The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1894-09-22
THE UNIVERSITY.
The School Year Opens With More
Students than EYer-Yarious Notes.

The School Year Opens With More
Students than EYer-Yarious Notes.
The prospects for a big year at the
University grows brighter every day.
There are more students here now
than have been in attendance at the
first week in any year during the
existence Of the institution and are
better students and better looking
than usual. Two hundred and TWEEN
ty-fiye are already enrolled and the
officials believe that at least seventy
five more will come in before the
first of the year. This is an evil
denee of good management straw
afoat that may tell the Board of
Regents how the current is setting.
Theirs is no good reason why there
should not be five hundred students
here every year as the equipment is
amply sufficient to accommodate
that number and the environment is
becoming more and more attractive
each year. Co education is evident
ly becoming popular as there is
crowd of pretty girls among the
number here. The law class is large
probably when the students are
all in it will be larger than the '94
class, which was big enough to fill
all the West Virginia courts.
As / mentioned above the crowd
of students is a good looking one
and it seems TO have the true col
lege spirit about it. We mean by
this that the boys have studious
habits. athletic tendencies and can
steal grapes and other eatables IN
der the friendly cover Of the night
with as much energy and success as
any other lot in the United States.
The interest in athletics is cry en-.
eouraging, because, however much
the faculty or some of them may
deplore the fondness of students for
foot ball and other sports, it is a
fact now pretty generally observed
that no institution of learning is
widely known unless athletics are a
prominent characteristic of it. We
have good material for a foot ball
ball team and lots of it. At least
twenty boys are applicants for posi-
tions ON the eleven and it is safe TO
say that when team isIselected from
the number that W. u J. or any
other team in our class will not have
walk.over when they play against
us. S. S Jacob has been elected
manager of the team and will spare
neither time nor pains to oring it to
the. front. Mr. Jacob is also pres
ident of the Y NJ. c. A. and the
Parthenon literary society, both of
which organizations started off in a
flourishing condition. The Colum-
bian society is also in good healthy
condition and w. B, Outright will
preside over it's deliberations this
term
Among the new departments of
the University this year is the school
of physical culture which is late
creation of the Board of Regents.
All cadets take four hours per week
as heretofore, and all others except
full law students and those who
hsye risen to or above the dignity
of juniors are required to take two
hours per week in this school.
NOTES.
The foot ball team has already re-
ceived two challanges-one from
Central college of Richmond, Ky,
to play at Huntington in October,
and the other from Bethany college
to play in November.
Students in preparatory Latin
who use ponies will have some
Hare breadth escapes this year
Since a certain event in the house
hold Of Prof Rane he has been twice
photographed for an "after taking"
advertisement He looks so happy.
Prof. Hare has the largest class
in the institution. 1t is sixty in
number and is in preparatory Latin.
All but two are new students
New books are constantly being
ordered to the already good library.
If the water does not improve
there will likely be some cases of
cholera among the students. Ii is
awful.
There was some dissatisfaction
among those who have been students
of the University but were not here
last year and were asked to pay a
naturalization fee. The Board of
Regents on Tuesday decided to
make the limit of absence three
years. If a STUDENT is away longer
than that he will have to pay a sec
ond matriculation fee.