West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1889-10-03

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Board Of Examiners.
Washington Sept. 19.-Theannu-
al report of N. H.R. Dawson, COM
missioner of education, has been
submitted to the secretary of the in
terror. Since 1867 the increase
of enrolment in the public schools
of the south has been SO per cent.
In regard to the value Of statistics
exhibiting the condition OF state
school systems, the report says their
usefulness is greatly impaired by
want of uniformity in the work OF
the different states. ''The senti-
ment in favor OF free schools, sup
ported 10y public funds" says the
commissioner, ''is becoming each
year more universally prevalent.
The public school systems of the
southern states have been undergo
ing an unprecedented development
under laws adapted in each caso to
local circumstances and are now
practically all established on a per-
manent basis"
In the District of Columbia the
colored enrolment, as compared
with the white population, exceed
that of the white enrolment OF
school age. A considerable portion
of the report is devoted to education
in Alaska, and the commissioner
recommends that all the schools
now in operation be brought more
closely under government control.
We publish this week n poem
from the literary pen of Prof. A.
w. friedrich, who is at Letcher,
California teaching school. lie has
an eight months school and gets
$50 per month. In n private letter
to us he says al have recently
bought 40 acres of land and pre-
empted 100 acres beside. ! am 90
ing to grow up with tho country"
UNIVERSITY NOTES
The prospects for a very success
full year at the University, which
were mentioned in our last, instead
of diminishing are steadily increas-
ing. This is manifest in she num-
Der of students, the character Of
work done and the character Of the
students. The popularity OF the
University is futher shown by the
wide extent of territory from which
it has received its students. This
year N. Y. Penn, o., Nd, w. Va,
and Japan are represented. On
Friday the second Jap arrived
and will study law, the two came
from the Michigan University and,
altho' that institution is almost on
the same level with Yale and Har-
ward, they find our school better ada
pied to their purposes than that.
The Prof. Of Biology has deter
mined to make his Zoology class
learn some practical as well as scien-
tific knowledge Of Natural History
and for that purpose has instructed
his class TO skeletonizef for vertebrate
animals. Speculation is rife as Co
how the three ladies im the class will
dessect the feiiaeS and caniUes which
they s%tealthily abstract from u
neighboring house when the veil of
night has enclosed mother earth i'm
its sable folds.
l.. j. Corbly and IL. w. Smith
of Tyler Co., and j. IL. Trotter Of
Preston have organized themselves
into a Lecture Committe" and
propose to renew lecture course of
last year with even greater probabili-
ty of pleasing the people of Morgan
town than last year. They have
under consideration the names Of
Elk. Goy. Cumback Of indiana, Bob
Burdette, James HcdIcy, Daniel
Dougherty, Samuel Phelps Leland,
! Powers and Comwell. IT is the in
tentiop of Che committe to have
about six lectures. The Faculty Of
the University recognizingthe bene-
fit they will derive personally and
the great profit to the University
highly commend the zeal OF the
| committee
Your correspondent Of last week
was certainly not a P~restonian for
all of PrestOns youth are Columbi-
ans and the person referred to'seems
20 lean toward our sister society
| the Parthenon. The truth Of the
matter is the Columbian stands sec
ond to none in point Of prosperity
this year and the fact that the Col.
! got the laurcls and the Parth. the
thorns in last years contest seems to
incline the greater number and bet
ter class Of students toward the
good old Columbian.
The cadet corps has been ipcreas-
ed By forty new recruits and bids
fair tor be i'm better condition
i'm a few months than ever Before.
Lieut.. Avis in his zeal for the prof-
cheney of the corps secured from