Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-08-02
AN APPEAL FOR TIE UNIVERSITY.
vIee-President Reynolds Urges Patriotic
Aid for the States COlIege-It VIII Be
Worthy All Support.


vIee-President Reynolds Urges Patriotic
Aid for the States COIIege-It VIII Be
Worthy All Support.
TO tAs Editor Of tho REGISTER:
SIR:-The 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 De
sighted. There will be no relaxation
of discipline. The friends Of the instl-
tuition need not be discouraged. 1t
will be made worthy of their continued
confidence and support. students VINO
have already entered the University
will have no good reason for abandoning
il now. And our young men through
out the State who expect to 90 TO col
lege, can not do better than to come
here.
There will be great improvements IN
the University in many respects. Inc
new Science building will be ready for
occupancy. IL magnificent lecture rooms
and laboratories, with the new and
complete apparatus and equip
mept for work Ia chemistry and physics,
geology, civil engineering, etc, Will add
| Immensely TO the facilities OF the school,
Additions are to be made at once TO the
mechanical building, doubling the
capacity Of this new and important de-
partment. Funds are on hand and ap-
propriatious have been made for lm-
provlng the equipments OF the various
other departments. These additions
and improvements, with what the Uni
yersity has already, make a plant
| that any State might be proud OF, and
one that our people ought to get the
benefit Of by filing the University with
! West Virginia students.
The new members Of the Faculty are
worthy of the confidence Of all the pa
front and friends OF the University.
Prof. Miller, the new principal of the
preparatory department, Is known all
| over the State as man OF character,
ability, scholarship, industry and expe-
rience in school work. Few men have
been more active and useful in the edu-
cational affairs Of West Virginia. Prof
Armstrong, OF the chair Of Mathemat-
! les. is a graduate Of the University. lie
| has been eminently successful as princi-
/ nal Of one of the 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 indefatiga0le. Prof. Alder
son. of the chair of Ancient Languages,
was one of the brightest students the
University ever had, graduating with
! high hopors. He has already had two
years experience in the work OF his
chair, and has taken a special
course in Chicago University in
the subjects he will have TO teach.
The Christian character OF all these
men gives assurance that their influence
will be for good.
l feel confident that the people of the
State are too patriotic-have too much
| enlightened self-intereSt-see too fully
the Importance, necessity, rather, OF
standing by and supporting the Univer-
sitv, TO allow themselves TO be aliented
from IL or to fail to patronize and sus-
tain it, because OF difference OF opinion
as to the wisdom Of the action OF us
managers, or of personal preferences as
to who should constitute its Faculty.
The present management hopes to have
the charity Of everybody, the patience
Of everybody, the support Of everybody.
If il has these, the University will
prosper.
viii the press throughout the State
kindly publish this statement and APP
peal, and give it whatever editorial en-.
dorsement sense of duty and regard
for conscience will permit? l hope this
much, at least, will be done now. l
want to make special arrangement here
after with every paper in West Virginia
TO keep the University before its read
ers. z. B. REYNOLDS.
". Va. University Juiy 81, 1898.