Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1895-06-20
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State University.

At Morgantown last week, the
University Board of Regents elected
Rev. DIR. j. l.. Goodnight, Prosi-
dent Of the University. The new
President is KcntuCkian 10y birth
and about Il years of age. He is
graduate of Cumberland University,
Kentucky, and of its theological de-
partmcnt, and Of Union Theological
Seminary, New York. He has trav-
elcd extensively abroad, and gradu-
atcd in philosophy from the uuivcr-
sity at EdinbOro, Scotland, after
which he took Il course in the Uni
versity at Gena, Germany. He
made II special study Of tho univer-
sity systems of Europe about five
man, of considerable executive
ability.
The Board of Regents created the
Office Of travelling agent, whose duty
it will be to go over the State and
present the advantages of the Uni
Versity to the people. Waitman Il.
Barbo, editor Of the Parkersburg
state Journal and an alumnus of the
West Virginia University, u poet
and writer of some note, was APP
pointed To this position. 1t is the
intention Of the Board to make the
President the real executive head Of
the University, and to that end it
has clothed him with the necessary
power. The actions of the Board
up TO date have been taken by unani-
nous vote. The Board has worked
tremendously Throughout the meet
ing.
The board also made the following
appointments: DR.. =. Il, Reynolds,
NiCe.PreSident and chair of Meta
physics; a. II. Whitchill, Professor
of Chemistry and Physics; James
w. Hartigan, Professor of Biology ;
Jno. l.. Johnson, Professor of Civil
Engineering. The War Depart.
meut has been asked to detail Capt.
G. {. Hewitt, Nineteenth Infantry,
AS Commandant of Cadets; s. b.
Brown was chosen rs Professor OF
Geology; DIR. Il. w. Douthet, of
Barboursuillc, Professor of Ancien,
Languages, in place Of the present
incumbent, b. G. Anderson Robt
a. Armstrong, Professor of Eng.
lish; Thos. {. Miller, Professor of
Pedagogy and Principal of Prepare.
tory Department r. w. Rane, Pro.
fessor of Agriculture and Horticult.
ure; William =. Aldrich, Professor
OF Mechanical Engineering and Di-
rector of Department of Mechanical
Arts; James ii. Stewart, Professor
of Mathematics; Clara Hough, Lii,
brarian; w. b. Outright, recent
graduate, assistant in Preparatory
Department; II. l.. Morris, another
graduate, Assistant in Mechanical
Engineering. Jarrett Hare was
elected Assistant in Preparatory
Latin and ID. NJ. Willis, Principal of
Commercial College at Weston, AS.
sistant in Preparatory Department,
in Penmanship, Typewriting and
short hand, the last two being new
feature in the University.
The Regents created the Office OF
Dean, Of the Law Department., and
appointed Judge Okey Johnson, OF
Charleston, w. Va, to the position,
at salary Of two thousand dollars a
year. Prof. St. George II. Brooke
and Prof. William u. Wiley, the
present faculty of the Law Depart.
ment, were reelected to their chairs
Prof. John |. Harvey was elected tC
the chair Of Modern Languages
Russ Jones, of Grafton, who
graduated last year, was elected an
assistant in the preparatory depart.
ment. No changes were made in
the Agricultural Experiment Station
staff, and DIR. John A. Myers will
remain director of the station.
SENATOR LINDSAY talked plainly
to his Kentucky audience on Thurs.
day evening last, and condensed q
good many pointed truths into few
words. When he said that the de.
cline in prices and the business de.
preston had nothing to do with the
so-called decentralization of silver
he touched one of the thinnest spots
in the argument of the free silver
people. The coincidence of the fall
in the prices of silver bullion and OF
many other commodities il cited by
the Silverites for the purpose of
misleading the unthinking and un.
reasoning into a belief that the re-
sponsibility for the decline i'm all
prices may be traced to the drop in
the price of silver. The largest fac
tor in the decline of all prices has
been the chcapening of the cost of
production by the increasing use of
labor-saNing appliances, and the
chief causes of depression have been
ruinous speculation and Ubiquitous
protective tariff laws. These facts
rob the SilVcrites Of their most eff.
fectiVe argument Philadelphia Re.
cord.
JUDGE GOFF REVERsED.-The
injunction of Judge Golf, whereby