The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1895-10-12
The West Virginia University.
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growing and developing in materia
things it is equally progressive il
educational matters. There seem:
to be an educational awakening in
West Virginia more notable than ev
er before, and in this educational
movement the State University is
taking the lead. 1t is very proper
that this should be the case, as the
University is the chief educational
institution and influence in West
Virginia and the head of the State
school system. At the base of this
system are the common schools, then
come the high schools and the nor
NAL schools and finally the Univer-
sity, and these various parts of the
system are all more or less closely
articulated, all supported by the
people for the people.
Every patriotic West Virginian
takes an interest and pride in his
State University, and everybody is
glad to learn that the University
starts off this year with largely in
creased attendance. During the first
week after the fall term opened three
hundred students were enrolled and
the number of students for the year
will doubtless reach three hundred
and fifty or fouE hundred. The high
est number ever enrolled before was
two hundred and eighty three.
Not only has the patronage of the
University increased but its equip
ment and facilities have been won
derfully improved during the past
three or four years. 1t has six splen-
did buildings, a magnificent campus
of twenty or twenty five acres, 10
cation unsurpassed for beauty in the
United States, chemical laboratories
which are duplicates of those at the
Johns Hopkins University, over for
ty thousand dollars worth of new
machinery in Machinery Hall, very
elaborate apparatus for use in the
department of physics, fine gymnas-
ium, a large library, one of the best
law departments in the whole coun-
try, a military department in charge
of a captain of the United States
Army, and other departments and
features making it a really great
University.
The faculty is very strong one,
composed of men of profound schol-
arship and high character The stu
dents are taught to be good citizens
and good men and women as well as
good scholars. The surroundings
are wholesome and delightful. No
saloons are allowed in Morgantown,
and every possible influence is
brought to bear for the good of the
students.
All of these great advantages and
opportunities are offered practically
free to every young man and young
woman in West Virginia. No tuition
is charged, and young men holding
cadetships get their books and sta
tionery free
Young women are admitted on the
same terms as young men in all de
paftments except the preparatory
and there are now about fifty young
women in the University.
The cost of living at Morgantown
is small and there ought to be one
thousand young men and young
women in West Virginia at the Uni
versity preparing themselves fol
lives of honor and usefulness. They
no longer have any excuse whatever
for going out of the State. 1t is
greatly to their advantage to be edu-
Gated at the University, where they
will make hundreds of friendships
which will be of untold usefulness tc
them all through life. Students are
admitted at any time, and a great
many more should enter during the
year.