The University daily. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 18??-????, 1889-06-10
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quarter Of the state. More students
are i'll attendance now than even be-
fore and greater proportion are
from distant counties than during
the previous years. AS the adVanc-
ed classes are becoming fuller the
instructors and the apparatus are
kept frightened up and not allowed
to become rusty. Friends toour ed
ucational interests are becoming
more numerously represented IN the
legislature IN whom are entrusted
it's means Of support.
Progress is being made ii estab-
fishing more desirable way to the
higher education in West Virginia.
But great field is open for I'M
provement. Progress has only be-
gun. Pres. Turner in the December
number of the w. Va. School Jour
nal urges the proper method. The
people In every county Of at least
| I'M every senatorial district must be
induced to have one high school
preparatory to entering college. Our
Normal schools, the Linsly4 Instis
| tute of Wheeling the Parkersburg
| High School and the. Buckhannon
Academy have already adopted a
thorough courseof instruction and
| qeens improved as preparatory
schools, graduates from them enter
| inc the freshman year without: fur
| ther examination. What blessing
to West Virginia and her University
I when all her young men and women
have SUCH educational advantages
/ ITO bring about these beneficial
circumsta3ces the Legislature must
4 insure tinancialTesources and Lawful.
encouragement. School officers
1 teachers and friends of education
all over the State must work togeth
er in harmony, because such a gen
eral system requires a close relation
ship in all its parts. Strife must b.
eradicated from every section and
institution. Sup't Morgan has al
ready established harmony between
! the University and X the Norma
| schools, Citizens all over the State
/ must be convinced by reason and in
4 formation that by general education
universal industry is more intelli
! gently applied, and they must ther
be persuaded to lend their supper
at the school elections. There a
waits philanthropic champions tt
undertake and direct an education
reformation in West Virginia. Album
dant assistance will surely follow
! / Were the missing factors of 0pl
educ ational system supplied and a.
/ intimate relationship created be
tween its parts, were a system .oI
promotion from the primary to thu
I high schools and from the high
schools to the University establish
ed then would we be more than graf
flied. The W. Va. University woule
no longer;be the MorgantoWn Uni
YER ity; Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virgin
ia and other neighboring States
would no. longer feceive a greater
patronage thanlour University from
onrYoung men, our preparatory de-
! partmenfleeuld be abolished and the
EXPENSIVE instr uction and apparatus
necessarH to the higher education
would b&used more judiciously; in
I*digent pupils then would not be
cheated Of til cir heritage in the
field Of truth and could husband
their means to pursue an advanced
course; students instead Of going Ia
foreign colleges would all be edu
Gated together and their general &c
quaintance with one another in after
years would en- hance their own and
the common interest; our Universe
ty would have it's attendance and eff
ficiency increased many fold and
would BECOME the pride Of West Vir-
ginia and the admiration Of other
States. "