The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-08-03
THE sTATR

An Appeal from Vice President Reynolds.
The Coming Year WIN be Ono of Useful
ness-Let the People Rallyto the Support
OF the Institution.
To ne Editor Of The hteglgalcer,
slR;-rhe work OF the University, for
the coming year, will be fully and thor
oughly done, The standard will not be
lowered. No part OF the course will be
sighted, There will be no relaxation
Of discipline, The friends of the insti-
tuition need not be discouraged, 1t will
be made worthy OF their continued con
hdence and support. Students who
have already entered the University will
have no good reason for abandoning it
now. And our young men throughout
the state who expect to go to college
can not do better than to come here.
There will be great improvements in
the University IN many respects. The
new science building will DO ready for
occupancy. Its magnificent lecture
rooms and laboratories, with the new
and complete apparatus and equipment
for work in chemistry and physics,
geology, civil engineering, etc, will add
immensely to the facilities OF tho school,
Additions are to be made at onCe to the
mechanical building, doubling the
capacity Of this new and important de-
partment Funds arc on hand aud ap.
preparations have been made for im-
proving tho equipments OF the various
other departments. These additions
and improvements, with what the Uni
versity has already, make a "plant"
that any state might be proud Of, and
one that u people ought to get the
benefit OF by filling the University with
West Virginia students,
The new members OF the faculty are
worthy Of the confidence OF all the pat
ons and friends Of the university.
Prof. Miller, the new principal oil the
preparatory department, is known all
overy the state as u man OF character,
ability, scholarship, industry and OK
perience in school work. Few men have
been more active and useful in the edu.
cational affairs of West Virginia. Prof.
Armstrong, ofthe chair OF mathematics,
Ia q graduate OF the university, He has
been eminently successful as principal
OF ono OF tho state normal schools for
several years, besides being active and
efficient in the state school work in
other lines. He is young, vigorous,
jealous and in~defatigable. Prof. Alder.
son, OF the chair OF ancient languages,
was one OF the brightest students the
university ever hand, graduating with
high honors. He has already had two
years experience in the work OF his
chair, and has taken u special curse in
Chicago University in tho subjects no
will have to teach. Tho Christian
character OF all these men gives assur.
anCe that their influence will be for
good.
feel confident that tho people OF tho
state are too patriotic-have too much
enlightened self-interest-see too fully
the importance, necessity, rather, OF
standing by and supporting the univer-
sity, to allow themselves to be alienated
from it or fail to p~atronize and sustain
it, because OF difference o fopinion as to
tho wisdom OF the action Of its mana
gers, or of personal preterenced "a to
who should constitute its faculty. The
present management hopes to have tho
charity OF everybody, the patience OF
everybody, the support Of everybody.
lit has these the university will pros.
per.
viii the press throughout the state
kindly publish this statement and
appeal. and give it whatever editorial
endorsement a sense OF duty and regard
for conscience will permit? I hope this
much, at least, will DO done now. l
want to mako special arrangement
hereafter with every paper in West
Virginia to keep the university before
its readers. p. B. REYNOLDS. y
West Virginia UaiUersity, July 81, 1898.