The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-09-19
T,IE STATE UNIVERSITY

bnye the Most Successful fe eur
SII' ! u, AZ HIstory-ThS Changes In the
Faculty. an. ,,,,,,,,.n.,,
WI, yorgAyTowS, W. Va, Sept. lS--ine
,.. &o,r opens its present session
l az ,nors than ordinary good indicn-
S Wv. The work of class organization :, !,
ii' INDICTED, and the numbers enrolled
!. .Ja .cyeral classes are as large, if not
l ..,.one have been matriculated SO
a %r and the Indications are that the
~, IT, I" will 90 over two hundred, as
Iu''Ig gro,iment is constantly increasing:
i9g vI y. Jarger than at the beginning OF
IAl' , :, moi session, and is more than
guy io, rnr been in actual attendance. AZ
w. enc time. At present ten laIe Sa.
s iS, O, enrolled, while there were 9nly
al'y s", year The majority oil these
W. i t51 SIorgantown and vicinity, a
&c 'i hoTeyer, being from more distant
iisniC,;o. The law class numbers
!oaaS ,,.,iour members, which lacks only
ia as"i being as large as last year me
o o,,y,ber will probably go higher; Last
lu guy, rlass was the largest in the MS
va. 81 he institution. A larger per
lo,; the old cadets have returned
. .S'a aver before. In fact the corps pre-
l,"' yerv good appearance, even At
M. carly date. The present enlist,
W." ,,, Il one hundred and seven, ana
l's"' ,rark OF enlisting is going on.
i r,r,irr all things, the prospects are
t Inter than they have been for some
i b,5'''. md point to an era Of rapid
Since SINCE last year considerable change
Ia. i Iccn made in the corps OF instruct;
"-' ~ New professors have been elected
e,' ,Inluotions have been made. Pro-
s l.'tr. davenport and Johnston now
i i.@o charge OF the engineering depart.
, nI' prof.. Davenport is newly elected
and Prof. Johnston was promoted from
.Ho nosition Of assistant professor OF en-
n'o which he held last year
p,1i stewart was promoted from the
ros,tion Of professor OF preparatory
in,,Eamatics 10 the regular chair oil
,n1,bcmatics. This chair has regularly
Iacn occupied by the commandment oil
c,io,. but the commandment will now
instruct in nothing but military science
and tactics. Mr.. Yickers was promoted
,otb" nosition vacated by Prof. Stewart,
AMI NJ Davis was elected TO the posi-
,;on vacated by Mr.. VicEers,
Two new schools of agriculture and
nannal training have been established,
gj,b Professors Emory and Atkeson
,q.nqctiyely, rs instructors. A regular
r,Irse in agriculture, leading to de-
cree is in course OF preparation. 1t has
moi been decided as to whether 1t will
continue through TWO or three years,
INF il Mill contain all regular branches
having any direct relation to the sub
irct Of agriculture, and others besides.
Xix members have been enrolled in the
classes Of this department. Professor
Enorv has not commenced work yet, as
the building in which he will work is
not vet completed.
Considerable uneasiness has been
caused among the students and the
people Of the town on account OF the
ignorance Of two or three cases OF
typhoid fever. As yet there is no sub
slantial cause for alarm, Us all cases
have been traced to foreign origin and
neither tho soil nor the water Of this
pIace is conducive to rapid growth Of
The germ. The only known cases are
those OF DR.. Turner and Prof. Emory, OF
the university. Both are doing fairly
we'll and not much is to be feared.
ViCe President Reynolds is officiating in
the absence OF President Turner. Prof.
berkeley is sick with nervous prostra-
ton and Assistant Professor Anderson
and Mr.. Vickers have divided his work
in the school OF ancient languages be-
tween them.
Lieutenant Avis, commandant OF
cadets for the last three years, has do
parted, but the new commandment has
not yet arrived. The senior captain
oi the corps, Francis, is acting COM
mandant.