old Columbian. His lee-
! ture vac tul! Of that plain, good common
eense that chsracter45s his political
speeches.
TIE BOARD or REGENTS,
The members OF the Board OF Regents
have been here in coed force Those present
are J. B. Sommervlle, of Wellsburg, Cls :
snce L. Smith, of Fairmont, D d John.
SON. of Long Beach, /. A. Bennett, Of
Huntington, c. L. Thompson Of Hunting
ton, D. c. Gsllsher, of Charleston, T. J
Farms worth, Of Buckhsnnou, Joseph More.
land, Of Morgantown, J A. Robinson, oil
! Pstterson's Creek, and L. W, Bsdinger
OF Charleston. Gegents Gays, Chiffon aud
Armstrong, we're the only absent members
The Regents have been busy at work
since their arrival, but little has been done
except routine work No radical changes
will be made. The school has been work
ing so admirably dugi.g tie past year that
they don't want to disturb it in any way.
0ue thing they did was to abolish the
seaio- vacation. Heretofore it has been
The custom to give the graduating c. ass
five or six weeks holiday before com
mencement, but owing to the complics-
tions in classes 1t has caused since the
school system has been established in the
University, the Regents thought it best 10
sbolish tbs vacation. This will save
GOOD deal of cIashirg, but Il will
ne pretty tough on coming graduating
classes. When a man spends FIVE or ak
years in college, he likes to have a little
rest that he will have strength TO say his
gradusting speech without having TO lean
up against the wall.
No changes will be made in the Faculty
and no new teachers employed. Some OF
! the studies in th4 Preparatory Department
will be distributed among The different
University schools. Mere teachers are
} needed, especially in the Preparatory De
partuent. but as there vii! new ss de-
: 6cit OF 5000 year on account OF en-
ployipg President, the Regents hes'tste
: in increasing the teaching force until the
] Legislature shsn make greater provision.